21 days of prayer day 21

Day 21 | Faith that endures
Our faith-filled life today creates a legacy and blessing for others tomorrow. We can trust God that the faith-filled prayers and actions we plant will come to fruition, whether or not we get to see the harvest in our lifetimes.

Today's Scripture
"Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for ... All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them."
—Hebrews 11:1-2; 13-16 (NIV)

Additional Scripture
—Hebrews 12:1-3
—Lamentations 3:22-29

Reflect on the Word
True faith is not defined by what it accomplishes today, but by its trust in what is yet to come. Hebrews 11 reminds us that many lived and died by faith without receiving the promises, because "they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them" (Heb. 11:16, NIV). Today, the church is called to reflect that heavenly city—God's community formed not by blood or culture, but by faith in Christ.
The cross shows us how to live: "For the joy set before Him, He endured the cross, scorning its shame" (Heb. 12:2, NIV). To follow Jesus is to die to earthly values and run with perseverance, fixing our eyes on what is eternal.
Faith moves us to reflect the character of God's kingdom on earth. We are not alone. "We are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses" (Heb. 12:1, NIV). We endure because we believe, and we believe because—though from a distance—we see the city God has prepared.
Even as we conclude our 21 days of praying together, our faith continues to lay the path for those who will follow tomorrow. May we, like that great cloud of witnesses, be ever willing to press on in faith, no matter what may come.

Prayer + Contemplation
What promises are you still waiting to be fulfilled? Are you willing to trust God for His perfect timing, whether or not you get to see their fulfillment?
Pray that God would give you perseverance to run the race He has prepared for you. Ask Him to help you to always keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.
Commit to praying the words of Hebrews 12:1-3 over the church and over your own life as our 21 Days of Prayer + Fasting comes to an end. Pray that we may be people who reflect the heavenly city to a hurting world, come what may.

Blessings,

Pastor Jeff

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The Fellowship at Weatherford

Prayer Team

tfawprayer@gmail.com

21 days of prayer day 20

Day 20 | Faith that suffers well
Those who choose to press forward to possess the land through faith may experience suffering and difficulty. The enemy does not want us to win, but faith calls us to keep strong and carry on in the midst of adversity.

Today's Scripture
"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated Me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember what I told you: 'A servant is not greater than his master. 'If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed My teaching, they will obey yours also. They will treat you this way because of My name, for they do not know the One who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well." —John 15:18-23 (NIV)

Additional Scripture
When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion,
we were like those who dreamed.
Our mouths were filled with laughter,
our tongues with songs of joy.
Then it was said among the nations,
"The Lord has done great things for them."
The Lord has done great things for us,
and we are filled with joy. Restore our fortunes, Lord,
like streams in the Negev.
Those who sow with tears
will reap with songs of joy. Those who go out weeping,
carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy,
carrying sheaves with them.
—Psalm 126 (NIV)

Reflect on the Word
Possessing the land by faith is not about escaping suffering but embracing God's call to walk in faithfulness in the suffering. Jesus was clear: "If the world hates you, remember that it hated Me first" (John 15:18).
We do not belong to this world. We are strangers and pilgrims on this earth, immigrants of the kingdom, sowers of hope in hard soil.
Suffering faith does not suff er alone. Paul said: "Who is weak, and I do not feel weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not inwardly burn?"
(2 Cor. 11:29). This is a testimony of embodied compassion, aligned with the call of Christ: "Mourn with those who mourn" (Rom. 12:15).
This is the law of Christ, fulfi lled when "we carry each other's burdens" (Gal. 6:2).
Psalm 126 speaks of a community united in faith and declares that those who sow with tears will reap with shouts of joy. When we are
oppressed, ignored, broken: Our sowing is not in vain. The One who sees in secret will reward in the open (Matt. 6:6).
Our faith is not measured by the world's applause, but by our steady obedience to God—even in the dark. Today we sow; tomorrow we will sing the harvest.

Prayer + Contemplation
Are you currently experiencing suffering in your own life? How have you grown in your ability to suffer well? Ask God where you might need further growth.
Who do you know that is currently experiencing suffering because of their work of faith? Bring them before the Lord and pray that they would not waver or succumb to the enemy.
Pray for Christians around the world who are currently
suffering because of their faith. Pray that God would
give them the strength to remain faithful no matter the
circumstances, and that their sufferings would draw others to Christ.

Blessings,

Pastor Jeff

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The Fellowship at Weatherford

Prayer Team

tfawprayer@gmail.com

21 days of prayer day 19

Day 19 | Faith that overcomes the enemy
Faith is a force that pushes back darkness and brings hope. Our victories of faith become testimonies that encourage and lift others in their struggles.

Today's Scripture
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and even though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls."
—1 Peter 1:3-9 (NIV) 

Additional Scripture
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down. They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death. Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury,
because he knows that his time is short."
—Revelation 12:10-12 (NIV)

Reflect on the Word
Living as if we don't have a spiritual enemy is a common—but serious—mistake for believers. We buy into an under-spiritualized view of the world that robs us from a true understanding of the freedom God has promised.
When we don't know who our enemy is, we make enemies of the wrong things. Core to the gospel is an understanding that there is one who seeks to steal, kill and destroy. We need not fear the enemy—Jesus has full authority over him—but we must not live without contending against his schemes to destroy us.
We must also guard against the opposite mistake—giving the enemy more power than he has. As real as he is, his only power is deception. As we rightly anchor ourselves to Jesus, we find our true source of power and victory because the enemy has already been defeated.
Jesus commissioned His church with the promise that the gates of hell would not overcome it. How easy it is for our hearts to be drawn to the things of the world and the heaviness of darkness. But we are people of faith.
Even when the darkness seems all-consuming, may we be people who set our eyes on Jesus, the One who has conquered sin and death. This is a victorious faith that the enemy cannot stand against.

Prayer + Contemplation

Reflect on your own understanding of spiritual warfare. Have you overestimated, or underestimated, the influence of the enemy? Have you overestimated, or underestimated, the power of Jesus? Pray that God would give you a right understanding of the spiritual realm.
Pray that God would use you as a spiritual force for good in your family, work, church and world.
Pray for strength, courage and wisdom as you engage with the enemy. Intercede for those all over the world who need freedom and breakthrough, and who need the power that only Jesus can provide. If there are specific people, countries or people groups that come to mind, pray that God would deliver them from the lies of the enemy.

Blessings,

Pastor Jeff

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The Fellowship at Weatherford

Prayer Team

tfawprayer@gmail.com

21 days of prayer day 18

Day 18 | Faith that heals and lifts
Faith in prayer brings healing and restoration—not just physically, but spiritually and emotionally. It's a gift we offer on behalf of others.

TODAY'S SCRIPTURE
Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise. Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick
person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
—James 5:13-16 (NIV)

Additional Scripture
9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy;
12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.
13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,
14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

—Colossians 1:9-14

Reflect on the Word
Our God is healer. Our God is the master reconciler. Our God is the lifter of the lowly and a Father to the fatherless.
As people of faith, we stand in the promises of the character of God, no matter what comes our way. James' words are the antidote for how we commonly lose our way. Faith is not hopeful idealism—it is a reality practiced in community with others.
When we are in trouble, we need to pray together. When we are happy, we need to celebrate together. When we are sick, we need to contend in prayer together. When we stumble in sin, we must confess and receive mercy together.
Our faith was always meant to move us toward God and community, and as we do, we will find the truth of who He is.
Praying for others is one way we can possess land once held by the enemy. Whether or not the people we pray for ever walk through
the doors of our church, whether or not we ever know if they come to accept Jesus—when we pray for their healing and lift them up
before the Father, we bring them out of the territory of the enemy and into God's territory. By offering hope and healing to those who find
themselves in dark places, we bring the light of Christ to them and banish the power of the enemy.

Prayer + Contemplation
Reflect on how God has healed you and lifted you up in the past. How might you share these stories with others to help them increase their faith?
Pray that God would use you as an instrument of His healing as He sees fit. Ask Him to give you wisdom and discernment about how you can support God's healing work in the world.
Create a list of those in your life who need a breakthrough of healing—whether physical, relational or emotional. Intercede for them, and look for opportunities to talk with them about our God who heals and lifts.

Blessings,

Pastor Jeff

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The Fellowship at Weatherford

Prayer Team

tfawprayer@gmail.com

21 days of prayer day 17

Day 17 | Faith that has an impact on the kingdom
Choosing to believe big is a way to bring God's power forward into our lives. This faith will ultimately have an eternal impact.

TODAY'S SCRIPTURE
They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite
community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. There they reported to
them and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land. They gave Moses this account: "We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does fl ow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit. But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very
large. We even saw descendants of Anak there. The Amalekites live in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan." Then Caleb
silenced the people before Moses and said, "We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it."
—Numbers 13:26-30 (NIV)

Additional Scripture

—John 14:10-14
—Matthew 17:14-20

Reflect on the Word
The Israelites stand at the threshold of the Promised Land. God has delivered them in so many ways on their journey from Egypt. They
send spies to scout out the land God has promised to them. It is everything God told them it would be.
But they think giants will keep them from possessing it. Caleb (and elsewhere we find out Joshua) is alone in being confident that God will do what He has promised.
How often are we like the Israelites? We easily forget the things that God has done in the past: in our own lives, throughout history and inthe Bible.
But we serve a God who does miraculous things. We serve a God who is in total control of everything. There is no reason we should doubt God or think that any request is too big for Him. Jesus assures us in John 14 that if we offer our prayers in Jesus' name (if they align with God's will), it will be done. We, like Caleb, should confidently declare that God will do what He has promised.
It might not be done in the way or the time that we expect, but God's kingdom will come. His will will be done. We can ask big kingdom things in faith, and God will hear. God will act. No giant or scheme of the enemy will keep us from possessing the land God has given us.

Prayer + Contemplation
Reflect on John 14:10-14. How do these words of Jesus
strengthen your faith or encourage you to pray boldly?
If there are barriers in your heart to fully trusting that God hears your prayers and will act on your behalf, present these to God. Ask Him to grow your faith and trust in him.
Think about your family, church, government and world.
Is there a seemingly impossible prayer that comes to mind? Commit to presenting it to God regularly.

Blessings,

Pastor Jeff

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The Fellowship at Weatherford

Prayer Team

tfawprayer@gmail.com

21 days of prayer day16

Day 16 | Faith that empowers others
Faith isn't just personal—it opens doors for others. When we pray with faith, we become agents of breakthrough in the lives of those we love and serve.

Today's Scripture
We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up. For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me." For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope. May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had, so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God."
—Romans 15:1-7 (NIV)

Additional Scripture
A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, "Son, your sins are forgiven."
—Mark 2:1-5 (NIV)

Reflect on the Word
The beauty of the countercultural faith we ascribe to is revealed in how radically focused it is on the good of others in the midst of a culture obsessed with the good of self. Everywhere you look in the life of Jesus and His first church, you see something we easily forget: Faith is built to have communal power. We were never meant to possess the land, to take ground for God's kingdom, on our own. We were meant to do it together.
What does this look like? Romans 15:1-7 says it means always contending for others, bearing with their weaknesses and working to
strengthen them however we can. For the friends of the paralytic man in Mark 2:1-5, faith in the healing power of Jesus meant creating a door for someone even when there seemed to be no room. It means being willing to make decisions that are not for our own benefit, but for the good of others and for the good of God's kingdom. As we follow Jesus in a culture of self, we contend by faith for the transformation of others.
As we do, our faith will open doors of breakthrough and transformation for those who need it the most. This is not just transformation
for transformation's sake. It is the way we take ground in the battle against the enemy. It is only by being willing to empower others for
God's work that, together, we can possess the land that God has given us to take.

Prayer + Contemplation
Reflect on how God has used the faith of others to empower you. Thank God for the ways He has used these individuals.
Revisit the words of Romans 15:1-2 and invite the Holy Spirit to do a heart assessment. How might He be inviting you to bear with the weak and love your neighbor?
Who are you empowering with your faith? Who has God
placed in your life that you can bring to Jesus, like the friends of the paralytic man? Pray that God would give you wisdom, discernment and boldness as you seek to empower others in this season.

Blessings,

Pastor Jeff

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The Fellowship at Weatherford

Prayer Team

tfawprayer@gmail.com

21 days of prayer day 15

 
Day 15 | Faith that is sure of the future
Faith-filled prayer reaches into the future and pulls God's promises into the present. Bold belief today can shape tomorrow—for us and for others.

TODAY'S SCRIPTURE
After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' aide: "Moses My servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them—to the Israelites. I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses. Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates—all the Hittite country—to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you. Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.
"Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my
servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left , that you may be successful wherever you go. Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and
successful. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do
not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go."
—Joshua 1:1-9 (NIV)

Additional Scripture
—Romans 8:22-25
—Revelation 21:1-7

Reflect on the Word
Israel experienced significant transition after the death of Moses. Most evident was the change of leadership. What was once entrusted to Moses was now given to Joshua.
It was a change of generations, a change of circumstances and a change in the journey God had initiated many years earlier. When you consider the amount of change that took place in a single moment, it's hard to see it as a simple continuation of the story.
Yet amid all that changed—and all the changes still ahead for Joshua— the most important thing remained the same: the faithfulness of God. The simple truth God speaks to Joshua—"As I was with Moses, so I will be with you"—is the revelation many of us desperately need as we navigate an endlessly changing world. We are a people of faith for the future because our hope is in an unchanging God. Our confidence to lead into uncertain futures has nothing to do with the circumstances that are in front of us, but the faithfulness of the One who is the same yesterday, today and forever.

The God with Moses was the God with Joshua. And the God with Joshua is the same God that is with us now and into the future.

Prayer + Contemplation
Consider all your life transitions. Next, reflect on God's faithfulness in each of those seasons.
What fears do you hold about the future? Share those with God and invite the Holy Spirit to exchange those fears for His promises.
Who in your life is facing transition or anxiety about the future? Pray the promises of God over their lives and decisions.

Blessings, 

Pastor Jeff

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The Fellowship at Weatherford

Prayer Team

tfawprayer@gmail.com