21 days of prayer & fasting August 11th - 28th, 2024

Join us for a focused 21 days of prayer & FASTING DURING THE MONTH OF AUGUST.

We are so glad you are participating with us for our August 2024, 21 days of prayer and fasting from August 11th – August 31st.  This August we will be drawing close to the Lord through fasting, our Sunday night corporate prayer from 6 pm – 7 pm, and a daily devotional for reflection, prayer, and spiritual formation.  Our theme for this August is: return to the LORD.  We want to make a corporate focus on returning to the LORD.  This isn’t to say you’ve gone away from the LORD!  It is simply to spend an extended time focusing through prayer, reflection, and the Holy Spirit’s presence to meet us as we posture our hearts to return to the LORD.  As Lamentations 3:40 says “Let us examine our ways and test them and let us return to the LORD.” 

If you can, participate with us all the way.  Go all in these 21 days.  Pray, fast, join us for our hor-long corporate prayer time, and spend daily time with the Lord.  We are praying for God to meet you and to refresh and fill you with supernatural hope. 

At Hillside we believe in an experience with God.  What we mean by that is that God can be experienced through spiritual disciplines.  Our experience with Him transforms us.  Many have found prayer, fasting, and a life-giving daily devotional to be powerful ways to greater relationship with the Lord.  Our heart behind these 21 days is just that: that you would encounter the living God in a fresh way, being filled with His Spirit, and empowered to live on mission for Him.

Below are instructions on first steps to getting the most out of these 21 days.

1 Daily Devotional – add our 21 daily devotional to your day.  Find it www.hillsidechurch.us/21daydevo If you already have a daily devotional life consider adding the verses and questions for reflection to your day at the beginning or end of your current devotional experience.  If you don’t have a daily time with the Lord yet, these 21 days begin with the daily devotional. These will be available online by clicking HERE and updated weekly. Also, we will have these available in our services on Sunday.

2 Fasting – fasting is a spiritual discipline that draws us closer to the Lord.  During the 21 days many have chosen various food items, drink items, or entertainment habits to take a break for the 21 days and consecrate the time to God.  Some helpful prompts might include giving up a meal a day, giving up your go to dessert or drink, break from social media, or something else that you sense the Lord inviting you to surrender for these 21 days.

3 Corporate Prayer – on Sunday evening from 6 pm – 7 pm we will be hosting corporate prayer in the sanctuary.  We will have a short time of worship, a devotional based on the theme for that week, time to pray for others, and time to receive prayer.  Childcare is provided.