​"For thus says the High and Lofty One
​Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
“I dwell in the high and holy place,
With him who has a contrite and humble spirit,
To revive the spirit of the humble,
And to revive the heart of the contrite ones."

​Isaiah 57:15 (NKJV)​

Jesus saw the harvest before it happened.  He chose the most unlikely of places, Samaria, and the most unlikely of people, a woman, a prostitute nonetheless, to save an entire city.  It was here in this hard, despised place Jesus said, “Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!”  Do we today, see the harvest waiting?  It may be next door, on the street, or in the news. We are in unprecedented times.  God is retrieving seed from the past and harvesting mature wheat now to prepare us to be sown into the future.  "The harvest is great, but the laborers are few, therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into the harvest."  Underneath the din of the day is a burgeoning harvest, ready to be pulled into the barn.  Are we ready?
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​Who:  This is a call to all believers.  There are many being called into focused prayer and fasting during this season.  This call can be incorporated with any focus or prayer/fast in motion.  

• A unique, additional fast to consider is an Isaiah 58:9 fast.  It is a call to fast from negative thinking and speaking.  This would be a good addition to any fast.  For more information click here. 

Why:  We believe the body of Christ is moving into a significant hour.  We are in a time of shift.  The tares of the past want to grip the wheat, but God has called forth the harvest.  We are the wheat and this strategy will prepare and position us for the harvest, and revival.  It will deal with the resistance and rebellion that is trying to insert itself between the old and new.

• Matthew 17:21 “However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”
• Isaiah 58:6  “Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?"

When:  Please join in any of these dates.  

• Lent:  March 1-April 13th
• March 9-April 17th less traditional but aligns with the Hebraic calendar
  • March 9th is the beginning of the Esther fast on the Hebraic calendar
  • March 28th is the Hebraic New Year, Nisan 1
  • April 9th is Palm Sunday
  • April 16th is Easter
  • April 17th is the end of Passover

 
Focus Themes:  

• Week 1 February 28-March 5:  Humility:  Isaiah 57:15 (see above) 
  (NKJV Psalm 51:7) "A broken and a contrite heart—These, O God, You will not despise."
• Week 2  March 6-12: Repentance
  (NKJV Romans 2:4) "Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?"
  (NKJV Luke 5:7) “When Peter saw it (the miracle of the fish), he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, ‘Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.’”
• Week 3  March 13-19:  Personal Renewal:   
  (NKJV Psalm 51:10) "Create in me a a clean heart, O God and renew a right spirit within me.”
• Week 4  March 20-26:  Retrieving the gifts and callings:  
  (NKJV Romans 11:29)  “For the gifts and calling of God are Irrevocable.”
• Week 5  March 27-April 2:  Fullness of the Gentile Church
  (NKJV Luke 5:33-39)  “But new wine must be put into new wineskins and both are preserved, and no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new for he says, the old is better"
  (NKJV Romans 11:25)  “That blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.”
• Week 6  April 3-April 9:  Release of discipleship and strategy to reach the lost
  (NKJV 1 For 4:15) For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers
  (NKJV Matthew 28:18-20) “Go and make disciples of all nations,  baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
• Week 7  April 10-17:  Demonstration and declaration of the Testimony of Jesus
  (NKJV John 14:12-14)“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.”