AUGUST 9-29, 2026
Join us for 21 Days of Prayer as we intentionally seek God together. From August 9–29, follow along with daily online prayer content and our podcast, plus gather with us for in-person worship and prayer every Tuesday night. Whether you're new to prayer or have been praying for years, these 21 days are an opportunity to draw closer to God and start the season with purpose.
Every day during 21 Days of Prayer, Soma's podcast offers on demand guided prayer structured exactly like our usual in person prayer services. This experience includes worship at the beginning and end of the prayer time, a devotion by one of our staff leaders or prayer team leaders, a personal prayer time guided by instrumental worship, and finally guided corporate prayer. This experience is meant to last 45 minutes to an hour. We encourage everyone to Pray First and make this a part of your 21 Days of Prayer!
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TYPES OF FASTS
Selective Fast
This type of fast involves removing certain elements from your diet. One example of a selective fast is the Daniel Fast, during which you remove meat, sweets, and bread from your diet and consume water and juices for fluids and fruits and vegetables for food.
Partial Fast
This fast is sometimes called the "Jewish Fast" and involves abstaining from eating any type of food in the morning and afternoon. This can either correlate to specific times of the day, such as 6:00AM to 3:00PM, or from sunup to sundown.
Complete Fast
In this type of fast, you drink only liquids, typically water with light juices as an option.
Soul Fast
This fast is a great option if you do not have much experience fasting food, have health issues that prevent you from fasting food, or you are looking to refocus certain areas of your life that are out of balance.
You might choose to stop using social media, or watching TV for the duration of the fast.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES ABOUT FASTING
16 When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 17 But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, 18 so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Matthew 6:16-18
14 Then John's disciples came and asked him, "How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?" 15 Jesus answered, "How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast."
Matthew 9:14-15
33 Just before dawn Paul urged them all to eat. "For the last fourteen days," he said, "you have been in constant suspense and have gone without food - you haven't eaten anything. 34 Now I urge you to take some food. You need it to survive. Not one of you will lose a single hair from his head. 35 After he said this, he took some bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all. Then he broke it and began to eat.
Acts 27:33-35
1 On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on their heads. 2 Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all foreigners. They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the sins of their ancestors. 3 They stood where they were and read the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a quarter of the day, and spent another quarter in confession and in worshipping the Lord their God.
Nehemiah 9:1-3
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