21 Days of Prayer: Day 1

Welcome to the first day of our 21 Days of Prayer & Fasting! Feel free to open up your Bibles to Acts chapter 1 & 2 and follow along this devotional guide during your time of prayer.

If you'd like to listen to some worship music as you read and pray, you can use this playlist we've put together for you!

Waiting on God's Promise.

Daily Scripture Reading:

Read Acts chapter 2 prayerfully.

Pastoral Reflection:

Acts 2 shows us what happens when God’s people surrender fully to Him. Today’s theme—'Waiting on God’s Promise'—invites us to examine our own walk with Jesus. Discipleship always calls for reflection, repentance, and response.

Digging Deeper:

Going back one chapter to Acts 1:8, we can see a promise that Jesus gives his disciples just before the ascension.

Acts 1:8 - "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

What a powerful promise! But again, this promise was given in Acts chapter 1, and the disciples won't even begin to see the fulfillment of this promise until the next chapter. To us, this might not seem like a long time. There's only about 20 verses between Acts 1:8 and Acts 2:2, but this was actually about ten days!

In Acts 1, it details how the disciples gathered together in Jerusalem, and prayed for ten days until the Holy Spirit came upon them. Ten days might seem like a long time, or it might seem pretty short. But the length of the wait isn't what was important- it was in the faith and patience of the disciples. Jesus told them something was going to happen, and they waited. They didn't give up, they didn't walk away, they didn't shrug it off. They trusted that Jesus knew what He was talking about, and they had faith that His promise was going to be fulfilled, and they were rewarded immensely for it!

Has the Lord given you a promise that hasn't come to fulfillment? It can be incredibly difficult to keep hoping for the Lord to move, especially when ten days turn into ten weeks... ten months... ten years... But the God we serve has not forgotten you- He hasn't abandoned you or forsaken you.

He made a promise, and He will keep it! Persevere, have faith, and trust in the God that fulfills all of His promises!

Prayer Focus:

Ask the Holy Spirit to deepen His work in your heart and in our church. Ask God for the faith to keep believing in His Word and promises

Discipleship Challenge:

Respond obediently to what God reveals today. Growth happens through faithful action.