As we get ready to celebrate Easter in just a few weeks, we’re excited to share 40 Days of Prayer with you. This daily Scripture and prayer resource is designed to prepare your heart for Easter, center your focus on Christ during the season of Lent, enrich your faith, and help you encounter God in new ways. 

40 Days of Prayer begins on Ash Wednesday, February 17, and continues through Saturday, April 3. Each day’s content includes a prayer and Scripture reference intended to help you learn, grow, and experience God. While Sundays are not included in 40 Days of Prayer or Lent, we encourage you to read each week’s devotion on Sundays to explore the upcoming week’s focus, reflection/response, and resources. 

40 Days of Prayer is for everyone who wants to deliberately focus their hearts and minds on Christ during the days leading up to Easter. Anyone can truly benefit from this daily practice.  

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What are spiritual disciplines? Why are they important?

Simply put, spiritual disciplines are habits and practices rooted in God’s Word which support spiritual growth. They are activities we incorporate into our everyday lives to help us experience God and grow to be more like Christ. “Discipline” can be a difficult word for us to digest sometimes, but in this context, we can think of spiritual disciplines as opportunities for us as followers of Christ; they enable us to encounter God, grow in our faith, and become strong disciples of Jesus.

We should practice spiritual disciplines and implement them in our lives because they allow us to encounter God. Some of these activities are individual and some are intended to be carried out corporately, but their collective aim is to help us experience a deeper relationship with God.

40 Days of Prayer 2021 is intended to introduce you to a variety of spiritual disciplines so you can learn about and experience them for yourself and determine which disciplines you will incorporate into your life on a daily or seasonal basis. While there are numerous spiritual disciplines, we will focus on the following throughout 40 Days of Prayer: fasting, simplicity, prayer, journaling, worship, confession, study, meditation/contemplation, service, stewardship, silence/solitude, submission, gratitude, and evangelism.