When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.” Psalm 27:8
As we begin 2022 we are setting our faces towards Heaven to seek the Lord together through corporate prayer and fasting. While every fast doesn’t look the same, they are similar in that we are all setting something aside to give a focused attention to what God is saying to us as a Body. We believe that as we humble ourselves and pray we will hear from Heaven.
In this year of our 25th anniversary we want to particularly focus on the following prayer points.
1. Our Connection with God: Seek the Lord for what it looks like for us personally to rely on the Holy Spirit and God’s grace 100% of the time? What does it look like for us personally to be yoked to Jesus and living from intimacy and presence? Ask the Lord for personal revival as we are led.
2. God’s Blessing and Move at BridgeWay Church: Ask the Lord for a revival move of the Holy Spirit in BridgeWay and our state. Ask the Lord to bless the Leadership at BridgeWay, providing the needed people and alignments.
3. Your Focus and Direction for 2022: Rehearse your past promises and prophetic words. Ask for a new direction. What is He asking and saying in this season? Seek the Lord as to how He is instructing you to move forward in these areas.
Thank you for joining this corporate fast. We believe God will speak and when He does we will obey. Please share what you are hearing during your fast in the comment section below.
Well it’s been a whole year since this post was written. 2022 is now history and 2023 is here. The most obvious thing that stands out to me about this post is this: not a single person posted a single response to it. All year. Wow. Not one person felt any burden, a prophetic insight or revelation, a personal observation or a desire to share a thought on the upcoming year. That’s really sad.
In December 2021 God told me to go spend New Year’s Eve in a hotel room in Denver, with no TV, no phone calls, no catching up on trivial things, no personal studies; just pray and ask Him for revelation and wisdom for myself as well as Denver and Bridgeway. So I did it and it was a tremendous experience. So much so that I did it 3 more times during our fast and each one was meaningful and memorable.
If you recall, New year’s Eve 2021 began as normal but in the later afternoon a storm came in that got foggy and progressively worse all throughout the evening and all night long. Visibility got worse and worse and roads became congested by New year at midnight Jan 1, 2022. You may have noticed the same thing happened this year. But a week before that we had near-record cold, then a blizzard at Christmas 2022 that not only paralyzed Denver but the entire nation, literally.
I asked the Lord why this happened during our most celebrated holiday and the birth of His son, preventing many from being with family, friends or going home. He said “because people are more concerned with Christmas presents than Christmas presence.” That struck me right in the heart. The verse came to my mind Amos 5:21-24 “I hate, I despise your religious feasts; I cannot stand your assemblies. Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them. Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
Wow, imagine that! There comes a time when God hates what He told us to do. Why? Because it was all for show, all for US. One of the greatest revivals in the bible was in Josiah’s time, yet it was DURING A REVIVAL that God stirred prophets to begin proclaiming judgment, because why? It was all for show, all for revival, not changed hearts: Jer 3:6,10
“During the reign of King Josiah, the Lord said to me………Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the Lord. It was a phony revival. It was ceremony and flash and even worship, yet without the proper hearts!
The year 2022 began and ended with fog, cold, poor VISIBILITY, snowstorms, cancelled plans, cancelled flights, cancelled celebrations. regarding Bridgeway we had a lot of powerful prophetic words and declarations. Yet most of the church and the entire staff got Covid, some more than once. We know people that died from it. Almost our entire pastoral staff in January 2022 was gone before the year was out, including losing a good man to cancer. So what does this all mean? Think about it. I’d love to hear what others have heard from God regarding last year and this year. Maybe we’ll get more than one post on it this year.
Lam 3:40
Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.
Hos 6:1-3
Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence. Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.”