Finish in Faith | Fasting Guide

During and beyond the “Finish in Faith” building campaign, we want to remember that God’s primary mission is to glorify His name by saving people and forming them into Christlikeness. He is building a people, and in this season, He is providing a new place for us to worship, grow, and be sent. This new building is a gift and a tool to advance His work through us.

As God’s people at Living Gospel Church, we believe He calls us “to make disciples by exalting Him, encouraging one another, exercising our gifts, and evangelizing the lost.” Over the next four weeks, we want to fast and pray as we prepare to give sacrificially of our time, talents, and treasures to finish our new church building and faithfully live out our calling as Living Gospel Church in our community and the world for generations to come.

To that end, we encourage you to set aside time each week to fast and pray for our church as we “Finish in Faith.” Christian fasting is the practice of abstaining from food (or something else) to focus on God’s purpose for our lives through prayer. It doesn’t change how God hears us, but it does change how we pray and depend on Him.

This guide outlines four prayer and fasting themes for the upcoming weeks that align with our mission. It also includes reflection prompts and blank pages for journaling your thoughts and prayers, helping you reflect on how God is leading you to live with a Christ-centered mission and partner in our “Finish in Faith” campaign.

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Week 1: Make Disciples

Pray: Pray: As we finish in faith, finish Your work in us.

To finish in faith, we must remember that God’s primary “campaign” is in and through His people.

  • This new building is one of the means He is giving us to carry out that work. He is forming us into the likeness of Christ and entrusting us with resources to make disciples who
    will make disciples long after this generation is gone  
  • During this season, ask the Lord to use every delay, sacrifice, and decision to deepen your faith, patience, generosity, unity, thankfulness, and holiness. Pray that He would expose self-centeredness, grumbling, fear, and spiritual laziness, and replace them with love, trust, and obedience. Ask Him to use our new facility as a place where disciples are regularly made, baptized, and taught to obey all that Christ has commanded to the end of the age.

Meditate: Matt. 28:18-20; Phil. 1:3-6; Phil. 3:20-21


Reflect:
  • Lord, what are You wanting to change in me?
  • How can giving of my time, talents, and treasures shape my heart and help our church make more disciples in this generation and the ones to come?

Week 2: Exalting Him

Pray: As we finish in faith, magnify Your name.

To finish in faith, we must keep the worship of God at the center of our lives, during and after this campaign.

  • Buildings can become monuments to people, but we are asking God to make this space and our lives a living reminder for generations to come that “Not to us, O Lord, but to Your name give glory” (Ps. 115:1). We want every room, every gathering, and every ministry that happens here to declare the worth of Christ.
  • In this season, ask God to capture your heart again so that Christ is your first love and highest joy. Pray that all we are and all we do at home, at work, with our church, in our community, and in our world would exalt Him. Ask the Lord to use our new facility to draw more worshipers to Himself week after week, year after year, from one generation to the next.

Meditate: Rom. 12:1-3; Matt. 22:37-38; Col. 3:1-2


Reflect:
  • Lord, where might I have drifted from worshipping you with my life? In what areas of my life are you calling me to renewed worship?
  • How can I give my time, talents, and treasures to magnify Your worth to the next generation?

Week 3: Encouraging One Another &
Exercising Our Gifts

Pray: As we finish in faith, form us into a serving body.

To finish in faith, we must grow as a body that builds one another up.

  • God gives every believer gifts to strengthen the whole church in our love for Him, one another, and our neighbor. This campaign is about more than square footage; it’s about more space for our generation, our children’s, and those beyond to be encouraged, served, equipped for ministry, and sent.
  • In this season, ask the Spirit to show you who needs your words, your presence, your hospitality, or your help. Pray that our new building will be filled with conversations that comfort, classrooms that equip, and spaces where gifts are discovered and used for the good of the body and the glory of Christ until He returns.

Meditate: Eph. 4:11-16; 1 Pet. 4:7-11; 1 Thes. 5:1-24


Reflect:
  • Lord, who are 2-3 people in our church that I can intentionally encourage and serve?
  • How can I give my time, talents, and treasures so that generations of people are built up in Christ?

Week 4: Evangelizing the Lost

Pray: As we finish in faith, save the lost.

To finish in faith, we must remember that Jesus came “to seek and save the lost” (Lk. 19:10).

  • Our aim is a finished building that prioritizes making space for gospel ministry, so that generations of people in our community and around the world hear the good news of Jesus Christ and are saved. We are asking God to make this facility a launching point for ongoing evangelism, mercy, and mission to the many “ones.”
  • During this season, ask God to burden your heart for those who do not yet know Christ. Pray that He would fill our new spaces with people who are exploring faith, hearing the good news of Jesus Christ, and responding in repentance and belief. Ask the Lord to make this building a place where neighbors, coworkers, friends, and nations encounter the gospel of Jesus Christ

Meditate: Mk. 2:1-12; 2 Cor. 5:14-21; Rom. 10:9-15


Reflect:
  • Lord, who are 2-3 people in my life that You want me to pray for, care for, and share the gospel with?
  • How can I give my time, talents, and treasures to help people hear the good news of Jesus Christ for generations to come?