Thanksgiving, Christmas & Awakening
By Linda Riddle, Awakening Coordinator
The holidays are fun and they’re full of excitement and anticipation. It’s a time of refreshing, reconnecting, and thanking God for who He is and what He has done. But for those of you who have ever participated in Awakening, you know the excitement doesn’t stop at end of the December – it’s just the beginning.
For several years now, Celebration Church has started the year off with a powerful spiritual experience. Every January, Pastor Stovall leads our church, staff and leadership through a 21 day season of prayer and fasting called Awakening. The spiritual impact is just incredible. There is something so powerful about setting aside this time right at the beginning of the year to pray, fast, seek God, and harness the power of doing it together. It’s like hitting the reset button (both physically and spiritually) and it charges our church, leadership and staff as a whole, with an intense amount of momentum as we head into the New Year.
Seeing the power that Awakening has had in our church, Awake21.org was created to inspire and equip pastors and church leaders all around the world to establish a culture of prayer and fasting in their church or ministry. Last year, close to 400 churches participated in Awakening and the impact was profound. Several pastors and church leaders asked only their staff or key leadership to participate, and because of the dynamic result, these leaders have now decided to introduce it to their entire church in 2010.
If you believe in the importance of prayer and fasting, and want to harness the power behind hundreds of churches coming together for Awakening in 2010, we invite you visit Awake21.org and register your church or ministry today. As we position ourselves to start the year off spiritually strong, we can look forward in anticipation of 2010 being a great year.
Linda Riddle
Awakening Coordinator
lriddle@celebration.org
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