How Do I Participate?

Here’s how 21 Days for Global Harvest works:

Each day, this site will have prayer points covering a range of categories. These prayer points are considered launching pads to encourage people to press into the Lord related to each point. Let the Spirit of God lead you into the specifics of how to pray.

We encourage individuals, local churches, campus ministries, and Bible Studies to commit to this season of prayer and fasting. There are many ways to use 21 Days in your setting, and we encourage creativity.

Participation might look like small groups from local churches, or campus ministries meeting each day or evening, together seeking God using the prayer points as a springboard.

It might look like an individual committed to waking early in the morning, and spending these quiet moments in prayer and intercession for the prayer points.

Most of all, we encourage simplicity and faithfulness to the steadfast and persevering work of prayer over the 21 Days.

The following are some specific highlights of how people involved in the different spheres of the student world can participate in the 21 Days.

On Christian College Campuses

Staff and faculty are encouraged to call the student body to participate in this season of fasting and prayer. As campuses and various ministries on campus (student mission fellowships, discipleship groups, etc.) engage with God in this focused manner, change and transformation is inevitable.

Hold worship and prayer meetings nightly or every other night. Taking a season like this, and committing to seek Jesus with focus, could catalyze a spirit of revival in your midst like nothing else could.  Organize a group and commit to an early morning prayer meeting. God honors the faithfulness of prayer, and not the flash or the size of the group involved.

In Campus Ministry Fellowships

Fellowship staff and student leadership teams are encouraged to make this season of fasting and prayer a critical part of your fellowship.  Trumpet this call to prayer in your fellowship, and encourage students to individually participate in a meaningful way. Hold prayer and worship nights twice a week, and use the prayer points to ignite passion for Jesus and a greater commitment to global proclamation.

It is critical for students to understand that God is raising up a global movement of students who are motivated with God’s heart for the nations. While these students are still in college, they can call many of their peers to this mandate from heaven as well.  Get the word out to other campus ministry fellowships on your campus, and hold a united meeting focused on generational awakening and prayer for the nations.

Through Mission Agencies

Mission agencies, who have networks and relationships built across the student world, are encouraged to call students to participation in these 21 Days.

Use this as an opportunity to call for a special time of renewal and spiritual refreshing, often overlooked in our busy schedules. For appointees in your organizations, this is a great way to stir hearts with a vision of seeing multitudes from their campus ministry or local church, mobilized to serve among the nations.

Through Your Local Church

The local church is God’s vehicle for reaching the world for Christ. It is the place of preparation, testing, shaping, and then being sent with prayer and financial backing.

Local churches have the unique calling of being a house of prayer for all nations. This is the foundation that all fruitfulness and power for ministry depends upon. This was the early church’s format, and it was used to usher in great fruitfulness for God.

Use these 21 Days as a tool to call the emerging generation in your church to open their eyes and see the global harvest that is ripe for reaping.

As An Individual

Though we are each part of communities that might participate in this season of prayer and fasting, each individual should make a conscious choice to set themselves apart to God during this season, and to abstain from certain foods.

This is not an easy process, and it needs grace and help from the Holy Spirit to effectively sustain. Once the choice is made, you’ll need discipline to adhere to that choice and sustain the 21 Days.  It is best not to do this alone, in order to have others encourage you to press on when you are tempted to quit. If you take this season seriously, you will see changes, and a greater prayer life and spiritual life will come as a result.