arise church corporate fast

may 2026

day 1 focus: surrender

We do not enter a fast to earn something from God. We enter a fast to remove the things that are standing between us and what He has already prepared. Surrender is not weakness. It is the most courageous act a believer can engage in, because it requires you to release your grip on the very things you have convinced yourself you need to hold onto.

Today is about the interior work. Before this house can move into what God has next, every individual in it must take an honest look at what they are carrying that was never meant to be theirs to carry. Offense. Pride. Bitterness. Fear. Control. Unresolved hurt. These things do not stay contained in your personal life. They bleed into the atmosphere of the house, into the worship, into the relationships, and into the mission.

As you fast today, let this be the question you sit with: What am I holding onto that God has been asking me to release? Do not rush past the answer. Let the Holy Spirit be specific. Surrender is only real when it is specific.We do not enter a fast to earn something from God. We enter a fast to remove the things that are standing between us and what He has already prepared. Surrender is not weakness. It is the most courageous act a believer can engage in, because it requires you to release your grip on the very things you have convinced yourself you need to hold onto.

scriptures

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

James 4:7

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Romans 12:1

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Matthew 16:24

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Proverbs 3:5-6

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Isaiah 43:18-19

Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Philippians 4:6-7

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

1. Father, I come before You acknowledging that my will has often competed with Yours. I have made decisions out of fear, out of pride, and out of my own reasoning instead of waiting on Your instruction. Today I lay my will down. Not partially, not conditionally, but completely. Every plan I have been holding in my own hands, every outcome I have been trying to control, every door I have been trying to force open or keep closed, I release them to You now. Have Your way in my life, in my home, and in this season. Let nothing that I am holding back stand between me and the fullness of what You have prepared in Jesus’ Name.

2. Lord, search me and reveal every place where offense has taken root. I confess that I have held things against people that You have already forgiven. I have allowed hurt to turn into bitterness and bitterness to shape the way I see others and the way I operate in this house. I choose today to release every person who has wronged me, disappointed me, or left me carrying something I did not expect to carry. I do not release them because they deserve it. I release them because I cannot move into what You have next while I am still anchored to what they did. Heal every wound that offense has opened in me, and make me a person who is genuinely free in the Mighty Name of Jesus.

3. My Father, My King, I invite You into every hidden place. The things I have managed, masked, and kept out of sight. The patterns I have never spoken out loud. The compromises I have made in private that I would never make in public. I am tired of carrying what was meant to be confessed and surrendered. Today I bring it all into the light. I refuse to let secrecy continue to have power over me. Cleanse me thoroughly. Break the power of every hidden thing. Restore the integrity of my inner life so that what I am in private is consistent with what I present in public. Let there be no division in me in Jesus’ Name.

4. Father God, I confess that fear has had a voice in my life that it was never supposed to have. Fear of failure. Fear of loss. Fear of what people will think. Fear of what the next season holds. I have made decisions from fear and called them wisdom. I have held back from obedience because fear convinced me the risk was too great. Today I renounce every agreement I have made with fear. I decree and declare that You have not given me a spirit of fear but of power, love, and a sound mind. I receive that truth not just as a doctrine but as a daily reality. Take the anxiety I have been carrying and replace it with the peace that surpasses understanding in the Name of Jesus.

5. Father, on behalf of this house, I stand in the gap and offer Arise Church as a living sacrifice before You. Everything we have built, every vision we are carrying, every person connected to this house, we lay it all at Your feet. We do not want a church that looks good by human standards. We want a church that is fully Yours. Purify our motives. Correct our direction wherever we have drifted. Remove from this house everything and everyone that is not aligned with Your purpose, and draw in everything and everyone that is. Let this fast mark the beginning of a new level of consecration in this body. We surrender the house to You completely and wholly in Jesus’ Name.