arise church corporate fast

MAY 2026

day 2 focus: ALIGNMENT

A house that is surrendered is a house that is ready to be aligned. Alignment is not just a structural concept. It is a spiritual reality. When the members of a body are properly aligned with God, with their leadership, and with one another, the anointing flows without obstruction. When they are out of alignment, it does not matter how gifted the people are or how sound the vision is. Something will always be working against the movement of God.

 

Today is about positioning. That means examining your relationship with God and making sure there is nothing interrupting your connection with Him. It means examining your posture toward the leadership He has placed over you and being honest about whether you are truly submitted or just compliant on the surface. And it means looking at your horizontal relationships within the body and asking whether there is any unresolved tension that needs to be addressed before this house can move forward as one.

 

Alignment is costly because it requires humility. You cannot come into true alignment while still insisting on your own position. Today, let the Holy Spirit show you where you have been out of order, and let that revelation lead you into the kind of genuine repositioning that prepares the whole house for what God is about to do.

scriptures

Amos 3:3

Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

Hebrews 13:17

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

Ephesians 4:15-16

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

1 Corinthians 1:10

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Psalm 133:1-3

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

Romans 13:1

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

Matthew 18:19-20

Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

prayer points

1. Father, I confess that I have not always taken the time to truly hear You before I moved. I Forgive me for acting on assumptions, on traditions, on the momentum of what was already in motion, and called it Your will without genuinely seeking Your face. Today I come into alignment with Your voice. Tune my spirit to hear You clearly. Remove every competing voice, every distraction, and every internal noise that has been drowning out Your instruction. By divine wisdom I choose today to make Your Word and Your Spirit the governing authority over every decision I make in this season. Let my steps be ordered by You and not by my own reasoning in Jesus’ Name.

2. Father, prepare my heart for what You are constructing in this season. Remove every hardness formed through disappointment, every shallowness born from distraction, and every anxious thought crowding out what You have planted. I do not want to be willing in words but unprepared in practice. Till the soil of my heart until it is soft enough to receive Your word, strong enough to hold Your promise, and patient enough to trust Your timing. Make me ready now for what You are releasing next in the Name of Jesus.

3. God, I lift before You every fractured relationship that may exist around me. Every misunderstanding that was never fully resolved. Every offense that was buried rather than healed. Every distance that has grown between people who were supposed to be standing together. I ask You to bring genuine reconciliation to those connected to me. Not the kind that is performed for the sake of appearances but the kind that only You can produce when two hearts are truly surrendered to each other and to You. Let me become a model of what it looks like when the people of God actually love one another in the way that Christ commanded in the Mighty Name of Jesus.

4. Father, prepare the atmosphere of Arise Church for what You are about to pour out. Let every gathering, every service, and every moment of corporate worship be saturated with Your presence. We do not want an atmosphere built on routine or religious habit. We want a house where expectancy is the standard and where people encounter You every time they walk through these doors. Prepare us collectively to host Your presence at a level we have not yet experienced. Let what happens in this house in this season be undeniable in Jesus’ Name.

5. Father God, prepare Arise Church for the next chapter You have written for it. We do not know every detail of what is ahead, but by divine revelation You do. Prepare our leadership to lead it well. Prepare our people to carry it faithfully. Prepare our resources, our systems, and our capacity to hold what You are about to release. We do not want to be caught off guard by our own answered prayers. Build in us now what we will need then. Prepare this house completely for what is next in the Name of Jesus.