arise church corporate fast

november 2025

day 1 focus: breaking distractions

In this season of consecration, we're not just fasting food, we're fasting friction. Distractions are the silent killers of destiny. They don’t come in screaming; they slide in subtly, through our phones, unhealed emotions, toxic relationships, busy work, or even spiritual clutter that looks holy but has no oil. Distractions are designed to delay, detour, or destroy divine focus.

In a generation of noise, clarity is a weapon. This corporate fast isn’t just about abstaining; it’s about realigning. God is breaking off the distractions that dilute your purpose, delay your assignment, and distort your spiritual hearing. This month, we reclaim our focus, kill the noise, and sharpen our discernment. Let’s lock in.

scriptures

  1. Isaiah 26:3 - "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee."

  2. Luke 10:41-42 – "And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her."

  3. Proverbs 4:25-27 – "Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil."

  4. Hebrews 12:1-2 – "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."

  5. Philippians 3:13-14 – "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."

  6. 1 Corinthians 7:35 – "And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction."

  7. Colossians 3:2 – "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth."

  8. Psalm 101:3 – "I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me."

  9. James 1:8 – "A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways."

  10. Ecclesiastes 3:1 – "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:"

  11. Matthew 14:30 – "But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me."

  12. Galatians 5:7 - "Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?"

prayer points

  1. Father, in the name of Jesus, expose and eliminate every hidden distraction in my life that seeks to derail my spiritual focus.

  2. Lord, grant me the grace to set my eyes on what matters most: You, Your will, and Your ways in the Name of Jesus.

  3. I bind every spirit of confusion, spiritual laziness, and double-mindedness that causes me to drift from purpose in Jesus’ Name.

  4. Holy Spirit, sanctify my mind. Remove the clutter of unnecessary thoughts and make my mental space a dwelling place for divine insight in the Name of Jesus.

  5. My Father, my King, disconnect me from every relationship, habit, or environment that consistently pulls me out of divine alignment now in the Name of Jesus.

  6. Father, teach me to prioritize my time, my talents, and my energy according to Your kingdom agenda in the Mighty Name of Jesus.

  7. I renounce and detach myself from every idol in my heart; be it social media, money, approval, or busyness, that silently robs You of Your place in the Name of Jesus.

  8. I decree and declare I will not be like Martha, troubled by many things. I choose the better portion like Mary, to sit at Your feet in the Name of Jesus.

  9. Every distraction sent to abort my spiritual pregnancy and delay my due season, be exposed and dismantled now in Jesus' name.

  10. Father, I receive the mind of Christ. Let my thoughts be disciplined, my heart focused, and my actions aligned in the Name of Jesus.

  11. Father, during this fast, amplify Your voice in my life. Let me hear You louder than the noise of the world in the Mighty Name of Jesus.

  12. I cancel every demonic assignment of busyness without productivity. I shall bear fruit, not just motion, in Jesus’ Name.

  13. O Lord, restore my spiritual sensitivity. May I recognize distraction the moment it knocks and shut the door instantly in Jesus’ Name.