arise church corporate fast

august 2025

day 3 focus: stewardship, holiness, and longevity in the anointing

It’s one thing to receive the anointing. It’s another to sustain it. What many don’t realize is that the anointing can be stifled, mishandled, or lost, not because God changes His mind, but because people neglect consecration, obedience, and alignment.

Saul was anointed… then stripped. Samson was anointed… then fell asleep on Delilah’s lap. Judas walked with the Anointed One… and still betrayed Him. The sobering truth is this: gifting without guarding leads to grieving.

Today, we cry out not just for power, but for purity, protection, and prophetic posture. We are not chasing “a moment in God,” but we are building a lifestyle that can carry the weight of His glory for years to come.

scriptures

  • Ecclesiastes 10:1

“Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.”

  • Leviticus 10:1–2

“And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.”

  • Psalm 24:3–4

“Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.”

  • 1 Samuel 15:23

“For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.”

  • John 15:4

“Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.”

  • 2 Corinthians 4:7

“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.”

  • Proverbs 4:23

“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:19

“Quench not the Spirit.”

  • 1 Timothy 4:14–15

“Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.”

  • 2 Timothy 2:21

“If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.”

  • Matthew 25:3–4

“They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.”

  • Revelation 3:11

“Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.”

prayer points

  1. Father, teach me how to maintain what you’ve given me. Deliver me from the cycle of rising in the Spirit only to fall through carelessness and compromise in Jesus’ Name.

  2. Father, I ask for the anointing and the discipline to match it. Let me not be gifted and reckless. Build in me the structure to sustain what you're pouring out in the Mighty Name of Jesus.

  3. In the Name of Jesus, let every crack in my vessel, be it pride, lust, bitterness, or spiritual laziness, be sealed by your Spirit, so that the anointing will not leak from my life.

  4. Father God, circumcise my heart again. Purge me with fire until my motives are holy, my intentions are pure, and my eyes stay fixed on you alone in the Name of Jesus.

  5. I reject every spirit that would entice me to become anointed and arrogant, gifted and disobedient. Father, make humility my mantle and integrity my armor in Jesus’ Name.

  6. My Father, my King, reveal every relationship, behavior, or mindset that threatens to spoil the oil in my life. Give me the courage to walk away from what endangers my anointing in the Mighty Name of Jesus.

  7. Lord, let me never offer you strange fire, my own ideas, my own agenda, or emotionally-driven worship. Teach me to walk in holy reverence and honor of you in Jesus’ Name.

  8. Father, give me the grace to be the one who keeps oil in reserve through prayer, fasting, study, and purity. Let me never burn out because I failed to refill in Jesus’ Name.

  9. Father, build in me a private altar that is stronger than any public platform. Let my oil be born in secret, and not manufactured for show in the Name of Jesus.

  10. Father, work on my character, not just my charisma. Let who I am in the dark match who I appear to be in the light in Jesus Name.

  11. O God, teach me the rhythm of abiding in you. Let me not chase moments of anointing but cultivate a lifestyle of abiding, listening, and obeying in the Name of Jesus.

  12. Father I pray, let me never quench your Spirit through resistance or rebellion. Keep my spirit sensitive, surrendered, and obedient to your voice in the Name of Jesus.

  13. Father, let me be a vessel unto honor. Remove from me everything that makes me spiritually common or unusable in your hands in the Mighty Name of Jesus.

  14. In the Name of Jesus I reject all spiritual negligence. I will not mishandle your presence or abandon my calling. Give me grace to keep the fire burning continually on the altar in Jesus’ Name.

  15. Father God, help me to hold fast to what you’ve given me. I decree and declare no man, spirit, sin, or distraction will rob me of the crown you’ve reserved for my obedience in Jesus’ Name.