JAN 7-12, 2024

Ignite – Solemn Assembly

Start your year with purpose! Join us in January for Ignite – a dedicated week of solemn assembly, including gathered prayer and fasting that will set the tone for the rest of your year. RSVP to let us know you’re coming, and let’s embark on this journey together.

Agenda

40 Days of Purpose

Your purpose is about God, not you. Today, we’re surrounded by mass media messages that tell us to look within ourselves for answers. We pursue earthly successes that’re empty and temporary. You were placed on earth for for five main reasons:

  1. You were planned for God’s pleasure
    2. You were formed for God’s family
    3. You were created to become like Christ
    4. You were shaped for serving God
    5. You were made for a mission.

The only way to reveal your purpose is through a relationship with Christ and that will be the focus of these 40 days.

Draw the Circle

In conjuction of Solemn Assembly and 40 Days of Purpose, we will also be reading Draw the Circle by Mark Batterson

Closer Devotional

Follow Along with Daily Habit Trackers

About Solemn Assembly

A solemn assembly is a sacred gathering of God’s people to renew their covenantal relationship with Him and to repent – turning away from sin and a turning back to God. Solemn assemblies in Scripture are often called by those in leadership – whether that be a priest, prophet, or king (Joel 2: Neh. 8-9). Take time this week to connect with God as we fast from food and technology.

What We Will Do

Our solemn assembly will consist of six nights of intentional prayer.  Each day we will fast from food and technology between the hours of 3 pm – 6 am.  Each night, a different group will gather to pray.  Our leaders will begin our week of prayer on Sunday afternoon, during which everyone should have intentional family prayer time.  Every night following (Monday- Friday) there will be a gathering at 7 pm.

Fast: No food or technology • 3pm-6am

Solemn Assembly | January 7-12

Friday

Jan 12 • 7p

 

Locations:

  • Singles (inc. Singles Life Groups) – Plano Campus
  • Everybody Else – Wherever your Life Group meets

Break the Fast

Pray our life groups experience: Authentic Community, Life Transformation, Providential Circumstances, Pivotal Relationships

Leviticus 23:36

For seven days you shall present food offerings to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and present a food offering to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you shall not do any ordinary work.

Break the Fast with your Life Group

God created us for relationship with Him, and yet He immediately noted that we weren’t healthy unless we also had relationship with each other. If you’re not in a life group, one of the ways to start your year off right is to join one today.