We Need to Answer This Moment; A Call to Pray and Fast in 2025
By Alex Murashko
Christian leaders, pastors, and young influencers nationwide are once again calling upon 1 million people, especially young people, to fast and pray at the beginning of the new year. The theme for the Roaring Twenties Fast 2025 is Unite Us.
The annual fast began in 2020 and will continue every January throughout the Roaring Twenties, organizers said.
“In this time in America and across the world, we need to answer this moment in our generation through praying, fasting, and pleading with God for the next great move of God among us,” said pastor and author Ronnie Floyd, who is a former president of the National Day of Prayer. “The church needs revival and America needs spiritual awakening. This is why we need to join the Roaring Twenties Fast in January 2025.”
In February 2023, a significant movement of the Spirit of God began on the campus of Asbury University in Kentucky. In the fall of 2023, a move of God occurred at Auburn University in Alabama as well. Both movements spread to campuses across the nation in an unprecedented way. Thousands of students are accepting Christ and following Him in baptism – many being spontaneously baptized in the back of pickup trucks and campus fountains. A grassroots movement emerged called UniteUS, led by Tonya and Chad Prewett, which has become a source of inspiration for the theme of the 2025 fast and prayer movement.
“The posture of our hearts matters when it comes to preparing space and praying for a move of God and possibly nothing can confront and mold our hearts into a dependent and needy posture more than fasting,” Zach Meerkreebs told Think Eternity, which hosts the Roaring Twenties Fast website. Meerkreebs is an Asbury University Campus pastor who was blessed to speak at the university’s chapel service held at Hughes Auditoriumon on February 8, 2023. What followed immediately and spontaneously in conjunction with the service was 16 consecutive days of worship and prayer – commonly referred to as the Asbury Revival. He added some encouragement to his call for the fast. “GEN Z is desperate. Let’s go there together, and put practice to our postures, through fasting together for a fresh outpouring of His Spirit.”
In 2019, before the Roaring Twenties Fast began, Think Eternity evangelistic ministry leader Matt Brown received a call from his friend and ministry partner Malachi O’Brien who shared that he felt they needed to call one million young people to fast. “I couldn’t shake the feeling that it was from the Lord,” Brown said. “Little did we know about the tumultuous times that were ahead but all along I also couldn’t shake the feeling that very good things were coming. We have seen God do so much in our nation over the past five years while a group of Christian leaders called upon the Church in America to fast. The roaring twenties have definitely been roaring. But I am most excited about the revivals God is doing with Asbury and the UniteUS movement among many other churches and campuses. When we seek God He is faithful to do great things.”
Rob Fultz, who is the executive director of C2NextGen, a ministry that prepares the next generation by “providing real ministry experience in real ministry environments” as outlined in the Bible verses Isaiah 40:1-11 and Mark 1:1-8, said he has witnessed young people ready for a change.
“I saw it firsthand at Lee University in 2023, in conjunction with the Asbury revival. Deaf ears were literally opened, deliverance and salvation were the fruit of the humble and hungry for God,” Fultz said. “Since 2019, I have been a part of more than 500 student baptisms and hundreds of young people expressing a call to full-time ministry. Thousands across multiple college campuses have experienced the same. Even now, we are preparing for three prayer events at major Ivy-League colleges starting in January.”
“There is an urgency in the Kingdom and a desperation in humanity that demands our attention,” he said. “We are experiencing the groanings of the greatest revival in human history, it will be ushered in with the kind of fasting and prayer that repairs walls and restores streets (Isaiah 58).”
O’Brien, who is encouraged by the movement of God he is seeing in our nation, is excited to encourage others.
“The stories and testimonies of others who have encountered more of the manifest presence of Jesus through fasting is the fuel we all need to enter into the Roaring Twenties Fast 2025 with expectation for encounter,” he said. “You can't fail when you fast. Wanting more of God is something divine and fasting is an invitation through our weakness to consider His outstanding beauty.”
Brown also has a heart to encourage others about fasting and praying. “Twenty twenty-five is not the year to slow down. It’s the year to keep pressing on into a life of worship, a life built on God’s Word, a life of humility, a life to love, serve and care, and a life proclaiming His Name.”
Christian leaders, such as Pastor Shane Idleman of Westside Christian Fellowship in California, focus a great deal on teaching about biblical fasting. Idleman shares the importance of spiritual disciplines that produce godly fruit. He asks in a recent article he wrote: “What is dead in your life that you know God is wanting to resurrect? What dream, goal, or godly ambition is waiting to be realized? Is there a stronghold that has been gripping your life? Do you desire a deeper walk with God and increased spiritual hunger? Do you need help in self-discipline and temperance? Do you need a breakthrough, direction, or peace? Is all hell breaking loose in your life? Are there great obstacles ahead?”
Idleman answers: “Then, it’s time to prepare for battle through prayer and fasting.”
UNITE US — Roaring Twenties Fast
Alex Murashko is a Christ follower, husband, journalist and writing team leader for Think Eternity, a site for powerful faith content to help you live the fulfilled life in Jesus. Murashko is also founder of Media on Mission.
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