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January is the month that you will find many believers in intense prayer and fasting. This is the time used to speak into the year to pray and commit your year before the Lord. This is an excellent thing to do because being the first month of the year, this is the first fruit of the year, the tithe month of the year. So yes it is important, no its critical to pray and fast the first month of the year as you are setting apart the year for the Lord.
However as we prepare to enter into another year we should likewise spend time shaping, framing, speaking, building the year, before we step into the year. The following four reasons are why you should pray for 2018 before the year comes
1. Hebrews 11:3 “ By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear.” Praying in the months of November and December, gives you an opportunity to shape and frame your oncoming year, before it has even begun. It is like building a house. Ideally you first build the house and then you move into the house. When you start praying in the month of January, you are both building the house whilst living in it. Not very comfortable!. You are digging the foundations while living in the hole of the foundation. You are putting up walls while already you are in the house. The rain and the sun beat you while you try to put up the roof.
It would be prudent to build up your house and get into it when it is complete. You can do the finishing and the final touchups when you are in the house. These final touches are the prayer and fasting in January and part February.
Hebrews says we understand that the world was framed by the word of God. Frame your year before the year comes into being. Speak the word that you would want to manifest in that year before the year comes into being.
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