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What is Prayer and Fasting in the Christian Life? (Nehemiah 1:1-4; Mark 9)

1/11/26 Part 1: What is Prayer and Fasting in the Christian Life? Text: Nehemiah 1:1-4; Mark 9 Speaker: Phillip Santillan In this opening message of our 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting series, we camp out in Nehemiah 1 and talk about something most of us feel in real time. When life goes sideways, we move fast to solutions and slow to prayer. Nehemiah shows a different path. Before strategy, before planning, before fixing, he starts with God. You’ll hear why spiritual renewal begins when information turns into burden, how God uses ordinary people who are learning constant dependence, and why prayer is not a box to check but an honest admission: “God, if you don’t help, this won’t happen.” We also connect Nehemiah’s posture to Mark 9:29, where Jesus exposes the danger of trying to do spiritual work without God’s power. And we’ll talk about fasting as “dependence with your whole life,” including practical encouragement for those who cannot fast from food. If you want your faith to move from pressure-driven to presence-driven, and your disciple-making to flow from communion with God, this message is for you. https://www.claritychurch.org/21-days... TABLE OF CONTENTS: [00:00] - Welcome [00:13] - Instant Solutions vs Prayer [00:59] - Prayer as Response, Not Performance [11:26] - Reading Nehemiah 1 [13:24] - Three Movements in Nehemiah [14:18] - A Need That Cannot Be Ignored [20:32] - Burden That Moves the Heart [25:59] - Dependence Before Strategy [32:58] - What Fasting Really Is [38:53] - Practical Next Steps