prayer
“Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.”
- Charles H. Spurgeon
Connect with God and cover your family, business, relationships, our church, community and beyond through prayer.
The #365Watch
Each year we launch new prayer guidelines for our 24-hour, 365-day a year prayer watch.
During the month of May we also unite with other churches in Durbanville for 10 Days of Prayer as part of the D4J (Durbanville for Jesus movement) too.
More about this year's #365Watch
Welcome to the launch of our 365 Prayer Watch for 2025, marking 13 years of continuous prayer at El Shaddai Christian Church.
This year, the Lord has led us to Luke 10:38–39:
“As Jesus and His disciples were on their way, He came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to Him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what He said.”
Mary sat at Jesus’ feet, listening, while Martha opened her home. As our relationship with God deepens, the ‘Mary and Martha’ in us must work together. This balance of active ministry and inner prayer aligns with the Great Commandment, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart” (be a Mary), and the Great Commission, “Love your neighbour as yourself” (be a Martha).
We are called to the deep intimacy of sitting at His feet and the outward action of opening our homes—to connect, serve, and disciple. Intimacy and prayer are the foundation of everything, whether in celebration or brokenness. Prayer and fasting are powerful tools for spiritual authority, as Jesus declared in Matthew 17:21: “But this kind is cast out only through prayer and fasting.”
As a church family this February, we are asking you to open your homes. Each Friday (7th, 14th, 21st, 28th), we will fast for 24 hours, starting Thursday evening and breaking the fast with a meal on Friday night. Plan to invite guests: someone you are discipling, a colleague, a family in need, or someone who has never been in your home. Make it a bring-and-share meal, a braai, or whatever suits you.
Fasting clears worldly distractions and sharpens heavenly vision. It breaks strongholds, shifts atmospheres, and heightens sensitivity to the Holy Spirit. Choose your fast—water-only, a Daniel fast, or another option—but make it meaningful. As Lisa Bevere says, “A diet changes the way you look, but a fast changes the way you see.”
We encourage you to pray through and anoint your homes with oil before welcoming guests. Guidelines are available here. Include your children, so prayer becomes a family norm.
Finally, as Matthew 5:16 says: “Keep open house, be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you’ll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven.”
Let’s be both Mary and Martha in 2025.
Weekly Prayer Meetings
SUNDAY
8:00am to 8:30am
Where:
Baby Room behind the hall, El Shaddai Church Buildings (access via Church Hall)
Monday
7:45am to 8:45am
Prayer Room behind the hall, El Shaddai Church Buildings (access via Streams Café)
Thursday
8:15am to 9:30am
Prayer Room behind the hall, El Shaddai Church Buildings (access via Streams Café)
Friday
6:00 am to 7:30 am
The “Upper Room”, El Shaddai Christian Church offices
Whatsapp Prayer Broadcasts
Sign up for prayer alerts and event information via WhatsApp. Stop for a couple of minutes when you receive a broadcast and pray for the highlighted issue.
Email the church office with your cellphone number, and save our number on your cell phone. This ensures that you get your WhatsApp broadcast.
ESCC Reception: 021 975 1983
Prayerline
If you have specific prayer needs that you’d like our prayer teams to cover, select the ‘prayer request’ button below, or contact your cell connect leader.
Please remember to share your testimony with us too.
