Pray for Your Church

MONDAY – Leadership (Elders, staff)

  • Pray for encouragement, fruit of the Spirit, vision, protection, family, flourishing

Exodus 17:11-13 - Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed.  But Moses' hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.  And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword.

 

TUESDAY – Servers (Deacons, teachers, children and youth workers)

  • Pray for joy in serving, pray against burnout, pray for filling of the Holy Spirit

2 Kings 6:17 - And Elisha prayed, “Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

 

WEDNESDAY – Mission

  • Pray for outreach, salvation, church finances, and a missionary heart and culture

Matt 9:37-38 - Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;  therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”

 

THURSDAY – Unity

  • Pray for a spirit of unity and mutual love and cooperation. Pray against selfish ambition.

John 17:20-21 I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

 

FRIDAY – Making Disciples 

  • Pray for spiritual maturity and a deeper knowledge of God’s love, pray for a hunger for God’s Word, pray that we would be a praying church

Eph 3:14-19 - For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family[a] in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious richeshe may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

 

SATURDAY – Warfare

  • Pray for spiritual protection, pray against giving the devil a foothold.

Eph 6:10-11 - Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.  Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. 

 

SUNDAY – Revival 

  • Pray for a downpour of the Holy Spirit that the church might be renewed, reenergized, and revived.

Psalm 85:6-7 - Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you? Show us your steadfast love, O Lord, and grant us your salvation.

Acts 3:19 - Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord