prayer time

hey tribe

Remember how we were going to have a prayer schedule for all the people/organisations we wanted to pray for as a group for a month...well myles is going to hopefully put our group calendar on our website in the next couple of days. It will have on it our first prayer schedule with all the people, organisations, etc we wanted to pray for, starting TOMORROW.

I wa going to include prayer ideas for each day but it took up way too much room on our calendar. So doing it as a post now.

Remember you can pray 1 minute or longer for each person/organisation, but the aim is to pray in spirit and truth. Up to you. It's an opportunity for us to be consistent about praying for others. This will help us to increase our faithfulness as a group and to take our eyes off ourselves. We all pray for people/organisations as individuals but to pray as a group every day in unity will be an awesome blessing to others and to us.

Try to look at the calendar the day before so if you know it's your personal target group we are praying for then you can do a post/email and let us know if you have anything specific you want us to pray for. Or if you want to add to the prayer schedule than let me know.

You will be praying for people you don't even know personally. So here are my prayer ideas in case you get stuck - feel free to add to this if you have ideas too.

• ask the LORD what he wants you to pray for because he knows the people we are praying for better than we do.
• ask the person in our group what they want us to pray for.
• use the word as your prayer - Jeremiah 29:11 eg: Lord you know the plans you have for Rob, plans to prosper him and not to harm him, plans to give him a hope and a future. Proverbs 3:5,6...help Rob to trust you with all his heart, and not lean on his own understanding, and in all his ways to acknowledge you and you will make his paths straight....Romans 12:2 help Rob not to conform any longer to the patterns of this world but to be transformed by the renewing of his mind, so he can test and approve what you will is - your good, pleasing and perfect will. .....Give Rob the desire Lord to seek you with all his heart because you said in Jeremiah 29:13 whoever seeks you with all their heart will find you.
• pray for: salvation, opportunities for the person in our group to sow seeds into their lives, to build relationships, friendships, to show us what's keeping them from believing. To see them with God's eyes. To give the person in our group the desire to do whatever it takes for the LORD to save that person...to love them the way the LORD loves. To be a blessing to them, show us their needs and how we can help.
• pray for: God's love, peace, protection, wisdom, guidance over their lives, their relationships, their marriage.
• for organisations pray for God's protection over them and their organisations and their families (pray psalm 91). For continued guidance, to bless the work of their hands, to help them to remain faithful and keep their eyes on the LORD. For discernment so they know and recognise Satan's work in their midst and to bind this up so no harm will come to them, because greater is he who is in them and us, then he who is in the world!

Enjoy praying for our loved ones!