Prayer Week - Day 5 - Heart for God

It's the last day of our prayer week. I know I have been blessed this week, and I am in great expectation to see how God will answer our prayers. Here's the prayer guide for day 5 - topic is Heart for God.

Some Ideas to Get Us Started Praying for our Hearts

• pray for a personal passion for God
• pray for people to hunger after a daily time with the Lord
• that we would recognize the sin in our lives and would repent of that sin
• our hearts would break for what breaks God’s heart
• personal commitment to growing our knowledge of God and his holy word
• pray that we would hunger and thirst after righteousness
• our personal prayer times would be a vital part of our life
• that we would long to know God’s word
• pray our personal purity in all things
• that our personal worship would be passionate
• pray for boldness for the gospel

Some Scriptures to Pray for Our Heart for God

• Matthew 5:6
• Ephesians 3:17-19
• Romans 12:1-2
• Matthew 26:41
• 1 John 2:15-17
• 1 Thessalonians 1:6
• Romans 15:13
• Psalm 100:2
• Acts 28:30-31

Prayer Week - Day 4 - Church Leadership

Today's prayer focus is on our church leadership. We're using that term in a broader sense than just the pastoral leadership (see below).

Some Ideas to Get Us Started Praying for Our Leaders

Pastors

• our spiritual lives to be strong
• Mark and Brett to preach the Word strongly
• that we have vision for the future
• ability to make leadership decisions & moves
• that we would set a godly example
• music ministry would inspire genuine worship among us
• to be encouraged

Sunday School leaders

• knowledge and understanding of the Scripture
• ability to teach
• genuinely love the people in their SS groups

AWANA leaders

• patience and understanding of children’s hearts
• ready to share the gospel

Youth leaders

• understanding of issues that teens faces
• to show youth what a godly man or woman is

Deacons

• they would lead by example with their lives
• have a ministry and people focus

Some Scriptures to Pray for Our Leaders

• Ephesians 4:11-14
• Ephesians 3:14-19
• 1 Timothy 3:8-13
• 1 Timothy 5:17-18
• 1 Peter 5:1-5

Prayer Week - Day 3 - Work / Neighbors

Here's the prayer guide for day 3. Thanks for praying even if you can't be here. Later today I'll upload a really important post reviewing Sunday's message and challenge.

Some Ideas to Get Us Started Praying for Our Work and for Our Neighbors.

• pray to impact your work for the kingdom of God
• pray that our church would do all things to the glory of God
• that we would live out the love of Christ
• neighborhoods impacted for Christ
• our hearts would be turned to our lost neighbors and co-workers.
• our attitudes at work and home would reflect Christ
• that we would love our neighbor as ourselves
• we would recognize opportunities to share Christ

Some Scriptures to Pray

• Matthew 22:36-40
• Leviticus 19:18
• Colossians 3:23
• John 15:12-13
• James 2:8-10
• Galatians 5:14
• Proverbs 17:17
• Luke 6: 27-35

Prayer Week - Day 2 - Church

Here's the prayer guide for day 2 of our prayer week. The topic for day 2 is our church.

Some Ideas to Get Us Started Praying for Our Church

• that the gospel would be central to everything we do
• God to do a mighty work among us, a work different than anything we might expect
• that we will be willing to let God do his work among us
• that we will be hot in our evangelism here in Smithville
• that we are inviting people to church regularly
• many people to be saved through our church
• us to grow in the depth of our faith, to be rooted and grounded in Christ
• our commitment level to God and the church to greatly increase
• our worship times to be passionate
• God to raise up missionaries out of our church who will take the gospel around the world
• the preaching of the Word to be highly valued
• that there would be no divisions among us and that forgiveness would be quick when we hurt each other
• that love would be so evident among us that it is irresistible to those outside the church

Some Scriptures to Pray for Our Church

• John 15:1-8
• Acts 2:42-47; 11:19-26
• Romans 12:4-8
• Hebrews 2:10-12; 10:24-25
• James 2:1-4
• 1 John 4:7-12

Prayer Week - Day 1 - Home/Family

It's prayer week at First Baptist!!! We're praying everyday at 7am, 12 noon, and 6:30pm in the Golden Circle room. Come join us...but, we've got you covered even if you can't make it. We still want you praying with us, so we're posting our daily prayer guide on the blog for you to pray along.

Each day with have a different focus topic. Today we're praying for our families and homes. Here's today's guide...

Some Ideas to Get Us Started Praying for Our Homes and Families

• pray for a God-focus in our homes
• pray for men to lead their families spiritually
• children to hear the gospel from their parents
• children to see the gospel in their parents
• families to be committed to coming to worship
• for our children as they go to school (protection from the world’s influence, God to use them as witnesses)
• husbands to love and lead their wives as Christ loves and leads the church
• wives to follow their husband’s leadership
• protection from Satan and the world’s influence
• that our homes would be fertile soil for raising children who love God and want to change the world for Christ

Some Scriptures to Pray for Our Homes and Families

• Exodus 20:12
• Deuteronomy 6:6-8, 31:12
• Joshua 24:15
• Psalm 32:8; 103:17; 127:3-5
• Proverbs 22:6; 31:30
• Ephesians 5:21-6:4
• Titus 2:1-6