Our 40 Days of Prayer & Fasting are almost over! To conclude this special season in the life of our church, we are having an all night prayer gathering from 8:00pm Friday, November 17th until 7:15am Saturday, November 18th. Learn more and sign up on the event page for a time to come pray with us.
Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Begin with Adoration
We have three days remaining in our 40 Days of Prayer and Fasting. As we conclude these daily prayers, I will prompt you with a word from Scripture. Allow it to guide you in your adoration…
Deuteronomy 10:21
He is your praise and He is your God, who has done these great and awesome things for you which your eyes have seen.
Continue with Confession
If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
1 John 1:8
Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.
James 5:16
As the Spirit brings any sin to mind, confess it (agree with God that it is sin) and turn from it (repent). Is there someone you need to confess your sin to? Confessing our sin to one another does not forgive the sin. The context of this verse is those who are spiritually weary and discouraged. To bring our confession to another is a means of our souls being encouraged, refreshed, to have our “soul” healed.
Don’t bypass this if you sense the Spirit prompting you to share your sin with a brother or sister. It will be an encouragement to them, and to you, and an invitation for them to walk and pray with you in your walk of faith.
Thank God that He forgives our sin and cleanses us from all unrighteousness on the basis of the finished work of Jesus and the promise of 1 John 1:9, and, that our fellowship with Him is restored.
Now offer words of Thanksgiving
Continue to add one to two things to the list of things you are grateful for that happened in 2017.
Today, let us corporately give thanks to God for our *Fellowship members who are giving their lives away to the ends of the earth…
- Evan and Rachel – Iris Ministries in Asia
- Nate and Brittany Bruns – Potsdam Germany
- Sarah Crane – Serge Ministries in Bundibugyo, Uganda
- Jeremy & Brittany Eagleman – Rafiki Foundation in Monrovia, Liberia
- Erick and Amanda Hansen – AIC-Kijabe Hosptial/BethanyKids, Rift Valley Academy
- Nick and Danae Ireland – Young Life in Singapore
- Chris and Amy Moore – Hellenistic Ministries in Greece
- Amanda Snyder – Josiah Venture in Celje, Slovenia
(*There are several other Fellowship members serving in places around the world where, for security reasons, they cannot be named. Give thanks for them as God knows who and where they are and what they need.)
Conclude with Supplication & Intercession…
First, let’s continue to pray for those that we know do not know Christ, and, for any who are at Fellowship who may think they are Christians, but have not put their trust in, or are resting in the finished work of Christ…
Second, pray that God—in His grace and by His Spirit—would make us to be “of one heart and soul” (Acts 4:32a).
Third, I’d like us to keep praying the Scriptures.
Here is the prayer we recently studied in Acts 4:24-30. It is a prayer the early church prayed, that God answered, and that we so desperately need to pray today…make it your own…and pray it for Fellowship…
Acts 4:24-30
24 And when they heard this, they lifted their voices to God with one accord and said, “O Lord, it is You who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them, 25 who by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David Your servant, said,
‘Why did the Gentiles rage,
And the peoples devise futile things?
26 ‘The kings of the earth took their stand,
And the rulers were gathered together
Against the Lord and against His Christ.’27 For truly in this city there were gathered together against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, 28 to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur. 29 And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and grant that Your bond-servants may speak Your word with all confidence, 30 while You extend Your hand to heal, and signs and wonders take place through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.”
Finally, using the prayer of the early church above, let’s pray this prayer for our Fellowship members who are “speaking God’s word” in these far-away places (listed above)…may they do so with “all confidence” and may God confirm their words with His gracious and miraculous hand.
