Drawing closer to God, together.

Psalms 85:6 (NKJV) Will You not revive us again, That Your people may rejoice in You?

‍Prayer: Father, during this season of prayer and fasting, I am asking You to revive me again. Set my heart on fire for You Lord, and let me burn within with a zeal that is pure and fervent. Let my soul long for You above everything else that I have passion for in this life. Cause me to yearn for You with deepest longing and then make me even hungrier still. I want to want You. I need to know You more. When I am passionate for You, others will see and will desire to know why I care for you so fervently. They too will want to know You that they also may experience the fulfillment that I have found. Draw people to You Lord, and use me to bring them into Your family. Send Revival, Father, and let it begin in me! Revive Your people again.

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV) If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 

Prayer: Lord, we are Your people and we belong only to You. In this time of consecration and prayer, I humble myself before You. You are the righteous God of all the earth. We have no righteousness of our own. Forgive us of our sins and of our selfish desires. Forgive me where I have strayed from Your paths. Turn our hearts to You. Heal our land and unite us where we have been divided. Unite this nation, and heal what is broken in this great country. Father, cause us to embrace Your Word and Your teachings with our whole hearts. Let Favor be poured out upon us in such a way that others will see the difference that You alone can make in someone’s life and draw them to You. 

John 3:16 (NKJV) For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 

Prayer: Lord, I thank You for the incredible, endless love You have for us! You love all of humanity with a love that is beyond our ability to comprehend it. It breaks Your heart to see any of us lost without You. You hurt for the lost so much that You gave the dearest thing in all of heaven to save us. That is Your statement on how much we are worth to You. Cause Your people to become bold and living witnesses of Your love. Help us to feel the passion in Your heart for the unsaved world around us. I pray today that You will touch the hearts of those who do not yet know You. Cause them to respond to our witness and have within their hearts a growing and insatiable hunger for You. Give the lost dreams and visions, penetrate their thoughts, and help them see the emptiness of the things this world has to offer. Save them, Lord. 

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Psalms 2:8 (NKJV) Ask of Me, and I will give You The nations for Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth for Your possession. 

Prayer: Today I ask You for the nations. I ask You to send revival to the unreached peoples of the earth. Let Your Word go to every village, every town, every city, and every nation. Father God, I pray today, that You will raise up missionaries and leaders all around the world who will carry Your Gospel to the unsaved. Bless those who carry your Gospel to the lost. Provide the finances and resources they need to fulfill Your divine purposes. Let Thy Kingdom come, I pray! 

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Joel 2:28-29 (NKJV) And it shall come to pass afterward That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions. [29] And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days. 

Prayer: Lord, these verses speak of a divine outpouring and of a sovereign move of Your Holy Spirit. We cannot make this happen but You can. Cause it to take place all around the world. Pour out Your Spirit upon ALL flesh, from the north to the south, and from the east to the west. Cause humanity to have divine encounters with Your Spirit across the world. I pray that You will push back the spirits of darkness that blind people to how wonderful You really are. You are more than amazing! You are more than wonderful! Let people see You in Your beauty and majesty. Cause them to come to You and surrender their lives to You. 

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Matthew 9:37-38 (NKJV) Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. [38] Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.” 

Prayer: Lord, this is the only prayer request the scripture records you ever having made. The need is so great. There are 7 1/2 BILLION people in the world. Many of them do not know You. Many of them have never even heard the name of Jesus. But how can they know without someone to tell them? Raise up laborers who will reap this great harvest for Your glory. Raise up those who will give their lives and hearts to You so completely they will live for Your great cause of Evangelism. Raise up pastors, assistant pastors, helpers, ministry leaders, missionaries, worship leaders, musicians, teachers and Lord, raise up givers. Cause Your people to become as committed as we should be, so we will find Your Great Commission and send missionaries, build churches, and help the poor and hurting. 

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Matthew 28:18-20 (NKJV) And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. [19] Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, [20] teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Prayer: Mighty God, as we all know, this is Your Great Co-mission to the church. It is the mission You have called us as believers to spend our lives partnering with You to fulfill. The Great Commission is something I am called to participate in. It is a call to every church and to every member in that church. Let our hearts overflow with Your goodness and help us to love so much so that the world will see it and desire to know You. But not only do this, Father. Also cause every church to be a missions church and every believer to be committed and passionate about missions. I thank You that I belong to a mission’s minded church. Thank You for the 1,000’s we have touched for You, for the 1,000’s of churches planted by those we have helped train and by our giving. You said You would be with us until the end of the world if we will but embrace Your call. Today I accept and say yes to You. Use us, Lord. Use me to save the lost!

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I give you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”
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Prayer: Oh Lord, grant me the grace to love you more and more each day. May my family learn what it means to love you with all our hearts, souls, and strength. Help my wife (husband) and I to be diligent teachers and doers of the Word in our home, when we sit at home, when we are driving around town, and when we go to sleep at night. May Your Word and Your love and Your sacrifice ever be on the forefront of our minds and hearts and cause our relationship with each other to grow stronger. We stand by Your grace and for Your glory!

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Exodus 15:26 (NKJV) If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer. 

Prayer: Father, today I pray that You will grant me Your grace and strength to hear Your voice and to do what is right in Your eyes. I am keenly aware of my weaknesses and my need of Your grace. I ask you to give me the ears to hear what the Spirit is saying and then to obey You fully and without reservation. 

You have promised me that if I will hear and obey You, that You will not put the diseases that afflict the world upon me. Grant me to walk in Divine health where I will not even need healing. Give me immunity from the sicknesses that sin caused to enter this world. Give me Your divine strength to live in health and vitality for Your glory I pray!

Joshua 1:9 “Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” 

Prayer: May our children be strong and courageous for You, God. Lord God, You are with us, You are with me. You are in the midst of our home and we can’t thank You enough for Your presence. God, on our own, we fail at this being strong and unafraid thing. By your might and grace alone, help us to trust You more with each passing day. I ask you to help us, as parents, to live lives of absolute trust and surrender that all our children know to do is trust You. Make our marriage strong and let it be an example of how people can love and believe in each other. When our children are afraid – when we are afraid – remind us of Joshua’s story. Remind us of your presence. Remind us of your goodness. You are Emmanuel...God with us.

Psalm 103:1-5 (NKJV) Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits—who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. 

Prayer: I praise you, my Lord, and I remember all of your goodness and benefits to me. I thank you for forgiving me of my sins and for the assurance they are forever gone and covered by

your blood. Just as your blood brought me atonement for my sins, your stripes bring me healing for my sicknesses. You heal ALL my diseases. 

Cancer cannot stand before You, Lord! Neither can diabetes or renal failure. Nor can lung conditions or liver disorders stand against You. Structural issues like back problems and those with knees are being healed, I pray in Your Holy Name, dear Jesus! 

Today Lord, I claim your promise that my strength is being renewed as the eagle! I am not sinking in weakness or despair. I am being raised up to be strong again! Thank you for healing me (or my loved one or friend). I give You glory!

Ruth 1:16-17 (NKJV) But Ruth said: "Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God. [17] Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me." 

Prayer: Father God, the words of Ruth are the cry of my heart for our family, for my marriage. You have brought us together, may nothing tear us apart. May my husband (wife) and children know that where they go – both physically, emotionally, or spiritually, I am right there with them. Nothing they can do will stop me from loving them. 

Help me to love more like You love, Father. Help us to love each other with an unconditional love. May my children be secure in my love for my husband (wife), his (her) love for me, and our love for them. Strengthen the love you have given my husband (wife) and me. 

Help us to be proactive and intentional about spending time together and putting our marriage first. Teach us to love like You do. Heal what is broken in us.

Isaiah 53:5 (NKJV) But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on Him, and by His wounds we are healed. 

Prayer: Our Precious Lord, how can I begin to understand all You did for me or how much You loved me? It takes my breath away to consider the depth of Your love and all You endured for me! 

You were pierced with nails and with thorns. You were wounded for my transgressions. You took my place and suffered for what I did. Oh, wonder of wonders! You were wounded, and where they placed stripes with that cruel whip upon your back, You paid the price for my healing! 

Just as there is no sin the blood did not forgive, there is no sickness Your stripes cannot cure. I claim my healing today. I change the way I have been speaking and now confess instead the

fact that healing virtue is flowing through me! I am healed! Your Word declares it and now my body must manifest it! Thank you, Lord!

1 Samuel 1:27-28 For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition which I asked of Him. Therefore I also have lent him to the Lord; as long as he lives he shall be lent to the Lord.’ So they worshiped the Lord there.” 

Prayer: Lord God, You have blessed me with each of these children. They are gifts from You, yet I gift them to You in return. They are yours. Just like Hannah gave Samuel over to you, I give my children back to You. 

I want You to use them for Your glory. Take their hearts and mold them into the beautiful people you created them to be. May they be surrendered to Your love, Jesus. May they know your love and your presence in a tangible way. 

Like Hannah, we pray for our children, then and now. God grant us, by your grace, as mothers and fathers, to release our children to You. You are the perfect, loving Father and there is no one more trustworthy than You. We trust You with our families. We also give our marriage back to you. Let your glory be reflected in us.

Philippians 3:7-8 (NKJV) But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. [8] Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ.
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Prayer: Dear Lord Jesus, in You I have found what my heart has longed for. My deepest longings have been met in You. Encountering You has made me realize how worthless and insignificant are the things I once valued. You are the greatest treasure of my life. I surrender everything that I may know You. I want to want You more! Reveal Yourself to me in an even greater way than I have known You before. I love You with all of my heart, but I desire to love You more deeply. Draw me closer to You for I long to know You more.

Song of Songs 1:4 (NKJV) Draw me away! We will run after you. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will be glad and rejoice in you. 

Prayer: My Savior and my King, I pray that You will draw me to You today. If You will draw me, I will run to You. Turn my thoughts and the desires of my heart to You. In the busyness of life my attention is often directed to many things that demand my attention. But I ask You to allow me to experience the privilege of living this day in Your Presence. 

Nothing compares to You. I rejoice when You cause me to be aware of the nearness of Your Holy Spirit. I am glad when I sense You near. I love You Lord, even more than words can say. 

John 15:4 (NKJV) Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 

Prayer: Lord Jesus, today I acknowledge the truth of Your Word: I cannot make it without You! Nor would I want to. You are life to me. As surely as I need air to breathe that I can live, I need You to be alive spiritually. You are like the breath in my lungs. I want to be found in You, always as securely connected to You as a branch is to its source. 

Fill me today with more of You. I pray that You would make me even more hungry for You. Let me hunger and thirst after more of You and Your righteousness. You alone satisfy the deepest longings of my heart.

Psalm 42:1-2 (NKJV) As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God. [2] My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? 

Prayer: My soul thirsts for You, Oh God! The emptiness of anything this world has to offer causes my attention to turn to You alone. You are the Living Water, the Well from which I may drink and never again thirst for anything else but more of You! 

I am ruined! Knowing You and seeing Your beauty has destroyed any other pleasure this world could ever hope to give. The Glory of Your Presence has consumed me. I am yours Lord. I am so grateful that You are mine!

Luke 10:42 (NKJV) But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her." 

Prayer: Precious Jesus, many things call for my attention today. Work, entertainment, the demands of life…all of these seek my focus and cry out for my time. But You are the one thing I cannot, and must not ever try to live without. I do not do well without You. In You I live, move and have my very being. 

So draw me close to You today. I want to practice the Presence of Your Holy Spirit, to be always aware of You and how near You are to me. I want to praise You and give You the honor and worship You deserve. You are the good thing that can never be taken from me.

Revelation 5:12 (NKJV) ….saying with a loud voice: "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain To receive power and riches and wisdom, And strength and honor and glory and blessing!"

Prayer: Jesus, You alone are worthy to receive my praise! You are my Redeemer and my Savior! Thank You for saving me when You did not have to do it. Thank You for shedding Your blood on the cross for me! Oh what a Savior! 

May You receive the reward of Your suffering. May humanity join in an endless chorus of worship that ascends to Your throne declaring Your glory and majesty! I want my voice to be one of those who proclaims that You are Worthy!

Jeremiah 10:6 (NKJV) ….Inasmuch as there is none like You, O LORD (You are great, and Your name is great in might), 

Prayer: There really is none like You. Lord, you are beautiful beyond description or words. Though all of eternity is mine to declare Your greatness, it will not be nearly long enough to adequately express who You are. How much less these few years I have to do so here. 

I praise You lord! I yearn for You with the deepest of longings. My heart, my soul, indeed all of my being cries out for You. You are wonderful! Draw me, Lord. Let me live near the cross. May I be found to be Yours alone.