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Start Today's Journey with Prayer
“Father, I believe that You want the kind of relationship with me where we can talk openly and listen deeply to each other. Help me to understand that growing in prayer is a lifelong journey. Please give me the grace I need to grow in this area of my walk with You. Please speak to me now from Your Word.”
Read God's Word
(Click the reference to expand the passage. All Scripture passages are from the English Standard Version.)
Psalm 85:6
"Will you not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?"
Isaiah 64:1-3
"Oh that You would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at Your presence—as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil—to make Your name known to Your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at Your presence! When You did awesome things that we did not look for, You came down, the mountains quaked at Your presence."
2 Chronicles 7:14
“If My people who are called by My name 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.”
Joel 2:12-17
Respond to What God Has Said
“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.”
Return to the LORD your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and He relents over disaster. Who knows whether He will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind Him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the LORD your God?
Blow the trumpet in Zion; consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly; gather the people. Consecrate the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.
Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep and say, “Spare your people, O LORD, and make not Your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
If God sending revival to our nation was dependent on your prayers alone, would it ever happen? Most of us know that we should pray more, but we either don’t know how or can’t seem to find the time.
As we read in the passages above, desperate prayer includes pleading with God, repenting, fasting, grieving, and often doing so with others. Does this describe the atmosphere of your church prayer gatherings?
Prayer is a lifetime pursuit, not something a person ever “finishes.” Because we love God, we should always look for ways to grow deeper in prayer.
End Today's Journey with Prayer
“Father, make me a person of unceasing prayer. Help me to keep a running conversation with You about everything all day long. Teach me to pray, and teach me how to pray! And give me a burden for revival and spiritual awakening in my home, my church, my city, and our nation.”
On a scale from 1-5, rate your own prayer life in the following categories:
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Taking consistent time to talk with God every day
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Praising God for His character and glory
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Thanking God for His blessings in my life
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Calling out to God for personal revival
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Praying for my family and my church
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Confessing my sins and praying for help to overcome them
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Praying for the souls of my lost friends and family
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Asking God for spiritual awakening in my community and nation
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Making space in my life to pray with others, beyond mealtime prayers
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Praying for the needs of others
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Setting aside occasional times for concentrated prayer or fasting
Write down your answer to the following question:
Father, I want to grow in the area of prayer, and the next step I plan to take, with Your help, is?
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