Prayer Weekend July 2009

Sunset prayer

Our desire is that people in this city would turn to Him and find life, and so this has been the focus of our praying.

Having completed three prayer and fasting weekends in the autumn of last year, we again set aside an upstairs room in our church in which to pray continuously for a weekend this July.

I believe that just as with the previous weekends, God has touched our hearts to pray for the things that touch His heart, and we have heard Him speak. In response, He has heard the prayers that we have offered, and they have touched His heart- a holy conversation has taken place, God’s heart to our hearts, and back again! Because these prayers have touched His heart, we can be confident that they have been effective, and that God will move and act in response to them.

'The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results' - James 5:16

'And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him. And since we know he hears us when we make our requests, we also know that he will give us what we ask for' - 1 John 5:14-15

As God has spoken to us as a church about growth and salvation, and the lost and hungry being found and fed, God has wetted our appetites and fuelled a fire in our hearts to pray eagerly and earnestly for the fulfilment of these things. Our desire is that people in this city would turn to Him and find life, and so this has been the focus of our praying.

'Come to me with your ears wide open. Listen, and you will find life. I will make an everlasting covenant with you. I will give you all the unfailing love I promised to David' - Isaiah 55:3

During my time in the prayer room, I wrote down some of my prayers:

'Glorify your name in this city. Let your glory fall in this place- let the streets shine with the glory of you! Let this place be famous for you Lord. Let this place be famous for the lives that have found your salvation. Let your kingdom came, Lord. Let it be heralded and ushered in in this place. Use this building for your glory. Let outsiders come in and be blessed, inspired, transformed, confronted, offended- by you. Let people be provoked by you as you reveal yourself in this place and in us. Let this room become famous in this city. Let it draw those who don’t know you but are looking for you. Let it welcome in the hungry and the searching.'

  • This week's word...

  • "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know you are my disciples, if you love one another."

    [John 13:34-35, NIV]

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