5 Things to Pray for Your Church: Prayers That Change Things for the Life of Your Church (Five Things to Pray For)
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Overview
Pray powerful prayers for your church family.
We long for God to be working in our church fellowship, and we know we’re meant to be praying for our church. But often when it comes to it, we don't quite know what to ask for. Or we feel our requests to God are shallow, repetitive and stuck in a rut.
That’s where this little book is designed to help. It will equip you to pray powerful prayers for your church family―prayers that really change things, because they’re based on God’s word.
Each spread takes a passage of Scripture and suggests 5 things to pray for an aspect of church life. Because when we pray in line with God’s priorities as found in his word, our prayers are powerful and effective (James 5 v 16)―and that’s a truly thrilling prospect. Use in your personal devotions, with a friend or as a church.
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- Equips you to pray powerful prayers for your church family
- Takes a passage of Scripture and suggests five things to pray for an aspect of church life
- Serves as an addition to your daily quet time, for devotions with a friend, or as a church family
- Praying That My Church Would
- Praying That I Would
- Praying for People in My Church
- Praying for the Wider Church
The Puritan William Gurnall once said, ‘Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed or God’s word turned inside out and formed into an argument and retorted back again upon God by faith.’ It sounds great. But what does it look like in practice? 5 Things to Pray for the People You Love and 5 Things to Pray for Your Church answer that question. They’ll walk you through using God’s word in prayer. And praying God’s word is my number one tip to help people invigorate their prayer life. Read these books and invigorate your prayers.
—Tim Chester, Pastor of Grace Church, Boroughbridge, and author of You Can Pray (IVP)
Five Things to Pray is a brilliantly simple but hugely effective means of stimulating your prayer life for church, mission, family and friends. Accessible and attractive, with lots of Scripture to focus prayer, it will be a great tool for churches to help members to pray regularly and creatively.
—Trevor Archer, FIEC London Director
For those of us who often struggle to know what to pray for our church and for the people we love, these books are brilliant at giving us lots of really helpful, specific things to pray that are straight from God’s word. With a mixture of praise, confession, thanksgiving and petition, the prayers are repeatedly focused on what it looks like to live in the light of eternity in the various different situations that are highlighted. Starting with Scripture really helpfully ensures that we are not praying merely for changed circumstances, as we can tend to do, but rather for changed hearts that bring honour and glory to God.
—Andrea Trevenna, Associate Minister for Women at St Nicholas, Sevenoaks, and author of The Heart of Singleness