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Praying for an hour is like sitting down for a leisurely meal with a friend rather than ordering a burger and fries at the drive-up window. As you spend time with God, you find things to say. Get comfortable; kneel, sit in a chair or on a floor pillow, lay prostrate on the floor. Climb into your Father’s arms. Pray silently or out loud. Write in a journal or on simple piece of paper. (Speaking out loud and/or writing may improve your concentration.) You needn’t do all the talking or writing. Silence in prayer gives God space to plant his response into our minds. You will find a "Time & Focus" guide below, but look around this webpage – there are several other resource options provided to help you in praying.
If God speaks! please share it in the collective comments at the bottom of this page. Impart your thoughts, favorite verses, songs, or hymns. This is a rich gift for those who pray after you. Particularly, write a prayer for Plain Community Church. What do you long for God to do in and through our church in the next decade?
If God speaks! please share it in the collective comments at the bottom of this page. Impart your thoughts, favorite verses, songs, or hymns. This is a rich gift for those who pray after you. Particularly, write a prayer for Plain Community Church. What do you long for God to do in and through our church in the next decade?
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Time & Focus Suggestions for 60 minutes of Prayer
(Don't worry if your times or your focus are different. This is only a guide to help to get you started.) |
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Preparation (one [1] minute):
Ask God to help you spend this time profitably with him. Give yourself to him for this time.
Confession (four [4] minutes):
Spend a moment going over with him recent sins that weigh on you, but don't dredge up old ones. Read 1 John 1:9. Ask for his cleansing, and then accept it by faith and thank him for it.
Praise and thanksgiving (nine [9] minutes):
Sing your adoration to the Lord using a hymnal or choruses you know. Now start to thank him for his goodness to you and your friends. There's a special sense in which God "inhabits" the praises of his people (Ps. 22:3). As your heart begins to adore him, you'll sense his presence more deeply.
Petition (eight [8] minutes):
Pray about life's difficulties. Use this time to talk over with the Lord your own struggles. Discuss with him your relationship with your loved one or spouse, your family, your financial needs, your studies or job.
Intercession (eight [8] minutes):
Pray for friends, loved ones, relatives, neighbors, fellow workers. Don't just read a list of names to God but talk to him about their lives and needs. You can boldly ask him for their salvation. Ask God to bring Christians into their lives, to alter circumstances, and to give you opportunities for witness. If you are part of the Church’s Email Prayer Chain, use the most recent email to pray specifically. You can add your own prayer requests at the bottom of the Prayer Vigil page.
Prayer for the Church (ten [10] minutes):
Call on God for a deep renewal of love for him. Pray for our pastors and church leaders. Intercede for the children and the youth, the families, the singles, the widows, the sick and shut-ins. Call on God for an increase in giving so the church can accomplish its work. Pray for the Christian organizations in our valley that work with teens, young adults and families, those struggling with addictions, the poor and the homeless.
Prayer for our Community & Nation (ten [10] minutes):
Pray for our schools and teacher, our community civic organizations like Firewise Neighborhoods, Hospital Foundation, Fire Dept Guild, our local businesses, etc. Pray that God will guide our president and legislators, our justices and judges, our governors and mayors, our police and firefighters. Pray for righteousness in government and a public policy sensitive to the needs of the oppressed both here and abroad.
Prayer for other nations (ten [10] minutes): Pray for the work of Christ throughout the world. Intercede for unreached peoples. Pray for missionaries, for Third World pastors and churches, for the people of God who are suffering persecution. Pray for peace. Ask God to give food, shelter, and hope to the hungry.
Those prayers add up to sixty [60] minutes.
Ask God to help you spend this time profitably with him. Give yourself to him for this time.
Confession (four [4] minutes):
Spend a moment going over with him recent sins that weigh on you, but don't dredge up old ones. Read 1 John 1:9. Ask for his cleansing, and then accept it by faith and thank him for it.
Praise and thanksgiving (nine [9] minutes):
Sing your adoration to the Lord using a hymnal or choruses you know. Now start to thank him for his goodness to you and your friends. There's a special sense in which God "inhabits" the praises of his people (Ps. 22:3). As your heart begins to adore him, you'll sense his presence more deeply.
Petition (eight [8] minutes):
Pray about life's difficulties. Use this time to talk over with the Lord your own struggles. Discuss with him your relationship with your loved one or spouse, your family, your financial needs, your studies or job.
Intercession (eight [8] minutes):
Pray for friends, loved ones, relatives, neighbors, fellow workers. Don't just read a list of names to God but talk to him about their lives and needs. You can boldly ask him for their salvation. Ask God to bring Christians into their lives, to alter circumstances, and to give you opportunities for witness. If you are part of the Church’s Email Prayer Chain, use the most recent email to pray specifically. You can add your own prayer requests at the bottom of the Prayer Vigil page.
Prayer for the Church (ten [10] minutes):
Call on God for a deep renewal of love for him. Pray for our pastors and church leaders. Intercede for the children and the youth, the families, the singles, the widows, the sick and shut-ins. Call on God for an increase in giving so the church can accomplish its work. Pray for the Christian organizations in our valley that work with teens, young adults and families, those struggling with addictions, the poor and the homeless.
Prayer for our Community & Nation (ten [10] minutes):
Pray for our schools and teacher, our community civic organizations like Firewise Neighborhoods, Hospital Foundation, Fire Dept Guild, our local businesses, etc. Pray that God will guide our president and legislators, our justices and judges, our governors and mayors, our police and firefighters. Pray for righteousness in government and a public policy sensitive to the needs of the oppressed both here and abroad.
Prayer for other nations (ten [10] minutes): Pray for the work of Christ throughout the world. Intercede for unreached peoples. Pray for missionaries, for Third World pastors and churches, for the people of God who are suffering persecution. Pray for peace. Ask God to give food, shelter, and hope to the hungry.
Those prayers add up to sixty [60] minutes.
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Shared Responses & Prayers
Jesus, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life...
...A new commandment I give you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are my disciples” John 3:16,13:34-15 Donna's post continues … |
- Many of the resources on this page were adapted from 24/7 Prayer International. We appreciate their help with ideas for this page.
- Dick Eastman’s book The Hour that Changes the World © 2002 by Dick Eastman, Chosen Books, Grand Rapids, MI.
- Five Finger Prayer - www.KathrynShirey.com