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MONDAYEVANGELISTIC PRAYER Chronological Bible Reading: Psalm 127-129; 2 Corinthians 3 Monday, August 27 Neh. 2:4 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. Dear Lord of Heaven and Gracious God: Like Nehemiah, for months I have prayed about ruined walls in my life and others lives. Day and night, their soul is written on my hearteven painted on my eyelids. With one single absorbing passion I pray like Nehemiah did. His was not the prayer that stands knocking at mercys door. His was the concentration of many knocks into one sharpened battering-ram. It was prayed in the space between the kings question and his own answer. It was an interval not long enough to be noticed, but long enough to pray exclamatory prayerlong enough to seek and receive guidance on what to say. This is prayer in an electronic flash. This is praying intuitively, yet it is prayer that prevails with God. In the inmost shrine of the temple, in the holy of holies of my own secret soul, there do I desire to pray. Not just now, but at every opportunity. Not just on my knees, but in my heart. Not just the first task of the day, but all day. Short and silent, prayer on the spot that hits the spot. There and then (with the bosss cup in my hand!) let me pray to the God of heaven before I answer any opportunity to witness. Let me be direct and intense with you. I know whom I am praying to: the God of heaven. I do not draw the bow and shoot at random. I want to go straight to God. Teach me Lord, to estimate rightly the value of exclamatory prayer as evangelistic prayerthe prayer of the moment, the prayer du jour. Let me get a little bit of a prayer shoved in sideways between any opportunity and my reaction. A mere fragment of a devotion, it is more than enough to call the God of heaven down to earth to intervene. In this I rejoice for Jesus sake and for his will. Amen. A DAILY PATTERN FOR PRAYER & BIBLE READING Chronological Bible Reading: Psalm 118-120; 1 Corinthians 16 Thursday, August 30 1 Pet. 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: TUESDAYFOCUS ON CHRISTS LIFE Chronological Bible Reading: Psalm 130-132; 2 Corinthians 4 Tuesday, August 28 John 13:1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. Loving Lord and Gracious Master: What a fact for my faith to claim! What you were and arewhat you were to those with whom you lived on earthyou will be to me, and to all your children today. But here is the wonder: it says, having loved. That you should ever have loved me at all is a miracle. What was there in your poor apostles that you should love them? But then, what is there in us? What is there in me? Lord, I thank you! Because once you start to love it is in your nature to keep on loving. Love made us his own. What a title! You purchased me with your blood and I became your treasure. Being your own, you will not lose me Being your beloved, you will not stop loving me And you did it Lord, to the end. Even as your body dropped bloody sweat in the garden and dripped-out your life at the cross, you loved! That ruling passion reigned in your heart until its last beat. That also means you will love me to the uttermost. You could not love me more than to love me to your last breath. And having loved me to your last breath, you will love me to perfection. Your love will bring me all the way to completion in the image of Jesus Christ. Truly you have lavished perfect love on me. There is no un-wisdom or unfaithfulness in your actions toward me, because there is neither fault nor flaw in your loveand no reservation. Such is the love of Jesus to each one of his children. Let me sing to my Well-beloved my praises today. Amen. FRIDAY CORPORATE PRAYER MINISTRY Chronological Bible Reading: Psalm 136-138; 2 Corinthians 6 Friday, August 31 Isa. 2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. Almighty God and Heavenly Father: Make it true! Words like these kindle our hopes for revival. Our church has always been a city set on a hill that could not be hid, and in the last two decades we have sent servants to all parts of the globe. But Lord, do something special with us in these, the last days. Make us what we were always meant to be for you! Isa. 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. Work a desire for God in the hearts of multitudes in our city! Give them an intense dissatisfaction with their life (or lifelessness). Make them willing to worship you. Let them become anxious to hear what we teach. Make them want to learn, and quick to practice. Let us labor mightily to bring about such revival. Isa. 2:8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: Sin is the reason people do not get saved. They set up something in the place of God. Lord, help us and heal us! Make the spirit of apathy flee away from us, and give the lost a heart-cry to be saved. Isa. 2:10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. What a rebuke to our indifference. Come out of your secret place and revive us again, for we plead with you these promises. Amen. WEDNESDAYREVIVAL PRAYING Chronological Bible Reading: Psalm 133-135; 2 Corinthians 5 Wednesday, August 29 Dan. 9:23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to show thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision. O Lord and Holy Father: To what can I liken the pleadings of Daniel? He thundered and lightninged at the gates of heaven with his prayers. He stood before God Almighty and said, You have brought me here like you brought Jacob to the Jabbok river. I intend to stay all night and wrestle with you till the break of day. I will not let go unless you bless me. Lord I need an answer; help me have a fervent prayer. If my prayer time with you is not fervent it will not be effective, just like James 5:16 says. Get rid of the icicles around my lips. Thaw the caves of my soul. Make my heart like a furnace of fire heated seven times hotter. If my heart does not burn within, I might as well question whether Jesus is with me at all. Oh, for a mighty cry! Oh, for a prevailing petition! Oh, for a heavenshaking supplication! Oh, for a prayer that will make the gates of heaven open at lasta cry that your arm cannot resist! Give us this week a cry of saints knit-together in love and filled with the Holy Ghost. Throw a stone into the stagnant pool of our church, and bring the waves of revival over my heart, to your church, and around my acquaintances. Days of refreshing will only come in your presence. I will now say in your sight, that even if you do not please to hear me at the beginning, it is my desire to wait on you until you do. If you still remain hidden behind the mountains of my day, yet will I wait for you like the morning Sun. But tarry not, O Lord. Make haste, O my beloved. I ask it in the full authority of Jesus name. Amen. SATURDAYIN THE PSALMS Chronological Bible Reading: Psalm 139-141; 2 Corinthians 7 Saturday, September 1 Psa. 4:1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. O God of My Righteousness: Let me today, with David, plead your past mercy as a reason for present favor. I thank you Lord, that you never stop helping me until I stop needing. And when I am in distress, it is then that you enlarge my spiritual life. Psa. 4:3 But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him. Lord, give me constant conversation with you throughout the day so I can more boldly talk and testify to others. When I am on my knees, the fact of me being set-apart as your particular treasure should give me courage and inspire my faith. Since I dare to face you, I should not tremble to confront others. Psa. 4:4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah. Today I take the advice of David to meditate with my own heart. Surely a lack of thought is one reason I pray so superficially. The only way my lost friends can be foolish enough to reject Christ and hate your mercy is because Satan has distracted them from really considering the gospel, otherwise they would discover the vanity of sin and the worthlessness of the world. May I today get them to let the revelation of the gospel speak, and bid the noisy world to be still. Psa. 4:8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety. Your protection is better than bolts or bars. I will rest in you because faith rocks me in peace. No pillow is as soft as your promise, and no cover as warm as my Christ. Guard and guide me this weekend for Jesus sake. Amen.

OH, wonderful, wonderful Word of the Lord! The lamp that our Father above
So kindly has lighted to teach us the way that leads to the arms of His love! Its warnings, its counsels, are faithful and just; its judgments are perfect and pure; And we know that when time and the world pass away, Gods Word shall forever endure. Oh, wonderful, wonderful Word of the Lord! Our only salvation is there; It carries conviction down deep in the heart, and shows us ourselves as we are. It tells of a Savior, and points to the cross, where pardon we now may secure; For we know that when time and the world pass away, Gods Word shall forever endure. Oh, wonderful, wonderful Word of the Lord! The hope of our friends in the past; Its truth, where so firmly they anchored their trust, through ages eternal shall last. Oh, wonderful, wonderful Word of the Lord! Unchanging, abiding and sure; For we know that when time and the world pass away, Gods Word shall forever endure. Fanny Crosby, c. 1886

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Our ministries exist to help you fulfill your highest potential for God, reach all his goals for your life, and accomplish his mission in Christ. Phil. 3:13-14 13Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 1) 2) Come six Sundays in a row, until you dont feel awkward Get to know people outside of the short Sunday morning worship time Come to activities we are sponsoring Pray and ask for God to reveal his will to you Make a connection with our pastor and our leaders. Sign up to be discipled. 6) Attend fellowship functions for new members 1)

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3) 4) Baptists tend to ridicule liturgical churches that use "prepared prayers" because they lack spontaneity. But for many Baptists, their prayers are so predictable they are no more spontaneous than written-out prayers. The result is we end up praying the same things over and over. This daily Prayer Diary will prompt you on a wide range of prayer requests you might not normally think of, while forcing you to articulate a deeper devotion to God. We have included a daily Bible reading schedule. This plan will take you through the Bible chronologically in a year. Do not read ahead and do not try to catch up. Use each day as it comes. Then you can know that on any given day, dozens of other people are lifting their hearts in the same mind to God. Pray what is written, but use what is prayed as a springboard for your own relationship with God. You learn to pray by praying. Alan 5)

Mark 1:35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed. GIVE GOD THE FIRST PART OF EVERY DAY. The first commitment is to a daily quiet time with God. Our weekly Prayer Diary provides a template for daily devotions. 2) TITHEWORK

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1 Cor 16:2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. GIVE GOD THE FIRST DIME OF EVERY DOLLARno questions asked. Ten percent is a miniscule amount in our affluent society, but it must come off the top in order to show that God is our priority. We want the blessing of the firstfruits (first devotion, first dime and first day) to flow out to the rest of our resources. 3) TEAMWORD

The key word is relationships. Building relationships makes you feel a part. Building relationships around the word of God and ministry will make you be a part.

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Keeping Christ at the center (your core relationship of worship to God) Keeping the body of Christ a priority (your congregational relationship of walking Basing beliefs and actions on the mind of Christ (your church relationship in the

with us) Word) Heb 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. GIVE GOD THE FIRST DAY OF EVERY WEEK. You should fellowship with a group of believers around the word of God every Sunday in our church.

Secret prayer is the secret of prayer, the soul of prayer, the seal of prayer, the strength of prayer. If you do not pray alone you do not pray at all. Our Lord Jesus Christ would go nowhere till He had prayed. He would attempt nothing till He had prayed. Oh, says one, I live in the spirit of prayer, and therefore I do not need times and seasons for prayer. And do you think that Christ did not live in the spirit of prayer? Yet He had to have his special time and place to pray. Do not fall under the injurious notion that because your spirit cries to God in prayer all day long, therefore there must not be some season for more immediately coming into Gods presence. If you imagine this, I am afraid that it will prove a snare to your feet. The Lord Jesus Christ, who knew better than you do that the main thing is the spirit of prayer rather than the act of prayer, yet Himself retired into desert places to maintain the act and exercise of prayer. Be spiritual. Be baptized into the spirit of prayer. But do not be deceived by the enemy, who can steal a spirit away while we dream that we only spiritualize it. We had better preserve the very bones of prayerthe posture, the time, placerather than let it all ooze away into an impalpable mental condition. God keep us prayerful. He will do so if He makes us like His dear Son. Charles H. Spurgeon, 1834-92

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