on May 20, 2020
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THIS weekly prayer ONLY lists prayer points which specifically pertain to a need related to the outworking of The H.O.P.E .Project. Persons who’s name appears here are in some way relevant to the project needing prayer. Thank you!
Week Commencing Monday 8th February, 2021
The week’s prayer points are spread across days of the week so that there are opportunities to pray for specific needs each day … some needs will coincide with the days on which they are listed. Please pray as the Spirit leads and reveals things to you.
UNITE 714 We are registered members of the Global Prayer Movement, particularly designed to focus on the world health crisis that COVID-19 presents. The idea behind this is to unite as much faith across the world as is possible in the frame of 2 Chronicles 7:14 which says:
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray, seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14
We encourage you to pray the weekly prayer in the link below weekly at 7.14am and or at 7.14pm each day. God bless you as you pray with people from across 180 nations. Click on the download link below to open the PDF.
Monday
We thank you Lord Jesus that during these revisited restrictions, we can not only continue engaging with people via live streaming but we can encourage and teach a team for the season to come. We thank you that we are able to be engaged by so many in this way of communicating with the community and praise you for the answered prayer about resources, gifts and knowledge to be able to gather your harvest in accord with the plan you have revealed to us these past few years. We ask that You bless the new people who have been journeying with us lately.
We pray Lord this week and we continue to pray for those in our households, our work and learning places, our recreational activities and community involvements who don’t know Your favour and need Your rescue. With compassion we name them and bring them before You now and ask You to give us what we need to share Your purpose for them and for them to see You and follow You and experience all the resource and support and care of heaven for them and all those they are connected with. Give us a sense of responsibility for their discipleship, however You decide to facilitate that.
Tuesday
Lord, we pray for all the needs that we became aware of in response to our Sunday gathering and via the prayer-care engagement during the week. Lord, please bring healing, comfort and strength to all those we know across our community who are struggling with health, finance, relationships and or other emotional or spiritual issues.
We pray today Lord for all those lovely people connected to the community groups we have the privilege of hosting at or out from the Hub. We ask that You will help us represent, demonstrate and declare Your good news as we engage with each group.
We pray for Beverley as the Tuesday Bible Study determines how they wil reconvene for 2021.
Wednesday
Lord, today we ask that as the administration team reflects on management of our current and emerging situation, that you will inspire us with ways we can continue to be the calm in this storm; to help the vulnerable where possible. We are so thankful Lord for all who partner with us to pursue this mission and pray for Your continued increase and blessing on ‘giving’ and for wisdom to allocate those funds in appropriate and life transforming ways.
Lord, we pray that You will speak clearly to Graeme as he spends a few days orientating himself and as such the church for these first 3 years of the 7 years of Gospel Impact. Holy Spirit lead him and the team.
Lord, we ask that you will protect and give wisdom to Caleb and Georgia as they negotiate their way back into Qld in time for things to happen well and properly for them. We pray for Zarah as she adjusts to all the changes.
Thursday
Heavenly Father, we thank you for opening the door for us to continue serving the community with our Food for Life Community Care partners once again, providing an effective, accessible and affordable grocery service for our neighbourhood. Lord bless the team as it engages the new Hamper process in the Car Park at the North Dalton AFL Ground just up the road from the Hub.
We also ask that you help us to use what we have learnt as a launching pad for the next phase of mission and not default to things that have prevented the advance of Your kingdom gospel. Lord, develop a clarity in us towards your purposes and in particular as the team uses all the tech at our disposal to develop ways of engaging and equipping, those previously inaccessible to us.
Friday
We pray today Lord for all people dealing with anxiety or depression or grief. We praise you for the comfort and encouragement that online message broadcasts have and will bring people – thank you for the part we can play in this – and we ask that during this time, our families, friends and neighbourhood/community connections will re-think their relationship with the God of heaven and earth and re-establish a desire to dwell in the revelation Christ brought.
Saturday
Lord, we give you praise and thanks that there are a growing number of people who live elsewhere, who for isolation or other relational reasons call our church home. We pray that even though flung across many locations that we will work hard to operate as ONE for YOUR purposes. Help us with wisdom and provision to care for everyone you give us responsibility for as is possible in YOUR name.
Lord, we also pray each Saturday for a continued sharpening of the revelation regarding this ‘Season for Gathering the Harvest’. This is our journey IN Christ whatever is going on around us in the world. Please continue to apostolically and prophetically align us with the kingdom of heaven as it works ON earth and strengthen our ministry team to pursue with passion, the work in targeted spheres as you make us aware of them and the needs thereof. We have been and continue praying for Jono & Nicky and the Full Throttle Ministries mission outpost and all that they are engaging; particularly we pray they have had a ‘life building’ time with Righteous CMC at the AGM in Walcha NSW. We continue to pray for growing engagement with the NEW Album ‘Better Now’ as a tool for kingdom advancement and mission development and for the funds that will continue to be consistently raised for our special children in need. We praise you for effective preparations towards re-engaging the neighbourhood through Coffee and Kingdom Conversations and we are grateful for the gift from our Helensburgh partners and the training they have provided.
We pray heavenly Father for the team today as they determine the way forward in this current restricted season.
Sunday
We ask your favour and increase for our brothers and sisters in Churches across our region as each one responds to what God is revealing to THEM during this challenging season. This week we are praying for the leaders of churches that have responded to Your call to explore and develop ‘Together for the Illawarra’. We pray that the Holy Spirit continues to lead these Saints and we ask Your exceeding abundant blessing on these wonderful people and their families, particularly as we continue to work towards what a kingdom journey together might look like.
We pray particularly at this time for Darryl Stewart’s wife Sam and their whole family as they deal with the loss of Darryl during this last week. Darryl was a part of the glue for oneness across our region’s churches and we pray that what happens in this sphere of work next, looks less like institution and more like heaven as we know Darryl would have sought. t