Every WEDNESDAY | 5:00-6:00PM

Location: elder prayer room

We want to invite all of the Living Hope Church body to meet at Living Hope Church and pray together. During this hour we pray through a portion of Scripture. Each prayer time is led by a Prayer Leader who is either an LH staff member or volunteer. The Prayer Leader guides the participants through the passage they will be praying for the evening.

PRAYER TIME SCHEDULE:

5:00-5:05 - Arrival - Prayer Leader passes out the evening’s prayer guide.

5:05-5:07 - Prayer Leader welcomes everyone begins with a quote on prayer to ground us in the purpose and vision of prayer. Prayer Leader prays to open the prayer time.

5:08-5:12 - Group worship. We sing one song together to abide in the scripture Psalm 100:4, “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.”

5:12 - Prayer Leader reads the passage of scripture the group will be praying through for the night.

5:13-5:20 - Reflective Prayer - Prayer Leader guides the group to reflect on the passage and ask the Spirit of God to speak to them through His word. Then the group can pray, one by one, what stood out to them from the passage or what the Lord spoke to them through the passage.

5:20-5:40 - Praying the Scripture - Prayer Leader guides the group through one portion of the scripture and gives them some prayer prompts to pray through based on the verses. Participants are encouraged to pray using the prompts and the verses.

5:40-6:00 - Praying the Scripture - Prayer Leader guides the group through the second portion of the scripture and gives them some prayer prompts to pray through based on the verses. Participants are encouraged to pray using the prompts and the verses.

6:00 - Dismissal - Prayer Leader will close the time of prayer and dismiss the group.

*Personal Prayer: If anyone would like someone to pray for them personally, the Prayer Leader will pray or find someone to pray for them at the end of the prayer time.

PRAYER GUIDE EXAMPLE

Praying through Ephesians 2:1-5

“Satan dreads nothing but prayer. His one concern is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, or prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, he mocks our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray.” ~ Reverend Samuel Chadwick

1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love for us, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. - Ephesians 2:1-5

  • Part 1 | Reflective Prayer (5-7 minutes)

    Take some time to read the text to yourself. Ask the Spirit of God to speak to you. What stands out to you in the passage? What words strike you? What is God pressing on your heart? Pray when you’re ready.

  • Part 2 | Praying through verses 1-3 (20 minutes)

    V.1

    • Pray our church would know how desperate we were in need of a Savior.

    • Pray our church would grasp the depths of our sinfulness, so it will lead us to gratitude for what Christ has done.

    V.2

    • Pray that it would be said of more people in our church that they, “used to live” in those transgressions and sins, but don’t do so any longer.

    • Pray for the lost in our lives and in our church that they wouldn’t follow the ways of the world and be set free from the lies of the enemy.

    V.3

    • Pray we would all remember how lost and sinful we were. That no one was better off than any other person.

    • Pray our church would crave worship and holiness more than our fleshly desires.

    • Pray that transformation would take place in the hearts and lives at our church.

  • Part 3 | Praying through verses 4 and 5 (20 minutes)

    • Pray for people to see God more clearly and praise Him that He doesn’t give us what we deserve.

    • Pray for those who need to experience God’s mercy

    • Pray for those who are struggling to believe in God’s love

    • Pray that God would make people alive in Christ who are still dead in their transgressions.

    • Pray that we would turn to God to give us life and not to sin or other means.