WEDNESDAY NIGHTS |5:30-6:00PM

During this hour we meet at Living Hope Church and 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.

Our heart and longing is to see the fame and deeds of God repeated in our time. We believe the promises in the Scriptures about crying out to God in prayer. The Lord rewards those who earnestly seek Him (Hebrews 11:6). If we draw near to God, He will draw near to us (James 4:8). Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened (Matthew 7:7-8). As A.W. Tozer said, “God waits to be wanted.” We want to pursue Jesus and intercede for our church, families, communities, schools, the lost, and so much more. We want to see God do what only He can do, so we seek, in this place for one hour, to acknowledge our powerlessness and press into His incomparable power.

PRAYER TIME SCHEDULE:

5:30-5:35 - Prayer Leader reads quote and Scripture, followed by an opening prayer.

5:35-5:55 - Praying the Scripture, participants all pray as the feel led with the Scripture as a guide.

5:55-6:00 - Prayer leader leads group in a closing prayer

*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.