CARA JOHNSON
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
- Protection and preservation of their marriages.
Ask God to give their marriages loyalty, grace, kindness, forgiveness, time, intentionality, and joy. And pray that God will give them friends to support and provide accountability and encouragement in their marriage.
- Peace over their homes.
Ask God to make their home, and all the conversations and people in it, full of grace and peace—with themselves, one another, and God. Pray for wisdom as parents and in all relationships within their home.
- Supernatural wisdom.
As they make decisions and have conversations that are fragile, controversial, or difficult, pray that God would give them wisdom and a sensitivity to the Spirit.
- Humility and submission to God.
Pray that these men and women would be aware of their sin and need for Jesus, and aware of the sufficiency of the Savior, making Him greater and themselves less.
- Perseverance and long-term vision.
Pray that God will sustain them with perspective and encouragement when they’re worn out, discouraged, or confused.
- Friendships outside of church for encouragement and perspective.
Ask God to give them objective friends who walk closely with Jesus and who can provide deep encouragement and clarity.
7. Hope.
Ask God to keep them from becoming discouraged in doing good, and to place their hope in Jesus alone rather than circumstances or results.
- Individual time with the Lord.
Pray that God would establish a regular, meaningful time for these leaders to spend with Him each day. Ask God to convict, equip, prompt, train, encourage, and inspire them as they seek Him.
- Rest and Sabbath.
Pray that they would carve out time to rest from a job that’s hard to put down and not bring home. Ask that they would experience true Shalom—wholeness and completeness—as they cease their striving for a time each week.
- A heart that breaks where God’s does
Ask God to give them tenderness and compassion toward those in need, moving the gospel outward by meeting spiritual, physical, emotional, and communal needs of their neighborhoods, cities, countries and the world.