Prescott Presbyterian Church
Permanent Prayer Requests by Day of the Month

1. 

Lord, we thank You that:

  • You have given Yourself to us, that we have life in You, that we are alive to You, that we have the Spirit — the blessing promised to Abraham. Please help us to walk in a manner consistent with this great blessing and privilege.
  • We know Your great love for us in the gift of Your Son.
  • We have been given the very Word of God!

Please bestow these blessings upon many others.

2. 

Lord, we thank You that:

  • We are redeemed, reconciled, justified, adopted, sanctified, and will be glorified.
  • Guilt, pollution, wrath, shame, slavery, death, isolation, and hatred are overcome.
  • The power of sin is broken, and we are alive to righteousness and dead to the law.

Please establish our hearts in these truths, and confer them upon multitudes of others.

3. 

Lord, we thank You that:

  • In our adoption, the Holy Spirit makes Your people one body, a family, who are given an incorruptible, eternal inheritance.
  • You have given us assurance of our salvation from the trustworthiness of Your promises, the Spirit’s work in us, and the Spirit’s testimony to us.
  • Our minds and bodies are sometimes healed now and will be perfectly healed at the resurrection that we might enjoy the new heavens and earth in Your presence.

Please help us to live out the implications of this great news, and grant these blessings to many others.

4. 

Lord, we thank You that:

  • You have prepared good works for us. May we continually sow in light of reaping.
  • We shall be openly honored and vindicated at the last day.
  • Your word and Spirit protect our souls from harm by evil spiritual forces, and the wicked shall be removed from our presence and punished at Your return.

Please strengthen our faith in these things, and open the hearts of others to receive them.

5. 

  • May our hearts always aim to love please, honor, glorify, and enjoy You.
  • May we know more of what Christ has done for us (lived a perfect life, died, rose from the dead, ascended, will return) and the benefits that flow from these.
  • May we be motivated by this Gospel (our benefits arising from Christ’s work), live in light of these eternal realities, and work out the implications of our salvation.

6. 

  • May we enjoy deep communion with You, our God, living before Your face, walking with You.
  • May our sight and meditation on Your priceless, invisible, eternal kingdom increase.
  • May we be more dedicated, devoted, and consecrated to You in steadfast obedience.

7. 

  • May we be more conformed to the Son’s likeness. May Jesus’ temptation in all things aid us in overcoming our temptations.
  • May we thankfully receive safety, food, shelter, health, work, marriage, children, wealth, freedom, government, friendship (Acts 14:17; I Tim. 6:17), and may Your people throughout the world prosper in these things as well as in their souls.
  • May we more and more depend upon You, abiding in the Spirit, enjoying Christ and the Word dwelling richly in us.

8. 

  • May we love our neighbors as ourselves, bear with one another in love with all lowliness and gentleness, and consider others better than ourselves.
  • Please give us faith to move mountains.
  • Lord, please multiply loving, gifted, laborers who are called by You: pastors, missionaries, licentiates, interns, elders, deacons, teachers, and those who pray.

9. 

  • May our hope result in steadfast labor and perseverance in every circumstance.
  • May our joy and satisfaction in God as well as our fear and reverence of God increase.
  • May we enjoy relational peace, forgiveness, and overlooking of offenses. May we be good stewards of our conflicts.

10. 

  • May the fruit of the Spirit be ours: Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, holiness, gratitude.
  • May we exemplify the beatitudes: Humility, poor in spirit, peacemakers, merciful, hunger and thirst for righteousness, pure in heart (sincere)
  • May we be made complete in every good work to do Your will as You work in us what is pleasing in Your sight through Christ.

11. 

  • May we have heightened sympathy, compassion, and insight into spiritual needs.
  • May we speak about spiritual things with confidence, courage, boldness, and zeal.
  • May we be addicted to ministry (I Corinthians 16:15)

12. 

  • May we grow in stewardship, self-denial, self-sacrifice, and cross-bearing.
  • May we have good self-knowledge, paying attention to our hearts and work. May we not think more highly of ourselves than we ought, but having sound judgment, as God has allotted us a measure of faith.
  • May we eagerly await the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ (I Corinthians 1:7).

13. 

  • May we in no way be alarmed by our opponents.
  • As we have received Christ as Prophet, Priest, and King, both in His humiliation and His exaltation, may we so walk in Him, being conformed to His image.
  • Lord’s Prayer.

14. 

  • May our hearts wisely remember the shortness of life. May we know Your will in all spiritual wisdom, discerning good and evil (Heb 5:14).
  • May we concentrate as the Scriptures are read, preached, and taught. May this focus result in more godly thoughts, beliefs, and lives as we meditate upon and submit to Your Word.
  • May outreach be effective: ads, website, canvassing, audio, video, direct mail, literature, personal contact.

15. 

  • May we praise, remember, communicate, and thank You for abundant favor especially in answered prayer. May we communicate more detailed prayer requests as we proceed and see more clearly the specific steps needed to make progress.
  • May Your congregations truly relate as family. May we befriend, value, support, edify, console, care for, praise, exhort, and encourage one another in the Lord.
  • May we inspire others to good works, perseverance, and growth.

16. 

May our petitions and prayer times exhibit:

  • We are convinced of the need for You to act and Your people to ask.
  • Frequent, focused, and extended prayer from Scriptural desire and conviction.
  • Multiplied petitioners and groups praying in the Spirit (Jude 1:20; Ephesians 6:18) for requests according to Your will.
  • Removal of hindrances to prayer: Sin (Psalm 66:18), Selfishness (James 4:3), Doubt (James 1:6), Pride (James 4:6), Poor relationships (I Peter 3:7).
  • Boldness as we call upon You to display Your glory in Your people.

17. 

  • May we correctly interpret Scripture, hold to sound doctrine, and speak the truth in love.
  • May we see loving, edifying, reproof and correction of sin, Biblical discipline, and accountability resulting in true repentance.
  • May our actions as well as our words express our love.

18. 

  • May spouses reflect the reality of Christ’s relationship to the church.
  • May we have parental wisdom in discipleship of our children.
  • May greater and more excellent understanding, meditation upon, and communication of gospel truths be ours.
  • May we always utilize Scriptural means and methods in all that we do.

19. 

  • May Bible Studies and classes, Sunday School, fellowship, and witness increase.
  • May we give our time, money, focus, service, and materials out of biblical principles: You are first, eternal rewards, we have been renewed to offer to You, stewardship.
  • May operation, maintenance, repair, and improvement of church property be blessed.

20. 

  • May our our churches exhibit wise, appropriate cost controls and accounting practices.
  • May Your people be blessed in our vocations with: fulfillment, ability to serve, pleasant relationships, and profit.
  • May the Spirit’s gifts multiply among us along with zeal and discernment to use them.

21. 

  • May we demonstrate diligence, urgency, and servant greatness.
  • May we intentionally, faithfully make disciples, taught to obey all Christ commands.
  • May the world, flesh, and devil be repelled by our spiritual weapons.

22. 

  • May our labor together exhibit spiritual wisdom and loving friendship.
  • May we be unified in doctrine and love as we enjoy diversity of gifts and callings.
  • May church plants move more and more toward being self-governing, self-propagating, and self-supporting. May core groups be intentionally gathered together.

23. 

  • May Elders, Deacons, Steering Committees, and other God-called leaders be multiplied and blessed of You.
  • May our accompanists be blessed, and may we enjoy edifying worship songs as well as congregational growth in singing.
  • May we make wise curriculum choices.

24. 

  • May Your people properly submit to all legitimate authority.
  • May missionaries easily adapt to language, social custom, food, climate, relationships.
  • May we have profitable feedback and improvement of church systems and ministries.
  • May our hearts leave room for God’s wrath as we overcome evil with good.

25. 

  • May others be drawn to us and find us vessels displaying Christ.
  • May many receive, by faith, Christ as Savior and Lord.
  • May Your glory, Your worship, and our enjoyment of You increase by Your strengthening our congregation both numerically and in heart.

26. 

  • May more and more of the destitute, stressed, distressed, downcast, blind, troubled, lonely, wandering, and enslaved find blessing in coming to You through Christ.
  • May we recognize and exploit open doors, opportunities to speak of spiritual things, especially with our friends, co-workers, and neighbors.
  • May many be delivered from idolatry, spiritual oppression, bondage, and persecution.

27. 

  • May many lives be transformed by living in this life out of the heavenly privileges and benefits which belong to God’s people.
  • May we enjoy increased involvement in initiating, overseeing, and supporting church planting and missions. May we encourage missionaries and church planters with prayer, communication, and involvement.
  • May diaconal and medical support for missions be multiplied and blessed.

28. 

  • May our Biblical Vision, Mission, Philosophy, Strategic Planning, Goals, and Objectives improve and be communicated clearly.
  • May missionaries be blessed to train indigenous leaders.
  • May biblical training and literature edify leaders and their congregations.
  • May congregations be convinced of: Biblical interpretation, Spirit speaking through Word as sole authority, God, alone, saves sinners, elder oversight with right of appeal, correct administration of the sacraments, and Scripture-regulated worship.

29. 

  • May the Holy Spirit fill preachers and their hearers — blessing them with understanding, conviction, love of, and submission to the truth.
  • May preachers’ hearts give God glory. May they communicate in the confidence that God can turn hearts, trust wholly in God, and pray at all times.
  • May preachers pay close attention to themselves (being a sincere example in heart, word, and works) and to their teaching (Preparing diligently, Attending to reading, exhortation, and doctrine, and Continuing to train on how to communicate).

30. 

  • May preachers aim to edify hearers with great patience and love.
  • May preachers explain and arrange clearly, illustrate helpfully, and make the abstract or invisible more understandable by being concrete.
  • May preachers seek their hearers’ good will. (Say something worth hearing. No unnecessary offense. Answer important objections. Generously account for motives and reasoning of other views. Show common ground or higher good. Be earnest.)

31. 

May preachers be servants of the Word of God by:

  • Painting pictures carrying sensory and emotional weight
  • Showing significance, why this knowledge or action is desirable.
  • Appealing to hearers’ renewed self and the reasonableness of living out of that.
  • Using plot or unexpected phrasing to maintain suspense / interest.
  • Connecting by appeal to hearers’ experiences.
  • Speaking of spiritual needs.