Day 6 - Friday January 13
Prayer Focus: National Mission - Church Planting
We need more life giving churches.
ARC (Association of Related Churches) has now planted 1,059 churches - on their first day 250,000 opening day attendance with 11,000 salvations
Today we are praying for churches in America.
Jesus loves His church. He describes it as His Bride. The big “C” Church. This church belongs to Jesus and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.
Revelation 19:6-7 (NIV)
6 Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting: “Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns. 7 Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready.
Revelation 21:2 (NIV)
I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
1. Pray for a prepared church.
Jesus is coming back. There is going to be a wedding - there’s going to be a marriage.
That convicts me. I’m anxiously anticipating it.
Acts 16:5 (NIV)
So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.
2. Pray for a healthy church.
Healthy things grow. Pray for BLC to be healthy. Pray for small groups to be healthy.
Praying for every person to be spiritually healthy.
Matthew 9:37-38 (NIV)
37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”
3. Pray for a mobilized church.
The local church mobilized is “The hope of the world.”
It’s not inward but outward.
Revival must and will come through the local church.
Jesus said “Go.” What does that look like for you? What is your “go” in your context?
1 Corinthians 12:12-14 (NIV)
12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by[a] one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
4. Pray for a unified church.
That our local church and the “Big C” Church would be unified.
We would come together. We would recognize what we each can do and collectively we can do great things when we are connected with one another.
We need people discovering their purpose and finding their place where they can serve.
