Peace in our Community 

“Deceit is in the hearts of those who plot evil, but those who promote peace have joy.”  -Proverbs 12:20

CONSIDER: This would around us seems so unstable, but with peace in our heart let us keep our focus on the One Most High, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

PRAY: Oh Heavenly father may you please give us peace as we live in this unstable world. May you fill us with your wisdom, grace and mercy so we may spread it out to others. Lord help us to understand how to be your hands and feet in this broken world, so that all who are around us see only You. Amen

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But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.  – Matthew 6:6

CONSIDER: In prayer we “ask” God to meet our most basic needs. In prayer we “seek” God’s will for our lives. In prayer we persistently “knock” trusting that God will answer. As God’s people “ask, seek, and knock” we will grow in our relationship with God and soon we will realize just how good God truly is.

PRAY: Heavenly Father we thank you for allowing us the avenue to come before your throne of grace boldly and ask for what we will! We thank you for providing the avenue to make our requests known unto you. Although you understand the groaning of our heart, we are grateful for the communication provided by stepping into our room of prayer to kneel before an all seeing God in secret. We thank you that you hear and answer prayer!

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Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. – Romans 12:10 ESV

OBSERVATION: As we end our 40 Days of Prayer let us continue to pray every day for our community, our state, and our nation and its newly elected officials. Although we have different opinions, so much more can be accomplished when we are unified looking to God for guidance. Jesus said, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Let us go forward from these 40 days and remember to pray for God to guide our ways.

PRAYER: Father, we thank You that we live in a nation where people can openly unite in prayer to You. We ask You to bless our community with unity and love while we work together to improve the quality of life for everyone here. Please help us always put You and Your ways first in our lives. In Jesus’ name, Amen

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I am the Alpha and the Omega—the beginning and the end,” says the Lord God. “I am the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come—the Almighty One. – Revelation 1:8 NLT

OBSERVATION: We can praise, with confidence and trust, the One who holds the future, because He is eternal.

PRAYER: We praise the Eternal One that holds our future. We entrust our future to you. We trust the “ending” to the One who wrote the beginning. You are faithful to bring to completion what you began. Our confidence is in You, The God eternal, that there exists nothing in our future that can take You by surprise. The Almighty One is Lord over the future.

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Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and burst their bonds apart. – Psalm 107:13-14

OBSERVATION: Addiction is no respecter of persons. Anyone can become an addict to damaging behaviors. It feels like being in chains and darkness with no hope of escape. It also damages everyone around the person who is an addict; family, friends, co-workers, other drivers… We pray today for the active addict, recovering addicts and all those affected by addiction.

PRAYER: Father, hear our cry to you. There are many in our community chained by addiction. They do and say things they would never do sober. Please help them to turn toward you. Hold those who have loved ones who are practicing addicts. Give them freedom too. Restore all to your blessed peace and freedom. Grant them life. We pray in Jesus, who burst the bonds of death.

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He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. – Psalm 147:3

OBSERVATION: Today we are mindful of people who have been abused. Those who have suffered abuse are often filled with shame, fear, anger and hopelessness brought about by the abuse.

PRAYER: Father, we pray for the abused. Those who are isolated, silenced, hurting and scared. We ask that you help them find courage and strength to ask for help. We know that only you have the power to heal them completely. Please use us as your instruments to lovingly care for them as they heal. Lord, we also pray for their abusers. You who are the true light, we pray that you lighten the darkness within the abusers. We pray that they are able turn their lives over to you and end the cycle of abuse. Amen

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Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. – 2 Corinthians 3:17

OBSERVATION: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,  that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness….”  These words come from the Declaration of Independence  and set the stage for the creation of this great nation.  Jefferson was saying that Life, Liberty, and Happiness come from God.  When man tries to rule without God, Freedom and Liberty cease because He is the source of Freedom!

PRAYER:  Lord, we give you thanks for the freedom and liberty we have in this country and we pray that it will continue to last forever.  May this freedom ring from this country to all the nations of the world. We ask you to hinder those who would try to destroy it.  In Jesus name, Amen.

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But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. – Acts 1:8

OBSERVATION: In Acts 1:8, in the Physician Dr. Luke’s writing to the church first turned loose in a heathen world, Jesus informs us that if Leaders want power to do what should be done that it will be accomplished after that the Holy Ghost is come upon us.

PRAYER: Father I pray for a Pentecostal experience each day over the leadership of each leader locally and universally. Lord, let your spirit take control from My House to the White House. Give us Leaders, who will make God Fearing Decisions, for that which is your will for the lives of all people. You take control and let those who have an ear hear what the Spirit Says. Thank you Father for what You have done, for what You are doing now, and for what You will do in the future. AMEN

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Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are His. He changes times and seasons; He deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. – Daniel 2:20–21 (NIV)

OBSERVATION: Throughout the Bible it is clear that God is interested and has a heart for our world leaders. We are called to pray for our elected officials. We need to be in fervent prayer as we, as a nation go to the polls to choose our leaders.

PRAYER: Dear Lord, we thank you for allowing us to live in a nation where we have the ability to freely vote for our leaders. We know that you do not make mistakes and that there is a season for everything. We ask that you guide us as a nation as we elect leaders on all levels. We pray that you will raise up and seat godly men and women to make decisions for our city, our state and our country. For we know that You are in control, that You know our future and no matter what, You are on Your throne and will reign for ever and ever. Amen.

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