Acts 2:42
And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
Focused Thinking: Going straight to prayer tonight.
Personal Application:
Interactive Prayer:
Praying for Josh and Andy and the services tomorrow at Highpoint.
- Acts 6 & 7—Stephen’s Defense
- Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people.
- Stephen’s opponents couldn’t withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which Stephen was speaking.
- Acts 7:1–8—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
- Acts 7:9–16—Joseph
- Acts 7:17–29—Moses: First Forty Years
- Acts 7:30–43—Moses: Next Eighty Years
- Acts 7:44–53—Joshua, David, Solomon
Father, I pray for Josh and Andy tomorrow as they lead us. I pray that they will be filled up to all the fullness of God. I pray that they will be filled with the Spirit, sensitive to the Spirit, and obedient to the Spirit. I pray that You will honor their preparation, but also give them sensitivity to Your movement throughout the day.
I pray that more and more of our people are praying with anticipation and expectation tonight. I pray that You will build an army of prayer warriors for our church. I pray that people will see the opportunity that is in front of us and dedicate themselves to be intercessors for the glory of God to be revealed to us. Father, I pray that each and every Sunday that You will show Your glory to us in greater ways. I pray that all the additional seeds being planted through our classes will move people to prayer.
Father, teach us how to pray. Father, teach us to pray. Father, show me if You want us to do a series on prayer. I pray that You will call people to be people of prayer. I pray that You will call people to specifically pray for my family and for the leadership of the church. Father, I pray that people will hold up my arms, Andy’s arms, Josh’s arms, and Bob’s arms. I pray that people will adopt specific staff members and pray for them daily, but especially on the weekends. I pray for people to pray for Chris and Amanda Harris, for Amber Ramsey, Krystal Durfee, and Elissa Roberts. Father, I pray that You will provide the children’s workers that we need as a growing church. Father, I pray that You provide amazing leadership for our children and students. I pray for a harvest of children, Hwy 56, Middel School, and High School students to trust the Lord and follow Him in baptism.
Father, I pray that You will honor Matthew and the prayer team’s faithfulness. Father, I pray that the Lord of the Harvest would call forth laborers into the fields of prayer, children, students, hospitality, parking, Sunday School, discipleship classes, and all types of local and global missions. Father, rise up prayer warriors. Father, call men and women to pray on Saturday nights. Father, call men and women to pray on Sunday mornings.
Father, I pray for the “Building for the Future” sermon series. I pray that we will pray more than ever before. I pray that we will witness more than ever before. I pray that we will love more than ever before. I pray that we will teach, preach, and present the gospel more than ever before. Father, I pray that we will see more salvations than ever before. I pray that we will see more baptisms than ever before. Father, I pray that we will encourage people more than ever before. Father, give us a vision for giving more than ever before. Father, give us the ability to live fully surrendered to You for 30 days and see what You will do (March 20-April 10). Father, give us the ability to consecrate ourselves for 30 days and watch the wonders of God be performed among us.
Father, give us Your vision. Father, show me how to get our church to see, believe, and live out Joshua 3:5 for thirty days. Father, give us the ability to make this doable and practical. Father, give us the simple ways to help people love and obey God for thirty straight days. Father, show us the power of focus for thirty days. Father, anoint these prayers and plans. Father, show me how glorious You are. Father, show us that nothing is impossible with You. Father, fill my heart with Your vision. Father, fill my heart with Your plans. Father, fill my heart with Your direction. Father, give me the faith to believe and obey You.
Father, I pray that February will be better than January. Father, I pray that You will build upon the momentum. Father, I pray that You will increase people’s love for You and one another. Father, I pray that You will cause the seeds of Love Works to come to harvest right now. Father, I pray that our people will keep coming to Sunday School and the Discipleship classes. I pray that people who haven’t taken the step out of worship yet, will take the next step to connect and serve. Father, I pray that You will inspire and motivate people to get connected. Father, I pray that You will equip all of our leaders and teachers and give them the ability to lead, teach, and love well. Father, I pray that You cause our people to worship, connect, serve, equip, and give. Father, I pray that our people will be protect from the enemy. Father, give us an incredible season of Your blessing and favor. I pray that our people will love loving You and love loving others.
I pray that our people will grow up before our very eyes. I pray that You will bring us established leadership to help all of our young leadership. I pray that You will give us the ability to produce hungry and growing leaders. I pray that our people will walk with You and talk about you.
I pray that our people will grab hold of the witness 5 idea and make it a strong and consistent part of their prayers. I pray that all of our people will devote themselves to praying for 5 people to come to know the Lord in 2011. I pray that every single one of our people who faithfully invest and invite will have the privilege of baptizing someone this year. Father, I pray that You will give us 100’s of baptisms this year. I pray that we will have to have going public days and services that are 100% dedicated to baptisms.
Father, I pray for continued favor with Overton students and families. I pray for continued and increased favor with the African American community. I pray for entry point to the Hispanic community. I pray for more and more favor with single parents. I pray for more and more favor with people need of recovery. Father, give us major victories over the domains of darkness in Memphis. I pray that the church will be the aggressor and play offense instead of defense. I pray that Highpoint will be a place of healing and hope. I pray that Highpoint will be a place of forgiveness and freedom. I pray that Highpoint will be a place of salvations and sanctification. I pray that the seeds of the Word of God will fall on good soil.
I pray that You will build us into men and women that You can trust with the stewardship of 100 fold, 60 fold, and 30 fold. Father, I pray that You will give us the strong and violent wind of the Holy Spirit to blow through our lives and church. Father, please bring the rain and water the seeds we’ve planted.
Father, give our people a true vision of the opportunity that is before us with this building. Father, give me the ability to say what You want said, the way You want it said. Father, I pray that people who aren’t tithers will be become tithers. I pray for people to truly give sacrificially. I pray for our us to increase the number of givers that we have as well how much we give. Father, I pray that our people will commit to be conduit givers at the heart level and You will truly bless them. Father, I pray that You will open the floodgates of heaven upon us. Father, I pray that You will give us David Montague type stories. Father, that our high capacity givers will truly give sacrificially and commit to be conduit givers. I pray for people who don’t think that they have much to believe that it is much in the eyes of God. I pray for You to supply and multiply the seeds of the givers. Father, show Highpoint your glory through people’s giving. Father, do exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we can ask or think according to Your mighty power that works in and through us.
Father, I pray for Easter 2011. Show us what You want us to name it. Father, give us Your vision for the Easter experience. Father, I pray that You give Josh a vision straight from You. Father, give us the ability to truly exceed our capacity every time we open the doors for Palm Sunday, for the Seder, for Good Friday, and for Easter Sunday. Father, I pray that our people will pray BIG and BOLD for Easter. I pray that people will pray for their Five people. I pray that You give people our a passion for inviting people. Father, I pray that You will anoint our advertisements. I pray that our advertisements will catch people’s eye and that Your Spirit will draw them here. Father, give us over 1,000 salvations through six Easter services. Father, I’m not sure how that number is possible, but it is the number that I sense You are putting into my heart and right now You aren’t giving me permission to lower it.
Father, I pray for tomorrow. Give Josh and Andy the ability to have the strength and wisdom of Stephen. I pray that they will experience the same power that dwelled in Stephen in them. Father, give Josh the ability to lead our people to participate. I pray that our people will absolutely love being in Your presence tomorrow. Father, I pray that You will be lifted up and that You will draw all people to Yourself through our worship tomorrow. I pray that people who don’t typically worship would be freed up to worship whole-heartedly. I pray that You will give people permission and freedom to sing and experience You inhabiting the praises of Your people. I pray that our worship will be a fragrant aroma that is pleasing to You in every way. I pray that You will be very pleased by our worship. I pray that we won’t just worship with our lips, but that we will worship with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. I pray that non-worshippers will worship. I pray that people will be saved during the worship. I pray that people will repent during the worship.
Father, I pray for Andy to be strong and courageous tomorrow. I pray Andy to be filled with the wisdom of Stephen. I pray for Andy to speak as boldly and confidently as Stephen spoke. I pray for Andy’s words to be anointed and authoritative. I pray for Andy to be bold in calling for a response. I pray for people to be saved, to go public, and to repent of sin. Father, I pray for our people to listen with a willingness to obey. I pray for our people to listen and pray at the same time. I pray for our people to listen and obey. I pray that people will obey the promptings of the Holy Spirit. Father, I pray that Andy will preach the most powerful he’s ever preached because You are more in control than ever before. Father, I pray that Andy will have complete and total confidence and peace as he preaches. I pray for the Holy Spirit through Andy in such a way that each person gets a personalized message. I pray that I will listen for the purpose of obeying in my life.
Father, show us Your favor and give us ability to continue growing numerically, spiritually, and financially. Father, I pray that we have more adults, more children, and more students each and every week. I pray that we will worship more, pray more, obey more, and glorify You more. Father, manifest Yourself to Highpoint tomorrow. Father, bring Your revival to Highpoint tomorrow. Father, give us the early rain of revival. Father, thank you for giving us a holy discontent at Highpoint. Protect us from every going through the routine on Sunday or Monday for that matter. Father, give us the courage and faith to pray BIGGER and more BOLD each and every Sunday. Father, too many people are don’t know You to be content. Father, sin is too strong and victorious in people’s lives for us to be content. Father, cause the Holy Spirit to make us burning bushes for You.
Father, show us Your glory tomorrow. Show specific people specific expressions of your compassion, grace, patience, lovingkindness, and truth tomorrow. Father, give us the ability to go to church tomorrow and to be Your hands and feet as we walk through the building. Give us the perspective to give instead of receive tomorrow. Father, work through us tomorrow. Show people Your glory through us tomorrow. Father, love people through us tomorrow. Father, give us Your eyes to see what You see tomorrow. Give us the ability to be Your vessels tomorrow, your instruments tomorrow. Father, give us the privilege of being the church tomorrow. Glorify yourself through us tomorrow. Show us Your glory.
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