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Day of Prayer – Prayer and Praise Service
May 28 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Since January of this year we’ve designated the last Wednesday of each month as a Day of Prayer. We’ve been encouraging everyone to pray from wherever you are (work, school, home, out running errands, etc.) to pray in the morning, at noon, and at night. Whether you pray the Lord’s Prayer, use one of the guides we’ve put together to help you (see below), pray in your own words about whatever is on your heart, or some combination of them all – keep it up!
Author and Pastor Pete Greig wrote this about why we pray,
“Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed. — MARK 1:35
The greatest person who ever lived (Jesus) was preeminently a man of prayer. Before launching out in public ministry, he fasted for more than a month in the wilderness. Before choosing his twelve disciples, he prayed all night. When he heard the devastating news that his cousin, John, had been executed, “he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place.” After feeding five thousand people, he was understandably tired, but his response was to climb a mountain to pray.
When the pressures of fame threatened to crush him, Jesus prayed. When he was facing his own death in the garden of Gethsemane, bleeding with fear and failed by his friends, he prayed. Even during those unimaginable hours of physical and spiritual torment on the cross, Jesus cried out to the one who had apparently forsaken him.
Jesus prayed and he prayed and he prayed.
But it didn’t stop there. After his resurrection, Jesus commanded his disciples to follow his example so that the church was eventually born as “they all joined together constantly in prayer.” And then, as it began to grow exponentially, the apostles continued to follow their Lord’s example, resolutely prioritizing prayer above the clamor of pressing leadership responsibilities.”
- For prayers you can use in the morning, at noon, and night, click here
- Pray using the Lectio 365 app – they offer a guided prayer time in the morning, at noon, and night.
- Pray using the P.R.A.Y. method of prayer below:
