We are so glad you’ve decided to embark on this prayer initiative with us. For some of you, this is your first go-round with prayer. Some are seasoned prayers. And many fall somewhere in between.
No matter where you are on your prayer journey, you need to know your prayers are effective. Any time you pray, you release the power of God into this earth and into people’s lives. God needs us to pray.
You need to know something. Things happen when you pray that don’t happen when you don’t pray. Even when you don’t see anything right away, even if you don’t feel anything when you pray, your prayers count. And we need them.
This Love the Lost devotional is meant to be prayed for the same person/people for 28 days in a row. Mark their names and make a commitment to pray for them all the way through. Or in the case of Warren Prays, we will be praying for “all the Lost in the city of Warren, Ohio” every day for 28 days. It will make a difference.
In order to help us pray together every day, we have set up a journal with the following:
- A scripture (our prayers must be Word-based).
- A devotional thought.
- Prayer points to help us grow closer to God.
- Prayer points for the people on our lists.
You can pray in the morning, at night, or anywhere in the middle. Whenever you pray, we encourage you to start your prayer time with this devotional. It will help guide and direct your prayer. And even though we aren’t physically together in the same room praying, we will all be praying the same thing. That is united prayer, and it is powerful.
This isn’t meant to limit your prayer time but to be a starting point. Feel free to pray more detailed prayers as God leads you. And He will lead you. (It’s so exciting to grow in hearing His voice and following His promptings.)
Other great scriptures to pray for ourselves and others are the epistle prayers. (See the post called Epistle Prayers.) These prayers come straight from the Word of God. They are prayers the apostle Paul prayed for the church when he was alive and they are still powerful to pray today. Read them. Pray them daily for yourself and those on your list and watch what God will do.
We will be starting this 28-day prayer journey on February 28th, and it will finish on March 26th, which is the Tuesday before Easter. Be mindful throughout this process of who you know that is lost and invite them to your church on Easter weekend. We can’t wait to see the harvest that comes from the believers in Warren from all different churches uniting to pray the same thing on the same day for all of the Lost people in the city of Warren. It’s going to be powerful! Thank you for joining with us.
Let’s pray this together to consecrate ourselves to this prayer time.
Father, I ask You to use my life to pray for all the Lost in the city of Warren during this prayer initiative. You alone hold the power to change lives, and we are thankful that You’ve given us the avenue of prayer to release Your power into the lives of our friends, family, neighbors. Into our city. I ask You to stretch me, help me grow, and show me how to give myself to prayer. Give me Your eyes and Your heart for the lost. Help me see them as You do – precious fruit. I love You and come to You with great anticipation of what You will do. In Jesus’ Name. Amen!
This is going to be fun. Let’s pray!
Blessings,
The Warren Prays Team
Where does this take place? Do we pay from home?
Yes – pray from home. In your car. With friends. Wherever you are. A new post will release every day with that day’s prayer points. Let’s pray for our city together!!!!