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40 Days of Prayer

40 days and 40 nights. It’s a familiar phrase found throughout biblical scripture, often in the context of trial and testing. Moses was on Mount Sinai for 40 days and nights as he received the Ten Commandments from God. Jesus was tempted for 40 days and nights as he began his ministry, and later, we learn 40 days and nights passed between Jesus’ resurrection and ascension.

What a fitting number of days and nights to spend in prayer, fasting and listening for the Holy Spirit to guide our congregation. Please join us in our 40 Days of Prayer as we discern our next steps in ministry together.

Day 1

A Prayer For Guidance

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.

PROVERBS 3:5-6

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Day 2

A Prayer For Holiness

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”

ISAIAH 6:1-3

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Day 3

A Prayer For Deliverance

I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.

PSALM 34:4

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Day 4

A Prayer For Discerning Love

And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.

PHILIPPIANS 1:9-11

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Day 5

A Prayer For Our Senior Pastor

Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people, for who can judge this great people of yours.

2 CHRONICLES 1:10

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Day 6

A Prayer For Enlightenment

For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and Your love for all God’s people, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give You the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.

EPHESIANS 1:15-19

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Day 7

A Prayer Of Thanksgiving

Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind, for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.

PSALM 107:8-9

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Day 8

A Prayer For Humility

In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.

1 PETER 5:5-6

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Day 9

A Prayer For Repentance

And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

ISAIAH 6:3-5

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Day 10

A Prayer For Cleansing

Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

PSALM 51:10

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Day 11

A Prayer Of Sending

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

ISAIAH 6:8

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Day 12

Praise For God's Sovereignty

“Praise be to you, Lord, the God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom; You are exalted as head over all. Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all. Now, our God, we give you thanks, and praise your glorious name.

1 CHRONICLES 29:10b-13

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Day 13

A Prayer For Help

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

JOHN 14:26

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Day 14

A Prayer Of Gratitude For The Scriptures

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

2 TIMOTHY 3:16-17

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Day 15

A Prayer For The Church

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

MATTHEW 16:18-19

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Day 16

A Prayer Of Remembrance

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

ROMANS 6:4

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Day 17

A Prayer For A Unified Heart

Teach me your way, Lord, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.

PSALM 86:11

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Day 18

A Prayer For Presence

Be happy with those who are happy, and weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with each other. Don’t be too proud to enjoy the company of ordinary people. And don’t think you know it all!

ROMANS 12:15-16

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Day 19

A Prayer For A Generous Heart

Give, and you will receive. your gift will return to you in full—pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back.”

LUKE 6:38

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Day 20

A Prayer For Faith-Filled Love

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

GALATIANS 5:6

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Day 21

A Prayer To Show Mercy

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in.

MATTHEW 25:34-35

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Day 22

A Prayer For Genuine Community

They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common.

ACTS 2:42-44

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Day 23

A Prayer For Assurance

The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.

ROMANS 8:16

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Day 24

Praise For Being Physical

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

GENESIS 1:31

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Day 25

A Prayer For Strength

Pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for You in Christ Jesus. Do not quench the Spirit.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:17-19

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Day 26

A Prayer For Grounding

So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

EPHESIANS 3:17-19

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Day 27

A Prayer To Listen

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.

JAMES 1:19

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Day 28

A Prayer For Obedience

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.

JAMES 1:22-25

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Day 29

A Prayer To Tame The Tounge

Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

JAMES 3:5-6

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Day 30

A Prayer To Pursue Justice

He has shown You, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with Your God.

MICAH 6:8

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Day 31

A Prayer Of Trust

The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake.

PSALM 23:1-3

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Day 32

A Prayer To Know The Seasons

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build.

ECCLESIASTES 3:1-3

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Day 33

A Prayer Of Thanks For The Spirit

For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

ROMANS 8:14-16

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Day 34

A Prayer For Endurance

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

ROMANS 8:18-19

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Day 35

A Prayer For True Worship

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

ROMANS 12:1-2

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Day 36

A Prayer For Fasting

“When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

MATTHEW 16:16-18

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Day 37

A Prayer For Gathering

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

HEBREWS 10:24-25

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Day 38

A Prayer For Faith

For we live by faith, not by sight.

2 CORINTHIANS 5:7

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Day 39

A Prayer For Courage

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”

JOSHUA 1:9

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Day 40

A Prayer For Mission

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

MATTHEW 28:18-20

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