This last weekend at our church we had a Power of Prayer Event.  We wanted to get our church praying together as a group over 8 hours, nonstop.  We accomplished this by assigning specific hours at two locations and had our people sign up for one of those hours.  At the end we had almost 50 people sign up to pray together as a church.  We prayed for our community, our church, our people, and the list goes on and on.

It is easy to draw a crowd at churches these days.  Cool music, free food, something to entertain.  I am truly humbled and excited to see how our church came together to pray and to experience the power of prayer.

Here is the prayer requests we put together for our event.  I look forward to see how God does great things in the lives of our people and in the body of our church.

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Remember P.R.A.Y.

Praise

Spend some time praising God for who He is.

Praise Him for what He has done.

Praise Him because He is God

Remember: Praise meets God’s desire for worship and deals

with our problem of insufficiency.

Repent

If there is a need to repent, do so.

God knows the specific details, no need to go into a step by step account of what needs repenting in

front of your group.

Remember: Repentance meets God’s desire for holiness and

deals with our problem of sinfulness.

Ask

Lets bring our requests to God.

Use the following requests and some that you have.

Ask spiritually, selflessly, significantly, specifically, and

repeatedly.

Remember: Asking meets God’s desire for dependence

and deals with our problem of powerlessness.

Yield

Have faith

Know that God hears your prayers and answers them to His plan and purpose.

Remember: Yielding meets God’s desire for faith and

deals with our problem of arrogance.

Prayer Requests

first things first…

• God, His kingdom, His plan, and His Word would be the focus of all we do.

for our community

• That Sunrise Church will have opportunities to shine as beacon of light in the East Valley.

• For the students, families that attend Sundance Elementary.

• For the staff and faculty of Sundance Elementary.

• We as a church would be aware of the people that have been supernaturally and strategically placed in our lives and that we would minister to them.

• That we would find ways to share Real Acts of Kindness with the people in our community and that we could point them to Christ in the process.

• The people we come in contact with in our community would see Christ in or actions.

for our church

• God would use Sunrise Church to impact the lives of the people in our community.

• God continues to bring new families to Himself through the ministries of our church.

• A good response from the people being invited to come to church, for the hearts of the people in the community to be open.

• Unity for the church.

• Our people will become connected to each other in love and grace.

• Community Groups continue to grow and bring our people closer together.

• Men’s and Women’s Studies continue to challenge people and to bring them to a greater understanding of God and His Word.

• Our Children’s ministry
  • That God would bring more workers and helpers.
  • That children would continue to be taught who God is and that He loves them.
  • For safety in the classrooms.

• Our Youth ministry
  • That God would continue to bring more families who have teens.
  • That the teens would grow closer to Go and closer to each other.
  • That God would empower the volunteers and leaders.

for our church leadership

• That God continues to guide the leaders of our church, and that our leaders are obedient to follow.

• Pastor Jay, our church staff, and our Elder Board.

• That God would bring up new leaders in our church.

• Our Church leaders would be empowered to serve.

• That they would be humble.

for our future

• Permanent Facility
  • God would reveal the right place for us to permanently do ministry.
  • Patience.
  • We would build good relationships with other churches in the area.
  • We would be diligent in prayer for the right course of actions regarding a permanent presence in the community.
  • While waiting for a permanent facility we would be diligently serving God and faithfully following Him.

for Easter

• Easter Services

• Outreach Events leading up to Easter (Plant Giveaway – April 16, Chocolate Bars, Invite Cards, Spring Fling – April 23, Easter Egg Hunt – April 24).

• Courage for our current attendees to invite friends and neighbors.

• That many new people would come to church and come to a personal relationship with Christ.

• Extra volunteers to help with ministry opportunities leading up to and at our Easter Services.

for our people

Candias – Wisdom for our girls as they make life choices, that God’s will would be done and His plan followed. For Anna

Lupe – Salvation of our children. Physical healing for daughters Erica and Yolonda.

Crystal – Pray for Michelle and her healing and recovery, God show the proper path.

Lisa – Pray for my dad, that he would have good days without struggle and pain.  For wisdom and endurance for Russ and I.

Ray  -Pray for my other in laws health.

Mary – a Job

Simon – Keena to find the love of Jesus in her heart

Danny – Pray for a better job, praise God that I was given a car and now I can get to and from work.

Kevin – My nephew James is battling addictions

Seven for Heaven Prayer Cards

Lonzo Jr, Nicole, Asron, Winston, Mary, Willie, Lavon, Bertran, Frances, Oscar, Will, Vini, Keena, Simon, Jerrod, Jackie, James, Nydin, Rhonda, Kelly, Desi, Christine, Ariel, Jim, Martha, Marie, Sandy, Cece, Dora, marty, Toni, Ruby, Joyce, Margaret, Debbie, Dorthy, Joy, Jodi, Barb, Tom, Lynn, Mark, Tim, Kelsey, Hannah, Ashley, Rachel, Natalie, Lanette, Dawn, Deanna, Corrie, Richard, Walten, Alissa, Jaime, Michale, Nancy, Rosie, Sedrick, Dennis, Kris, Nathon, Mason, Drew, Gigi, Carissa, Raymond, Luz, Virginia, Xochithl, Evette, Bria, Linda, Deserie, Felicion, Jose, Yonka, Christine, Anthony, Pat, Sergio, Richard, Jerry, Tommy, Rachel, Natalie, laura, Ray, Sara, Anthony, Emilia, Norma, Venian, Jolene, Dennis, Rod, Damian, Dorthy, Richard, Reychel, Elizabeth, Marie, Paul, Connie, Tine, Stevie, Bobbie, Robert, Dores, jana, Marsha, Bob, Don, Daniel, Carlos, Haydee, Oralea, Enriquez, Sandra, Denaloly, Seve, Rie, Kevin, Kristin, Cyndee, Debbie, Kat, Danny, John, Enrique, Liz, Jason, Anthony, Lorissa, Lisa, Eric, Louis, Rosariao, Marcelo, John, Jason, Lisa, Eric, Robert, Joseph, Lauisienna, Lisa, Louise, Carol, Barbara, Randy, James, Patrick, Mike, April, Chris, Teresa, Advian, Joe, Steve, Manuel, Cecilia, Brittany, Colleen, Dianne, Lisa, Paul, Ging, Robert, Ron, Adam

The best way to strengthen our faith and our resolve is to read what God has promised to those who pray. Here is a sampling:

Promises of Answered Prayer to Encourage Us to Pray with Hope

Jeremiah 29:11-13

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for wholeness and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. 13 You will seek me and find me. When you seek me with all your heart,

2 Chronicles 7:14

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Matthew 7:7-11

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Romans 8:26

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

Isaiah 64:4

From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.

Isaiah 65:24

Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear.

Jeremiah 33:3

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

Lamentations 3:25

The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

Psalm 145:18-19

The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. 19 He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.

Psalm 10:17

O LORD, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear

Psalm 34:15-17

The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry. . . 17 When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.

Matthew 18:19-20

Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

James 4:8

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.

John 16:24

Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

Psalm 37:4-5

Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act.

Psalm 38:15

But for you, O LORD, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.

Psalm 102:17

He regards the prayer of the destitute and does not despise their prayer.

John 14:13-14

Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

John 15:7

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

John 15:16

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Matthew 21:22

And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”

Psalm 55:16-17

But I call to God, and the LORD will save me. 17 Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice.

Psalm 56:9

Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me.

Psalm 50:15

Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.

Psalm 81:10

I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

Proverbs 3:5-6

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

1 John 5:14-15

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

Philippians 4:6-7

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The LORD is my God.’”