jump to navigation

Recommendations- Prayer Guide May 15, 2007

Posted by Erin in : Family Worship Series , trackback

Joe,

You are right that this topic is not the easiest to write on, but we will learn for next time to just put the recommendations with each corresponding component.

I know this is stepping out of our plan because it was not on there, but I wanted to take the opportunity to commend to people the great help of a prayer plan for family worship time.   This is something that we just recently started using and I think has added much more depth to our family worship time.

Now this is not a resource you can go out and buy or find online, but one you get to sit down and work on together with your spouse.  For us, we used to spend our prayer times often having the two of us pray for the same things.  not that that is bad, but we rarely got to cover all the areas we wanted to cover.   So we decided to come up with a prayer plan so that certain things were guaranteed to be prayed for every day and others once or twice a week.

Once you have kids that are old enough to start praying with you on these topics you can add them as well, but right now we have a little one who is just learning to pray on her own.  And so Abby’s prayer usually last a minute or two.  But Joe and I then divide up the remaining topics that are to be prayed for that day.

So here is an example of how we work ours.   Every day we pray for specific requests for the four of us (Joe, Erin, Abby and Elijah) and about 12 unsaved people we know.  Then in addition the following categories are prayed for on specific days once or twice a week:

1. Our “inner” circle (8 close friends)

2. Our other family members

3. Our “second” circle

4. Our local church

5. Our ministry and its specific requests

6. Missionaries we support and mission work in general

7. Government leaders

8. Abortion

I may be missing a few topics here, but you get the point.  This way we don’t go for two weeks having never petitioned the Lord for abortion.  It also shows our children that there is a lot more to pray for than just the simple prayers of blessings on each of our days.  It extends their minds beyond our four walls when we pray for specific missionaries and countries.

So I hope this aids in the prayer aspect of family worship by being able to cover more areas of prayer and having a better system in approaching prayer.

Praying for the glory of the Lord to cover the earth,

Erin

Comments»

no comments yet - be the first?