2012 Prayer Guide
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“God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.’... This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.”
~ Exodus 3:14-15
Using This Prayer Guide Throughout the Year
“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. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.”
~ 2 Chronicles 7:14-15
Every year, we intentionally set aside a week in January for the community of Second Mile to focus on praying together. We focus simultaneously inward, on our own spiritual development and personal lives, and outward, on what God is doing in our church, our city, and the world. God absolutely wants to reveal big things to his children. We want to listen because it is very possible he has something for you, or us, to hear. Something that will slightly tweak the way you go about life and conversation. Or perhaps, something so big it will radically affect the entire development of your future and the lives of those around you. This is what we expect from God, who describes himself as the beginning of all things.
This year, God is leading us to emphasize the prayer guide beyond that one week in January. We are open to what that may look like. Prayer stations in the gathering put together by community groups. Times of prayer in living rooms around the city to continue to seek what God would have us do next through ministry partnerships, Seeds Community Center, or our growing connection at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Prayers walks around the UofA or Pima campuses. Prayer journals chronicling our personal conversations with God as he leads and develops us.
This prayer guide is marked by days of the week, so feel free to continue to rotate through the days just like the Week of Prayer. Or, if God is drawing your focus to a particular area, spend time significant time there. Look up scriptures, ask questions, develop a prayer station for Sundays. Pray as God leads you, and act on what he reveals.
Our posture towards God is that of contrition (Psalm 51:17). The discipline of prayer and fasting requires humility and sacrifice for one week, much less an entire year. It will not come easy.
• Make every effort to spend significant time alone praying. Examine your days and set aside time when you would normally be eating, social networking, watching t.v., internet browsing, etc. to quiet your heart and commune with your Heavenly Father.
• Take initiative to pray with your friends. Share what is on your heart and have a conversation together with God. Spur one another on (Hebrews 10:24). Take your normal evening of a night on the town or hanging out or watching a movie, and pray instead.
• As a Community Group dive into the discipline and joy of corporate worship. Be bold and vulnerable. Allow God to use your community to support your intercession with their presence as well as their prayers. Does your community understand your spiritual pulse?
“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.”
~ Romans 8:26
When you can’t find your own words to pray, depend on the Holy Spirit, and use the words of God (Scripture). Pray the rich prayers of the Psalms. Read the prayers of Jesus found in the Gospels. Let the word of God richly dwell within you (Colossians 3:16).
Please don’t let this guide intimidate you. Let it inspire you towards embracing the connection you have with the Father. Enjoy the freedom that is yours in Christ. Humble yourself and ask the Holy Spirit for help, and he will teach you to pray this year.
