From tomorrow’s message at Calvary Chapel – “The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered”. ~~ D.L. Moody
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“50 Days of Prayer at Calvary Chapel”
So we have almost completed the first week of our “The People Who Pray – 50 Days of Prayer at Calvary Chapel”. How is it going for you? If you’ve fallen behind or not even started please don’t be discouraged. Start today. There is now time like the present. Here’s the challenge we set forth:
Here’s our schedule for the Fifty Days including when to read various chapters in the book 21 of the Most Effective Prayers of the Bible by Dr, Dave Earley
Here’s a link to the book we are reading in a Kindle format for .99.
A link to last Sunday’s Message as well as downloadable study guide
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Here’s some of the helps we have for you in easily downloadable formats
How to develop a daily prayer list as well as measuring your prayer index
Developing a Weekly and Daily Prayer List
Downloadable printable daily prayer sheets
From the book we are reading for “50 Days of Prayer at Calvary Chapel”
“Here’s one final thought on Jacob’s prayer: There are no miracles without messes and no need for blessing if we have it all already. So, if there is a blessing you really need or want and could use to bless others, and you believe that God would want you to have it, then don’t be shy. Go ahead and ask. God is able and, as we saw with Jacob, He blesses the spiritually aggressive. ” -Dr. Dave Earley in The 21 Most Effective Prayers of the Bible
A Prayer to end this National Day of Prayer from Anthony Autera
Our Prayer of Dependence
Almighty God-our Creator and our Father in Heaven—
Who was –Who is and Who is to come.
You are all knowing—all powerful—all providing—all good—all kind and all loving.
We come before you kneeling our hearts, minds and lives in humility and dependence—asking you to forgive us and grant us Your Mercy and Grace because we have forgotten You—pushed You aside—made You unimportant and have trusted in ourselves and our independence more important.
We have forgotten that everything we have has come from You -and we have everything we need- including our Freedom– because of You and You alone.
You have provided for our nation—protected our nation and You have blessed America, abundantly-always and in all ways.
Yet we have forgotten and have let our moral values, our ideals and Your standards decay and chose to fill our hearts with pride- denying our need for You.
But today at this moment in our history, Almighty God,-since Your thoughts are higher than ours and Your ways are not like our ways, we now look to depend on You for direction and wisdom and be the good and loving God Who we can trust – humbly and dependently needing You to be Our God and Savior.
We need Your will not ours to be done, in our nation, our leaders, our government, our families, our homes, our communities and our own hearts and lives.
We need You to turn our hearts toward you, and the hearts of our fathers to their children and the hearts of our children to their fathers in reconciliation and restoration.
We need Your plans, purpose and providence once again to be on the hearts and minds of our government and its leaders.
We need You to be King, Ruler and Lord of this great nation that you have given us.
Our gracious Father–it was You who spoke this world into existence and from You and because of You all life exists and has existed.
Speak new life into this Nation, into our hearts, into our independent lives. Restore us, renew us, refresh us and remember us. For you have endowed us with certain unalienable rights, and abundantly bestowed on us our liberties, freedom and all the good and beautiful things we possess.
We need You now oh God,so please bless our dependence on You, from this moment forward –for it is You that we Trust. AMEN
Prayer Outline for the National Day of Prayer
Click here for downloadable outline for praying on this the National Day of Prayer
Today is the National Day of Prayer – Begin your day by praying along with Dr. Tony Evans for our nation
From the book we are reading during “The People Who Pray – 50 Days of Prayer at Calvary Chapel”
“Often we have the misconception that God is reluctant to answer prayer. We think that He must be begged or manipulated or argued into answering. I have come to assume that when it comes to asking in prayer, I have nothing to lose. If mine is not the right request offered at the right time, or if my motives are not quite right, what is the worst that can happen? God can say “No.” But if my request is something to which God can say “Yes,” then by asking I may receive a blessing I would not have obtained otherwise. I would rather go to my grave being guilty of asking for more than I received than for missing answers because I did not ask.” – Dr. Dave Earley
The National Day of Prayer
This Thursday is the National Day of Prayer. We will be sending out a Prayer Guide for you to use to pray for our Nation, State, and City today or tomorrow. In addition we are asking you to consider fasting from Sun up to Sun down or for at least one meal on Thursday. This is a time for repentance. This is a time to seek God. This is a time to confess our sins and ask for a move of God in our hearts and our land. Before all else fails, let’s pray. Let us become the people who pray for our country and city.
From the book we are reading during our 50 Days of Prayer
“Through the years one of the true joys in my prayer life has come from praying the actual prayers of the Bible, especially those that worked. I reason that if God answered the petitions of Hannah, David, and Jacob, He might do the same for me—and He has!” – Dr. DAVE Earley
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