Starting February 2024, we are focusing on specific prayer initiatives for our church to pray over, together. Omotayo Olaleye, who created our Weekly Prayer Guides last year, will provide monthly "guidelines" to help guide our hearts and prayers.
Declaring God's reign in the church and in our world
In Matthew 6:9-10, Jesus taught His disciples how to pray and what to pray. Matthew 6:10 states, “Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven” (NKJV). It is remarkable that the first thing the Lord taught His disciples to pray for is asking for God’s Kingdom (which talks about His sovereignty, and His supreme rule) to come and be established here on earth as it is in heaven. When we declare this in prayer, all other power, dominion, and authority, are subject to the reign and the rule of our God (Isaiah 45:23, Philippians 2:10-11). The second part is asking that God’s will be done (which talks about God’s counsel, desire, or wish, what He has proposed in Himself) here on earth, as it is in heaven. We may ask why can’t God just do all these and enforce His kingdom and rule here on earth. It's because God has given us, His children, an opportunity to join Him in what He is doing. The work He has prepared before the foundation of the world for us to accomplish through Him (Ephesians 2:10). So that He may reign through His people. For we know that whatever we ask in prayers we shall receive it if we do not doubt in our hearts (Mark 11:24).
April 1-6
Ask the Father for the heart of the nations to turn back to the Lord: Psalm 2:8
April 7-13
Ask that the kingdom of this world will become the kingdom of our God and of His Christ: Revelation 11:15
April 14- 20
Declare God’s reign among the nations: Psalm 96:10 and Psalm 93:1
April 21- 30
Pray that God will be exalted above the heavens and His glory will fill the whole earth: Psalm 57:5 and Psalm 97:9
Pray for the fruitfulness of the church
Isaiah 32:15 (KJV) “Until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.” The preceding verses describe the consequences of complacency of the people of Israel to the evil in their days. However, Isaiah describes how the barren land (a prophetic description of a generation who has turned away from God) will become fruitful again as a result of the outpouring of the Spirit of God. This is a verse of hope for us also, that our land will again turn to the Lord. That men and women, boys and girls, young and old, will once again turn to the living God. But the church has a role to play, the outpouring of the Spirit over our nation will come when the church earnestly seeks the face of the Lord and gives Him no rest till He makes our nation a praise in the Land (Isaiah 62:6-7). We have been called to abide in Christ through the Holy Spirit who lives in us (John 15:4). Our Lord desires that His church bears abundant fruits (John 15:2). Why? Because in bearing fruits the Father is glorified (John 15:8). So as we wait on the Lord this season, let us seek to be guided by the Holy Spirit, that we may bear abundant fruits.
March 1-10
Pray that we will be a people we are led by the Holy Spirit: Ephesians 5:16-25
March 11-17
Let us pray for the healing of our land/nation: 2 Chronicles 7:14
March 18-24
Pray that the Lord will move in our land to open the eyes of those who are spiritually blind and the ears of those who are spiritually deaf: Isaiah 35:3-10
March 25-31
Pray that our strength will be renewed in this season as we wait upon the Lord: Isaiah 40:30-31
Pray for Legacy Church to desire a deeper relationship with the Lord
Psalm 42:1-2, is a description of a man who is a God chaser, a man after God’s own heart. As we go through this new year, what do we seek? Do we seek to know God beyond words? Do we seek to experience His glory as He reveals His mind and will through the Holy Spirit? We live in perilous times, times when the love of many is waxing cold (2 Timothy 3:1, Matthew 24:12), still the Father is calling to His children, to His church, and He is saying to come up the mountain (Exodus 24:1), to separate ourselves from the world (2 Corinthians 6:17-18), to pick up our cross and follow Christ. (Matthew 16:24)
February 1-10
Pray that we may know Him more: Philippians 3:10
February 11-17
Pray that we will delight ourselves in the Lord: Psalm 1:1-2
February 18-24
Pray that God will make known to us His will: 1 Corinthians 2:11
February 25-29
Pray that God will work in us that which is pleasing in His sight: Hebrews 13:21