Three Days of Prayer...for Godly Revelation!

Church Planter's Blog #4

I invite you to join 800 LCMC congregations around the world for 3-days of prayer this Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday, January 7-8-9.  Obviously, we hope everyone is in prayer every day, but here are 3-days set aside to see ourselves as one body petitioning the Lord for missional breakthrough.  As Church Planters, let's pray with one voice that our current congregations are strengthened through faithful discipleship strategies so that new congregations can be birthed and supported as the result.

How?  Making new year's resolutions are just fine, although stats show only 8% of those who make resolutions, keep them.  That's because we are often relying on our own resolve for success.  That can work, but usually only for a short time.  Praying for new year's revelations is all together different.  Revelations come from the Father.  With HIS revelation power and OUR empowered faith resolve, great things happen for the long run.

With that in mind, let's use the next 3-days of prayer by asking for Godly revelation for the sake of resolving 3-key areas.  Of course, there are a million good things to pray for, but these 3 can be growth igniters of outreach for your developing church:

1. Families.  Yes, people like programs for their youth, but I believe what can set your church a part from a more established congregation with programming, is to teach families how to pray together, worship together, read scriptures, serve and give together.  More often than not, they simply don't know how to do that on their own resolve, so demonstrate for them by modeling a revelation!
(Anyone want to share an idea on how this can be done?)

2.  Marriage care.  Stats show that evangelicals are getting divorced at the same high rate as nonbelievers.  Why? Because the church may be doing a good job of telling people what to do, but not how to do it!  Create a niche in your new congregation to reach your city with marriage care.  After all, a nonbeliever who gets their life changed will start thinking your new congregation has something he/she needs!  (Anyone want to share an idea on how this can be done?)

3. Living the faith at work.  Believers all agree the Great Commission to "go and make disciples" is a good idea; but again, they often don't know how to do it.  Like family and marriage care, the church is often good at telling people the answer to life's tests, but not so good at empowering them how to get to the answer.  They need Godly revelations so human resolve can breakthrough!  (Anyone want to share an idea on how this can be done?)

Let's join together in praying with one voice during these upcoming 3-days of LCMC prayer.  Praying for Godly revelations will make us agile with resolutions in these changing times.

"Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think (revelations), according to the power at work within us (resolutions), to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations...."  (Ephesians 3:20-21)