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Who's Your One Prayer Service

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Who's Your One prayer service

 

A Who’s Your One prayer service can be valuable for the congregation as they develop a burden for lost people around them and specifically their One. Consider setting aside a Sunday morning worship service to dedicate to prayer. Here is a sample outline of the order of the prayer service. You can customize the service to fit your congregation’s needs and schedule. 

 

Celebratory song

 

Welcome & announcements

 

Explanation of the service

  • Today will be different
  • A lot going on in churches across our land
    • God things – things that honor God
    • Stry of Martha and Mary – sometimes we just need to sit at Jesus’ feet
    • Hard t do with so much going on around us
    • Jesus said t Peter, James, and John in the Garden of Gethsemane, “Could you not watch & pray with Me one hour?”…WE ARE GOING TO TRY
  • Today – worship service devoted to worship, Scripture, and prayer
  • There is nothing we need more than God Himself!
  • The Psalmist reminds us that “unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain.” (Ps. 127:1)
  • John 15:4-5
  • Join me in inviting the Lord to meet with us this morning (Scripture reading)
  • (Pastor prays inviting God to visit and move)

 

Offering

 

Song of reflection and repentance

 

GUIDED PRAYER: Repentance

    • Psalm 51:1-12
    • Coming before God requires acknowledging His holiness and our sinfulness
      • Not flippant acknowledgment…a genuine brokenness over our sinfulness
      • So serious because it breaks our fellowship and strains our relationship with God
    • Ps. 32:1-5 (congregational reading)
    • 1 John 1:8-9 – Great promise!
    • (Guided prayer time…music plays quietly as you guide the congregation):
      • Ask God to show you your sin (search your heart – several moments)
      • Ask God to help you understand the seriousness of your sin
      • Ask Him to give you a brokenness (and desire to repent)
      • Believe the promise of 1 John 1:9
      • Confess your sins to God (acknowledge them…accept responsibility for them)
      • Turn from them
    • Prayer concluding time of repentance

 

Song Inviting God to Work

 

GUIDED PRAYER: Revival for the church

    • “Revival” isn’t a series of worship services…“revival” is what God brings to a church that seeks Him!
    • 2 Chron. 16:9a
    • Let us ask God to bring revival to His people
      • Love for God…longing for God…desire to see God work in us as His people
    • Doesn’t stop there – We need to invite God to work in the churches around us!
      • Thousands in our county
      • Too many to reach by ourselves
      • We need to pray that God will bring revival to us and to the churches around us!
    • (Guided prayer…music plays quietly)
      • Our church – leaders, next pastor, fire to see God work!
      • Unity
      • Protection
      • Burden for the community
      • Pour out His Spirit – do that which only God can do!
      • Area churches
    • Pastor or other leader concludes this time praying a prayer for revival

 

Song Expressing Need for Spiritual Awakening

 

GUIDED PRAYER: Spiritual awakening for our community, state, and nation

  • “Unclaimed”
    • Arkansas: almost ½!
    • U.S.: 160 million!
  • More people in U.S. than ever…more unchurched people in U.S. than ever
    • A smaller percentage being baptized than ever!
  • Our nation is filled with hopelessness and sin!
    • Our nation needs spiritual awakening that only God can bring
  • Our motive can’t be comfort (we have heaven)…must be burdened for lost people!
  • People are looking for solutions…Jesus is the only real solution.
  • Desperation!...2 Chron. 7:14
  • Do we want that? Are we prepared for that?
  • Let’s ask God for it!
  • (Guided prayer time…music plays quietly)
    • The lost in our community…give us a burden for their salvation!
    • Our nation (needs God)
    • Leaders of our nation
      • But even with moral laws – people still die and go to hell
    • Lost of our nation – open their eyes…ask God to work
    • Let us see you work in a way that we have never seen before!
    • Give us voluntary desperation – a great hunger to fulfill the Great Commission
  • Pastor or other leader concludes this time praying a prayer for revival

 

Song Expressing Desire to See the Lost Saved

 

GUIDED PRAYER: Prayer for Your One

  • 2 Corinthians 5:17-21
  • We have been reconciled to God (v. 21, 18a)
  • We have been made new (v. 17)
  • We have been given the ministry of reconciliation (v. 18b-19)
  • As His ambassadors, God is appealing to the lost through us (v. 20a)
  • You have access to lost people the rest of us do not know
  • God has placed you in their lives to be His ambassador
  • You may be the only person who cares they are lost…the only one who is willing to intercede for them… the only one who is willing to share the Gospel with them
  • Aren’t you thankful someone shared the Gospel with you?
  • Who is your One?
  • (Guided prayer time) (music plays quietly)
    • A desire to know lost people
    • The ability to meet and converse with lost people (friends, family, neighbors, coworkers, other parents in your child’s activities, etc.)
    • A longing to see lost people saved
    • The belief that God can use us (church members) to reach lost people
    • A burden for a specific lost person (church members’ One)
  • Pastor or other leader concludes this time praying for church members’ Ones

 

Celebratory Song of Praise

 

Dismiss

 

 

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