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Prayer Assignment for Week One—the Lord's Prayer

• Take time daily this week to reflect on the Lord’s Prayer.
• Be still and quiet to center on listening to God as you pray.
• Each day, copy a line from the Lord’s Prayer. Then read it slowly as a prayer.
• Let each word and phrase raise questions and search your heart—what does this mean; how does this apply to me; how would I say that in my own words.
• Use your prayer journal to record your thoughts and inspirations.
• Now pray, in your own words, what God has stirred to life in you.

The Lord’s Prayer

Day 1. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Day 2. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Day 3. Give us this day our daily bread, and
Day 4. Forgive us our trespasses (debts or sins), as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Day 5. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
Day 6. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever. Amen

The Lord’s Prayer is not simply a prayer to be repeated. It was given as a model to instruct Christ’s disciples in how to pray. We may use its framework to invite the Holy Spirit to guide us more deeply into prayer and to express our personal needs and surrender to God.
Here are two examples of personalizing the Lord’s Prayer. You can see that they can be much longer than the original as God draws you into expressing your heart.

A personal expression of the Lord’s Prayer by Roy Gearhart, Apr/ 2016

My God, my Father, I worship You alone.
Be the King of my life as you are King in Heaven.
Fuel my life so I can live for You.
Forgive me when I fail and make sure that I do the same for those who fail me or hurt me.
Break the power of temptation and the bondage of evil from me—body, mind, heart, and spirit.
I will live for Your Kingdom, in Your power and for Your Glory, always.

A personal expression of the Lord’s Prayer by Roy Gearhart, Nov/2020

My eternal Father in heaven, you are holy and good.
I love you. I cannot live apart from you.
I will not throw away my closeness with you in order to fulfill my own wishes and wants. I want to be faithful and true to you above all.
I am starving for your presence. Bring me to your table every day where I can taste your love and approval, there you can feed my mind, body, heart and soul.
My sin leaves me crushed and lost. When you forgive me, it breathes life into my soul. Help me to exhale, to breath out forgiveness on others. Then, I can draw in a deeper breath of your grace.
Rescue me from Satan’s traps, from pressures to conform to the world and from my own self-deception. I am so easily deceived to believe that I can control my life and others and make myself happy.
Call me to yourself. Let me hear your voice. Guide me and I will follow you.
In the end, You, God, are all I seek, You are all I need and Your approval is all I want.
That is my final plea.

Prayer Assignment for Week Two—Praying the Psalms

The Psalms are poems and hymns written by four different authors. They form a body of material that can be read for reflection, sung, or prayed.

Prayer Assignment is to:

  1. Choose a Psalm to reflect on daily. Choose one Psalm to read every day or choose a different Psalm each day.
  2. Be still and quiet to center on listening to God as you pray.
  3. Each day, read the Psalm slowly as a prayer. Copy the Psalm or key verses into your journal.
  4. Try listening to the Psalm set to music. A variety of recordings can be found on YouTube.
  5. Let each word and phrase raise questions and search your heart—what does this mean; how doesthis apply to me; how would I say that in my own words?
  1. Use your prayer journal to record your thoughts and inspirations.

 

Psalms 23:1-6NIV

1 The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing.2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters3 he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake.4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

Psalms 13:1-6NIV

1 How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?2 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me?3 Look on me and answer, LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death4 and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes will rejoice when I fall.5 But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.6 I will sing the LORD’s praise, for he has been good to me.

Psalms 42:1-11NIV

1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?3 My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”4 These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.5 Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.6 My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.8 By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.9 I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?”10 My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?”11 Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

 Psalms 51:1-19NIV

1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.2 Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge.5 Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.6 Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place.7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.9 Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.11 Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you.14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, you who are God my Savior, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.15 Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise.16 You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.17 My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.18 May it please you to prosper Zion, to build up the walls of Jerusalem.19 Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous, in burnt offerings offered whole; then bulls will be offered on your altar.

Psalms 121:1-8

1 I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from?2 My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.3 He will not let your foot slip— he who watches over you will not slumber4 indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.5 The LORD watches over you— the LORD is your shade at your right hand6 the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.7 The LORD will keep you from all harm— he will watch over your life8 the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.

 

Prayer Assignment for Week Three—Intercessory Prayer

Prayer Assignment is:

  1. We have been learning to listen to the Holy Spirit as we pray the Lord’s Prayer and the Psalms. Now we need to apply that in interceding for others in prayer.
  1. Select someone to pray for and write their name in you prayer journal.
  2. Be still and quiet to center on listening to God as you pray.
  3. Begin to make a list of what you are praying for them. Take your time, be attentive to the Holy Spirit. Let the list grow but also listen for what the Holy Spirit highlights as most important to pray about them.
  4. You may find it helpful to pray through the Lord’s Prayer, a Psalm or another Scripture prayer for them to center on God’s will and promises.
  5. Use your prayer journal to record your thoughts and inspirations as you pray. Now you are ready to intercede in keeping with God’s will as the Holy Spirit leads you in what and how to pray.
  6. Pray with love, led by the Holy Spirit until you can leave them in God’s care.
 

John 17:9-24NIV Jesus Interceding for Us

9 I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. 10 All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. 11 I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled. 13 “I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. 14 I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. 15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. 19 For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified. 20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. 24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

 

Ephesians 3:14-21NIV The Apostle Paul Interceding for Us

14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

Prayer Assignment for Week Four—Spiritual Warfare

Prayer Assignment is:
1. We have been learning to listen to the Holy Spirit as we pray the Lord’s Prayer, the Psalms and in interceding for others in prayer.
2. Copy a list of the armor of God in your journal. Leave room to write notes about each one.
3. Be still and quiet to center on listening to God as you pray. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal Satan’s attacks and deception.
4. Begin to pray over the armor asking God to reveal the ways in which you are or need to be equipped. Are struggling with internal battles of doubt or fear? Are you struggling with sin? Have you swallowed Satan’s lies that leave you wounded and weak? A you unsure of your ability to stand up to trials you are facing? Are there relationships that Satan or sin have damaged that require forgiveness and healing?
5. Search out Scripture to put the sword of God’s word in you hands.
6. Use your prayer journal to record your thoughts and inspirations as you pray.
7. Pray to be led by the Holy Spirit, be humble, surrender your needs to God. Claim his promises in the name of Jesus. Reject Satan’s influence and embrace the blessing of God.

Ephesians 2:1-5NIV – The Flesh, the World, and the Devil
1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.

Ephesians 6:10-19NIV – The Devil has Schemes but God has Plans!
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. 19 Pray also for me, that whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel,

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