Lunch Break Prayer & Fasting
Sometimes working in ministry can start to feel more like work and less like ministry. Prayer seems to solve that.
At our Nashville ministry office, some of us are starting to fast and pray together every Thurs during the lunch hour.
Last Thurs I prayed in the Every Nation boardroom with 14 men and women who skipped lunch – pastors, IT gurus, data processors, campus missionaries, accountants, consultants…
We divided our lunch hour into five 10-minute blocks. I know 5 x 10 is only 50 minutes, not 60, but I figured someone would get long-winded and we would fill the hour anyway.
Here’s how we passed the time:
10 min – word
John 6:29 The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.
Heb 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
We usually focus on WHAT we believe, but I think WHO we believe is more important. We need to put our faith in God, and the more we know Him, the easier it is to believe Him and His word.
10 min – Nashville – our Jerusalem
We prayed for our city government, the music industry, the poor, our high schools, universities, Nash churches, Pastor Rice, Bethel and Steven Curtis Chapman’s family.
10 min – USA – our Judea
We prayed for our government, for revival, for Amr churches, our new EN church plants and the economy.
10 min – the nations – the ends of the earth
We prayed for Iran and our Iranian friend who is still jail.
10 min – our personal prayer needs
We prayed Acts 16:31 for all unsaved Dads and Moms.
Not sure what we’ll pray about in a few hours, but I can’t wait to pray with the people I work with.
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Dear ps Steve my name is Luis, i'm serving with Josh Abbott, planting the new church in Venezuela. I want to take the opportunity (your pray item about revival in USA)and ask you about Revival. I read your post about Lakeland revival, and i share your opinions about be gradual long-term process to build the church, and your councern about Angels. Here's my qst: What is in your opinion a genuine Revival? How can we identify it? and last, How can we focus and not "run after the water instead of taking it to continue in the race"? Thxs!
Posted by: Luis Azañero | July 04, 2008 at 08:54 AM
This is too true! I often get caught up in the WORK and forget who the author of the works is!
This comment could be considered a sermon and not a comment.....sorry Steve
When we think “motivation”,
• We think business…increase profits
• We think school…raise those exam results
• We think personal growth…make those major changes!
Seems like motivation just got invented in this last century, doesn’t it?
Well, it didn’t! Motivation has been around for thousands of years. And it looks like God invented it. Yes, it’s a God-thing!
God has always motivated His people through prayer when they seek His face. Jesus often spent time with the Father in prayer, both individually and corporately.
We have access to a power-packed environment called PRAYER. Come and connect with God in a corporate, faith filled, Spirit charged, and infectious time of prayer, worship and adoration of almighty God!
Our prayer meeting is a gathering centered on the affections of a loving God.
“There are moments in history when a door for MASSIVE CHANGE opens. It is in these moments that key men and women risk everything to usher in the Glory of God”
Posted by: Frank the tank | July 04, 2008 at 03:22 PM