40 Days of Prayer 2021 “We Need You Here God!” Prayers for Lent with Helpful Suggestions from Chapel People, Compiled and Written by Howard Satterthwaite
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DOWNLOAD THE CHAPEL APP AND ENABLE NOTIFICATIONS SUBSCRIBE TO THE GENERAL GROUP YOU CAN ALSO CHECK YOUR INBOX WITHIN THE APP ACCESS THE GUIDE AT CHAPEL WEBSITE WESTMINSTERCHAPEL.ORG.UK (BLOGS) 40 Days of Prayer 2021 “We need you here God!” prayers for Lent With helpful suggestions from Chapel people, compiled and written by Howard Satterthwaite Day Date Chapel/Commission/World Prayer point Revival Prayer point Prayer. Lord God, teach us to really pray over these next 40 days, individually, and as a Awaken. Wake us up from slumber, Awesome God, to church. Increase my expectancy. Increase my hunger. To cry with desperation, for Holy Spirit intimacy. Increase our unity. Knit our hearts revelation. Oh, make us see the need: the physically together as we call on you - build your church, and spiritually hungry you want to feed. Wake me up. Wed17th transform lives and bring gospel hope to the Wake us up. Wake me up, mighty God. Revive us 1 Feb discouraged through us. with your power. Commission. Gracious God, give wisdom and revelation to Guy Miller and the Commission I thirst. Make us God, your church, and London, thirsty team, to equip leaders and believers, to exhort for your glory, for souls saved, for your kingdom to Thu 18th and inspire us all to take bold steps to make come in power. Pour water on those who thirst and 2 Feb Jesus known in a lost and hurting world. floods upon thy dry ground (Isaiah 43:19-20). Repent. Lord God of heaven, great and awesome, faithful Father, who is full of steadfast love, hear the prayer of your servant today. I confess on behalf of Revive, women's online event tonight. my church and nation that we, and I, have sinned Generous God, please make this event a against you. We have been lukewarm believers. Our sweet reviving time of encouragement for all country has turned its back on you. Please forgive and who attend. Impart faith for the future. Inspire cleanse, as you've promised you must when we the women of Westminster Chapel to connect confess (1 John 1:9) and set your church and me on Fri 19th and open up with each other as they talk, pray fire with your love to rebuild what sin has broken. 3 Feb and worship together. (Nehemiah 1) Covid-19. Merciful God, please protect front line staff and carers, give them energy and good rest. Comfort those who have lost loved ones in this time. Encourage those who are Weep. Break our hearts God with what breaks yours. anxious about work and money. Grant our Teach us to sow in tears, as we pray over the national and world leaders wisdom to help us barrenness in our lives, the Church and nation. Grant Sat 20th all recover well and learn the lessons God has us renewed hope that as we do so, we will reap with 4 Feb been teaching through the pandemic. joy (Psalm 126:5-6). Discipleship. Thank you, Father, Son, and You said. Faithful God, we are looking to your Holy Spirit for inviting us to join you in the promises of old, your patterns of working in history, Great Commission. Please help us to be that if your people turn back to you in repentance, you interested, committed and excited about will move in power. We repent of our half-hearted Mon playing our part to make disciples who make repentance, as we cry to you God to come in saving 5 22nd Feb disciples at Westminster Chapel. May we see power again, for our city, nation, and the world. hundreds of lives transformed. Abortion. Compassionate Father, heal our nation from its cruel treatment of the unborn. Help us to love those who've had or been involved with abortion. Give us the courage to Pant. As the deer pants for the water, Wonderful speak the truth with love on this issue. Saviour, make my soul pant more for you. Intensify Strengthen the work of pregnancy crisis my longings - and satisfy them as I've never known Tue 23rd centres like The Gate. Enable more of us to before with your water of life - that streams of gospel 6 Feb either adopt or support adopters. joy might flow out of me. (Psalm 42:1) Life Groups. Thank you Triune God for the community life we have found, especially Search me. Search me, O God, and know my heart; through Life Groups this year. Please deepen try me, and know my thoughts, and see if there be any our fellowship and love for one another across wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. all generations and cultures. Lord, make these Root out sin in my life, let there be nothing in me that groups places where everyone feels cared for could grieve you Holy Spirit and cause you to be Wed 24th and encouraged to follow Jesus more distant, rather than come in Pentecost power. (Psalm 7 Feb wholeheartedly. 139:23-24) Climate Change. Creator God, forgive us for Urgent assembly. Lord God, help us to rend our the ways we have abused, and poorly hearts and not our garments. Stir us to urgently gather stewarded the precious planet you have to call on you to turn and have pity. Do not make your entrusted to us. Help us to better protect the inheritance an object of scorn. Why should people of world and not prey on it, that we may sow London say 'Where is their God?' Have compassion beauty, not pollution and destruction. Show us on our city and nation, and show the world your Thu 25th how we can each do that today, and abounding love. Awaken Westminster Chapel to pray. 8 Feb collectively more as churches. (Joel 2:12-17) Staff. Thank you, Father, for the faithful staff team you have provided at Westminster Chapel. Please encourage them not to grow weary in doing good. Strengthen them. Fill them with your empowering Spirit today. Rend. O Lord, our Father and Redeemer, rend the Please provide the right candidate for the heavens and come down, that our city and nation Administration & Production Coordinator role, would tremble before you. Do not remember our sins. who will be a good fit and greatly help us to Look upon us we pray, for we are your people, and Fri 26th realise our vision of hundreds of lives anoint your church with power, to proclaim the gospel. 9 Feb transformed and tens of churches started. (Isaiah 64:1, 9) Anxiety. God of peace, show the world that you are the answer to their - and our - anxieties, that a healthy, happy fear of you, can chase away fears of people and dangers. Enable. Sovereign Lord, consider the opposition Help us all to know and show that against you and the gospel in our city and enable your thanksgiving prayer is a key to a peace that servants to speak with boldness. Stretch out your surpasses knowledge. Fill your Church with hand to heal and perform miraculous signs and Sat 27th the shalom the world is looking for. wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus. 10 Feb (Philippians 4:4-9) (Acts 4:23-31) Building Project. Generous God, thank you for the grant of planning permission to make our building more visible, hospitable and accessible. Thank you for stirring us to give £0.5million. Thank you, that through the sale of flats, we have £1million remaining to do the works. Please give wisdom to leaders and consultants to steward these funds wisely for maximum impact. Please 'top-up' the funds so we can do more of what was originally planned. Grant us favour and good Grieve not. Forgiving Father, let there be no trace of relationships with contractors and suppliers to bitterness, anger, slander, unkindness, or indifference reduce the overall costs of the project. Above in me. I turn completely from them again to you. all, enable us to better use your building to Cleanse me. May I grieve not the Holy Spirit in any Mon 1st make you known in our immediate locality and way, that I may be an empowered vessel to better 11 Mar across Greater London. display your glory. (Ephesians 4:30-32) Westminster Foodbank. Thank you, God, for the privilege of providing food for those in need, from our church. But let it be more than physical food, Lord. Please may people more Cleanse me. Have mercy on me, O God, according to and more feast upon the spiritual food your unfailing love. Cleanse me. Wash me. Create in available, in the community they encounter, in me a pure heart. Renew a steadfast spirit within me. the conversations, in the time of prayer. May Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Empower me Tue 2nd many of our clients come to know you and join to teach transgressors your ways, that sinners will turn 12 Mar our church. back to you. (Psalm 51:1, 7-13) Persecuted Christians. Sovereign God, you know all those millions who suffer in your name today. Comfort and strengthen them by Enlightened. Father of glory, give us the Spirit of your Spirit. May they know the power of the wisdom and revelation so that we may know you resurrection, while they fellowship with you, better. Enlighten the eyes of our hearts to know real through their sufferings. As we remember hope, true inheritance and immeasurable power. Help them, may they inspire and embolden us to us to realise how incredibly strong we already are in Wed 3rd speak the word of God more courageously Christ, that the same resurrection power is within us.