30 Days, 30 Minutes, 30 Prayers

Praying for Your Church

By Teri Lynne Underwood

Introduction

As a pastor’s wife, I often find myself praying for God to bless our church, to grant our leaders wisdom,

and to bind us together with one heart. And yet, I believe it is not just those of us who are called into ormarry into pastoral ministry who are called to pray fervently for the Bride of Christ. I imagine, though, thatmany are uncertain how and what to pray for their local faith fellowship.

In studying the Book of Acts, I realized that much emphasis is given to prayer … and that, I am convinced,is a large factor in the enormous impact those early believers had in spreading “The Way.” So, I began to

ask God to show me how to pray effectively for my church using the early church as my example. This project is the result of those prayers. The idea is to devote a minute to each prayer. This can be donecumulatively in order to build up to devoting 30 minutes a day to praying for your church or simply as anaddition to your prayer list daily ~ devoting a minute to a specific prayer for your church. However you

choose to use this, I pray that God will bless your desire to pray for your church … and bless your church

as you pray.

~ Teri Lynne