Hopefully each of you will or have join me in this 40 Day Prayer Journey which started Feb 18. Step into this forty (40) day prayer journey and adventure of repenting and praying toward the desires and promises of God to enable us to grow in our spiritual walk. Let each of us as individuals and as a corporate body grow in grace, in service and deed, in love for God and each other and into a lifestyle of individual and corporate prayer. Know that you won’t be praying aloneon this 40 Daay Prayer Journey. God is orchestrating this corporate prayer of which YOU are an important part.
United prayer can bring powerful results. Pray with purpose, biblical promise and passion. Let’s all continue with one accord in prayer and supplication (Acts 1:14a) during this Lenten season.
Scripture makes prayer a priority of the church. The Lord said “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples”. (Isaiah 56:7 RSV).
Love and pray fervently,
Linda Fegins
Suggested Logistics
What follows is a suggested format for the journey. You may need to modify it to fit your schedule or medical restrictions. You are encouraged to use a journal or notebook to write your reflections, what the Lord is speaking to you, your prayers and/or prayer requests.
During the Forty Day Prayer Journey it is suggested that you:
1. Fast at least one day per week preferably Wednesday (see information on fasting included in this packet). Alternatively, you can fast a food or activity the entire Lenten season. See Fast Guidelines.
2. Select a Prayer Partner or two (Triplett) to pray together at least once a week as you determine for your schedule.
3. Daily pray the intercessory daily prayer focus and prayer points for that date. Read the Bible and the scriptures.
4. Read the scriptures listed in the daily prayer focus. Answer the questions in your journal if there are any for that day and write down your reflections. Meditate on the Word each day.
5. Make an entry in your journal each day or as led by the Holy Spirit. Make sure you the complete the “Something to Act On” exercise section where it appears from time to time in the daily prayer focus.
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40 Day Prayer Journey
The First 7 Days We Will Focus on Repenting For A Renewed Relationship With God
The Lenten Season (February 18 to April 4, 2015) is a time of repentance, self-examination, fasting and prayer in preparation for Resurrection Sunday (Easter). Today seek God with a repentant heart (See Joel 2: 12-24) and honestly search your heart (Psalm 139:23-24). As you pray through the 40 Days of Prayer Journey allow the Lord to examine your life thoroughly.
DAY 4-Febraury 21 Repenting For a Renewed Relationship With God
Scriptures: Esther 4:1-4, 16-17; Matthew 11:20-23; 2 Chronicles 34:27(NLT)
Repent: Of the times you have not responded to the call for corporate times of fasting and praying.
Meditate, pray, and write down areas for which you should repent.
Pray:
• Praise God that He responds to humble hearts and that His grace will search out every hidden place of sin if you surrender to Him.
• Confess to the Lord the ways you have not understood repentance as a lifestyle.
• Ask the Lord to give you a tender heart that is sensitive to the voice of the Holy Spirit and the conviction of sin.
• Pray for pastors and ministry leaders to live lifestyles of repentance.
• Pray that the message of repentance as a way of life will be preached in churches in your community.
• Pray that your lifestyle of repentance will glorify God and attract unbelievers to God.
• Pray that the Word of God will be revered and honored in Messiah and at your church.
• Pray that believers in your community will see a truer picture of idolatry and sin- and be willing to repent.
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DAY 5- February 22 Repenting For a Renewed Relationship With God
Scriptures: Psalm 51:6, 10; Joel 2:12-15
Repent: Of failing to examine every attitude, motive, every action and every word of condemnation and sin and to ignore our sins.
Meditate, pray, and write down areas for which you should repent.
Pray:
• Ask God to cleanse your heart of every fault and sin and renew a right spirit within you.
• Specifically I confess to You Lord______________________________________.
• Ask the Lord to show you any place in your life where you harbor sin in your thoughts, words, or actions that you have not recognized.
• Welcome the Lord into those inward places and repent of everything He shows you. Rejoice in His peace.
• Ask the Lord to enable you by the power of the Holy Spirit to make changes where you need to do so.
• Ask the Lord to “wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin: and create in me a clean heart”. Psalm 51:1-2, 10-11.
• Pray that the thoroughness of repentance will be embraced by others at Messiah and other churches.
• Praise the Lord that the Blood of Jesus will cleanse and redeem every part of your repentant heart.
Something to Act On: Meditate on Psalm 51. Let the Spirit teach you important things about confession and restoration from its verses.
DAY 6-February 23 Repenting For a Renewed Relationship With God
Scriptures: Acts 3:19; Isaiah 55:6-8; Acts 3:2
Repent: Of ________________________________________________________.
Meditate, pray, and write down areas for which you should repent.
Pray:
• Give thanks that God will hear our cries of repentance.
• Ask forgiveness for delaying repentance because of pride or negative motives.
• Pray for the Lord to reveal every area in your community where He requires repentance.
• For Christ to bring people near enough to God to experience the Father’s loving delight in His Son for people to love and follow Jesus.
• Pray that the churches in our city would be overwhelmed with a spirit of humility and repentance, turning from the ways of the world and toward the Lord.
• Pray that the number of believers following the ways of humility and repentance would increase exponentially.
• Pray that the promise of revival would be poured out upon the people of God as we walk in His ways.
• Ask God for a repentant heart and a fresh awareness of sin and the Lord’s love to forgive us if we confess our sin.
Something to Act On: Make a list of 3 spiritual blessings and thank God for each one of them.
DAY 7 – February 24 Repenting For a Renewed Relationship With God- Corporate Call at 7:30PM
Scriptures: 2 Kings 22:19-20 (NLT); Jonah 3: 8-9; Daniel 9: 3-6, 20-23
Repent: Of ________________________________________________________.
Meditate, pray, and write down other areas for which you should repent.
Reflect on repentance.
Pray:
• Praise the Lord that He delights in responding to a heart of repentance and humble hearts.
• Confess the ways you have ignored God’s call to repent.
• Offer your heart to the Lord in repentance.
• Pray that the cycles of violence and revenge be ended. Pray that we repent as a community and nation from hatred, fear, racism and anger.
• Pray for the spirit of repentance to sweep across the city of Detroit or your city.
• Pray that the grace of God would impact the world through you as you follow Him in humble obedience and repentance.
• Pray that many in our city, family and community will turn from their evil ways .Pray that that they open their spiritual eyes and ears to hear the gospel, to see their sin, such they will turn and follow the Lord.
• Pray that God will use your prayers of repentance as a powerful spiritual weapon in your church and city.
Something to Act On: Write down all the areas in your life where you want to experience spiritual growth.
Linda Fegins, “The Prayer Leader” serves as prayer leader and teacher/trainer on the “Prayer Boot Camp” with the Global Missions Prayer Force and as a guest intercessor and volunteer for Girlfriends Pray a global prayer ministry. She served as Prayer Coordinator for over 13 years( later Director over the Prayer Ministry) for the Lydia Circle Christian Business and Professional Women. As part of the Lydia Circle she has lead over a dozen prayer boot camps, and has lead prayer services and workshops in the Bahamas and in South Africa and was on the prayer team of a medical missions trips to Jamaica under the leadership of Rev. Jackie McCullough. She is also a member of the National Church Prayer Leaders Network and serves as the Prayer Leader of the Intercessory Prayer Ministry of her church.