Prayer for awakening and salvation

• Pray for hearts to become soft and turn to God.
• Pray for those that have left the church to return.
• Pray for an outpouring of God's Spirit to fall on the church, Croydon, London, UK and nations.
• Pray for those working in God's ministry.
• Pray for the church to be more prayerful for the lost.

Prayer for The Body of Christ to continue walking in love and unity

• Pray for the church to experience and walk in God's love abundantly.
• Pray for unity within the body of Christ so disaccord, disunity, offense, and rejection would have no place in the church.
• Pray for those whose hearts have been hurt to be healed and for reconciliation to take place.

Pray for Persecuted Christians

• Pray for the persecutors to stop and be saved.
• Pray for protection and strength over believers.
• Pray for God to shield our brothers and sisters in Christ.
• Pray for a great revival so that many would be saved.

Pray for God's will to be done

• In your Personal Life and family as well.
• In the church.
• In the world.

Pray for your leaders, both in church and government

• Key points to pray for church leaders:

  • Protection, wisdom, strength, grace, peace etc.
  • Pray for their hearts to burn passionately for God.
  • Pray they would be sensitive to the Holy Spirit.

• Key points to pray for government leaders:

  • Pray for your leaders to come to knowledge of Christ.
  • Pray they would have Godly wisdom and not pass laws that go against God's Words.
  • Pray that God would surround them.
  • Pray for protection over any scheme of man or the enemy that would cause them to make wrong decisions personally and in government.

Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29: 12-13

As we journey into 2022 pray that God's presence will continually be with us. That we will stay focussed and grow stronger in faith.

• Pray for the church family - those that are ill, experiencing job or financial difficulties, for good mental health, for protection and that we may be a beacon of hope to others.
• Church members meetings and deacons' election
• Pray for the leaders that their hearts and minds are directed towards Christ
• Pray for the search for a senior pastor.
• Pray for the children and youth as well as their families. That will we see then back in church.

Pray for UK

• Pray for COVID-19 situation - that people will be sensible and adhere to all protocols
• NHS
• Pray for Croydon council
• Pray for national government - wisdom for our Prime Minister, his cabinet and all MPs

Worldwide

• Peace in troubled areas
• Pray for the persecuted church

Focusing on some of the prayer scriptures sent out for the week of Prayer and Fasting and looking ahead into 2022

Praise!

• Psalm 71:8
  My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the day.

Thanksgiving!

• Psalm 100:4
  Enter His gates with thanksgiving, And His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him; bless His name.

• Psalm 107:29-32
  He caused the storm to be still, So that the waves of the sea were hushed. Then they were glad because they were quiet; So He guided them to their desired haven. Let them give thanks to the LORD for His lovingkindness, And for His wonders to the sons of men! Let them extol Him also in the congregation of the people, And praise Him at the seat of the elders.

Repentance

• Ourselves

• As a church at WCBC and the worldwide church

• On behalf of the UK

• 2 Chronicles 7:14
  If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

• Psalm 51:10
  Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me

• Daniel 9:4-5
  And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, "O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.

• Acts 20:21
  I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus

Praying for the year ahead

• Ourselves and our families

• Our church at WCBC

• The worldwide church

• Our Government and the UK in general

• Amos 5: 14-15
  ¹⁴ Seek good, not evil,
  that you may live.
  Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you,
  just as you say he is.
  ¹⁵ Hate evil, love good;
  maintain justice in the courts.
  Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

• Psalm 51:16-17
  For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

• Micah 6:8
  He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly[a] with your God.

World Issues including

• Myanmar
• Kazakhstan

End with praise!