d. Take time to confess your sins and claim his cleansing. I John 1:9-10
Step Four: You are now ready to pray around the World. Set your heart to seek the Lord for the benefit of the nations who have yet to know. Ask for a heart of compassion for the lost as you pray.
Some prayers to consider as you pray for different people groups and nations.
Nehemiah’s Prayer in Nehemiah 1:4-11; Daniel 9:3-19
Step Five: Go to the Jerusalem Area and read over the biographies of missionaries in our area. Look over the maps and pray for the different areas as you are led. You may even want to touch the place on the map where you are praying. Think of those who live in these areas and let the Holy Spirit move you to pray with great tenderness and compassion
Step Six: Go to the Judea Area and read over the biographies and pray for the missionaries listed. Ask God to help you identify with them as you pray.
Refueling Station: Intercession is hard work and can be discouraging because of the spiritual warfare that takes place. If you need to be encouraged in your prayers you may want to go to the Promise Wall and read over some of the promises in prayer to find a refueling so you can pray with greater energy for the things God is directing you to pray for. You may even want to put some promises on the wall for others that you have found helpful that come directly from the Word of God.
For more refueling needs: Take a book on prayer form the table and read over a few pages or chapters. When you have found the joy in God to pray again take up where you left off.
Step Seven: Samaria Region: Pray for Laborers for the Harvest that God will send out more and more workers to reach the harvest before the end. Some selected Scriptures you may want to consider for this time are: Matt 9:35-38; II Peter 3:11-13; Revelation 7:9-10
Pray over the nation and think of the places you are praying over and let the Spirit of God lead you to pray prayers for those you will probably never meet. Bring your morning News paper to the Prayer Room when you pray.
Step Eight: The Uttermost Parts of the World: Go to the World Prayer map and read over the biographies of those who are missionaries we know and support by our prayers and our gifts.
Take the Progress of the Gospel by People Group and Line up the country you are praying for with the colored map and consider the needs of the gospel in each nation you are praying for.
Pray for the mission trips that are going out from our church to different areas of the world. Honduras this week with Roger and Mike Jessup
Step Nine: Prayer for the Persecuted Church. Take a good look at the map and consider where you most need to pray today. Read over one of the biographies in Voices of the Martyrs of Jesus Freaks Devotional Guide and take a moment and pray for those nations and people you know of who are persecuted.
Pray for our upcoming mission trip to Cuba in June and July as we go to minister to the persecuted Church there.
Step Ten: Go to the Evangelism Wall and pray for the names listed there that they may see the goodness of God and find their everlasting joy in Christ.
Step Eleven: Church Needs. Take a moment to thank God for his working in our Church. Ask him to continue to call out more laborers for the harvest and that he would supply whatever needs we have in order to do what he requires.
Think on this great quote: “God’s Work done in God’s Way will never lack God’s supply.” Ask the Father to give us whatever resources we need to finish the work He has called us to do here.
Step Twelve: Return to the Cross and consider what God is doing in this world to reach the nations who have yet to hear. You have prayed for laborers and now it is time for you to become an answer to your own prayer. Set your heart right with God as you prepare to leave this Upper Room of His presence and ask him to lead you to one person this week that needs to hear of Christ. Take a tract or a New Testament or a Bible with you and prayerfully consider God’s leading as you seek to give His Word to someone this next week.
Take a moment and rejoice in the goodness of God to you that He should call you to himself and allow you the privilege of spending this time with Him. Ask God to help you grow in this area of prayer that prayer will be your first response and not your last resort. Leave with a sense of his joy overflowing in your life and return here often.
Promises of Prayer: Genesis 25:21; I Samuel 1:27; II Kings 6:17; II Chronicles 7:13-16; Psalms 6:9; Psalms 39:12; Psalms 65:2; Psalms 66:19-20; Psalms 102:17; Psalms 141:2; Proverbs 15:8; Jeremiah 33:3; Matt 21:22; Mark 9:29; Luke 18:1-6; Philippians 4:6-7; Colossians 4:12; I Timothy 2:1-8; James 5:16-17; I Peter 3:12