Day 10

Welcome to Day 10 of the 21-Day Prayer Challenge.

We invite you to join us for 21 days of intentional prayer. Check here every day for prayer prompts for this challenge. We are excited to see what God does through prayer.

Prayer Prompt:
Pray for the staff at Ignite.

Prayer:
Dearest Lord Jesus, Today we lift up the staff at Ignite. Fill them with Your joy, wisdom, and reminders that Your Presence goes with them. Give them opportunities for rest and refreshment. Bless their families with Your love, grace, and protection as they do the work You have called them to do. There is always the threat of attack from the enemy when Your people do work that brings You glory. Bless the work of the church staff, and use their different areas of giftedness to help Your people grow in faith, hope, truth, and love. Keep their eyes focused on the church’s primary goal: to lead people to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. Continue to bless the ministry team at Ignite with harmony and love for one another. Lord, inspire them as they create, uphold them as they serve, and give them discernment as they lead. Enable them to minister with genuine care and empathy, reflecting Your love to every person who enters the doors at Ignite.
In Your holy and mighty Name, we pray, Amen.

Prayer Truth:
 “The truth about prayer will set you free. Prayer is the means by which you will be freed from your earthbound, timebound thinking to participate in eternity. True prayer releases His power so that His power can accomplish immeasurably more than we can ask or even imagine.”  (From the book Live A Praying Life by Jennifer Kennedy Dean.)

If we believe that the purpose of prayer is for all of our requests and desires to be met, prayer will inevitably disappoint and discourage us. Not only that, but we will miss the true power of prayer. Prayer brings God’s power down to earth. He could do that any way He wants to; He doesn’t need us to do that! But God desires that we join Him in accomplishing His plans and purposes here.

Scripture:
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1 Peter 4:10-11 (ESV)