Pray & Go: A 30-Day Prayer Journey based on the book by Thom S. Rainer

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Day 30, September 23: The end is but the beginning

Scripture: Philippians 1:9-11

Notes:

You’ve done it! You’ve made it to the final day of your thirty-day challenge. Let’s review some of your accomplishments.
-You prayed for fifteen days specifically for areas to make you a more effective Great Commission Christian.
-You delved into five Bible passages that encouraged you toward the Great Commission.
-You obeyed the command to go to sixty homes and pray for the residents.
-You wrote five letters or emails of encouragement.
-You asked God to heal any broken relationship in your life.
-You invited eight people to your church.

Ask God to continue his work in your life to make you a Great Commission Christian.
-Pray for those who received your letters or emails.
-Pray for the residents of the homes. Over the past month, you have walked to or driven by sixty homes and prayed for the residents. If we assume an average of four people in each home, you prayed for 240 people as you walked by their homes. That is incredible! Take time to pray for the people in those homes.
-Pray for your own heart and actions. Pray that you will give priority to those things that are God’s priorities. Pray that your heart will break from the things that break the heart of God.
-Pray for your church. Take time today to pray for your church. Pray for your pastor. Pray for the volunteers and staff. Pray that your church would be a Great Commission force in your community. And pray that the community would be open as members from your church engage them with the gospel.
-The end that becomes the beginning.

Yes, it is the end of the thirty-day challenge. But I hope you will come back to it again and again. I hope your will sign and date every day of the challenge multiple times. The Great Commission is not just another program in the church or another activity for you to check off. It is a command from Jesus, and it should be a way of life for all believers.
(Pray & Go, by Thom S. Rainer, pgs. 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220)