Pray & Go: A 30-Day Prayer Journey based on the book by Thom S. Rainer
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Day 29, September 22: Time to go to thirty
Scripture: (There will be no designated scripture for today)
Notes:
If I had suggested early in this thirty-day challenge that you should go into your neighborhood and pray for thirty homes, you might have felt overwhelmed. You might have quit the challenge right then, deeming it too difficult. But you’re a challenge veteran now. You’ve seen how God will prepare a path for you. And you’ve learned that praying for ten homes is not only possible, it’s also pretty easy. So now your challenge is to go to thirty more homes. It doesn’t seem as intimidating now, does it? In fact, you can probably complete this challenge in under an hour. But what an incredible difference it will make. I get excited just thinking about how God will use you. This time, you’ll focus on a different pray for three groups of ten homes. For the first ten, pray for receptivity to the gospel. For the second group, pray that God will give them a desire to connect to a church. For the final ten homes, ask God to give the residents an unmistakable encounter with him. All of these prayers are connected, so God may answer your prayers in all three ways for some of the residents.
-Receptivity to the gospel – You are praying for the residents of the first ten homes to have receptive hearts.
-A desire for Christian community – You are praying specifically for these residents to have a desire to connect to a local church.
-Encountering God – Pray for a God moment for the residents of your third group of ten homes.
(Pray & Go, by Thom S. Rainer, pgs. 209, 210, 211, 212, 213)