August 2010 Prayer Calendar

"Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart."
- Martin Luther

Pray

1 This month, our ministry's theme is Servant's Heart. Please pray that all the staff at Life Action will serve well, esteeming others as better than ourselves.

2 As our ministry leaders meet this week for development meetings, pray that they would grow in wisdom regarding their responsibilities and skills, for God's glory.

3 Ask God to convict us all of our sin and performance-based religion. Ask Him to give us a fresh realization that Christ is our wisdom, our righteousness, our sanctification, and our redemption.

4 Pray for provision and sustenance for our staff who live on support, as the summer months are often their leanest times financially.

5 Life Action desires to spread stories of how God changes lives. This will take significant provision from God through our donors. Pray that He would open the way to make this vision a reality.

6 Pray for the churches across America, that they would recapture the love they had at first and live out of the truths of the gospel like a beacon on a hilltop.

7 Ask God to pour out His Spirit anew on this nation, reviving the hearts of believers and awakening the lost to faith in Jesus Christ.

8 We have set aside the next six days for our annual Revival Week. As our entire staff seeks the Lord together, please pray that He would ignite a fresh passion in our hearts for nationwide revival.

9 Pray for Michael Catt, Kyle Martin, Dave Butts, and Josh Davis as they minister to us this week. Ask God to use them as messengers of His Word to our hearts.

10 As we meet again today for Revival Week, pray that our hearts would be sensitive to the Holy Spirit, and that we would set aside our agenda for His.

11 Thank God today for the trials and struggles you face. Thank Him for sustaining you by His grace and for helping you through each difficulty.

12 Pray for our nation's leaders today. Ask God to give them wisdom to make just decisions. Ask Him to direct their hearts as channels of water, to go wherever He desires.

13 Ask God to specifically raise up men who will live out the truth of Christ's gospel in their lives.

14 Ask the Lord to give women a hunger and thirst to know Him more, a longing for the beauty and wonder of true womanhood, and a desire to attend one of our two upcoming True Woman conferences.

15 Beseech the Lord for the Christians in our nation. Ask Him to expand our comprehension of God's holiness and our own sinfulness. Pray also that the good news of what Jesus did for us on the cross would sink deeper into our understanding, daily becoming sweeter and more profound.

16 As a new academic year begins this fall, pray for Collegiate Impact as they seek to spread the message of campus transformation to this generation of college students.

17 Pray for the people in your church who have children, whether young or fully grown. Ask God to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.

18 Today through Friday are the Revive Our Hearts Advisory Board meetings. Please pray for divine wisdom and direction as Byron Paulus, Nancy DeMoss, Greg Thornton, John Shelford, and Bob Lepine meet.

19 Ask God to grow a desire in the older generation to invest themselves in mentoring and discipling young people. Ask God to grow an appreciation in the younger generation for the experience and wisdom the older generation has to offer.

20 Thank God today for the mercy He has shown you, and for the grace He has given you in Christ Jesus.

21 Pray that God would stir up a giving heart within you and other believers, that we would be generous as Christ is and that we would invest in eternity more than in our own retirement.

22 Your pastor labors in keeping watch over your soul. Pray for him as one who will have to give an account to God for you. Ask the Lord how you can encourage him.

23 Think of two or three neighbors or co-workers who do not know the Lord. Pray that He would open their eyes to the truth of the gospel.

24 Pray for the children of men and women in prison. Pray that God would break the cycle of sin in their lives by His grace. Ask Him to work in the hearts of prisoners, that they would be receptive to the gospel as shared by fellow inmates, pastors, chaplains, and prison ministers.

25 Pray for Erwin Lutzer, pastor of Moody Church, as he prepares to share with our Board of Directors and entire staff tomorrow.

26 The Life Action Board of Directors' annual meetings are taking place today through Saturday. As the board members gather, please pray for wisdom for them as they seek to give godly counsel and direction to this ministry.

27 Our Board consists of Chuck Halford, Ron Whiteford, Bill Elliff, David Cooke, Jack Tompkins, Walter Price, David Cheney, Bobby Moore, John Shelford, Paul Redmon, and Byron Paulus. Pray for insight and discernment for these men as they meet today and tomorrow.

28 Pray for Laine and Janet Johnson and their family as they prepare to travel with the Red Team for another year of revival summit ministry. Pray for safety and strength as they minister in churches across the nation over the next nine months.

29 In our ministry's strategic plan, one of our important objectives is to become more movement-minded, going beyond being event-focused. Pray for wisdom and insight as we take steps in that direction.

30 The second year of Collegiate Impact's Jericho Partnership with Montana State University will start this fall. Pray for God to send a major spiritual breakthrough to this campus.

31 Pray that Christians throughout this land would be invigorated with the awe of what Christ has done in reconciling us sinners to a holy and righteous God, apart from our merits or performance and all by His grace.

Live

Humility involves recognizing my sinfulness, great need, and dependency.

Isaiah 57:15 says, "For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: 'I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.'"

When we begin to see God for who He really is, high and lifted up, holy and righteous and just, we will more clearly see who we really are—sinners who deserve nothing but wrath and condemnation.

But God has shown us mercy. He has poured out His grace on us through His Son Jesus Christ. Gaining a right view of God results in learning a right view of ourselves, which leads to humility before God and with each other.

Give

Have you ever given deeply of your resources or finances for the spiritual benefit of others—helping them to see Christ's love demonstrated in a material, tangible, supernatural way?

God's desire is that I be willing to be made materially poor, if necessary, in order that I or others might be made spiritually rich (2 Cor. 8:9). After all, that's exactly what He did for each one of us!

So how should we respond to this amazing grace that was shown to us? Ask yourself:

• Am I truly willing to live out this principle in my life?

• Would I be willing to do so if no one else would ever know I had done it?

• Have I ever applied this principle but then grumbled against God for not immediately meeting my perceived needs or desires?

• Are there any sacrifices on my part that might help to nurture my spiritual life?

• Are there any sacrifices on my part that might help others to be made spiritually rich?

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