August 2011 Prayer Calendar

“From strength, patience, and endurance, to protection, health, and finances, every work and every worker involved in the Great Commission needs bathed in prayer.”
— Leah D. Farr

1 Revive Our Hearts asks that you cover their coming True Woman revive ’11 conference in Indianapolis (November 4–5) with your prayers. Pray that women’s ministry leaders, pastors’ wives, teachers, and small group leaders will attend this event designed to help revive their passion to serve other women.

2 Begin praying that God will prepare speakers Crawford Lorritts, Nancy Leigh DeMoss, and Susan Hunt for the upcoming True Woman revive ’11 conference in Indianapolis. Also pray for singer/songwriter Fernando Ortega, who will lead the worship.

3 This spring, Revive Our Hearts hosted a forum of 50 leaders of women’s ministries. God’s hand was very evident on the time this group spent in discussion and prayer. Pray that God would raise up godly women to teach, encourage, and lead other women as Titus 2 directs.

4 Several of this year’s traveling road team members are children of Life Action staff or alumni. Thank God with us for the work He has done in raising a new generation with a passion for revival.

5 Thank God with the Revive Our Hearts staff for over $300,000 recently given to help meet operating expenses. Continue to pray that God will supply what is needed for the daily radio programs and their support and expansion.

6 Tomorrow, all of our staff, their families, and the road team members will join together at the Life Action Camp for our annual Revival Week. Pray that our hearts will be prepared to hear and obey as God speaks to us.

7 Please intercede for the outside speakers, musicians, and facilitators who come alongside us this week to challenge us from God’s Word. Ask God to clearly direct their words to us.

8 Ask God to meet deeply and specifically with our ministry leaders this week as they join in concentrated times of seeking Him. Ask Him to prepare them for the work ahead.

9 Pray that our staff will come together in great brokenness and unity before Christ this week as we meet for several hours each morning to seek Him as a body.

10 Especially intercede today for the heads of families in our ministry, that they would have pure hearts, insight into the needs of their families, and God’s power for leadership.

11 Pray for the spouses and children of staff members, that they would benefit greatly from Revival Week, entering into the fall schedule with renewed energy and passion to obey God.

12 Ask God to do His work this week in our single staff and team members, meeting their deepest needs through His Word and the ministry of His Spirit.

13 Pray for the visitors who have joined us for Revival Week this year, asking God to work in their hearts through this “divine appointment” with Him.

14 Pray that the work God has done in our staff’s lives during this past Revival Week will spread to individuals, families, and churches in our community, influencing many to walk closely with Christ.

15 Please pray for Christian leaders Darryl Craft, Bill Elliff, Dan Jarvis, and James Pool as they partner with Life Action in our coming OneCry initiative, with the purpose of calling large numbers of intercessors and leaders in an organized way to seek the Lord for national revival.

16 Life Action provides a 12-week study workbook, Seeking Him, that takes individuals through the same revival principles that are shared in our summits in churches across the nation. Pray that many will engage in this study, resulting in powerfully changed lives.

17 We thank God for the many ladies who have been able to attend the recording of Revive Our Hearts broadcasts on site at our National Ministry Center. Pray for the capacity to include even more women in these times.

18 Many resources may be found on LifeAction.org that provide education and deep insight into the subject of revival. Pray that many will visit our website and grow in knowledge and vision regarding this vital subject.

19 The latest edition of Revive magazine was delivered earlier this summer to homes and churches across America. Pray that God will use this issue on Living Generously to soften and change many hearts.

20 Ask God to give grace, wisdom, and necessary resources to the Life Action Lodge staff—Ken, Jane, Tom, Roz, and Jeff—as they begin their fall ministry schedule.

21 Cover Nancy Leigh DeMoss and the Revive Our Hearts staff with your prayers as they diligently prepare for their fall ministry schedule.

22 The Life Action Camp staff has been on call 24/7 throughout this summer’s Family Camps and Staff Training. Ask God to give them the energy and resources needed to finish the summer well and be prepared for fall ministry.

23 Our National Ministry Center staff needs your prayers as they perform the crucial creative and support roles that enable our messengers to communicate the message of revival to individuals, families, churches, and nations.

24 Pray for Dave and Renae and for Wesley and Gina, the couples who staff Collegiate Impact, as fall campus ministry begins soon.

25 Our Ministry Partner Development staff are those individuals and families who have been accepted to join Life Action and are now raising their prayer and financial support teams. Pray that they may join us quickly.

26 Life Action staff welcomes hundreds of our alumni for a fortieth reunion celebration this weekend. Pray that our guests will be greatly blessed, ministered to, and encouraged with a fresh vision for revival in our nation.

27 Dave Warn will be taking Collegiate Impact’s message of igniting hearts and transforming campuses to Albania these next four days. Pray for Dave as he speaks several times to the Campus Crusade for Christ staff in this formerly atheist nation.

28 Pray for Life Action’s Board of Directors as they meet in Bay Harbor, Michigan, to give insight and direction to our leadership staff.

29 Cover our Board of Directors with your prayers today: David Cheney, David Cooke, Chuck Halford, Byron Paulus, Walter Price, Paul Redmon, John Shelford, Jack Tompkins, and Mark Vroegop.

30 Pray for our Road Team Ministry team families as they pack their fifth-wheel trailers, preparing to leave town in a few days for a new year of ministry in churches across our nation. Pray for God’s power and presence to guard and guide them this year.

31 Our nation desperately needs to be broken before God; our leaders and citizens need to cry out to Him and seek His face. Pray that God would capture our people’s hearts and send national revival.

Live

Picture it: In place of cheering fans filling the pro football stadium nearest you, your neighbors—on their knees, crying out to God—fill a spot in front of every folding chair. Sunday morning, your local movie theater barely has an empty seat, as residents of the town crowd into it—to pray. Your favorite stores are closed at noon, to give the employees an hour for prayer.

“That could never happen,” you think. But these things have happened. The key component involves priorities. When men and women tune their priorities to God’s, it’s no surprise when similar scenarios manifest themselves.

In a New York City revival, theaters indeed became packed houses of prayer. During the 1857 Fulton Street Prayer Revival, stores began closing at noon so people had an hour to pray. The following quotes are from Dr. Campbell Morgan:

“Here is revival that comes from heaven. Everybody is preaching. It moves from day to day, county to county, with the order of an attacking force. I nearly wept over the singing! Wales is ablaze for God, already 50,000 converts have been recorded. It is sweeping over hundreds of villages and cities, emptying saloons, theaters and dance halls, filling the churches night after night with praying multitudes. Go where you will; into the bank; the store; the trains. Everywhere men are talking about God” (excerpts from The Bright and Shining Revival by Kathie Walters).

Give

When an individual’s—and even a nation’s—priorities mirror God’s, their giving is affected! Can you picture your pastor announcing one morning, “The elders have voted to suspend taking offerings for the summer, because we have more finances and resources than we can possibly use”?

“Yeah, right,” you smirk. “That may not qualify as science fiction, but it comes pretty close.”

But Scripture tells us in Exodus 36, “They received from Moses all the contribution that the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning, so that all the craftsmen who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task that he was doing, and said to Moses, ‘The people bring much more than enough for doing the work that the LORD has commanded us to do.’ So Moses gave command, and word was proclaimed  throughout the camp, ‘Let no man or woman do anything more for the contribution for the sanctuary.’ So the people were restrained from bringing, for the material they had was sufficient to do all the work, and more” (vv. 3-7).

These were the same Israelites, or their friends and relatives, who had worshiped the golden calf a few chapters before! Even if you are not living in a revived nation, you can still give from revived priorities. Are you? Will you?

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