At the School of Ministry, we have been teaching our company of believers how to effectively step into a realm of worship, prayer, and fasting. 

Over the past 6 months, we have been gathering every week to seek the face of God and intercede for our local area in Bardstown. I can tell you that building a company of people who can pray, rather than sit in a house, is the actual skill and mission.

Do you know how many believers don't know how to sit and pray? This is why we do what we do. 

Recently, the LORD instructed us to teach and equip others on the heart of prayer within the home. You'd be so surprised at how many families and couples do not pray together, let alone pray for their own neighborhood. However will drive hours away to a church meeting or conference. Somehow, as the church, we have lost touch with who we are and what we do on this earth. 

This prayer that I am going to share is not the all in all, however, I use it as a simple foundational prayer that starts to stir me up and leads me wherever the LORD takes me. 

Pray This With Us 

Father, I praise and thank you for placing me here in this neighborhood, on this street, in this house/apartment. I acknowledge that your plans and purposes for me are perfect and that you have placed me here that I might participate in your plan for this neighborhood. 

• Open my eyes to see where you are at work and help me to eagerly enter into prayer on your assignments.
• May Jesus be seen in me, the very light of His presence, in the way I acknowledge and greet others, and reach out to those around me. 
• May the presence and power of the Holy Spirit be poured out on my dwelling place, drawing those around me to yourself. 
• Open the eyes of the hearts of those I encounter and make them hungry to know you. 

I pray your blessing over the street where I live [call out the name of the street] and over the places where I purchase goods and food. (Pause and pray for places where you visit and purchase goods, by name.) Open blind eyes! Set captives free! May Jesus be revealed to the hearts of those all around me. 

Help me to minister your love and compassion to all whom I encounter. Use me, I pray that my life might be woven into the grand tapestry of your perfect plan for my neighborhood and this city, that I might have a part in spiritual harvest from this place!

In Jesus' name. Amen.

Search The Scriptures: Psalm 33:10-11, Psalm 139:16, Psalm 25:12-13, Psalm 107:10-16, Psalm 18:28, Ephesians 1:18, 2 Corinthains 4:4, 1 John 3:18, 1 John 4:7-12