Prayer Points and Scriptures from Prayer Room Field Trip

Slide One - Thanksgiving

•       Thank God for the way He treats you with respect and that He desires and gives genuine love.

•       Thank God for the freedom that He offers us and that through this freedom we can experience true love, goodness and joy.

•       Listening Prayer:  Jesus, show me more things that I can be thankful for today.   

•       Gal. 5:1 (NIV)  It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

•       John 8:36 (NIV) So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

•       Rev. 3:20 (NIV) …I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.

Slide Two – Personal Prayer (Confession)

•       Listening Prayer:  Jesus, what does being a godly wife and mother look like in the home, with my kids and with my husband?

•       Listening Prayer:  What does “carry their own load” mean for me?

•       Listening Prayer:  Jesus, where am I striving to make a good impression instead of striving to please You? 

•       Gal. 5:22-23 (NIV) ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

•       Gal. 6:5 (NIV) …for each one should carry their own load.

•       Gal. 6:12 (NIV) ¹² Those who want to impress people by means of the flesh are trying to compel you to be circumcised. The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Slide Three - Personal Prayer

Listening Prayer: It can be hard to love people who have been hurtful towards us.

–      Ask the Lord to show you a time in your life where someone was hurtful towards you

–      Ask Him to show you how this made you feel

–      Ask Him to show you any lies that you believed about this person

–      Ask Him to show you the truth about this person

–      Ask Him to show you how he feels about this person

–      Ask Him to show you how you can forgive and show love to this person

•       Psalm 147:3 (NIV) He heals the broken-hearted and binds up their wounds.

•       Psalm 34:18 (NIV) The Lord is close to the broken-hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

•       Luke 6:37b (NIV) Forgive others, and you will be forgiven

•       Luke 23:34a (NIV)  Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.

Slide Four Personal Prayer

•       Listening Prayer:  Jesus, speak to me about how I love.  How can I grow in demonstrating love to my family more? How am I to love other Christians and people in my community more?

•       Prayer:  Pray that you would grow in valuing love, which is the currency of Heaven.  Pray that you would make a determined decision to love as Christ loved.  Pray that you would pursue real genuine love instead of selfish love or weak love that enables others.

•       Romans 12:9-11 (NLT) ⁹ Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them… ¹⁰ Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other. ¹¹ Never be lazy, but work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically.

•       Gal. 5:14 (NIV)  For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Slide Five - Families

•       Thank God for the husband that He blessed you with. Thank Him for knowing all things past, present and future and in that divine knowledge putting you and your husband together.

•       Listening Prayer: Ask God to show you 2-3 practical ways your husband supports you (domestic duties, financial, etc.).  Thank God for these things.

•       Thank Him for each of your children (by name) asking Him to show you 1 amazing personality trait He gave to each of them.  

•       Eph. 5:33 (NLT) …the wife must respect her husband.

•       James 1:17 (NIV) Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

•       Psalm 127:3 (ESV) Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Slide Six - Husbands

•       Pray for your husband’s heart to be softened towards the Lord, that He would desire God’s ways and obey the Lord, walking in His truths.

•       Pray for your husband to have an undivided heart, one that surrenders fully to God.

•       Pray for your husband to have a deeper revelation of Christ’s love towards him which would become a reality in his life. 

•       Listening Prayer:  Jesus, what else should I pray for my husband?

•       Psalm 86:11-13 (NIV) ¹¹ Teach me your way, Lord, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. ¹² I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever. ¹³ For great is your love toward me; you have delivered me from the depths, from the realm of the dead.

Slide Seven - Children

•       Pray for your children to grow up to love the Lord with all their hearts, souls, minds and strength. Pray that out of this fiery passionate love for God that they would hate evil. 

•       Pray for your children to receive the light of truth from God, exposing lies and deception in our culture and leading them to righteousness, joy and rejoicing.

•       Listening Prayer:  Jesus, what else can I pray for my children?

•       Mark 12:30 (NIV)  Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.

•       Psalm 97:10-12 (NIV) ¹⁰ Let those who love the Lord hate evil, for He guards the lives of His faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked. ¹¹ Light shines on the righteous and joy on the upright in heart. ¹² Rejoice in the Lord, you who are righteous, and praise His holy name.

Slide Eight - Marriages

•       Pray for a spirit of unity and oneness between husbands and wives; for selfless love to grow. 

•       Pray for forgiving hearts and short accounts.

•       Pray for deeper levels of intimacy/romantic love to be experienced by husband and wives.

•       Pray that Christ would become the foundation that marriages are built upon.

•       Pray for perseverance and steadfastness in marriages; that they would weather the storms that life brings.

•       Mark 10:8-9 (NIV) …the two will become ‘one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. ⁹ Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

•       Gal. 5:13b (NIV) …serve one another humbly in love.

•       Eccl. 4:9-12 (NIV) ⁹ Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: ¹⁰ If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. ¹¹ Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? ¹² Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.