The Fire for the Harvest

Prayer guide · six targets

Read the Scripture aloud, speak the declaration together, then pray the specifics by name. Where a line says “name,” say the actual name out loud.

1. Target 1

   The fire stays lit

   a fire for prayer in this house that does not go out when October ends.

   A fire shall always be burning on the altar; it shall never go out.

   Leviticus 6:13 (NKJV)

   not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer;

   Romans 12:11–12 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   The fire on the altar of Glory City Aiken is always burning. It shall never go out.

   We are not lagging in diligence. We are fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. We rejoice in hope, we are patient in tribulation, and we continue steadfastly in prayer.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the hour and the place of your own daily altar, and commit it to the Lord for November and December.
   • Name our pastors and leaders one by one, and declare each of them fervent in spirit.
   • Name one person in this church whose fire has gone low, and call them back to the altar.

2. Target 2

   Always pray, never lose heart

   endurance. A people who keep praying past the first week, the first delay and the first disappointment.

   Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart,

   Luke 18:1 (NKJV)

   And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?

   Luke 18:7–8 (NKJV)

   Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving;

   Colossians 4:2 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We always pray and we do not lose heart. We are His own elect, and we cry out to Him day and night.

   When the Son of Man comes, He will find faith in Aiken. We continue earnestly in prayer, vigilant in it, with thanksgiving.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the one request you stopped praying because it took too long. Pick it up again now, out loud.
   • Thank God by name for one prayer He has already answered this year.
   • Declare that the people on this line today are still on it on day 31.

3. Target 3

   A house of prayer

   that Glory City Aiken is known in this city first as a place where people pray and God answers.

   Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, And make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices Will be accepted on My altar; For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.

   Isaiah 56:7 (NKJV)

   And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”

   Matthew 21:13 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   This house shall be called a house of prayer. The Lord brings people to His holy mountain and makes them joyful in His house of prayer.

   Glory City Aiken is a house of prayer for all nations. Nothing else takes the place of prayer in this house.

   Pray it specific

   • Name our building and our address, and declare it a house of prayer.
   • Name each weekly gathering, Sunday first, and declare that prayer leads it.
   • Name the nations represented in our church, and declare them joyful in this house.

4. Target 4

   One accord

   the whole church praying together. Men and women, every household, the same request with the same voice.

   These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

   Acts 1:14 (NKJV)

   And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.

   Acts 2:42 (NKJV)

   Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church.

   Acts 12:5 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We all continue with one accord in prayer and supplication. We continue steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.

   When one of us is bound, constant prayer is offered to God for them by the church.

   Pray it specific

   • Name one household in the church that is not on this line, and call them into one accord with us.
   • Name the person among us who is in a hard place right now, and offer prayer for them as a church.
   • Name any offense between members, and declare it settled so our prayers agree.

5. Target 5

   Watchmen who do not go quiet

   intercessors set on the wall for Aiken and the CSRA, awake and at their post.

   I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; They shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the LORD, do not keep silent, And give Him no rest till He establishes And till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

   Isaiah 62:6–7 (NKJV)

   Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour? Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

   Matthew 26:40–41 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   The Lord has set watchmen on the walls. We shall never hold our peace, day or night. We make mention of the Lord and we do not keep silent.

   We watch with Him. We watch and pray, and we do not enter into temptation. He will not find this church sleeping.

   Pray it specific

   • Name your street, your school district and your workplace. That is your section of the wall.
   • Name the hour of the day you are weakest in prayer, and give that hour to Him.
   • Call out new watchmen by name: people who will take a set time each week to pray for the church.

6. Target 6

   Prayer that shakes the place

   results. Prayer in this church that is answered, followed by boldness with the word of God.

   And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

   Acts 4:31 (NKJV)

   Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

   James 5:16–18 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   When we pray, the place where we are assembled is shaken. We are all filled with the Holy Spirit, and we speak the word of God with boldness.

   Our effective, fervent prayer avails much. Elijah had a nature like ours. We pray earnestly, the heaven gives rain, and this land produces its fruit.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the one answer you are asking God for before October 31. Say it plainly enough that you will know when it comes.
   • Name the person you will speak the word of God to this week.
   • Close by thanking Him aloud that He has heard.