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

   Remember the prisoners

   believers in prison for their faith tonight, prayed for as if we were chained with them.

   Remember the prisoners as if chained with them—those who are mistreated—since you yourselves are in the body also.

   Hebrews 13:3 (NKJV)

   And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

   1 Corinthians 12:26 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We remember the prisoners as if chained with them, and those who are mistreated, since we ourselves are in the body also.

   If one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. We are one body with the persecuted church.

   Pray it specific

   • Name a nation where following Jesus is against the law.
   • Name a pastor or believer in prison, if you know one by name.
   • Name the families left at home without them.

2. Target 2

   Theirs is the kingdom

   joy and endurance for those reviled and attacked for His name.

   Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

   Matthew 5:10–12 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

   They rejoice and are exceedingly glad, for great is their reward in heaven.

   Pray it specific

   • Name those who have lost homes, jobs or family for following Jesus.
   • Name new believers from other religions who are being pressured to turn back.
   • Name anyone in our own church mocked or cut off for their faith.

3. Target 3

   Boldness to speak

   the persecuted church keeps preaching, with signs following.

   Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”

   Acts 4:29–30 (NKJV)

   and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

   Ephesians 6:19–20 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, by stretching out Your hand to heal.

   Utterance is given to them. They open their mouths boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the underground pastors and house church leaders, known to God by name.
   • Name the nation, and declare healings and signs in it.
   • Name where you have been silent with far less to lose.

4. Target 4

   Struck down, not destroyed

   no believer under pressure is crushed, forsaken or separated from His love.

   We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed—

   2 Corinthians 4:8–9 (NKJV)

   Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

   Romans 8:35–37 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   They are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed. Perplexed, but not in despair. Persecuted, but not forsaken. Struck down, but not destroyed.

   Nothing separates them from the love of Christ. In all these things they are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

   Pray it specific

   • Name those who are in hiding.
   • Name those who are wounded or grieving after an attack.
   • Name the refugees who have fled, and the places they fled to.

5. Target 5

   Chains loosed

   release. Prison doors opened and the afflicted delivered.

   But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed.

   Acts 16:25–26 (NKJV)

   Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the LORD delivers him out of them all.

   Psalm 34:19 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   At midnight they pray and sing hymns to God. The foundations of the prison are shaken, the doors are opened, and everyone's chains are loosed.

   Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the prison, the labor camp or the city.
   • Name the court case or the sentence that needs to be overturned.
   • Name the guards and fellow prisoners who are listening.

6. Target 6

   Those who persecute

   the salvation of persecutors, and overcoming faith for the church.

   But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,

   Matthew 5:44 (NKJV)

   And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

   Revelation 12:11 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We love our enemies. We bless those who curse us, and we pray for those who spitefully use us and persecute us.

   They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

   Pray it specific

   • Name a government or group that persecutes Christians, and pray for its leaders to meet Jesus.
   • Name a persecutor God turned, as He turned Saul, and ask Him to do it again.
   • Close by thanking Him aloud for the freedom we have to gather.