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

   Write it down

   obedience from everyone God has told to write.

   “Thus speaks the LORD God of Israel, saying: ‘Write in a book for yourself all the words that I have spoken to you.

   Jeremiah 30:2 (NKJV)

   Then the LORD answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it.

   Habakkuk 2:2 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   Thus speaks the Lord God of Israel: “Write in a book for yourself all the words that I have spoken to you.” We write.

   We write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the book: its title or its subject.
   • Name everyone in this church who is writing or has been told to write.
   • Name the day and hour you will write this week.

2. Target 2

   The pen of a ready writer

   words that flow. Clarity, order and a good theme.

   My heart is overflowing with a good theme; I recite my composition concerning the King; My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

   Psalm 45:1 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   Our hearts are overflowing with a good theme. We recite our composition concerning the King.

   Our tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the chapter you are stuck on.
   • Name the one thing the book must say about the King.
   • Name the distraction that eats your writing time.

3. Target 3

   For the generation to come

   books that outlive us and reach people not yet born.

   This will be written for the generation to come, That a people yet to be created may praise the LORD.

   Psalm 102:18 (NKJV)

   “Now therefore, write down this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for Me against the children of Israel.

   Deuteronomy 31:19 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   This will be written for the generation to come, that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.

   We write it down and teach it, and we put it in their mouths.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the reader you are writing for.
   • Name your children and grandchildren who will read it.
   • Name the testimony that will be lost if no one writes it.

4. Target 4

   Filled with skill

   the craft. Writing, editing, design and translation done well.

   And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,

   Exodus 31:3 (NKJV)

   Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.

   Ecclesiastes 9:10 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   He has filled us with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship.

   Whatever our hand finds to do, we do it with our might.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the skill you lack: structure, grammar, editing, technology.
   • Name the editor, designer or translator the book needs.
   • Name the cost of producing it, and declare it supplied.

5. Target 5

   Complete the doing of it

   manuscripts finished. No more half-written books.

   but now you also must complete the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to desire it, so there also may be a completion out of what you have.

   2 Corinthians 8:11 (NKJV)

   for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

   Philippians 2:13 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We complete the doing of it. As there was a readiness to desire it, so there is a completion out of what we have.

   It is God who works in us both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the date you will finish the draft.
   • Name how many pages or chapters remain.
   • Name the person who will hold you to it.

6. Target 6

   The word runs swiftly

   publishing and distribution. Books in the hands of the people who need them.

   The Lord gave the word; Great was the company of those who proclaimed it:

   Psalm 68:11 (NKJV)

   Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run swiftly and be glorified, just as it is with you,

   2 Thessalonians 3:1 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   The Lord gave the word. Great was the company of those who proclaimed it.

   The word of the Lord runs swiftly and is glorified.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the door: the publisher, the printer, the platform.
   • Name the nations and languages the book should reach.
   • Close by thanking Him aloud for the books already written among us.