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

   Gifts that differ

   every member knows their gift and uses it.

   Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

   Romans 12:6–8 (NKJV)

   As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

   1 Peter 4:10 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We have gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, and we use them: prophecy, ministry, teaching, exhortation, giving, leading and mercy.

   As each one has received a gift, we minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

   Pray it specific

   • Name your gift.
   • Name where you are using it now.
   • Name someone whose gift is sitting unused.

2. Target 2

   Stir up the gift

   dormant callings awakened, and fear removed.

   Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

   2 Timothy 1:6–7 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We stir up the gift of God which is in us.

   God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the ministry God gave you that you laid down.
   • Name the fear that made you lay it down.
   • Name the first step you will take this week to pick it up.

3. Target 3

   Fulfill your ministry

   every ministry represented among us finishes its assignment.

   And say to Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you may fulfill it.”

   Colossians 4:17 (NKJV)

   But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

   2 Timothy 4:5 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We take heed to the ministry which we have received in the Lord, that we may fulfill it.

   We are watchful in all things. We endure afflictions. We do the work of an evangelist. We fulfill our ministry.

   Pray it specific

   • Name each ministry represented in this congregation, one by one.
   • Name the person who leads each one.
   • Name what each needs most right now: workers, money, direction, rest.

4. Target 4

   Equipped for the work

   leaders who equip, and saints who do the work of ministry.

   And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,

   Ephesians 4:11–12 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers.

   They equip the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. The saints of Glory City Aiken are equipped and at work.

   Pray it specific

   • Name our pastors and those who equip us.
   • Name the training you need for what you are called to do.
   • Name someone you could equip.

5. Target 5

   An open door

   doors opened for each ministry that no one can shut.

   “I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name.

   Revelation 3:8 (NKJV)

   For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

   1 Corinthians 16:9 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   He has set before us an open door, and no one can shut it. We have kept His word and have not denied His name.

   A great and effective door has opened to us, and though there are many adversaries, we go through it.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the door: the invitation, the venue, the partnership, the permit.
   • Name the adversary standing at it.
   • Name the ministry that has been waiting longest for a door.

6. Target 6

   Many members, one body

   individual ministries that strengthen this house and never compete with it.

   There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:

   1 Corinthians 12:4–7 (NKJV)

   But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.

   1 Corinthians 12:18 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. The manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all.

   God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. He has set us here.

   Pray it specific

   • Name where your ministry and this church serve each other.
   • Name any competition or comparison in your heart, and put it down.
   • Close by thanking Him aloud for each ministry by name.