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

   Lift up your eyes

   we see the harvest that is ready in Aiken now.

   Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

   John 4:35–36 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We do not say, “There are still four months.” We lift up our eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest.

   He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life. He who sows and he who reaps rejoice together.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the field in front of you: your street, your shift, your class.
   • Name three people in it who do not know Jesus.
   • Name the excuse that says “not yet.”

2. Target 2

   At Your word

   specific instructions from Jesus on where and how to let down the net.

   When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.” And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking.

   Luke 5:4–6 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We launch out into the deep and let down our nets for a catch.

   We have toiled and caught nothing. Nevertheless at Your word we let down the net, and we catch a great number.

   Pray it specific

   • Name where you have toiled and caught nothing.
   • Name the deep water: the place you have avoided going.
   • Name the instruction He has already given you that you have not acted on.

3. Target 3

   He who wins souls is wise

   wisdom and skill in soul-winning for every member.

   The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And he who wins souls is wise.

   Proverbs 11:30 (NKJV)

   Those who are wise shall shine Like the brightness of the firmament, And those who turn many to righteousness Like the stars forever and ever.

   Daniel 12:3 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise. We are wise.

   Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the last person you told about Jesus, and when.
   • Name what you need to learn in order to share your faith clearly.
   • Name someone in the church who wins souls, and ask to go with them.

4. Target 4

   By all means

   the right approach for each kind of person in this city.

   to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

   1 Corinthians 9:22 (NKJV)

   Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

   Colossians 4:5–6 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We become all things to all men, that we might by all means save some.

   We walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. Our speech is always with grace, seasoned with salt, and we know how to answer each one.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the groups in Aiken we are not reaching.
   • Name one new way this church could reach one of them.
   • Name the question unbelievers ask you that you cannot yet answer.

5. Target 5

   The Lord added daily

   steady, daily salvations, and those saved added to the church.

   praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.

   Acts 2:47 (NKJV)

   And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

   Acts 11:21 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   The Lord adds to the church daily those who are being saved.

   The hand of the Lord is with us, and a great number believe and turn to the Lord.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the number of salvations you are asking for by December 31.
   • Name those saved this year, and declare them planted.
   • Name who will follow up with a new believer this week.

6. Target 6

   Go out and compel them

   we go to them. The house filled.

   Then the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

   Luke 14:23 (NKJV)

   for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

   Luke 19:10 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, that His house may be filled.

   The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. We seek them with Him.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the person you will invite to church this Sunday.
   • Name the highways and hedges of Aiken: the places church people do not go.
   • Close by thanking Him aloud for the one He is saving today.