A Year of Blessing
The sense that we were being called to learn to bless our local area began with a number of people, during the time of Prayer 24-7 people back in May. We were particularly inspired by a book called “The Grace Outpouring” by Roy Godwin & Dave Roberts about a retreat house which committed themselves to pray for blessing on their local area and saw great blessings in their little Welsh valley.
We are asking people who wish to to set aside 1 hour a week for 52 weeks to pray specifically for God to bless our area. If possible this hour should be at the same time every week. A basic structure for prayer is given below. Laminated menu cards for easy use and notes with areas for prayer (updated monthly) will be provided to help those who take part. If you would like to do this, or simply to find out more, please e-mail me on sally@tasvalley.org or phone 470762. We will start on Sun 29th January at the Gathering Service but you can join in at any time during the year.
AN HOUR OF PRAYER FOR
BLESSING
MENU CARD
Starter
Spend Some
time Praising God for who He is
and what He has done
Then pray about areas of your life
where you need to repent: Turn from
anything you know to be wrong and ask his forgiveness and for Him to fill you
afresh with His Holy Spirit.
Take time to quietly receive from God
His forgiveness, His love and His Spirit.
Main Course
Pray for blessing on the Tas Valley
Area and Norfolk using the framework overleaf and the month’s pointers
Desert
Pray for blessing on our nation and
the wider world including the Caleb Prayer
Coffee (optional)
The Caleb Prayer
O
High King of Heaven Hebrews 7.1; Ps 47
Have
mercy on our land 2 Chronicles 4.14
Revive
your Church Habakkuk 3.2
Send
the Holy Spirit Acts 2.33
For
the Sake of the Children Isaiah 49.25
May
Your Kingdom come to our Nation. Matthew 6.10
In
Jesus’ mighty Name John
14.13-14
Amen. So
be it!
Aaronic Blessing
(Numbers
6:24–26, NIV)
and keep you;
shine upon you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn His face toward you
and give you peace