All Days
Use these resources to help pray specifically each day.
Muslims (and all people, really) care deeply about their outward appearance or reputation in the community. But Jesus cares about the person’s heart. Religion can change outward behavior but can’t change inward attitudes—only the Spirit of God can do that. Pray for the people of Nashville to be convicted about their need for a clean heart and to seek out Jesus’ teachings on the topic.
Each of us who comes to Christ must repent of and renounce every pact, promise, or identity we held before faith in Christ. Join us in praying for our brothers and sisters in Christ from a Muslim background as they repent of their former identity as Muslims. This prayer is inspired by chapter 7 and 8 of Liberty to the Captives by Mark Durie
We have the power of the Holy Spirit to reveal the truth. “But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth” (John 16:13).
Pray for all Christians, new and mature, from a Muslim background in Nashville to trust only the Holy Spirit to guide them into all truth and to obey whatever he says.
“Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good. Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other” (Rom 12:9-10).
Pray for hatred of wrong in communities throughout Nashville…not hatred of people, but hatred of evil.
Pray that communities would cling to and love what is good.
Ask that God’s spirit would help people honor one another and delight in one another.
Sometimes, as Christians, we are frozen by fear. Fear of persecution. Fear of rejection. Fear of losing something dear to us. Pray that God will give boldness and joy to Christians in Nashville as they ponder what God has done in their own lives.
Lord of community, we pray you would unmake the toxic ways of relating to one another in Nashville. So many negative patterns have been established! So many sins have been entrenched! The enemy has had his way for far too long. Do something miraculous, Lord.
We pray specifically for emerging churches, discovery groups, and new disciples. We ask you would teach them the Way of Christ–the alternative way that enables communities to flourish. Rescue them from toxic relating, and release a spirit of humility and reconciliation over all brothers and sisters in the Messiah.
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PRAISE
“You are the God who works wonders; you have made known your might among the [Nashville] peoples.” (Psalm 77:14)
KINGDOM COME
[Laborers in the Vineyard] “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.” (Matthew 20:1)
your ways are not our ways. We praise you for your generosity and ask that many in Nashville would enter your Kingdom, even up until the last hour of the day.
PRAY THE BOOK OF ACTS
“So on the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and they entered the audience hall with the military tribunes and the prominent men of the city. Then, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.” (Acts 25:23) Here Paul experienced Jesus’ words in Matthew 10:18, “and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the Gentiles”. In the same way, may the Nashville believers, when this happens, experience Jesus’ promise as it was for Paul, “do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given you in that hour.” (Matthew 10:19)
PRAY THE HALL OF FAITH
“By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.” (Hebrews 11:31) Thank you, Lord, for the reminder that no one is too far from your saving grace. We pray for many in Nashville, no matter their background, to be given new identities in Christ through faith.
PRAYER
Jesus, we pray for believers in Nashville to know how to obey your commands by going AND staying. https://zume.training/always-part-of-two-churches/
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