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

   Whole households saved

   every blood relative of every household represented in this church.

   So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

   Acts 16:31 (NKJV)

   And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

   Joshua 24:15 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and we are saved, we and our households.

   We choose this day whom we will serve. As for us and our houses, we will serve the Lord.

   Pray it specific

   • Name every person living under your roof.
   • Name your parents, brothers and sisters, one at a time.
   • Name the relative who seems furthest from God.

2. Target 2

   Prodigals come home

   sons and daughters who have walked away from the Lord and from the family.

   “And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

   Luke 15:20 (NKJV)

   Thus says the LORD: “Refrain your voice from weeping, And your eyes from tears; For your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD, And they shall come back from the land of the enemy. There is hope in your future, says the LORD, That your children shall come back to their own border.

   Jeremiah 31:16–17 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   Our sons and daughters arise and come home. While they are still a great way off, the Father sees them, has compassion, and runs to them.

   There is hope in our future. Our children shall come back from the land of the enemy. They shall come back to their own border.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the prodigal in your family and where they are living now.
   • Name what took them: the relationship, the substance, the offense.
   • Name the day you last spoke with them, and declare the next conversation.

3. Target 3

   Hearts turned to one another

   reconciliation between fathers and children, and between relatives who no longer speak.

   And he will turn The hearts of the fathers to the children, And the hearts of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”

   Malachi 4:6 (NKJV)

   He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

   Luke 1:17 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   The Lord turns the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.

   He turns the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, and makes ready a people prepared for the Lord in our families.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the father or mother you need to forgive.
   • Name the child you need to go to.
   • Name the family split, the two people in it, and declare it healed.

4. Target 4

   Children taught by the Lord

   the children and grandchildren of this church, kept and contended for.

   All your children shall be taught by the LORD, And great shall be the peace of your children.

   Isaiah 54:13 (NKJV)

   But thus says the LORD: “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, And the prey of the terrible be delivered; For I will contend with him who contends with you, And I will save your children.

   Isaiah 49:25 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   All our children are taught by the Lord, and great is the peace of our children.

   The Lord contends with him who contends with us, and He saves our children.

   Pray it specific

   • Name each child and grandchild, with their age.
   • Name the school each one attends and the friends who influence them.
   • Name the thing that is contending for your child, and declare the Lord contends with it.

5. Target 5

   The promise to the generations

   salvation running down the family line to those not yet born.

   For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

   Acts 2:39 (NKJV)

   But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting On those who fear Him, And His righteousness to children’s children, To such as keep His covenant, And to those who remember His commandments to do them.

   Psalm 103:17–18 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   The promise is to us and to our children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.

   The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children's children.

   Pray it specific

   • Name your family name, on both sides.
   • Name the pattern that has run through your family, and declare it ends with you.
   • Name the relatives who live far away, by city and state.

6. Target 6

   The Lord builds the house

   homes where the Word is spoken daily and the Lord is the builder.

   Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain.

   Psalm 127:1 (NKJV)

   “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

   Deuteronomy 6:6–7 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   The Lord builds our houses, and we do not labor in vain. The Lord guards our homes.

   His words are in our hearts. We teach them diligently to our children. We talk of them when we sit in our houses, when we walk by the way, when we lie down and when we rise up.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the time your household will pray together this week.
   • Name the married couples in the church, and declare their homes built by the Lord.
   • Close by thanking Him aloud for your family by name.