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

   Grow up into Him

   believers at Glory City Aiken who are no longer children in the faith.

   till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—

   Ephesians 4:13–15 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

   We are no longer children, tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine. Speaking the truth in love, we grow up in all things into Him who is the head, Christ.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the area where you are still a child: temper, money, offense, discipline.
   • Name the person who tells you the truth in love, and thank God for them.
   • Name the wind of doctrine that has been tossing people in our region.

2. Target 2

   From milk to solid food

   a taste for the deep things of God and the discernment that comes with use.

   as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby,

   1 Peter 2:2 (NKJV)

   But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

   Hebrews 5:14 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We desire the pure milk of the word, and we grow by it.

   Solid food belongs to us. By reason of use, our senses are exercised to discern both good and evil.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the last thing the Lord taught you that stretched you.
   • Name those who have been saved less than two years, and declare steady growth over them.
   • Name a situation where you need discernment this week.

3. Target 3

   A Bride made ready

   a church without spot or wrinkle, clothed in righteous acts.

   Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.” And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

   Revelation 19:7–8 (NKJV)

   Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

   Ephesians 5:25–27 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   The marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready. We are arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright.

   Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her. He sanctifies and cleanses us with the washing of water by the word, and presents us to Himself a glorious church, holy and without blemish.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the spot: the one habit you know does not belong on the Bride.
   • Name a righteous act you will do this week that no one will see.
   • Name Glory City Aiken, and declare her glorious.

4. Target 4

   Fruit that remains

   character. The fruit of the Spirit visible in how we treat one another.

   But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

   Galatians 5:22–23 (NKJV)

   By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

   John 15:8 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   The fruit of the Spirit in us is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

   Our Father is glorified in this, that we bear much fruit. So we are His disciples.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the fruit you are shortest on right now.
   • Name the person who tests that fruit in you, and bless them.
   • Name the leaders and volunteers of this church, and declare this fruit in them.

5. Target 5

   He finishes what He starts

   no one in this church stalls halfway. Every person presented complete in Christ.

   being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;

   Philippians 1:6 (NKJV)

   Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

   Colossians 1:28 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We are confident of this very thing: He who has begun a good work in us will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

   We preach Him, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, and we present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the work God began in you that feels unfinished.
   • Name someone who started strong and has drifted.
   • Name one person you are responsible to disciple.

6. Target 6

   Rooted in love

   a people grounded so deeply in the love of Christ that nothing moves them.

   that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

   Ephesians 3:17–19 (NKJV)

   As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

   Colossians 2:6–7 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   Christ dwells in our hearts through faith. We are rooted and grounded in love. We know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, and we are filled with all the fullness of God.

   As we have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so we walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith and abounding with thanksgiving.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the place where you doubt His love for you.
   • Name someone in the church who is hard for you to love.
   • Close by thanking Him aloud for what He has grown in you this year.