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

   No other gods

   nothing in our lives holds the place that belongs to God.

   “You shall have no other gods before Me.

   Exodus 20:3 (NKJV)

   Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

   1 John 5:21 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We have no other gods before Him.

   We are His little children, and we keep ourselves from idols.

   Pray it specific

   • Name what you think about first in the morning and last at night.
   • Name what you could not bear to lose.
   • Name what you turn to for comfort before you turn to God.

2. Target 2

   Search me

   the Holy Spirit shows each of us what we have not been willing to see.

   Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.

   Psalm 139:23–24 (NKJV)

   “Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and put before them that which causes them to stumble into iniquity. Should I let Myself be inquired of at all by them?

   Ezekiel 14:3 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   Search us, O God, and know our hearts. Try us and know our anxieties. See if there is any wicked way in us, and lead us in the way everlasting.

   No idol stays set up in our hearts. No stumbling block stays before our faces.

   Pray it specific

   • Be silent for one minute and let Him answer. Name what He shows you.
   • Name the thing you defend when someone questions it.
   • Name where your time and money went this week.

3. Target 3

   Turning from idols to serve the living God

   real turning. Idols put away and a new heart given.

   For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

   1 Thessalonians 1:9 (NKJV)

   Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

   Ezekiel 36:25–26 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We turn to God from idols to serve the living and true God.

   He sprinkles clean water on us and we are clean. He cleanses us from all our filthiness and from all our idols. He gives us a new heart and puts a new spirit within us.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the idol and say aloud, “I turn from this.”
   • Name the object, account, app or relationship you need to remove today.
   • Name the person you will tell, so you are not doing this alone.

4. Target 4

   First love

   love for Jesus restored to first place in this house.

   Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.

   Revelation 2:4–5 (NKJV)

   Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

   Matthew 22:37 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We remember from where we have fallen. We repent and do the first works. We return to our first love.

   We love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul and with all our mind.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the season when you loved Him most, and what you did then.
   • Name one first work you will take up again this week.
   • Name Glory City Aiken, and declare first love over the whole house.

5. Target 5

   God or mammon

   money, possessions and covetousness lose their hold on our people.

   “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

   Matthew 6:24 (NKJV)

   Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

   Colossians 3:5 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We do not serve two masters. We serve God, and we do not serve mammon.

   We put to death covetousness, which is idolatry.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the purchase, the debt or the income goal that has been ruling you.
   • Name what you have been unwilling to give.
   • Name the thing you envy in someone else's life.

6. Target 6

   Whom have I in heaven but You

   affection. A church whose treasure and desire is God Himself.

   For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

   Matthew 6:21 (NKJV)

   Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You. My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

   Psalm 73:25–26 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   Where our treasure is, there our hearts are also. Our treasure is in Him.

   Whom have we in heaven but You? There is none upon earth that we desire besides You. God is the strength of our hearts and our portion forever.

   Pray it specific

   • Name three things about God that you love.
   • Name what you will put in the place the idol held: an hour, a habit, an offering.
   • Close by telling Him aloud that you love Him.