Day 18 of 31 · Sunday, October 18
2027
How to pray today
- Keep it short: pray for 3 to 5 minutes at most. A short prayer prayed with faith is enough.
- Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join the call and pray together. Every voice counts, so don't hold back.
- Read the Scripture aloud, pray the prayer below, then add your own words for the day's theme.
Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 43:19 (NKJV)
Read more: Psalm 65:11; Proverbs 16:9
Pray
Lord, we give You 2027 before it starts. Order our steps, prepare us for what You are doing, and crown the year with Your goodness.
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.
Target 1
Our times are in His hand
the whole year, January through December, placed in God's hand before it begins.
My times are in Your hand; Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, And from those who persecute me.
Psalm 31:15 (NKJV)So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Psalm 90:12 (NKJV)Declare together
Our times are in Your hand.
You teach us to number our days, and we gain a heart of wisdom.
Pray it specific
- Name the month of 2027 that concerns you most, and why.
- Name the dates already on your calendar: births, weddings, moves, graduations.
- Name what you will stop doing in 2027.
Target 2
His plans, our steps
plans for 2027 that begin with Him.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11 (NKJV)A man’s heart plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.
Proverbs 16:9 (NKJV)Declare together
The Lord knows the thoughts He thinks toward us: thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give us a future and a hope.
Our hearts plan our way, and the Lord directs our steps.
Pray it specific
- Name your plan for 2027 in one sentence.
- Name the part of that plan you have not prayed about.
- Name the future and the hope you are asking for your family.
Target 3
A new thing
what God wants to do in 2027 that He has not done among us before.
“Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 43:18–19 (NKJV)Declare together
We do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. He does a new thing. Now it springs forth, and we know it.
He makes a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert for Glory City Aiken in 2027.
Pray it specific
- Name the former thing you need to stop looking back at.
- Name the wilderness: the place with no road yet.
- Name the new thing you believe He is starting in this church.
Target 4
He crowns the year
provision and goodness on this land and this church from the first day of the year to the last.
You crown the year with Your goodness, And Your paths drip with abundance.
Psalm 65:11 (NKJV)a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.
Deuteronomy 11:12 (NKJV)Declare together
You crown the year with Your goodness, and Your paths drip with abundance.
The eyes of the Lord our God are always on this land, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.
Pray it specific
- Name the need the church must have met in 2027, in a number if you can.
- Name the land: our property, our city, our county.
- Name one way you saw His goodness in 2026.
Target 5
Write the vision
the vision for 2027 written plainly, so the whole church can run with it.
Then the LORD answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.
Habakkuk 2:2–3 (NKJV)Declare together
We write the vision and make it plain, that he may run who reads it.
The vision is for an appointed time. It will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, we wait for it. It will surely come.
Pray it specific
- Name the vision for your household in 2027, and write it down today.
- Name our pastors as they write the vision for the house.
- Name what you have waited for that is still coming.
Target 6
He goes before us
courage. No one in this church enters 2027 in fear.
And the LORD, He is the One who goes before you. He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed.”
Deuteronomy 31:8 (NKJV)Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13–14 (NKJV)Declare together
The Lord is the One who goes before us. He is with us. He does not leave us nor forsake us. We do not fear, and we are not dismayed.
Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, we press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Pray it specific
- Name the fear you are carrying about next year.
- Name the goal you are pressing toward.
- Close by thanking Him aloud that He is already in 2027.