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

   We will not hide it from them

   every child in this church hears what God has done, from us.

   We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.

   Psalm 78:4 (NKJV)

   That the generation to come might know them, The children who would be born, That they may arise and declare them to their children, That they may set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep His commandments;

   Psalm 78:6–7 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We do not hide them from our children. We tell the generation to come the praises of the Lord, His strength and His wonderful works.

   The children who will be born arise and declare them to their children. They set their hope in God and do not forget His works.

   Pray it specific

   • Name every child and teenager in the church you know.
   • Name one work of God in your life that you will tell a young person this week.
   • Name those who teach our children and youth.

2. Target 2

   Let no one despise your youth

   young people who lead by example and are not afraid to speak.

   Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

   1 Timothy 4:12 (NKJV)

   But the LORD said to me: “Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’ For you shall go to all to whom I send you, And whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of their faces, For I am with you to deliver you,” says the LORD.

   Jeremiah 1:7–8 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   No one despises their youth. Our young people are examples to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith and in purity.

   They do not say, “I am a youth.” They go to all to whom He sends them, and whatever He commands them, they speak. They are not afraid, for He is with them.

   Pray it specific

   • Name a young person and the gift you see in them.
   • Name where that young person could serve in this church now.
   • Name the fear that keeps them quiet.

3. Target 3

   Remember your Creator

   salvation and clean living early, before the difficult days.

   Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, Before the difficult days come, And the years draw near when you say, “I have no pleasure in them”:

   Ecclesiastes 12:1 (NKJV)

   How can a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your word.

   Psalm 119:9 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   Our sons and daughters remember their Creator in the days of their youth.

   A young man cleanses his way by taking heed according to Your word. Our young people take heed.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the young people in your family who are not saved.
   • Name what is pulling them: the phone, the friends, the substance.
   • Name the middle schools, high schools and colleges of Aiken.

4. Target 4

   Sons and daughters filled

   the Holy Spirit poured out on the children and teenagers of this house.

   “And it shall come to pass afterward That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions.

   Joel 2:28 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   He pours out His Spirit on all flesh. Our sons and our daughters prophesy.

   Our old men dream dreams and our young men see visions, together in one house.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the young people who have not yet been filled with the Holy Spirit.
   • Name the next youth gathering, and declare the Spirit poured out on it.
   • Name an older person and a younger person who should be connected.

5. Target 5

   Trained in the way

   parents and the church doing the training together.

   Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.

   Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV)

   That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; That our daughters may be as pillars, Sculptured in palace style;

   Psalm 144:12 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   We train up our children in the way they should go, and when they are old they will not depart from it.

   Our sons are as plants grown up in their youth. Our daughters are as pillars, sculptured in palace style.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the parents of young children in this church.
   • Name the single parents, and declare help and strength for them.
   • Name one thing you will do to help train a child who is not your own.

6. Target 6

   One generation to another

   a handoff. The older generation still declaring, the younger receiving.

   One generation shall praise Your works to another, And shall declare Your mighty acts.

   Psalm 145:4 (NKJV)

   O God, You have taught me from my youth; And to this day I declare Your wondrous works. Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to this generation, Your power to everyone who is to come.

   Psalm 71:17–18 (NKJV)

   Declare together

   One generation shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts.

   You have taught us from our youth. Now also when we are old and grayheaded, we declare Your strength to this generation, Your power to everyone who is to come.

   Pray it specific

   • Name the oldest saints in this church, and thank God for them.
   • Name the future leaders of this church who are under 25 today.
   • Close by thanking Him aloud for the next generation.