21 Day Prayer Guide

Focus Forgiveness Unity 21 days of prayer

DAY 1

Focus.

Some things in our lives are beyond our control. But where we give our focus is a choice.

We give it to what (or who) our lives revolve around. Over the next week, take serious inventory of what takes up the greatest share of your thoughts and time.

Re-centering to the Holy One as your focal point will bring deep meaning and peace into your day to day life. You may be surprised.

DAY 2

Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face, And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, In the light of His glory and grace.

- Helen Howarth Lemmel -

DAY 3

COLOSSIANS 3:2 SET YOUR MINDS ON THINGS THAT ARE ABOVE, NOT ON THINGS THAT ARE ON EARTH. O GOD BE ALL MY LOVE, ALL MY HOPE, ALL MY STRIVING: LET MY THOUGHTS AND WORDS FLOW FROM YOU, MY DAILY LIFE BE IN YOU, AND EVERY BREATH I TAKE BE FOR YOU. - JOHN CASSIAN

DAY 4

PSALM 86:11 TEACH ME YOUR WAY, O LORD, THAT I MAY WALK IN YOUR TRUTH; UNITE MY HEART TO FEAR YOUR NAME. O GRACIOUS AND HOLY FATHER, GIVE US WISDOM TO PERCEIVE YOU, DILIGENCE TO SEEK YOU, PATIENCE TO WAIT FOR YOU, EYES TO BEHOLD YOU, A HEART TO MEDITATE UPON YOU, AND A LIFE TO PROCLAIM YOU, THROUGH THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. BENEDICT OF NURSIA

DAY 5

JEREMIAH 29:13 YOU WILL SEEK ME AND FIND ME, WHEN YOU SEEK ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART.

DAY 6

I look to you, I look to you After all my strength is gone In you I can be strong I look to you, I look to you And when melodies are gone In you I hear a song I look to you - Selah -

DAY 7

DAY OF REST

SABBATH IS NOT DEPENDENT UPON OUR READINESS TO STOP. WE STOP BECAUSE IT IS TIME TO STOP - NOT BECAUSE WE ARE FINISHED. SO I [GOD] GIVE YOU THIS COMMANDMENT: REMEMBER TO REST. THIS IS NOT A LIFE-STYLE SUGGESTION, BUT A COMMANDMENT – AS IMPORTANT AS NOT STEALING, NOT MURDERING, OR NOT LYING. REMEMBER TO PLAY AND BLESS AND EAT WITH THOSE YOU LOVE, AND TAKE COMFORT, EASY AND LONG, IN THIS GIFT OF SACRED REST. - WAYNE MULLER -

DAY 8

FORGIVENESS WE DON’T DESERVE IT, BUT WE’VE BEEN GIVEN IT. AND YET OUR TRUE SELVES TEND TO HAVE A HARD TIME DISPENSING IT. THE STRUGGLE IS REAL, BUT WE MUST BECOME BETTER AT FORGIVENESS. IF WE ARE TO TRANSFORM THE WORLD ONE RELATIONSHIP AT A TIME, IT BEGINS BY RESTORING WHAT IS BROKEN & STRAINED BETWEEN US, BY SEEKING AND OFFERING FORGIVENESS. FORGIVENESS ISN’T GIVEN BECAUSE IT IS DESERVED. TO THE CONTRARY, IT IS A PROFOUNDLY UNDESERVED TANGIBLE ACT OF LOVE, MERCY AND GRACE PERFECTLY MODELED FOR US AT THE CROSS.

DAY 9

PRAYER OF CONFESSION

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

MOST MERCIFUL GOD, WE CONFESS THAT WE HAVE SINNED AGAINST THEE IN THOUGHT, WORD, AND DEED, BY WHAT WE HAVE DONE, AND BY WHAT WE HAVE LEFT UNDONE. WE HAVE NOT LOVED THEE WITH OUR WHOLE HEART; WE HAVE NOT LOVED OUR NEIGHBORS AS OURSELVES. WE ARE TRULY SORRY AND WE HUMBLY REPENT. FOR THE SAKE OF THY SON JESUS CHRIST, HAVE MERCY ON US AND FORGIVE US; THAT WE MAY DELIGHT IN THY WILL, AND WALK IN THY WAYS, TO THE GLORY OF THY NAME. AMEN.

DAY 10

I JOHN 2:1-2 MY LITTLE CHILDREN, I AM WRITING THESE THINGS TO YOU SO THAT YOU MAY NOT SIN. BUT IF ANYONE DOES SIN, WE HAVE AN ADVOCATE WITH THE FATHER, JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS. HE IS THE PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS, AND NOT FOR OURS ONLY BUT ALSO FOR THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD.

BEAUTIFUL [CHILDREN] OF THE MOST HIGH PRIEST, YOUR TEARS ARE WELCOME AT THE THRONE OF GRACE. YOUR QUESTIONS AND HOPES AND HURTS ARE WELCOME BEFORE YOUR KING. IT IS NOT THE THRONE OF CONDEMNATION AND HE IS NOT A MERCILESS DICTATOR. JESUS IS YOUR ADVOCATE, YOUR BROTHER — AND HE SITS READY TO RECEIVE YOU EVEN NOW. GO. - AMANDA WILLIAMS

DAY 11

PSALM 103:12 AS FAR AS THE EAST IS FROM THE WEST, SO FAR DOES HE REMOVE OUR TRANSGRESSIONS FROM US.

DAY 12

FATHER, WHEN YOU FORGIVE SINS, YOU SEPARATE THEM AS FAR FROM US AS THE EAST IS FROM THE WEST, BURY THEM IN THE BOTTOM OF THE DEEPEST SEA, AND PUT UP A SIGN FOR THE DEVIL THAT SAYS, NO FISHING. - CORRIE TEN BOOM

DAY 13

I am Condemned No More No more guilt, no more shame, no more thinking I can't change Who I was is dead and gone, who I am is moving on Saved by grace held by love because of what your cross has done You pulled away the prison doors Hallelujah God I am condemned no more - Josh Wilson -

DAY 14

DAY OF REST

MATTHEW 11:28 COME TO ME, ALL WHO LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST.

DAY 15

Unity does not mean sameness.

It means oneness of purpose.

- Priscilla Shirer -

DAY 16

1 PETER 3:8 FINALLY, ALL OF YOU, HAVE UNITY OF MIND, SYMPATHY, BROTHERLY LOVE, A TENDER HEART, AND A HUMBLE MIND. UNIFYING LOVE IN THE BODY OF CHRIST INCLUDES A RUGGED COMMITMENT TO DO GOOD FOR THE FAMILY OF GOD WHETHER YOU FEEL LIKE IT OR NOT. BUT, AS DIFFICULT AS IT IS FOR DIVERSE PEOPLE, THE EXPERIENCE OF CHRISTIAN UNITY IS MORE THAN THAT. IT INCLUDES AFFECTIONATE LOVE, NOT JUST SACRIFICE FOR THOSE YOU DON’T LIKE. IT IS A FEELING OF ENDEARMENT. WE ARE TO HAVE AFFECTION FOR THOSE WHO ARE OUR FAMILY IN CHRIST. - JOHN PIPER -

DAY 17 1 CORINTHIANS 12:12 FOR JUST AS THE BODY IS ONE AND HAS MANY MEMBERS, AND ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE BODY, THOUGH MANY, ARE ONE BODY, SO IT IS WITH CHRIST.

I can do things you cannot.

You can do things I cannot.

Together we can do great things.

- Mother Teresa -

DAY 18

WE ARE ONE IN THE SPIRIT

PETER SCHOLTE

WE ARE ONE IN THE SPIRIT, WE ARE ONE IN THE LORD. WE ARE ONE IN THE SPIRIT, WE ARE ONE IN THE LORD. AND WE PRAY THAT ALL UNITY MAY ONE DAY BE RESTORED. WE WILL WORK WITH EACH OTHER, WE WILL WORK SIDE BY SIDE. WE WILL WORK WITH EACH OTHER, WE WILL WORK SIDE BY SIDE. AND WE’LL GUARD EACH MAN’S DIGNITY AND SAVE EACH MAN’S PRIDE. WE WILL WALK WITH EACH OTHER, WE WILL WALK HAND IN HAND. WE WILL WALK WITH EACH OTHER, WE WILL WALK HAND IN HAND. AND TOGETHER WE’LL SPREAD THE NEWS THAT GOD IS IN OUR LAND. AND THEY’LL KNOW WE ARE CHRISTIANS BY OUR LOVE,

BY OUR LOVE, YES THEY’LL KNOW WE ARE CHRISTIANS BY OUR LOVE.

DAY 19 ROMANS 15:5-7 MAY THE GOD OF ENDURANCE AND ENCOURAGEMENT GRANT YOU TO LIVE IN SUCH HARMONY WITH ONE ANOTHER, IN ACCORD WITH CHRIST JESUS, THAT TOGETHER YOU MAY WITH ONE VOICE GLORIFY THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. THEREFORE WELCOME ONE ANOTHER AS CHRIST HAS WELCOMED YOU, FOR THE GLORY OF GOD.

DAY 20

ONE

BY FAITH CHURCH WORSHIP

WE ARE CALLED TO ONE BODY UNITY IN LOVE THROUGH THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT COME AND MAKE US ONE STRENGTHENED BY THE LIVING CHRIST ONE HOPE ONE FAITH ONE GOD WE PRAISE ONE CHURCH, ONE NAME ONE VOICE, WE RAISE SEEING CHRIST IN EACH OTHER; HIS HUMILITY WALKING OUT HIS CALLING FIRM AND FAITHFULLY THIS IS FAR BEYOND OUR REACH AS HUMAN HANDS ATTEMPT BUT WITH HOLY HANDS, YOU, GOD PULL US OUT FROM OUR CONTEMPT AND NOW WE’RE ONE, WE ARE ONE WE CAN BE ONE, WE ARE ONE

DAY 21

DAY OF REST

EXODUS 23:12A SIX DAYS YOU SHALL DO YOUR WORK, BUT ON THE SEVENTH DAY YOU SHALL REST.

The Lords Prayer Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.

Amen.

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