30 Minute Prayer Challenge

Pray with one or more Christians, where you live, work and/or go to school for 30 minutes per week.

Gerard Long explains the 30DPC and briefly outlines his journey of suffering that preceded it.

Why

Because:

  • America desperately needs a great spiritual awakening – it’s our only hope!
    “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face (presence), and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” – 2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV)
  • Jesus commanded us to always pray. ( Luke 18:1, Ephesians 6:18, 1 Thessalonians 5:17, 1 Peter 4:7 )
  • It will encourage the Christian unity that Jesus prayed for ( John 17:21 & 23 ), which will prepare the way for a great awakening.

When and Where

An agreed time and place such as early morning or lunch time, in a home, conference room or office, community hall, school or other convenient venue.

How

Start with family and/or friends (e.g. husband and wife) and invite neighbors, work or school colleagues etc. See Guidelines.

What

Pray through the Lord’s Prayer and seek His face (His presence) – See prayer points below

Vision

A great awakening with prayer and outreach in every community, business, school and university campus. A great awakening sweeping across America and around the world like a mighty Tsunami wave.

Record your 30MPC group and/or interest by completing the segment below. In doing this, you will receive:

  • The guidelines in how to run the group;
  • The Lord’s Prayer divided into six segments;
  • Testimonies and best practice updates from across the country; and
  • Connections from people who are interested in joining a group in your neighborhood, workplace, school or university.

Guidelines

  • Keep it simple, be courageous – go for it!
  • Unity – pray with Christians in your community. Start with family (husband & wife), friends, neighbors etc. Ask God to for opportunities to invite others to pray.
  • Do the thirty-minute prayer challenge in addition to any other prayer you are doing.

… the rest of the guidelines will be sent to you when you record your 30MPC group/interest.

Pray through the Lord’s Prayer – spend 3/4 minutes on each section

1. Our Father in Heaven hallowed be your name. Thank and praise God for:

  • Being your loving Heavenly Father who deeply loves you.
  • He so loves us that He gave His only son to rescue us…!
  • His beauty as seen in creation – the sun, moon and stars, birds, animals etc.
  • His mercy and grace to human kind.
… the rest of the Lord’s Prayer will be sent to you when you record your 30MPC group/interest.

Record your 30MPC group/Interest

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  • other local Christians to join you in praying and planning for your community; and
  • the PATH state coordinator to connect with you, to see if he/she can serve you in any way.
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“Whenever God determines to do a great work, He first sets His people to pray” (C. Spurgeon). This reliable principle begs the question: “How does God mobilize his people to heartfelt prayer?” Most importantly, how does God move Christian leaders who shepherd His church to unite in fervent, persistent, biblically focused prayer for the fulfillment of His purposes? By two things mainly: 1) distress over the degradation of the church and the surrounding culture and 2) hope that God will pour out His Spirit on his church and fill it with His fulness until it overflows with transformative impact on society. Many believers are distressed at the current state of things. At the same time, there is much reason to hope for God’s divine intervention in response to passionate, biblically guided prayer.

Believers across America now mourn the debility of the church; its vitality is faltering, its impact fading, its mission neglected, and its devotion to God being undercut by love for this world. Right now we are enduring the largest and fastest religious shift in American history. Its scope is greater than every previous spiritual awakening in our history combined, only in the opposite direction. Christians are being confronted by “spiritual forces of evil” (Eph. 6:12) operating from the heavenly realms that boldly infiltrate every aspect of society, even the church. These dark powers aim to 1) frustrate God’s purpose to bless all peoples on earth through Christ with countless benefits, including righteousness, peace, joy, and justice, and 2)
inflict endless varieties of misery on everyone. When spiritual decline and cultural decay prevail, God’s people rise up to seek the Lord in prayer as the fountain of every blessing, asking him to fill the earth with his glory, pour out His Holy Spirit, inspire his church, and deliver people and cultures from innumerable troubles. Now is the time to pray with desperation for spiritual and cultural renewal, for divine intervention, for the fulfillment of God’s purposes for his church and his creation in Northeast Ohio.

Christian leaders, especially pastors, have a heightened responsibility to press into God with prayer for the church. Biblical precedent shows that gathering church leaders together to engage in heartfelt prayer for the welfare of their community often initiates widespread spiritual and social renewal both in church and society (2 Chron. 7:13-14; 15:8-10; 34:29-32). New Testament accounts show that when Christian leaders unite in prayer, often in response to social and/or spiritual crises, spiritual awakening and gospel advance follow (Acts 1:13-14; 2:1-4; 4:23-31; 13:1-3).

Jesus himself instills expectation of an outpouring of God’s Spirit in response to prayer with this promise: “If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” (Luke 11:13). Our Father in heaven is especially ready to pour out upon us the blessing we most need and long for, the very Spirit of God who imparts divine life, wisdom, and virtue.

With all this in mind, now is the time for Christian leaders across Northeast Ohio to come together to seek the Lord with biblically grounded, Christ-directed, wholehearted prayer for a God-given spiritual awakening. The trumpet of God is blaring! He is calling us to pray! Join Christian leaders from across our region to humble ourselves, seek the Lord’s face, and be willing to respond through His intervening grace to any changes He calls us to make! (Psalm 110:3)

The Gathering is an extension of the nationwide PATH (Prayer at the Heart) initiative piloted recently in Northeast Ohio. Put The Gathering on your calendar: Sunday, September 24, 6 pm, Calvary Chapel of Cleveland, 709 Brook Park Road, Brooklyn Heights, OH.