HARVEST BAPTIST CHURCH PRAYER DIARY — SUNDAY MORNING SERVICE TIMES 9:00 & 10:45 A.M.

MONDAY—EVANGELISTIC PRAYER TUESDAY—FOCUS ON CHRIST’S LIFE WEDNESDAY—REVIVAL PRAYING

Chronological Bible Reading: 2 Kings 24-25; 2 Chronicles 35; Jeremiah 52 Chronological Bible Reading: Jeremiah 41-44 Chronological Bible Reading: Obadiah; Psalms 82-83
Monday, August 20 Tuesday, August 21 Wednesday, August 22
Neh. 2:4 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed John 13:1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was Dan. 9:23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I
to the God of heaven. come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in am come to show thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider
the world, he loved them unto the end. the vision.
Lord God of Heaven:
Like Nehemiah, for months I have prayed about ruined walls in my life and Loving Lord and Gracious Master: O Lord and Holy Father:
in other’s. Day and night, their soul is written on my heart—even painted on my What a fact for my faith to claim! What you were and are—what you were to To what can I liken the pleadings of Daniel? He thundered and lightninged
eyelids. With one single absorbing passion, I pray like Nehemiah did. you lived with on earth—you will be to me, and to all your children today. But here at the gates of heaven with his prayers. He stood before God Almighty and said,
His was not the prayer that stands knocking at mercy’s door. His was the is the wonder: it says, “having loved.” That you should ever have loved me is a “You brought me here like you brought Jacob to the Jabbok river. I intend to stay
concentration of many knocks into one battering-ram. It was prayed in the space miracle. What was there in your poor apostles that you should even love them? But all night, and wrestle with you till break of day. I will not let go, unless you bless
between the king’s question and his own answer. It was an interval not long enough then, what is there in us? What is there in me? me.”
to be noticed, but long enough to pray exclamatory prayer—long enough to seek Lord, I thank you! Because once you start to love it is in your nature to keep Lord I need an answer; help me have a fervent prayer. If my prayer time with
and receive guidance on what to say. This is prayer in an electronic flash! This is on loving. Love made us “his own.” What a title! You purchased me with your blood you is not fervent it will not be effective, just like James 5:16 says.
praying intuitively, yet it is prayer that prevails with God. and I became your treasure. Get rid of icicles around my lips! Thaw the caves of my soul. Make my heart
In the innermost shrine of my temple, in the holy of holies of my own secret § Being your own, you will not lose me like a furnace of fire heated seven times hotter. If my heart does not burn within,
soul, there do I desire to pray. Not just now, but every opportunity. Not just on § Being your beloved, you will not stop loving me I might as well question whether Jesus is with me at all.
my knees, but in my heart. Not just the first task of a day, but all day. Short and And you did it Lord, “to the end.” Even as your body dropped bloody sweat Oh, for a mighty cry! Oh, for a prevailing petition! Oh, for a heaven-shaking
silent, prayer on the spot that hits the spot. There and then (with the boss’s coffee in the garden, and dripped-out your life on the cross, you loved! That ruling-passion supplication! Oh, for a prayer that will make the gates of heaven finally open
cup in my hand!) let me pray to the God of heaven before I answer any opportunity reigned in your heart until the very last beat. wide—a cry that your arm cannot resist!
to witness. Let me be direct and intense with you. Which also means you will love me to the uttermost! You could not love Give us this week a cry of saints knit-together in love, and filled with
I know who I am praying to: the God of heaven. I do not draw the weapon more than to love me to your last breath. And having loved me to your last breath, the Holy Ghost. Throw a stone in the stagnant pool, and bring the waves of
to shoot at random. I must go straight to God. Teach me Lord, to estimate rightly you will love me on to perfection. Your love will bring me all the way to completion revival over my heart, to your church, and around my acquaintances.
the value of exclamatory prayer as evangelistic prayer—the prayer of the in the image of Jesus Christ! Truly you lavish perfect love on me. There is no un- Days of refreshing will only come in your presence. I will now say in
moment, the prayer du jour. Let me get a little bit of prayer—shoved in sideways— wisdom or unfaithfulness in your actions toward me, because there is neither fault your sight, that even if you do not please to hear me at the beginning, it is my desire
between any opportunity and my reaction. A mere fragment of devotion, it is more nor flaw in your love—and no reservation! to wait on you, until you do. If you still remain hidden behind the mountains of
than enough to call the God of heaven down to earth to intervene. In this I rejoice Such is the love of Jesus to each one of his children. Let me sing to my Well- my day, yet will I wait for you like the morning Sun. But tarry not, O Lord. Make
for Jesus’ sake and for his will. Amen. beloved my praises today. Amen. haste, O my beloved. I ask it in the full authority of Jesus’ name.
FRIDAY— CORPORATE PRAYER MINISTRY SATURDAY—IN THE PSALMS
A DAILY PATTERN FOR PRAYER & BIBLE READING Chronological Bible Reading: Jeremiah 49-50 Chronological Bible Reading: Jeremiah 51; Psalms 137
Chronological Bible Reading: Jeremiah 45-48 Friday, August 24 Saturday, August 25
Thursday, August 23
Isa. 2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's Psa. 22:22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation
† Rom 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and will I praise thee.
received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. all nations shall flow unto it.
Eternal Lord and Master:
THE love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell; Almighty God and Heavenly Father: This is the Psalm of the cross. It shows your thoughts at a time when you
It goes beyond the highest star, and reaches to the lowest hell; Make it true! Words like these kindle hopes for revival. Our church has were friendless and totally spent, like water poured on the ground. The first Adam
The guilty pair, bowed down with care, God gave His Son to win; become a city set on I-70 that cannot be hid, and in the last year we have sent made us all naked, and the last Adam was stripped in shame so he could clothe our
His erring child He reconciled, and pardoned from his sin. servants to all parts of the country. But Lord, do something special with us in these, souls with his righteousness. Your heart failed as your whole being was made a
the last days. Make us what we were meant to be in your Eternal Purpose! sacrifice, like a drink offering poured out to God. Holy Spirit, help me pause to
When hoary time shall pass away, and earthly thrones and kingdoms fall, Isa. 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain view his wounds right now.
When men who here refuse to pray, on rocks and hills and mountains call, of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will And even so, let my thoughts (like Jesus’s did), return to delight in your
God’s love so sure, shall still endure, all measureless and strong; walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from church. How much am I blessed because you are not ashamed to call me
Redeeming grace to Adam’s race—the saints’ and angels’ song. Jerusalem. “brethren.” Even on the cross you anticipated happiness in communion with your
Work a desire for God in the hearts of multitudes in this city and our schools! people. Make it so for me, as I bear my cross and follow you today, because therein
Could we with ink the ocean fill, and were the skies of parchment made, Give them intense dissatisfaction with their life (or lifelessness). Make them willing is the fellowship of your sufferings.
Were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade; to worship you. Let them become anxious to hear what we teach. Make them want The best method for me to show thankfulness for salvation is to tell others
To write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry; to learn, and quick to practice, for this is true discipleship. what the Lord has done. Give me boldness to do so today. I mention my sorrows
Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky. Isa. 2:8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that often and quickly enough; why should I be so slow to declare my salvation?
which their own fingers have made: Psa. 22:26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek
Oh, love of God, how rich and pure! How measureless and strong! Sin is the reason people do not get saved. They set something up in the him: your heart shall live for ever.
It shall forevermore endure—the saints’ and angels’ song. way, in the place of God. Lord, help us and heal us. Make the spirit of apathy flee I find a feast in Jesus. Let me feed on him today. I was famished Lord, until
away from us, and give even the lost a heart-cry to be saved! you gave yourself for me. Now I find bread to the satisfaction of my soul. Let me
—Frederick M. Lehman, 1917 Isa. 2:10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for worship with all my heart the God who deals so bountifully with me in the grace
the glory of his majesty. of Jesus Christ. Jesus has provided for joy, for good times, and for comfort in
š What a rebuke to our indifference. Come out of your secret place and revive
us again, for we plead with you these promises! Amen.
bearing the cross. Amidst all the disasters of my life, you still reign! Make that to
be seen by everyone, for so I ask it in Jesus’ name. Amen.

† Focus Verse (keep a Promise Journal as you read!)—Prayer Diary link available online at http://www.hbcbluesprings.org/prayer-diary/
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H O W T O BU I L D A B A L AN C ED L I FE T H I S W E EK ’ S C AR E PR A YE R L I ST PR A Y ER D I AR Y

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1) TIME—WORSHIP
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¨ INTERCEDE WI TH GOD ¨ INSTR UCT SAINTS
Mark 1:35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and Bereavement ¨ PROMPT PETITIONS ¨ KICKSTAR T DE VOTION
departed into a solitary place, and there prayed. Bill Powers – father, Frank Powers

Pray for Members, Family & Friends

GIVE GOD THE FIRST PAR T OF EVERY DAY. The first commitment is
to a daily quiet time with God. Our weekly Prayer Diary provides a template for daily Ken & Lori Applegate - health issues INSTRUCTIONS:
Connie Gilbert - sister, Larry Washington
devotions.
Pastor William & Lillie McClendon
Leona M Brown - mother, Luther & Sharon Brown Baptists tend to ridicule liturgical churches that use "prepared prayers" because
2) TITHE—WORK
Nathaniel Armstrong - husband, Sallie Armstrong they lack spontaneity. But for many Baptists, their prayers are so predictable they are
Jim Rumple - Brother of Lin Tonty no more spontaneous than written-out prayers. The result is we end up praying the
1 Cor 16:2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God Dr Bill & June Phillips Dorothy Williams same things over and over.
hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. Laschon Haley-Northington Linda & Carl Reeds
Debra Oden - aunt, Eunice Tooley Herschel Cox This daily Prayer Diary will prompt you on a wide range of prayer requests you
Kade Hatcher, son - Christina Harcher Sue & Larry Nelson might not normally think of, while forcing you to articulate a deeper devotion to God.
GIVE GOD THE FIRST DIME OF E VERY DOLLAR—no questions We have included a daily Bible reading schedule. This plan will take you through the
asked. Ten percent is a miniscule amount in our affluent society, but it must come Evelyn Cline - mother, Connie Smith Larry Franklin
Mary Young - mother, Connie Milbern Scott Brown Bible chronologically in a year.
off the top in order to show that God is our priority. We want the blessing of the
firstfruits (first devotion, first dime and first day) to flow out to the rest of our David Laird - son in law, Marilynn Duckett Dale Alley Do not read ahead and do not try to catch up. Use each day as it comes. Then
resources. Mary Ann Fong -mother, Tracie Guffey you can know that on any given day, dozens of other people are lifting their hearts in
Erica Stogsdill - daughter in law of Gene & Brenda Stogsdill the same mind to God. Pray what is written, but use what is prayed as a springboard
3) TEAM—WORD Marilyn Ley - grandmother, Heather Osborn for your own relationship with God. You learn to pray by praying.
Ray Hooten - father, Sharen Johnson
Marsha Shackelford - sister, Lin Tonty —Alan
Heb 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; Stacy Roth - niece, Lin Tonty
but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Leslie Johnson – niece, Larry Washington
Judy Cook
GIVE GOD THE FIRST DAY OF E VERY WEE K. You should fellowship Dave Hill Secret prayer is the secret of prayer, the soul of prayer, the seal of prayer, the
with a group of believers around the word of God every Sunday in our church. Sadonna Devaney strength of prayer. If you do not pray alone you do not pray at all. Our Lord Jesus
Christ would go nowhere till He had prayed. He would attempt nothing till He had
Soft Touch (Cancer Treatment) prayed.
QUALITY CHRISTIANITY INVOLVES THREE THINGS Donna Tuescher
§ Keeping Christ at the center (your core relationship of worship to God) Linda Brown -sister, Ronnie Starks “Oh,” says one, “I live in the spirit of prayer, and therefore I do not need times
§ Keeping the body of Christ a priority (your congregational relationship of Pat Mullinex -mother, Jeff Mullinex and seasons for prayer.” And do you think that Christ did not live in the spirit of
walking with us) Holly Aceves -daughter, Mary Lou Aceves prayer? Yet He had to have his special time and place to pray. Do not fall under the
§ Basing beliefs and actions on the mind of Christ (your church relationship in Alfred Boyd -family, Chelsa Bright injurious notion that because your spirit cries to God in prayer all day long, therefore
the Word) Barbara Koons - sister, Dave Rosetti there must not be some season for more immediately coming into God’s presence. If
Grant Stoner - uncle, Jessica Buckallew you imagine this, I am afraid that it will prove a snare to your feet. The Lord Jesus
Tameka Bedell - friend of Starks family Christ, who knew better than you do that the main thing is the spirit of prayer rather
Carole Jones - mother, James Jones than the act of prayer, yet Himself retired into desert places to maintain the act and
Sara Zwahlen - friend of Kay Brockmeyer exercise of prayer. Be spiritual. Be baptized into the spirit of prayer. But do not be
Camille Trapasso - stage 4 liver cancer deceived by the enemy, who can steal a spirit away while we dream that we only
Brittany Nieves - niece, Jim & Lin Tonty spiritualize it. We had better preserve the very bones of prayer—the posture, the
Martha Gaskin - niece, Dave Hill time, place—rather than let it all ooze away into an impalpable mental condition.
God keep us prayerful. He will do so if He makes us like His dear Son.
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