Day 1: 90 Days of Prayer Blog

This being my first blog experience, I want to track my prayer habits and the answers that God provides.  My small group is going through When God's People Pray, and I am doing a seperate prayer workshop app on my droid.  All to often we pray for things, we get answers and we thank God or we forget to thank God.  But all too often when talking to someone about prayer and how God answers all prayers, its hard to remember all the examples.  So as an encouragement to others and to myself I start on this 90 day prayer journey for no other reason than to thank God for all the things He has done and will continue to do in my life.

So what is my part?
1.  Confess and receive forgiveness for any sin, including unforgiveness, doubt, unbelief, fear and    anything else that might be between me and God (1 John 1:9).
2.  List my prayer requests.  Phil 4:6
3.  Take authority over the enemy. 2 Chron 25:8
4.  Pray in detail, and ask for God's will.
5.  Place my trust in His specific promise.
6.  Thank God and praise Him for what He is doing according to His will.  (Phil 4:6)

Day 1: The first thing I lifted up in prayer to God was to forgive me of my sins.  I confessed them to him because I do not want anything to stand between God and I.  I prayed for forgiveness of my unforgiveness, hatred, doubt, pride, fear and any unconfessed sin.

Specific Prayer request for me:  My biggest prayer request is that God will prepare our finances for our upcoming student loans that we have to begin paying in March, 2012.  Currently there is no money in the budget for it and I don't know where it will come from.  I am praying specifically that God will bless my sales for the next 6 months that will provide the commissions to pay off some current debt to put me in a position to start paying off my debt.

I am also praying that God will show me His power through this process and that will use it for His glory and not mine.  I am praying for the marriage of Kelly who is new in my small group that you will reconcile it and praying for Mark and his job.  I pray that God will bless Mark in his faithfulness to Him and provide him with unseen income as he is in sales too.

I'm praying for our small group that as we continue through When God's people pray study that we will increase our prayer life and see God work in ways that we have never seen before.

Praying for the people of Peru that we were able to see and share the saving grace of God's mercy with.  Praying that the men who committed their life to the Lord will step up and be leaders of their church even when it is unpopular.


Finally, I'm praying specifically for my wife and I that through this process of learning more on prayer that our prayer life both together and individually will be strengthened and will grow.

Lord I take authority over the enemy and I pray that You will overhtrow and overturn the works of the darkness and all those principalities.  I place my trust in You and Your promises and I know that you will answer according to Your word and Your will.  I thank you Lord and give you praise for all things that you have done and will do each and everyday in my life.  Help me to be a vessel to share your saving grace and the power of prayer that you supply to each believer.

Its in the name of Jesus Christ that I ask all these things.  Amen.

I'm praying for all that read this and hope and pray it is an encouragement for your life.

In Christ,
James