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Every Town, Every City, Every County
Every town, city, and county in America needs to have a prayer observance for our nation on the upcoming National Day of Prayer on Thursday, May 3, 2018.
According to the most recent census, there are 19,510 incorporated places in the United States including cities, towns, and villages. There are 3,142 counties including county equivalents in the United States.
America Needs to Be Saturated with Prayer
America needs to be saturated with prayer on Thursday, May 3. From small towns to state capitals to Washington, DC, as Christ followers, we should do all we can to pray for our nation on this special day.
Saturating America in prayer can only happen on this significant day when prayer gatherings for our country are occurring in businesses, churches, homes, county courthouses, and on the steps of city halls across America. Our vision and strategy should be so big that every town, every city, and every county in America has prayer for our nation occurring on this day.
This will only happen when the leaders living there determine to work together to pray for our nation. This will only occur when denominations and non-denominational churches determine to pray together for our nation on this day.
It is not too late to make this happen in your town, city, or county on Thursday, May 3. Leadership makes things happen and leadership forwards great vision involving all kinds of people working together for a common goal.
Join me in making sure that every town, city, and county is saturated in prayer for our nation on the National Day of Prayer on May 3.
Participation Precedes Saturation in Prayer
Participate with us on the National Day of Prayer. You can participate by making sure that your town or city and the county you live in has a prayer observance for our nation on May 3.
This week, go online, make some calls, and see where a National Day of Prayer experience is occurring near you. You can go to our website at nationaldayofprayer.org and see registered events near you. While some know to register their prayer observance with us, we also know that thousands upon thousands of gatherings like this occur annually that do not register their observance with us.
If you know of a prayer observance in your region that is not listed on our website, register it with us. We can serve these gatherings much easier if we know who they are and how we can help. This will help us support and encourage the leaders of the gatherings.
In larger towns and cities in America, we do and should have numerous prayer observances on the National Day of Prayer. We can create as many observances as we want, and we will still not have enough.
Participation by pastors, church leaders, community leaders, and business leaders can make this a special day in your community. As a pastor or church leader, here’s how you can help make this happen. As a person in the workplace, learn here how you can have an observance in your business. Even schools and universities can have gatherings of prayer for our nation on this day. It takes leadership and working with key people to find a time acceptable for all, whether it is before or after school, office hours, or in a designated period throughout the day.
America Needs Prayer Now
I believe all Americans would agree that we are in great need of healing and unity in our land. Since prayer precedes all great movements of God and the Holy Spirit is the giver of unity around the Lord Jesus and His Good News to the world, it is time to pray for America.
Remember, every town, every city, and every county in America needs to have at least one prayer observance for our nation on Thursday, May 3.
Now is the Time to Lead and to Pray,
Ronnie W. Floyd
Senior Pastor, Cross Church
President, National Day of Prayer
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Dr. Ronnie Floyd is the Senior Pastor of Cross Church, President of the National Day of Prayer, and founder of the Cross Church School of Ministry.
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Dr. Ronnie Floyd is the President & CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.
Grow Your Life and Ministry: A Prayer Magazine, Church Prayer Leaders Network, and Direct Access to Prayer Resources
Can you imagine the ministry of the National Day of Prayer with a quarterly prayer magazine, a church prayer leaders network, and the ability to provide access to prayer resources at your fingertips?
This is now a reality because the National Day of Prayer Task Force recently accepted the gift to our ministry of Prayer Connect magazine, the Church Prayer Leaders Network, and PrayerShop Publishing. They will broaden the scope of the National Day of Prayer beyond a single day, helping us mobilize Americans to pray daily for our nation, our communities, and our churches.
Believing This Could Be Our Greatest Year
For 30 years, the National Day of Prayer Task Force has been at the forefront of raising up prayer for our nation on the first Thursday of May. As we approach another National Day of Prayer, we are again hard at work mobilizing, motivating, and equipping millions of people to pray for our nation. This year’s theme, “Unity,” has struck a nerve, and we suspect that we will have our largest participation ever on Thursday, May 3, 2018.
Clearly, it has never been more important for Christians to pray fervently for revival in the Church and a spiritual awakening in America as it is today. But, as important as that is, rallying people to pray one day a year is not enough. We need to equip, motivate, and mobilize believers to pray for America.
We need to raise up an army of believers who will pray for their churches, their communities, and their nation. This will broaden the scope of the National Day of Prayer beyond a single day, helping us mobilize Americans to pray for our nation, our communities, and our churches.
3 Important Ways You Can Join Our Everyday Prayer Army – Do It Today!
1. Sign up to receive Prayer Connect magazine — the voice of the prayer movement in America
This quarterly publication will equip, challenge, and motivate you to pray with more passion and focus. It will help you motivate others as well. Only $24.99 per year, Prayer Connect will keep you connected to all that God is doing through prayer in America. Simply go to https://prayerleader.com/membership to sign up. Purchase the Gold Membership to get online access to more than 450 articles and ideas from past issues, and a new issue of Prayer Connect will come to your mailbox every three months.
We plan to provide all manner of helps and inspiration in this publication to keep you passionately focused on knowing how to pray for yourself more effectively, but also your church, community, and nation. This publication will keep us all praying in a unified way every day in between our National Days of Prayer!
2. Pastors and Church Prayer Leaders — Join Our Church Prayer Leaders Network
If you are a pastor or church prayer leader, you need to sign up for more than just Prayer Connect. You need a membership in the Church Prayer Leaders Network (CPLN). This network will help you disciple, motivate, and mobilize your congregation to pray. As a member, you not only receive Prayer Connect magazine, but you also get the following:
- Access to more than 700 articles and ideas at com, many of which relate to growing prayer in the local church. Check out a sample article: The Benefits of Praying Together.
- “Prayer Leader Online,” an email that comes twice a month with ideas and encouragement on growing prayer in your church.
- An additional discount on resources at prayershop.org.
- A private Facebook Group just for members where you can talk shop and receive advice and ideas from other members who, like you, are in the trenches of growing prayer in the local church.
A CPLN membership is only $35.99 per year. Go to https://prayerleader.com/membership to sign up. Click on Platinum Membership.
3. Check Out our PrayerShop Publishing Store — Be Equipped
Finally, I encourage you to check out PrayerShop Publishing’s store, prayershop.org. Here you will find more than 150 resources to help you and your church grow in prayer. I asked them to give you a special deal the first time you shop there. Use code “welcome25” at checkout and receive a 25% discount off your first order.
These new ministries are part of our desire to raise up a praying church across this nation. Will you join with us? Together, let’s cry out to God for revival and awakening in America.
Now is the Time to Lead and to Pray,
Dr. Ronnie Floyd
Dr. Ronnie Floyd is the President & CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.