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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This Week at Cross Church | Spring is Here!
Stay Engaged During Spring Break
Many of our families will begin a break from school schedules beginning this weekend. Therefore, the next two Sundays are what we call Spring Break Sundays. Take the challenge: Stay engaged during Spring Break. How?
- If you are home, be in worship on Sunday
- Engage online with us if you are away
- Practice generosity with your church, whether you are here or away
The ministry of Cross Church goes forward whether you are away or here during Spring Break. Pray for us.
14 Worship Services on Easter Weekend
Cross Church has a huge opportunity on Easter Weekend, March 31-April 1, with fourteen worship services to choose from across our campuses. Plan now to join us in one of the services on the campus you attend. We believe this could lead us to a powerful, engaging weekend of worship with Cross Church. Pray for Easter Weekend! Please download the graphic below that informs everyone about each campus and the worship service times.
Remain Focused on Our Financial Goal by the End of 2020
As I shared with our church last year, we have four major goals we want to see happen in our church by the end of 2020. Our financial goal is to eliminate all financial debt! We are an estimated $10 million from this happening, and when it does, we will have a value of $125 million in properties and facilities. When this debt is eliminated, we will free up no less than $3.2 million annually that we can allocate toward future advancement of our mission in Northwest Arkansas, America, and the world. To reach this goal, we must achieve these things:
- Meet and exceed our Ministry Budget annually
- Fayetteville Campus reaches or exceeds their commitments in their new campus development, while also meeting their Ministry Budget
These can and are happening. Pray with us about these needs, as budget drives the debt down on a weekly basis, but also for a miracle gift or gifts that can help or eliminate debt now. God can do anything!
Pray for the National Day of Prayer on May 3, 2018
Please pray each day for the National Day of Prayer across America on Thursday, May 3, 2018. Thousands upon thousands of gatherings will occur in all kinds of settings from sunrise in Maine all the way to sunset in Hawaii. Engage in a National Day of Prayer observance in the city you live in or even create one to engage more people in praying for America. Do all you can now to pray for and support the National Day of Prayer.
Please Pray for Jeana and Me
Over the next few weeks, Jeana and I will be experiencing the blessing of God with leadership entrusted to us here and away. Please pray for us. Our greatest love in ministry is our ministry at Cross Church, where leadership never takes a vacation. Just one example: for 31 years, nine months of the year, Jeana has and still meets with our entire group of Ministry Staff Team wives. Wow! Faithfulness. This is in addition to leading a Bible Study in our community and other responsibilities at church and at home. In July, we will be taking no less than 100 of our people to Israel for ten days. We will walk through Easter weekend here, then lead our 2018 Mega Metro Pastors and Wives Conference in April in Washington, DC, and then Jeana accompanies me again to our nation’s capital city for five days in May to lead and forward the National Day of Prayer. Therefore, when Easter begins, we enter one of these unique seasons of opportunity in praying for grace, power, and provision. Our greatest need today is knowing you are interceding for us in prayer. God is at work! We follow Him fully! Stand with us in prayer!
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.