Weekly Prayer Guide
Thanksgiving
We thank You, Lord Jesus for the rest that You give us when we follow You as disciples (Matthew 11:28–30)!
Confession
We confess that our attention and comfort are often found in this world and its kingdoms rather than in You, the all-satisfying One (Philippians 3:18–21).
Supplication (Heart)
We ask for the strength to persevere in following You to the end, no matter the cost, and that our lives would glorify Your worth (Matthew 24:12–13)!
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August
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August 2-8
Thanksgiving
We thank You, Lord Jesus, that You humbled Yourself by taking on a human nature to rescue Your people and that the Father has highly exalted You (Philippians 2:6–11)!Confession
We confess that we think highly of ourselves and desire honor for ourselves rather than for You when You deserve all honor and glory (1 Peter 5:5).Supplication (Heart)
We ask for hearts that are eager to compel people to come to You, Lord Christ, that they might enter Your glorious kingdom (2 Corinthians 5:11)!
July
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July 26 – August 1
Thanksgiving
We thank You, Father, that You are the standard of mercy and compassion and that You show Your creatures kindness every day (Matthew 6:43–45)!Confession
We confess that we too often honor You with our lips when our hearts are far from You! Please forgive our coldness of affection for You and seeking to substitute duty and systems for truly knowing and loving You (Matthew 15:7–9)!Supplication (Heart)
We ask for hearts that love Your Second Coming, Lord Jesus, and lives that align with that glorious reality (2 Timothy 4:8)!July 19–25
Thanksgiving
We thank you Father, that you have included not just Jews but also Gentiles from every tribe, tongue, language, and nation—even us—into your kingdom (Revelation 5:9-10)!Confession
We confess that we too often expect the way of salvation to be easy and comfortable and do not strive to follow You, Lord Jesus, because You are so good and have loved us so much (Matthew 7:13–14).Supplication (Heart)
We ask for compassionate hearts to proclaim the gospel to all kinds of people we encounter and for the boldness to compel them to come to You, Lord Jesus, and to enter Your dominion (Luke 14:15–24)!July 12–18
Thanksgiving
We praise You Lord Jesus that You created all things, even invisible spiritual forces, that you are supreme over all things, and that all things must bow to You (Colossians 1:16)!Confession
We confess hearts and lives that often ignore Your amazing kingdom and the amazing realities of its future coming. We confess that we do not consistently orient our whole lives around the reality of Your kingdom and following You (Luke 9:57–62)Supplication (Heart)
We ask for hearts that are not complacent with a self-made religious system, but that are compassionate towards others to be delivered from Satan’s dominion and brought under Christ’s dominion through the Gospel (Colossians 1:13–14)!July 5–11
Thanksgiving
We thank You that Father that You grant repentance by Your grace and that You have granted repentance that leads to life to us (Acts 11:18)!Confession
We confess our self-dependence to produce fruit that pleases You in our lives rather than recognizing that apart from Christ’s power, we can do nothing (Jn 15:1–5).Supplication (Heart)
We ask for boldness to call people to turn from their sin and to be united with Christ through faith so that they might escape God’s just wrath and have true life (Acts 2:38–41)!
June
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June 28 – July 4
Thanksgiving
We thank You that You Lord Jesus will one day take back the earth, ruling over it all with perfect justice (Psalm 72)!Confession
We confess that our loyalty and affections are too tied up with this world and what it loves when it is passing away. We confess that our love for the Father and His will is too weak. (1 John 2:15–17)Supplication (Heart)
We ask Father that our desires would not be for ease and comfort but that You would grant us boldness in speaking of the reality of Christ’s kingdom and the rescue that is only through Him (Acts 4:29–31).June 21-27
Adoration
We praise You Lord Jesus that You are the head of the Church and oversee all that goes on in each local Church (Revelation 2–3)!Confession
We confess not always renouncing ungodliness and worldly passions and not always being self-controlled, upright, and godly as we wait for You Lord Jesus, our blessed hope (Titus 2:11–14).Thanksgiving
We thank You that You have freed us from being slaves to sin and made us slaves to You, to Your will, and to following Your righteous standard (Romans 6:15–23)!Supplication (Heart)
We ask Father for eager hearts to do Your will and Your commands so that we would bear much fruit for Your glory (John 15:1–17)!Initiatives
We pray that You would help us to continue to know one another, care for one another, and love one another during our time of separation (John 15:12–13).Ministries
We pray that You would work to enable us to meet again as a whole Church that we might experience the means of grace of fellowship and worship together (Ephesians 5:15–21)!June 14-20
Adoration
We praise You Father that You are a God Who is intimately involved with every aspect of Your creation and not absent or distant (Job 38:1–42:6)Confession
We confess that by our anxiety we distrust Your goodness, care, and timing, rather than completely trusting Your fatherly care (Psalm 103:13–14).Thanksgiving
We thank You, that we do not need to fear deprivation or death because our hope and rest is secure through our union with Christ (Ephesians 1:11–14)!Supplication (Heart)
We ask Father for hearts of contentment, no matter our circumstances, that we might find our joy and security in Christ alone (Philippians 4:11–13)!Initiatives
We pray that we would continue to grow in knowing how to read the Scriptures well as a Church, that we might know and love You, the Triune God better (Ephesians 3:4)!Ministries
We pray that You would use our Care Fund to supply the needs of our brothers and sisters in this church and that they would be blessed and encouraged through it (Galatians 2:10)!June 7-13
Adoration
We praise You, holy Father, that You are absolutely just. You Yourself are the standard of righteousness, and you are totally without iniquity (Deuteronomy 32:4)!Confession
We confess that we have immoral, impure and covetous passions lurking within. Forgive us for when we think and act on them. Help us put them to death and instead put on compassion, kindness, humility and patience. (Colossians 3:5,12)Thanksgiving
We thank You, that we no longer bear our old nature from Adam but have a new nature in Christ so that we can be true image bearers for Your glory (Colossians 3:9–10)!Supplication (Heart)
We ask, Father, for the gospel to go forth powerfully in our nation where there is so much division, injustice, and hatred. There is only true healing in Christ, the Last Adam, and help us to speak boldly of Him (Colossians 1:15–20)!Initiatives
We pray that our church would display unity and love for one another regardless of ethnicity or social status, a unity centered on Christ and that shines out brightly and attractively to a broken world (Colossian 3:11–14)!Ministries
We pray for our children’s ministry, that it would be able to come alongside parents so that our children would be raised in the fear and discipline of the Lord, to love Him with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength and to love their neighbors as themselves!
May
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May 31 – June 6
Adoration
We praise you Lord Jesus You are the supremely worthy “I am” and that before you one day every knee will bow before You (Isaiah 45:22–23; Philippians 2:9–11)!Confession
We confess our cowardice in not acknowledging and proclaiming You to others, for not speaking up when we know we should (Luke 9:26).Thanksgiving
We thank You, Holy Spirit for regenerating us and changing us from Jesus deniers to Jesus proclaimers (1 Peter 2:9–10)!Supplication (Heart)
We ask, Father, for a greater dose of courage in our speech and actions for the glory of Your Son, Jesus (Proverbs 28:1).Initiatives
We pray that you would stir up desires to develop specialty growth groups to meet varieties of needs such as unbeliever outreach groups, groups to strengthen new believers, parenting groups, marriage groups, finance groups, etc.Ministries
We pray for our elders and pastors, that you would give them great wisdom in the process of reopening the church for gathering.May 24-30
Adoration
We praise You for Your authority over all things, both good and bad things that happen, and that You are working all things for the best good, namely, your glory (Isaiah 45:5–7)!Confession
We confess our fear of man and what they can do to us or give us rather than You, the ultimate authority (John 12:42–43).Thanksgiving
We thank You, Father, that You love us and care for us, as You love Christ, because we are in union with Him (John 17:23)Supplication (Heart)
We ask for hearts that do not fear man but that fear and love You. Help us to act in the ways You want us to act because we fear You (Proverbs 3:5–8)!Initiatives
We pray for wisdom for what pursuing church planting looks like through and after this time of restriction due to COVID-19.Ministries
We pray that You would bless the Music Ministry through all of their efforts during this time! Give them wisdom, creativity, and strength, and help us to be a singing church for Your glory!May 17-23
Adoration
We praise You that You are the God Who knows all things and that You are the perfect judge of all that is done openly and in secret (Psalm 50:21).Confession
We confess our hypocrisy, often saying and doing things that we say others should not do and trying to make ourselves look great in the eyes of men (Romans 2:17–24).Thanksgiving
We thank you for giving us a new nature through union with Christ so that we live to proclaim the greatness of Christ and not ourselves (2 Corinthians 5:15)!Supplication (Heart)
We ask that we would love You with a pure heart, a good conscience and a sincere, unhypocritical faith (1 Timothy 1:5).Initiatives
We pray for wisdom for our biblical counselors to be able to continue to counsel effectively and accurately from the Bible during this time.Ministries
We pray for our Aspiring Men, that You would grant them and those mentoring them wisdom in understanding how they ought to be serving in the life of the Church.May 10-16
Adoration
We praise you for being the God Who knows all, including our innermost thoughts, desires, and intentions (Psalm 139:4–6)Confession
We confess the wicked and deceitful desires of our hearts, which you hate and which you plainly see (Jeremiah 17:9–10).Thanksgiving
We thank you that the penalty for the wicked secret desires of our hearts was charged to Christ on the cross and that we are cleansed through Christ by the Spirit to have new natures, affections, and desires (1 John 1:9)!Supplication (Heart)
We ask that you would train us more and more to love what you love and hate what you hate, so that we might be obedient to your commands from the heart (John 14:15).Initiatives
We pray that we would be better able to network with like-minded churches in our region to be able to encourage and serve one another for the sake of making more disciples in the region.Ministries
We ask for our small groups that they would be learning to love and serve one another more and more, that they would learn Christ and how to follow Him more and more, and that they would be effective for disciple-making outreach into the community surrounding them more and more.May 3-9
Adoration
We praise you that you are the Rock, that Your work is perfect, that all Your ways are justice, that You are a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, and that You are just and upright (Deut 32:4).Confession
We confess putting You to the test and seeking for You to prove Yourself to us again and again rather than trusting You as our heavenly Father.Thanksgiving
We thank you that You have opened our eyes to see the light of the gospel in the face of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 4:6)!Supplication (Heart)
We ask that we would do all things without grumbling or disputing that we might be blameless and innocent and shine as lights in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation (Philippians 2:14–15).Initiatives
We pray that we would learn to be better evangelists in our community and would be able to make gospel noise through loving each other and through loving others.Ministries
We pray for our college ministry, that they would be able to reach Spokane area collegians during this strange time and would be able to form relationships with new college freshmen this Fall.
April
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April 26 – May 2
Adoration
Praise Jesus for His absolute supremacy over all spiritual forces! Col 2:15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.Confession
We confess listening to the lies of Satan and his demons rather than standing firm in the strength of the Lord and the means of grace He has given. Eph 6:10–11 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.Thanksgiving
Thank You, Father for delivering us from the domain of darkness and transferring us to the kingdom of Your beloved Son! Col 1:13–14 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.Supplication (Heart)
Father, help us to live as kingdom citizens, not citizens of this world. Help us not to fear or value what the world values.Initiatives
We pray for wisdom in guidance through the transitions in women’s ministry. We pray for a growing church culture that facilitates women using their gifts and talents to invest in other women in hospitality, evangelism and the training of the next generation to be godly women, wives and mothers.Ministries
We pray for our missionaries overseas that you would encourage them and give them wisdom as they face challenges and questions related to COVID-19. We pray for missionaries on the runway for launch that you would give them the wisdom and resources they need.April 19-25
Adoration
Praise God for His sovereignty over time to such an extent that He can make everything beautiful in its time according to His purposes.Confession
We confess our impatience and discontentment with how our life unfolds instead of trusting Your wisdom and goodness as our loving heavenly Father.Thanksgiving
Thank You for the daily joys that You give us that we can take pleasure in, such as work, food, family, etc.Supplication (Heart)
Father, help us not to put our hope in gain from our toil here and help us to have joy that is not tied to our circumstances.Initiatives
Please bring more students to be trained as pastors at The Master’s Seminary here at our church so that they might be used to impact our region for the gospel.Ministries
Please continue to help our families during this season of radical adjustment. Help them to know You and pursue You better as a family.April 12-18
Adoration
Praise Christ for His willingness and authority to lay down His life and to take it up again of His own accord (John 10:17-18).Confession
We confess our earthbound and circumstance-bound mind that keeps us from eagerly awaiting our future resurrection and physical, glorified participation in Christ’s Kingdom (1 Corinthians 15:12-58).Thanksgiving
We thank You that the resurrection guarantees that our labor for the Lord here and now is not in vain (1 Corinthians 15:58).Supplication (Heart)
Please give us hearts that are eager for Christ’s Second Coming and our resurrection and that we would live our lives with the certainty of the New Heavens and the New Earth.Initiatives
Please make us a Church that makes disciples in our city. Help us to boldly proclaim Christ’s death and resurrection.Ministries
Please allow us to love and care for one another effectively during this time though the church’s care fund and through serving one another in the ways that we are able with the social distancing restrictions.April 5-11
Adoration
Praise the Lord for holiness, transcendence, and rule above all events in human history, including this present time.Confession
We confess our pride and self-will, thinking that we control and sustain our lives rather than You, O Lord.Thanksgiving
We thank You for supplying our daily needs during this time and are actively using this situation that you have decreed for the good of those who love You.Supplication (Heart)
Help us to grow during this strange time of exile from others and from our FBC family. Expose where we need to grow in our personal walks, in our families, and in ministry to others.Initiatives
Give us wisdom, opportunity, and boldness to proclaim the realities of God’s judgment and salvation through Christ to our hurting, hopeless, and confused world.Ministries
Help us to re-learn during this time of restricted church activity what the priorities our church and our culture of discipleship ought to look like when we are able to gather together again.
March
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March 29 - April 4
Thank God for provision for today and faithfulness that will endure
Thank God for and pray for the protection of all ‘essential workers’ and those in vulnerable populations.
Ask God for city-wide, nation-wide, and world-wide repentance.
Ask God for each of us to be strengthened to pray, connect, and serve each other with wisdom.
Ask God for Healing for those infected with COVID-19
Pray for wisdom for our governing officials to rule wisely for the public good
March 8-15
Adoration
Isaiah 42:10 Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants.Confession
Psalm 40:12 For evils have encompassed me beyond number; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me.Thanksgiving
Thank God for raising up the next generation of missions-minded families such as Michael and Vanessa Dionne and Joe and Hannah Grewe who are pursuing missions work overseas.Supplication (Heart)
Grant us grace to remember our own mortality and to redeem our time each day in all our spheres of life for the furtherance of making disciples.Initiatives
Pray for sound church planting and revitalization efforts in our city and also for our church as we pursue the possibility of a church plant in the Valley.Ministries
Pray for our FBC counselors and counseling ministry that God would continue to use it to raise up biblical counselors in the region and that those counselors would apply God’s Word with skill to the lives of those experiencing the devastation of sin.March 1-7
Adoration
Psalm 146:1-2 Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.Confession
Psalm 143:1 Hear my prayer, O LORD; give ear to my pleas for mercy!Thanksgiving
Thank God for the people being raised up through SEAL training to be better shepherds and leadersSupplication (Heart)
Continue to energize our prayer and makes us disciplined in praying for each other and the lostInitiatives
Pray for the strength of the men in TMS Spokane as they study and for their wisdom as they begin to look for future ministry opportunitiesMinistries
Pray for our college students and staff to make strong connections on local campuses in proclaiming the gospel and showing Christlike love
February
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February 23-29
Adoration
Psalm 92:1-2 A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath. It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name,
O Most High; to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your
faithfulness by nightConfession
Psalm 25:18 Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.Thanksgiving
Thank God for strengthening the speakers and volunteers at Aspire.Supplication (Heart)
Help us all in growth groups to take practical steps to share in each others joys and sorrowsInitiatives
Help us continue to show hospitality to each other and new people to the churchMinistries
Open the hearts of our children as they hear God’s word in Bible SchoolGive the teachers contagious joy in God’s word as they invest in students
February 16–22
Adoration
Psalm 116:1-2 I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.Confession
Forgive me when I don’t bring my true needs and ask. James 4:2b-3 You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.Thanksgiving
Thank God for the growth of the women in the digging deeper Bible study as they work through Zechariah.Supplication (Heart)
Pray that Faith Bible Church would constantly look for direction for life from God’s Word.Initiatives
Pray for wisdom for the property development team as they work with the City of Spokane determining what can and should be done with the west end and east end property.Ministries
Pray for all the musicians and tech team as they prepare for Good Friday and Easter that their hearts would rejoice in the truths they sing and play and their music would be done with excellence.February 9-15
Adoration
Psalm 5:11 But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy, and spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may exult in you.Confession
Forgive us Lord for trusting our own strength and wisdom in the trials we have faced this week (Jeremiah 15:5)Thanksgiving
Thank you Lord for finalizing the adoption of Bennett Millican and for Jared and Claire’s ability to move to Spokane to be our College Pastor.Supplication (Heart)
That we would seek the loving rule of Christ in every part of our lives and our church (Ephesians 1:21-22, Ephesians 3:19)Initiatives
Help TMS Spokane build a network of churches that our seminarians can serve.Ministries
That God would raise up child care teams for music ministry rehearsals.Jared and Claire Millican’s transition into full time leadership of college ministry.
February 2-8
Adoration
Psalm 103:2-3 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases.Confession
We acknowledge and grieve the sins of thought, word, and deed that we have committed.Thanksgiving
We thank you for the many families who have sought intentional mentoring and their growth in applying God’s word in their homes.Supplication (Heart)
Teach us to be Christians who willingly and sincerely pray together.Initiatives
Give wisdom and discipline to those pursuing training and certification for Biblical CounselingMinistries
Pray for our youth and college students that they would love the local church (the bride of Christ) and commit themselves to life long disciple making in it.Pray for clear proclamation of the gospel in our ESL ministry to refugees that meets on Sunday nights.
January
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January 26 – February 1
Adoration
Psalm 145:14-15 The LORD upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down. The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season.Confession
We confess that we are often anxious about our needs. Some of us over work in vain. Others of us are lazy at times and then anxious.We confess we don’t trust that you are good.
Thanksgiving
Thank you for providing what FBC needs through the generosity of fellow believers.Supplication (Heart)
Help our relationships be transparent, loving and ready to give and receive timely scriptural truth.Initiatives
Pray for The Master’s Seminary Spokane to meet the need area churches have for trained pastors.Ministries
Pray for the Tornquists leadership of Fundamentals of the Faith and that God would bring those who need grounding.Pray for God to raise up and equip qualified deacons to serve FBC.
January 19-25
Adoration
Psalm 145:13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations.Confession
Daniel 9:9-10 To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.Thanksgiving
God is raising up 10 new leaders through leadership (SEAL) training who are preparing to be future leaders.Supplication (Heart)
Philippians 1:9-10 And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ.Initiatives
Pray for the formation of new growth group in the West Plains, the current group is bursting at the seams.Ministries
Pray for God’s wisdom regarding finances as we pursue church planting.Pray for God’s wisdom in strategic investment in the current facility.
January 12-18
Adoration
Exodus 15:11 “Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?Confession
Forgive me for the things I have said that have dishonored you and the defiled heart behind them. (Isaiah 6:5)Thanksgiving
Thank God for his faithful provision and strength supplied to all those are extending generous hospitality at FBC.Supplication (Heart)
May God’s word be sweet to our tastes even sweeter than honey in our mouth (Psalm 119:103)Initiatives
May God grant wisdom and opportunity in church planting and revitalizationMinistries
Biblical Counseling: May God give ever increasing skill in using His word to our Biblical Counselors as they offer true hope and life transforming truth.
Pulpit: Pray for faithful handling of scripture and faithful response to scripture as we learn how to pray from Jesus.
January 5–11
Adoration
Isaiah 66:1-2 Thus says the LORD: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest? All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.Confession
Forgive us for the pride we take in accomplishments done in our own strength.Thanksgiving
Thank you for strengthening all those who led us in Corporate Worship through Advent.Supplication (Heart)
May we know Christ and the power of his resurrection, and share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death (Philippians 3:10)Initiatives
Continue to equip new Growth Group shepherds so groups can grow and multiply as we learn Christ togetherMinistries
Music: Help us be a joyful singing church training our children to do the same
Women’s Ministry: Help our women in the upcoming ThriveOn event to share scripture and encouragement as they share life together.
