Weekly Prayer Guide

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!

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• May

• 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

• 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

• 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 leaders

  Supplication (Heart)
  Continue to energize our prayer and makes us disciplined in praying for each other and the lost

  Initiatives
  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 opportunities

  Ministries
  Pray for our college students and staff to make strong connections on local campuses in proclaiming the gospel and showing Christlike love
  
  

• February

• 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 night

  Confession
  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 sorrows

  Initiatives
  Help us continue to show hospitality to each other and new people to the church

  Ministries
  Open the hearts of our children as they hear God’s word in Bible School

  Give 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 Counseling

  Ministries
  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

• 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 revitalization

  Ministries
  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 together

  Ministries
  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.