First Monday Prayer Guide - January

Our staff team started the New Year on our knees this week (a place we hope to be much more in 2008), offering to God ourselves and everything our hands set out to do this year. With four US events and an 18-city World Tour, 2008 is going to take us to some pretty amazing places and allow us to see and experience the beautiful story of God in ways that are going to change our lives forever.

Yet, with the calling comes great challenge and adversity. Though not prone to see evil in every little bump in the road, we do accept the reality that darkness hates the light and attempts to shut down any mission that brings life and freedom. So, as we go in Jesus' name we expect opposition, yet we are always looking to the God who holds us in His hands and has assured us ultimate victory...no matter what.

In that spirit, we are digging into Psalm 33:16-22 as we come to January's First Monday. "No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength. A horse is a vain hope for deliverance, despite all its great strength it cannot save. But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear Him, on those who hope in His unfailing love, to deliver them from death and to keep them alive in famine. We wait in hope for the Lord, for He is our help and shield. In Him our hearts rejoice, for we hope in His holy name. May your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord, even as we put our hope in you."

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16 (2+6+8) Prayer Points for January

1. Pray for one of our Passion staff team members, Daniele, whose brother Diego went to heaven this morning in Sao Paulo, Brazil, after a long battle with cancer.

2. Please pray for all the families of our staff team (mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, children).

3. Several of our Passion staff team and sixsteps family are facing medical challenges, as well.

4. We are twenty days from Passion LA and asking God to prepare the way. Ask God to go before us in every way as the final details come together for this gathering.

5. Ask God to multiply the vision on the west coast, and help the word spread to more and more students in these last weeks.

6. Currently, over 2600 students and leaders are registered for LA from almost 200 colleges and universities. Click the link below of the schools represented so far by those coming to Passion LA, pick a few schools and pray for the students coming from those campuses.

7. Pray that Passion LA will fuel a new wave of students who are in love with Jesus and passionate about seeing His fame known on their campuses.

8. Louie and our Passion team will be in DC on January 8th and Dallas on January 17, meeting with college leaders and sharing the vision for Passion DC and Passion Dallas/Ft. Worth. Ask God to draw the right leaders to these meetings and fill them with synergy, unity and vision for what can be as Passion comes to these regions.

9. On January 19, our City Team Leads for the Passion World Tour will be meeting in Atlanta. Ask for God's favor on these men and women who are volunteering their time to make these world events a reality, and pray for us as we pray and plan.

10. Pray for these City Team Leads and their families as they are taking on substantial roles in addition to their lives, jobs, families, etc. Ask God to multiply their energy, time and passion.

11. We are thanking God for gifts at year end for the World Tour! We have a few million to go, but God provided several hundred thousand dollars in the past few weeks and we want to thank Him!

12. Please pray for the cities where we are a little behind in making plans (or are just exploring as God has put them in our path rather late in the game). Of those we have mentioned, pray for clarity and wisdom, traction and progress in Dubai. As well, there are two as yet unnamed cities we are working on that need a breakthrough.

13. I know we have asked this every month, but translating and signing venue contracts in cities around the globe is a massive challenge. We need supernatural intervention to ramp up the pace and seal these agreements.

14. Pray for Passion Hong Kong. This city is strategic in the nation of China and its future, a place where for now the church meets freely and the gospel is shared openly.

15. Pray for Passion Sydney. We need clarity on dates and venue.

16. Ask that "everything Passion" serves one end: that of making Jesus known. Pray that our name will continue to decrease and His name will increase in all we do!


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