Prayer Guide Day 7 (October 2, 2022)

Church Schedule – If you can visit with these Churches throughout the 10 Days!

Any questions, please feel free to message either me or Marty Mattocks .
Schedule is as follows:

SUN 10/2 , 7pm The Lighthouse , 6 S. Railroad Ave, Wyoming, DE

MON. 10/3, online(24/7) https://www.10days.net/virtual-2022
TUES 10/4, 7pm, Maranatha Life Changing Church, 1235 E. Division St, Dover, DE
WED 10/5, 7 pm, Marty and Elaine’s Home, 86  Representative Lane, Dover, DE  19904; plenty of parking.

Further info can be found on FB, 10 day Dover, DE or our downloadable printable packet {click link}- 10Days_Packet_Revised

For today… October 2, 2022

Position for Day 7 – WALK

Scripture:  Ephesians 4: 25  – 5:  2 (Please read)

Theme:  LOVE

Daily Verse from Ephesians (ESV)

5:2: And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

We pray:  May we walk in sacrificial LOVE, following the example of Christ.

 

Adoration: You are a God who demonstrates sacrificial LOVE.

O love, how deep, how broad, how high, beyond all thought and fantasy, that God, the Son of God, should take our mortal form for mortals’ sake! For us, by wicked men betrayed, for us, in crown of thorns arrayed, he bore the shameful cross and death; for us he gave his dying breath. For us he rose from death again, for us he went on high to reign; for us he sent his Spirit here to guide, to strengthen, and to cheer.

–attributed to Thomas a Kempis

 

Repentance: Ephesians 4:31- 5:2

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Lord, this is day seven of our ten day prayer vigil. Forgive us for bitterness, rage and anger, brawling, slander, and malice. Help us instead to be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave us

Loving Lord, we confess that we do not love as you have loved us. You love even your enemies, but we are prone to hate those who oppose us. Please pour your perfect love into our hearts by your Holy Spirit so that the love of Christ will fill and guide us.

 

Intercession: Acts 7:60

[Stephen fell] to his knees [and] cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Father, I take a moment now to think of those I have not forgiven. Jesus said, “forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us.” Lord, you have given grace to me. Now, let me extend that grace to others. I lift up to you [someone’s name], who has been malicious and has wronged me in multiple ways. You alone know how much I have been hurt by their actions. Give me the grace to forgive them as you have forgiven me.

Father, sometimes the hardest people to love are those in daily/close relationships with me, especially members of my family. As I speak their names to you, please increase our love.

 

Interactive Exercise:

In the next several days, do a hidden, extravagant act of love. Don’t let anyone know what you have done.

Background on why?

What is 10 Days? What would it look like if you took 10 Days and gave them completely to God, setting aside normal patterns of life, work, school, and entertainment? How would it look if your family, your church, and your entire city did the same?

10 Days is consecrated time, holy time, a Sabbath time. It is time for people to commune with God and discover one another in the light of His face. Simply put, life looks different during 10 Days. 10 Days is time set-apart to seek God with mourning, fasting, and repentance.

“Mourning” is a rich biblical word. It is best not to understand it in an overly literalistic way (as in a funeral) but as a time of humbling ourselves, and aligning our hearts with God’s ways, and reckoning with the glories of Jesus Christ and the brokenness of this present age.

“Fasting” can involve many kinds of fasts, but we recommend a significant fast from both food (a Daniel, Juice, or Water fast) and entertainment and media.

“Repentance” has to do not only with confessing and acknowledging sin, but also with “turning” and “changing our minds” so that we not only turn from sin but also turn toward righteousness and the Kingdom of God.

“And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn if the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.” Matthew 9:15

 

Vision:

Uniting the Body of Christ in a set-apart season to “Stop Cities” forming a “Global Upper-Room” of worship, prayer, repentance, and fasting rooted in the fall Biblical feasts.

Purpose:

  • Declaring the Worth of Jesus Christ, in the Power of the Holy Spirit, to the Glory of God the Father through an extravagant, united, sustained season of prayer and worship.
  • Spiritual Renewal and Transformation of individuals and regions through Humility,

Worship, seeking God’s Face, and Repentance.

  • Intercessory Prayer for the fulfillment of Scriptural promises.
  • “Mourning” (Longing) for the return of the Bridegroom (Matthew 9:15)

Three Words. This year’s prayer guide is patterned after Nee’s most famous work, Sit, Walk, Stand. In this short commentary, Nee summarizes Paul’s entire letter to the Ephesians in three words:

  1. SIT: Our Position in Christ: (Ephesians 1-3)

“[God] raised us up with [Christ] and seated us with him in the heavenly places” (2:6)

  1. WALK: Our Life in the World: (Ephesians 4:1-6:9)

“Walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called” (4:1)

  1. STAND: Our Attitude to the Enemy: (Ephesians 6:10-24)

“Stand against the schemes of the devil” (6:11)