24/7 Prayer Day Three

hey guys (:

For those of you who have been committing to the 24/7 prayer, I hope it has been a fulfilling time for you!

We'll be focusing on our fellow schoolmates in ACS (I) for tomorrow's prayer, and I'm sure most of us would have many things to pray about.

Perhaps you would like to start praying for the school as a whole, starting with the pre-believers. There are many of our schoolmates who are lost and weary, and it is our duty as Christians to pray for them and reach out to them. Let's pray for God to move in our school, and for Him to open up the hearts and minds of our pre-believing friends and schoolmates to the gospel.

Matthew 28:19 tells us to "go and make disciples of all nations...", and for us to fulfil the Great commission, it is imperative for us to pray that the Christians in our school would rise up and claim this purpose that God has given us. Let's pray for God to place people in our lives whom we can reach out to; and that we, as well as our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ would have the active obedience to follow God's will for us in our friends' lives. Lastly, let's also commit ourselves and our friends to God, praying that there would be divine intervention when we broach the subject with our friends, or even better, for God to reveal Himself to them.

What saddens me most of the time, is when I pray for believers who have pulled away from God or lost their hope in Him. Most of the time, it happens when there are setbacks or crazy amounts of assignments and datelines. As friends, we can only encourage them to press on in their relationship with Him, to always draw strength from God and most importantly, to keep them in our prayers. Asking God to help us to be good friends and a source of encouragement to them is one thing, but praying for God to reveal Himself to them once again is also equally, or much more important. Personally, throughout the course of a few months, I've had strained relationships with believers. It may seem hypocritical for me to type out all the above, but I'm trusting in Him to heal these relationships, and through prayer and petition to God, I'm sure that everything will be made well in His time.

Having said all that, let's also pray for good time-management, discipline and self-control as our schoolmates deal with the demands of schoolwork, CCAs and other committments. It's not easy juggling all these plus maintaining a strong and consistent relationship with God, so we have to entrust God with all these priorities, remembering that He'll never forsake us if we are faithful and continue to trust in the plans and future He has for us.

Other things you might want to pray for:
- For people to serve in the ministry
- Individual people and their needs.
- People whom we find hard to love (as Pet mentioned in the earlier post)
- Love for all our friends

It's really up to you!

Our schoolmates are the people we see every school day, and they're the people we're most accessible to. Commiting them in prayer is one of the best things we can do with our time, so let's take time off to do so daily as well. Like Pet mentioned in the previous post, prayer is accompanied by action, so let's be good living testimonies to our friends and may love and faithfulness be written on the tablet of our hearts.

God bless and have a fruitful week ahead!