Prayer for the Masterpiece

Monday, February 8th, 2010 | 1 Comments

“For we are God’s Masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.” Ephesians 2:10 Oh Father!  We can barely comprehend the spectrum of green hues in one small leaf or the incredible array of blue in the morning sky.  How overwhelming ...

Prayer for Alertness

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 | 2 Comments

Father God, Forgive us, your sleepy church, as we amble through this life and through this city where you have placed us.  Awaken us, Lord.  Stimulate our senses to make us keenly aware of  your glorious presence.  May we grasp the urgency and the great need of this world to know your peace and joy.  Don’t ...

A Haitian Prayer

Monday, January 25th, 2010 | No Comments

Jezi, fré nou, Nou kouche sou vant devan w’, n’ap tann ou menm, ki gran fré nou, pou w’ montre nou. Pawól ou tankou yon glas pou nou yon ben, ak poud, e pafen. Ede n’ donk pou nou sa leve ak yon twalét fréch, pou n’ ale pami lemonn semén sa a. Jesus, our brother, We lie in front ...

Prayer for Haiti

Monday, January 18th, 2010 | 3 Comments

Father God, You are our strong tower.  You are our firm foundation.  Father, we feel so helpless and so insufficient in the face of epic catastrophe.  Even our best efforts at aid fall so short. But you, oh God, are neither helpless nor insufficient.  No.  Father, you alone are almighty, all powerful, and always present.  So ...

Prayer for Creative Imagination

Monday, January 11th, 2010 | No Comments

Our creator Father in Heaven, Thank you for revealing who you are through your son Jesus of Nazareth, and setting the world to right. I pray for a creative, missional imagination for your body here in the city of Miami. Help us, the Church, to forget about ourselves. To not solely focus on how to have a ...

Prayer for a New Decade

Monday, January 4th, 2010 | No Comments

Father, How limited are we that a decade encompasses so much of our lives? How fleeting is our time here on this earth and how empty without you. As we look ahead to the next 10 years we know that change is at hand. In this new decade we know there will be great loss and ...

A Christmas Prayer

Monday, December 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Holy God, the news of your coming from heaven to earth in the person of Jesus is nearly unbelievable! Help me to believe. The reality that you would exchange the glory of heaven for the broken realities of human life is truly extraordinary. Help me to allow your incarnation to rock my world. Awaken my sense of ...

Prayer of Preparation

Monday, December 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Father, Forgive us, your Church in Miami, for forgetting you. Give us pause this week to reflect on what you have given us in the gracious gift of Christ Jesus. There is so much distraction from you at Christmas – a time intended to celebrate you. Prepare our hearts and let your Church in Miami be ...

Prayer for Provision

Monday, November 16th, 2009 | No Comments

Father God, Free us, Your Church in Miami, from the chains of worry and fear over finances and the future. Give your peace to us this week and give us your affirmation. We admit with our mouths that you are our provider, but we remain anxious in our hearts about our immediate needs. ...

Prayer for Joy

Monday, November 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Father God, Fill us with your joy this week. Just as the wind blows across the city this week let your Spirit dance through the lives of your Church in Miami. Lift us and move us. Push us into new places. Bend us in different directions. Shake us and rustle our ...

Prayer for the "Lepers"

Sunday, November 1st, 2009 | No Comments

Father, As your church and as your city we pray for your wisdom, your grace, and your healing. There are many issues across this city, but there is one wound which festers openly. As a city we try to ignore it but the world is watching to see whether healing and resolution will come. ...

God of this City

Monday, October 26th, 2009 | No Comments

(I’ve recently been listening to Chris Tomlin’s “God of this city” quite a bit. Let the Church of Miami agree in prayer in this for our city.) Father, You’re the God of this city. You’re the King of these people. You’re the Lord of this Nation. You are. You’re the light in ...

Prayer for Orphans and our Spiritual Poverty

Monday, October 12th, 2009 | No Comments

Like Paul, let us pray for our Christian brothers and sisters around the world in the spirit of Ephesians 3:14-21 “I kneel before the Father, from whom His whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in ...

Prayer over violence

Monday, October 5th, 2009 | No Comments

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the sons of God. Father, make us instruments of your peace in our worlds. Remind us that we are your sons and daughters and be with us in moments of conflict so that we would reflect your Godliness into the midst of discord. ...

Prayer for Equipping

Monday, September 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Father, We pray for the church communities throughout Miami Dade. Give wisdom to those who lead and teach. Give encouragement, strength, and patience to those who minister. Provide resources and discernment to those who steward the finances. Transform us and change our church communities to be increasingly more of a reflection of ...

Prayer for the Lonely

Monday, September 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Jesus, you see each of us in the quiet lonely moments. You see the tears. You know the isolation and the fear. You know the rejection. You have felt what it is like to turn around and realize you are standing alone. We pray for those who know you and yet ...

Prayer for Leaders

Monday, September 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Father, Raise up leadership within your Miami Church. Bring forth men and women who are willing to submit to your Spirit and respond in obedience. Bless and guide those who are willing to stand up among their peers and live with the authority and power of Christ flowing through them. Give them wisdom ...

Personal Mission Field

Monday, August 31st, 2009 | No Comments

Father, Thank you for placing us in the midst of your world. Thank you for allowing us through your Spirit to glimpse your creation and your created with even a fraction of your love. Remind us today and this week that our mission field is no further than the reach of our arms. Amen.

Prayer for School Children

Monday, August 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Father,We come together as your Church in Miami to lift up the thousands of children across Miami-Dade who start school today or in the coming weeks. Cover the schools with the presence of your Grace, your Peace, and your Spirit even (and especially) those campuses where you may not be invited. We ...

Fruitfulness

Monday, August 17th, 2009 | No Comments

Father Almighty, we come before you this week in humility, covered in your mercy and grace. Forgive us – your church in Miami – for being lukewarm and self-centered. We don’t want to be useless fruitless vines – tangled, dry, and ineffective. Father, we desire to be burgeoning with the fruit of your ...

Prayer for weeping

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 | No Comments

“We will never learn how to pray until we learn how to weep.” – Bishop Gerald Kaufman Precious Savior, Turn our gaze away from ourselves. Enrich us with your compassion so the world around us would come into full focus. Give us the strength in times of trials to trust in your faithfulness for our ...

Prayer for Your Strength

Monday, July 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Lord, remind your church in Miami who we depend upon, who we represent, and who we worship – you and you alone, Father. May we find our strength in you alone. “Messenger of good news, shout to Zion from the mountaintops! Shout louder to Jerusalem – do not be afraid. Tell the towns of ...

Prayer for Vision

Monday, July 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Heavenly Father, Please give us — your church in Miami — a unifying vision for this city. May we yearn for community with our brothers and sisters across this city: those who live in different zip codes, those who dress differently, those who speak differently, and those who look different. Look into our ...

Prayer for Rain

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 | No Comments

Father God,Rain down on Miami. We have had precipitation but, Lord, we need your Spirit. We need to hear the thunder and power of your word and witness the lightning precision of your hand. Many of us don’t even recognize how dry we are. We gather together in our church buildings ...

Prayer for the Sick

Monday, June 8th, 2009 | No Comments

“I waited patiently for the Lord to help me and he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along. He has given me ...

Prayer for preparation

Monday, June 1st, 2009 | No Comments

Here in Miami we are reminded everywhere we look that today marks the first day of Hurricane Season. Such is the inspiration for today’s prayer. Father God,We know that in this world full of atmospheres in conflict there will be seasons of storms. We know that what today appears to be tranquil and refreshing ...

Prayer for Wisdom, Discernment, Peace, and Understanding

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 | No Comments

Father, Wisdom, discernment, peace, understanding – all belong to you. We have no claim on them other than that which we receive through you. Thank you for being so faithful, Lord, that you would share a glimpse of these things with us as we seek you. Draw your Church in Miami close to you. ...

Prayer for church unity

Monday, May 11th, 2009 | No Comments

Father God, knit together your churches in Miami. Why must we be so stubborn and self focused? Forgive us for seeking after idols and other things that distract us away from you. Your people are spread throughout this city all of us doing our own separate ministries. Soften our hard hearts, ...

Prayer of Praise (Psalm 117)

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Let the church in Miami cry out in Praise to our Lord. May the people in the world see Christ in us as we walk among them – as much in hard times as in prosperous ones. “Praise the Lord, all you nations (Miami). Praise him, all you people of the earth. ...

Thoughts on the Passion in an Urban Setting

Monday, April 6th, 2009 | No Comments

What were you saying to the church you would establish by the manner of your death? How are we to minister in the urban setting? You taught in the temple courts every day. Scripture literacy has to be central to urban ministry. You refused to play the games of the religious establishment. You were countercultural. ...

Prayer of Praise in the midst of Struggle

Monday, March 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Thank you, Lord God, that you promise to walk beside us even through the darkest valley. Father, as a city and your Church we kneel before you together in humility and give you praise. Praise for your faithfulness. Praise for your provision. Praise for your blessings. Praise for our hope ...

Praise and Protection

Monday, November 3rd, 2008 | No Comments

Father,thank you for the work you are doing in Miami. We give you the praise and glory as you pour yourself out across this city. Last month was the first month since 1966 without a reported homicide in Miami. Thank you for that tiny glimpse of how Miami can begin to change ...

Teach us to Love

Monday, October 20th, 2008 | No Comments

Abba Father, Oh that we would love one another. What transformation would take place in this city if those of us who call you Father would live out your love the way Christ Jesus taught us. Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth (1 John 3:18). ...

Psalm 33: 4-22

Monday, October 6th, 2008 | No Comments

Psalm 33: 4-22 4 For the word of the Lord holds true, and we can trust everything he does. 5 He loves whatever is just and good; the unfailing love of the Lord fills the earth. 6 The Lord merely spoke, ...

Peace

Monday, September 29th, 2008 | No Comments

Lord, grant us peace in our current situations. Remind us of your love for us and the purpose you have for us as your church – to bring praise and glory to you. In the midst of hardship fill us with your Spirit and strength so that we might rely on you as our ...

Showing Love

Monday, September 22nd, 2008 | No Comments

Father, Remind us today and this week that we as your church are called to your purpose. Your purpose which is to bring glory and praise to you. Please pour your Spirit out across your church in Miami so that we would live lives full of the fruits of your salvation. May your ...

Be Glorified even in disaster…

Monday, September 15th, 2008 | No Comments

Father, We pray that you would be glorified even in disaster. We pray for our brothers and sisters in Haiti, Cuba, throughout the Caribbean, and in Texas. Raise up your people from around the globe and from your church in Miami to serve them in the wake of several storms. Provide resources ...

Keeping with the Father

Monday, September 1st, 2008 | No Comments

Father we want to walk in line with you, make it our ambition toonly do the things that you have called us to do. You tell is Psalm 127:1“Unless the Lord bulids the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless theLord watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain. We knowthat we can ...

Prayer for Miami Political Leaders

Monday, August 25th, 2008 | 1 Comments

Father,Please cover the men and woman across this city who are in office or currently running for political office. We ask that you be present in this coming election. Usher into office men and women who would be hearers and doers of your word. Bring into leadership men and women who are ...

Prayer for Miami Schools

Monday, August 18th, 2008 | No Comments

Father,focus our thoughts and prayers this week on the children of Miami. This week as they start back to school we lift up to you these children and teens. We ask for your Spirit to pour over the schools. Give strength and wisdom to your church – especially the children, teachers, and ...

Prayer for Comfort

Monday, August 11th, 2008 | No Comments

Father, Pour your Spirit out across this city. Work through your people – your church – to encourage, strengthen, build up, comfort, and aid the many people in Miami who are facing economic hardship. Let us be a blessing to our neighbors, our co-workers, and strangers who we encounter during the day. Let ...

Prayer for Willingness

Monday, August 4th, 2008 | No Comments

Lord, Make us your willing servants. Give us a moment away from distractions, and let us each draw near to you. Prepare our hearts and make them fertile ground for your Spirit to dwell and guide us. Father, so many of us are guilty of filling our days with things and obligations that ...

Prayer for the Hopeless

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 | No Comments

Father, You alone are the restorer of hope. Bring us pause as we realize how many people in this city don’t know you and as such constantly battle hopelessness. We lift them up to you now, Lord. Cover them. Let them have a glimpse of hope – your hope – in their ...

City of Praise

Monday, June 30th, 2008 | No Comments

Most Holy and Awesome God, Let this city be filled with praise for you. Fill our hearts with humility and thanksgiving as we go into this day and this week. Let your church in Miami praise you for your grace, your love, your mercy, and your great works. May we rejoice in you ...

Praying for Prayer

Monday, June 2nd, 2008 | No Comments

Father, forgive us for trying to do things on our ownforgive us for not using the tools that you’ve given us.In Mark chapter 9 when the disciples asked why theycouldn’t heal the demon possessed boy-you reminded themthat somethings only come through fasting and prayer.I pray that we may not become too advanced technologicallythat we forget ...

Prayer for Desire

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 | No Comments

Father, Give your people the motivation, desire and power to think, speak, and live the way you desire. Thanks you for your faithfulness and persistence with us. Change our minds and hearts to be like yours so we can truly be “the light of the world”. You are the air we breath. Your Word is ...

Prayer for Faithful lives

Monday, May 12th, 2008 | No Comments

Father, Please open our eyes to your good works. Still our minds so that we can hear you beckon us into your kingdom works. Fill us with your strength so that we would step courageously out into whatever you call us to. May we represent your heart, your hand, your arms, and your ...

Prayer of Unity

Monday, May 5th, 2008 | No Comments

Father I thank you for your grace and ever present mercy, father forgiveus for how we have mis-represented your name. Father I pray that you wouldmove on the hearts of the believers in Miami. I pray that we will begin to realizethat it’s not about churches or pastors or denominations, or passions but that it’sall ...

Prayer for Teens

Monday, April 28th, 2008 | No Comments

Papa, I lift up the youth of Miami and ask for a godly intervention. It seems likethe youth are lost in themselves, trying to seek answers to fill the voidthat only you can fill. I pray that you would pour Your Spirit upon Miami’syouth. I ask that You would become the father to many of the teens ...

Church of Miami

Monday, April 21st, 2008 | No Comments

Father, guide us as we seek to draw together in prayer for this city of Miami. Open our eyes and soften our hearts. Pull us towards one another across this city so we would learn to rejoice with one another, weep with one another, and most importantly pray with one another. Let us ...

Creative Renewal

Monday, April 14th, 2008 | No Comments

Most Amazing Creator God;Maker of all that ever was and all that ever will be.Maker of us.Let our cry come right into your presence.We are dry, Father. Our creative juices are parched.Our newness seems old. Our freshness seems stale.Refreshen us. Renew us.Provide us with the insight of Your Holy Word.Fire our creativity with Your ...

For the Lost

Monday, April 7th, 2008 | No Comments

Lord I pray for the lost in many ways: First, those who do not know you yet. Father, that You would surround this city and it’s disciples with ministering angels to guide and direct your massive plan of redemption. God, secondly I pray for the evangelism that is lost in this city. Lord, that ...

A Trusting Church

Monday, March 31st, 2008 | No Comments

Father, make us a church that trusts you. As we look around us in this city and as we see people hurting and scared in the midst of uncertain times. Let our trust in you be contagious. Let us be the ones who lean on you in spite of difficult economic situations ...

Seeds

Monday, March 24th, 2008 | No Comments

Father,Thank you for the time of celebration that Easter brings. Thank you that across this city and county people sat and heard your word. Perhaps out of obligation or family pressure or tradition but whatever the reason people across Miami were exposed to your word and your Spirit as they came to a ...

Easter Week

Monday, March 17th, 2008 | No Comments

Church of Miami - Live in the freedom that came at great cost to our Savior. Love the people you spend your moments with this week so that they would see Christ’s love in you. Don’t take for granted how much God loves you! Be overwhelmed by His amazing Grace and let your ...

Our Spiritual Coma

Monday, March 10th, 2008 | No Comments

“Oh, how deaf and blind you are toward me! Why won’t you listen? Why do you refuse to see? Who in all the world is as blind as my own people, my servant? Who is as deaf as my messengers? Who is as blind as my chosen people, the servant of the Lord? ...

Prayer for Miami’s Economy

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 | No Comments

Father,We trust and know that all is your hands. Place your protection over this city and the people here, Lord. Provide for those who are impoverished and press upon those whom you’ve blessed so they would be your hands reaching out to those in need. Make all of us in your church ...

Prayer for Miami Students

Monday, February 25th, 2008 | No Comments

LORD, PROTECT OUR STUDENTS! You have made Miami-Dade County home to over 340 Public Schools and a dozen Colleges/Universities serving more than half a million students. This nation has been witness to too many schoolyard and campus tragedies over the past year. Surround our entire student body with your shield. Provide opportunities of fellowship for ...

Prayer for Miami

Monday, February 18th, 2008 | No Comments

Father, You have placed us here in Miami at this time. This is a city you have created as a beacon to the world. The global influence you have given to this city is evident. Convict us, Lord, to your work here in this city and through this city. Open our ears. ...

Prayer to Live God

Monday, February 11th, 2008 | No Comments

God I’m so amazed at how you show up in my life and thoughts when I just take time to stop, be still and reflect on all the things you have guided me through in my life. How can I live without You? I’m sorry God if I have taken You and Your presence ...

Prayer for the Heart of God

Monday, January 28th, 2008 | 1 Comments

FATHER, what makes you euphorically thrilled? What makes you angry? What bores you or excites you? What are you passions and desires? What puts an amused smile on your face or causes to you laugh out loud? What makes you shake your head in disgust or lower your eyes and ...

Prayer for Creative Arts & Writers

Monday, January 14th, 2008 | 1 Comments

Most Amazing Creator God; Maker of all that ever was and all that ever will be.We lift up the creativity of your writers this day for the City of Miami.May their words find your inspiration. May their sentences be filled with your joy.May their paragraphs reflect your passion.May their pages reveal your love for this ...

Physical Protection for Miami

Monday, January 7th, 2008 | No Comments

Lord, thank you for protecting our city during this and last year’s hurricane seasons. I pray that this does not make our citizens complacent in the future and you give us the wisdom and resources to always be prepared for any type of hazard. I ask you that you also keep all our visitors ...

A Prayer for the Right Kind of Prayer

Monday, December 31st, 2007 | No Comments

FATHER, we have not because we ask not. But then you’ve also said we have not because we ask with selfish motives (James 4:3). Lord, how do we take the “self” out of our prayers? How do we pray in such a way as to reflect your heart and your mind; your will ...

The Church in Miami

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 | No Comments

Praying with you specifically for the Church in Miami – wherever it be found.For the people of Christ and the response of the Church to those in need, for the people of Christ and the ministry to children, the elderly, and the poor; for the people of Christ and the penetration of the Church into ...

The Homeless

Monday, December 17th, 2007 | No Comments

For the homeless:Pray for those without a place to call home in Miami. Pray for our veterans, our mentally ill, and those pushed out by the high cost of living–pray that each will find a place in the city.Pray for those who attend and those who serve at the Downtown Mission that all will feel ...

Prayer for At Risk Children

Monday, December 10th, 2007 | 3 Comments

Father, You are our Father and you have adopted us as your children while we are yet sinners. As we consider the blessings in our lives and the love you have shown us may we be reminded of the many people in this city who don’t know you. Lord as we ...

Prayer for Artists

Monday, December 3rd, 2007 | 1 Comments

Father, you are our Creator God. You formed the universe with your word and from your imagination gave us life. You formed us in your image and gave us the unique ability to imagine and create. Thank you, Lord, for the inspiration of your creative spirit. Father, I ask that you ...

Sean Taylor

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 | No Comments

I know our LORD is pleased when we pray. He has chosen prayer as a means for us to join HIM in HIS work; and to use us to accomplish HIS work. He wants us to be available to HIM to touch the lives of others through our prayers and our acts of love and ...

Forgiveness and Healing

Monday, November 26th, 2007 | No Comments

Father you tell us in 2Chronicles7:14 “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and heal their land”. Father we want to claim this prayer in the mighty ...

Prayer for Prayer

Sunday, November 18th, 2007 | 3 Comments

FATHER…I pray for prayer. Before any other ministry for which the Church in Miami could possibly organize, I first and foremost pray for prayer. Before we plan, program, or strategize, I pray for prayer. In your wisdom and grace, may you cause in us a profound sense of our own inadequacies and ...

Musical Arts

Sunday, November 11th, 2007 | 1 Comments

It says in Your word that You are love. There are many times Ihear artists singing songs in this city about falling in love or thelove of a brother or sister, but when will they figure it out? God thiscity knows You, but they do not know it is You. The fact that ...

Fullness of Life and Power in Miami

Monday, October 29th, 2007 | 1 Comments

“When I think of the wisdom and scope of God’s plan, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. I pray from his glorious, unlimited resources he will give you mighty inner strength through his Holy Spirit. And I pray that Christ ...

Vision and Willingness

Monday, October 22nd, 2007 | No Comments

Oh Lord that we would respond to you. Father, lift the veil from our eyes so that we – your followers who you have placed here in Miami – would see you at work and respond in obedience to what you are calling us to. Thank you Lord that we are able to ...

Awaken and Join Together the Church in Miami

Monday, October 15th, 2007 | No Comments

Lord, continue to awaken your church in Miami. Call us out to be alive, refreshed, renewed, and active here in this place where you have put us. Let us, the body of believers here in Miami, join together in your Spirit as we pray for each other and for this city. Continue ...

Beauty of Creation in Miami

Monday, October 8th, 2007 | No Comments

Lord, thank you for the blessings you have reigned down on this city. Thank you for the beauty that surrounds us. Thank you for beaches, the bays, the ocean; thank you for the amazing array of plants and animals which thrive in this area. Let us not take your creation for granted. ...

Conviction for Prayer

Monday, October 1st, 2007 | No Comments

Lord show us how to pray. Show us how you would have us pray for this city – this place where you have put us right now. Convict our hearts and send your Spirit to guide our prayers for our families, our neighbors, our friends, our work colleagues, and this city. May ...

Protection over the Protectors

Monday, September 17th, 2007 | No Comments

Father, cover those men and women whom you have placed in leadership over this city. Give them wisdom and discernment as they make decisions that will guide the future of Miami. Protect the men and women who serve to protect the citizens of Miami. Comfort them as they mourn the loss of ...

Embrace the Children

Monday, September 3rd, 2007 | No Comments

Father,Protect the children of Miami. Place your hand over the next generation. Guard them from anyone who would seek to harm them. Surround them with people who will pour out your love over them. Give hope to the hopeless and love to the fatherless. Convict the hearts of the Christ ...

Forgive our Apathy

Monday, August 27th, 2007 | No Comments

Father,I am convicted. I am convicted of my apathy about the city and the place where you have placed me right now. I am also convinced that you care deeply for Miami and the people who live here. Forgive me. Forgive me for not caring. Forgive me for ignoring your ...

Prayer for Prayer

Friday, January 5th, 2007 | No Comments

FATHER…I pray for prayer. Before any other ministry for which the Church in Miami could possibly organize, I first and foremost pray for prayer. Before we plan, program, or strategize, I pray for prayer. In your wisdom and grace, may you cause in us a profound sense of our own inadequacies and an acknowledgment of ...