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Monthly Prayer Calendars:
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Prayer for Unity at UWorship 2002
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Connection : CU Prayer. Sometimes a little organization can go a long way in developing our prayer life further. Well, you now have a new power tool for prayer! Prayer Calendars are linked on the left. Please use them however you and your group might most benefit. Whenever your ministry has corporate prayer meetings you could lift up whichever ministry is listed for that date. Use it in your quiet times to intercede for other Christians on campus. Consider fasting and praying corporately as a ministry for your own group on the date it's listed on the Prayer Calendar, which is when others will be praying for your group, too. The Prayer Calendar is only starting place for however the Holy Spirit might direct you to pray. We have great expectations for what might happen as a result of concerted, unified prayer across campus! For that reason, the Prayer Evaluation Form, which is also linked at left, will help us to document for the history books where we are now and what happens in the future as a result of our praying. We're asking the leader of every Christian ministry to fill it out and return it to Kristin Lyon (see details on the form itself). Lastly, let's consider why any of this matters in the first place: Why is prayer important? Chuck Swindoll answered such a question this way: "First, prayer is important because it refocuses our perspective. Without prayer, we see only the visible; with prayer, Gods shows us the hidden dimensions of life. "Second, it quiets our fears and calms our nerves. We may come to prayer fearful and anxious, but when we give our worries to the Lord, we come away calmed and assured (Philippians 4:6-7)."Third, prayer transfers our burdens. It takes the big load we've been carrying and shifts it to the shoulders that can handle its weight (Matthew 11:28-29; 1 Peter 5:7). "Fourth, prayer upholds others who are in need. It is the way we help bear one another's burdens and lift them to the One who knows best." |