Dear Friends,
As we start a new year we’d love to call you to pray for Lancashire!
We are seeing God at work across our region in many exciting ways; people finding faith, getting baptised, people experiencing freedom from addiction, whole families being drawn to Church, children, young people, young adults, students wanting to know more about Jesus.
In all of this we sense God is pouring out His Spirit in a fresh way and is calling His people to pray! As it says in 2 Chronicles 7v14:
‘…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 I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.’
We believe in the power of prayer and the power of coming together as a community of Christians across Lancashire.
From the 23rd January at 9pm we plan to have 48 hours of non-stop prayer that will culminate with Worship & Prayer at Preston Minster on the 25th January from 7.30pm-9pm.
We’ve created an online prayer room for people to sign up for one hour prayer slots. We’d love you to share this with your Church communities as we cover these 48 hours in prayer. Multiple people can sign up for the same prayer slot. You could open your Church buildings, encourage people to prayer walk your local area or to pray in their homes. We will send out some prayer resources nearer the time, but as an example the one hour prayer slot could be divided into 3 x 20 minute sections;
– Pray for your family, your Church, your community, your street, your place of work – Pray for another part of Lancashire with the prayer points that we’ll supply – Pray for the whole of Lancashire, believing God’s best for Lancashire and also listening to what
God might be saying over our county
To help other Christians pray for you and your Church community or organisation we’d ask you to send in prayer requests that we can share with others.
So here’s how you can get involved;
1. Share about this with your Church communities
2. Share the link and QR code so people can sign up for a prayer slot bit.ly/PrayforLancs
3. Send your Church prayer requests to petebaker@lifelancs.org for us to share with others
4. Commit to pray for the wider Church in Lancashire
5. Join us on the 25th January at 7.30-9pm for a night of worship and prayer at Preston Minster.
Let’s get praying!
Pete Baker
Co-senior Leader
Life Church Lancashire
bit.ly/PrayforLancs
