Prayer for Church Unity

Monday, October 3rd, 2016 | No Comments

Father God, We pray for our city, Miami, in all her different faces, cultures, and races. We cry out to You to draw Your Church in Miami together across those divides. May we learn from each other to celebrate how differently beautiful you have created us. Let Your Church in Miami rise up together to show ... Read More »

Prayer for Fathers

Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 | No Comments

Father God, You are our Heavenly Father and there is none other who can compare to you.  Yet you have graced many of us with filling the role of earthly Father in our families and within our communities.  It is an awesome and terrifying privilege and responsibility.  This is a special prayer this week for the ... Read More »

Prayer for Peace

Monday, November 4th, 2013 | No Comments

Father God, Pour out Your Peace across Miami. Unify the Church of Miami so that we would demonstrate Your Peace to the city and so that Peace would be more than just a word in this city but rather a tangible presence. Fill the lives of each of us with Your Spirit so ... Read More »

A Prayer for Your Miami

Monday, October 21st, 2013 | No Comments

Father, Miami is Your city.  It’s not governed by materialism or poverty or drugs or wealth or super-stardom or lust – it’s governed by Your Spirit.  Your kingdom is here.  My we live as children of Your kingdom. Will you renew our churches, O Lord?  Will you restore our broken lives, O Lord?  Will you reconcile our ... Read More »

Prayer for Humble Leadership

Monday, October 7th, 2013 | No Comments

Father God, Raise up the leaders of your Church in Miami and let them put you, not themselves or their ministries, first in all they do. Draw them close to you. Renew those leaders in your Church who have been in Miami for years and are tired. Fill them with a tangible and ... Read More »

A Prayer for Families: Part II

Sunday, September 29th, 2013 | No Comments

Father, I pray for the families in Miami. I pray specifically for parents who are over scheduled with activities that bear no fruit for their families. Help them to shift their focus to what’s important, to You Lord. We ask that You stir their hearts for quality conversations, for prayer and studying your Word, to ... Read More »

A Prayer for Families

Tuesday, September 24th, 2013 | No Comments

Psalm 29:11 The Lord gives strength to his people; the Lord blesses his people with peace. Father we pray for Your tender heart to bring healing and restoration to homes with families who struggle to speak to one another in love and who find it hard to spend any time together. We ask for Your physical ... Read More »

A Prayer for the Children of Miami

Monday, July 15th, 2013 | No Comments

“Restore them, O God almighty make your face shine upon them, that they may be saved.” Psalm 80:3 Father, we believe that your voice still speaks and says “Let the children come to me for theirs is the Kingdom of God.” We believe this to be true and we know that tucked away in your heart ... Read More »

A Prayer for the Lost

Monday, July 8th, 2013 | No Comments

Father God, thank you for the beauty you provide to us in Miami. Thank you for allowing us to feast our eyes on the array of colors, the lush vegetation and the warm sea. Thank you for the sunsets, for the shadows the palm trees cast in the sky at dusk. Your creativity has no ... Read More »

A Prayer for the Diversity of Miami

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 | No Comments

You see the beauty that lies beyond our brokenness.Lord, help us see beyond the brokenness of Miami to the beauty that lies beneath. In your amazing grace, You forgave all our sinsand the sins of all who are repentant.Lord, make us instruments of your forgiveness as we show the grace you showed us to our fellow Miamians. Through your ... Read More »

Prayer for the Creators

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 | No Comments

Father God, you are the Creator God and you have chosen to extend to us, your creation, the ability to create.  We thank you for that gift and all the ways it manifests itself throughout your kingdom.  This week we lift up the people you have placed in Miami who find expression in the creative arts ... Read More »

Prayer to Love Our Neighbors

Thursday, May 2nd, 2013 | No Comments

Father God, You command us first to love You and then to love our Neighbors – those people created in your image who you have place around us.  Father give us Your Spirit and with it Your wisdom, Your will, Your strength, and Your Love so that we may truly Love our neighbors.  If Your Church ... Read More »

Prayer Over Our Diversity

Wednesday, May 1st, 2013 | No Comments

Check it out, God. How is that each of us is made in Your image, yet we are all so different? We think differently, feel differently, eat differently, worship differently. No two of us have even the same set of fingerprints. How beyond us it is to fathom that You are behind it all, behind ... Read More »

Prayer for Your Vision

Friday, April 26th, 2013 | No Comments

“Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Proverbs 29:18 Lord, we pray today for time with you.  Lord that we would pause and seek Your face.  That we would then see Your face, eyes wide open to then be directed to see what you see in Miami.  Where is your focus, Lord?  Where should we ... Read More »

Prayer for those in Power

Monday, April 22nd, 2013 | No Comments

Lord – we know that You are most high and sovereign. We lift up those you have placed in a position of authority to help govern our city.  We pray that you would guide the work of their hands, hearts, and minds – that you would give them a fresh burden to promote peace and ... Read More »

Prayer for Gratitude

Sunday, April 21st, 2013 | No Comments

Dear Lord, Today is another opportunity for us to choose to see You in everything, to know that regardless of the situation we face, we can thank You in it. We thank You FOR Miami – her beauty, her people, her productivity and we thank You IN Miami – the dark places, the wrong choices, the ... Read More »

Prayer For Wisdom With Knowledge

Friday, April 19th, 2013 | No Comments

Father God, Thank you once again for the gift of the ability to learn. Thank you for the opportunities available to us to grow in depth of knowledge here in Miami. Lord, we pray that as we grow in depth of knowledge, that we would also seek to grow in wisdom. Your Word says in ... Read More »

Prayer for Value

Thursday, April 18th, 2013 | No Comments

Dear God, Today we give thanks for the knowledge given by You and applied by our students as they completed a week of standardized testing. Bless them now with extra rest, relaxation and play! We pray that regardless of scores, each one would know that they are created by Your design and are here on purpose. ... Read More »

Prayer for Boston (and Miami)

Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 | No Comments

Father, We consider the tragedy that happened yesterday in Boston.  We think of the fear and pain and loss that is being suffered in the wake of that event.  Please cover the families in Boston (and elsewhere) who were affected with Your hand so that they would experience unexplainable peace in the midst of their grief ... Read More »

A Prayer to Bless Education

Sunday, April 14th, 2013 | No Comments

Father, Your Word instructs us to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.” So learning is loving. And further, learning is a pathway to loving You. Help us to be life-long studiers of You. Give us the will to be disciplined in how we make time to sit with ... Read More »

Prayer for Your Touch

Thursday, April 11th, 2013 | No Comments

Oh Lord, our Lord, Miami’s Lord, You are the Most High, the Most Sovereign, the Most Gracious, the Most Benevolent, the Most Powerful, the Most Almighty. You are capable of things we can only dream of seeing happen in our city because you are capable of invisible things we cannot even dream. Oh that You would ... Read More »

Your Pleasure

Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 | No Comments

Father God, You have brought together people from all nations and melted all their cultures together here in this place. It creates strife but it creates wonder as well.  What a special plan you must have for this city.  Give us a sense of your pleasure with this place.  We don’t need to be reminded of ... Read More »

Love for Miami

Saturday, April 6th, 2013 | 2 Comments

Lord, You love Miami. You love her because you love the people who call her their home as well as those who find their way here for rest, relaxation and celebration. You have chosen to position Miami as a leading city in the world, and for that we must pray for her. We ask that ... Read More »

Prayer for the Quiet Ones

Monday, March 26th, 2012 | No Comments

Father, Please hear us voice our prayers for the voiceless in Miami.  We lift the quiet ones to you: the children, the orphans, the abused, the neglected, the ignored, the broken, the elderly, the lonely, the hopeless, and more.  Miami is full of them all, and we ask that you break our heart for them.  Show ... Read More »

Prayer for Faithfulness

Monday, March 19th, 2012 | No Comments

Father God, It is so hard for us to not hang our lives on what we see with our eyes. Yet how glorious it is when we can hang confidently on the unseen reality of your kingdom.  Give us, Your Church in Miami, the strength to “see” beyond the wisdom and expectations of the world and ... Read More »

Prayer for Peace on Earth

Saturday, December 24th, 2011 | No Comments

In the midst of personal tragedy and surrounded by the Civil War Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes in his poem “Christmas Bells”: And in despair I bowed my head; “There is no peace on earth,” I said; “For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!” Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: “God is not ... Read More »

Prayer for Health

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011 | No Comments

Father, As Your Church in Miami we pray for the health of Your Body – Your Church – here in this city.  We are not well, and we cry out for your healing.  Your Church in Miami is weak and distracted, but we seek your presence to make us One in You and make us right ... Read More »

Prayer for Blinders

Monday, August 8th, 2011 | No Comments

Father, Please give us – Your Church in Miami – full focus on you.  Place blinders on each of us so that the only one drawing our attention is You.  May we be fulling trusting for You to take the reins and and Reign in our lives.  May our lives and all our efforts be moving ... Read More »

Prayer for Prayer

Monday, June 27th, 2011 | No Comments

Almighty Father, Refresh in me a spirit of prayer and humility.   Refresh Your Church in Miami with a spirit of prayer and then renew this city of Miami. Let us fall to our knees and cry out to you in expectation of your great mercy.  Humble us and teach us to love our neighbors as we ... Read More »

Prayer for Easter

Monday, May 2nd, 2011 | No Comments

Father, Its been a week since we celebrated the glorious resurrection of Christ yet so many of us are still hesitating at the mouth of the tomb looking out.  Through your grace we have been raised with Christ yet we watch as He walks out into a resurrected life to usher your kingdom into this world. ... Read More »

Prayer for Hearts

Monday, March 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Father God, You are the ultimate source of life.  We pray that you would fill the hearts of your people in Miami with that life and with Your Love.  May the hearts of your Church in Miami beat together in unison with Your heart.  May we feel sorrow where you feel sorrow and joy where you ... Read More »

Prayer for Unity

Monday, March 21st, 2011 | No Comments

Romans 15: 5-7 5 May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had, 6 so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 7 Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted ... Read More »

Prayer for Japan

Monday, March 14th, 2011 | 1 Comments

Almighty God, give us pause to unite in prayer for our brothers and sister on the other side of the globe who are in despair in the midst of tragedy.  We lift up the survivors whose lives have been overturned.  Thank you, Lord, that you are a rock and a firm foundation in the midst of ... Read More »

Prayer for You

Monday, February 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Psalm 70:4 4 But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation always say, “Let God be exalted!” Jesus, You save us everyday.  You save us from walking in sin…from pursuing our desires over Yours…from the kingdoms of this world.  You are Savior. We ask ... Read More »

Prayer for a Net

Sunday, February 20th, 2011 | No Comments

Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish. Matthew 13:46-48 Father God, In the power of  Your Spirit thread your way through the city of Miami.  We pray, Father, that you not let us accept the lie that our church, our parish, our ... Read More »

Prayer for Shelter

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011 | No Comments

Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.  Psalm 91:1-3 Father,  how blessed are we that we might have opportunity to dwell in your shelter and rest in your shadow.  Please don’t let us take that for granted or not take the opportunity at all.  Many of ... Read More »

Prayer for the Dreams

Sunday, January 16th, 2011 | No Comments

“They said one to another behold here cometh the dreamer.  Let us slay him and we shall see what will become of his dreams.”  Genesis 37:19-20 (inscribed on the plaque at the Lorraine Motel commemorating the assassination of MLK Jr) Father, charge us – Your Church in Miami – to grasp Your dreams of peace and ... Read More »

Prayer for the Unexpected

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010 | 2 Comments

Oh Father God, You are so faithful and so unpredictable! How could any mortal mind dream that the answer to the chaos, violence, hatred, and guilt of this world would come in the form of a little baby.  And yet you dropped this baby right into the midst of us and for two thousand years the ... Read More »

Prayer for the Dreamers

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010 | 1 Comments

Father, We lift up the dreamers – those to whom you have given a vision and a dream for Miami.  May your Spirit and your Word test and purify those dreams like a fire.  Burn away anything that would distract your bride – your Church in Miami – from you.  Smash anything that would turn her ... Read More »

Prayer for the Elderly

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 | 2 Comments

Jesus, We ask for the older generations in Miami to be cared for, to be loved well, to be honored in their latter years. Pour out Your Spirit upon Your children so that old men will dream dreams again.  That they may bear much fruit in their old age. For those in your Church of Miami who are ... Read More »

Prayer for Your City

Monday, October 25th, 2010 | No Comments

Jesus, Miami is Your city.  It’s not governed by materialism or poverty or drugs or wealth or super-stardom or lust – it’s governed by Your Spirit.  Your kingdom is here.  My we live as children of Your kingdom. Will you renew our churches, O Lord?  Will you restore our broken lives, O Lord?  Will you reconcile our ... Read More »

Prayer for Busyness

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 | No Comments

Father God, Lead us in humility and obedience to live out your kingdom in Miami.  Let us be fully consumed in busyness.   Not the busyness most of us are used to – the distractions and cluttering details that press in us daily – but rather make us busy with the work of your kingdom.  May ... Read More »

Prayer against Dignity

Monday, September 20th, 2010 | No Comments

Oh Father, please let us exchange a dignified drip of love for an unpredictable and powerful flow of overwhelming love and compassion for the city of Miami.  Let us not be restrained by our own pride.  Forgive us, Your Church, because we have forsaken an undignified love for you, for your creation, and for the lost ... Read More »

Prayer for Connection

Monday, September 13th, 2010 | No Comments

Father, Knit your followers together across the city of Miami.  Change our hearts.  Renew our minds.  Connect us, the followers of Christ in Miami, in a way that will glorify your name and cause Miami to shine in the light of your glory.  Forgive our segregation and suspicions of one another where and whenever they occur. ... Read More »

Prayer for Comfort

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 | No Comments

Psalm 94:19  ”When doubts filled my mind, your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer.” Father God, Unless our hope is in you we have no hope.  Unless you comfort us we are overcome with doubt and riddled with anxiety.  Regardless of the conditions around us may we be filled by your peace, Father.  Your peace extends so ... Read More »

Prayer for Hope

Monday, July 26th, 2010 | 1 Comments

“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.” – Romans 8:18 “Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.”- Martin Luther King Jr. Father God, Thank you for stirring within Your Church in Miami.  Forgive us our sins: of comfort, of neglect, of ... Read More »

Prayer for Oneness

Monday, June 7th, 2010 | No Comments

Romans 15:5-6 - 5May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus, 6so that with one heart and mouth you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Father, Give your Church in Miami one heart and one mouth.  May we glorify God ... Read More »

Prayer for the Frontlines

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 | 2 Comments

Father, Father, we pray for peace – Your Peace – to come over this world.  We pray for the end of physical war and we pray for the families and friends who have lost loved ones in those wars.  We lift up those who are serving or who have loved ones serving in battle.  This week ... Read More »

Prayer for Urgency

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 | No Comments

Father, We pray, as your Church in Miami, that you not let us forget how short time is.  Let us not be so absorbed by the trivial things that we fail to realize your calling on our every moment.  Father we ask that you would instill us each with a profound sense of urgency to bond ... Read More »

Prayer for the Exxxotic

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 | 2 Comments

Father, We come before you in the name of Jesus Christ who took all our sin upon himself so that we might be reconciled to you.  Its through that amazing grace and incredible mercy that we humble ourselves before you.  In you, through Christ, we find freedom, peace, hope, provision, security, forgiveness, healing and love.  You ... Read More »

Prayer for the Nation

Thursday, May 6th, 2010 | No Comments

Lord, We are thankful for the abundant blessings You have bestowed on America.  Our forefathers looked to You as Protector, Provider, and the Promise of hope.  But we have wandered far from that firm foundation.  May we repent for turning our backs on Your faithfulness. We pray that this great nation will be restored by Your forgiveness. From ... Read More »

Prayer for Expectancy

Monday, April 26th, 2010 | No Comments

Father, We pray together as Your Church in Miami – the Bride of Christ – whom you have placed here in this city right at this moment.  We come before you humble in our sinfulness and insufficiency.  We also come before you joyfully grateful for your grace and mercy and the redeeming sacrifice of Christ by ... Read More »

Prayer for Sight

Monday, April 19th, 2010 | 1 Comments

Lord God, May we, your church,  fall before you.  Remove the blindness from our eyes so that we may see.  Allow us to see your Kingdom at work around us throughout this city.  Allow us to see the Enemy at work in the city around us so that we would be vigilant in pursuing your ways, ... Read More »

Prayer for Resurrection

Monday, April 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Great are you, Lord and worthy of praise! Across Miami people are being reconciled into relationship with you.  Build your Church in Miami, Father.  Fill this city with new life as your Spirit rains down in the lives of those of us who once were dead but now are alive in Christ.  Let us go out ... Read More »

Prayer for Sadness

Monday, March 29th, 2010 | 3 Comments

Father God, Make us sad.  Don’t allow us, your Church, to become so busy “getting ready” for Easter that we miss the pain around us.  Give us a glimpse of Your sadness as you watch your children in Miami die in sin while your church makes plans for spring break or beautiful Easter events.  Let us ... Read More »

Prayer for Marking

Monday, March 22nd, 2010 | 1 Comments

Father God, We unite in prayer as your Church in Miami this week.  We continue to marvel at your grace in our lives and we are humbled by your affection for us.  We pray together in Thanksgiving for your mercies and the fullness your love creates in our lives.  We ask, Lord God, that you would ... Read More »

Prayer for Freedom

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 | 1 Comments

Savior, Lord, Your Grace is sufficient.  Why do we pursue everything else?  How ungrateful are we?  How shallow?  How wanting?  Even in striving to pursue you we are so easily deceived by the enemy.  Our striving seems little more than vanity.  We, your Church in Miami, pray for freedom to worship.  Not civil freedom but spiritual ... Read More »

Prayer for Others

Monday, March 8th, 2010 | No Comments

“Others” By Charles D. Meigs (written sometime between 1890 and 1902) Lord help me live from day to day In such a self-forgetful way That even when I kneel to pray My prayer shall be for – Others. Help me in all the work I do To ever be sincere and true And know that all I do for you Must needs be done ... Read More »

Prayer for Chile

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Father, Again we are reminded how fragile our lives are.  We, your Church in Miami, humble ourselves before you and lift up our neighbors in Chile.  It is stunning for us to witness the frailty of those things we consider so secure and lasting.  So, Father, as we petition for the families in Chile and in ... Read More »

Prayer for Rhythm

Monday, February 22nd, 2010 | 1 Comments

Father, Tune our ears and hearts to you.  May we, your Church, be sensitive to the movements and patterns of your Spirit this week and always.  May we pause in anticipation of our moment brought forth in the raising of your hand.  Our desire, Lord, is that you conduct our lives and the renewal of Miami. ... Read More »

Prayer for Childlikeness

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 | 1 Comments

Abba Father, Poppa, Remind us, your Church, to be children.  Let us watch you with awe.  Let us bathe in newness of all that you do.  Let us realize that we accomplish so little on our own and by contrast how much you are doing.  Allow us to submit our hands into yours and feel you ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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. ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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. ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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. ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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. Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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. ... Read More »

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, ... Read More »

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. ... Read More »

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. ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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). ... Read More »

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, ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

Prayer for the Hopeless

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 | 2 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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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? ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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. ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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. ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »