Constant prayer, day 10
Topic: Prayer

Today's emphasis for the Ten Days of Constant Prayer is God's blessing.

For the promised blessing of Christ among all people.

For His Church:
*For Christians to live with expectancy for the ancient promise of blessing to be fulfilled, seeing transformation of their communities and countries.
*For churches to work together in unity, co-working with God to change lives, cities and nations.

For our world:
*For the righteousness and justice of God to transform the ways of commerce and politics, cleansing whole societies from the curse of corruption.
*For the peace of Christ's kingdon to change the way cities and nations are governed.
*For the joy of Christ's life to flourish throughout every people group on earth!

***I am particularly interested in this way of praying for God's blessing, as I went to a mini conference on it back in April. In 2 weeks, Charles and I are going to a prayer conference where this same speaker will be teaching again. I will report on it after we go.

Today is the last day of the Ten Days of Constant Prayer. Our church is doing a 24 hour prayer 'marathon' with people praying around the clock from sundown on Friday evening til sundown on Saturday evening. Tomorrow is Pentecost, originally a Jewish holy day designed to give to God the first 'fruits' of the first harvest of produce. Today, as Chrisitans, we can see how God also produced on that first Pentecost after Jesus died and rose again, the first harvest of Christians worldwide. He sent the Holy Spirit to indwell all who give their lives to Him. The Holy Spirit prompted the disciples to preach the good news of Jesus to those who were gathered in Jerusalem for Pentecost, bringing their first fruits. Each of these people groups heard the message in their own language and God reaped a powerful harvest of believers from all over the known world, who then went back to further spread the gospel.

Tomorrow, you can check out all that is happening with the Global Day of Prayer U.S. and all of the world.