City of Refuge Fellowship

Over the next 40 days City of Refuge Fellowship is joining with thousands of other believers around the world in a prayer focus called Seek God for the City.

Seek God for the City is a prayer guide “designed to help everyday believers pray beyond their daily needs and further than their fears. ” We are joining together to ask God to do supernatural things in the city of Burlington. We invite you to join with us in praying for Burlington and for your community.

Each day we will post the daily prayer theme and a prayer highlight from the day.

Week 4: Seeking His righteousness in our communities

Day 29: Seek God for His Spirit to empower His people

Father, “Send Your Spirit upon Your people. Plant seeds of hope in the hearts of the downcast. Cause them to grow quickly and spread widely, implanting righteousness where there was none. Raise them up to rebuild the devastated communities, even those considered dead for many generations.” 

We have set aside every Tuesday as a day of prayer for our National leaders: President Obama, the Senate and the Congress. Each week we present a specific focus, birthed from Scripture, that we can agree and pray together.

Father,  I pray that every decision our National Leaders make comes into agreement with Your Word and Your plans and purpose for our nation. I pray that they would submit to the authority of Christ and allow Christ to be their head.

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when a wicked man rules the people groan. Proverbs 29:2

Therefore, I will exhort that first of all supplication, prayers, intercessions, and giving thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may live quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior.  I Timothy 2:1-3

Over the next 40 days City of Refuge Fellowship is joining with thousands of other believers around the world in a prayer focus called Seek God for the City.

Seek God for the City is a prayer guide “designed to help everyday believers pray beyond their daily needs and further than their fears. ” We are joining together to ask God to do supernatural things in the city of Burlington. We invite you to join with us in praying for Burlington and for your community.

Each day we will post the daily prayer theme and a prayer highlight from the day.

Week 4: Seeking His righteousness in our communities

Day 27: Seek God to intervene to bring forth justice

Heavenly Father, “We call on You to intervene in the lives and affairs of our city. Establish Your righteousness by transforming people to become like You. Reshape our minds to value Your goodness. Penetrate our hearts with Your compassion.”

When our hope is in Christ we have the courage to trust, obey and follow Him. We daily have opportunities to walk in the hope of God’s love and His promises for our lives or to be distracted by the circumstances that we don’t understand and can’t control. Number 13 tells us about the 12 spies that were sent to spy out the Promised Land before Israel entered in. Ten of those spies returned and announced that the land was good, it was fruitful and it was everything God had promised, but those good things were not enough to keep them from putting their attention on the obstacles they saw. They reported that the cities were large and fortified, that the armies were strong and that there were even giants in the land. Ten of those spies determined that while the land was what God had promised, the obstacles were too large, they could not go in and possess the land.

Joshua and Caleb, the other two spies saw the exact same things but they put their attention on the promises and goodness of God rather than the obstacles. They were adamant, not that  there were no obstacles but rather that God would overcome the obstacles for them. Our lives will be filled with moments like these, moments in which we have to decide if we will trust and hope in God’s greatness or succumb to our fear and the circumstances around us. Hope gives us the strength to risk difficulty and hardship knowing that God will do what He has said He would do.

I pray today that we will remember these three things about hope and walk forward into being risk-takers for the Kingdom of God:

1. Hope starts with a promise

2. Hope is always tested

3. Hope always produces a reward

Don’t shrink back today, don’t give up and don’t live in fear or safety; hope in God, trust in His love and step out in faith. There is a risk to be taken for the Kingdom of God and there is a reward to be reaped through obedience. “Hope does not disappoint.”

This Friday night, March 12th, is our next Community Worship Night. We will be meeting at the Knights of Columbus, located at 366 East Broad Street at 7:00 for a time of corporate worship. Please come out and bring a friend with you to enjoy God’s presence and hear His heart for us and our community.

Over the next 40 days City of Refuge Fellowship is joining with thousands of other believers around the world in a prayer focus called Seek God for the City.

Seek God for the City is a prayer guide “designed to help everyday believers pray beyond their daily needs and further than their fears. ” We are joining together to ask God to do supernatural things in the city of Burlington. We invite you to join with us in praying for Burlington and for your community.

Each day we will post the daily prayer theme and a prayer highlight from the day.

Week 3: Seeking His glory in evangelizing all peoples

Day 24: Seek God that many would know and follow Him

Today we pray:

-For the Holy Spirit to set the hearts of many to seek and know Jesus

-For disciple-making laborers to be raised up to serve and sustain new Christward movements.

Over the next 40 days City of Refuge Fellowship is joining with thousands of other believers around the world in a prayer focus called Seek God for the City.

Seek God for the City is a prayer guide “designed to help everyday believers pray beyond their daily needs and further than their fears. ” We are joining together to ask God to do supernatural things in the city of Burlington. We invite you to join with us in praying for Burlington and for your community.

Each day we will post the daily prayer theme and a prayer highlight from the day.

Week 3: Seeking His glory in evangelizing all peoples

Day 23: Seek God for every people group to hear the gospel

“‘Return to your house and describe what great things God has done for you.’ So he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.” Luke 8:39

Lord Jesus, “One man reported to his own people the things You did for him. The message went beyond his household so that the whole city heard. Do this same thing in our city. May one relay the gospel to another, and then throughout their households. Resound the word through neighborhoods and networks of friends. Fill our entire community with fresh tellings of the gospel. And from our city, send the message to every place You want it to go on earth.”  

This Friday night, March 12th, is our next Community Worship Night. We will be meeting at the Knights of Columbus, located at 366 East Broad Street at 7:00 for a time of corporate worship. Please come out and bring a friend with you to enjoy God’s presence and hear His heart for us and our community.

Over the next 40 days City of Refuge Fellowship is joining with thousands of other believers around the world in a prayer focus called Seek God for the City.

Seek God for the City is a prayer guide “designed to help everyday believers pray beyond their daily needs and further than their fears. ” We are joining together to ask God to do supernatural things in the city of Burlington. We invite you to join with us in praying for Burlington and for your community.

Each day we will post the daily prayer theme and a prayer highlight from the day.

Week 3: Seeking His glory in evangelizing all peoples

Day 22: Seek God to be recognized and honored by leaders

Heavenly Father, “we pray that they would submit their governance to Your greater wisdom. Give them hope in Your majesty as Judge of all the earth. May they come to honor You openly. And as they find true refuge in You, protect and encourage them. Bless the cities and lands they lead for Your glory. . . Lord Jesus, guide our leaders to give You glory . . . Reveal Yourself so that leaders honor You as the only One worthy of the world’s worship.”  

Over the next 40 days City of Refuge Fellowship is joining with thousands of other believers around the world in a prayer focus called Seek God for the City.

Seek God for the City is a prayer guide “designed to help everyday believers pray beyond their daily needs and further than their fears. ” We are joining together to ask God to do supernatural things in the city of Burlington. We invite you to join with us in praying for Burlington and for your community.

Each day we will post the daily prayer theme and a prayer highlight from the day.

Week 3: Seeking His glory in evangelizing all peoples

Day 21: Seek God to display His love and power by answered prayer

“Hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name, to fear You, as do Your people.” I  Kings 8:43

Heavenly Father, “we pray that You would hear and answer when lost people sincerely pray so that You will be glorified in their sight.”