Let God Arise!

FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE KINGDOM

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Above all, let us cry out to God day and night for a new level of rigor and discipline among his people. Pray for a tough-minded but tender-hearted faith to embrace the small congregations and store fronts in the city. Let us pray for them, that God will provide them with a kingdom warfare consciousness, the rigorous kind of mentality that will allow urban disciples to adopt the necessary mindset to endure hardness and suffer in spiritual warfare for their communities. Let us pray for new levels of boldness and power, for new aggressive outreaches, for more dedicated and prevailing prayer movements among urban churches, and new networks of leadership and support that will link urban disciples of good will to mobilize their resources for maximum impact on the city. Intercede passionately to God to provide the resources for urban churches to initiate new outreaches of com- passion, justice, and peace on behalf of the homeless, oppressed, fatherless, the mentally challenged, those plagued with HIV and other communicable diseases, for the elderly, those sick and in prison and neglected. Pray for an outpouring of love from the Church that amazes and creates new hunger for Jesus in the lost, a kind of love that serves as a foundation to express and authen- ticate the Gospel of Christ. Pray that God will use the