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Welcome to the 30 Day Prayer Challenge!

We are so glad you have chosen to join us for what we know will be a blessing. While you can certainly participate without using this journal, we have created it as a tangible guide and memento of your personal 30 days of prayer.

Each page of this journal includes quotes about the days’ theme, suggested music to listen to, and a passage of scripture to help you focus on the theme for the day, but feel free to use other verses (Don’t forget to write them down!). Then, we begin a prayer to get you started.

Use the following pages as a place to write your prayers or to record your insights for each day or to create a visual prayer. If you need more room, there is also a link to additional blank pages you can download.

Unless you choose to share your journey with someone else, you will be the only one to see these pages. The prayers, insights, and visual prayers you record here are between you and God.

May you be richly blessed as you focus on prayer over the next 30 days!

Prayer Challenge


1. Praise – Psalm 150

2. Thanks – James 1:16-17

3. Confession – Psalm 66:18-19, 1 John 1:9

4. Forgive – Matthew 6:14-15

5. Renewal – Romans 12:1-2

6. Family – 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a

7. Enemies – Luke 6:27-28, 1 Peter 3:9

8. Pastor(s) – 1 Timothy 5:17

9. Local Church & Her Staff – Psalm 90:17

10. Elders – Hebrews 13:17-18

11. Missionaries – Luke 10:2-3, Ephesians 6:19-20

12. Persecuted Christians & Their Persecutors – Matthew 5:10,

Romans 12:14

13. President & Other Officials – 1 Timothy 2:1-3

14. Our Country & Those Who Protect Us (Military & Police) –

1 Timothy 2:1

15. Co-workers & Neighbors – 1 Timothy 2:1

16. Educators – 1 Timothy 2:1

17. Personal Needs – Philippians 4:6, 19

18. Changes to Make – Ephesians 4:22-24

19. Something to Do – 2 Thessalonians 1:11

20. Sharing the Gospel – Mark 5:19-20

21. The Sick – James 5:14

22. Expectant Mothers – Psalm 139:13-14

23. Eyes to See – Psalm 119:18, Ephesians 1:18-19a

24. Salvation of Unbelievers – 2 Peter 3:9

25. Orphans & Children in Foster Care – James 1:27

26. Widows – James 1:27

27. Protection – 2 Thessalonians 3:3, 5

28. Wisdom – James 1:5-8

29. Strength – Ephesians 6:10-13

30. More Praise – Revelation 19:5-7a


Praise the LORD.Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens.

Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness…Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.

Praise the LORD.Psalm 150

The more you praise God, the more you become God-conscious and absorbed in His greatness, wisdom, faithfulness, and love. Praise reminds you of all that God is able to do and of great things He has already done. –Wesley L. Duewel

SUGGESTED MUSICJesus, Name Above All Names God of WondersHow Great Thou Art Holy, Holy, Holy

Father,I acknowledge you as Creator and Savior. You are love, justice, mercy and grace. You are provider, strength, wisdom…[Continue with your own time of praise.]

PRAISE

Date:


Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not

change like shifting shadows.James 1:16-17

A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution. –Billy Graham

SUGGESTED MUSICGive Thanks For These Reasons

Thank You, Lord Count Your Blessings

Father,I thank you for giving me life and purpose. I thank you for providing a way of salvation. I thank you for…

THANKS

Date:


If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened; but God has surely listened and has heard my prayer.

Psalm 66:18-19

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:9

Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn’t mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God’s care. –Erwin Lutzer

SUGGESTED MUSICConfession Song (by Paul Hoover, Crossroads Community Church)

Prodigal Son, Father I Have Sinned (Eugene O’Reilly)Forgive Me (Anthony Evans)

Lord,Have mercy on me, a sinner. I have…

CONFESSION

Date:


For if you forgive other people when they sin against you,your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.Matthew 6:14-15

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. –C.S. Lewis

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. –Thomas Fuller

SUGGESTED MUSICForgiveness (Matthew West) A Heart that Forgives (Kevin LeVar)

Dear Forgiving Father,Help me to forgive those who have hurt me. Help me to forgive…

FORGIVE

Date:


Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy,to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your

true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world,but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test

and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.Romans 12:1-2

Renewing the mind is a… two-stage process. It involves taking off the old and replacing it with the new. The old is the lies you have learned to tell or were taught by those around you; it is the attitudes and ideas that have become a part of your thinking but do not reflect reality. The new is the truth. To renew your mind is to involve yourself in the process of allowing God to bring to the surface the lies you have mistakenly accepted and replace them with truth. To the degree that you do this, your behavior will be transformed. –Charles Stanley

SUGGESTED MUSICMagnificent Obsession (Stephen Curtis Chapman) Different (Micah Tyler)

Merciful Father,I offer myself to you as a living sacrifice. Transform me into the image of your Son…

RENEWAL

Date:


Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,

it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails.1 Corinthians 13:4-8a

If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion. –Richard Baxter

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian… and most of all, his family ought to know. –Dwight L. Moody

SUGGESTED MUSICFamily (TobyMac) The Family Prayer Song

Dear Heavenly Father,May my family become what you desire it to be. Lord, protect…

FAMILY

Date:


“But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.”

Luke 6:27-28

Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.

1 Peter 3:9

In Jesus and for Him, enemies and friends alike are to be loved. –Thomas a Kempis

We may not be able to prevent other people from being our enemies, but we can prevent ourselves from being enemies toward others. –Warren Wiersbe

SUGGESTED MUSICLoving on My Enemies (Bryann Trejo) Love On (Spoken Word, Rawsrvnt)

Dear God,It is so hard to love those who have hurt me. Give me the strength to love…

ENEMIES

Date:


The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching.

1 Timothy 5:17

Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God; such alone will shake the gates of hell. –John Wesley

God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him. –Hudson Taylor

SUGGESTED MUSICA Leader’s Faith (LaRue Howard) Pastor’s Song (Donna Jackson)

Dear Father,I thank you for the pastors in my life. I ask that you bless them…

PASTOR(S)

Date:


May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us—

yes, establish the work of our hands.Psalm 90:17

The church that does not evangelize will fossilize. –Oswald J. Smith

The Great Commission says to make disciples, not get followers. There is a difference. –Miquel Nunez

The Great Commission is too big for anyone to accomplish alone and too important not to try to do together. –Steve Moore

SUGGESTED MUSICIf We Are the Body (Casting Crowns)

We Are the Body of Christ (Scott Wesley Brown)We Are the Body (Mandi Mapes, Brook Hills Music)

Build Your Kingdom Here (Rend Collective)

Dear God,I recognize you as the head of the body—the church. I thank you for…

LOCAL CHURCH & HER STAFF

Date:


Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority,because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account.

Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden,for that would be of no benefit to you.

Hebrews 13:17-18

The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.– John Stott

SUGGESTED MUSICFind Us Faithful (Steve Green) I Will Offer Up My Life (Matt Redman)

Dear God,I thank you for raising up the elders who tend to the spiritual needs of your church. Protect them and their families. I ask…

ELDERS

Date:


”The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.

Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.”Luke 10:2-3

Pray also for me [Paul], that whenever I speak, words may be given meso that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel…

Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.Ephesians 6:19-20

You have one business on earth—to save souls. –John Wesley

Some wish to live within the sound of church and chapel bell. I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell! –C.T. Studd

SUGGESTED MUSICAll the World for Jesus (Caleb Andrews) I Love to Tell the Story

I Am a Missionary (Short video: Fire and Fragrance)

Dear Savior-God,Bless those who have devoted themselves to your mission…

MISSIONARIES

Date:


Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5:10

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.Romans 12:14

It’s too risky. If the authorities find a Christian Bible on my person, they will interrogate me, and I will not lie, so my new faith would be exposed. I do not know how long I can go without fellowship, without witness, living a lie. –Saudi Arabian Christian

We are not passing through anything our Lord did not pass through himself and triumph over… We have been persecuted for centuries, and it does not hurt the Church but serve it. –Syrian Christian

SUGGESTED MUSICUnspoken (Justclay) Don’t Forget Us (Gary Lanier)

Dangerous Miles (Spoken Word by Benjamin Ballah)

Dear God of Hope,Please strengthen those who are being persecuted for the name of Christ…

PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS

& THEIR PERSECUTORS

Date:


I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people—for kings and all those in authority,

that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved

and to come to a knowledge of the truth.1 Timothy 2:1-3

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible. –George Washington

America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it’s all right to keep asking if we’re on His side. –Ronald Reagan

SUGGESTED MUSICHeal Our Land (Kari Jobe)

Lord of All,I thank you for those who take on the responsibility of leading this country…

PRESIDENT& OTHER OFFICIALS

Date:


I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgivingbe made for all people…

1 Timothy 2:1

I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us. –Mike Huckabee

SUGGESTED MUSICTribute to First Responders (Kevin Davison) Heal Our Land (Michael Card)

Praise You in the Storm (Casting Crowns)

Protector-Father,Please protect the men and women who stand in the midst of difficult circumstances to protect us…

OUR COUNTRY& THOSE WHO PROTECT US

(Military, Police, etc)

Date:



1 Timothy 2:1

God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them. –George Whitefield

If we understand what lies ahead for those who do not know Christ, there will be a sense of urgency in our witness. –David Jeremiah

SUGGESTED MUSICDon’t Wait (Soulkeeper Music) A Missionary Cry (Hymn by Albert B. Simpson)

Until the Whole World Hears (Casting Crowns)

Lord,I ask you help as I live my life for you among my neighbors…

C0-WORKERS

& NEIGHBORS

Date:



1 Timothy 2:1

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. –Martin Luther

Let us not fool ourselves—without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans. –Peter Marshall

SUGGESTED MUSICPerfect Love (Mike Braun) By Our Love

Speaking Louder than Before (Jeremy Camp)

Dear God,As a people we have placed our children—our future—into the hands of educators. Please…

EDUCATORS

Date:


Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to God.

Philippians 4:6

And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:19

God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now. –Elizabeth Elliot

SUGGESTED MUSICAnd My God Will Meet All Your Needs Who Am I (Casting Crowns)

God Provides (Tamela Mann) The Answer (Jeremy Camp)Pray (Sanctus Real)

My God,You are indeed my God. Your salvation is personal. You care about me. I need…

PERSONAL NEEDS

Date:


You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self,created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Ephesians 4:22-24

Nothing paralyzes our lives like the attitude that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things. –Warren Wiersbe

Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: you become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible’s astounding words about God’s love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees? -Philip Yancey

SUGGESTED MUSICChange Me (Tamela Mann) From the Inside Out

New Wine (Hillsong Worship) Step by Step (Rich Mullins)

Dear Lord,Thank you for the changes you have made in my life. Show me what you would have me change now…

CHANGES TO MAKE

Date:


With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for

goodness and your every deed prompted by faith.2 Thessalonians 1:11

You can always give without loving, but you can never love without giving. –Amy Carmichael

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. –Henry Drummond

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. –Peter Marshall

SUGGESTED MUSICChristian-ish (Spoken word by Michael Agnew)

Take My Life and Let It Be Do Something (Matthew West)

God of My Salvation,You have done so much for me. Show me what I can do for you…

SOMETHING TO DO

Date:


Jesus… said, “Go home to your own people and tell themhow much the Lord has done for you and how he has had mercy on you.”

So the man went away and began to tell in the Decapolishow much Jesus had done for him. And all the people were amazed.

Mark 5:19-20

God’s plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple—one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we’re busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone’s eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you’ll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel. –Charles Stanley

If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. -Charles Spurgeon

SUGGESTED MUSICHands and Feet (Audio Adrenaline) Send Me Out (Steve Fee)

What Do We Have to Fear? (Spoken Word by Joseph Solomon)

Savior God,I know the world needs your salvation. Show me who to reach out to…

SHARING THE GOSPEL

Date:


Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the churchto pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord.

James 5:14

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. –Billy Graham

SUGGESTED MUSICHe Will Carry Me (Mark Schultz) Even If (Mercy Me)Leaning on the Everlasting Arms Healer (Kari Jobe)

Dear Father,You are the Great Physician. I ask you…

THE SICK

Date:


For you created my inmost being;you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;your works are wonderful,

I know that full well.Psalm 139:13-14

There is more power in a mother’s hand than in a king’s scepter. –Billy Sunday

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the grave. –Henry Ward Beecher

SUGGESTED MUSICGlory (Phil Wickham) God of Wonders (Third Day)

Dear Heavenly Father,Life is such a precious gift. Protect…

EXPECTANT MOTHERS

Date:


Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law.Psalm 119:18

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightenedin order that you may know the hope to which he has called you,

the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,and his incomparably great power for us who believe.

Ephesians 1:18-19a

God sees hearts as we see faces. –George Herbert

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. –Saint Augustine

SUGGESTED MUSICGive Me Your Eyes (Brandon Heath) Open My Eyes (Jesse Manibusan)

Jesus, Friend of Sinners (Casting Crowns)

Dear All-Seeing Father,Give me eyes to see what you see…

EYES TO SEE

Date:


The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish,

but everyone to come to repentance.2 Peter 3:9

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see. –Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The One who calls you to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature is the One, who by your consent, goes into all the world and preaches the Gospel to every creature through you! –Major Ian Thomas

SUGGESTED MUSICMission’s Flame (Matt Redman) Faithful Men (Twila Paris)

You Said (Hillsong Worship)

Dear Savior-God,Soften the heart of...

SALVATION OF UNBELIEVERS

Date:


Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this:to look after orphans and widows in their distress…

James 1:27

You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come. –Charles Spurgeon

Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose? –John Wesley

SUGGESTED MUSICGod Will Take Care of You Provider (Urban Rescue)

Dear Father,You are the father to the fatherless, but I ask you to provide father-care to the children who so desperately need it…

ORPHANS & CHILDREN

IN FOSTER CARE

Date:


A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.God sets the lonely in families…

Psalm 68:5-61

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But the good Samaritan reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him? –Martin Luther King Jr.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. –Saint Augustine

SUGGESTED MUSICIf We Are the Body (Casting Crowns) Speak Life (Toby Mac)

Dear God,I ask for your special care of…

WIDOWS &

SINGLE PARENTS

Date:


But the Lord is faithful,and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one…

May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.2 Thessalonians 3:3, 5

A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me. –Philip Yancey

Sometimes God protects us from what we think we need and instead blesses us with what we didn’t think to ask for.

SUGGESTED MUSICYour Love Defends Me (Matt Maher) Shoulders (for King & Country)

Strong Tower (Kutless) My Fortress (Jeremy Camp)

Dear God,Please protect…

PROTECTION

Date:


If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God,who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.

But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt becausethe one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.

James 1:5-8

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. –Charles Spurgeon

As we trust God to give us wisdom for today’s decisions, He will lead us a step at a time into what He wants us to be doing in the future. –Theodore Epp

SUGGESTED MUSICWisdom Song (Laura Woodley Osman)

Dear All-Knowing Father,I need your wisdom…

WISDOM

Date:


Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his might power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers,against the authorities, against the powers of this dark worldand against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand you ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.

Ephesians 6:10-13

If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened. –George Mueller

SUGGESTED MUSICStrength Will Rise A Mighty Fortress Is Our God

Strong Enough (Matthew West)

Dear God,You are strength. Grant me strength to…

STRENGTH

Date:


Then a voice came from the throne, saying:“Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, both great and small!”

Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting: “Hallelujah!

For our Lord God Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory!Revelation 19:5-7a

The Happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. –Jonathan Edwards

We rejoice because God is good regardless of our circumstances. –Crystal McDowell

Every good gift that we have had from the cradle up has come from God. If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week. –Dwight L. Moody

SUGGESTED MUSICAll Hail the Power of Jesus Name God of Wonders (Third Day)

Wonderful Grace of Jesus 10,000 Reasons (Matt Redmon)Yours Will Be (The Only Name) (Big Daddy Weave) You Are Holy

God,You are worthy of ALL our praise…

MORE PRAISE

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