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Summary
- Acts records the first churches growing in number and in maturity: “the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved” (Acts 2:47), and Paul wrote that “God gave the increase” (1 Corinthians 3:6).
- Intercession is prayer for others; Paul asked for “intercessions” for all people (1 Timothy 2:1) and for prayer “that the word of the Lord may have free course” (2 Thessalonians 3:1).
- Short prayers cover the pastor, more workers, people outside the church, visitors, unity, spiritual growth, young people, the local community, boldness, giving, a small church and a new church plant.
- Seven prayer points with Scripture references suit a church prayer meeting.
- Traditional prayers are quoted from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer (“For the Church,” “For Missions,” “For the Increase of the Ministry”), the 1888 Catholic Manual of Prayers and the Great Litany of the Orthodox Divine Liturgy.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Psalm 78:4; 85:6; 127:1; Zechariah 4:10; Matthew 5:16; 9:37–38; 18:20; John 17:21; Acts 2:42, 47; 4:29; 6:7; 9:31; Romans 15:7; 1 Corinthians 1:10; 3:6; Ephesians 3:20–21; 4:15–16; Colossians 4:3; 2 Thessalonians 3:1; 1 Timothy 2:1; Hebrews 10:24–25; 1 Peter 4:10). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Prayers, “For the Church,” p. 37; “For Missions,” p. 38; “For the Increase of the Ministry,” p. 39. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. Occasional Prayers, “For the Preservation of Concord in a Congregation,” p. 166. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
- Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trans. Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. The Divine Liturgy, The Great Litany, p. 80. https://www.ponomar.net/data/hapgood.pdf
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