SPF23
Summer Prayer Friends
About SPF23
- Small groups of 3-4 women
- Daily Scripture & Prayer Prompts
- Weekly video encouragement
- Strengthen relationships, grow in prayer, see God answer!
The PLAN:
- WEEKLY TEACHING & PRAYER PROMPTS: Every Saturday, a week of prayer prompts and a short teaching video will be made available focusing on that week's prayer theme at butlerchurch.org/spf23.
- CONNECTING: Sign up here to join an SPF 23 Group. We'll set you up in groups of 3 or 4 to pray for each other and we encourage you to check in with each other at least once a week to share your prayer requests.
Week 5
BLESSINGS (July 29-31)
Day 29
5 May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance. … 16 Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you. (2 Thess 3:5 & 3:16 NIV)
Lord Jesus, direct my friends' hearts deeper into your love and help them persevere in hard times and hard things. Lord of Peace, give my friends peace in every moment and every situation they face today. May they know you are with them always.
Day 30
20 Now to him who by the power that is working within us is able to do far beyond all that we ask or think, 21 to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. (Ephesians 3:20-21 NET)
Holy Spirit, may my friends know Your mighty power is working in and through them today. Move in their lives in ways that are beyond what they can imagine or hope for. Jesus Christ, may my friends bless Your church and bring You glory today, through all generations, and for all eternity!
Day 31
24 May the Lord bless you and protect you. 25 May the Lord smile on you and be gracious to you.
26 May the Lord show you his favor and give you his peace. (Numbers 6:24-26 NLT)
Lord, thank you for the honor of praying for my friends. Please bless them and protect them. Smile on them and be gracious to them in all of the ways they need. Show them how much you adore them. Pour out your grace on them and fill their hearts, souls, bodies, and minds with your peace.
Week 4
FRUIT (July 22-28)
Day 22
10 …and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better. 11 We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy, 12 always thanking the Father. (Colossians 1:10b-12a NLT)
Lord Jesus, may my friends honor you with their lives. May their lives produce every kind of good fruit. May they be strengthened with your power. Grow their endurance and patience. Holy Spirit, may they be FILLED with JOY and gratitude as they live in your light and grow in you.
Day 23
2 We always thank God for all of you and pray for you constantly. 3 As we pray to our God and Father about you, we think of your faithful work, your loving deeds, and the enduring hope you have because of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thess 1:2-3 NLT)
Father God, thank You for my friends! I praise you and ask that you continue to bless their faithful work, loving deeds, and enduring hope as you keep growing fruit in them. May their love and faithfulness to you continue to grow and produce love and faithfulness to others.
Day 24
13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13 NIV)
Lord, you are the God of hope. I pray you will help my friends to trust you with every concern and care in their hearts. As they trust you, Lord, may you fill them completely with joy and peace so they would overflow with confident hope in you, by the power of the Holy Spirit at work in them.
Day 25
11 So we keep on praying for you, asking our God to enable you to live a life worthy of his call. May he give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do. (2 Thess 1:11 NLT)
Lord Jesus, enable my friends to live the lives You have called them to - by Your strength. Give my friends power to accomplish all the good things their faith prompts them to do. May they not try to do anything in their own strength. Help them to know what You are calling them to do.
Day 26
20 But you, dear friends, must build each other up in your most holy faith, pray in the power of the Holy Spirit, 21 and await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will bring you eternal life. In this way, you will keep yourselves safe in God’s love. (Jude 1:20-21 NLT)
Holy Spirit, I pray you would help us to build each other up! As we pray for each other, may our faith grow stronger as we trust you and wait for you to answer us. Help us to remind each other of your love. Keep my friends' hearts safe in your love. Help them know just how loved they are.
Day 27
16 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. (James 5:16 NLT)
Lord, please help us to be honest with others so that we can ask for prayer about the sins we struggle with. Help us believe there can be healing not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually and in our relationships. Help us to pray with your power and trust you for the results.
Day 28
2 Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart. 3 Pray for us, too, that God will give us many opportunities to speak about his mysterious plan concerning Christ. 4 Pray that I will proclaim this message as clearly as I should. (Colossians 4:2-4 NLT)
Lord Jesus, please help my friends be devoted to prayer with alert minds and thankful hearts. Then lead them and give them many opportunities to share about you with others. Please help them share clearly and JOYFULLY just how wonderful You are!
Week 3
WISDOM (July 15-21)
Day 15
26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how we should pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes on behalf of the saints according to God’s will. (Romans 8:26-27 NET)
Holy Spirit, I thank you for helping my friends in their weaknesses. Thank you for interceding before God on our behalf! Please give us wisdom and show my friends how to pray. Lead me as I continue praying for them. Help us to pray according to your will.
Day 16
9 So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. 10 Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better. (Colossians 1:9-10 NLT)
Holy Spirit, please give my friend the wisdom and spiritual understanding she needs to know your will today. Help my friends know that your will for them is not only about decisions they have to make, but also about how they live. May they honor you and may their lives produce good fruit.
Day 17
6 I pray that the faith you share with us may deepen your understanding of every blessing that belongs to you in Christ. (Philemon 1:6 NET)
Lord God, thank you for all of the blessings you have poured out on my friends and their loved ones. Grow their faith. May their faith produce wisdom and deeper understanding of the spiritual blessings that belong to them in Christ Jesus.
Day 18
9 I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding. 10 For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return. 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God. (Philippians 1:9-11 NLT)
Lord Jesus, may our hearts overflow with love for you and others as we keep growing deeper in knowledge and understanding of you. Give my friends wisdom and discernment to know what matters most in their lives. May their lives reflect your purity and holiness and may they produce much fruit through YOU to the glory and praise of God.
Day 19
3 Pray that the LORD your God will tell us where we should go and what we should do."
(Jeremiah 42:3 NET)
Father God, as my friends grow in spiritual wisdom and understanding, I pray you would lead them in all the decisions they have to make. May they depend on you and seek you and hear your voice when you tell them where to go and what to do. Help them to walk by faith and in obedience.
Day 20
5 But if any of you lack wisdom, you should pray to God, who will give it to you; because God gives generously and graciously to all. 6 But when you pray, you must believe and not doubt at all. Whoever doubts is like a wave in the sea that is driven and blown about by the wind.
(James 1:5-6 GNT)
Father God, when my friends need wisdom, please help them come to you. Help them remember you love to help us. Give them faith to believe you will help them so they aren't confused and doubting like a wave in a stormy sea. Steady them and help them to trust you.
Day 21
16 Always be joyful. 17 Never stop praying. 18 Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.… 23 Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again. 24 God will make this happen, for he who calls you is faithful. (1 Thess 5:16-18, 23-24 NLT)
God of peace, help my friends know your will for them is that they would always be joyful, always praying, and always thankful. You will keep working to make them holy and to help them live joy-filled, prayer-filled, and thanks-filled lives. You have called them and you are faithful.
Week 2
GIFTS OF GRACE (July 8-14)
Day 8
"I do not cease to give thanks for you when I remember you in my prayers. I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, will give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him," (Ephesians 1:16-17 NET)
Glorious Father, I thank you for my friends and ask you to help me keep praying for them. Please fill them with spiritual wisdom in every area of their lives where they need it. Reveal yourself to them today so they can know you and how you are working in them, through them, and for them.
Day 9
"...since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened --so that you can know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the incomparable greatness of his power toward us who believe." (Ephesians 1:18-19 NET)
Lord Jesus, you have called my friends to be your daughters. Bring light and hope to my friends' hearts. Help them believe Your promises and fill them with your great power as they believe in you and your Word.
Day 10
"I pray that he may grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power in your inner being through his Spirit, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love," (Ephesians 3:16-17 CSB)
Holy Spirit, strengthen my friends with your power in the depths of their hearts and souls. Fill them with faith and let them know you are dwelling in their hearts. Let them be rooted and grounded in your love, and let them know your love for them is secure, steadfast, and faithful forever.
Day 11
"... may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love, and to know Christ’s love that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God." (Ephesians 3:18-19 CSB)
Father God, help my friends comprehend how GREAT your love is for them -- that it is wider and deeper and higher than they can imagine. Lord Jesus, let them experience your love. Fill them up with all of your fullness, Holy Spirit.
Day 12
"Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal comfort and a wonderful hope, comfort you and strengthen you in every good thing you do and say." (2 Thess 2:16-17 NLT)
Lord Jesus, you love us! May my friends know more of your love, grace, eternal comfort, and wonderful hope today. Holy Spirit, please comfort my friends wherever they need comfort. Strengthen them in every good thing they do and say today.
Day 13
"May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace. Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God. Whenever I pray, I make my requests for all of you with joy, ... And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. "(Philippians 1:2-4, 6 NLT)
Father God, thank you for the joy of knowing and praying for my friends! Bless them with grace and peace. You've started good work in my friends' lives. Help them believe you will continue working in them until the good work you started in them is finished.
Day 14
"May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones." (1 Thess 3:12-13 NIV)
Lord God, please help our love for one another to grow! Help my friends overflow with love for others as they are loved by me and you! Holy Spirit, make our hearts strong, blameless, and holy as we stand before you now in prayer and as we go through this day and into the future.
Week 1
CALLED TO PRAY (July 1-7)
Day 1
"God knows how often I pray for you. Day and night I bring you and your needs in prayer to God, whom I serve with all my heart by spreading the Good News about his Son." (Romans 1:9 NLT).
Holy Spirit, you know how easy or hard it is for me to remember to pray and you know I want to pray for my friends! Throughout my days and nights this month, remind me to bring them and their needs to you in prayer. And help them come to you in prayer as well.
Day 2
"Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 4:6-7 NLT).
Lord Jesus, I thank you for all you have done for my friends. Help them to be thankful. Please take care of their needs and help them to not worry today. Guard their hearts and minds with your unbelievable, amazing peace as they seek you and learn to trust you more.
Day 3
"With every prayer and petition, pray at all times in the Spirit, and to this end be alert, with all perseverance and requests for all the saints." (Ephesians 6:18 NET)
Father God, you invite us to pray led by the Holy Spirit all the time and for everyone! Please help my friends to be alert and to recognize when you are reminding them to pray for those around them. Help them learn how to pray with confidence and perseverance.
Day 4
"Pray for me also, that I may be given the right words when I begin to speak-that I may confidently make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may be able to speak boldly as I ought to speak." (Ephesians 6:19-20 NET)
Lord Jesus, please help my friends to grow in their understanding of the mystery of the gospel-the Good News of Jesus. Give them words of encouragement when they speak and help them to speak with bold confidence about you, filled with love, grace, kindness, and truth.
Day 5
"I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them. Pray this way for kings and all who are in authority so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity. This is good and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants everyone to be saved and to understand the truth." (1 Timothy 2:1-4 NLT)
Lord Jesus, thank you for my friends. Please help them today. When we are frustrated by our city's, state's, or country's leaders, help us pray for them to be saved and understand the truth. Instead of being angry, help our hearts be quiet, peaceful, godly, and dignified. This is good for our hearts and pleases you.
Day 6
"Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." (Mark 14:38 NET)
Lord Jesus, wake up our hearts. I pray for myself and my friends that we would want to obey you. Help us know what choices to make and help us to recognize and resist temptation. Strengthen our bodies, desires, and minds where they are weak so we can walk in freedom.
Day 7
"Dear friend, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul." (3 John 1:2 NET)
Father God, may it go well with my friends today. Bless them with good health and may it be well with their souls. You know where there is hurt of any kind. Please heal their bodies and souls in every way and every place inside where they need it. May they know your healing presence today.
Prepared by Melissa Ens for butlerchurch.org/womensministry youtube.com/@sisterstudies
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