Prayer Connection March 2024
Prepare for Prayer – Our focus is “Praying our way to Easter.”
You can find accompanying materials in our Lent season theme resource: Connecting with God: A Guide to Prayer. This resource is available at christianbook.com and amazon.com.
Lent is a time of preparing ourselves for celebrating Easter. Just as it is hard to enjoy a feast if you arrive full, so it can be difficult to fully appreciate God’s gift through Jesus unless we take some time to prepare our hearts and minds. And, as each woman involved in Stonecroft is not only a witness, but a woman God dearly loves, I pray that February and March will fill you to overflowing. We will go through the eight weeks of this resource—Connecting with God—to renew ourselves in prayer. If you gather just once to pray this month, you might take each topic in turn and then close with praying for your outreach, witness, community, and one another. But perhaps God will lead you to pray weekly during Lent. You are always welcome to join us each week for prayer https://stonecroft- org.zoom.us/j/847270680.
March 1-7 – God Hears and Answers
Read: Psalms 27:1, 3, 7, 8 (Page 425 in Tyndale’s NLT Abundant Life Bible, available at christianbook.com).
Pray: God, thank You that You always have a purpose for the timing of your answer, the yes or no or wait of your answer, and that You hear my prayers. Thank You that You answer them always for Your glory and my good.
Prayer Points:
God, help me pray when I think you might answer “Yes” (Mark 4:35-41, page 764)
God, help me pray and trust you when you answer “No” (2 Corinthians 12:7-10, page 888) God, help me keep praying when you answer, “Wait” (John 11:23-27, page 820)
Pray for Your Outreach, Witness, Community, Our Leaders, The Stonecroft Sisterhood, and One Another.
Share Personal Requests
Pray for each other’s needs and lift one another’s ways of loving others toward Jesus.
March 8-14 – Alone with God
“As sleep and rest are needed each day for the body, so silence and solitude are needed each day for the soul.” – Donald Whitney, author.
Read: Psalms 62:5 (Page 440), 73:28 (Page 446)
Pray: God help me find the spaces and times to be silent in this noisy world. Help me put down the things I allow in, or even turn to, that keep the noise coming. And help me trust You that when I make space to be alone with You, You delight in our times together.
Prayer Points:
God, my days are loud and often full of people. Can you please show me one time, place, and a way to be alone and quiet with You?
Lord, when I am quiet, I often need help knowing what to pray. How might I find a way to open Your word, the Bible, so my heart and mind are brought close to You?
Pray for Your Outreach, Witness, Community, Our Leaders, The Stonecroft Sisterhood, and One Another.
Share Personal Requests
Pray for each other’s needs and lift one another’s ways of loving others toward Jesus.
March 15-21 – Praying Effectively Read: 1 Samuel 3:7-9a (Page 213)
Pray: Sometimes, it is hard to know if I am hearing from You or something else. Help me discern what will glorify You and dare to follow Your voice.
Prayer Points:
God, help me learn and remember Your word so I can recognize what aligns with Your will. God, help me have open ears and an open heart so my faith can be effective and fruitful.
Pray for Your Outreach, Witness, Community, Our Leaders, The Stonecroft Sisterhood, and One Another.
Share Personal Requests
Pray for each other’s needs and lift one another’s ways of loving others toward Jesus.
March 22-31 – A Pattern for Prayer Read: John 17, NLT
Pray: Jesus, thank you for showing us what it looks like to talk to God as our Father. Thank You that You modeled what it is want to pray because You desire closeness with God who is love.
Prayer Points:
Teach us, O Lord, to order our days so that we fuel a growing hunger for the time with You in prayer.
Thank You, God, that You show us how to pray not only for our sake but for the sake of others and Your world. Help us to develop hearts to go beyond our own needs as we learn to pray for others.
Pray for Your Outreach, Witness, Community, Our Leaders, The Stonecroft Sisterhood, and One Another.
Share Personal Requests
Pray for each other’s needs and lift one another’s ways of loving others toward Jesus.