30 Days of Prayer: Day 1-10 (Personal & Family)

Welcome to 30 Days of Prayer! I am so grateful that you have decided to join me on this journey. The purpose of this time over the next 30 days is to go deeper in our prayer life. There is so much chaos and craziness in our world, and it can feel overwhelming and downright discouraging, leaving us feeling lost and helpless. However, in 2 Corinthians 10, we are reminded that we can in fact do something that is not both helpful and extremely beneficial.

For although we live in the natural realm, we don’t wage a military campaign employing human weapons, using manipulation to achieve our aims. Instead, our spiritual weapons are energised with divine power to effectively dismantle the defences behind which people hide. We can demolish every deceptive fantasy that opposes God and break through every arrogant attitude that is raised up in defiance of the true knowledge of God. We capture, like prisoners of war, every thought and insist that it bow in obedience to the Anointed One. (2 Cor 10:3-5 TPT)

We don’t come against people. We fight our battles in the spiritual realm, and one of the ways we do so is through prayer - interceding on behalf of His plans and purposes, and on behalf of other people, including our enemies and those who are opposed to us. James 5 also tells us that the prayer of a righteous person is powerful, producing great results.

I am excited to see what the Father does in and through each of us as we commit different things to Him over the next 30 days. These first 10 days will be praying for personal and family related requests. Here is the first 10 days listed below, as well as accompanying Scriptures to go with them:

DAY 1 - That we would know Him more.

John 17:3 – Eternal life means to know and experience you as the only true God, and to know and experience Jesus Christ, as the Son whom you have sent.

DAY 2 - That we would know his voice more clearly.

John 10:3-5 – And the sheep recognise the voice of the true Shepherd, for he calls his own by name and leads them out, for they belong to him. And when he has brought out all his sheep, he walks ahead of them and they will follow him, for they are familiar with his voice. But they will run away from strangers and never follow them because they know it’s the voice of a stranger.”

DAY 3 - For a greater ability to love.

1 Corinthians 13:12-13 – For now we see but a faint reflection of riddles and mysteries as though reflected in a mirror, but one day we will see face-to-face. My understanding is incomplete now, but one day I will understand everything, just as everything about me has been fully understood. Until then, there are three things that remain: faith, hope, and love—yet love surpasses them all. So above all else, let love be the beautiful prize for which you run.

DAY 4 - For a willingness and ability to surrender it all to Jesus

Matthew 16:24-25 – Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If you truly want to follow me, you should at once completely reject and disown your own life. And you must be willing to share my cross and experience it as your own, as you continually surrender to my ways. For if you choose self-sacrifice and lose your lives for my glory, you will continually discover true life. But if you choose to keep your lives for yourselves, you will forfeit what you try to keep. 

DAY 5 - Greater wisdom and discernment

James 1:5 – And if anyone longs to be wise, ask God for wisdom and he will give it! He won’t see your lack of wisdom as an opportunity to scold you over your failures but he will overwhelm your failures with his generous grace.

DAY 6 - The ability to steward what is in our hands.

Matthew 25:29 – To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away.

DAY 7 - The ability to be a godly husband/wife/parent.

Ephesians 5:21-33 – And out of your reverence for Christ be supportive of each other in love. For wives, this means being devoted to your husbands like you are tenderly devoted to our Lord, for the husband provides leadership for the wife, just as Christ provides leadership for his church, as the Savior and Reviver of the body. In the same way the church is devoted to Christ, let the wives be devoted to their husbands in everything.

And to the husbands, you are to demonstrate love for your wives with the same tender devotion that Christ demonstrated to us, his bride. For he died for us, sacrificing himself to make us holy and pure, cleansing us through the showering of the pure water of the Word of God. All that he does in us is designed to make us a mature church for his pleasure, until we become a source of praise to him—glorious and radiant, beautiful and holy, without fault or flaw.

Husbands have the obligation of loving and caring for their wives the same way they love and care for their own bodies, for to love your wife is to love your own self. No one abuses his own body, but pampers it—serving and satisfying its needs. That’s exactly what Christ does for his church! He serves and satisfies us as members of his body.

For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and lovingly hold to his wife, since the two have become joined as one flesh. Marriage is the beautiful design of the Almighty, a great mystery of Christ and his church. So every married man should be gracious to his wife just as he is gracious to himself. And every wife should be tenderly devoted to her husband.

Ephesians 6:4 – Fathers, don’t exasperate your children,[c] but raise them up with loving discipline and counsel that brings the revelation of our Lord.

DAY 8 - For spiritual protection from sin and the lies of the enemy.

Matthew 6:13 – And don’t let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one.

DAY 9 - The grace to live from a place of peace and not fear.

Philippians 4:6-7 – 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.

2 Timothy 1:7 - For God will never give you the spirit of fear, but the Holy Spirit who gives you mighty power, love, and self-control.

DAY 10 - The ability to keep the heavenly perspective

Colossians 3:1-4 – Christ’s resurrection is your resurrection too. This is why we are to yearn for all that is above, for that’s where Christ sits enthroned at the place of all power, honour, and authority! Yes, feast on all the treasures of the heavenly realm and fill your thoughts with heavenly realities, and not with the distractions of the natural realm. Your crucifixion with Christ has severed the tie to this life, and now your true life is hidden away in God in Christ. And as Christ himself is seen for who he really is, who you really are will also be revealed, for you are now one with him in his glory!