LIGHT THE FIRE AGAIN ( May 15- June 14)

In two days time a 30 day season of prayer will begin on Thursday May 15th culminating with the Global Day of outreach on June 14th.

The corporate reading and praying of the psalms will be encouraged through these daily devotionals, covering all 150 psalms over 30 days. Matthew Henry has said concerning the psalms: “There is no one book of scripture that is more helpful to the devotions of the saints than this, and it has been so in all ages of the church.” Each day there will also be two inspirational devotionals, one for the morning and one for the evening following the key events in the life of John Wesley, particularly focusing on 1739, the year that the Methodist Awakening began.

The recommended pattern of daily corporate prayer: 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the evening, with a small group of two or more people, everyone with the same version of the Bible:

• For 5 minutes:
Start by giving thanks, going round in a circle, each person giving thanks for something, one by one, using at least one or two sentences. The purpose of this exercise is to get everyone to pray out loud briefly, to open their mouths and to ‘break the sound barrier’. Go round in a circle one or two times, depending on the size of the group.

• For 12 minutes:
Divide the group into half. Everyone should have a bible. one half of the room to read out one verse, then the other half the second verse, alternating until the psalms for that session have all been read.

•For 3 minutes:
One person to read the daily devotional inspired by the life of John Wesley.

•For the last 10 minutes:
Different members of the group to take a verse or phrase that has been read out, read it out again and then turn that verse or phrase into a brief prayer.

A hard copy of this 30 day devotional will be available and can be purchased from 15 May and a free electronic version of the whole devotional is already available now. Please contact Andrew Taylor at the following address andrew.taylor7@cantab.net for more information.