Praying the Global Prayer in 3 minutes

It’s hard to get space in a busy church service to raise awareness of anything. So here’s our guide to get your church actively involved in Micah Challenge in 3 minutes.

1. Introduce the Global prayer:

Today we’re joining with the worldwide church in prayer for the poor taking up the Micah Challenge. In Galatians, Paul says, “All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.”

As Christians, we want to declare God’s heart for the poor and want to remind our leaders of their promise made in the Millennium to halve global poverty by 2015. We must remember the poor.

Today, we want to pray a prayer for and with the poor, a prayer that has been used by over 60 millions Christians across the globe, a prayer that echoes the themes of Nehemiah who fasted and prayed day and night before he embarked on the mighty task of restoring Jerusalem.

2. PRAY the Global prayer

3. Add your own specific prayers after the global prayer e.g. praying for all children to have free education, praying for mission activities in your church and praying for your national leaders.