Prayer is one of our core values and is an essential foundation for all ministry at the Kalamazoo Free Methodist Church.

How to Pray for KFM

1. Give thanks to God for our people.

I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.

Ephesians 1:16

2. Pray that we would receive the Spirit of wisdom and revelation.

I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.

Ephesians 1:17

3. Pray that we would see our hope, our riches in Christ and the power available to us in Christ.

I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. Ephesians 1:18

4. Pray that we would receive spiritual strength and live in the power of Christ’s daily presence.

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.

Ephesians 3:16,17

5. Pray that we would receive the spiritual resources to both grasp and experience Christ’s love so that we are filled with God’s fullness.

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:18,19

6. Pray His Promise.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask of imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

Ephesians 3:20,21

How to Pray for our Sunday Gatherings

Pray that God would help our people to respond to the Word of the Lord as it is taught here every week.

Pray that people today will seek the fullness of the Holy Spirit in their lives.

Pray for the conviction of the Holy Spirit to accompany our teaching time.

Pray that people might fully enter into the worship of God, in spirit and truth as we sing, pray, give and respond to the Lord.

Pray that we embrace the abundant life Jesus promised his followers.

Pray for spiritual protection around our church; our pastor’s, lay leaders, ministries, finances, etc.

Pray that the Lord will bless us with all the resources necessary to be effective with our ministries and meet the needs of the people we are reaching.

Pray for the miraculous.

God’s delivering grace.

God’s healing grace.

God’s restorative grace.

God’s saving grace.

God’s sanctifying grace.