One of the things that congregations should be accomplishing is corporate prayer for the outreach of the Word of Christ into their communities, families, and workplaces. The New Testament gives a diversity of requests that can be prayed. We pray these requests and then, we speak the mystery of Christ. Here are some of these requests.
- We can pray for individual people groups (Romans 10:1).
- We can pray that the Lord will open a door for the Word among those you are seeking to reach with the gospel (Colossians 4:3).
- We can pray that the Lord will give us plainness and clarity in our witness (Colossians 4:4).
- We can pray that the Lord will move people to seek after Christ (Romans 3:11).
- We can pray that the Lord will send forth laborers (Matthew 9:38).
- We can pray that the Lord will open people’s ears to hear the Word (Romans 10:17).
- We can pray that the Lord will grant the gift of faith (Romans 10:17).
- We can pray that the Lord would grant the gift of repentance (2 Timothy 2:25).
- We can pray that the Lord would provide opportunity to plant and water. Then, pray that the Lord would grant an increase (1 Corinthians 3:6).
- We can pray for the mercies of His salvation, [God] being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us (Ephesians 2:4).
- We can pray that the Lord would grant our church to have a portion of the Son’s great harvest and inheritance (Acts 13:1-4).
There are many more requests but these may give you a start as you pray for your arena of influence.