Lenten Prayer

LENTEN PRAYER

for 2026

We invite you to join us in prayer and fasting during this Lenten season. Each Wednesday, we will provide prayer points for the week.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. (Acts 1:8)

Our prayers will start with an internal focus (our personal relationship with the Lord) and progress outward to our oikos, community, state, country, and the world - following the pattern we see in Acts 1:8. Our final week (Holy Week) will include prayer points to help align our hearts with Jesus.

FEBRUARY 18

Pray for Greater Intimacy with the Lord

Spend time in praising and thanking Him.

Spend time acknowledging your sin and weaknesses of faith.

Spend time asking for His intervention on things that burden you.

FEBRUARY 25

Pray for Your Oikos

Pray for those in your Oikos who do not know Jesus.

“Lord, would you open a door for me to plant seeds of the gospel in their life?”

For those in your Oikos who already know Jesus, pray for growth in their relationship with Him.

“Lord, what would you have me do to encourage growth in their life?”

MARCH 4

Pray for Your Community

Pray for the Local School District—administrators, teachers, and students:

For God to do a work in that school to bring people to Jesus.
For safety and a healthy culture.
For truth to be more evident in the curriculum.

Pray for Our Community Leaders:

For them to operate in truth and care of our community.
For them to pursue the wisdom of God.
For them to give favor to local churches and ministries.

Pray for the Churches:

For them to be committed to the gospel and the truth of God’s Word.
For a revival of Spirit in their gatherings.
For the light of Christ to be intensely obvious in their gatherings that leads to salt and light in the lives of many.
For a collaborative spirit in working together to meet needs in the community and to proclaim Jesus.

MARCH 11

Pray for Pennsylvania

Pray Micah 6:8 for Our Pennsylvania Leaders: He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

Pray for Pennsylvania Government Officials.

Governor Shapiro
State Representatives Fee, Miller, Zimmerman, and Mentzer
State Senator Malone

Pray for the churches of Pennsylvania and for God to work in and through the church.

MARCH 18

Pray for America

Pray Micah 6:8 for Our National Leaders. He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

Pray for President Trump.

Pray for Senator Fetterman and Senator McCormick.

Pray for US Representative Smucker.

Pray for the moral fabric of our country.

Pray for national revival to happen in and through God's church.

MARCH 25

Pray for the World

Pray Matthew 24:14 for the gospel to come to every tribe, tongue, and nation: And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

Pray for the work of Bible translation to advance in unreached areas.

Pray for unreached people groups—that God would send people with the good news and for the gospel to be received.

Pray for Southeast Asia—that the church planting movement would thrive and that God will guide us as a church in how to partner in what God is doing there.

Pray for global partners who have gone from us to serve in other parts of the world—for their families, safety, fruit in their ministry, and for their encouragement.

HOLY WEEK

Praying in Alignment with Jesus

Pray Philippians 2:1-11.

Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Pray for attitude alignment with Jesus towards others. (verses 1-5)

Pray for courage and commitment to a life of obedience and submission to the Father. (verses 6-8)

Praise Jesus for how he lived, for his death, and for his current standing as King. (verses 9-11)