The quickest way to engage the most people in your congregation with prayer is to hold an all-church prayer initiative. This is where everyone prays on the same theme (usually with a Scripture-based prayer guide provided) for a period of time—one week, 21, 30, or 40 days.
While there are resources available to use, the Church Prayer Leaders Network, in partnership with PrayerShop Publishing, currently has 19 different prayer guides available to use in initiatives. Most can be purchased anywhere you buy your Christian books, but prayershop.org has multiple copy discounts available on all of them.
Here is a listing of those guides, along with a brief description of content. To see more information on any or all of these, go to: https://prayershop.org/church/prayer-initiatives/
21 Keys to Answered Prayer (21 days) A teaching book on prayer that can also be used as a 21-day prayer initiative.
Asleep in the Land of Nod (30 Days) Praying for revival in the Church.
Be Jesus in Your Neighborhood (30 Days) Prayer devotional to develop a prayer, care, share lifestyle.
Desperate for Change (40 Days) A devotional prayer guide to pray for America.
Do It Again, Lord! (31 days) A devotional praying for revival and spiritual awakening
Love to Pray (40 Days) a prayer devotional designed to make prayer a delight rather than a duty (our all-time bestselling prayer initiative). It also has a version for children: I Love to Pray (40 Days) For children 8 to 12-years old. Follows the topics of the adult initiative Love to Pray. And there is a Spanish version available of the adult Love to Pray, too: El Amor Por La Oracion.
Make Us One (31 Days) Focused on Jesus’ John 17 prayer for unity, this is a prayer initiative focused on racial healing.
Prayer, Peace, and the Presence of God (30 Days). A pray journey to help believers appropriate the peace of Jesus in their lives.
Praying God’s Word Over Your City (40 Days) Prayers and prayer points to pray over your community.
Pray the Word: 31 Prayers That Touch the Heart of God. (31 days) A devotional of Scripture-based prayers that can also be used in a prayer initiative.
Pray the Word for Your Church (31 Days) Scripture-based prayers to pray over your church.
Reclaim a Generation Volume 2 (21 days) Focuses on praying for children and schools in your community.
Revolution on Our Knees (30 Days) Devotional guide on outreach praying—praying for neighbors and nations.
The 21 Most Effective Prayers in the Bible (21 days) A teaching book on prayer that can also be used as a 21-day prayer initiative.
The Giving Church (21 Days) A devotional and scripture prayer guide to pray for God’s financial blessing in your church.
The Joy of Prayer (40 Days) A devotional prayer guide to invigorate your prayer life.
Thirsty (31 Days) A devotional prayer guide focused on personal revival.
Vertical with Jesus (30 Days) Praying that your lives would impact the Kingdom of Christ.
We Declare (31 days) A devotional prayer guide that focuses on issues that are currently facing America.
For a more thorough description of each initiative, go to prayershop.org.
Also, you can purchase a Prayer Initiative Sampler Pack that includes 13 of these guides at a reduced rate. This allows you to review each one before deciding which is best for your church to use.
