LET US PRAY!
May 2024 Prayer Initiative
Beech Grove and Bellshire United Methodist Churches invite you to SAY YES TO PRAYING ON P.U.R.P.O.S.E....
YOU CAN CHOOSE TO BUILDĀ A POWERFUL PRAYER LIFE!
WithĀ theĀ prayer challenge journey, private prayer community, and live group engagement opportunities, weā€™ve got the resources you need to turn your passion for prayer into your daily reality.
INTRODUCING
THE 31-DAY PRAYER CHALLENGE
After dozens of scripture-based submissions and theological discernment, we have collected a wide range of topics to inspire your prayer life story. We then folded them into a daily step-by-step process to help you pray on purpose.
ANSWER THE CALL TO PRAY CONSISTENTLY
The church is full of people who claim Christ as their savior, but fall short at committing to being in relationship with him through prayer.
With this experience, you’ll learn how to:
- Prioritize prayer daily
- Build a habit of writing as a spiritual practice
- Pray with the inspiration of scripture consistently
- Build others into your prayer journey
- Sustain your most ideal prayer practices beyond this prayer challenge
After just 31 days, you’ll have more than enough guidance and resources to shape the prayer life that fits your life.
PROCESS PART 1
PRAY TO START
Sometimes our prayers fall flat and lack purpose and intention behind them. In this first phase we give you mini-prompts each day, totaling 124 prompts in all, that help you focus in light of:
- Praise
- Petition
- Confession
- Thanksgiving
After this step, you’ll be ready to begin the process of listening as you pray through scripture.
PROCESS PART 2
UNWIND THE TEXT
The primary source that is foundational to our faith formation is the Bible. This challenge includes:
- 31 Focus Topics
- 31 Related Scripture excerpts
- 31 Focus-Verse Recordings
- 31 Full Chapter Context Recordings
- Video guidance and instruction.
After this, you’ll be ready to explore more deeply within yourself.
PROCESS PART 3
REFLECT IN CONEXT
You've read the scripture! Now what? In this step we provide some language to prime the pump of your thoughts including:
- A Reflection and Journal Prompt
- Video guidance and instruction.
After this step, you’ll take to a great freeing of your mind so that you can focus even more deeply.
PROCESS PART 4
PEN TO PAPER
This daily step is a moment for you to liberate your mind and exploring how God may be speaking to you including daily:
- Video guidance and instruction
Now that you've taken on the intentional pause to simply practice the practice of journaling, we process holistically with the help of focus words.
PROCESS PART 5
OUTLINE YOUR THOUGHTS
Building your thoughts around focus words can help ensure your ability to see the scope of God at work in, around, and through you. Each day includes a focus on:
- Mind
- Body
- Spirit
- 31 Unique words for Self
- 31 Unique words for Others
Once you have engaged in the journaling process of dialogue with God, you can then prepare to share through writing as a spiritual practice.
PROCESS PART 6
SHARE YOUR STORY
There is more to prayer journaling and writing as a spiritual practice than putting words on a blank page. Each day includes a unique creative way to stretch yourself and explore. This step includes:
- 31 Unique Pen-to-Paper tips
- Video guidance and instruction
- Examples, downloadables, and demonstrations when appropriate
Once you have taking the step from inward reflection to outward expression, we close the day the way we began.
PROCESS PART 7
END IN PRAYER
With all that this process has brought to light, it is time to freely express closing prayers of praise, petition, confession, and thanksgiving. In this final step you will receive:
- A reminder of what these four types of prayer mean
- A video closing prayer
- Discussion forum for posting/sharing your closing prayer with others.
Congratulations, you’ve now prayed on P.U.R.P.O.S.E.!
HEY, I'M LINDA!
Building this prayer challenge and experience and starting this nonprofit ministry has been a personal passion of divine inspiration. I am so excited to be graced with the opportunity and ability to bring to this resource that has blessed me so deeply to you!
Every Christian has within them the creativeness of our creator. Some of us just need a little help expressing ourselves and comitting to faithfully walking with Jesus and with others in God's community.
I believe prayer is the ultimate tool of formation and transformation as well as the foundation of any and everything we do from home and work life to church and spiritual life.
Whether you’ve never tried to pray through journaling before or you are just looking to discover new ways to build up your life of prayer, I look forward to us taking on this journey of prayer together.
I have had the privilege of taking the 31 Day Prayer Challenge with Pastor Linda three different times so far, and I am looking forward to the next one. The first time was in 2019.
____ Risa Wheat
I was so inspired by it, that when I completed it, I impulsively challenged myself to create my own 31 day writing challenge just for me. Mine wasn’t focused on prayer, though prayers were included and, most certainly needed. I thought it would be easy. Boy, was I wrong!
____ Risa Wheat
As I struggled to complete the utter chaos of the 31 day writing challenge that I had created for myself, I came to FULLY appreciate the beautifully organized, detailed, thoughtfully focused, creative and graceful way that Pastor Linda had led us through the 31 day Prayer Challenge.
____ Risa Wheat
The next one that I took with Pastor Linda was in the year 2020 and we were in the midst of the pandemic. I can tell as I look back on some of my writings that year that I was in a troubled state of mind, but the 31 Day Prayer Challenge helped me to re-focus some of my anxious energy.
____ Risa Wheat
In 2021, I found that I was challenged to find the time that I needed to fully engage in the 31 Day Prayer Challenge every day, so Pastor Linda advised me to journal something daily, even if it was only the word of the day and the Scriptures. And, some days, that’s all I could manage.
____ Risa Wheat
Every time I’ve done the 31 Day Prayer Challenge I’ve enjoyed it and felt that I got something good out of it. I’m hoping that our church will be able to do the Challenge again this year. I’d highly recommend it to anyone who wishes to have a focused prayer journaling experience.
____ Risa Wheat
This comprehensive online experience will help you elevate your prayers from occasional and chance encounters to an essential and intentional commitment.
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