Pray like Paul
Everyone is invited to pray with and for young people using this resource as a starting point.
Why pray like Paul?
The question that congregations are asking is: “Where are the young people?”
The answer takes the form of another question: “Have you come alongside them in prayer?”
So the invitation is to everyone connected to the church: Pray like Paul.
Prayers
Please use this prayer in your church each week – and ask people to pray every day.
Loving God,
you promise to be with us when two or three gather together in your name;
hear us as we pray with young people for the church and the world.
Give us faith like Paul,
to pray to you for the young people of our church
that we may be a place and a people
where they are encouraged, empowered and equipped
to play their part in the mission of God.
Prepare us to hear you through them
and to be led by their example closer to you.
Meet us in our prayers, in Jesus’ name. Amen
Pray like Paul
A blessing for young people:
Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in love, in faith, in how to live. Fan into flames the gift of God that is within you and be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
(Based on 1 Tim 4:12, 2 Tim 1:6 & 2 Tim 2:1)
Why not, as a church, share prayers written by the young people you have contact with, inviting the church to pray with them for things that concern and matter to them?