Jesus prayed that we be One, believers and would be believers; in other words, everyone.
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.John 17:20-21
If we want to be more like Jesus, we can pray, as He did, that we be One.
Pray that youth and adults, churches, ministries and authorities come together and put into practice Jesus’ prayer that we be One.
Pray that our youth in the present generation prepares the next generation that will follow them to be able to shepherd the Sixth Great Awakening.
This book, The Sixth Great Awakening: And the Coming Renewal of the American Church by Joseph Castleberry,
describes how “Every local church in America and around the world should commit itself to fulfilling the ideal of one holy, catholic, and apostolic church.” (page 149).
The Great Awakening Foundation of New England is “committed to advancing the Gospel through practical ministry support and spiritual development.to strengthen churches to lead this movement”
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A structure is taking shape to enable us to become One and heal our nation.
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Prayer Groups are key building blocks required in all stages of the structure.
Personal prayer leads to prayer groups. Prayer groups help compose unified prayer gatherings which give rise to revivals which create conditions for a Great Awakening to occur.
These Opportunities for Prayer Groups in Connecticut can encourage youth and adults to join or start a prayer group.
The prayer topics are suggested to give you ideas for subject matter for your prayer group.
UnityCT would like every young person and adult in CT to know that they have these opportunities..
Praying with others doesn’t just add, it magnifies your effect.
Select prayer topics that bring together people (believers and those who will be believers), churches, ministries and authorities.
What makes some Prayer Groups much more successful than others?
First of all, Prayer Groups that keep their focus on Jesus will transform CT and be an example for other states and our divided nation.
Prayer groups and Bible study groups in churches bring people together who have similar interests.
Ministries and smaller churches require prayer groups that are cross-denominational.
A prayer group can be statewide or local, among people already affiliated, or needing to join others on the same topic.
Groups become stronger by sharing with similar groups, that is to say, becoming One.
As shown in the “structure” mentioned above, we’ll discuss below:
Personal prayer is a foundation for prayer groups;
Prayer groups connect, including Unified Regional Prayer Gatherings;
Unified Regional Prayer Gatherings can lead to Revivals;
Revivals among the present generation of young people can create conditions within 20 or 25 years where the generation following them will start the 6th Great Awakening.
Let’s look at each of those stages.
Personal Prayer
”Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.” 1 Peter 4:10 NIV
Pray to God, whether you are young or old, continuously, to find your Mission/Vocation/Calling in Life.
Prayer Groups
The Lord’s Prayer for Groups.
When asked, Jesus said “This, then, is how you should pray, :
“‘Our Father in heaven hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
Notice “our” and “us”. Jesus is speaking to a group.
About all of us.
We welcome your suggestions for points of prayer that could be the theme for a prayer group.
Let us know about your prayer group or your plan for one.
Take Action now. Forward these Opportunities to your friends. The need is urgent to heal our divided nation.
Our divided people, churches, ministries, authorities, communities, region, nation and world can come together.
We’re all volunteers.
Pray that we all come together and put into practice Jesus’ prayer that we be one.
Pray that your group and your church will inspire groups of young adults to lead their generation to progress in these steps to make possible the 6th Great Awakening of New England within the next 20 to 25 years.
Previous revivals in New England occurred following prayer by the previous generation.
Pray that serving the “least of these” is a priority.
Jesus described those who are hungry, thirsty, strangers, needing clothes, sick, in prison, and said, “… whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine you did for me.” Matthew 25:40 NIV
Pray for Opportunities to meet severe global needs.
The Lausanne Movement lists these “Opportunities within Spheres of Society” and cites the sources of the information.
• 1 billion people live in slums.
• 820 million people are going hungry.
• 773 million adults are illiterate, most of whom are women.
• 99 percent of people breathe air that contains high levels of pollutants.
• 1.8 billion people suffer from living in high-risk flood zones.
• 103 million people are forced to flee their homes yearly, 43 percent of whom are children.
• 777 thousand girls under 15 years give birth each year.
• 3 out of 10 of all pregnancies end in induced abortion.
• 700 thousand people die by suicide every year.
Organizing Prayer Groups
Pray that a group will form for each prayer topic, locally or across the state, of those interested in that topic.
Each group can schedule to meet in person or on social media (e.g., Zoom, Google Meet) or both (e.g. Facebook) and pray regularly for their prayer points.
They get to know and love each other and take actions to realize their prayer.
Pray that every young person and adult will find a prayer group they like.
Unified Regional Prayer Gatherings
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Pray that all the groups prepare and assemble in the 10 Days Regional Summits in 2025 and International Gathering in 2026.
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Pray that all the churches come together in each locale to lead this ministry for all their neighbors and members.
Churches, by being together, will be able to invite every one of their neighbors to join in prayer with others interested in the same prayer points. Each cluster of churches can innovate what it presents.
That the entire Church invites every young person and adult in the state.
Pray that ministries form prayer groups and share them with other similar ministries.
Pray that ministries connect with other ministries serving the same populations or in similar ways.
They can better solve challenges they have in common and attract more supporters for each of them.
Pray that prayer groups form among people who work or live together.
People already affiliated by residence, occupation, religion, education, social/community group, ministry or location can form a prayer group. An example would be people in a retirement community. They can connect with other similar groups.
These Opportunities to Pray can help them choose prayer topics for their agenda.
Some examples are:
High schools (e.g, The Jesus Clubs)
Retirement communities (e.g., StoneRidge, Essex Meadows, Masonicare, Academy Point, etc.)
A prayer group can have different pastors or members moderate prayer topics from Bible verses, videos of sermons, inspiring books or these Opportunities.
Scheduling moderators and topics months in advance makes it possible to assign prior study by members.
Sermon videos like those by Derek Prince “inspire faith and draw you closer to God.”
Books like “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?” by Rick Warren, used by 50 million.
Or Holy Moments: A Handbook for the Rest of Your Life by Matthew Kelly
Pray to keep enhancing your personal Mission/Vocation/Calling in Life.
Pray with your family, friends, workplace, church, ministry, neighbors and authorities.
Ask people you meet who appear to be struggling if they would like you to pray for them.
Street ministries search and find people struggling who need hope, love and help and appreciate prayer for them.
Learn how others pray.
The book Lead with Prayer by Ryan Skoog, Peter Greer and Cameron Doolittle describes how prayer
helped them so much in their lives and careers, they researched other leaders throughout the world to ask how they prayed.
They report, “People are coming to Christ, churches are being planted, and communities are being transformed through community development and the Gospel at never-before-seen rates. … It’s happening in our lifetimes: a worldwide revival or reformation on a scale not seen since the earliest days of the Church.”
“…the number one principle, practice, and emphasis driving radical transformation — to a person, without exception — is extraordinary prayer.” (Introduction p. XIX)
Pray to find and share opportunities to make “your kingdom come” here in Connecticut.
Pray that serving the “least of these” is a priority.
Jesus described those who are hungry, thirsty, strangers, needing clothes, sick, in prison, and said, “… whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine you did for me.” Matthew 25:40 NIV
Pray for those who take the gospel to the ends of the Earth and travel, or go online, to connect with them.
19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20 (the Great Commission).
Pray with the Lausanne Movement. For five decades, “leaders from every corner of the world have been collaborating.” They are “committed to spreading the gospel to every corner of the earth.” (Great Commission) They have a “free weekly prayer guide to inspire and inform the whole church to pray for the whole world. Visit www.lausanne.org/pray.”
Pray with 10 Days Ministry gatherings with prayer topics for every part of the world.
Pray for Merciful Redemption Church International in Groton, CT, “A Worldwide Training Center, To Reach the World for Jesus” and its mission trips.
Pray for UnityCT.
Pray for ways to enable every Gen Z youth and adult in Connecticut to be aware of these opportunities to join or start a prayer group with their friends.
Pray that additional volunteers will continue to develop UnityCT.
Pray for successors, new leaders to volunteer in this Bible-based non-profit, in management, IT and operations.
Experts to import this Google doc to the UnityCT.com website.
Prayer Intercessors to organize, join and lead prayer groups.
6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; 7 if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; 8 if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully. Romans 12:6-8 NIV
Pray that adults and youth will see Christianity as more authentic than secularism for personal joy, peace and transforming society.
Pray for a turnaround in which Christianity reverses the trend and regains market share taken by Secularism.
In recent decades our society has become more secular with “the weakening of religion in the mindsets of the citizens.”
3 in 10 Americans identify as “nones”, “being atheist, agnostic, or without religious affiliation.”
“In today’s … society few people are attracted to church.”
We’ve been through three stages to become more secular:
- Withdrawal of religious practice from public life to private life
- Decreased participation in religious life or decline in religious belief by individuals
- A shift from a society or culture in which it was virtually impossible not to believe in God, to one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is one human possibility among others.
Many of us now have “a ‘buffered self’ with ‘confidence’ in one’s ‘own powers of moral ordering’.
Our culture has made it viable to replace religion with “self determining freedom.”
We individuals have replaced God as the source of authority.”
Secularity is a choice we make.
Is being a modern, autonomous self the best choice for one’s life?
Encourage more people to see Christianity as a plausible option.
Pray for the homeless.
Norwich, CT will open a warm shelter in December 2024.. Jillian Corbin, St. Vincent de Paul Place; Pastor Eric Heinrich, St. Mark Lutheran Church; and Pastor David Horst, Unitarian Universalist Church were advocates.
Pray for veterans.
Contact Chris with email to military@seaportcomminitychurch.org for their ministry to members of the military.
Pray for healing.
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18 they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.” Mark 16:17-18 NIV
Healing Rooms Ministries “exists to see people healed, set free, and launched into their destiny by demonstrating the Kingdom of God right here, right now.”
Pray for people and ministries that prevent and enable addiction recovery.
Meet with a Celebrate Recovery Group online on Zoom from anywhere, every Wednesday at 3pm EST.
See this map of these “Christ-Centered Recovery Programs” in CT and use your zip code to find one near you.
Pray for ministries that teach the unemployed and underemployed Biblical values and career skills combined.
“Actions to Change Your Life” are taught free of charge in the website worknlearn.us and the Course Workbook Know-How to Change-Your Life.
your hurts, hang-ups, and habits.
Pray for eradicating human trafficking in Connecticut and New England.
The Underground New England is a faith-based non-profit organization that exists to eradicate human trafficking in Connecticut and New England through awareness, prevention, and intentional survivor support.
Pray for prison ministries that serve behind bars and also outside, before and after prison, families, and correction officers. (Reforming prison operations requires that we change our culture. This is major. Your prayers are needed.)
For every church in Connecticut to have a prayer ministry with one or more members engaged with one of the prison ministries.
For youth ministries so youth won’t go to prison, like Faith 2 Faith Ministries, Inc “to reach our students with the Gospel”.
For Jericho Partnership serving at-risk youth in Danbury, CT
For proven prison ministries to be allowed, as previously, to serve followers of God who are in every prison in Connecticut.
God Behind Bars movement has shared the “transformative power of God’s love” in 70 church campuses in prisons and reached 420,000 prison tablets.
Kairos of CT, Prison Fellowship, and Alpha in prisons each have a proven ministry to serve God in the prisons to transform lives and improve safety and security.
For prison ministries outside the prisons.
Kairos Outside for women who have loved ones incarcerated,
Prison Fellowship Angel Tree program for children of prisoners.
For re-entrants and the 16 churches with designated mentors that expanded their prison ministries to become Second Chance churches supported by Urban Alliance. .
For ministries that reduce recidivism, such as Homebridge Ventures in Bridgeport, CT, that gives reentrants and others “healing, love, kinship” and employment.
For ministries to be prepared to go inside when they are allowed again, to serve God, transform the lives of residents, and restore the safety of residents and correction officers.
For the CT Department of Correction to change its current policy and start once again to welcome ministries to lead religious services inside.
For prisoners to have the same 1st Amendment religious right to “free exercise” and “peaceably to assemble” as we have outside.
Pray that churches in CT will come together and do a unity church plant in every prison in CT.
Every town in CT had to have a church in order to become a town.
Pray that the 16 Second Chance Churches and other churches in CT come together and ask God Behind Bars, Kairos of CT, Prison Fellowship, Alpha and other prison ministries to come together to create and support a unity church plant inside every prison in CT.
Participate in unified prayer movements.
Great Awakening Foundation of New England
“Founded in 1979, the Great Awakening Foundation of New England exists to encourage and equip New England ministry and business leaders as we contend in prayer for the greatest spiritual revival and awakening the six states of New England have ever experienced.”
Arise-CT
Twice annual in-person “united prayer and praise gathering for a move of God in the New England Region.” Also online guided prayer for an hour via Zoom in the evening with like-minded Christian believers from churches across the region.
10DAYS.net
“Stopping Cities for United Prayer & Worship with Repentance during the Days of Awe September 22 to October 2, 2025.”
In 2024 there were about 330 in-person gatherings across the globe. In addition, the VIRTUAL GLOBAL UPPER ROOM replicated the time 2,000 years ago when the Holy Spirit descended at Pentecost “how the Church was born”, spread to every nation, and what it needs today.”
10 Days is both global and local, in person and online, for home churches and entire cities, like Bridgeport, CT. and Philadelphia, PA.
They will publish a new book in February 2025.
2 Billion Children
Since 2019, in addition to in person gatherings, 10 Days has hosted a 24/7 online global 10 Day prayer meeting. In 2024 this virtual option was led by “2 Billion Children“, a global network seeking to reach the earth’s two billion children. Each hour is led by a different group, often in many different languages. And many of the hours are led by children’s ministries. If you don’t have a local 10 Days expression near you, joining an online gathering is an amazing way to join in 10 Days. You can do it from anywhere on your phone.
Impact Connecticut
“A Day Apart for a time of worship, prayer, learning, and fellowship with pastors and church leaders from across Connecticut.”
New England Alliance
“a network composed of networks (network of networks) for Kingdom Advancement in the New England Region.Our four major focuses are: (1) John 17 unity in the Body of Christ; (2) United Prayer and Worship; (3) Spiritual Renewal, Revival, Awakening, and Societal Transformation; (4) Mission and Evangelism.”
America Prays
“Our vision is to unite and equip 40,000 churches in prayer for a national spiritual awakening. Covering America in 24/7 Prayer.”
Global Day of Prayer for America
Christian leaders in other countries requested this Global Day of Prayer for America. On Sunday, September 22, 2024, for three hours, more than 8,000 people throughout the world concurrently heard key Christian leaders from about 20 countries pray for America. Many were praying, “We need America”. This is the recording.
International Prayer Connect
Take Action. Pray and Join or Start a Group.
Send an email to dyerd@unityct.com about any prayer group you would like to join or start.
- Full name and zip code.
- Prayer topic theme(s) for the group.
- Brief description of your interest in the prayer topic(s).
12/19/24 Daniel Dyer, dyerd@unityct.com