Written by Michelle J. Goff
February is Iron Rose Sister Ministries’ Prayer Month—always has been, always will be. We prefer to adopt a “pray without ceasing” mentality, but it is encouraging when we can set aside a specific time to pray together over the same things.
As we usually do, we have made a Prayer Calendar available that has a prayer prompt and a scripture reference for each day. There is also an information page that has more detailed instructions about other Prayer Month activities, like the new Monday evening open prayer hour we are offering via Zoom.
The first of those Prayer Nights is tonight, February 1, 7pm Central (and all other time zones listed on the info page). We will have four Breakout Rooms: one for English-speaking women, one for Spanish-speaking women, one for women who want to pray and/or hear prayers in both English and Spanish, and finally one for men that want to join in prayer for Iron Rose Sister Ministries. Prayers in that room will also be in English and Spanish. The Zoom link for the Monday Prayer Nights is also on that info page.
Our biggest prayer for our Prayer Month is that each of us individually and all of us as a we join in prayer, will be redefined by it.
May my prayer be set before you like incense;
may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice. (Ps. 141:2)
James 5:13-18 details many of the merits and purposes of prayer. As you read these verses below, mediate on how both the person doing the praying and the person being prayed over are being redefined by prayer, even before any answer to that prayer is revealed by God.
13 Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. 14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. 18 Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.
How does the process of redefinition happen through prayer?
How have you been redefined by prayer in the past?
Are you ready to be redefined by prayer along with us this month?