Prayer Calendar - January

(Prepared by Lilian Schmid)

Prayer Points for January 2016

  • For the strengthening of the family units and marriages, and for unity and peace within the home. (Isaiah 32:8)
  • That those who are in financial difficulty and those who have lost jobs and homes in would find work... for financial breakthroughs for these families (Matthew 6: 25-31, Philippians 4:19)
  • Pray that faithfulness and selfless love will be released over the marriages and families. (Hebrews 13:4, Hosea 2:19-20)
  • To stop the evil agenda that is trying to redefine marriage and legalise homosexual marriages, for the Lord to give divine strategies that will be successful in stopping this agenda. (Philippians 2:15)
  • For the families to be given wisdom to redirect their priorities, first a turning to God in repentance for materialism and forcusing on God's will on the family members and relationships. (Matthew 6:26, 1 Timothy 6:10, Hebrews 13:5-6)
  • That parents would be bold to instruct their children in living God's way, and to lead their families in prayer and seeking God together (Jeremiah 31:1-3, Proverbs 4:1-6)
  • For an Outpouring of the Holy Spirit to be released over the families (Joel 2:28-32)
  • For the blessings of the Lord to come upon the families (Genesis 12:3, Deuteronomy 28:1-15)
  • Traditional family values would be encouraged and lived out in all homes. (Colossians 3:2)

31 Days Biblical Verses For Families
to Meditate on During January 2016

  1. Exodus 20:12 Honour your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
  2. Joshua 24:15 But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."
  3. Proverbs 6:20 My son, keep your father's commands and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
  4. Matthew 15:4 For God said, 'Honour your father and mother' and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'
  5. Proverbs 15:20 A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
  6. Proverbs 1:8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
  7. Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
  8. Ephesians 6:1-2 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 "Honour your father and mother"--which is the first commandment with a promise
  9. Psalm 103:17 But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD's love is with those who fear Him, and his righteousness with their children's children
  10. Deuteronomy 5:16 "Honour your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
  11. Proverbs 11:29 He who brings trouble on his family will inherit only wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.
  12. Proverbs 15:27 A greedy man brings trouble to his family, but he who hates bribes will live.
  13. Proverbs 31:15-17 She gets up while it is still dark; she provides food for her family and portions for her servant girls. 16 She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard. 17 She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks.
  14. Hosea 2:19 And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
  15. 1 Samuel 25:40-42 When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, "David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife." And she rose and bowed with her face to the ground and said, "Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord." And Abigail hurried and rose and mounted a donkey, and her five young women attended her. She followed the messengers of David and became his wife.
  16. Esther 2:16-18 And when Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign, the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti. Then the king gave a great feast for all his officials and servants; it was Esther's feast. He also granted a remission of taxes to the provinces and gave gifts with royal generosity.
  17. Isaiah 54:5 For your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.
  18. Revelation 19:7-9 Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure"- for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints. And the angel said to me, "Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb." And he said to me, "These are the true words of God."
  19. Revelation 21:9-14 Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, "Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb."And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed-on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
  20. 2 Chronicles 20:13 All the men of Judah, with their wives and children and little ones, stood there before the Lord.
  21. Proverbs 1:8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
  22. Proverbs 12:7 The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous stands firm.
  23. Proverbs 15:20 A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
  24. Proverbs 22:6 Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
  25. Proverbs 31:28-29 Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: "Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all."
  26. Acts 10:2 He and all his family were devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly.
  27. Romans 8:16-17 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs-heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
  28. Romans 8:22-23 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.
  29. Romans 9:4 ...the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises.
  30. Galatians 4:4-7 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out,"Abba,Father." So you are no longer a slave, but God's child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.
  31. Ephesians 1:3-6 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will- to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.

Christian Quotes about Marriage

"Marriage is an exclusive union between one man and one woman, publicly acknowledged, permanently sealed, and physically consummated." ~ Selwyn Hughes

"The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union." ~ C.S. Lewis

"A man doesn't own his marriage; he is only the steward of his wife's love." ~ Edwin Louis Cole (Ed Cole)

"God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God." ~ Max Lucado

"Fifty-fifty marriages are an impossibility. They do not work. They cannot work. In marriage someone has to be the final decision maker. Someone has to delegate responsibility, and God has ordained that this should be the husband. " ~ Wayne Mack

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