Lydia
Resources
Special materials are prepared
for women to use in forming a prayer group that will
encourage them in praying for revival in their families,
neighborhoods, cities, churches, our country and around the
world. We recommend the leader of the group purchase a
Lydia Leader's Packet and each member of the group have
their own individual copy of the Lydia Prayer Guide.
Lydia Prayer Group Leader's
Packet
Modeled
after Lydia, who opened her heart and home to the gospel,
small groups of praying women have begun meeting together in
the United States and overseas. The Leader's Packet is
designed to help group leaders as they form prayer groups
to pray for revival in ourselves, our families, our
neighborhoods, churches, cities, countries, and around the
world. A Leader's Packet will include one copy of the Lydia
Prayer Guide, the booklet
Prayer of Faith
by J. O. Frazer, information about upcoming women's retreats
to pray for, a message on CD from Dr. Dennis Kinlaw entitled
Living Out of Prayer,
and information for obtaining additional resources on
prayer.
Lydia Prayer Guide (available in
English and in Spanish)
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The
Lydia Prayer Guide
is
designed to encourage and direct individual prayer group
members as they strive to become Women of Prayer. We want to
see what God may do as small groups of women meet to pray
and seek Him, sharing with women around the world the joy of
knowing Jesus Christ personally and the excitement of living
daily in the fullness of the Holy Spirit. The Lydia
Prayer Guide is also now available in Spanish.
Lydia Prayer Journal
In
Acts 1:8 Jesus promised His disciples that they would be His
witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the ends of the
earth. It is this promise that serves as our model for
prayer in the Lydia Prayer Journal. We start by
praying for Jerusalem, our homes and families;
Samaria, our churches and communities; Judea, our
nation; and finally, we pray for a different part of the
world each month. We have included some facts and prayer
tips in the journal to help you pray more effectively. The
journal is divided into 12 monthly sections and each section
begins with a prayer focus taken from Scripture.
In Acts 16:13 we read of the
apostle Paul attending a riverside prayer meeting outside of
Philippi. He encountered a group of praying women, one of
whom was a businesswoman named Lydia. She was a worshipper
of God whose heart the Lord opened to respond to Paul’s
message. Her response led not only to her own conversion but
to the conversion and baptism of her whole household. She
then opened her home to the great apostle, and the first
fellowship of Christian believers in Europe met in her
house. God used a woman’s prayer meeting to change history
once. We think He wants to do it again.
Our desire
is that Jesus would transform all of us into world
Christians, with a heart for God and a mind for truth. We
see this modeled in the example of Lydia. Her love and
obedience to Jesus impacted not only her family and Philippi
but ultimately Europe and the world. It is because of her
example that we have named this book the Lydia Prayer
Journal.
We hope that
as you begin this new prayer adventure your heart will be
blessed and your life and the lives of countless others that
you remember in prayer will be transformed. Thank you for
joining with us in the life-transforming adventure of
prayer. "When God wants to change human history, He begins
with an intercessor."-Beth Coppedge
"This is the confidence we have in
approaching God; that if we ask anything according to His
will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever
we ask, we know that we have what we asked of Him."
1 John 5:14
Lydia Prayer Ministry Brochure
(download for free, tri-fold
2-sided brochure)
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