Prayer Guide
March Prayer Needs
Pray for the Nations
March 1
To conclude this year’s Missions Week, we’ll gather to pray on behalf of Gospel partners and lost people across the world. Pray God will move our hearts to intercede for all nations in accordance with His will.
Adult Life Groups Leadership Rally
March 8
Bellevue is hosting a rally for all adult Life Group leaders. Please pray that this will be a time of encouragement as they continue leading their people.
Missions Project: Kenya, East Africa
March 12–22
There are multiple missions teams heading to Kenya to participate in orphan and widow ministry and discipleship training. Pray for the lost people of Kenya to say yes to Jesus.
Missions Project: Lima, Peru
March 14–21
A team of high schoolers is heading to Peru to partner with local church plants to share the hope and truth of Jesus. Pray for lost people of Peru to come to know the love found in Jesus Christ.
Game Day with the Grizzlies
March 30
The Bellevue family will watch the Memphis Grizzlies compete against the Phoenix Suns at FedExForum. Pray for God to use this evening to draw people from across our city to connect with our church family.
Focused Prayer: Family Worship Service
March 29
On Sunday, March 29, we are hosting a special worship experience for the whole family! Please pray that this Palm Sunday service would be a meaningful time of intergenerational worship as students, parents, grandparents, and neighbors gather side by side. Ask God to unite our hearts in celebration of Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem and to deepen our appreciation for the Body of Christ. Pray that families would be encouraged as they worship together and that this special morning would draw us closer to the Lord and to one another as we prepare our hearts for Easter.
Pray for our Pastor
Pray for Ben as he carries out his responsibilities as Senior Pastor, that he’ll be able to experience deep rest and peace in the Lord.
“For the person who has entered his rest has rested from his own works, just as God did from his. Let us, then, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the same pattern of disobedience.” Hebrews 4:10–11
Pray God gives Ben wisdom as he prepares to preach each week and the anointing of the Holy Spirit to speak in boldness.
“Instead, just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please people, but rather God, who examines our hearts.” 1 Thessalonians 2:4
Confessional Prayer for Unconfessional People
Dear Faithful Intercessors,
Daniel did something stunning in Daniel 9.
He opened the scroll of Jeremiah, realized the 70 years of exile were nearly complete, and instead of celebrating a coming deliverance, he fell on his face.
“So I gave my attention to the Lord God, to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes. … [W]e have sinned, … acted wickedly and rebelled. … [W]e have not listened.” (Daniel 9:3, 5, 6 NASB1995)
Daniel was personally righteous. Yet he said, “We.”
He confessed sins he did not commit.
He wept over rebellion he did not lead.
He stood in the gap for people who were not confessing at all.
And that is often how it is.
The hard-hearted rarely call the prayer meeting.
The drifting rarely initiate repentance.
The proud seldom cry out for mercy.
The ones who gather to fast and pray are usually the tender-hearted, the attentive, the spiritually awake.
So why do I write this to you?
Because you are Daniel.
You are the ones who will confess for those who are not confessing.
You pray:
- for the lost to be saved.
- for leaders to die to self and lead with integrity.
- for the greedy to become generous.
- for the fearful to receive courage.
- for the controlling to become humble servants.
- for those who resist Christ to see His beauty.
- for believers who have drifted to return and experience “times of refreshing … from the presence of the Lord” (Acts 3:19 NASB1995).
And sometimes, if we are honest, it can feel wearying.
“How long, O Lord?”
“Why won’t they see?”
“Why won’t they repent?”
But this is life in a world that is still groaning under the curse of sin. God has chosen, in His wisdom, to work through intercessors. Through Daniels. Through you.
I prayed for my dad to receive Christ for 25 years. Twenty-five years of what felt like silence. No movement. No openness. Nothing.
Then one day—after what I still think was the clumsiest Gospel transition I’ve ever made—he broke. He wept. He surrendered to Christ.
Heaven had been listening all along.
We admire Daniel’s courage. We admire his steadfastness. We admire his willingness to identify with a sinful people and plead for mercy.
Today, you have the opportunity to be that person.
Stand in the gap.
Confess for those who will not confess.
Intercede for those who will not pray.
Weep for those who feel no sorrow.
Ask God to break through blindness, pride, deception, and hardness.
Some of the people you pray for are lost. Some once walked closely with Jesus but have drifted. Some are proud, defensive, or cold. Some may even seem unreachable.
But God responds to humble, fasting, persistent intercession.
On your day of fasting this month, pray Daniel 9.
Pray “we,” not just “they.”
Ask God:
- to send conviction where there is numbness.
- to send light where there is blindness.
- to send softness where there is hardness.
- to send life where there is death.
You may not see immediate results. But heaven hears.
And one day—perhaps suddenly, perhaps quietly—the breakthrough will come.
Thank you for being Daniels in our generation.
With Gratitude and Hope,
Bill
Resources
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Prayer for America
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Prayer for the World
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Prayer for Families
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Prayer for Revival
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Prayer for Missions
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