Everyone has a relational network or a sphere of influence - whether it’s your close group friends and family, your workplace, your neighborhood, etc. Every follower of Jesus is invited to show up with intentionality and meaning to the faces we see in the places we go, or for our faces and places. How do you show up well? Here is a way to pray for your faces and places.

Sometimes, it can feel challenging to know how to pray for others. Praying Through Scripture is a simple, yet powerful practice of praying God’s very Word for others. No matter how clumsy it may feel at first, there is power in praying God's Word regardless of how we present it. There is something remarkable about Jesus inviting people to partner with him to bring life in his name, and this is another way to prayerfully partner with God and his people to speak life for others. Here’s how to start:

Draw your Relational Map. This is a way to raise awareness of who your faces and places and to be more intentional about how you show up.
Turn your Relational Map into a Prayer Map. This is a helpful way to never stop praying. Each day, spend time praying over a different arena and person of your relational map.
Invite your people or prayer team to partner with you in prayer for the people in your life who are close to you, but far from God.

Here is a prayer out of Ephesians 3:14-21. The blanks are to be filled in with specific names of those you are praying with and for:

When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower _____ with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in _____’s heart as _____ trusts in him. _____’s roots will grow down into God’s love and keep _____ strong. And may _____ have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May _____ experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then _____ will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen

This is a prayer Paul prayed for his friends in Ephesus, and a prayer we can partner in praying for our friends in Las Vegas and beyond, willing and desiring for God to go with one another to do all the things that God is inviting his people to do!

Praying For Your Faces And Places