A Fresh Revelation

AWAKENING: Power and Presence

Verse of the Day: Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. . . . Then you will look and be radiant, you heart will throb and swell with joy. - Isaiah 60:1, 5a

Lord, we need an awakening! We ask You to awaken us TODAY to a fresh and new revelation of Your Presence and Power. Our neighbours need this, and so do we. So, today we invite Your presence and power to move throughout our neighbourhoods, replacing the drab and the gloomy with the radiant and the joyful. 

You probably need to start the makeover with us, the people who are called by Your Name. We admit it. So, please, we ask that Your presence and power would arise and shine in us! And then. . .we pray that the glory of the Lord will rise upon the people who live around us and with whom we work and recreate, that their hearts, too, “will throb and swell with joy” as they encounter Your presence and power. We ask this in Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Gary Bennett - Pastor Victoria Church of the Nazarene

Since the Beginning of Time

AWAKENING: Holiness

Verse of the Day: But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. - 1 Peter 2:9

Dear Heavenly Father. We appreciate the love you extend toward us and ask you to help us know you in a deeper way. You have been calling us to yourself. Let us hear the voice of the Spirit of God beckoning us into a richer spiritual life. I believe you long to draw the people of this neighbourhood into a loving, caring relationship with yourself. 

You have desired to call people out of darkness and into the light of your love since the beginning of time. These people who live in this place are meant to be your chosen ones, set apart as special and holy. We ask that you bless us all with the miracle of a life devoted to you. In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Rod Fair - Lead Pastor North Douglas Church

The Monday Minute

Good morning Bless My City!  What a fantastic Easter weekend at every level. God is doing some amazing things across our city and the next 7 weeks are going to be incredible.  

Thanks for registering with us.  There are literally hundreds of people just like you, all across Greater Victoria asking God to bless their streets and neighbourhoods. Some people are committing to multiple street which really great!

An unexpected surprise has been the number of people who have registered from across the country. We have participants in Vancouver, Calgary, Ontario and New Brunswick!  

As you pray this week, watch for God to open doors of opportunity to you.  The opportunities will be by divine appointment and the Holy Spirit will have prepared the people you encounter to be receptive to you and to what you will share with them.  Be genuine.  Be relaxed.  Have fun!  God is WITH you and has gone BEFORE you because He is BLESSING our city!

May Your Grace Reign

AWAKENING: Grace

Verse of the Day: In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God’s grace. -–Colossians 1:6

As I stand in my neighbourhood at the corner of these crossing streets, I ask your love and grace to descend on all the homes I can see. Homes that represent individuals, families and extended communities. Today may my neighbours experience your grace, your generosity, your kindness in their lives that will result in transformed relationships, health, finances and purpose. 

As in Isaiah 55, “the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish”, may your grace rain down and saturate my neighbourhood so that all would know you as Lord and Savior. I thank you for your plan for all those who live in these homes and how you can use me to bless them. Your desire is for all to experience you. I declare the grace of Your Kingdom come, your will be done, accomplished and completed in my neighbourhood today.

Today's prayer submitted by John Wason - Word to Life Ministries

Happy Easter! Holy Spirit, Reveal Jesus To the People On My Street!

AWAKENING: Love

Verse of the Day: Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. -–1 Peter 4:8

Father, just as your Spirit hovered over the waters at creation causing everything to awaken and come alive, I ask that your Spirit would now awaken each person in this neighbourhood to your love that brings true life. 

Father, in Jesus’ name, we come against every lie and distortion in people’ s minds concerning who you are. Please awaken each person to the sacrificial love of Jesus that is the covering for every sin. 

Father, you say in your word that it is your goodness that leads and awakens people to cause them to repent. Lord, pour out your love that draws and turns people in this neighbourhood to your love that covers sin and frees people from guilt and shame. Even now, as we walk this street, we pray for the love of God to be shed abroad in each household, in each marriage, in each adult and child. 

Release your loving Spirit to brood over this neighbourhood to awaken each person to your incredible love.

Today's prayer submitted by Arnie Toews, Pacific Rim Care Counselling

Awaken Hearts To Who You Are, O God!

AWAKENING: God, Our Kindness and Mercy

Verse of the Day: Don’t you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you? Does this mean nothing to you? Can’t you see that his kindness is intended to turn you from your sin?–- Romans 2:4

Father, awaken each heart in our city. Awaken each heart to Your kindness and mercy. We pray for ourselves and our neighbours, friends, family members, enemies, and brothers and sisters in Christ, that we would be awakened wide awake, eyes peeled, senses on full alert to Your extravagant kindness to us that is intended to bring us to repentance and turn us from our sin. 

Bless the people of our city with wide awake senses to perceive, receive, and respond to Your kindness. Wake up, O Victoria, come alive and be alert with sit-on-the-edge-of-your-seat anticipation, stare intently at “how wonderfully kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you.

Today's Prayer Submitted by Cam Aitken - Esquimalt Community Youth

Good Friday - Awaken Our City To Your Salvation

AWAKENING: God, Our Salvation

Verse of the Day: Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them. - Hebrews 7:25

Father we need you to awaken us. 

We feel lost and alone; trapped in despair and confusion; like failures with no hope. We pray that you make us whole. We need your transformation in our lives so that we can be your agents of transformation in Victoria. We pray to you, Jesus, to awaken us to the work that you have already done. Remind us that you are the God who came to the earth to save us all. 

May our neighbours have visions of the cross so they can understand how much they are loved by you. May they understand the message of the empty tomb so they will be blessed with the new life that you are offering to them. Awaken us as all to the work you are doing in heaven. You did not retire in heaven but you are working on our behalf. May we never forget that you always live to intercede for us. May our neighbours also come to know that you are also praying for them. You are their Saviour. 

Let this message spread this Easter season and become a permanent truth in our city.

Today's prayer submitted by Pastor Jeff Sears, First Baptist Church