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What Are You Doing on the First Friday of the Month?
Does your church participate in First Friday Prayer? "What's First Friday Prayer?" you ask. An ongoing "praying for revival" initiative, that sees thousands of church prayer groups and hundreds of thousands of individuals cry out to God for the U.S. church on the first Friday of every month.
First Friday has been in operation for more than 30 years in the United States. Currently shepherded and monitored by Intercessors for America, First Friday has kept a heart cry for revival at the forefront of many churches. First Friday is also the monthly expression of a document called The National Prayer Accord. Issued in 1999, the Prayer Accord, which was signed by more than 70 denominations and 200 national ministry leaders, calls our nation to extraordinary prayer for revival in the church and a national spiritual awakening to Christ in our nation.
The idea is to have local church prayer groups fast and gather together on the first Friday of each month to pray for our nation's spiritual health. General themes for prayer provided by IFA, can be found in Pray! magazine (in CPLN's Empowered section) and at www.ifapray.org. IFA also has a free newsletter you can receive. The CPLN will also begin including First Friday prayer themes on our site, and provide links to the First Friday section at IFA's site.
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