Prayer & Prophetic

Tuesday Nights

We have an extended prayer and worship time each week from 5:30-6:10 p.m. Our regular weekly corporate prayer and worship service begins at 6:30 p.m.  

Please contact us if you have any questions.

Prayer Room

City Church has a prayer room (same room is also used as our library) located in the balcony of the sanctuary.  This space is a place for individual prayer and meditation and is open when the church building is open. Please call ahead to schedule a time in the prayer room/library the main office at 608-221-1528.  During our 130 hours of prayer each month, the prayer room is open 24 hours for prayer only but is closed as a library.

Pray 130

City Church holds 130 Hours of Prayer during one week of most months. We offer one-hour prayer slots in our Prayer Room (located in the balcony of the sanctuary).  We want to contend for more of God -- to unashamedly knock, seek, and ask for more -- for ourselves, for our families, for this church body, for our city, our nation, and beyond. We want God's will to be done in our day.

Upcoming 130 Hours of Prayer:
Monday, February 27, 8:00 a.m. to Saturday, March 3, 6:00 p.m.

We're asking men to cover the night watch - midnight to 6:00 a.m.(women are not excluded from these hours). Please pick up information on how to enter and exit the building on Sunday morning at the Prayer Sign Up Table (begins mid-October) or online (see link below).

Corporate Worship & Prayer during the 130 Hours:

Monday & Tuesday (in Fellowship Hall) and Thursday & Friday (in Sanctuary), everyone is welcome to join together for worship and prayer -- 5:30-6:15 pm and 8:10-9:00 pm is devotional/quiet time worship, and 6:30 to 8:00 pm (extended till 8:30 on Tuesday night), is a time of corporate worship and prayer.

Please sign up for the prayer slot(s) you'd like to cover:  PRAY 130

Prophetic

We believe that the Spiritual Gifts of Prophecy are alive and active today to bring encouragement and edification to the body of Christ.In order to be good stewards of these Words, we make them available and encourage people to pray in agreement with them. If you have questions about the prophetic or spiritual gifts, please contact us.

Current Prophetic Prayer Focus:

Freshness – I’m bringing a freshness. Taste and see that I am good. The Israelites tired of Manna – my glorious substance. It became familiar and over time, they lost the ability to taste it. After a time, they came to despise the sameness, day after day. I don’t want that for you. I am refreshing your taste buds and your appetite. Taste and see that I am good. Seek to discern and celebrate the variety of My goodness and provision. Don’t focus on or settle for sameness. Yes, I am the same yesterday, today and forever, but as you see Me and taste Me with freshness, the subtle layers of My nature will be revealed. I have called you together for a monumental and astonishing purpose that you have yet to fully sense or understand. I release over you fresh insight into My Word; fresh vision to see what I am doing so you can come along side of Me; a fresh appetite for all that I am and a fresh ability to taste the intensity of My goodness and mercies that are new every day.

(Word received 6/26/2011)


A Prayer for City Church

In September of 2011, the staff and elders of City Church felt lead by God to craft a prayer for the church. We invite you to join us in praying this prayer for City Church.

Heavenly Father,

You alone are God, and the depths of the universe cannot contain Your majesty. Your goodness astounds us, Your grace amazes us, and Your unfailing love abounds. We acknowledge that we do not know the way to the place You are leading us, but trust that You will guide us. You take delight in everything You create, and we know that You are faithful to complete the work You have begun in City Church.

In light of this, we humble ourselves before You, and we thank You for all that You are and all that You have done for us. We give You everything, Father, and we simply ask for more of You because we want to know You and love You more. We no longer trust in what we can do in our own strength but rather in who we are in You, and what You can do through us. We submit our lives, our wills and our plans to You. Help us to be a people that delight in You and walk in the fear of the Lord. As we set our hearts and fix our eyes on You, help us to demonstrate our love for You by our joyful obedience.

Lord, in Your mercy, keep us from relying on our own wisdom, our religious traditions or past experiences. We ask You to have the freedom to do in our midst what You desire. Make us a church that lives out Your word in heart and deed and truly reflects Your beauty and character. Make us a merciful and generous people who walk in Your redemptive ways. Increase our joy in Jesus Christ and help us to share it with others. Help us to have compassion for one another that there may be no needy among us and that we might be a refuge for those You send. Make us a place where people can taste and see that You are good, where all who come can find love and acceptance, and where people can hear and receive the transforming message of the gospel and become Your disciples.

Out of the fullness of who You are, we ask You to pour out Your Holy Spirit and move in power in our midst so that Your works spill over to all those You draw near. As we unashamedly worship You and preach Your word, rise up and confirm the truth of Your Kingdom with signs and wonders. Save the lost, heal the sick, bind up the brokenhearted and deliver the oppressed in our midst so that every eye would be on Jesus and He would receive the reward of His suffering. Enlarge our hearts to receive and embrace the poor, the lost and the difficult.

Please give us wisdom and understanding to be a faithful beacon of Your light and a conductor of Your presence in this region. Lord, just as You have made us one body, use City Church as a catalyst to bring the unity and revival You desire. Equip us with Your power, wisdom and courage to fulfill every purpose You have for us here, and to the farthest parts of the world. May we bring You joy, glory and honor in all that we do.

Heavenly Father, let Your Kingdom come and Your will be done in City Church, this region, and beyond. We humbly ask in Jesus’ name.

Amen

Want a copy of the Prayer for City Church?

Print out a copy below or pick up a copy in the City Church Prayer Room.