Church of the City Guided Prayer

Church of the City Guided Prayer episodes:

• 01.21.2020

  21 Days 2020 | Day 21 | You Were Created for Such a Time as This

  PROLOGUE ------ We have spent 21 days in centering prayer, focusing our attentions and affections on God. What a precious time it has been. The nearness of God is surely for our good. The kindness of the Lord truly leads us to...

  
• 01.20.2020

  21 Days 2020 | Day 20 | Sign of the Kingdom - Unity & Peace

  SCRIPTURE ----- “I saw a vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing in front of the throne and before the Lamb … And they were shouting with a great roar, ‘Salvation comes from...

  
• 01.19.2020

  21 Days 2020 | Day 19 | Sign of the Kingdom – Generosity

  SCRIPTURE ------ “They shared everything they had.” -Acts 4:32 DEVOTIONAL ------ “And all the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.” (Acts 4:32) Where could such generosity come from?...

  
• 01.18.2020

  21 Days 2020 | Day 18 | Sign of the Kingdom – Justice

  SCRIPTURE ------ “For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and wrongdoing.” Isaiah 61:8 DEVOTIONAL ------ We see in Isaiah 61 that God defines quite clearly what He loves and what He hates. He loves justice. That means he loves fairness, equality,...

  
• 01.17.2020

  21 Days 2020 | Day 17 | Sign of the Kingdom – SOZO (Salvation, Healing & Deliverance)

  SCRIPTURE ------ For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save (sozo) that which was lost. Luke 19:10 DEVOTIONAL ------ Jesus came to ransom back what was lost. To rescue his glorious inheritance which is us! Yes, He came to save...

  
• 01.16.2020

  21 Days 2020 | Day 16 | Sign of the Kingdom – God's Presence (Part 2)

  SCRIPTURE ------ And He said, "My presence shall go with you.” -Exodus 33:14 DEVOTIONAL ------ Romans 8:19 says that “All creation is eagerly waiting, yearning to see the unveiling of God’s glorious sons and daughters!” What is creation waiting for? They are waiting for...

  
• 01.15.2020

  21 Days 2020 | Day 15 | Sign of the Kingdom – God's Presence

  SCRIPTURE ------ For in him we live and move and have our being. -Acts 17:28 DEVOTIONAL ------ From the beginning, God established a precedent by walking in the garden daily with Adam and Eve. We were all made to walk with and experience God’s presence...

  
• 01.14.2020

  21 Days 2020 | Day 14 | Sign of the Kingdom - Belonging

  SCRIPTURE ------ Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God. -Galatians 4:6-7 DEVOTIONAL ------ Today...

  
• 01.13.2020

  21 Days 2020 | Day 13 | Sign of the Kingdom - Repentance

  SCRIPTURE ------ Do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance? Rom. 2:4 DEVOTIONAL ------ Jesus said, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near”. (Matt 3:2) Repentance...

  
• 01.12.2020

  21 Days 2020 | Day 12 | Praying from Heaven to Earth

  SCRIPTURE ------ Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:10 (NIV) DEVOTIONAL ------ When teaching the disciples to pray, Jesus said, “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven”. His language...

  
• 01.11.2020

  21 Days 2020 | Day 11 | Selah

  SCRIPTURE ------ Deep calls unto deep. Psalm 42:7 KJV Today is Day 11. It is the midpoint of our 21 days of prayer and fasting. We have covered a lot of deep truths that can transform our hearts and the way we...

  
• 01.10.2020

  21 Days 2020 | Day 10 | We are Named by God

  SCRIPTURE ------ I’ve called your name. You’re mine. Isaiah 43:1 DEVOTIONAL ------ Just as God calls himself by many names … so He has many beautiful, powerful, and wonderful names for us. In fact, our many names are rooted in God’s name. And thus, our...

  
• 01.09.2020

  21 Days 2020 | Day 9 | God as King

  SCRIPTURE ------ Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. 1 Tim 1:17 DEVOTIONAL ------ Today we will begin to focus on God as King. He is our Creator. He is our Father. He is...

  
• 01.08.2020

  21 Days 2020 | Day 8 | What's in a Name?

  SCRIPTURE ------ I will protect him, because he knows my name. PS. 91:14 DEVOTIONAL ------ Yesterday we began to meditate on becoming familiar with the names of God. In Psalm 138:2 God states that “He exalts His Name and His Word above all things”....

  
• 01.07.2020

  21 Days 2020 | Day 7 | Knowing the Names of God

  SCRIPTURE ------ “David said ... I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts.” 1 Samuel 17:45 DEVOTIONAL ------ Have you ever noticed the difference you feel when someone talks about someone you have met versus someone that you have not...

  
• 01.06.2020

  21 Days 2020 | Day 6 | Abiding in God's Presence

  SCRIPTURE ------ Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. John 15:9 DEVOTIONAL ------ One of the most fruitful things we can do to impact the world is position ourselves to be completely, extravagantly, and profoundly loved...

  
• 01.05.2020

  21 Days 2020 | Day 5 | God is a Good Father

  SCRIPTURE ------ So he got up and went to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and...

  
• 01.04.2020

  21 Days 2020 | Day 4 | God is Love

  SCRIPTURE ------ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does...

  
• 01.03.2020

  21 Days 2020 | Day 3 | Jesus is Knocking

  SCRIPTURE ------ Rev 3:20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me. DEVOTIONAL ------ One of the most important things that...

  
• 01.02.2020

  21 Days 2020 | Day 2 | Prayer is a Conversation

  SCRIPTURE ------ “My sheep hear my voice...” John 10:27-28 ESV DEVOTIONAL ------ When I figured out that prayer didn’t have to be laborious but was merely a conversation, I began to pray in a whole new way. I started to discover that talking to...

  
• 01.01.2020

  21 Days 2020 | Day 1 | With God, Not for God

  SCRIPTURE ------ We love him, because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19 KJV DEVOTIONAL ------ One night when my son was about 4 months old, I stayed up all night staring at him. I was so amazed by this beautiful gift God had given...

  
• 12.27.2019

  21 Days 2020 | Intro

  INTRO –––––– As the Church of the City family, we feel compelled to begin 2020 much like what we did in 2019, with 21 days of prayer and fasting. Fasting is a discipline that brings breakthrough and we’ve been wondering, “what is...

  
• 04.19.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 30 | Tetelestai (It is Finished)

  SCRIPTURE ------ When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished” (Greek - Tetelestai). John 19:30 DEVOTIONAL ----- As C.H. Spurgeon says, tetelestai conveys “an ocean of meaning in a drop of language, a mere drop. It would need all the...

  
• 04.18.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 29 | “I thirst.”

  SCRIPTURE ------ “I thirst.” -John 19:28 DEVOTION ------ Here is another reminder that Christ joined us in our humanity. The eternal Word who was in the beginning, who was with God, and who was God (see John 1:1) has agreed to take on the weakness,...

  
• 04.17.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 28 | “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

  SCRIPTURE ------ “ Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour, And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God,...

  
• 04.16.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 27 | “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

  SCRIPTURE ------ One of the criminals who were hanged there was hurling abuse at (Jesus), saying, “Are You not the Christ? Save Yourself and us!” But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Do you not even fear God, since you are...

  
• 04.15.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 26 | Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”

  “Jesus said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.’ ” Luke 23:34 SCRIPTURE ------ It is impossible to comprehend the level of physical and emotional pain Jesus experienced on the cross. Even more unimaginable is the suffering he endured...

  
• 04.12.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 25 | Jesus is Sentenced to Death

  Pilate gathered the people together with the high priests and all the religious leaders of the nation and told them, “You have presented this man to me and charged him with stirring a rebellion among the people. But I say...

  
• 04.11.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 24 | Peter Denies He Knew Jesus

  One of the primary ways we find strength is by seeing Jesus and how much he loves us. For the next few weeks of our guided prayer we are going to take strength by meditating on what Jesus went through...

  
• 04.10.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 23 | Jesus is Mocked & Severely Beaten

  One of the primary ways we find strength is by seeing Jesus and how much he loves us. For the next few weeks of our guided prayer we are going to take strength by meditating on what Jesus went through...

  
• 04.09.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 22 | The Garden of Gethsemane

  One of the primary ways we find strength is by seeing Jesus and how much he loves us. For the next few wks of our guided prayer we are going to take strength by meditating on what Jesus went through...

  
• 04.08.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 21 | Jesus & His Disciples Eat the Last Supper

  One of the primary ways we find strength is by seeing Jesus and how much he loves us. For the next few wks of our guided prayer we are going to take strength by meditating on what Jesus went...

  
• 04.05.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 20 | The True Glory of Jesus (The Transfiguration)

  One of the primary ways we find strength is by seeing Jesus and how much he loves us. For the next few wks of our guided prayer we are going to take strength by meditating on what Jesus went thru...

  
• 04.04.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 19 | Jesus & Religious Traditions - Part 2

  One of the primary ways we find strength is by seeing Jesus and how much he loves us. For the next few wks of our guided prayer we are going to take strength by meditating on what Jesus went thru...

  
• 04.03.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 18 | Jesus & Religious Traditions - Part 1

  One of the primary ways we find strength is by seeing Jesus and how much he loves us. For the next few wks of our guided prayer we are going to take strength by meditating on what Jesus went thru...

  
• 04.02.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 17 | Jesus Heals Ten Men with Leprosy

  One of the primary ways we find strength is by seeing Jesus and how much he loves us. For the next few weeks of our guided prayer we are going to take strength by meditating on what Jesus went thru...

  
• 04.01.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 16 | Jesus Calls the Tax Collector & Eats with Sinners

  One of the primary ways we find strength is by seeing Jesus and how much he loves us. For the next few weeks of our guided prayer we are going to take strength by meditating on what Jesus went through...

  
• 03.28.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 15 | Jesus Forgives & Heals a Paralyzed Man

  One of the primary ways we find strength is by seeing Jesus and how much he loves us. For the next few wks of our guided prayer we are going to take strength by meditating on what Jesus went...

  
• 03.28.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 14 | Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

  One of the primary ways we find strength is by seeing Jesus and how much he loves us. For the next few weeks of our guided prayer we are going to take strength by meditating on what Jesus went thru...

  
• 03.27.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 13 | Jesus is Tested in the Wilderness

  One of the primary ways we find strength is by seeing Jesus and how much he loves us. For the next few weeks of our guided prayer we are going to take strength by meditating on what Jesus went through...

  
• 03.26.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 12 | The Sacrificial Life - Jesus Changes Water Into Wine

  SCRIPTURE ------ On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have...

  
• 03.25.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 11 | The Sacrificial Life - The Boy Jesus at the Temple

  Scripture ------ The scriptures tell us that (12 year old) Jesus and his parents had gone up to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. After the festival the family was returning home when they realized Jesus was missing. So...

  
• 03.22.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 10 | Lonely Places and Lonely Spaces

  SCRIPTURE ------ “The news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him...but Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.” - Luke 5:15-16 (See also Mark 1:45) DEVOTION ------ Over this past week we’ve seen how important it...

  
• 03.21.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 9 | The Holy Spirit as Guide and Comforter

  SCRIPTURE ------ “Jesus was led by the Spirit.” Matt 4:1 (NIV) DEVOTION ------ The Holy Spirit was present in the lonely places. In fact, the Holy Spirit led Jesus, the Son, into the wilderness to be with the Father. The Holy Spirit was leading and...

  
• 03.20.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 8 | The Father was in the Lonely Places

  SCRIPTURE ------ “Jesus went up into the high hills to spend the whole night in prayer to God.” Luke 6:12 DEVOTION ------ Think about the lonely places from heaven’s perspective. Father God, Jesus and The Holy Spirit had perfect union, closeness, and intimacy. But Jesus left...

  
• 03.19.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 7 | Jesus Withdrew to Lonely Places Part 2

  We began our meditations focusing on Jesus as God, Man, and Servant King. We will now continue to thoughtfully consider how and why a hallmark of Jesus’ life was to seek out lonely places to be with Father God. SCRIPTURE ------ But Jesus...

  
• 03.18.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 6 | Jesus Withdrew to the Lonely Places Part 1

  We’ve taken our first 5 days to meditate on Jesus as God, Man, and Servant King. We will now thoughtfully consider how and why a hallmark of Jesus’ life was to seek out lonely places to be with Father God. SCRIPTURE ------ Afterward,...

  
• 03.15.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 5 | Jesus as Servant King - Part 2

  SCRIPTURE ------ “Whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his...

  
• 03.14.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 4 | Jesus as Servant King

  SCRIPTURE ------ “Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a...

  
• 03.13.2019

  Lent 2019 | Day 3 | Jesus is Man - Part 2

  SCRIPTURE ------ “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” - John 1:14 DEVOTIONAL ------ Yahweh, the unspeakable, untouchable God...