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Readings for the Week of Prayer

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 18, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 46.

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Readings for the Week of Prayer

By General Conference Committee

To Be Read in All the Churches in the United States December 11-18, 1909

Suggestions to Church Elders and Leaders for the Week of Prayer

THE week of prayer becomes more and more important as we near the end. It surely is a very fitting thing at the close of the year to set apart a week for especially consecrating our lives and all we have and are unto the Lord.
The one who presents the reading for the day should have time to study the subject and pray for God's blessing in his own soul. Each day's service will afford time for special prayer or testimony seasons. Encourage as many as possible to take part. We can improve our meetings for prayer by learning to make short prayers in public, coming to the Lord with definite, pointed, heartfelt requests, in which all can join in hearty “amen.” The young people should be encouraged to take part in the services. Pray for the wandering feet, and labor personally for the back-slidden and unconverted.
Some one adapted to work for the children should be appointed in each church in time to prepare for such work. The studies outlined for each day should be taken up, and the season thus be made profitable for our children.
The first Sabbath of the season—December 11—the regular church-offering envelopes should be passed out, and the announcement made that on the following Sabbath the annual offering to missions will be taken. See that absent members get the envelope. Encourage all to be liberal toward God,—to remember that this is a yearly thank-offering that we bring to him for the blessings and bounties of the year.
Let us make it in fact a week of prayer to God for his blessing upon our own souls, our homes, the churches where we live, and the great outlying needy world into which we are sent with the closing gospel message. It will then indeed be a week of real revival, a week of putting away sin, a week of coming near to the Lord. Such an experience we all need. May God make this the best week-of-prayer season we as a people have ever experienced.
GENERAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE.