Prayer Watch

Prayer Watch
Receiving the Watch

I receive the watch, ready and able to fulfill my responsibility. May God return to you ten-fold blessing for the time and energy you have invested on your watch.


The following prayers will be prayed out loud as part of each prayer watch

Beginning Prayer

Father God, I undertake this watch as a solemn responsibility on behalf of all my brothers and sisters in the Alleluia Community. I undertake it as part of fulfilling my covenant commitment. I will endeavor to be faithful to fulfill the purpose of the watch and to be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit. I ask you to keep me alert and mindful and I ask you to hear our prayers as a community. It is our desire to live our lives fully under the Lordship, the protection, and the provision of Jesus. This is our primary prayer. We ask you to respond only to those prayers which live up to our primary prayer. We want to live fully, totally, and radically for Jesus and to further the coming of His kingdom. Forgive us for all the ways that we fall short of this commitment. We ask you to remove any barriers that would hinder our prayers or our warfare.


The Covenant Prayer

Lord help each other of us to live our Covenant under the power and anointing of Your Holy Spirit. Lord, as I read the words of our Covenant, enable us with Your grace to live them fully for Your glory


The Alleluia Community Covenant

Jesus is our Lord!

The Lord has called us to make a solemn covenant with Him and with one another to be a people of praise. We accept the Lordship of Jesus in our lives, individually and as a people. He has destroyed our isolation and joined us together.
We commit ourselves fully subordinate to our primary covenants to marriage, celibacy and the church, as brothers and sisters in the Lord, entrusting our lives to Him and to each other in Him. We promise to build up, exhort, admonish and listen to one another; to be quick to forgive and to ask forgiveness; to assist each other in seeking His perfect will in all things.
In His joy and peace, therefore, we yield our lives to Jesus; everything past, present and future and we agree to:
1. Love one another as brothers and sisters in Christ
2. Be faithful to our commitments to community prayer, fellowship and service, seeking always the vision and the growth to which the Spirit is calling us.
3. Accept responsibility for community order.
4. Foster the growth of the community by accepting responsibility for a program of Christian initiation and formation in community life.
5. Recognize the headship of the coordinators and agree to obey, correct, and pray for them.
6. Accept our financial responsibility to the community.
7. Be held to this covenant and to hold one another to it.

We promise to love one another and to call each other to holiness. We believe that this is the way God has chosen for our sanctification. We willingly ask Him to use it. We regard this as a solemn and serious commitment which we enter in good conscience, freely, and in faith.



The Ten Words Prayer

Lord we believe you have given us Ten Words to guide us in living out our covenant. Help us as a people to:
1. Be holy.
2. Be one.
3. Owe no man.
4. Heal the whole man.
5. Prepare for tribulation.
6. Become an alternate society.
7. Join as a spiritual army.
8. Prophecy to the church.
9. Raise up shepherds.
10. Take possession of the land.


Spiritual Warfare

Father you have shown us that we are resisted in living fully for you and for one another by the work of Satan and his evil spirits. We believe you have revealed a number of strongholds and other controlling spirits who war against us. We ask that you send angels to war in our behalf against these demonic forces. Guard and protect our Intercessory and Spiritual Warfare teams.


We specifically pray against the strongholds of:

Witchcraft, Mammon, Confusion, Rebellion

And other strong spirits:

Death/Infirmity, Pride, Lust, Sorcery, Prayerlessness, Obtuse spirit, Gluttony, Insecurity/Rejection, Deception and any other spirit that is harassing us individually or communally.


"I command you stronghold and spirits to leave us now - be gone in the Name of Jesus."

The Prayer for Unity

Father, You have called us into a unity that is difficult in this age because of the many denominational divisions. Help us to be faithful to our individual denominational calls in the manner which guards and protects the work of unity which You are doing in the Alleluia Community


Prayer for Leadership

Father, you have instituted leadership and authority as a means of guiding, protecting, and providing for us. Lord, we ask for grace for our Elders, Pastoral Coordinators, Support Group Heads, Hand maids, Head Servants, Office Staff, School Staff, and the spouses and families of all you have called to lead this Alleluia people. We ask You to bless husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, and all who are in roles of family leadership. We ask You to bless our church and governmental Leaders. Lord, Strengthen us as a people to follow the leadership You have placed over us, and to support it wholeheartedly through encouragement, correction, prayer, and openness.


Prayer for Protection and Good Health

Lord Jesus, we ask for Your protecting hand over all of our people. We pray that you will keep us from serious illness and that You will adjust our lifestyles where needed so that we can continue to live fully to build Your kingdom. We ask that You protect us from any form of calamity or accident and that You help us be prudent, careful, and attentive in all our undertakings. We ask You to protect all of our homes, cars, and possessions from thievery or vandalism and protect all of our people from any acts of violence. We ask you, Lord, to bring peace to each of our neighborhoods. Protect us when traveling and protect and sustain all those who are temporarily living or staying in locations outside of our usual domain. Lord, we ask that you protect us from all the designs of the enemy to hurt or hinder us. We acknowledge that You are sovereign over every area of our life. Lord, we trust in You.


Prayer for Provision

Lord Jesus, we ask You to provide for our physical and material needs individually and as a people. We ask You to provide well-paying, meaningful jobs for the unemployed and the underemployed in our midst. Lord, teach us to be provident and resourceful and help us to in live Christian simplicity so that we may expend ourselves and our resources in building your kingdom.


Prayer for Generations

Lord Jesus, you are the author and finisher of all life. You value us from the moment we are conceived until and beyond the moment we die. Please guard and protect all pregnant mothers and unborn children. Help us to be a people who respect and foster life; and especially to be a people who live under the law of love. Help us, Lord Jesus, to be willing and able to have families and to raise them up in a way pleasing to you. Give us the fortitude to withstand the spirit of the age, and the gentleness to help each person come into their own unique and personal relationship with you. Help our fellowships, our youth development program, and our school to be blessings to our children and aids to our parents in passing on the light you have given us. Help each person as they grow towards maturity to make wise life decisions, especially concerning college, career choices; and dating, courtship, and marriage. Help each of our single people called to marriage to find worthy spouses and help each of our unmarried singles to find their joy in loving and serving you. Strengthen our marriages; help each one be a true reflection of Christ and His church. Help us to be fruitful and productive in our middle-age years, living our lives for you and not ourselves. Help us to be a haven for the elderly and a support for those who care for them. Lord Jesus, may we be a community for all ages. Help us to sustain our life as a people through many generations.


Outreach Prayer

Father, you have not created us for ourselves: you have made us for yourself and for others. Help us as a people to reach out of our life and be a blessing to many. Invigorate our outreach programs and help them be fruitful in bringing people under the umbrella of your love. Help us to evangelize the lost, to teach those in need of instruction and to serve those made needy by the circumstances of their lives. Keep us from all condescension. Let us love others as you love them. Help us to be sources of healing for the broken-hearted and help us point the way toward you to a sin-sick generation. Help us always to incorporate new people into our Alleluia life and to exhibit the warm heart of hospitality. Lord, bless and gift all those who are specifically tasked by us in the areas of music, outreach, evangelism, and social service, and help all of us to be conduits of you saving love.


Communication Prayer

Lord Jesus, the Father called you the "Word made flesh." You are the perfectly clear communication. Lord, help our communications with everyone to be clear. Help us to be active listeners as well as clear speakers and writers. Bless especially all official communications of our community; those who receive them and those who prepare them.


Prayer Against Terrorism

Father God, we recognize that you are in charge of everything that happens, including this terrible war against terrorism.
We acknowledge that our victory is not in our might, but our humility before you. As such, we pray that you will bring our nation into a season of repentance and ultimately revival. We also pray for all those who suffer from the violence brought about by terrorism. Lord, protect our military men and women, police and fire personnel and all those responsible for our safety, and bring righteousness to our world. Through your name and through the blood of your precious Son, Jesus Christ, we come against our common enemy, Satan and his evil demons, and we say, "Begone! Cease and desist! Flee from any nation or people involved in perpetuating any acts of violence."
Oh, gracious Father, hear the prayers of your people. Protect us, and those we love. We pray for your victory and your justice. May your name be honored and glorified by all peoples until the end of time. Amen.


Closing Prayer

(Commitment to continue if needed)

Father, I am preparing to pass the watch on to another brother or sister. I am committed to remaining on watch until positive contact has been made with another Full Covenant member of Alleluia. I ask you to facilitate the process of me faithfully passing on the watch. I pray for my replacement and ask you fill the coming watch with zeal and sensitivity to the leadings of the Holy Spirit.


Passing the Watch

I pass you the watch in solemn trust an pray God's blessing on your time with Him on our behalf.