"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, September 29, 2005
FINGER OF GOD, reach out powerfully today to touch and transform and attract Hopegivers through all Dr. Bill's writings and communications, but especially for the new web ministry.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Wednesday, September 28, 2005
SPIRIT OF SUPPLICATION, use the upcoming Tsunami Media Mission as a special tool to renew the Bray Family Prayer Partners and enlist more Supporters who will be extravagantly blessed by helping us be more like Emmanuel. Yes Lord, bless them as they receive and respond to the October Call to Prayer and bless the volunteers who help us mail it out. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Tuesday, September 27, 2005
SPIRIT OF GRACE, empower Dr. Samuel Thomas and all of us to do what you would do in the face of spiritual darkness, disasters, hurricanes, oppression, poverty, tragedy and need. Help us to be faithful Hopegivers today as you are and would be if you inhabited a body -- for you indeed inhabit our bodies and we surrender them afresh to you this day. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Monday, September 26, 2005
EYES OF THE LORD, send humble and worthy men and women after your own heart into Hopegivers that we might always please you and bless us this week with power and concentration to go down to the wire completing vast amounts of editorial copy and meeting impossible deadlines by your grace. AMEN and AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Sunday, September 25, 2005
NEW SPIRIT, call each of our children into your service either through the five-fold ministry or through some useful vocation that honors you and lead or guide them into obedience to you ... and we especially pray for Jon Bray who plans to join Dr. Bill on the Tsunami Media Mission to India that urgently needed funds will be raised quickly for that mission. AMEN and AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Saturday, September 24, 2005
SPIRIT GIVING REST, help us to cease from our fretting and striving but rather take a firmer grip on our shields of faith to cast down the gates of hell, doubt, fear, pettiness, pride, sin and worry. We trust you Lord to raise up the million Hopegivers for the glory of your name here in America, to attract the staff we need, and to cover our expenses every day. AMEN and AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Friday, September 23, 2005
HOLY SPIRIT, may all our communications be anointed by you to be marvelous both in raising funds and attracting people to Emmanuel. May our words and communications be as flaming fire as we continue to faithfully lift him up in order to draw all unto himself. We pray this not only for Dr. Bill and Ivy as they travel to Florida today to conduct a training seminar but for our entire communications team including Dr. Sam and Bishop Thomas as they preach this weekend in different churches. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, September 22, 2005
SPIRIT OF THE SOVEREIGN, help us to wrap up the editorial for the fall Annual Report issue of the Hopegivers Journal today and begin work on the winter edition and be with all of our writers and artists and producers as they focus on doing their work and meeting their deadlines. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Wednesday, September 21, 2005
HIS SPIRIT, for your glory we ask you to supply all our needs including income, jobs and tuitions for everyone in the Bray Family including all our children and grandchildren, but for Billy and Jon in particular as they keep the house going in Charlottesville and return to college this new school year. May all our needs be met here in Columbus as well as a witness to your Name. AMEN and AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Tuesday, September 20, 2005
STREAMS IN DESSERT, water our gardens and the desserts of our souls with powerful communications tools for the month of October. We pray especially for Mary Edwards and the LA Communications team as they work with Dr. Bill today to finalize the Christmas and Hurricane letters and particularly for Rob and the Lindners as they finalize the Hopegivers Journal Annual Report issue. Guide Dr. Sam and the Columbus team as they meet with Michael and Laura Glenn today to discuss their futures. AMEN and AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Monday, September 19, 2005
MIND OF THE LORD, help us to select the right students from Liberty University and Piedmont College Charlottesville to join Dr. Bill on the Tsunami Media Mission to India and help them as they raise the $3,500 or more each of them needs to accomplish their part of mission. Bless all the students from all the schools that are now preparing to join us. AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Sunday, September 18, 2005
SPIRIT FROM ON HIGH, give us solutions to solve the challenges we face of managing the Hopegivers Donor Data Base and accounting software and be with the Brays as they discuss the problems with consultants in Lynchburg this week. Lord, lead us to systems that will solve the problems and grow with us to handle at least three million donors in the United States. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Saturday, September 17, 2005
SPIRIT OF JUSTICE, help thousands of Hopegivers to get together with their groups and friends to help us sponsor projects to bring healing to disaster victims of Katrina, the Tsunami and the African orphans crisis. May we learn how to make and keep covenants of hope with Hope Program Partners of all kinds. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Friday, September 16, 2005
SPIRIT OF FEAR, keep us always working in awe of You as we travel today and with the staff as they prepare for the weekend of ministry that lies ahead. Give us safety in travel and protect us from all adversaries as we go to Lynchburg to recruit and train the Tsunami Student Media Team and enlist Hope Ambassadors. Be with the editorial team as they start to design the Annual Report that it might be the most potent accountability and promotional tool we have ever published for Hopegivers. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, September 15, 2005
SPIRIT OF KNOWLEDGE, heal Bill as he recovers and adjusts to the effects of unexpected dental surgery this morning and help all involved both in the promotion and preparation for the Hope Ambassadors Breakfast Briefing and Friend Raising Training this weekend in Lynchburg, Virginia. In the strong name of Jesus Christ we pray, AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Wednesday, September 14, 2005
SPIRIT OF POWER, help us to be as you are and work as you do, aggressively and actively overcoming forces of evil everywhere but still as gentle as doves. Lord, as we see wounds that never seem to heal and problems that aren't easily fixed, may we be patient but ever-learning about how to share in your power to overcome. For Yours is the power and glory forever, AMEN and AMEN!

"Prayer Priority" Request for Tuesday, September 13, 2005
SPIRIT OF COUNSEL, help Dr. Bill to both accept and discern guidance and always give good counsel as he leads in his many roles as advisor, editor, father, husband, prophet and teacher; may he faithfully speak as the oracles of God and never in the flesh. May he always let God be true and every man a liar. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Monday, September 12, 2005
SPIRIT OF UNDERSTANDING, be with Tina Jacobson and the Barnabas Team as they follow-up on our weekend meetings with author Sarah Davis and on all the other exciting people and projects they encountered last month on their India orientation tour with Dr. Sam. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Sunday, September 11, 2005
SPIRIT OF WISDOM, guide all involved with Sarah Davis and Dr. Sam as we follow-up our editorial meetings regarding the contents and direction of Dr. Sam's first American book. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Saturday, September 10, 2005
JUDGMENT AND FIRE, help us to follow-up today on our weekend briefings and training seminar with Hope Ambassadors and the Student Tsunami Media Team at North Greenville College. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Friday, September 9, 2005
LAMP OF THE LORD, guide all our footsteps in this most critical month of preparations for Christmas outreaches in the USA and all across India -- but especially this year in the Tsunami-stricken regions of the South. In particular, use Bill and Ivy today and tomorrow in South Carolina at North Greenville College to inspire and train the Student Tsunami Media Team. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, September 8, 2005
PRESENCE OF GOD, thank you for calling us to You but may we learn in our drive to fulfill our ambitions and occupations to always incarnate your presence and not be a nuisance to the world. May we always be attractive for Jesus and seek your glory in all we do. May we be a blessing to those around us this day and always. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Wednesday, September 7, 2005
SPIRIT OF CREATION AND RENEWAL, enlarge our prayer and support teams. Revive old friends and bring new ones to us ... to the Bray and the Thomas families ... to Mike Randall ... to all those planning to go on short-term missions ... and especially to the Tsunami Student Media Team members as they raise support. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Tuesday, September 6, 2005
GOOD SPIRIT, use Mary Edwards and our other writers and designers as they work on the first of the Christmas newsletters and websites this week and for Dan Reber of Mail America as his staff continues to plan for our national recruitment campaign for new Hopegivers and Hope Ambassadors. Lord, hasten the day when we can see 10,000 children fully sponsored! AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Monday, September 5, 2005
SPIRIT OF GOD, continue to use the Hope Ambassadors Breakfast Briefings and Support Team trainings to build strong roots of support for workers and raise us the one million Hopegivers needed. Help those who attend these trainings to have great faith and zeal as they put what they have learned into action. Especially help all those who attended the Altanta training to keep their vows and use what they have learned. Help Dr. Bill and Ivy as they prepare for coming seminars all this month. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Sunday, September 4, 2005
DOUBLE PORTION, we look to You to provide dental care, furniture and finances and meet our household expenses both in Georgia and Virginia--and may all our children and grandchildren have their needs met as well. Provide us as a family with budgetary skills, discipline, jobs and provision through generous givers who believe in our ministry and are obedient to your commands. Lord, may your people have a heart and the means to support missions and missionaries. Bless our support team. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Saturday, September 3, 2005
HAND OF GOD, reach out to hearts and use our Operation Africa Child emergency appeal for Malawi food and medicines today and all month. As Hopegivers sit down this week to examine their giving opportunities, may they share their blessings and continue to distribute their tithes and offerings including the needs overseas as well as the the needs at home. AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Friday, September 2, 2005
HOLY SPIRIT, SERVANT OF THE MOST HIGH GOD, help Dr. Bray and the support raising staff and Tsunami Media Mission Team as they go to Atlanta today to begin the first of five weekend training sessions. Use these sessions to teach us how to raise up friends and supporters. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, September 1, 2005
BREATH OF LIFE, in this time of devastation, disaster and famine here and in so many places, we ask you to help us stay focused on our work and balanced in our giving. Help us as Hopegivers to finish the tasks assigned to us amid so many distractions and help us to keep our financial pledges. We especially pray for the Hopegivers in the USA today that they will respond generously to the Operation Africa Child appeal for the orphans as it arrives this week...and for the teams working on the website and Christmas publications today and throughout the rest of this new month. AMEN