PRAY TO RELEASE GOD’S PURPOSES AND DESTINY FOR OUR CITY

A CITY OF HOPE:    Hopelessness can grip many in our city as financial pressures, family dysfunction, domestic violence and relational loss take their toll. Darkness however cannot overcome the light. We can pray for the light to come into the darkness. What if Hope could fill our city – not a ‘wishful thinking’ hope but Hope grounded in the One who is the Light of Life?   John 1:5       

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. 

Father, raise up carriers of Hope in the workplaces, families, schools and educational institutions, community organizations and welfare agencies in our city. Raise up innovative social enterprises and faith-based actions that bring hope where there is none. 

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.  Romans 15:13 

A CITY OF PEACE:  During the Commonwealth games in 2018 Adelaide YWAM sent through this prophetic word to encourage our prayer teams:  

Ezekiel 37: 24-27.     I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore. My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.    

In March this year, Dean Briggs from the International House of Prayer spoke a word over the city that indicated that while storms may rage around us ( Both Physical and Spiritual) God’s intention was that the Gold Coast would be protected as if in the eye of a storm. 

There have been many situations where such a peace has been threatened. We have seen God’s protection during the COVID Lockdowns and with threats from weather events. In this season domestic violence and youth crime disturb this peace.        

  • Pray Peace to flood our city.      
  • Pray for the people of God to carry His peace and to be peacemakers.·    
  • Pray for protection over our city and the peace that passes understanding to be established in our homes and streets.      
  • Pray for the raising up and strengthening of a voice of authority to speak to the storm through prayer and through wise counsel in the halls of governmental power. 

A CITY OF VISION:  From earliest times The City of the Gold Coast has been a City of bold vision and entrepreneurial innovation. This has played a major part in the growth and prosperity of the Gold Coast.

  • Pray for the development of innovative solutions and breakthroughs in our health research and business communities.
  •  Pray for innovative developments in education and media fed by the wisdom that comes from above.