A Christmas Prayer for Church

Christmas is all about celebrating and remembering the birth of our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. Every year, Christmas is a season of great opportunity to make Jesus known and the Gospel spread on a worldwide scale. Many people of different faiths and cultures practice Christmas celebrations. It has become a yearly tradition that during this wonderful and joyful season, people are reunited with family and loved ones to eat a meal together and share in gift-giving. This season can be painful, lonely, and bittersweet to some others, depending on their personal life experiences. That is why it is important that the Church, the believers of God, continuously fix their eyes on Jesus Christ and spread the Good News about Him as the real essence of Christmas.

Since you are here searching for a Christmas prayer for your Church, you can take this as an opportunity to encourage God’s people about the real essence of Christmas as you pray publicly in your local church or privately in your prayer closet. You can pray in this manner: 

Heavenly Father, as we celebrate Christmas this year, may we all be reminded of why our Savior was born. We thank You for the gift of Your only-begotten son, Jesus Christ, who willingly sacrificed His life for us on the cross so that we may have everlasting life and a life warmly embraced by Your great love. Touch everyone in the church by Your presence and give them joyful and thankful hearts because of Jesus Christ. I pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Aside from this, you can also read a scripture from the Bible that honors and celebrates the birth and life of Jesus Christ and which you can make into a prayer. Here is a simple prayer based on Romans 6:23, 1 John 1:5, and Isaiah 9:6:

I thank You, Father, for giving us the most beautiful gift of eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ and for saving us from the wages of our sins. Through Him, You have given us a marvelous light that expels the darkness in our lives. We thank You for blessing us with Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace in Christ Jesus. Praises be to You forever. Amen.

As you spend time with the Word of God, simply allow the Holy Spirit to guide you as to which scriptures are timely to pray for and declare over your Church, especially in this season of holidays. It is a powerful and effective prayer because you are praying the same will and the very words of God

How do I pray for my church?

This holiday season can be a great opportunity to pray to God for your church’s spiritual and physical blessings, breakthroughs in every area in the lives of the brethren, greater anointing, wisdom, and impacts on the upcoming new year of Kingdom advancement, as well as the great opportunity to honor and bless your pastors and leaders. Here are some of the things that you can pray for your church:

1. Pray for discernment of God’s will in your leaders and pastors.
2. Pray for wisdom and boldness in sharing the Word of God and the Gospel to Ecclesia.
3. Pray for every family and declare God’s protection and provision upon every member of the families of His Church.
4. Pray for the clarity of visions, goals, and hearing of God’s voice for His direction for the next year.
5. Pray for more opportunities for your Church to advance the Kingdom of God.
6. Pray for financial provisions and channels of support that will help your Church accomplish bigger assignments from God.
7. Pray for deeper intimacy and relationship with God for each of the members of the Church.
8. Pray for the children and the young people in your Church, that they may be nurtured and grow into Christlikeness, impacting their generation and the next generation.
9. Pray for the unsaved loved ones of the Church members, that salvation may come upon them.
10. Pray for more revelation, knowledge, and understanding of the Word of God, which renews and transforms the lives of the hearers and doers.

There are so many other things that you can pray for your church this Christmas as you let the Holy Spirit lead you in your prayer time with God. Simply open your heart and be sensitive to what the Spirit is saying.

What do I say to start a prayer?

Whether you are in charge of praying publicly during this season of Christmas or privately in your room, you always start prayer by praising, glorifying, and magnifying the goodness, faithfulness, and reverence of every nature of the living God, our good Heavenly Father. He deserves all the honor and praise. This is how Jesus taught His followers to pray (see Matthew 6:5-8), and He began by hallowing the name of the Father. Then you can add your requests and all other things you want to pray for. Also, if you are not sure what to pray for this season, you can look for scriptures to make into a prayer.

Here are some Bible verses for Christmas that you can make into a prayer of declaration, adoration, and thanksgiving unto the Father in the name of Jesus:

1.   Isaiah 9:6

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

2. 1 John 1:5

This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

3. Psalm 34:8

O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

4. Isaiah 40:28

Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

5. Isaiah 9:7

Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

6. John 12:46

 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.

7. Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

May the LORD bless you, favor you and answer your prayers according to His plans and purposes as you seek Him this Christmas in Jesus’ name.