​"God shapes the world by prayer.  The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be; the mightier the forces against evil."      E. M. Bounds
NMD Prayer Team Requests
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  • Pray for our new pastoral families - Gil and Sarah Thibault, (children: Malachi and Aria) at Cadillac First COTN   and Kory and Rhonda Heal (children: Aaron, Ryan Carter, Gianna, and Jack) at Pickford New Horizons COTN
  • Situations caused by Coronavirus 
  • Pray for the Beaverton Church's new church plant - south Gladwin - Easter 2020.​
  • Pray for Josh and Stefanie LaRoque as they are in the process of planting Upper Room Church of the Nazarene in Petoskey.
  • Pray for the churches in pastoral transition - Cadillac Cherry Grove, Cadillac Discovery, Kalkaska and Oscoda Huron Shores.  
  • Please pray for those currently in Ministerial Study.
  • Please be in prayer for Pastor Damon and Jamie Carpenter (Lake Ann),  Pastor Mark and Brenda Hoult (Gaylord) and  Pastor Jerry and Charlene Wallace (East Tawas) who are all grieving the loss of a child. 
  • Pray that people across the district will be open to the Spirit and answer the call to ministry.
  • Pray for our pastors, that they would have boldness to preach scriptural truth.  That God would grant them wisdom as they make decisions, and strength for each day.  
  • Pray that God will raise up church planters to unashamedly spread the Gospel throughout the district. There are vast areas on the Northern Michigan District that have no holiness church presence.
  • Pray for our District Superintendent Rev. Dan Gilmore as he seeks God's will and direction for our district.
  • ​Pray for revival to spread throughout Northern Michigan, our country, and around our world.​








Please remember to pray for our district pastors and their families.
'Lord, teach us to pray.' None can teach like Jesus, none but Jesus; therefore we call on Him, 'Lord, teach us to pray.' A pupil needs a teacher, who knows his work, who has the gift of teaching, who in patience and love will descend to the pupil's needs.  Blessed be God! Jesus is all this and much more.  He knows what prayer is.  It is Jesus, praying Himself, who teaches to pray.  He knows what prayer is.  He learned it amid the trials and tears of His earthly life.  In heaven it is still His beloved work; His life there is prayer.  Nothing delights Him more than to find those whom He can take with Him into the Father's presence, whom He can clothe with power to pray down God's blessing on those around them, whom He can train to be His fellow-workers in the intercession by which the kingdom is to be revealed on earth.  He knows how to teach.  Now by the urgency of felt need, then by the confidence with which joy inspires.  Here by the teaching of the Word, there by the testimony of another believer who knows what it is to have prayer heard.  By His Holy Spirit, He has access to our heart, and teaches us to pray by showing us the sin that hinders the prayer, or giving us the assurance that we please God.  He teaches, by giving not only thoughts of what to ask or how to ask, but by breathing within us the very spirit of prayer, by living within us as the Great Intercessor.  We may indeed and most joyfully say, 'Who teacheth like him?'  Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray.  He did not speak much of what was needed to preach well, but much of praying well.  To know how to speak to God is more than knowing how to speak to man.  Not power with men, but power with God is the first thing.  Jesus loves to teach us how to pray. 
​(from 'Lord, Teach us to Pray by Andrew Murray)
Please keep checking back as requests come in. Send your prayer requests and praise reports to prayernmd@nmdnaz.org