Prayer Guide
New Year’s Day Sunrise Prayer Relay 2025
Thank you for partnering with us to awaken the dawn of the new year with prayer on New Year’s Day 2025
The New Year's Day Sunrise Prayer Relay is a series of short prayer gatherings all around the world that overlap to create a global prayer relay.
INSTRUCTIONS
Register your location at http://www.sunriseprayerrelay.com/registration so we can keep you updated.
Promote on social media and invite others to join you at your location.
Arrive 15 minutes before sunrise at your location and pray for around 30 minutes or as long as you feel led to continue.
Pray the Lord's Prayer (Matt 6:9-13) aloud together and declare that Jesus is Lord as the sun rises.
Continue to pray, worship, or read scriptures, it's up to you what your group does, some locations might take communion, have a time of fellowship, breakfast, or evangelism.
Share your photos and videos on social media and use the hashtag #SunrisePrayerRelay to connect with and inspire others.
Email photos or videos plus a short testimony from your location to [email protected]
PRAYER GUIDE
This prayer guide is only a suggestion of how you can pray but we encourage you to be led by Holy Spirit in your prayers.
We encourage you that before you begin that you take a moment to fix your eyes on Jesus, be aware of His presence, He is powerful and glorious and in all things He has preeminence.
“Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:2
PRAY ‘THE LORD’S PRAYER’ AS THE SUN RISES
Each year we encourage people to pray ‘The Lord’s Prayer’ as the sun rises, this was the example for prayer that Jesus gave to His disciples when they asked how they should pray.
“In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. Do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.” Matthew 6:9-13
PRAY FOR UNITY IN THE CHURCH
In John 17:22-23, Jesus prays for the unity of believers. He desires that:
“The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.”
Jesus desires the unity of believers so that the world may know that the Father sent the Son and loves believers. How? Because the world will recognise the Spirit of unity at work in the Christian community. The love among believers doesn’t originate from within themselves – it comes from God.
What a wonderful way to pray in the new year, by praying the same prayer of Jesus in John 17:22-23.
PRAY FOR SOULS TO BE SAVED IN 2025
Pray for your unsaved family and friends, pray for your city or town, pray for your nation and the nations to know Jesus.
Thank You God that You love everyone and sent Jesus to save us.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." John 3:16-17
Thank You God that You are not willing that any should perish.
"The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance." 2 Pet 3:9
Thank You God that You demonstrated Your love for us on the cross.
“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Rom 5:8
Thank You God that it is Your goodness that leads people to repentance.
“Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?” Rom 2:4
Thank You God that now is the time of salvation.
“For God says, “At just the right time, I heard you. On the day of salvation, I helped you. Indeed, the “right time” is now. Today is the day of salvation.” 2 Cor 6:2
Thank You God that the harvest is plentiful, and we ask You to send out more workers for the harvest.
“Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.” Matt 9:37-38
Thank You God that You have commissioned us all to “GO” preach the gospel and make disciples.
“And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.” Matt 28:18-20
PRAY FOR YOUR NATION & THE NATIONS TO BE SAVED IN 2025
We believe that we are coming into a time now where we will see whole nations turn to Jesus, we encourage you to pray for your nation and for other nations as Holy Spirit leads you, you can also make a declaration that your nation and other nations shall be saved.
E.g. 'Australia for Jesus' or 'America Shall Be Saved'
OTHER PRAYER POINTS
Your Nation - Genesis 18:18
The Church - Colossians 1:18
Your Leaders; present and future - 1 Timothy 2:1-2
The Youth; the next generation of leaders in your nation – Proverbs 22:6
The multiplication of prayer in your nation and the world - 1 Thessalonians 5:17
The Persecuted Church - 1 Corinthians 12:26
SIGNIFICANT PRAYER & OUTREACH EVENTS IN 2025
We also invite you to pray for and join these significant prayer and outreach events coming up in 2025, we know there are many others, please feel free to pray for events in your region as you feel led.
National Day of Prayer & Fasting – Australia
https://www.australiaprays.com.au/
National Day of Prayer – USA
https://www.nationaldayofprayer.org
Global Outreach Day
www.gomovement.world/en
If you know of any other prayer and outreach events in your nation or region you can also lift them up in prayer.
OUR PRAYER FOR YOU IN 2025
We pray that as you enter into this new year that your roots will grow down deeper into intimacy with Jesus, that you will know how much you are known and loved by Him, that you will know Him and love Him more, and that you will be filled with boldness to make Him known.
May the Kingdom of God come and His will be done in your life, in your family, in your nation, and in the nations, on earth as it is in Heaven.
Many Blessings
Pat Steele & Warwick Marsh
New Year’s Day Sunrise Prayer Relay