ISAIAH 44:3-5

For I will pour out water to quench your thirst
    and to irrigate your parched fields.
And I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants,
    and my blessing on your children.
4 They will thrive like watered grass,
    like willows on a riverbank.
5 Some will proudly claim, ‘I belong to the Lord.’
    Others will say, ‘I am a descendant of Jacob.’
Some will write the Lord’s name on their hands
    and will take the name of Israel as their own.”

• Give thanks for the next generation of our church and community. Praise the Lord for the joy they bring us, and for the gift they are to our families. Acknowledge how sacred every young life is from conception to adulthood and for the whole of their lives. 
• Thank God for answering prayers for our nation and for the flattening of the COVID19 curve, and for the ability to start lifting restrictions. Pray for protection over us and that no new outbreaks would take place. 
• Pray for the kids and youth of The Grove. Give thanks for Leigh and Bek, and their teams as they lead. Pray that every ZOOM connection would be blessed by God and our next generation would encounter Jesus. Pray for Youth Alpha that's starting up.
• Pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on our young people and the next generation of our community. Ask God that we wold see a major turning to Jesus as 2020 continues to unfold. May living water break the spiritual drought in our nation.
• Pray that the next generation in our church would grow in their faith, and learn to love and serve God from a young age. Pray for the fruits of the Spirit to sprout and thrive as they become a generation marked by love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and kindness.
• May many children and teenagers make new decisions to follow Jesus and say they belong to God and experience the confidence that comes from an identity formed in Christ.
• Pray for those young people who are struggling emotionally and mentally, that Jesus would touch their hearts and minds and release them from fear and fill them with faith and hope and love. May we see much joy in families as young lives are set free and receive fresh vision and purpose for their lives.
• Give thanks for mums and for parents and pray they would be strengthened and God would provide all they need to care for and influence their children towards Jesus. Pray for the healing of relationships and the restoration of families. 
• Pray for our building project and that we would rejoice at the pouring of the slab for our Kids and Youth Centre. May God provide all the finances we need to complete the work.