Prayer Board

On Monday and Tuesday we looked at a couple of ways to pray for people in your neighborhood. As the sun comes up, you can blanket the area with prayer like the rays of the sun. During your walks around the area, you can pray for the homes and families you pass.

Sometimes a visual aid is helpful for keeping other prayer requests in our consciousness. A Prayer Board is one way to do that. You can use a bulletin board to pin up names and prayer requests. They can be moved around as the urgency of the prayer need changes or removed when the prayer is answered. 
Newspaper articles of events needing prayer can be added. A picture of a tornado stricken town might help you remember to offer prayers for the people affected. Maybe just a headline or a single sentence is enough to remind us of the prayer need.
Be sure to add some positive images of things you are happy about and thankful for, too. Poems, pictures of Jesus or beautiful scenery, family images or other items that bring you joy are important prayer reminders, too. It is easy to forget to add the joyful thanksgivings that are just as important in God's eyes as our needs and the needs of others.