Kairos Prayer Vigil Focus Points

Revised: 5/10/04

1. Pray for God to open the hearts and the minds of the candidates.

2. Pray that the outside team will become instruments of God and that he will use us as he sees fit.

3. Pray for the peace within the institution (United States Penitentiary at Lompoc).

4. Pray for the Holy Spirit to overwhelm the hearts of all the men involved.

5. Pray for the prison guards, who get very concerned when there are large groups of civilians inside the facility Pray for a calm to come over the entire institution.

6. Pray for the softening of the candidate’s hearts toward Jesus, that they would be able t let go of any barriers of walls they may have built up around their hearts.

7. Pray that God’s grace would be felt by the candidates.

8. pray for the stamina of the team members. We typically rise at 5:30 and go to bed around midnight. Some of the men on our team are in their 70’s and 80’s and fatigue becomes a factor as the weekend goes on. Pray that the Holy Spirit will invigorate the team.

9. Pray that the candidates will be able to forgive themselves and others when they are given the opportunity to do so. These men carry so much guilt and resentment in their lives and they find forgiveness a difficult concept.

10. Pray that all the supplies that are required for the weekend are available when they need to be.

11. Pray that lives would be forever changed. When we accept Jesus, we become “New Creatures in Christ”… pray that this takes place.

12. Pray for the prison chaplains, who have to do a lot of extra work to support Kairos weekends.

13. Pray for the families of the inmates. They are often as much a “Victim” as anybody. Pray that they can restore any broken relationships that may have resulted from the incarceration.

14. Pray for the victims of the crimes these men committed. Pray that they might find forgiveness in their hearts for the men who committed the crimes against them.