Vision Statement:
LEO’s Prayer Partners support the men and women of law
enforcement through intercessory prayer – meeting weekly to bring to the throne
of God their safety and security concerns as well as their personal needs.
And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep praying for all the saints.
Ephesians
6:18
What is LEO’s Prayer Partners?
LEO is an acronym that stands for Law Enforcement Officers. Prayer
Partners include believers who join with a core group dedicated to serving God through
prayer, desiring to help others experience God through answered prayer, and
seeking to glorify God.
Who and what will I pray for?
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Printed prayer requests are made available at
the group meetings.
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Between meetings, new prayer requests are
available on our website.
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In addition, you may know of a personal request for
a law enforcement officer. We encourage you to bring this to the group of
prayer partners so that they may pray in one accord with you.
Be
joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is
God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
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Thessalonians 5:16-17
Purpose of Prayer: Prayer is a conversation with God,
our Creator and the Sustainer of Life. It is an invitation to God to demonstrate
His great love and power by supernaturally meeting the needs of His people. He
wants to answer our prayers because He wants us to experience His great love
for us and to grow our faith in Him.
Concerns for the needs of our law enforcement officers
will lead you to pray throughout the week with passion and fervency. Passion
and fervency do not describe a prayer that is loud and/or animated – but, rather,
prayer where there is a deep and real feeling for the person you are praying
for and your desire to lift them up before God. This comes when we allow
ourselves to feel the weight of the burden carried by our law enforcement
officers daily.
In
the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought
to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words
cannot express. And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit,
because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.
Romans
6:18
Why meet and pray as a group? There
is strength and encouragement when we meet together and enter as one into a
prayerful attitude. You are encouraged to pray on your own during the week; if
you are unable to meet with a group, you could coordinate your prayer time with
the group’s meeting time. In the book of Matthew, Jesus taught us to pray
together:
Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three come together in My name, there am I with them.
Matthew 18:19-20