August 2026: 21 Days of Prayer & Fasting Prayer Requests
  1. Please pray for peace and love to surround our children as they enter a new school year, and also for the faculty as they lead our children. Bless them all. – Justine
  2. Prayers for our homeless friend who is struggling to get back on his feet with a reliable income and a safe, stable place to live – Corinne
  3. All the kids go into this next school year with eased minds and peace in their classrooms.
  4. Complete healing for Skip’s feet. Take away the ulcers, letting no new ones form. – Christine
  5. For patience, grace, and self-control in his parenting season with little boys! Sometimes it’s such a struggle, and I want to be an example to them – Corinne
  6. Please pray for my cousin, as she just lost her father and is concerned that he was not a Christian. – Kurt
  7. Spiritual awakening, and for God’s people to feel the Holy Spirit and surrender their lives to the Lord – Ashley
  8. For those praying for a miracle baby
  9. All of the beautiful babies coming into the world that they would grow to know God and have an abundant amount of life given to them. – Ashley
  10. For my wife’s health and answers for managing her chronic illness. For wisdom and discernment for a career decision. – Adam
  11. For the lost and addicted and suicidal in our community and in our families
  12. For an outpouring of the baptism in the Holy Spirit, dreams, visions, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit encouraging our church body
  13. Prayers for Lacey and Ashley – Annabelle
  14. For the children of our church to grow up strong in the Lord, full of his spirit and knowing his word
  15. For the marriages of our church to be grounded in Christ, full of grace, service, and forgiveness lasting until death
  16. Pray for my sister-in-law who is going to have a hip replacement – Dave
  17. Wisdom to make decisions at work that are in line with God’s wishes. I have very tough decisions in front of me that will affect employees keeping their jobs or not. – Shawn
  18. Ottawa Friendship House – Administration, staffing at the day program and in the homes – that their loving motivations would be equipped with resources, training, and support to best serve the clients.
  19. For Madison’s health, safety, and contentment
  20. For a grandson whose eyes are being open to the Lord that God will complete a good work in him
  21. My future: sell my house? purchase a duplex? or rent? so many decisions – Phyllis
  22. For the leaders of our church, and all churches in the IL Valley to be unified in Mission envision, eyes fixed on Jesus and full of the Holy Spirit
  23. Financial stability
  24. I lost/abandoned and/or forgot about some gifts God instilled in me after my lowest point in life. I am learning this now and need to work on those gifts again. -Shawn
  25. To be rejuvenate my energy that I can continue to be resilient and keep persevering. That I can move further from survival mode and closer to living. – Justine
  26. Prayers for financial abundance, guidance, a favor, as I work through some challenges, and for wisdom when parenting my kids
  27. Please pray for healing for Skip
  28. Prayers for Cara Andersen as she completes another year of life
  29. Pray for Jaylee
  30. For my kitten who was run over by a car last week, that she makes a rapid recovery and for our family’s recovery from financial bills. – Rose
  31. Pray for my left foot that it would be healed – TK
  32. Continued prayers for our women’s retreat in November – that our team would be in sync and fully attuned to God’s voice and that we can love the women well. Prayers for your blessing. – Melissa
  33. Prayers for the emotional stability of my husband. For our marriage. For our children experiencing overwhelming anxiety.
  34. Continued prayers for my daughter bring healing and strength for our family. For Robbie to accept dekalb as his home. – Stephanie
  35. For my son to get a good job
  36. Praying for her children to hear from God and come back to church and God
  37. Peace in my life, peace in our community, peace in our country, peace in our world
  38. Praise God for the job he’s given us. I pray we would have enough time together even with busy work schedules, and that we would pay off debt, saving money for the future. – Keegan
  39. Please pray that my children and grandchildren would find God and enjoy his love
  40. That Emma’s mom and dad and brother would be drawn to God – Dave
  41. I’ve strayed of the narrow path. I’m a single mother of two boys and I’ve had my own apartment for a little over a year now.The enemy has been attack from all sides. Prayers for my family and marriage – Teeha
  42. Please pray with me on asking for help. I struggle with this, especially asking friends to go with me to see Robbie. My anxiety doesn’t allow me to drive there by myself – Stephanie
  43. Could you please pray for my mother and sister. Their relationship is very tense, and my mother is uncomfortable reaching out to her. – Stephanie
  44. Unity in our marriage. I have a desire for Godly friends and community. He does not.
  45. My heart is struggling to align with God’s timing. I’m happy bur hurting.
  46. Expose truth for my friend’s family. Protection for their daughter as they navigate through courts.
  47. Prayers for my sister for her mental health. She needs peace and to find her joy. She is under a lot of pressure. I just keep praying and I know he will provide. – Chelsea
  48. Lord, thank you so much for how you love my son, Oliver. Lord, I pray for deep heart friends for him – connections that are from you. I pray over his new roommates and his move to Chicago. Lord, I pray you will go before him and be with him on every bus, in every classroom and lab. Give him your peace. Give him wisdom. Thank you Lord, I love you. I also pray over his relationship with his dad, each of his brothers and with me – to flourish him. – Melissa
  49. Prayers for those who have entered and left too soon this world. Father, mother, husband, sisters, brothers. Miss you all so much
  50. This upcoming Alpha season brings people to know God and brings more people of the community together and to the church – Ashley
  51. We give praise for all the ways God has moved in our house and our family. We are so blessed to be able to wake up every morning in the presence of the Lord – Ashley
  52. Cam gets his hearing checked on 9/15. He has had set backs from hearing issues in the past. We ask for prayer that his hearing is good, and if it is not, that the doctors have solutions for him that are not invasive – Ashley
  53. I am seeking out a more fulfilling job with room for my talents. Pray for the homeless that I encounter in the parks to feel God’s love and find refuge here at CCC – Cara
  54. Please pray for my brother who still has stage 4 cancer – DG
  55. Medical conditions for Don Gillan family – surgery, healing, pain relief, encouragement. God has been faithful to give peace and encouragement. May they continue to trust Him. – Sue
  56. Pray for Diane a widow, retired nurse – she needs healing for shoulder and wisdom for treatment and patience – Sue
  57. Pray for cousin Kurt after lung transplant – Pray he can walk, gain strength, and for the right medicine to help body not reject new tissue. Praise for salvation, needs discipleship – Sue
  58. Pray for unity & wisdom for Israel and America in the war against terror. For peace and God’s will, for comfort to all those who have lost loved ones. – Sue
  59. Pray as our little one starts a new school. Pray for mom & dad with this new part of life. – Alicia
  60. Pray that things go well for us as owners as we enter really busy times for us being short staffed – Alicia
  61. I pray wisdom rooted in the fear of the Lord would guide desires and decisions
  62. Please pray for Joyce Urness as she has advanced dementia and is very lonely. She also misses going to church.
  63. It’s been a year since we lost the babies – I still struggle to understand the loss, but Bryer & Hannah are eager to be pregnant. Please pray for their answered prayer and for me to be praying the same prayer – Melissa L
  64. Praying for Emma’s family that the Lord gets their hearts – Adam, Sarah, Mason & Lynn – DG
  65. Please pray for my daughter Rebekah and her husband Ian. They have two sons of their own and now 3 foster daughters. All with special needs. And a need for a better home to hold them all. – Rosa
  66. Please help Rebecca Wurch to feel content and blessed in Canada until her visa comes – SG
  67. Sharla Needs and daughter; Carol Bond – cancer for remisssion; Inga – Salvation for Dan and Dj Mondy – Carol
  68. Complete healing for my foot and knee. I return to the doctor mid-September – Katie
  69. My friend’s family has been going through some dark times and now her 11 year old was just hit by a car and is in the hospital with a punctured lung and liver and broken ribs. Praying for healing and relief. – Corinne
  70. Donny to come home soon – Mindy
  71. Jessica, a friend’s wife, is having to navigate the long term care of her mom. Most recently moving to a new facility amidst a MRSA infection that has complicated mom’s care. Pray for peace and comfort as well as God’s visible hand moving over their lives. – Paul
  72. Pray for healing of my right hip and for wisdom to know and do the activities my body allows me and keep moving! – Sue
  73. Please pray for a quiet mind, a string and healthy body, and my soul to be filled with His Spirit and discernment in all seasons. – Christine
  74. I’m so thankful that God provided a scripture on my phone today. Thankful for a voice to speak up and not be silenced. Praying for continued contributions toward legal fees – support and strength – Justine
  75. Healing for my dad’s heart problems. – Lacey
  76. Financial stability
  77. Ray (89) and Sue (~80) Ide, friends in New Hampshire are in the winter of life. Faithful followers of Jesus and lovingly kind examples of His grace. Pray for continued strength and resolve to finish the race well – Paul & Paulette
  78. Immaculee Songa – God’s continued blessing regarding her health, provision and sustenance as she ages, and as she continues to serve. – PRC
  79. Thank you Jesus for our Pastors John/Glenda, Katie/Paul, Micah/Lacey. We pray for healing, hope, wisdom, discernment, comfort, rest and blessings. – Christine
  80. Praise the Lord my van did not get hit by the falling tree today! I pray for God’s presence to go with me as I provide medical care to middle schoolers. Also, we need another nurse to work a few days a week in Yorkville. – Sue
  81. My prayer is one of encouragement for anyone as they pray for those in our church. – Cara
  82. Pray for my mom and family to God be the glory. – George
  83. Prayers for a fresh anointing for the Holy Spirit renewed strength, energy and motivation – Megen
  84. My 32 year old son is far from God and hurting. He walked away from God at 15. Prayer that God brings Josh back into His presence with a powerful testimony to glorify God. – Lydia
  85. For Christ-like men in my life for guidance and encouragement – Adam
  86. Please pray for a promotion that I am interviewing/preparing for and that I keep the results of it in the Lord’s hands – Ami
  87. My car is broken. Discernment for next steps provision
  88. Food addiction
  89. Pray for Elliott as he begins life at IMSA. I pray that he does well in school, makes good friends – good choices and that the Lord would illuminate his path. Praise God for moving in Elliott’s life! Pray for mom, too! – Heather
  90. Provision as I go back to college.
  91. Please pray for my connection with the Lord, I feel that I’m slowly drifting away and I don’t know what to do. Please just pray for a sign for me – Olivia A
  92. Pray for Bob’s mom who lives in Ohio. She is thinking of moving into assisted living. Help her discern the right facility and help her find peace with her decision. – Heather
  93. Pray for my husband – lots of changes at his work – I pray that he navigates these changes with wisdom and care, pray for blessings for our family
  94. Please pray for all of the students going back to school. Pray for their teachers and staff, parents and families to support them.
  95. My uncle Stanley Herrin was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer that has now developed in spots in his brain. He is starting “whole brain” radiation. – Brandy
  96. Pray for my best friend. His name is Herman he’s on drugs bad, but in Jesus’ name he will be delivered. – Sheila/Jeremiah
  97. Please pray for my dad, Mark Berg as he’s coming off meds and trying to manage his pain. Praying for supernatural healing. – Megen
  98. Prayers for all the children going back to school and college. Keep them safe, let them learn, give them the courage to be a light for God at school. – Lisa
  99. I ask for my whole church to please pray for my sister Gloria Ball, for her health. – Selina
  100. I want God to make my faith stronger. I wanna be baptized Lord, accept me back please father – Jeremiah
  101. Please pray for my mom. She had a heart procedure yesterday – pray that it was a complete success and she can continue to live a full life. – Heather
  102. Pray for encouragement and trust in God for Diane. She is a widow that has a lot to care for and has been having frequent problems come up. Help her to trust God with her life
  103. Prayers for Angela with her addiction to alcohol, coming out of an abusive relationship.
  104. Prayer for Tisha coming out of an abusive relationship that she can grow again
  105. Please pray for my son Isaac, is not feeling good some kind of virus plus he’s type 1 diabetic very weak – Elizabeth
  106. Prayers for my nephew Leon to keep away anyone with negative energy towards him – Elizabeth
  107. I am struggling with loneliness and trying to speak with the Lord on it. I ask for people to pray with me – Kailey
  108. Prayers for all who got damage or lost anything to their homes or anything else. – Elizabeth
  109. Where? What? – Amber
  110. Close drug houses in West side of Ottawa. Been many deaths – Carol
  111. My grandpa’s health has been not great. His heart is giving hi issues. Jesus help him regain strength and heal up!
  112. I’m visiting with my high school friends this weekend, and I just want them to know Jesus and want to me like Him. Their names are Sami, Cecelia, and Leota – Hannah
  113. My grandma is having heart surgery and I would like to pray for a safe surgery and fast recovery
  114. My uncle is in hospice care, his wife (my aunt) is dealing with Alzheimer’s. My other uncle was hurt, but is doing okay, his wife had a heart attack a couple of weeks ago, but is recovering. They are my favorite aunts and uncles. I can’t be there because they live in North Carolina and I am not able to travel. Please keep them and all of my family in prayer. – Stephanie