Find a prayer partner.  Ask God to send one or more people into your life who are willing to pray with you on a regular basis.  Pray for those people to be trustworthy, mature in God’s ways, and full of faith to believe the God will answer the prayers.  Ask God to help you support others in prayer well, help you hear the Holy Spirit speaking to you, and do miracles through you when you pray.  Don’t let pride or fear cause you to conceal anything in your life for which you need prayer; pray for the courage you need to be open and honest with the people who are praying with you.  Ask God to help you recognize opportunities to pray with others and take full advantage of them.  Pray for the ability to pray according to God’s will, and for the faith you need to believe that He will answer your prayers.

Start or join a prayer group.  Plan important logistics for your group, such as where you’ll meet, how often you’ll meet, who will be in your group, how long each meeting will be, and what format you’ll follow.  For worship time, choose songs that everyone knows.  Encourage group members to have their requests prepared before prayer time.  Don’t allow people to take more time sharing their requests than they do actually praying about them.  Don’t allow any one person to dominate the rest of the group.  Stress the importance of confidentiality.  Ask God to help everyone in your group come to complete unity with each other as you all pray, and to pray according to God’s will. 

Pray together for your local area.  Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal what specific needs to pray about for your community, and understand the biblical grounds upon which you’re expecting those things to happen.  Pray for the ability to become a person who reaches across all types of barriers (cultural, racial, generational, economic, denominational, etc.) to share God’s love with all people and appreciate how the differences between you and them can help you all learn and grow.  Ask God to help you be in the church He wants to you be in, and to move in harmony with others in your congregation as you intercede for your community.  Pray for God to draw all people in your local area to Himself.

Pray together for your state and nation.  Ask God to forgive the sins committed by people in your state and nation, and to pour out His mercy and grace.  Pray for deliverance from issues that pollute your culture, like: pornography, abortion, murder, stealing, lying, corruption, fraud, destruction, and violence.  Don’t become more preoccupied with the problems than with God’s power to solve the problems.  Ask God to make you an instrument of bringing His power to reign in your state and nation.  Pray for God to guide the leaders of your state and nation to make wise decisions.  Ask for protection for military troops fighting to protect your nation’s freedoms.