This document provides strategies for building prayer in our lives, families, churches, and cities. It discusses the biblical pattern for prayer given in Exodus 30 of mixing oil with specific ingredients like stacte, onycha, and galbanum. These ingredients represented humility, the prophetic, and God's upholding power. The document also outlines the 8 prayer watches of the morning, noon, and night that can be strategic times to pray based on biblical examples. Specific strategies are given for praying at different watch times like midnight for uncommon breakthrough or noon to counter witchcraft. The overall message is that following God's divine patterns and strategies through consistent prayer will lead to his blessing and breakthrough.

1. Building Prayer Strategies for Your Life, Family, Church
and City

2. •As apostolic people, we must be committed to
our mandate to build
•One of the structures that we’ve been
commanded to build is a house of prayer
•God has a blueprint for how he wants to build
•Exodus 30:1 gives us a pattern for prayer in the
church

3. •The Lord gives Moses a pattern for prayer
•God tells Moses to mix a specific compound of oil
to be burned on the altar
•This oil represented the prayers of the saints
(Revelation 8)
•This fire was to never go out
•Let’s go to vs. 34 to look at the ingredients of the
oil

4. •Stacte: this also is the word for nataph which means to drop
down; ooze down or to flow with inspiration
 This word is also connected to the prophetic
 Our prayers should have a prophetic flow
•Onycha: a finely grounded powder that comes from the mollox
shell
 In order to obtain this substance the children of Isreal had to dive to the
bottom of the water to retrieve the mollox shell on a daily basis
 They had to get low = humility
 We should approach prayer with humility

5. •Galbanum: a fatty gummy substance used to hold things together
 Hebrews 1:3 says, “He upholds all things by the power of his word”
 Isaiah 5:16 “I have put my word in your mouth”
•The word of God is in our mouth
•When we release it in prayer it becomes the substance that holds our
prayers together

6. •The Hebrew word for Intercession is “paga”
which means
1. To meet with
2. To push against
3. To strike against
4. To fall upon
5. To lay on

7. •As we’ve been discussing – blueprints are patterns that we
can continually follow and we will get the desired result
 Exodus 30:36 says that if we follow the pattern that
God will meet us and it will be “most holy”
•Strategies are divine instructions that have been given to
us by God to link us with blessing, breakthrough, healing,
deliverance, etc. that God desires to give us
•God may give you a pattern in scripture to use in His
strategic timing

8. •Prayer watches are an example of a pattern that
can be given by God as a strategy
•Let’s look at the pattern of each the 8 prayer
watches
•Psalms 55:7 says, “Morning, noon and night I cry
out in my distress , and the Lord hears my voice.”
• We can pray morning, noon and night and the
Lord will hear us and give us various results

9. •6-9 (Evening Gate)
•9-12 (Deliverance from Egypt)
•12-3 (Midnight Watch Hour)
•3-6 (Morning Commanders, Jesus walks on the sea)
•6-9 (Morning)
•9-12 (Christ was crucified)
•12-3 (6-9th hour)
•3-6 (Hour of Prayer, Leaping, Beautiful Gate)

10. •For the kingdom of Darkness, night time is meeting time.
The wicked also renew curses, yokes, etc.
•Destinies of believers are altered at this time
• Psalms 104:20
•The Devil Doesn’t Own the Night!!! God Owns the
Night!!!
• Psalms 74:16
• Psalms 16:7
• Psalms 63:6 (good for when you can’t sleep)

11. •Midnight was the time Boaz awoke to find Ruth
at his feet. So, if you need a husband pray at
midnight.
•11-1 is considered the midnight hour
•The midnight hour is a good time to extend your
faith to believe God for the uncommon.
•After the midnight hour we can begin to
command the morning (Job 38:12-13)

12. •The morning is a good time to praise God
Psalms 59:16
Psalms 92:2
Lamentations 3:22-24

13. •Noon is a time that witches and warlocks go to work
 Psalms 91:6

14. •Depending on what you need to see come to pass in your life –
you will pick up one watch or the other
•Be Found Faithful Where ever the Lord sets you and gifts you
to serve. That will be the place of breakthrough