“Open the floodgates of heaven, Lord. Let your grace, mercy, and supernatural insight rain on Lagos. Let fresh ideas, kindness, selflessness, humility, and empathy rain on Lagosians even as we enter into four years of plenty #ForAGreaterLagos in Jesus name.” – HE Babajide Sanwo-Olu
Lagos Prays is an inter-denominational group coming together to cover Lagos with a blanket of prayer 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our mission is to mobilise people to pray across the state.
We gather online or in designated locations around Lagos to offer Jesus- Centred prayers for Lagos, our leaders and concerning challenges that confront Lagos. We stand in the gap for our state, our leaders and our people.
The challenges confronting Lagos State are enormous and require not just skills and competencies but continuous intercessory prayers, from traffic and transportation to health and environment, from education and technology to making Lagos a 21st-century cosmopolitan mega-city in the heart of Africa and from entertainment to tourism, arts and culture, coupled with recent rapid growth of population due to influx from other states, preponderance of indiscipline and impunity. The regeneration of Lagos demands “praying without ceasing”.
Lagos Prays plans to include governmental leaders and walks on strategic sites within Lagos.
Lagos Prays is designed to promote a culture of prayer and bring prayer to the forefront by igniting, motivating, mobilising and activating ordinary people from all godly faith in Christ Jesus to pray for state and local government leaders, staff, co-workers, family, friends, neighbors and all citizens, as we bridge gaps, bring unity and change the spiritual climate over our state as we invite God into our everyday affairs.
We will pray for all authorities including government leaders and pastors, church elders, school boards, school principals, employers, businesses, art and entertainment, and media.
“Guarding” means to encircle, hedge around, pray, war, protect, serve, watch, guard, patrol, intercede, cover and to shield. The Lagos Prays team is composed of intercessors, prayer warriors, prophetic intercessors, prophets and spiritual warfare intercessors whose mission is to guard our state.