Spiritual Reflections
It’s good to pray together, share together, encourage one another and learn together.
The YBA produces resources and reflections to encourage churches to think about Lent, Advent and other key times in our Christian calendar.
We have been blessed to hear your stories which have resulted from these shared studies.
Please feel free to adapt/update and use any of these resources.
YBA Prayer Diary 2025
21st December
Join us in praying for our YBA Trustees (Executive) and for our Ministry Group members, for wisdom and discernment as they prepare for the coming year.
24th and 25th December
We celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ our Lord! May we show God’s love and bring light into the darkness of this world.
28th December
Pray for all our churches and congregations, that we will see fruit, new life and growth in the coming year.
As we come to the end of our church prayer list for this year, remember to look out for our 2026 Prayer Diary arriving and to check out this page every week to connect afresh with other YBA member churches and congregations.
The “why and how” of our YBA Prayer Diary
Prayer undergirds the work of the YBA. Prayer demonstrates our utter reliance on God and our care for one another. One of the ways we do this as a staff team and wider Baptist family, is by regularly praying for all our churches through the year using the YBA prayer diary. Thank you to all who have been doing this faithfully or maybe even sporadically. For those who may not know, each week, a couple of our churches are featured in the prayer diary and become the focus of prayers from other churches and people across our Association. We may not know the specific needs of these churches, but we hold them in our hearts in prayer before the Lord seeking His blessing over them and their ministry.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we were to additionally be able to pray for the specific, expressed needs of our featured churches each week? That is exactly what we want to do – to raise up the specific needs of our churches before God’s throne of grace in obedience to His word: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” (Phil 4.6).
Ahead of their scheduled week, we invite our featured churches to send in their prayer requests and thanksgiving points. This is uploaded to this section of our YBA website. Any church who, for any reason, is unable to respond to our invitation will still be prayed for.
So be on the lookout for your church’s invitation to send in your prayer points and also do check out this area of the ‘Prayer & Spiritual Reflection’ section of the website, each week, so you can pray with knowledge for the needs of our churches across Yorkshire. We look forward to celebrating specific answered prayers as we join together in praying for our churches.
If you have any questions about the administration of the prayer diary, please click here to contact the Admin Team.
Nike Adebajo
YBA Regional Minister