Focus Your Church on the Discipline of Prayer Throughout the Bible we see God working through periods of forty - forty days, forty years, etc. Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: 40 Days of Prayer gives the pastor a 7 week series, covering 40 days, to bring the church and himself into a concentrated 40 days of prayer. If you're church is going through a drought of inactivity or commitment, bring them together in 40 days of prayer. Bring them all before the Lord and let Him change all of you.