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The Monthly Watch and Prayer Guide

Every month I write a guide that carries what God is saying for that month — the Hebrew calendar, the prophetic word, the Scripture, and the prayers, written out so you can pray them aloud.

The word tells you what the month is.
The guide is how we pray it.

This guide governs every gathering that month. If you come to Formation Altar, Midnight Fire, or Keepers Arise, this is what we are praying. If you can only do one thing, do this one.

Amanda M. Payne
Daughters at the Gates
This month

November 2026 · Dwell

Cheshvan – Kislev 5787 · November 1–30

Open the hand. Build the booth. Sign your name. Move in.

The guide carries both Hebrew months, the four movements through Nehemiah 8–11, the monthly rhythm, the prayer points, the declarations and the month’s prayer.

Free. Daughter Edition.

What is inside every guide

The monthWhere we are on the Hebrew calendar, what the month carries, and the letter and the tribe that govern it.
The wordWhat I believe God is saying for the month, with the Scripture it stands on.
The workWhat the priest, the watchman, and the gatekeeper each do this month. Three offices, one job — shamar, to keep.
The prayersWritten out in full, in five movements, so you never have to wonder what to say.
The watchThe dates, the hours, and what we are standing for together.

The five movements

Every prayer in every guide is written in the same five movements, and they go in order:

PetitionYou ask.
RenounceYou break agreement with what has been holding ground.
CommandYou speak to the thing directly, with authority you were given.
DeclareYou say what is true because God said it.
DecreeYou establish it. Never leave a request hanging in the air.

Each one is applied across your life, ministry, family, business, health, and finances — because the month is not only happening in one of those.

Two editions

From November, each month comes in two editions. Same month, same word, same Scripture, same prayers. What changes is who is being addressed.

Daughter EditionWritten to the women of Daughters at the Gates. This is the edition that runs our gatherings.
House EditionWritten to sons and daughters. Same guide, addressed to anyone keeping the watch — families, men, mixed houses, and leaders praying with their own people.

October is Daughter Edition only. Both editions begin with November.

The archive

Every guide stays up, dated, exactly as it was released.

MonthGuideEditions
November 2026Dwell
Cheshvan – Kislev 5787 · the quiet month and the night season
Daughter
October 2026The House, the Line, and the Pattern
Tishri – Cheshvan 5787 · the ingathering and the sowing
Daughter

Get it the first of every month

The guide goes out at the start of each month, with the word. No noise.

Why I write it

Most people do not stop praying because they stopped believing. They stop because they ran out of words, at the hour when it was hardest to find any.

So I write the words down. You do not have to be eloquent at 3 AM. You have to be there. Open the guide and pray what is on the page, out loud, and you will have kept the watch.

Jehovah-Shammah. The LORD is here.
Apostle Amanda M. Payne