Archive for April 2021
Prayer for the saints to visit people as God’s priests with His authority through much prayer
Pray that the saints would rise up to visit people regularly as God’s priests with His authority through much prayer (Luke 19:5, 9; Matt. 4:18-22; 28:18-19; Acts 4:31; Rom. 1:9).
Read MorePrayer for the saints to become energizing priests in practicing their New Testament priesthood
Pray that the saints would become energizing priests in practicing their New Testament priesthood by being revived and renewed day by day (Rom. 15:16 and note 161; Lam. 3:22-24 and 241; 2 Cor. 4:16 and 163; 1 Cor. 15:10 and note 101).
Read MorePrayer for the saints to follow Paul’s pattern in offering spiritual sacrifices to God in three stages
Pray that the saints would follow Paul’s pattern in offering saved sinners, members of Christ, as living and spiritual sacrifices to God in three stages (Rom. 15:16; 12:1; Col. 1:28-29).
Read MorePrayer for the saints to receive a revolutionizing revelation of the priesthood of the gospel
Pray that all the saints would receive the divine revelation concerning the priesthood of the gospel that will revolutionize their entire concept and change their entire practice (Rom. 1:9 and notes 91 and 92; 15:16; Phil. 2:17 and notes 172, 173, and 174; Phil. 3:3 and note 32; Matt. 28:18-19).
Read MorePrayer for the saints to accept God’s ordination that they are priests of the gospel
Pray that the saints would accept God’s ordination that they, along with all His people, are priests in the New Testament priesthood and would declare in faith that they are New Testament priests of the gospel (Rev. 1:5b-6; Rom. 15:16 and note 163; 1 Pet. 2:5, 9 and note 58).
Read MorePrayer for the saints to see God’s intention that all His people be priests
Pray that the saints would see God’s intention that all His people would be priests and would see the turn from the Old Testament priesthood to the New Testament priesthood—an age-turning priesthood that includes every believer (Exo. 19:6 and note 61; Rev. 1:5b-6 and note 62; 5:9-10; Matt 3:1-2, 5-6).
Read MorePrayer for the saints to have a positive, aggressive spirit for the building up of the church
Pray that by the Lord’s grace the saints would have a positive, aggressive spirit in serving the Lord for the building up of the church (Rom. 12:11; 1 Cor. 15:10, 58; Col. 1:28-29).
Read MorePrayer for the churches to increase both in life and in number
Pray that all the churches would increase in a normal way both in life and in number, and that we would learn to check ourselves by the increase in number (Col. 1:10; 2:19; Acts 6:7; 9:31; Ezek. 36:37-38).
Read MorePrayer for the raising up of the home meetings as the life pulse of the God-ordained way
Pray that all the saints would realize that the life pulse of the practice of the God-ordained way is the homes and would open their home for meetings for the increase and building up of the church (Acts 2:46-47 and note 463; 5:42; 16:15; Rom. 16:5a and note 52; 1 Cor. 16:19 and note 191;…
Read MorePrayer for a church life filled with mutuality
Pray that the Lord would fill the church life with the characteristic of mutuality as the essential feature of all relationships in the Body and the basic principle of the meetings of the church (Rom. 12:10; 15:7a; 1 Cor. 12:25; 14:24a, 26, 31; Gal. 5:13b; 6:2a; Eph. 5:19a, 21; Col. 3:13a, 16b; 1 Thes. 5:11;…
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