Archive for May 2021
Prayer for the saints to experience and enjoy Christ as their Shepherd
Pray that the saints would experience and enjoy Christ as their Shepherd—as the good Shepherd, the pneumatic Shepherd, the Shepherd and Overseer of their souls, the great Shepherd of the sheep, and the eternal Shepherd (John 10:10-11; Psa. 23:1-2; 1 Pet. 2:25; Heb. 13:20-21a; Rev. 7:17).
Read MorePrayer for the saints to take the shepherding way to preach the gospel and revive the church
Pray that the saints would receive the burden to participate in Christ’s wonderful shepherding and to take the shepherding way to preach the gospel and revive the church (John 21:15-17).
Read MorePrayer for the saints to set aside a weekly time with their vital companions for the purpose of contacting and gaining people
Pray that the saints would set aside a weekly time with their vital companions for the purpose of contacting and gaining people (Luke 10:1-2; Acts 13:2; 15:40; 16:29-31; Gal. 6:1; James 5:19-20).
Read MorePrayer for the saints to set aside a weekly time to pray with their vital companions for their work of contacting people
Pray that the saints would set aside a weekly time to pray with their vital companions for their work of contacting people, studying their cases and fellowshipping about them (Matt. 18:18-20).
Read MorePrayer for the saints to be blended into one accord
Pray that the saints, on the foundation of their intimate and thorough fellowship, would be blended into one accord by much and thorough prayer with the release of their spirit (1 Cor. 12:24-27, Lev. 2:1-2, 4; Acts 1:14; Eph. 6:18).
Read MorePrayer for the saints in the vital groups to have real, intimate fellowship, to love one another, and to care for one another
Pray that the saints in the vital groups would have real, intimate fellowship, would love one another, and would care for one another (Heb. 10:24-25; John 15:17; Gal. 6:2 and note 21).
Read MorePrayer for the being-vitalized saints to follow the Lord’s leading to contact other saints who are not yet vital
Pray that the being-vitalized saints would follow the Lord’s leading to contact other saints who are not yet vital to make them vital companions with whom to form a vital group (Acts 11:25-26; 2 Tim. 2:2, 22; Matt. 18:19-20).
Read MorePrayer for the saints to pray to be vitalized and to practice to be personally revived each morning
Pray that the saints would pray to be vitalized through thorough fellowship with the Lord, thorough confession of their sins, consecration of themselves, entering into the prayer life, and praying themselves into the filling of the Spirit both essentially and economically, and would practice to be personally revived each morning (1 John 1:3, 7, 9;…
Read MoreA Brief Report Concerning India
The second wave of the pandemic was much more severe in India than the first. The country was not prepared for it. As the first wave somewhat subsided, people, even the government, began to relax. Shops, cinemas, and other public venues were opened up, and people started to have large gatherings as before, which eventually…
Read MorePrayer for the saints to be desperate to be made vital
Pray that the saints would become desperate to be made vital—living and active—to produce believers who are Christ’s increase and who live in His Body, the church (John 15:5, 8, 16; cf. Hag. 1:8; Ezek. 36:37 and note 371).
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