Day 8: Prayer to pray with God as our faith by speaking to “this mountain”

Pray that we will pray with God as our faith, that is, with God who has become our faith by mingling Himself with us, exercising God’s authority in our prayer and speaking to “this mountain,” telling the things that are frustrating us to go away—Mark 11:22-24; Zech. 4:7; Matt. 4:10a, 11a; Matt. 16:23a; 17:20; 18:19-20.

Mark 11:22-24—And Jesus answered and said to them, Have faith in God. Truly I say to you that whoever says to this mountain, Be taken up and cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says happens, he will have it. For this reason I say to you, All things that you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and you will have them.

Zech. 4:7—Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain, and he will bring forth the topstone with shouts of Grace, grace to it!

Matt. 4:10a, 11a—Then Jesus said to him, Go away, Satan!...Then the devil left Him

Matt. 16:23a—But He turned and said to Peter, Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me.

Matt. 17:20—And He said to them, Because of your little faith; for truly I say to you, If you have faith like a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, Move from here to there, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.

Matt. 18:19-20—Again, truly I say to you that if two of you are in harmony on earth concerning any matter for which they ask, it will be done for them from My Father who is in the heavens. For where there are two or three gathered into My name, there am I in their midst.

 

Day 9: Prayer to pray persistently as overcomers who are living by the linking faith

Pray that we will pray persistently by the linking faith, by the Triune God moving in us to link us to His unsearchable riches, knowing that the God to whom we pray is a God who hides Himself while He is doing many things for us in a hidden way, so that when the Lord Jesus returns, He will find us as His overcomers who are living by the linking faith—Luke 18:1; Isa. 45:15; Rom. 1:17b; Gal. 2:20; 2 Cor. 5:7; 1 Tim. 1:4; Luke 18:8b.

Luke 18:1—And He told them a parable to the end that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.

Isa. 45:15—Surely You are a God who hides Himself, / O God of Israel, the Savior.

Rom. 1:17b—But the righteous shall have life and live by faith.

Gal. 2:20—I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

2 Cor. 5:7—(For we walk by faith, not by appearance)

1 Tim. 1:4—God's economy, which is in faith.

Luke 18:8b—Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?

Day 10: Prayer to be God’s dispensational instrument for God’s age-turning move

Pray that we will be God’s dispensational instrument, those through whom He can make an age-turning move, by being absolutely consecrated to God and separated unto God from an age that follows Satan, by joining ourselves to God’s desire through His Word, by being a man of prayer with an excellent spirit, a man living under God’s rule in the reality of the kingdom of the heavens, and by being a self-sacrificing person with the spirit of martyrdom—Dan. 1:8; 6:3, 10; 9:23; Num. 6:2-3, 5; Psa. 110:3; Rev. 12:11.

Dan. 1:8—But Daniel set his heart not to defile himself with the king's choice provision and with the wine that the king drank, so he requested of the leader of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

Dan. 6:3—Then this Daniel distinguished himself among the chief ministers and satraps because in him there was an excellent spirit, and the king considered setting him over the whole kingdom.

Dan. 6:10—Now when Daniel came to know that the writing had been signed, he went to his house (in his upper room he had windows open toward Jerusalem) and three times daily he knelt on his knees and prayed and gave thanks before his God, because he had always done so previously.

Dan. 9:23—At the beginning of your supplications the command went forth, and I have come to tell you, for you are preciousness itself. Therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.

Num. 6:2-3—Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazarite, to separate himself to Jehovah, he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar of wine or vinegar of strong drink, nor shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh or dried grapes.

Num. 6:5—All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall pass over his head. He shall be holy until the days are fulfilled for which he separated himself to Jehovah; he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.

Psa. 110:3—Your people will offer themselves willingly / In the day of Your warfare, / In the splendor of their consecration. / Your young men will be to You / Like the dew from the womb of the dawn.

Rev. 12:11—And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they loved not their soul-life even unto death.

Day 11: Prayer to be today’s overcomers who live, grow, express, and propagate Christ

Pray that in order to be today’s overcomers as God’s dispensational instrument, we will redeem the time, knowing God’s will, seizing and making the most of opportunities, and being faithful to live, grow, express, and propagate Christ in every respect for the building up of His Body—Rev. 2:7; Eph. 5:16; Psa. 90:12; Col. 1:9-10; Dan. 11:32b; Phil. 1:20-21a; Eph. 4:15.

Rev. 2:7—He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.

Eph. 5:16—Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Psa. 90:12— Teach us then to number our days / That we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Col. 1:9-10—Therefore we also, since the day we heard of it, do not cease praying and asking on your behalf that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, to walk worthily of the Lord to please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work and growing by the full knowledge of God.

Dan. 11:32b—But the people who know their God will show strength and take action.

Phil. 1:20-21a—According to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I will be put to shame, but with all boldness, as always, even now Christ will be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death. For to me, to live is Christ.

Eph. 4:15—But holding to truth in love, we may grow up into Him in all things, who is the Head, Christ.

Day 12: Prayer to be vital persons who bring in the age of God’s heart’s desire

Pray that we will answer the Lord’s call to be an overcomer by being a vital person, a praying person, having close, intimate, thorough fellowship with the Lord and with the seeking saints, in order to conquer deadness, lukewarmness, and barrenness, and that we will understand the times and pray the age-turning prayer, no longer living to the earth but truly consecrating ourselves to answer God’s demands on behalf of the church so that God may have a way to come in and to turn this age of procedures into the age of His heart’s desire—Psa. 119:88, 159; 1 Thes. 5:17; 1 John 1:3; Rev. 3:1, 15-16; John 15:16; Judg. 5:15b, 16b; 1 Chron. 12:32a.

Psa. 119:88—Enliven me according to Your lovingkindness, / And I will keep the testimony of Your mouth.

Psa. 119:159—See how I have loved Your precepts; / O Jehovah, enliven me according to Your lovingkindness.

1 Thes. 5:17—Unceasingly pray.

1 John 1:3—That which we have seen and heard we report also to you that you also may have fellowship with us, and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.

Rev. 3:1—And to the messenger of the church in Sardis write: These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I know your works, that you have a name that you are living, and yet you are dead.

Rev. 3:15-16—I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I am about to spew you out of My mouth.

John 15:16—You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and I set you that you should go forth and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He may give you.

Judg. 5:15b, 16b—Among the divisions of Reuben / There were great resolutions in heart…In the divisions of Reuben / There were great searchings of heart.

1 Chron. 12:32a—And of the children of Issachar, men who understood the times that they might know what Israel should do.

Day 13: Prayer for the preparation of the bride of Christ

Pray that we will prepare ourselves to be the bride of Christ by becoming His overcomers, the components of the bride, who grow until we are matured and perfected in the divine life and who are built up to be a corporate person, a building in which God and man become a mutual abode to each other by God building Himself into man and building man into Himself—Eph. 4:13-16; Heb. 6:1a; Col. 1:28; John 14:20; 15:4a; 1 John 4:15; Rev. 21:3a, 22.

Eph. 4:13-16—Until we all arrive at the oneness of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, at a full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, that we may be no longer little children...but holding to truth in love, we may grow up into Him in all things, who is the Head, Christ, out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint of the rich supply and through the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love.

Heb. 6:1a—Therefore leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us be brought on to maturity.

Col. 1:28—Whom we announce, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present every man full-grown in Christ.

John 14:20—In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.

John 15:4a—Abide in Me and I in you.

1 John 4:15—Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God.

Rev. 21:3a—And I heard a loud voice out of the throne, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men.

Rev. 21:22—And I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

Day 14: Prayer to prepare the wedding garment, to be beautified with Christ, and to fight the battle against God’s enemy

Pray that we will prepare our wedding garment of “fine linen, bright and clean,” the fine linen being the righteousnesses of the saints, by living out Christ as our subjective and surpassing righteousness; that we will be beautified by Christ being wrought into us and being expressed through us as our beauty; and that we will fight the battle against God’s enemy and overcome him by speaking the word of God—Rev. 19:8; Phil. 3:9; Matt. 5:20; Eph. 3:17a; 5:26-27; S. S. 1:15; Eph. 6:11; Rev. 12:11; 19:13.

Rev. 19:8—And it was given to her that she should be clothed in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteousnesses of the saints.

Phil. 3:9—And be found in Him, not having my own righteousness which is out of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is out of God and based on faith.

Matt. 5:20—For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall by no means enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

Eph. 3:17a—That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith.

Eph. 5:26-27—That He might sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing of the water in the word, that He might present the church to Himself glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that she would be holy and without blemish.

S. S. 1:15—Oh, you are beautiful, my love! / Oh, you are beautiful! Your eyes are like doves.

Eph. 6:11—Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil.

Rev. 12:11—And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they loved not their soul-life even unto death.

Rev. 19:13—And He is clothed with a garment dipped in blood; and His name is called the Word of God.