Many matters require the church’s prayer. The items of prayer listed below are offered as a help to focus and enrich the prayer of the saints and of the churches. They are not meant to be restrictive or exhaustive, nor are they meant to be legally adopted. In the end, it is the Spirit who intercedes for us, in us, and through us according to God and His will. The intercessors’ responsibility is to be one spirit with the Lord and one mind with Christ to discharge the inner burden with Spirit-inspired utterances. In light of the current world situation, let us persevere in prayer with a strong spirit.
Pray that the saints would know the Lord as the truth so that they may experience Him as life, being helped by the Life-studies to enter into the biblical truths, from which they may receive the genuine life supply (John 14:6; 5:39-40; 1 Tim. 4:6).
Read morePray that the saints would set aside time daily to acquire a solid knowledge of the New Testament ministry by diving into the Recovery Version with footnotes and the Life-study messages (Acts 17:11; 1 Tim. 4:6; 2 Tim. 3:14-17).
Read morePray that by the Lord’s grace the saints would set their heart to learn the truth and would rise up to be personally constituted with the truth by spending time daily to learn the truth (2 Tim. 2:15; 1:13-14; 1 Tim. 6:20a; Acts 17:11).
Read morePray that the saints would see their need to come to the full knowledge of the truth for the proper testimony of the church and the spread of the Lord’s recovery (1 Tim. 2:3b-4; Titus 1:1; 1 Tim. 3:15; Eph. 1:13).
Read morePray that the saints would go to the Lord to spend time with Him, to consecrate themselves anew to Him, to be dealt with by Him in His presence, and to receive His burden to care for and shepherd people, even picking up a burden for some specific persons to pray for and care for (Exo. 21:5-6; Isa. 50:4-5; 1 John 1:5, 7; 1 Thes. 2:7-8, 19-20).
Read morePray that the saints would be constituted by the Lord to be shepherds according to God’s heart and would care for others with the intimate concern of a ministering life (Jer. 3:15; 2 Cor. 7:2-7 and notes 31 and 62).
Read morePray for the saints to become God in life, nature, expression, and function (but not in the Godhead) so that they may shepherd others according to God (1 Pet. 5:2a and note 24; 2 Pet. 1:4a; 1 John 4:16; Eph. 5:8; 1 Pet. 1:15-16; 2 Cor. 5:21).
Read morePray that the saints would be constituted by the Lord to be shepherds with the loving and forgiving heart of our Father God in His divinity and the shepherding and seeking spirit of our Savior Christ in His humanity (Luke 15:4, 8, 11-13, 17-20).
Read morePray that in all the churches the Lord would carry out His recovery by life through His shepherding, searching for His sheep and seeking them out, bringing them into Himself as the reality of the good land, feeding them with His riches, giving them inward rest, and binding up and healing the brokenhearted and sick ones (Ezek. 34:11-16a).
Read morePray 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).
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