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 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 morePray 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 morePray 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 morePray 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 morePray 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 morePray 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 morePray 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; Psa. 110:3; 1 Thes. 5:17; Eph. 6:18; Acts 13:52; 4:31; Gal. 5:25; Prov. 4:18).
Read morePray 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).
Read morePray that the saints would be perfected by the prophets, the gifted members of the Body, and would also pick up the burden to perfect others to prophesy (Num. 11:29b; 1 Cor. 14:24-25, 31; Eph. 4:11-12).
Read morePray that the saints would learn to closely follow the Spirit to speak only concerning God’s economy—Christ and the church—to care for the atmosphere and flow of the meeting, and to maintain the sweet and pleasant feeling in the meeting (1 Tim. 1:3-4; 1 Cor. 14:29-33a, 3, 26).
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