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 be perfected to speak with the three constituting elements of prophesying, the third of which is a vision concerning God’s interest and economy, concerning the church as the Body of Christ, concerning the local churches, concerning the world, concerning the individual saints, and concerning ourselves—the view through the enlightening of the divine light (Eph. 1:17-18; 1 Cor. 2:11-12; Ezek. 1:1; Eph. 3:3a, 5b; Rev. 1:10, 12; 4:2; 17:3; 21:10).
Read morePray that the saints would be perfected to speak with the three constituting elements of prophesying, the second of which is the instant inspiration of the Holy Spirit—the divine element of inspiration (1 Cor. 14:32, 37; 1 John 1:7; Rom. 8:4; Gal. 5:16a, 25; 2 Tim. 4:22a).
Read morePray that the saints would be perfected to speak with the three constituting elements of prophesying, the first of which is the knowledge of the Word of God—the human element of learning (Luke 1:46-50 and note 461; 1 Tim. 4:6; 2 Tim. 3:15-17).
Read morePray that the saints would prophesy in the divine way and with the divine element and would be gained by the Lord to minister Christ with all His riches to one another through their speaking (1 Pet. 4:10-11 and notes 102 and 111; Eph. 3:7-8).
Read morePray that by the Lord’s grace the saints would pursue, desire, seek, and learn to prophesy, which is the excelling gift for the building up of the church (1 Cor. 14:1, 12, 31, 39a).
Read morePray that the saints would realize their need for learning and the experience of life in order to carry out the purpose and goal of perfecting the saints in the group meetings (2 Tim. 3:14-17; Eph. 4:15-16).
Read morePray that the saints would learn to practice group meetings to reach the purpose and goal of perfecting the saints through mutual teaching by the mutual asking and answering of questions (Eph. 4:12; Col. 3:16).
Read morePray that the saints would learn how to practice group meetings that include fellowship, intercession, mutual care, and shepherding as the beginning and base of the group meetings (Gal. 6:2 and note 21; Phil. 2:1-3; 1 Cor. 12:23-27).
Read morePray that the saints would see and be burdened with their need to have their own group meeting for perfecting by considering, inciting, and exhorting one another (Heb. 10:24-25; Hymns, #867, s. 4).
Read morePray that the saints would see from Paul’s practice in Acts 20 how to perfect the saints and would dive into the Word to learn how to perfect themselves (Acts 20:18, 20, 27, 31; 1 Tim. 4:6; 2 Tim. 2:2, 15).
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