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 rise up to visit people regularly as God’s priests with His authority through much prayer (Luke 19:5, 9; Matt. 4:18-22; 28:18-19; Acts 4:31; Rom. 1:9).
Read morePray that the saints would become energizing priests in practicing their New Testament priesthood by being revived and renewed day by day (Rom. 15:16 and note 161; Lam. 3:22-24 and 241; 2 Cor. 4:16 and 163; 1 Cor. 15:10 and note 101).
Read morePray that the saints would follow Paul’s pattern in offering saved sinners, members of Christ, as living and spiritual sacrifices to God in three stages (Rom. 15:16; 12:1; Col. 1:28-29).
Read morePray that all the saints would receive the divine revelation concerning the priesthood of the gospel that will revolutionize their entire concept and change their entire practice (Rom. 1:9 and notes 91 and 92; 15:16; Phil. 2:17 and notes 172, 173, and 174; Phil. 3:3 and note 32; Matt. 28:18-19).
Read morePray that the saints would accept God’s ordination that they, along with all His people, are priests in the New Testament priesthood and would declare in faith that they are New Testament priests of the gospel (Rev. 1:5b-6; Rom. 15:16 and note 163; 1 Pet. 2:5, 9 and note 58).
Read morePray that the saints would see God’s intention that all His people would be priests and would see the turn from the Old Testament priesthood to the New Testament priesthood—an age-turning priesthood that includes every believer (Exo. 19:6 and note 61; Rev. 1:5b-6 and note 62; 5:9-10; Matt 3:1-2, 5-6).
Read morePray that by the Lord’s grace the saints would have a positive, aggressive spirit in serving the Lord for the building up of the church (Rom. 12:11; 1 Cor. 15:10, 58; Col. 1:28-29).
Read morePray that all the churches would increase in a normal way both in life and in number, and that we would learn to check ourselves by the increase in number (Col. 1:10; 2:19; Acts 6:7; 9:31; Ezek. 36:37-38).
Read morePray that all the saints would realize that the life pulse of the practice of the God-ordained way is the homes and would open their home for meetings for the increase and building up of the church (Acts 2:46-47 and note 463; 5:42; 16:15; Rom. 16:5a and note 52; 1 Cor. 16:19 and note 191; Col. 4:15 and note 151).
Read morePray that the Lord would fill the church life with the characteristic of mutuality as the essential feature of all relationships in the Body and the basic principle of the meetings of the church (Rom. 12:10; 15:7a; 1 Cor. 12:25; 14:24a, 26, 31; Gal. 5:13b; 6:2a; Eph. 5:19a, 21; Col. 3:13a, 16b; 1 Thes. 5:11; Heb. 10:24-25).
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