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 learn and practice to live constantly in the mingled spirit as the secret of God’s organic salvation and the key to the entire Christian life and church life (1 Cor. 15:45b; 6:17; Rom. 8:2, 4, 16).
Read morePray that the saints would realize that God uses many hardships, difficulties, and slanders to create praises in His people and causes them to learn through difficult circumstances to become praising persons who offer a sacrifice of praise continually to God (Heb. 13:15; Psa. 22:1-3; 23:4; cf. Acts 16:25).
Read morePray that the saints would realize that praise is the highest work carried out by God’s children and would practice to praise the Lord every day (Psa. 119:164; 22:3; 2 Chron. 5:13-14; Hymns, #690, s. 1 and chorus).
Read morePray that the saints would learn to speak and sing the better hymns in the meetings by following the flow of the Spirit (Col. 3:16; John 7:38-39a; Rom. 8:14; Hymns, #499).
Read morePray that the saints would rise up to learn and would practice to speak, call proper hymns, and pray appropriate prayers in the Lord’s table, offering praises that match the proper hymns (1 Cor. 11:24-25; Matt. 26:26-30; Heb. 2:12; Hymns, #220, ss. 1, 4-5).
Read morePray that the saints would realize that singing is the best way to nourish the new ones and would learn to sing hymns so that they can nourish the new ones by singing hymns with them in the home meetings and group meetings and can help them to pray using the phrases in the hymns (Col. 3:16; Hymns, #811, ss. 1, 8 and chorus).
Read morePray that the saints would be impressed with their need to practice speaking and singing hymns in their homes and daily life that they may become persons filled in their spirit all day long and be prepared to speak, praise, or sing spontaneously in the meetings (Eph. 5:18b-19; Acts 16:25; Hymns, #308, s. 1 and chorus).
Read morePray that the saints would see the importance of singing the hymns with the release of their spirit for the overflow of life and spirit in the meetings (Eph. 5:18b-19; John 6:63; 1 Cor. 14:15b; Hymns, #1141, ss. 1, 4).
Read morePray that the saints would be brought into a life of intimate fellowship with God in the Holy of Holies, with no distance between them and Him, so that they might enjoy God in Christ as the reality of the hidden manna, the budding rod, and the tablets of the covenant (Heb. 10:22; 9:2-4 and note 43; Rev. 2:17b; Phil. 3:10; Rom. 8:2).
Read morePray that the saints would seek the Lord that their fellowship with Him would be deepened so that the Lord would have a way to mingle with them in a deep and thorough way (Isa. 37:31; Hosea 14:5; Matt. 13:3, 5-6, 20-21 and note 51).
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