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 in their personal fellowship with the Lord, learning to inquire of Him, listen to His speaking, and behold Him in order to be infused with Him and transformed into His image (Gen. 18:17, 20-25; 1 Kings 19:11-12 and note 121; Psa. 27:4; 2 Cor. 3:18; Hymns, #784, ss. 2, 5, 6, and chorus).
Read morePray that the saints would be perfected in their personal fellowship with the Lord, learning to speak to the Lord genuinely from the heart and to pray according to the anointing Spirit moving in their spirit (John 4:23-24 and note 245; 1 John 2:20, 27; Hymns, #784, s. 4 and chorus).
Read morePray that the saints would be perfected in their personal fellowship with the Lord, learning to quiet their being before Him, reject all of the enemy’s distractions, and cast all their anxieties on Him (Psa. 37:7a; 131:2; Isa. 30:15; Phil. 4:6-7 and notes 71 and 72; 1 Pet. 5:7; Hymns, #643, s. 4; Hymns, #771, ss. 6-7).
Read morePray that the saints would learn both to fellowship with God at every time and in every place and to set aside fixed times and a set place to fellowship with Him (1 Thes. 5:17; Eph. 6:18b; 1 Tim. 2:8; Dan. 6:10; Acts 10:9; Mark 6:46).
Read morePray that the saints would learn to spend time to pray privately with the Lord and to build up a life of personal, intimate fellowship with Him (Matt. 14:23; 6:6 and note 61; S. S. 1:4b and note 42).
Read morePray that the saints, by the Lord’s grace, would learn to stand in awe of God’s Word; cling to it; not forsake it, swerve from it, turn aside from it, or stray from it; turn their feet toward it; keep, observe, practice, and do it; and walk in it and run the way of it (Psa. 119:161, 31, 87, 51, 102, 110, 59, 32-33).
Read morePray that the saints, by the Lord’s grace, would learn to consider God’s Word, esteem it right concerning all things, enter into it, treasure it, hide it in their heart, remember it, and not forget it (Psa. 119:95, 128, 130, 162, 11, 52, 93).
Read morePray that the saints, by the Lord’s grace, would learn to muse on the Word of God (Psa. 119:15, 23, 48, 99, 148).
Read morePray that the saints, by the Lord’s grace, would learn to taste God’s Word, rejoice in it, sing it, regard it, incline their heart unto it, seek it, long for it, hope in it with prayer, and trust in it (Psa. 119:103, 111, 162, 54, 6, 117, 36, 94, 20, 42).
Read morePray that the saints, by the Lord’s grace, would have the attitude toward the Word of God seen in God’s loving seekers in the Old Testament, and that they would learn to believe in God’s Word, choose it, lift up their hands unto it, love it, and delight in it (Psa. 119:66, 173, 48, 97, 127, 140, 16, 24).
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