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 know by experience the result of a persevering prayer life this year—having speech filled with grace, walking in wisdom toward those without, and knowing how to redeem the time (Col. 4:2, 5-6).
Read morePray that the saints would practice to watch in their prayer life by giving thanks, so that their prayer life may be preserved and the adversary would not be able to carry them off from their prayer life (Col. 4:2; 3:17; Eph. 5:20; 1 Thes. 5:16-18).
Read morePray that the saints would realize the marvelous rewards of praying, that they may be ushered into a normal Christian walk in the new year—setting their mind on the things above, having the renewing of the new man, having the peace of Christ arbitrating in them, and allowing the word of Christ to inhabit them (Col. 3:2, 10, 15-16; 4:2).
Read morePray that the saints would be impressed with the tremendous benefits of prayer both to the Lord’s Body corporately and to themselves personally as an encouragement to persevere in prayer this year (Col. 4:2; 3:1-2; Heb. 4:16; Hymns, #770, s. 1).
Read morePray that the saints would make their vow practical by setting aside definite times each day to persevere in prayer (Dan. 6:10; Psa. 55:17; Acts 10:9 and notes 91 and 92).
Read morePray that the saints would be deeply touched with the importance of their prayer and with the great resistance to their prayer, and that they would make a vow to the Lord concerning their prayer life at the beginning of the new year (Eph. 6:18-19a; Col. 4:2; Dan. 10:12-13).
Read morePray for the saints to realize that to have a proper church life that carries out God’s economy, they must have a proper prayer life, and pray that they would practice to have such a prayer life in this new year (1 Tim. 1:4; 2:1-4; Acts 6:4; 1 Sam. 12:23a).
Read morePray that the saints would experience a spiritual new year in the principle of death and resurrection, letting all of the old things of the past year come to an end and being terminated in order to have a new beginning, a good beginning, in resurrection (Phil. 3:12-14; 1 John 1:7 and note 73).
Read morePray that at the start of this new year the saints would spend time to meet God as the real light-bearer and receive the shining of His light in order to have a new beginning (Gen. 1:14; Mal. 4:2 and note 21; 1 John 1:5; Rev. 21:23).
Read morePray that at the start of this new year the saints would enter into the spiritual significance of the new year by spending time with the Lord to have a proper ending, a new preparation, and a new beginning in Him (Col. 2:16-17 and notes 163 and 164; Ezek. 45:18 and 181).
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