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 at the beginning of the new year the saints would have an absolute consecration of handing themselves over to the Lord and yielding their person to Him for the practical church life (2 Cor. 5:14-15; Rom. 12:1).
Read morePray that at the beginning of the new year the saints would consecrate themselves afresh to the Lord, not to do something for Him but to take Him as their person for the building up of the church as the one new man (Gal. 2:20; Eph. 3:16-17a; 4:21-24).
Read morePray that at the beginning of the new year the saints would have a genuine, proper consecration, offering themselves as vessels to let the Lord fill them, occupy them, and be expressed through them (Gen. 2:7 and notes 71 and 76; Rom. 9:23; 2 Cor. 4:7).
Read morePray that as we enter into a new year all the saints would see God’s need to give Himself to us and dispense Himself into us for the building up of the church, and that they would respond to God’s need with a fresh consecration (Luke 14:16-17 and note 161; Rom. 12:1).
Read morePray that the saints would be earnest in preaching the gospel of the kingdom to hasten the Lord’s coming and end the age (Rom. 11:25-26; Matt. 24:14).
Read morePray that saints’ preaching of the gospel would become shoes for their walk (Isa. 52:7a; Rom. 10:15; Eph. 6:15)
Read morePray that the saints would be encouraged to labor in preaching the gospel by the resurrection life within them, knowing that their labor is not in vain in the Lord and that their fruit will be a reward for their preaching (1 Cor. 15:58).
Read morePray that the saints would aspire to have the joy and crown of those whom they have saved as a reward for their gospel preaching and that they would be received by the saved ones into the eternal tabernacles (Phil. 4:1a and 11; 1 Thes. 2:19-20 and 201; Luke 16:9).
Read morePray that the saints would diligently labor in preaching the gospel in order to receive the reward—to receive wages, to gather fruit unto eternal life (John 4:35-37).
Read morePray that the saints would experience joy as a reward for their preaching the gospel, reaping in joy (Psa. 126:5-6; Luke 15:6-7, 9-10, 23-24; John 15:11 and 111).
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