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 for the saints to overcome the deadness of Sardis in the Body life, the lukewarmness of Laodicea by seeking the riches of Christ, and the barrenness of the degenerating believers in desperation (Rev. 3:1-2; Rom. 12:1-2; Rev. 3:14-18; Rom. 12:11; John 15:2a; Hymns, #843, ss. 1 and 5; #471, s. 3).
Read morePray that the saints would overcome all the persecutions and oppositions, hard environments, and difficult situations by the unchanging love of God and the power of resurrection life (Rom. 8:35-39 and note 371; Rev. 2:10-11 and notes 103 and 111; Hymns, #887, ss. 3-5).
Read morePray that the saints would withstand the devil and overcome him in every way by faith, the word of God, their divine birth, the blood of the Lamb, the word of their testimony, and their not loving their soul-life even unto death (James 4:7; 1 Pet. 5:8-9a; 1 John 2:14b; 5:18-19 and note 194; Rev. 12:11; Hymns, #880, s. 1).
Read morePray that the saints would overcome the world by their organic union with Christ in their regenerated human spirit (1 John 2:15 and note 152; 5:4-5 and notes 41 and 45; Hymns, #438, s. 1 and chorus).
Read morePray that the saints would overcome the flesh by God’s grace and would thoroughly put the flesh to death by the Spirit (Gen. 6:3a, 8 and note 82; Exo. 17:8, 13 and notes 81 and 82; 1 Sam. 15:2-3a, 9 and note 91; Gal. 5:24; Hymns, #412, ss. 1 and 5).
Read morePray that by the Lord’s grace the saints would live a life of being revived every morning and overcoming every day (Psa. 119:146-148; Prov. 4:18; Lam. 3:22-25; Rom. 8:4, 37; Hymns, #877, s. 1 and chorus).
Read morePray that the saints would experience the filling of the Spirit outwardly by taking the way of repenting and dealing with sin, believing in the accomplished fact, obeying God, praying with one accord, and meeting to pursue the outward filling (Acts 2:38; 5:32b; 1:14a; 2:1, 4a; Hymns, #276).
Read morePray that the saints would experience the filling of the Spirit outwardly for their spiritual work to have power (Acts 1:8 and note 82; Luke 24:49 and note 493; Acts 2:1, 4; 4:31; Hymns, #271, s. 2).
Read morePray that the saints would experience the filling of the Spirit outwardly—being filled with the Spirit outwardly as the wind and the fire (Luke 12:49; Acts 1:8; 2:1-4 and notes 21 and 32; Hymns, #271, s. 3).
Read morePray that the saints would experience the filling of the Spirit inwardly by applying their co-death with Christ on the cross, consecrating themselves to the Lord completely, and believing in the inward filling (Gal. 5:17, 24 and note 242; Psa. 110:3 and note 32; Rom. 12:1; hymn from Life Lessons, lsn. 20).
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