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 how to contact people by entering into their situation and would look to the Lord for the way (John 3:1-6; 4:5-7, 9-10).
Read morePray that the saints would see their urgent need to contact people and would go forth to reach them in their daily life by making appointments to meet with some a few nights a week and at lunch and dinner times (John 15:16 and 162; Luke 19:5-6, 9-10).
Read morePray that the saints would not care for mushrooming development but for the slow process of life that they may bear fruit in due time, asking the Lord to bear fruit through them once a year (John 15:7-8 and 72, 16 and 165; Hymns, #910, stanza 3).
Read morePray that the saints would practice to abide in the Lord in order that they may preach the gospel by imparting life to others (John 15:4-5; cf. 1 John 5:16a; Hymns, #925, stanzas 1-3).
Read morePray that the saints would see that to have the proper and genuine spreading of the gospel, they must have the overflow of the inner life and would realize their need to bear fruit by the overflow of the inner life (John 15:1-5; Hymns, #910, stanzas 1-2).
Read morePray that the saints would live a gospel-preaching life, being desperate and living uniquely for the gospel and saving time each week for contacting people (2 Tim. 4:1-2; Acts 8:4-5; 2 Tim. 2:2; Matt. 28:18-19; John 15:16a).
Read morePray that the saints would be burdened to diligently learn the way and the skills needed to preach the gospel, especially learning how to bring people to have a personal contact with the Lord by their spirit directly (John 3:3-6; 4:10, 14-15, 24).
Read morePray that the saints would realize their urgent need for the one accord as the key to effectively preach the gospel by prayer, the Spirit, and the Word (Matt. 18:19; Acts 1:14; 4:24a, 31; Rom. 15:6; Phil. 1:27).
Read morePray that in their preaching the saints would employ the Lord’s name with His authority as the power of the gospel (Acts 3:6; 4:10-12; Matt. 28:18-19).
Read morePray that the saints would receive the poured-out Spirit as the power to proclaim the gospel and that they would be released in their preaching so that the essential Spirit within and the economical Spirit without would come forth (Luke 4:18-19; 24:47-49; Acts 1:8).
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