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 sovereign God to stir up the spiritual seeking of many people in this country that they might find Him, receive salvation, and be brought into the genuine church life (Acts 17:26-28; Amos 8:11; Psa. 43:3 and 31).
Read morePray that God, who put eternity in man’s heart, would stir up this divinely implanted sense of a purpose in many so that they would desire to know God and His eternal purpose (Eccl. 3:11 and 111; Eph. 1:11; 3:11).
Read morePray for the Spirit’s work to convict the world concerning sin, concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment that many would repent, believe in the Lord Jesus, and be transferred out of Adam into Christ (John 16:7-11).
Read morePrayer for the Spirit’s work to sanctify God’s chosen ones unto repentance and faith in Jesus Christ
Pray for the Spirit to work throughout the United States to sanctify those whom the Father has chosen unto repentance and the obedience of faith in Jesus Christ (1 Pet. 1:2; 2 Thes. 2:13 and 133).
Read morePray for the operation of the Divine Trinity throughout this country to seek sinners, to enlighten them, and to bring them back to God the Father and the Father’s house, the church (Luke 15:1-32).
Read morePray according to the desire of our Savior God that all men would be saved and would come to the full knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2:1-4; 4:10; John 3:16-17).
Read morePray for the building up of Zion—the reality of the Body of Christ consummating in the New Jerusalem—and for our arriving at the high peak of Zion by praying in the church as the house of prayer (Eph. 4:16; Rev. 14:1; 21:2).
Read morePray that the saints would respond to Christ’s activities in His heavenly ministry by seeking the things which are above, having one life and one living with Christ so that their hearts may be with Him in heaven, where He is interceding for the churches, supplying the saints, and administrating God’s government (Col. 3:1-4; Heb. 7:25; 8:2; Rev. 5:6).
Read morePray that the saints would pray to God in the name of the Lord Jesus, aiming at God’s interest for His economy, that is, praying for the interest of God on earth—Christ as God’s portion to us, as God’s kingdom, and as God’s dwelling place (1 Kings 8:48; Eph. 3:14-21).
Read morePray that the saints in the house of prayer would learn to pray according to God’s desire and thought, praying prayers that are precious and weighty and that shake the gates of Hades and affect Satan (Dan. 9:3-4a, 17-18a, 20-23a).
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