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 exalted Christ, who is Head over all things to the church, would execute His government over the entire world situation through the church as His Body (Eph. 1:22-23).
Read morePray that the Lord as the Ruler of the kings of the earth would administrate over the world leaders and direct the world situation by the flaming of the seven Spirits of God burning before the throne (Rev. 1:4; 4:5; 5:6).
Read morePray for the Lord as the Ruler of the kings of the earth to arrange the situations of the world and the environment of God’s chosen people that they might receive salvation and that Christ might be everything to them (Rev. 1:5a; Acts 5:31).
Read morePray concerning kings and all who are in high position at every level of government, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all godliness and gravity and that men may be saved and come to the full knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2:1-4).
Read morePray that God, as the One who deposes kings and causes kings to ascend, would place in power those whom He wills at every level of government for the carrying out of His economy on the earth (Dan. 2:21a; Psa. 75:4-7; Jer. 27:5; Rom. 13:1).
Read morePray for the saints to know that the heavens do rule in the midst of the present world situation and that the purpose of God’s heavenly ruling is to complete God’s elect so that Christ may be preeminent (Dan. 4:26b). Pray also that the saints would see a vision of the throne as the center of God’s administration (Rev. 4:2; 5:1).
Read morePray that the saints would see that the Most High God is the Ruler over the kingdom of men and gives the kingdom to whomever He wills (Dan. 4:17, 34-35).
Read morePray that God in His sovereignty would use the present chaos to help and further His divine economy (John 6:70-71; 13:18b, 21, 23-27; 19:34).
Read morePray for the saints to overcome in order to practice the normal and proper church life in God’s economy, a life of living and magnifying Christ, of prophesying to build up the Body of Christ, of meeting regularly as a proper local church on the genuine ground of the unique oneness of the Body as a local expression of the universal Body of Christ, and of meeting and serving in mutuality according to the God-ordained way (Phil. 1:20-21a; Eph. 4:12, 3-4; Rev. 1:11-12).
Read morePray for many saints to be produced by the Lord as overcomers who conquer the satanic chaos and carry out the divine economy by the processed and consummated Triune God as the all-sufficient grace (Eph. 6:10-13; 1 Cor. 15:10; 2 Cor. 12:9; Gal. 6:18; 2 Tim. 4:22).
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