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 many saints would rise up to migrate to strategic cities throughout the United States for the spread of the Lord’s testimony in this country (Acts 1:8b; 8:1b, 4).
Read morePray that the Lord would make all the saints sojourners on the earth who follow the footsteps of Abraham, living the life of the altar and the tent for the maintaining of God’s testimony (Heb. 11:8-10, 13).
Read morePray that the Lord would deliver the saints from their disposition, preference, lack of desire to migrate, and any other factor that hinders them from migrating, so that they would be able to follow the Lamb wherever He may go (Acts 1:8b; 8:1b; Rev. 14:4b).
Read morePray that all the saints in the churches would be complete Christians who both come to the Lord to receive grace and go forth to be the Lord’s witnesses unto the uttermost part of the earth (Matt. 11:28; John 7:37; Matt. 28:19; Acts 1:8).
Read morePray that the saints in the churches in the United States would pick up and carry out the burden to bring the church as a tree to every city, town, and village and plant churches there for the spread of the testimony of Jesus throughout this country (Rev. 1:10-12, 20).
Read morePray that all the saints would make a strong decision to labor in a personal way for the increase of the church, scheduling their time for the weekly preaching of the gospel and doing this regularly, constantly, and continuously by making a budget of their time (John 15:16; Eph. 5:15-16; Hag. 1:8 and note 81).
Read morePray that the saints would rise up to fulfill their daily duty, becoming energizing priests of the gospel in going out with Christ and with His divine authority to visit their relatives, friends, classmates, colleagues, and neighbors with much prayer, making the preaching of the gospel a part of their daily life (Rom. 15:16; Matt. 28:18-19; Eph. 6:18-20).
Read morePray that the saints would be enlightened by Paul’s pattern of being a priest of the gospel and would rise up to practice their gospel priesthood according to his three steps of offering (1 Tim. 1:16; Rom. 15:16; 12:1; Col. 1:28-29).
Read morePray for the saints to be enlightened by the Lord to see that they are all New Testament priests of the gospel in a corporate priesthood, and for them to be energized by Him to carry out their daily duty of offering up saved sinners as the spiritual sacrifices that God desires (Rev. 1:5b-6a; Rom. 15:16; 1 Pet. 2:5).
Read morePray that the saints would take action to be vitalized by being stirred up in the best love for the Lord through repenting prayers, by practicing to fellowship with the Lord and with the seeking saints to gain companions for their labor, and by reconsecrating themselves to the Lord in being transformed by the renewing of their mind and being burning in spirit to serve the Lord, all of which will usher them into a prayer life in which they pray themselves into the all-inclusive Spirit and learn how to follow this Spirit by exercising their spirit (Rev. 2:4-5a; 1 John 1:9; 2 Tim. 2:22; Rom. 12:1-2, 11).
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