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 be enlightened by the Lord to see their barren condition and their desperate need to be made vital—living and active—to gain remaining fruit for the increase and building up of the church, the Lord’s Body (Rom. 12:11; 15:16; John 15:16).
Read morePray that the saints would be deeply impressed with their need to be revived every morning and take the step to practice a personal morning revival with the Lord as the base for their daily vital living (Psa. 119:147; Prov. 4:18 and note 181; Lam. 3:22-24; Mark 1:35; Hab. 3:2b and note 21).
Read morePray that all the saints would learn to practice blending—doing everything through the cross and by the Spirit to dispense Christ for the sake of the Body of Christ and stopping themselves to fellowship with other saints—in order to keep the oneness of the universal Body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:24b-25).
Read morePray that the saints would be restricted to the apostles’ teaching, the teaching concerning God’s New Testament economy, and continue in it steadfastly that they may be kept in oneness and have one way for one goal (Acts 2:42a, 46a; 2 John 9-10; 1 Tim. 1:3-4).
Read morePray that the saints would be deeply impressed that the recovery of the one accord is the crucial need today and would earnestly practice the one accord as the morale of the army, the impact of the Lord’s move, and the master key to unlock every blessing in the New Testament (Rom. 15:5-6; Acts 1:14; Phil. 4:2; 1:27).
Read morePray for the saints to be deeply impressed that the one accord is both the necessary ground to carry out the present practice of the Lord’s move and the key and life pulse to the three main factors for the spreading of the gospel—prayer, the Spirit, and the Word (Acts 1:14; 4:24a, 31).
Read morePray that the Lord would touch the saints to realize their need for the one accord and would burden them to pray desperately for the one accord, the real harmony, that God may answer their prayers, especially in the matter of fruit-bearing (Matt. 18:19-20; Acts 1:14; John 15:16).
Read morePray that the saints would realize the great inheritance of the oneness that they possess and would “write checks” of oneness, applying the oneness of the Spirit in every situation by remaining in their spirit, thereby practicing the one accord (Eph. 4:3-4a; Rom. 8:16, 6b, 9a; 15:6).
Read morePray that the saints would know and experience the genuine oneness in the Triune God and be diligent to keep the oneness so that they may walk worthily of God’s calling to have the proper Body life (John 17:11, 21-23; Eph. 4:1-6 and note 32).
Read morePray that all the saints would come to the cross and offer Christ to God, praying that He would forgive this country of the immorality and chaos that are offenses to Him, the righteous God, and asking Him to remember the cross on which our Lord Jesus died, so that we may help to save the country in which we live (Gen. 8:20-22; Dan. 9:4-5, 8-11, 19-20).
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