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 become endeavoring in fruit-bearing, redeeming their time by getting companions, praying for their relatives and acquaintances, writing to them, making appointments, and going to visit them (John 15:16; Luke 10:1-2; 19:5-6, 9-10).
Read morePray that the saints would make a definite plan with a schedule of their time to personally contact people every week for fruit-bearing (John 1:40-46; Hymns, #922).
Read morePray that the saints would be revived by the Lord each morning by having a vital, living, active morning revival with the Lord so that they may contact people as fruit-bearing branches of Christ (Prov. 4:18 and 181; Lam. 3:22-24, notes 231 and 241; John 15:7-8; Hymns, #554, ss. 1-2).
Read morePray that the saints would take a simple way to bear fruit by first making a vow to the Lord to spend two to three hours each week contacting people to bear them as fruit (John 15:5, 16).
Read morePray that all the saints would have a breakthrough in gaining people for the Lord themselves by learning how to bear fruit and practicing fruit-bearing continually (John 15:1-2, 6, 16).
Read morePray that the saints would become burdened to bear fruit and would rise up to preach the gospel in order to beget spiritual children (1 Cor. 4:15; 1 Tim. 1:2; Titus 1:4; 1 Thes. 2:7, 11; Hymns, #930, stanzas 1, 4).
Read morePray that the saints would fellowship with one another over the matter of contacting people so that they may learn together and become very experienced in reaching people (Phil. 1:3-5, 27; Hymns, #1295, stanzas 1, 4).
Read morePray 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).
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