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 experience the filling of the Spirit inwardly and would express the inward filling of the Spirit by the overflow of life and the fruit of the Spirit (John 7:38-39a; Gal. 5:22-23; Hymns, #268, s. 5 and chorus).
Read morePray that the saints would experience the filling of the Spirit inwardly by living a life of breathing and drinking the Spirit, daily enjoying the Lord as their breath and water by calling on His name, praying unceasingly and doing everything in the inner flow of the divine life (John 20:22 and note 221; Lam. 3:55-56; John 7:38-39; Isa. 12:3-4 and notes 31 and 41; 1 Cor. 12:3b, 13; Hymns, #255, ss. 1-2, 7 and chorus).
Read morePray that the saints would see that the work of the all-inclusive Spirit we have received is of two aspects—the essential aspect for life and the economical aspect for power—and would seek to experience the Spirit as both the Spirit of life to live Christ and the Spirit of power to carry out Christ’s commission (John 7:38-39; 14:17; 20:22; Acts 1:8 and note 82; 4:31; 2:42; Hymns, #278, ss. 1-4, 7).
Read morePray that in loving God the saints would coordinate with God’s inward work in their being and His outward work in their environment to conform them to the image of His Son (Rom. 8:28-30 and notes 281, 282, 283, and 284).
Read morePray that the saints would groan in the interceding Spirit for their full sonship, the redemption of their body (Rom. 8:23-27 and note 262; Hymns, #1210, ss. 1 and 3).
Read morePray that the saints would experience the Spirit’s witnessing with their spirit so that they may be assured that they are children of God and may also be limited and restricted to a living and walk that are according to His life (Rom. 8:16 and notes 161, 162, and 163).
Read morePray that the saints would enjoy the divine sonship in their regenerated spirit by crying to the Father in the spirit of sonship (Rom. 8:15 and notes 151 and 152; Gal. 4:6 and notes 62 and 63).
Read morePray that the saints would be led by the Spirit as sons of God (Rom. 8:14 and notes 141 and 142; Hymns, #390, ss. 1-2 and chorus).
Read morePray that the saints would learn and practice to put to death the practices of the body by the Spirit (Rom. 8:12-13 and notes 132 and 133).
Read morePray that the saints would live a life under the Triune God’s continual dispensing of life into their tripartite being for the constituting of the Body of Christ (Rom. 8:6-11 and notes 91 and 92; Hymns, #841, s. 4).
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