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 learn to “blow the trumpets of rams’ horns,” to declare the victory of the cross, the victory of the victorious One, and to proclaim Christ—the Christ they enjoy, the Christ who is the Conqueror over every foe (Josh. 6:6, 10, 20; 2 Cor. 10:4-5).
Read morePray that the saints would learn to praise the Lord with the high praises out of their experience of Christ, with praises that match the element and standard of Psalm 68 (vv. 1, 4, 11-12; 149:6-9).
Read morePray that the Lord would strengthen the smallest and weakest ones and perfect the praise they offer to Him out of their mouths, to stop the adversary, the enemy, and the avenger (Matt. 21:16; Psa. 8:1-21-3).
Read morePray that the saints would discover in their practice of prayer that at the moment they begin to sing and praise the Lord, He rises to strike and defeat the enemy (2 Chron. 20:20-22).
Read morePray that the saints would learn that when they are burdened and cannot pray, they can praise the Lord so that God’s Spirit will operate in them, open their prison doors, break their chains, and bring them to the throne (Heb. 13:15; Acts 16:25-26).
Read morePray that the saints would apprehend in their experience of prayer that prayer is a warfare but praise is a victory, and would learn to advance from fighting prayer to victorious praise (Acts 16:25-26, 29-34).
Read morePray that all the saints would realize that all the spiritual work in God’s economy is in nature a warfare and would gird themselves for this warfare (Matt. 16:18-19; Acts 26:18; 2 Cor. 10:3-5).
Read morePray for the saints’ prayer to have as a solid base the realization that in ourselves we are not able to sustain a prayer life and that in order to sustain our prayer, we need Christ to be our support (Exo. 17:11-12; Matt. 26:41; cf. Matt. 7:24-25).
Read morePray for the saints’ prayer to be sustained to fight with Amalek, the flesh, the enemy of God’s building, by the help of “Bezaleel,” by caring for the building up of the tabernacle, the church (Matt. 16:18-19; Eph. 1:17-18, 22-23; 1 Pet. 2:5).
Read morePray for the saints’ prayer to be sustained to fight with Amalek, the flesh, by the help of “Hur,” the kingship, by their obedience to the Lord’s ruling within (Exo. 17:12-13; Phil. 2:12-13).
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