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 for the saints, even in twos and threes, to be in harmony, knowing what the Body is and taking the ground of the Body, in order to pray binding and loosing prayers for God’s will to be done on the earth (Matt. 18:18-19).
Read morePray that the saints would be full of faith, praying according to God’s will, becoming the overcomers who learn to “speak to the mountain” that is blocking the way—exercising God’s authority to deal with all the things that block us from going on in the spiritual pathway (Mark 11:22b, 23-24; Matt. 4:10a, 11a).
Read morePray that all the saints, as the church, would learn to pray the prayers of authority, the downward prayers that begin from a heavenly position of victory and go from heaven to earth, standing in the position that Christ has given us in the heavenlies, commanding Satan with authority, rejecting all his works, and proclaiming with authority that all God’s commands should be accomplished (Eph. 6:18-19a; Isa. 45:11).
Read morePray that the saints would learn to pray not just the prayers of individual believers but the prayer of the church as the Body of Christ with the full realization of what the Lord has obtained—His lordship and headship—touching the authority of Christ to claim what He has obtained and apply it to the situation (Eph. 1:22; Acts 12:5, 12).
Read morePray that the saints would see the position and the authority of the church as the Body of Christ, realizing that the position of the church is exactly the same as that of Christ, and claim and utilize this authority to tread over all the power of the enemy (1 Cor. 12:27; Matt. 28:18b-19a; Luke 10:19).
Read morePray that all the saints would see that taking the ground of Christ’s ascension is not an individual matter but a Body matter and would rise up as the Body to claim the ground of Christ’s ascension through prayer, claiming all that Christ attained and obtained for the carrying out of God’s economy (Col. 1:18; Acts 4:24a, 31).
Read morePray that all the saints, taking the ground of Christ’s ascension and based on the fact that the Lord has ascended to the heavens, attained to the highest place, and obtained all things, would enter into a specific, definite, and extraordinary kind of prayer—prayer that is based upon Christ’s ascension and claims all that He has obtained and attained in His ascension (Rev. 5:6a; Matt. 28:18; Eph. 1:22).
Read morePray that all the saints would receive a heavenly vision of the ascension of Christ in order to pray the prevailing prayer of the church, the prayer of the age (Eph. 1:17; Heb. 1:3; Acts 2:36).
Read morePray that the saints would learn to fight the spiritual warfare by praising and exalting Christ, by shouting Christ’s triumph, and by declaring Christ’s victory (Acts 16:25-26; Josh. 6:6, 20 and notes 61 and 201).
Read morePray that the saints would be empowered in the Lord and in the might of His strength to be able to stand in the battle against all the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenlies (Eph. 6:10 and notes 102-4; 1:19-21).
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