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 practice to bless the Lord with well-speaking concerning His person and work by addressing the Lord directly (Psa. 103:1; Rev. 5:12-13; Hymns, #501, ss. 1-3 and chorus).
Read morePray that the saints would learn to offer thanksgiving and praise to the Lord at His table to remember Him with much exercise of their spirit and by digesting the hymns in their praise, without offering prayers of supplication to Him (1 Cor. 11:24-25).
Read morePray that the saints would do everything in the table meeting—whether the singing and speaking of the hymns, prayer and praise, Bible reading, or words of inspiration—by taking the Lord as the center and would overflow with their personal experiences of Christ (Luke 22:19-20; John 20:14-18; Hymns, #863, ss. 1-3, 5).
Read morePray that the saints would come to the Lord’s table meeting for the purpose of remembering the Lord Himself, taking the remembrance of the Lord as the center for His enjoyment (1 Cor. 11:24-25; Hymns, #204).
Read morePray that in the last part of the Lord’s table meeting the saints would exercise themselves to offer the genuine worship that satisfies the Father, the true worship that He is seeking and that is in His economy, the worship that is in spirit and with Christ as the offerings (John 4:23-24; Hymns, #11, ss. 1, 7-8).
Read morePray that the saints would see and experience the progression from remembering the Lord to worshipping the Father according to the spiritual experience of coming to the Lord and being brought by Him to the Father (Heb. 2:10-12; John 14:6; Eph. 2:18; 1 John 2:23b; Hymns, #48).
Read morePray that the saints would remember the Lord not by meditating on Him with their mind but by contacting Him, eating Him, and drinking Him with their spirit (John 4:24; Luke 22:19-20; Hymns, #233, ss. 5-6).
Read morePray that the saints would eat the Lord’s flesh and drink the Lord’s blood by believing into Him and receiving Him as their enjoyment that He may enter into them as the Spirit and that they may be united with Him (John 6:35, 40, 54-56, 63; Hymns, #233, ss. 1-3).
Read morePray that the saints would remember the Lord by eating the Lord’s body and drinking the Lord’s blood, thereby eating and drinking the Lord Himself (Luke 22:19-20; John 6:54-57).
Read morePray that the saints would remember the Lord and satisfy Him by bringing in the kingdom, having themselves and everything related to them brought into a proper relationship with God’s administration, which is the emphasis in the Lord’s supper—the vertical aspect (1 Cor. 11:24-25; Matt. 26:29; Hymns, #221, ss. 1-2 and chorus).
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