PRAYER FOR THE BODY OF CHRIST JESUS

FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS AND GOING FORWARD: BE SURE TO PRAY THIS ALOUD AND OFTEN, PERHAPS EVERY DAY, AS GOD’S SPIRIT MAY INSPIRE YOU TO DO.

Who is like You, ADONAI, among the mighty? Who is like You, sublime in holiness, awesome in praises, working wonders? - Exodus 15:11

Abba Father, seated upon Your Throne of Grace in Heaven, Holy is Your Name. Your grace and mercy endure forever. All glory, honor, and praise are Yours, from eternity past to eternity future.

Abba Father, I pray that from the treasures of Your glory, You empower us with Your inner strength by Your Spirit, so the Messiah may live in our hearts through our trusting. By Your grace, help us to be rooted and founded in love, so that we, with all Your people, will be given strength to grasp the breadth, length, height, and depth of the Messiah’s love, yes, to know it, even though it is beyond all knowing, so we will be filled with all the fullness of You, Lord. [Ephesians. 3:16-19]

By Your grace, help us to lead a life worthy of the calling to which we have been called. Help us to be humble, gentle, and patient, bearing with one another in love, and making every effort to preserve the unity the Spirit gives through the binding power of shalom. [Eph. 4:1-4]

Help us, Father, to strip off our old nature and to let our spirits and minds be continually renewed. Help us to clothe ourselves with the new nature created to be godly, which expresses itself in righteousness and holiness that flow from the truth. [Eph. 4:22-24]

Father, by Your grace, help us to let no harmful language come from our mouth, only good words that are helpful in meeting the need, words that benefit those who hear them. Help us to get rid of bitterness, rage, anger, violent assertiveness, and slander, along with all spitefulness. Help us be kind to each other, tenderhearted, and forgiving of each other, just as in the Messiah, You have forgiven us. [Eph. 4:29-32]

Help us to pay careful attention to how we conduct our life – to live wisely, not unwisely, and to use our time well, for these are evil days. Help us to not be foolish, but to seek to understand what Your will is. [Eph. 5:15-16]

Help us, Father, so that whenever we open our mouths, words will be given to us to be bold in making known the secret of the Good news, for which we are emissaries. Help us to speak boldly, as we should. [Eph. 6:19]

[The following is based on Ablaze for God by Wesley L. Duewel]

Father, help us become more passionately committed to Jesus Christ than ever before. Give us passion for souls, to Your glory. Give us sensitivity to others. Make us spiritually radiant—to Your glory. Give us boldness in witnessing. Help us to make effective prayers that are also a priority. Lead us, Father, into a secret fellowship with You, where a heavenly fire is kindled within us, making personal work for souls easy, natural, a relief, and a rest. Help us to see souls as through Your eyes so we, too, have a tireless longing in their regard. Father, let Your Holy Spirit pour agape love into our hearts so we love others with the same love for the unworthy, the undeserving, and the sinners as did Messiah Jesus, to Your glory.

Holy Spirit, give us eyes to see when a person’s heart is ready, when s/he faces a crisis where we can help, when You have brought the person across our paths for a purpose. Guide us to be in the right place at the right time to speak to or bless and love the right person. Give us Your anointed touch so we understand and empathize rightly. Give us the right words in all circumstances and moments – or direct us to be silent, according to Your will.

Abba Father, give us a new and deeper love and faith than we’ve ever had before. Pour more of the love of Christ Jesus into our hearts. Through Your grace, give us an intensified sense of Your presence in our lives. Speak in ways so that all – both saved and unsaved – are gripped by the Spirit of God, are aware of the presence of God, and bow before You in new obedience to Your will.

Father, give us the eyes to see correctly, the ears to hear correctly, the mouths to speak correctly, the hearts to know Your truth correctly, the minds to understand correctly, the hands to serve You correctly, and the way to represent You correctly and to Your glory.

Help us to hear Your voice; guide us throughout this day. Help us to see, hear, pray, and then speak.

Make us a definite blessing to someone today. Pour the love of Christ Jesus through us and into the lives of others – saved and unsaved – whatever their age. Provide more workers for Your harvest, and more help for Your laborers.

Help us to realize and use the gifts You gave us for the good of others. Guide us in how we use our talents, gifts, and time. Teach us to pray and believe for Your guidance. Help us develop a listening ear to what it is You want us to hear. Teach us to ask for Your anointing to any form of legitimate work or ministry. Help us to remain humble in the use of Your gifts, to value gifts of other Christians, and to give You the praise and glory for all.

Father, guide us into all truth (John 16:13). Open our eyes so we see wonderful things in Your law (Psalms 119:18). Show us the beautiful unity of Scripture and how one verse shines light on another. Help us receive the Spirit, Who is from God, that we may understand what You have freely given us (1 Corinthians 12).

Holy Spirit, guide us as to how to apply the Word to our own hearts and the needs of others. Divinely enable us through guidance, assistance in prayer, illumination, reminding, restraining, and sealing ministries of Your Spirit.

Father, help us to obediently put away all that might hinder the Spirit’s working. Help us to separate ourselves from all which the Spirit convicts us by His searching light. Help us to yield in totality of surrender that yearns for all Your grace can do in our lives. Help us to claim by faith all Your gracious promises.

Help us to empty ourselves so we can be filled with the Spirit. Help us to live the deeper life, the higher life, the crucified life, the victorious life, the holy life, or the life of rest in our Lord. Change our weaknesses to strengths through You; transform our defeats into victories to Your glory. Cleanse all our defilements with the precious Blood of Messiah Jesus.

Holy Spirit, lead us to a new step and degree of consecration so that the Lordship of Christ Jesus within us may be more nearly total than we ever dreamed of. Holy Spirit, make us hungry for what You long to do within us.

Father, through Your grace, help our trust to produce action, our love produce hard work, and our hope produce perseverance.

Abba Father, through Your grace, and Holy Spirit, change my heart so it is more like that of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; turn me from sinful pride, cause me to love God with all my being and my neighbor as myself. [Taken from The Last Things by George Eldon Ladd.] Father, help all come to an understanding—a whole-Bible understanding—of what loving our neighbors as ourselves means, according to You. The Adversary has succeeded in confusing so many in this regard.

Also, Father, when it is Your will for any who call You Lord to “shake the dust from our feet” and move on from those who reject You, strengthen us to do this and put the proper prayer for them into our hearts and upon our lips. Almighty God, pursue the lost, the backsliders, and those who’ve never known the joy of calling You Abba Father. Lead them to repentance, deliverance, salvation, and redemption through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Let them know Your love for them is so great that You gave the full measure to save them. Extend Your loving hand to them, Lord, and then show them how to walk the narrow path that leads to eternal life with You.

Father, I thank You and praise You, in Jesus’ Name, the Name above all names, the Name to which every knee must bow and every tongue confess He is Lord.

Amen and Amen.