Lord, help me to learn to pray with power by focusing on Your promises in the Bible.
Give me the faith to believe as I pray.
Give me the diligence to study Your Word and understand Your promises.
I ask this in Christ's Name
Amen
Some promises to consider
God promises that all things will work out for good for His children (Romans 8:28). He has a plan that we may not be able to fully comprehend yet.
God promises that He will comfort us in our trials (2 Corinthians 1:3-4). He has a plan, and one day our difficult experiences will be a source of comfort to others because we will experience His comfort.
God promises us every spiritual blessing in Christ (Ephesians 1:3). Our inheritance is reserved for us (1 Peter 1:4).
God promises to finish the work He started in us (Philippians 1:6). We may not see the full results now, but we will in time
Don't you see? Don't you care, Lord? Fools revile you, daring you to take action. Evil people flaunt their excesses, without conscience or concern. It grieves us; it angers us. It seems that the vulnerable are rarely shown mercy.
When will it end, Lord? When will the day of justice come?
We don't question your power; just your timetable. We don't question your plan; just its execution. Our hope is in you, Lord. There is no other God.
So until the day you put all things right, Lord, pour out your Spirit upon your people. Grant leaders wisdom, children comfort, and your church courage. Whether by our living or by our dying, we want to honor you.
When we're tempted to repay evil for evil, harm for harm, or hatred for hatred, grant us grace and restraint, O Lord.
When fears loom and doubts increase, show us Jesus' empty tomb and your occupied throne. You alone, O God, are worthy.
Help me to honour You by praying for them whether I like them or not, wherther I agree or disagree with them, whether I voted or did not vote for them.
Help me to pray for my nation's president, or prime minister.
Help me to pray for my state or province's governer.
Help me to pray for my city's mayor and councillors.
Help me to pray that they make wise and godly decisions that honour You, and that we may be free to love a peacefuland quiet life, dignified in every way.
Help me to pray for their health and protection.
Help me to pray that they may come to have a personal relationship with You, Lord Jesus.
Help me to pray for those in authority in my nation.
LORD, we are so grateful that we can lay all the broken pieces of our lives at Your feet. We are ever so thankful for Your MERCY and Your GRACE. We are so overwhelmed at the ministry of Your SPIRIT to our hearts…
Help us to release ourselves into Your hands and allow Your Presence to permeate DEEP into our souls and restore us back to wholeness…
We thank you for this wonderful gift of our love which You have generously granted us and which allows us to build a true communion of persons between us --- provided we remain ever open to You, the Source of all love.
Help us to continue to love each other and accept each other unconditionally, as we get to know each other better.
Make us generous in giving and humble in receiving.
Enable us to communicate to one another all our joys, sufferings, and desires and all our hopes, sorrows, and difficulties.
Give us the power of Your Love that we may forget self and live for each other so that we may have truly one spirit, in preparation for the time when You will send us children to add to our union and love.
Lord, help me to pray for the church, and not just for myself, for the church is Your Church.
Help me to pray for more my local church that the community I belong to will be the light of the world, and salt of the earth in my neighbourhood.
Help me to pray the other churches in my neighbourhood, that together our light will shine brighter, and our saltiness will be more effective.
Help me to pray the churches in the nation I live in, that together we will impact the nation for You, Lord Jesus Christ.
Help me to pray for the churches in other nations, that they too may be lights and salt in the nations that dwell in.
Help me to pray for the persecuted church in the many nations that being a Christian means to suffer hostile discrimination, suffering, imprisonment and even death. Help me pray for the suffering church that they may have the courage to continue to praech the gospel in a difficult environment
Help me to pray for the whole church that whatever we face we will honour You in our attitudes, words, and deeds.
Help me to pray for the whole church because it is Your church and Your heritage!
I pray this in Your own name, Lord Jesus
Amen
Ephesians 6:18–20 (ESV)
18 praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, 19 and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.
Psalm 28:9 (ESV)
9 Oh, save your people and bless your heritage! Be their shepherd and carry them forever.
Do you ever feel like this deep down in your spirit?
How long, O LORD???
Do you ever pray and wonder if the LORD is listening? Does He hear?
Does He care about the anguish in your soul? The heartache? The pain?
One thing I have learned in my Christian walk is that He does listen and He does hear. He does care about our brokenness. Our deepest hurt. Our confusion.
Never give up. Never quit praying. Never stop crying out to God.
He loves us with an everlasting and incomprehensible love. A love we can trust. A love we can depend on.
We may not always be able to see that He is working, but we can know deep down into the depths of our being that He is.
Because His Word tells us this truth.
"In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me." (Psalm 120:1) CSB
Hang on to the promises of His Word. Hang on to His love.
Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens. Our God is a God who saves. (Ps. 68:19-20)
Dear Heavenly Father,
What a promise you've made, what a hope we have, and what a God you are. Thank you for being the kind of Father who bears our burdens—as opposed to ignoring, minimizing, or resenting them. To know that you bear our burdens on a daily basis frees us to be honest with you about the things that tend to wear us down and wear us out. Indeed, you are the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort (2 Cor. 1:3-5).
You are the God who saves us—not just from eternal separation from yourself but also in the present realities of life.
Father, some of us are overwhelmed with marriage, parenting, and family burdens. Helplessness isn't bad, if it will drive us to you. Help us to want you and your glory more than we want relief and a different story. Protect us from all counsel that might medicate our pain but not identify the real issues.
Father, some of us are fearful, fretful, even rage-full over the political landscape of our country, the legislative shifts in our culture, and the nuclear madness of our world. Lift these burdens from our hearts as you remind us that the throne of heaven is presently occupied (Rev. 4), that Jesus is currently the ruler of the kings of the earth (Rev. 1:5), and that nothing and no one can alter or annul your plans (Isa. 14:27; Eccles. 3:14)
Father, forgive us when we take back the burden of our guilt, even though Jesus has exhausted it; free us when we surrender yet again to the burden of our shame, even though Jesus has broken it.
Rescue us when we feign sovereignty and take on other people's burdens you don't intend for us to carry. Give us grace, wisdom, and power to live and to love to your glory.
You are present in the universe and in the smallest of your creatures. You embrace with your tenderness all that exists. Pour out upon us the power of your love, that we may protect life and beauty. Fill us with your peace, that we may live as brothers and sisters, harming no one.
O God of the poor, help us to rescue the abandoned and forgotten of this earth, so precious in your eyes. Bring healing to our lives, that we may protect the world and not prey on it, that we may sow beauty, not pollution and destruction.
Touch the hearts of those who look only for gain at the expense of the poor and the earth. Teach us to discover the worth of each thing, to be filled with awe and contemplation, to recognize that we are profoundly united with every creature as we journey towards your infinite light.
We thank you for being with us each day. Encourage us, we pray, in our struggle, for justice, love and peace.
But now, this is what the Lord says— he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. (Isaiah 43:1-2
Dear heavenly Father,
Your Word is solace for the sad and balance for the bewildered, a firm rock for those rocked by life's circumstances and bread from heaven for the hungry on earth. This isn't theory, the wisdom of sages, or just true and good theology. It's our reality.
And we praise you.
You've made promises you alone can keep, and you do not lie. No god is as near or good, merciful or mighty as you—no matter the storm or season.
As you have spoken clearly through Isaiah, you created us and are redeeming us, all for your glory. You summoned us by name, calling us to life in the gospel. You gave us a new name-"Mine." There's no sweeter, more perspective-giving or more peace-generating name you could call us. You never promised we wouldn't experience floods and torrents, fires and flames. But you have promised to be with us. To know your great affection for us and your absolute sovereignty over everything is enough, Father
Indeed, we know ourselves to be precious, honored, and greatly loved, because you gave Jesus in exchange for us.
Though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, so that through his poverty we might become rich (2 Cor. 8:9).
We praise you for the indescribable gift of the gospel.
And since you didn't spare your own Son, certainly we can trust you to graciously give us everything else we need (Rom. 8:32)—in current storms and future fires. We don't have to be afraid of anything or anyone. You are with us and you are for us.