Day 8 of 31 Days of Prayer...PRAY ABOUT LORDSHIP AND PROTECTION FROM EVIL

Loving Father, faithful and full of prayer.  I'm so grateful I can come to You with confidence, for You keep Your promises and answer prayer.  Not one single word of Your good promises has ever failed.

Lord, I submit myself to You, presenting my life and my desires as a living sacrifice.  I acknowledge You as Lord of my desires, my plans, mu successes and failures, my place in the world, my friendships. my popularity.  You are Lord of my present and future relationships, health, money, possessions, and human approval.  How good it is to yield to You, knowing that You withhold no good thing from Your odedient children who trust You and call on you.

I choose to give up all the right to myself, take up my cross day by day and follow You.  Give me power to resist the devil.  Give me grace not to let the world squeeze me into its mold--its desire to indulge ---its desire to possess--its desire to impress.  Instead, may Your Spirit remold my mind from within.  I really need this, Father, so that I can know You better, delight in You more constantly and experience Your good and perfect will for me.

Show Your mighty power, Lord by keeping me following You closely.  Do the same for my Christian friends and family members especially the young ones.  Deliver us from sin and from Satan.  Do this especially for those who right now are toying with temptation or giving into sin.

Day 7 of 31 Days of Prayer Pray for Love and Against Hindrances

Lord of Love, You are the one Source of perfect unfailing Love. Love that is sacrificial, impartial and permanent!  Work in me a growing love and affection fro all people, and especially for all believers-a love like Yours merciful.  

Show me if there's anything in my heart that would keep me from praying with Your love.  Do You see grievances there?  Anger?  An unforgiving spirit?  Resentment toward anyone in my past, or in my present?  Envy, jealousy?  Critical attitudes?  Selfishness or pride?  Anything else that hinders love?Show me, And give me grace and repent and ask You to forgive m.  Help me take the initiative in restoring any broken or damages relationships with others in my family, at work, or at my church.

May the spirit flood my heart with Your Love, washing away any unloving attitudes.  Then may Your pure, warm love motivate me as I pray and flow through me toward every person my life touches day by day.  I plead with You for this!  And I believe You will do it.  and Lord, do these same things for all who partner with You in prayer, whenever they may be.  

DAY 6 of 31 Days or Prayer...Pray for THE WORD OF GOD TO BUILD YOU UP

Dear Lord, work in  me that I will always be alert and thankful when I pray, whether alone or with others.  So much depends on prayer!  Don't let me be careless, or distracted, or on-and-off in my praying.

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May the same be true as I immerse myself in Your Word.  I praise You for inspiring this marvelous book to build us ip and set us free.  How glad I am for the way it keeps me on track in my praying and my living!

May I look intently into Your Word day by day with a longing to know You better and do Your will at all times.  May the spirit unfold its truth to me;  may He motivate me to meditate on it and apply it to my life.  Make me diligent to hear and read it often, to make notes on it, memorize it.  Empower me to trust You and obey all Your commands.  May Your Word be the joy and rejoicing of my heart.

Strengthen and renew me (and___ and _____through Your Word, keeping us from sin___so that time after time we may know the refreshment that comes from Your presence.  Give us gracious boldness and power to share it with others, both believers and unbelievers.  

I pray for Your rich blessing on Bible distribution, as well as on Bible preaching, teaching, and reading in our area---and beyond.  Give special grace to those in countries where The Bible is scarce.  May every child of Yours get at least a New Testament and be nourished by its truths.  

DAY 5 OF 31 DAYS OF PRAYER ...PRAY ABOUT YOUR TRIALS AND TESTINGS

Father, I worship before You as the sovereign God, the Blessed Controller of all things.  You always want what is best.  You always know what is best, and You're always able to do what is best for Your obedient trusting children.  Nothing is too hard for You.  

I rejoice that You promise to cause all things--even things that are contrary to Your ideal will--to fir into a pattern for good for those who Love You. And that this "good"includes becoming more like Jesus! And that somehow my prayers can make a difference in how things turn out and how much I benefit from all that comes my way.  Thank You for Your promise.  "Call upon Me in the day of trouble, I will deliver you and you will honor Me. 

Give me grace, Lord, to trust You in each of my trials, large or small--to accept each one and cooperate with You so that I'll grow through it.  

Guide me as I bring each problem area to You--my pressures, my finances, my uncertainties, my disappointments and failures (including my failures in relating to people).  I trust You to work in my situations and give me practical wisdom in how to handle them.  And even more. work in me.  I lack power and I don't know what to do, but my eyes are on You. 

Do these same things for _____ and _____in their trials.  

DAY 4 OF 31 DAYS OF PRAYER

Dear Lord, how generous and powerful You are!  Able to listen to and help everyone in the world at the same time.  What a wonderful Master to belong to!  And that You for revealing Your promises, commands, and principles so that Your Spirit can guide me in my praying and in my living.  

I come to You now asking You for greater wisdom and understanding in spiritual things.  May I know what You want from me in the important decisions I'm facing.  Give me on-the-spot wisdom in conversations and in immediate decisions.     In such decisions enable me to quickly commit them to You and trust You to help me say and do the right thing.  Keep reminding me to do this, both at home and elsewhere so that I won't depend on my own understanding.

Guide me in the long range decisions I'm facing.  Help me seek the Holy Spirit's enlightenment from Your Word.  Help me as I weigh the possibilities, then conclude the right steps to take and the right time to take them.  How much I need Your wisdom and guidance.  

I pray now about some special decisions I have to make regarding______ and ________.  Guide other believers, near and far, in the decisions they are facing especially____________ and _________.  As our Shepard, lead us in good paths, in paths that please You.  

Again I praise You for your wonderful wisdom and power and Your deep desire for my highest good-each day and throughout my whole life.

DAY 3 0F 31 DAYS OF PRAYER ..PRAY FOR PERSONAL NEEDS & DESIRES, WITH THANKSGIVING

Father thank you that I come to YOU with simple confidence, as a little child comes to his/her father or mother asking for what he/she needs.  What a gracious, generous Father You are!

I'm so grateful to You for giving me life and breath and everything else.  Every good and perfect gift comes from You. the Creator of all lights, more constant and unchanging than the sun and moon and stars.  You are a sun and a shield, bringing light and warmth into my life and protecting me from harm.  You've promised that I won't lack anything good-that I'll be safe and secure without fear or harm-if I seek You with a reverent heart, if I choose to trust You and go your way instead of my own.  More and more, make me this kind of person.

Help me praise You often for Your great goodness and tender love and trust You more for all that I need.  You I come to You with my needs and desires.  Draw me close to You as I bring them to you day by day.

I pray about my need for encouragement, for my release from inner stress, for greater love and wisdom in relating to others, especially my family, for knowing how to handle my insecurities, my anxieties, my anger..for open doors in the future.  I also pray for the needs of my parent(s)..my brothers/sisters, my future marriage, my coworkers, my neighbors.  Lord work in special ways.

Thank you, Lord, that You are "so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful, that You can meet and overflow the deepest needs of my total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is"(A.W.Tozer).

1) Luke 11:11-13

2)Acts 17:25, 1 TIM 6:17; MALACHI 3:6, PSALMS 84:11;34:9. PROVERBS 1:33
3)  PSALMS 118:1, JAMES 4:8

  

Day 2 of 31 Days of Prayer, PRAY FOR A LIFE OF ABIDING IN CHRIST

Dear Father, what a privilege it is to abide in Christ-to dwell in Him, sharing His life as a branch sharers the life of a vine!  Thank You that He is my life.

Work in my heart to keep me abiding in Christ and filled with his spirit day by day and moment by moment, by simple faith.  Show me hindrances to this in my life, and enable me to fling then aside.  May His Word live in me richly;may I keep His commandments and abide in His love.  May I so fully identify with Him as the Vine that people around will see in me His nature and His life.  Lord, may this be especially true in my relationships and work, my future marriage and future family life.

I pray these same things for the believers in my ministry andfor the believers I know, especially__________and_________.  May the truths abiding in Christ dawn on each of us in a fresh way.  In our living and our praying, may we fully depend on Him, just as He fully depended on you.

Scriptures by Paragraph

1)  John 15:4 , Colossians 3:4

2) Ephesians 5:18; Galatians 2:20; Hebrews 12:1; John 15:7; Colassians 3:16; John 15:10

3)  John 14:10

DAY 1 OF 31 DAYS OF PRAYER

Pray for God's Blessing on our work and daily activities.

Lord, my highest good is to have You near.  And how wonderful that You want me to come near to You-that You delight to see my face and hear my voice.  You want me to walk close to You all day long, resting my heart in the joy of who You are.  Enable me to do this more and more.

How Good of You, Gracious Master, to call all Your children to serve as your ambassadors in all that we do.  How encouraging to know that every task I undertake as Your servant is Your work, even my small tasks!  And that through prayer I can put You into all my daily activities-my employment, my marriage, parenting, my spiritual walk, my service, my free time and hobbies.

I commit all I do into your hands and ask You to work in and through me.  Give me grace to do each of my tasks for You, putting my whole heart into it.  Keep me depending on You for strength and wisdom all day long.  

Lord, you alone can give true significance to my work and activities.  So I call on You to prosper all that I do.  Let your favor be upon me, and give permanence to what I do.

May I spread the fragrance of Christ to everyone my life touches day by day.  Make me a gracious witness to those who don't know You, and a blessing to those who do.