Lord of the Harvest

Father, in everything I think and do and say; let my motives be pure, my attitudes right, and my priorities in order.  Help me to fulfill all the potential you've placed within me.  Cause my life to bring a good return on your investments of fruit and gifts. 

Father, I press into your presence and lay my clock, my calendar, my projects, my ministry, my family, all that I have and all that I am at your feet. 

“Take my life and let it be, consecrated Lord, to thee.” 

Come Holy Spirit, use me as your intercessor.  Search the heart of the Father and use me to call forth His will in prayer.  Almighty God, rise up in me and speak out your will and purpose.  I agree with your heart.  Let your kingdom come and your will be done on earth, in my world, as it is in heaven.  Reign through me. 

Lord, send laborers into this present harvest of souls.  You are Lord of the harvest.  It belongs to you and its in-gathering is under your direction.  Give us the harvesting tools with cutting edge ability and skilled laborers to use them.  Strengthen us.  Teach us to work smart and labor with resolve.  Show us how to work at what you are blessing and then, Lord, bless our work.  Raise up a generation of laborers who know how to lean into your strength and ability; who understand the vital step of total surrender to your working through us. Help us to get it right – right from the start.

Father, I pray for teachers who will rise up and train disciples in the foundational truth of serving you.  Show them how to lay a well structured foundation that others can build upon.  Shift our focus away from the trivial and back to the truth.  Drill us in the basics until we get it right.  Holy Spirit, teach us to be effective teachers. 

Father, I pray for evangelists who are filled with your heart for the lost.  Teach them to be effective and give them fruit that will remain.  Lord, we ask for totally converted, radically changed, new creatures in Christ Jesus.

Holy Spirit, I pray that you would rally your worldwide network of intercessors.  Help us to cry out in unison for the things the Father desires.  Lead us into one accord and harmony as our prayers ring out.  Bless those who labor in prayer.

Thank you for the privilege of praying in Jesus’ name.  We use that name with honor and respect.  In faith we wield its power.  In Jesus’ name – so be it. 

Meditation on Jehovah

Jehovah-Jireh “The Lord will provide a sacrifice” Gen 22:13

Thank you, Lord, for Calvary.  Thank you for dying in my place.  Thank you for paying the price for all that I owed.  I worship you, Lamb of God. 

Thank you, Father, for always making provision for me.  Thank you for sending your son to be the ultimate sacrifice for my sin and paving the path to eternal life.

Jehovah-Rapha “The Lord that healeth thee”  Ex 15:26

Healing is in you alone.  I worship you, Creator God.  You made me.  You know every cell of my structure.  Father, heal me completely.  As I wait in your presence – let your healing virtue saturate me and correct every ailment.  Deliver me from this pain and misery.  Cause this flesh to line up with your perfect design.  Help me to be so close to you that your perfection is manifested in my flesh.  Heal me.  I claim all the privileges of the atonement, in Jesus’ name.

Jehovah-Shammah “The Lord is present”  Ezek 48:35

Help me, Lord, to understand the mystery of your ability to be present everywhere at once.  You are so far above what I comprehend.  Lord, I want to know you on that level.  Lord, I want to have a fuller understanding of who you are and where you walk.  Show me your ways, o Lord, teach me your paths.  Lead me in your truth and teach me.  You are the God of my salvation on you I will wait all the day (ps 25)  Lord, I want to walk with you like Adam and Eve did in the garden.  To see you as you are and understand your ways.  Take me there, Lord.  I feel so tethered to this realm of limits and painful realities.  Set me free. 

Jehovah-Shalom “The Lord our peace” Judges 6:24

Fill me with your peace, Father.  Fill me with you.  Give me that peace that goes beyond understanding.  Lord, let your peace be the hallmark and icon of my life.  Lord, let the peace within me be so deep and rich that my children and grandchildren will drink from it as a refreshing well.  Let peace fill me and radiate out from me to effect every person and situation I come in contact with.  Jehovah-Shalom, live within me and absorb me into your everlasting life.

Jehovah-Nissi “The Lord our banner”  Ex 17:8,15

Cause me to walk in paths of righteousness for your name’s sake.  May the banner of “Christian” that is planted by my life never be put to shame by my behavior or choices. 

Help me to follow your banner into the battles before us.  Where you lead I will follow.  Thank you for the victories past, present and future.  Thank you for leading and fighting for us. 

Jehovah-Raah “The Lord my Shepherd”  Psalm 23

Your tender care nourishes me and shelters me.  I worship you, my shepherd.  You are the Divine Caregiver.  I submit to your care, O Shepherd of my soul. 

Jehovah-Tsidkenu “The Lord our righteousness”  Jeremiah 23:6

I am so grateful that righteousness doesn’t depend on me.  Thank you for erasing my sins, correcting my iniquities, strengthening my weaknesses and filling the void with your righteous perfection.  I stand complete and justified in you.  I worship you.  You are my God, and I receive you and surrender to every change that you desire to make in me. 

Lord, deepen my meditations.  Change me to be more like you.  Come, Holy Spirit.  Fill all of me.  I desire you more than anything.