Praying for family

Father, I pray for my children and grandchildren and all the generations to come. Father, in everything we think and do and say, let our motives be pure, our attitudes right and our priorities in order. Help us to fulfill all the potential you’ve placed within us. In Jesus’ name and for your glory. AMEN. SO BE IT.

Lord, I pray that my children would be totally committed to serving you with all their hearts. Lord, help us all to become part of the passionate bride of Christ. Lord, I pray that their salvation would be sure and secure in you – radically saved, new creatures in Christ Jesus.

Help us all to grasp forgiveness for ourselves and release it for others. Let us be pure in heart - harboring nothing as guilt in ourselves or bitterness toward others. Cleanse us from all unrighteousness and let the fruits and gifts of the Spirit be abundant and remain.

Lord, place within each heart a passion to serve you and a confidence in the power and privilege of prayer.

Help us to lay a strong and firm foundation that cannot be shaken. Ground us in the truth of your word untainted by religion and self-righteousness. Help us to get it right. Align us with your word and your purpose.

Give us a deep and abiding love and sense of responsibility for each other. Cause us to be a healthy family that loves and cares for each other. Help us not to overstep our boundaries, but cause us to be close and accepting of one another.

Father, strengthen us in the places where we are weak and vulnerable. Lord, keep us from addictive behaviors and substance abuse. Help us to turn from unhealthy lifestyles and to become all that we can be in you. Lord, I tear down every stronghold of lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and pride of life – I loose righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. Let your kingdom reign in our family.

Show us the best ways to nurture and discipline each child. Show us how to raise children who are full of integrity, pure in heart, respectful, good students, hard working and clean in body, soul and spirit. Show us how to be organized and effective in everything we do. Help us to get things done and finish what we start. Show us how to work smart.

Be God of this family. Help us to keep you as the central focus of all that we are and do. Lord, help us to be totally committed to you.

Lord, silence the outside voices and influences that would turn the hearts of my children in wrong directions. Give them teachers and authority figures that will guide them in the way of truth and help them to be all that you have ordained them to be. Give them friends and cause them to be friends that strengthen and correct and enable each other to be better because of those relationships.

Father, heal all the wounded hearts in our family. Lord, I ask for deep and complete emotional healing and restoration.

Lord, give my children a deep abiding love for your word, your house and your presence.

Bless this family – in Jesus’ holy name. AMEN 

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Get the junk out

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.

Search all my deep and hidden parts.  Cleanse every part of me.  Remove every root and seed of bitterness and unforgiveness.   I give you permission to unlock every door and shine your search light in every dark and secreted place.  Lord, I need a spring cleaning.  Clean sweep and bleach scrub until I shine with your reflected glory.

I surrender my right to be offended.  I forgive every offense.  I surrender my right to judge.  Forgive my judgmental knee-jerk responses and change me right from the source that causes them.  Heal the deep hurts and keep me from hurting others.  Strengthen me in the places where I am morally weak.  Remove every choking thorn that inhibits the growth of your word and the development of spiritual fruits.

Forgive my lack of discipline and strength.  Cause the fruits of faithfulness to be evident and abundant.  Remove my fear and hesitation to ask for patience and long-suffering.  I want all you have for me.  I know that your blessings make us rich and add no sorrow with it.  I trust you with the schedule of my development and your choice of the course I must take to produce the “ME” that you want me to be.  My life is yours.  Completely.

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Renew zeal for ministry

Lord, forgive my prayerlessness.  Forgive me for caving in under pressure and pain when I should be standing in faith and doing battle with your word.

Lord, I need you to renew my zeal and passion for ministry.  Help me to carefully sort through the things on my to do list; help me to clearly identify the things that you’ve assigned to me and to disentangle myself from everything else.  Clarify my vision and single my focus.  Help me, Lord. Pour a new passion into my life for the things that you have commissioned me to do.  Remove the dead weight of every other distraction that is sucking the strength out of me.  Clean house, God.  Do a clean sweep through my life until all that is left is exactly what you want there.

Renew, my vision for ministry.  Show me again what your intent and purpose is.  Reveal your heart and your desire.  Make me over to be like you.    

Show me the areas of my ministry that I’m trying to do in my own strength.  Help me to prayerfully place them in your able hands and let them go in faith.  Show me the areas where I’ve missed it.  Redirect me.  Instruct me again.  Clean up my mess and bring it right.  Replace the duty and drudgery with fiery fervor and passionate craving to please and honor you.

Saturate my life and each area of my ministry with the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and your enabling grace. 

Father, heal me and give me the physical strength to accomplish my spiritual missions.  In Jesus’ name.

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Protect and Enable

Lord, I love you. I worship the beauty of your holiness. You are the King of Kings, Lord of Lords and Blessed Controller of all things. I worship you alone. You alone are God. There is none beside you. You are my creator. You are my healer. My hope of heaven and salvation rests in you alone. All that I am and all that I have, I lay at your feet in loving sacrifice. I honor you with my life.

Embrace me and consume me, Lord. Absorb me into your presence and essence. Let me be one with you. Let me hear your heart beat.

Lord, we cry out for wisdom. Silence foolish babbling and arrogant assertions that are spoken out all over this country. Strip us of imprudent pride and cause us to kneel at your feet and crave your holy covering. God, we need you.

Father, I ask for divine enablement for our law enforcement agencies. Reveal to them every secret plot of our enemies. Point the way. Give them insight and intuitive direction. Lead them to the key people and places where they can most effectively deal with those who would harm us. Keep us safe.

Lord, I ask for a preparedness in our armed forces. Remove every evil element. Remove the inept and the politically driven and replace them with faithful and able servants. Bring leaders of honor and integrity to the forefront of every branch of our military. Let your kingdom come and your will be done in our military as it is in heaven.

Father, I pray that your heavenly hosts and warring angels would be assigned alongside our law enforcement and military officers. Release them to intervene and take action on our behalf. Cause them to enforce your promise that no weapon formed against us shall prosper.

Lord, send ciaos into our enemies ranks. Confound their leaders and cause them to war against each other. Disorganize their organizations. Bankrupt their treasury. Destroy their structure and crumble their walls of control over their innocent people.

Lord, be the light to shine in their darkness. Lead the blameless out of that darkness and show them the way to freedom in you. Unmask every lie and replace it with your stable and unchanging truth. Set them truly free.

Bless your servants who labor among the enemy camps. Give them favor and protect them from persecution. Be their shield and strong tower. Give them a harvest of souls for their labor.

Holy Spirit, cause the prayer of agreement to echo throughout heaven and earth. Rise up your intercessors to do battle against our enemies and to call in a timely harvest of souls for your kingdom.

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Change me

Lord, I’m so grateful for your love that just keeps pouring out whether I’ve deserved it or not.  This certainly isn’t one of those moments when I might think I’ve earned your love or blessings.  This is the time when I just fall at your feet and ask for mercy. 

Help me.  Change me.  This is not who I want to be.  Lord, I’m asking you to go to the very core of my being – body, soul and spirit – and change me.  Help me to yield to your working and shaping me.  Help me not to resist your correction. 

Renew my mind, Lord.  I “take captive” every thought and subject each one of them to your approval. 

Help me to stay so close to you that I become absorbed in your presence. 

I draw upon all of the benefits of our covenant of salvation.  Forgive my sins.  Strengthen these places where I am so weak.  Be the author of the desires of my heart, Lord.  Birth in me a resolve to do only what pleases you.

Give me the discernment to know when I should take authority over the enemy, and when I should take authority over my flesh.  Be my deliverer in both, Lord.  Set me free.