Prayer for graduates

Father, I pray for all the graduates who are making life changing decisions about their future. Lord, help them. Guide them. Give them insight and wisdom beyond their years. Show them the path that you have ordained. Help them to make the right choices. Open doors of opportunity and close the doors that lead to mistakes.

Lord, I take authority over hopelessness and fear of failure. I bind lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and pride of life – you will not be in control of decision making. I loose righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost – Lord, let your kingdom reign in their lives.

Father, in everything they think and do and say; let their motives be pure, their attitudes right and their priorities in order. In Jesus’ name.

Thank you for the education they have received – now take over as teacher. Holy Spirit, be their personal life tutor and coach. Show them how to apply what they know.

Bless their future. Be the central figure in their future. Define their destiny. Lead them into your will and accomplish your purpose in them. Show them the straight and narrow way that leads to you.

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Children of divorce

Father, I pray for divided families and crumbling homes: be their help in time of trouble. Heal those families. Take away the point of antagonism and bring peace and restoration of relationships. Align these lives and homes with your word and your will.

Father, I pray for the children of broken marriages. Shield them. Protect their hearts. Help them to find their true identity in you, Lord. Be their refuge. Help them to find stability in good places. Let your church rise up and be a covering for them. Give your church divine insight into how best to minister to these young ones who are at risk. Lead, guide, and establish your church as a resource to these hurting children of divorce.

In the name of Jesus’ I bind all the lies that the enemy would whisper to these vulnerable children. I loose the truth of your love, forgiveness and mercy.

I call forth teachers and adult authorities into their lives to guide them into healthy thinking and responses. I take authority over every root of bitterness that would become established in their hearts. Help them to turn to you for comfort and stability. Be a father to the fatherless. Nurture the motherless. Be the safety net for those who are falling through the cracks of broken homes and broken families.

Help them to see and know that all they need they will find in you.

Jesus, be their answer.

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Breakthrough against Cancer

Holy Spirit, we ask again that you would raise up an army of 1000 intercessors who will do battle in prayer against cancer. Give us a breakthrough, Lord.

Change the hearts of those who profit from the illness of others. Cleanse their hearts. Change their priorities. Fill them with compassion.

Lead those in cancer research to breakthrough discoveries and do-able answers. Provide the prevention and the cure to the masses. Heal us. Set us free.

Warring Against Cancer

Father, I pray that you would raise up an army of 1000 intercessors who will wage war and win over cancer.

Lord, I pray for break-though in cancer research, cures and prevention. I pray for deliverance from the spirit of cancer. I pray for release of gifts of divine healings, faith and miracles. I curse the root and seed of cancer. I curse tumors and command them to be gone in Jesus’ name. I bind cancer in Jesus’ name and loose life and health to those who are suffering. I speak to the mountains of doubt, unbelief and hopelessness and command you to be cast into the pit.

I speak life to those who are under the sentence of death from cancer. I speak strength and comfort to the families and supporters who walk this journey with them. Send a refreshing wind of hope and faith. Be a very present help in time of trouble. Be our healer. Be our God.

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Show us how to use these weapons

Holy Spirit, use me as your intercessor.  Search the heart of the Father and pray through me prayers that are effective and accomplish His divine will and purpose.

Lord, teach us to bind and loose.  Holy Spirit, be our tutor.  Equip us with this powerful tool and show us how to wield it effectively.   Educate us in our authority and temper that knowledge with humility and submission to your guidance.  Show us how to please you in prayer, warfare, and intercession.  We ask for a deeper revelation of your word in using this weapon of warfare. 

Take us deeper.  Expand our territory and authority in prayer.  Use us and improve us.  Lord, let the two-edged sword of the word in our mouth be honed like a surgical instrument and wielded like a “smart” weapon.  Show us effective techniques in prayer. 

Raise up an army of effective intercessors who will do battle against cancer;  Who will press for cleansing of corruption in our government, our military, our educational institutions and our churches;  Who will do battle for the lost souls who are bound in the Kingdom of darkness;  Who will seek your will and see it manifested through prayer.  Lord, teach us to pray.  

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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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House Oversight Committee to find truth

Holy Spirit, use me as your intercessor today.  Pray through me the things on your priority list.  Embrace me until I know your heart beat. 

Lord, I pray for the House Oversight Committee.  Help them to ask the right questions.  Arm them with questions that get right to the source.  Overcome political and personal agendas and let the undeniable, untainted, un-spun truth be revealed.   I call forth truth in Jesus’ name.  I pray that you would unmask deception and protect the innocent.  Help us, Lord.  Be Lord of our Congress and Chief Chair of this committee. 

Father, I pray that you would purge the corruption born in greed and malice from every level of our government.  Fill each position with servant-hearted, capable people of integrity. Purge out those who just simply can't do the job and fill their positions with competent, faithful, and hard working servants.  

Remove the unworthy from seats of power in our government, our military, our media and our educational institutions.  Let your Kingdom of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost, reign through those whom you have placed in positions of authority and influence.  Support the righteous as they stand for truth.  Give them favor with the people and the press. 

Let your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.  

Take over everything

Lord, we ask for wisdom and direction.  Show us what you want to accomplish through our Open Heaven Summit.  Whatever you want, Lord, just meet us there.  We desire you.  We need you.  Your presence is what we seek.  Manifest your presence any way you like – just let us be there with you.  We lay aside our preconceived ideas of what revival should look like.  Cleanse us of religious mindsets.  Surprise us with the freshness of what you desire to do in this new season. 

It is you we seek.  Shatter our limited expectations with more than we could ask or imagine.  More of you.  More of your grace.  More of your mercy.  More of your love. 

Let our hunger for you be contagious among our congregation.  Let excitement and hope spring from heart to heart as your presence fills the sanctuary.  Let your glory be the magnet that draws your people. 

It is you we adore.  It is you we seek. Come, Lord.

Fill us with your love until it overflows and causes our “secular life” to be united with our walk with you.  Remove the division of self that compartmentalizes you to only the “church box” of our experience.  Fill all of our lives.  Take over everything that is in all our other categories and cause us to be single-minded and clearly focused.  Make us one with you.  

Freedom from pain

Lord, I give you my clock, my calendar, my agenda, my days and my nights.  I lay them at your feet in total surrender.  You have complete access and may interrupt, rearrange, reorder and use them any way you like.  I am yours.  You are my Lord.  I worship you with all that I am and all that I have.

Holy Spirit use me as your intercessor.  What is on your prayer list today?  Show me how to be effective in prayer. 

Jesus, I take the seat that you have provided for me in heavenly places.  Thank you for the privilege and honor of using your name.  You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God, and I worship you with all my heart. 

Father, I pray for all that suffer from physical pain.  Be our healer and deliverer. 

In the name of Jesus, I take authority over every spirit of infirmity that has been assigned against your people.  I cancel those assignments and break the grip of pain in Jesus’ name.

Father, I pray that you would go right to the source of whatever is causing pain and fix it.  Remove the cause.  Fix the problem.  Show us how to prevent the enemy from having access in these areas.  Change us and deliver us. 

Lord, we ask for gifts of healing for cancer, arthritis, fibromyalgia and all other painful maladies.   Cleanse us from these ailments, injuries, syndromes and diseases.  Change us Lord, and cause us to walk in divine health and wellness.  Heal us, Lord. 

We lay hold of every benefit of the atonement – in Jesus’ name.  SO BE IT!  AMEN!

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Work from that abiding place

He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. John 15:5 NKJV

Father, I pray that through these Open Heaven Summit meetings that you would stir a hunger in your people for your presence. Bring us to that place where we experience a deeper level of abiding in you. We want more. We need more.

Help us to get our priorities in order. Show us how to work from that abiding place. Give us fruit that remains. We acknowledge total dependence on you. There is no success or fruitfulness apart from you. Root us deeper in your anointing. Cause us to be nurtured from the deep springs.

Show us how to walk in your presence day in and day out. Show us how to abide in you as we work and fulfill the demands on our lives. Teach us how to live abiding.
Show us the treasures and pleasures of your secret places. Open the windows of heaven and pour out blessings that our homes cannot contain. Shower us with Heaven’s best blessings.

Help us to find healing, rest, answers, breakthroughs, forgiveness, strength, revelation and direction in your presence. Meet us there. You are our source and our supply. You alone have the words of life. You are our only source. Be God to us and in us.

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.