The broken rubble of ministry

Renew my passion for ministry. Father, forgive me for all the times I've tried to proceed in my own strength. Forgive me for all the times I have pulled back, just when things were getting good. Show me how to break through the limiting habits and unconscious sabotages that I have allowed to restrain me.

Help me, Lord, to sort through the rubble of failed projects, broken dreams, false starts, neglected words of direction, lost focus and plans that have starved to death from lack of attention. Show me which ones are worth resurrecting. Show me which ones were ordained by you.

Help me, Lord, to become entrenched in life-giving habits of waiting on you, doing only what I see the Father doing, exercising faith, keeping my flesh in submission to the Spirit, knowing when the cloud is moving and following wherever you lead.

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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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Tornado

Father, Help those who have been struck by these horrific tornadoes. Lead the rescue workers quickly to the survivors. Send your ministering angels to aid in every way possible. Father, help the churches in the area to be responsive and effective in ministering to all those in need. Show them the best ways to serve. Father, provide clean water, food, shelter and medical assistance.

Father, I pray that all those who would seek to take advantage of any who are involved in this crisis, would be stopped in their tracks. Do not allow them to prosper at the expense of those who are in need. Avenge the helpless and desperate.

Let pure and generous hearts reach out and assist. Bless the workers and show them how to work smart. Multiply the effectiveness of their efforts. Help them Lord. Show them what to do each step of the way.

Heal those who are injured. Comfort those who mourn. Be a very present help in this time of trouble. Lord, we pray for strength for all those who are assisting in the hospitals and medical facilities. Sustain, equip and empower them for the job before them. Guide them with your healing hands.

Lord, you know what they need at this moment and what they will need in the immediate future. Help them. Look ahead and provide. Let streams of provision begin to flow to them now – unhindered and appropriately distributed without being tainted with corruption.

Restore all that has been taken from these victims. Bless those who are hurting and those who are helping.

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How to pray for missionaries

Father, we pray for the Ransoms and their ministry as missionaries to Ethiopia.

Harvest of souls: We ask for a great harvest of souls that will be won from the kingdom of darkness and discipled into the Kingdom of Light. Give them a hundred fold harvest and fruit that remains. Holy Spirit, go before them and soften hearts that have been hardened to the gospel message. Open doors of opportunity; give them favor with governments, law enforcement, tribal and community leaders. Let the gospel ring out loud and clear and accomplish all that you have intended.

Warfare for the mission and the missionaries: In the name of Jesus’ we take authority over every weapon of the enemy that is formed against them and we declare those weapons will not prosper. We raise the shield of faith that will quench every fiery dart hurled against them. Lord, be their defense and strong tower. Be their offensive coach and give them clear strategy and direction in their ministry.

Continuous flow of anointing: Open a living fountain of anointing that flows from them continuously. Help them not to be weary in well doing. Give them strength to go the distance. Remove those things that would try to sap them of anointing and energy for this mission. Teach them to flow in the gifts and fruits of the Spirit and keep their hearts pure under that power. Help them to walk in your strength and lean on you.

Blessing and provision for this ministry: Father, we ask you to open the treasure house of heaven and pour out abundant provision and blessing on this ministry and on this family. Supply the right tools for ministry that will assist them in being productive. Meet their daily needs for provisions of good food, clean abundant water supply, sufficient power sources, comfortable housing, transportation, communication, home schooling supplies, and special gifts for each member of their family.

Embraced by financial and prayer supporters: Lord, plant a passion deep within the hearts of many who will embrace this ministry with financial and prayer support. Help them to be faithful and tenacious in their support. We claim all the promises and blessings in your word for those who give.

Monthly support raised: We agree together and ask for committed, faithful monthly support. Father, we pray that you would open many streams of support and keep those streams flowing through the Ransom’s entire tour of ministry. Raise this monthly budget support quickly. Speak clearly to those you have assigned to support this work and cause them to be cheerful and ready givers.

Project fund raised: Lord, we see this lump sum of money to be raised as a mountain to be conquered. We want that mountain. We want to surmount this important preparation and enter this season of ministry well equipped and ready to serve. Provide, Lord. Look ahead and provide as only you can.

What should I give? Lord, I want to hear from you specifically. What do you want from me right here and right now. Show me my part in this ministry. Help me to be so submissive to your will that you can have whatever you want from me and I will give it without hesitation or regret.

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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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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Protection for intercessors

Inspire and encourage us to pray.  Let this time with you be an addictive pleasure and source of abundant life.    Flow through us to accomplish your will and bring your kingdom reign into this world today. 

Thank you, Lord, for humble heroes who have set the bar high.  Thank you for saints who have laid the foundational examples of what a prayer life can be and what we can accomplish through prayer.  Lord, raise up another generation with great intercessors like Andrew Murray, Reese Howell, Brother Lawrence, Watchman Nee and David Yonggi Cho.  Raise up intercessors who will change nations and the course of history. 

Protect your intercessors from the attacks of the enemy.  Be their shield and strong tower.  Protect and defend those who fall on their knees to serve you in prayer.  Cover them with your glory and refresh them as they grow weary.  Bless your intercessors and reward them richly.

Holy Spirit, fill us with the gifts of discernment, wisdom and knowledge.  Teach us to pray directly at the source.  Cause our prayers to be effectual and fervent.

Father, would you ward off the distractions and interfering elements that tug us away from your presence.  Give us a singleness of heart and mind that is center around you.  Help us to be focused on you alone. 

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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.  

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.

Connect us

Father, I pray that you would draw to this blog intercessors who will stand in faith and agree with these prayers. Lord, bring together:
• People who are not afraid to reach out in faith and ask you for the big things.
• Those who are willing to pray your agenda first.
• Those who desire to be mentored in the art and ministry of intercession.
• Saints who will lay aside the religious and grab hold of the real.

Father, I depend upon your network to connect us. I ask you to bring us together here as a point of contact. Let this be the place that creates a fresh aroma of prayer throughout the heavens.

Protect and Cleanse

Lord, I need rest. The kind that only comes from you. I choose now to step into your presence and find it. All issues with my health, my family, my ministry and even training these puppies – I lay it all at your feet. Take it all. I can’t fix any of it on my own anyway. I confess total dependence on you. Be my God. Help me.

I empty my “self-suit” of me – come Holy Spirit and wear this “self-suit” all day. Walk in my skin. Put me on like a coat and walk out your agenda today. As this mouth opens, speak out your will in prayer.

Lord, I pray for blessings upon your people as they gather in your house today. Meet them there. Let your glory fill each sanctuary. Fill each pulpit with a word of truth.

Father, I ask for protection. In the name of Jesus, I spoil every plot of terror against your people as they worship and gather in your name. Be our shield and protection. Release your ministering spirits with permission to intervene on our behalf. Rise up, O Lord, and demonstrate your power. Make a show of your enemy openly with video highlights. Show the world your hand at work for your people. I declare to the enemy camp – “Touch not the Lord’s anointed!”

Fill every pulpit with a word of truth that will make us free. Flood this land with truth. Wash away deception and false teachings. Wash away corruption and unrighteousness. Cleanse your church. Scour us with wisdom and understanding. Bleach us with stain removing grace. Heal the wounds caused by misapplication of your word. Let your church rise up as a glorious bride – perfectly groomed and adorned. Beautiful your church with the beauty of holiness.

Father, let the truth of your word come from every pulpit – served with Your love, compassion and wisdom. Lead the leaders. Guide the shepherds. Clarify to each pastor exactly how to deal with the difficult issues of abortion, divorce, homosexuality, addictions, mental illnesses and health crises. You are a big God with big answers. Lead us. Direct us. Love your people through us.

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Cancer (2)

Of all the options before me for today, this time alone with you is the only appealing one.  Father, take control of this day.  I give you my time, my calendar, my schedule and my agenda.  Help me to rise to the challenges of things I don’t want to do.  Help me to put the stress of the undone things behind me and checked off the to-do-list that makes my shoulders sag.  I’m drowning when I should be walking on water.  Take my hand and let me walk up there with you where it’s safe and dry.
 

Holy Spirit, I push away all my own “stuff” and empty myself before you.  Use me as your intercessor.  Fill me with your love and compassion for those in need.  Help me to touch them in prayer and in practical ways. 

Lord, I pray for those who face the challenge of cancer.  I lift up my personal friend, those within my family, those within my circles and all those that you love.  Deliver us from the ravages of cancer.  Heal us. 

In the name of Jesus, I take control of our health care out of the hands of drug companies, insurance companies, legislators and doctors – and I give it all to you.  You created us.  You know best how to fix us.  Use these other entities as your tools under your controlling hand.  Make a way where there is no way.  Bring us victory over cancer now, in Jesus’ name.

Holy Spirit, I ask you to raise up a powerful army of serious, intentional intercessors who will do battle against cancer.  Call out your special forces.  Empower them with divine faith.  Give them the tactical strategy to be swift and effective. 

Lord, change the things about our culture, our diet, our atmosphere and other factors that cause cancer.  Bring us back in line with your divine and healthy design.   Fix the source.  Stop the cancer.  In Jesus’ name we pray and agree.

We lay hold of the promise of abundant  life in Christ Jesus.  Teach us to walk in what you've already provided.  Help us to do what we already know and to learn the important things we are missing.

Fill us with anticipation of victorious testimonies.  Help us to witness the manifestation of your healing power. 

We worship you, our Creator and Healer.  There is none like you.

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. 

I choose now to set aside every other demand on my attention and focus all my love and worship on you, Lord.  I love you.  I truly, deeply love you.  I want to please you today.  I want to yield to you and be your agent in this realm. 

Flow through me, Holy Spirit.  Use me as your intercessor.  Accomplish the will of the Father through my prayers today.  Come, Holy Spirit.

Order my day.  Cause me to be your hand extended to everyone I touch.  Saturate me so thoroughly in your love that it oozes out of me and onto others all day long.

Lord, I ask for a fresh vision of what you want to do in our ministry.  Clarify the dreams and plans.  Define for me which parts are mine and which parts are all you.  Help me to be organized and effective.  Bless the work of my hands.  Lord, I’m watching and listening.  …..

Now that I have a better sense of where we’re going, I need your enablement.  Lord, you know I have limited experience, knowledge and resources… but, I trust you.  Teach me how.  Enable me.  Educate me.  Organize my time and efforts.  Help me to see these things through to fulfillment. 

Lord, supply the right tools for the job.  Show me how to make the most of the resources you are placing in my hands.  Help me to “work smart” and not waste time and energy on things that are going nowhere.  Send me teachers and tutors who will point me in the right direction.  I receive teachers as a gift from you. 

Be in control of my clock and my calendar.  Help me to make a plan for this work and then work the plan with discipline.  Help me to get this done.  Lord, I pray for fruit in this ministry that will remain and bring you glory.  I lay both the plans and the accomplishments at your feet.  You are my God and my life.  I love you and surrender everything utterly into your control.

Lord, I ask that the fruits of the spirit will manifest in my work.  More of you and less of me in all that I do.

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.  In Jesus’ name I pray and say, “so be it.”  

How to pray over work and ministry

Lord, I’m tired of feeling stupid.  I need you to rewire my brain so I can get this! 

Father, the challenges of the technical side of this new area of ministry is a struggle.  Once again I acknowledge total dependence on you and ask for help.  Lord, rewire my brain so I can get this.  Help me to understand the foundations and sort out the platforms and make sense of all of it.  Hold my hand.  Be my tutor.  Help me.

Thank you for what I’ve already learned.  Help me to stay positive.  Lord, I ask for the right tools for the tasks at hand.  Help me to fully utilize the things you’ve already given me.  Show me.  Lead me.  Help me when I’m stuck.  You are the “all knowing” God.  I need to know a bit more of what you know.  Fill me with the confidence of your presence and guidance as I move forward.  Help me to stay focused and make progress.  Manifest the fruits and the gifts of the Spirit in this practical area of my life.  Lead me in your truth and teach me. 

Father, I ask for strength and tenacity.  Encourage me and reassure me that I’m on the right path.  Lord, I ask that I’ll not “just get by” or “survive”; lord, help me to be fruitful in this and raise my work to a level of excellence that will truly please you and bring glory to your name.  Anoint me for this work.  Get me through this level of struggle and bring me to a place of mastery.  Be my very present help in time of trouble.  Help me to dial down my whiny attitude and amp up my faith. 

Lord, thank you for the opportunity to serve you in organizing these upcoming programs.  Holy Spirit, I ask you to lead me in every step and detail.  I need you.  I lean into you and ask for direction.  Lord, lay it all out – from the mission statement to the clean up crew’s job description.  Put it all in place.  Father, I ask for workers who will serve with faithfulness and excellence.  Lord, stir the hearts of your workers and place within them an excitement and anticipation for what these events can accomplish.  Motivate us.  Direct us.  Use us for your glory.  Clarify your purposes. 

Father, I pray for leaders and co-workers who will work these ministries with us.  Fill the gaps with faithful, capable, anointed and appointed brothers and sisters who will lock arms with us.  Give us a task force that will work in one accord.  Help us to lay out a vision and plan that everyone can run with.  Help us to move this ministry forward together as a well oiled machine.  Saturate us with your anointing. 

Roaring against frustrations!

Lion of Judah roar through me. Barriers of frustration I roar against you in Jesus’ name. YOU MUST COME DOWN!! Doubt and discouragement, I roar against you in Jesus’ name. GET OUT NOW. LEAVE MY MIND. LEAVE MY SPIRIT. FLEE BEFORE THE NAME OF JESUS!

Let the roar of the Lion of Judah vibrate the gates of the enemy until they are shaken down and crumble.

I push back the borders of the kingdom of darkness. I set a fortress and strong tower for this new ministry and claim this area for the Kingdom of Light. I proclaim that Jesus Christ is King of Kings and Lord of Lords here and now. SO BE IT IN JESUS’ NAME.

Lord, I thank you for the privilege of using the name of Jesus. Thank you for investing that power and responsibility in your children.

Jesus, I worship you. I worship your greatness, your power, the fear and awe that you wield over your enemies. You are the Lion and the Lamb. You are the strong and fierce and the meek and gentle. I worship you my King. Holy is your name.

I submit to you and know that the enemy is fleeing from me right now in Jesus’ name. Cover me and protect me.

I call for these barriers before me to crumble and fall at the name of Jesus. I call for an open heaven. Show us your glory. Give us the knowledge that we lack. Educate us. Fill us with focus, faith and resolve. Show us Lord, when to walk on water and when to part the sea.

Father, we pray for answers and direction. Clarify the next step. You are the light and the lamp and we depend on you. Order the steps of the righteous and keep our foot from faltering.

Thank you for the breakthrough. Thank you for victory in each battle.

Lion of Judah, roar through me.

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