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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Right here - right now

So many doors.  Lord, these choices are too important to treat them like a game show.  I need your direction.  I will not open another door until you speak.  I will not start another ministry or project, I will not commit my time to anyone else unless you specifically direct it.

Help me.  Father, I pray for discernment between the things that are “good” and the things specifically directed by you.  You created time – I know you can teach me how to manage it.  Lord, I don’t want to just manage time.  I desire to learn how you flow through time.  Teach me.  Show me how to make time my servant and aide me in my service to you.

Holy Spirit, I ask for a revelation and vision of what you want to do in this congregation, in this ministry, at this time.  I desire to be in sync with you and your plan.  I need you to give clarity and detailed direction.  Show us the big picture first.  Open our eyes to see the things you really want to do right here and right now.  Then show us exactly what our part is in your plan. 

Father, send the wind of the Holy Spirit to refresh and invigorate us.  Get our attention with your sweet fragrance.  Help us to breathe deep and be renewed. 

Lord open a fountain of life within each of us.  Lord, we want to go past “looking for someone else’s  river” and open up the well you’ve placed inside each of us.  Cause us to be the fountain head through which you refresh others.  Let the rivers of living water flow out from our bellies.  Spring up, O well, within my soul.

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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.