Lord, let my prayers be more fragrant this morning than fresh ground hazelnut coffee.  Lean in close to inhale the aroma of my love and worship.  Embrace me with your loving kindness.  Strengthen me with your intimate presence.  I worship you deeply.  I yearn for you. 

Come Holy Spirit and pray through me.  I surrender this time to your purpose in prayer.  What is on your agenda.  Let me serve you as your instrument of access.  Use me to release your kingdom reign and power in the earth as it is in heaven. 

Father I pray over the seed that was planted in the hearts of so many yesterday.  Lord, I ask for a harvest from those seeds.  Lord, keep the enemy from stealing it.  Water it and watch over it.  Keep the birds from pecking it away, shade it from the scorching sun, remove the thorns that choke, let there be a hundred fold harvest. 

Lord, I pray for every soul that heard the gospel on Sunday, that as they return to work, and school, and family, and circumstances of daily life today – that your word would take root.  Lord, I pray for radical transformations.  New life.  Light to shine in the dark places.  Freedom from bondages.  Make a difference.  Change them by your word.  Make your word count.  Don’t allow it to “return void”, and useless, and ineffective, and unfruitful.  Cause it to change the terrain of every life.  Lord, I pray for your words to be rooted deeply in good ground and bring forth fruit in every life.  Watch over the seed.  Bring the Harvest, Lord.

Lord I pray that a genuine holiness would be the icon of your people.  Change us to be really like you.  To be holy as you are holy.  Lord, let righteousness in character, and integrity in behavior spring from hearts that are truly regenerated and reformed by your mercy and grace.  Power wash us with the blood and the word.  Remove the deep stains.  Lord, I pray for true and lasting change.  Change me, Lord. 

Father, you alone can set up kings and take them down.  Have your will and your way in the kingdoms of this world – the great and the small.  Cause governments to sit upon righteous shoulders.  Remove the corruption and manipulation of the enemy.  Bring into power those who know your heart and will perform your will without fail. 

Lord, I pray for a clean sweep of the corruption in our government and our military.  Father, take the control of finances out of the hands of those who misuse their power.  Put the money in clean hands.  Let integrity and accountability bring order and restore our economy. 

Lord, I pray for those who are leading our military.  Father, I pray that every office in the Pentagon will be filled with your presence today.  Let the fear and awe of Jehovah settle upon them.  Renew and rekindle their desire to protect and defend your people.  Lord, direct and implement the policies and practices that please you and strengthen our armed forces.  Raise up righteous leaders in our military.  We call forth your will and your purposes to be accomplished.  Lay out effective strategies and bring about quick victories.  Deliver our enemies into our hands. 

Unmask our true enemies.  Help us to discern their plans and intentions.  Lord, would you put within the hearts of the leaders of this world a love and respect for this country.  Cause us to be worthy of that respect. 

Holy Spirit, would you raise up intercessors who will shape our world in prayer.  Give us an army of righteous ones who will accomplish much.  In Jesus’ name.  AMEN.

Let your word come alive in me and be the light and lamp I need to see the path of your will clearly. 

Thank you for your word.  Thank you for the truth that both keeps us righteous and sets us free.  Lord, I pray that your word would clarify my direction and my opinions.  Speak to me clearly, Lord.  Let my thoughts be formed around an accurate interpretation of the principles of your word.  Forgive my attempts to prove my point by finding some turn of phrase in Scripture.  Teach me the truth and give me the courage to walk in it. Cause me to study with an open heart and not be ashamed of the things I believe.  Help me to rightly divide the word of truth so I will not be a workman who is ashamed. 

Holy Spirit, you are the author and divine inspiration – the very breath of God that carries the spoken word.  Be my teacher.  Be my private tutor.  Show me your truth.  Increase my knowledge and enlighten it with revelation and understanding.

Lord, you said if anyone lacked wisdom to ask you and you would not upbraid or scold us for asking.  I’m asking sincerely.  I need wisdom.  I need this mess sorted out.  I need to know what is right.  I need to know what pleases you.  I need your word to be the light and lamp that you’ve promised it would be.

Oh God, yours is the only opinion that matters.  I don’t want to take a side in a debate – I want to be on your side.  Let your truth bring unity and peace.  Oh God, step in and speak peace.  

Flow through me, Lord.  Pray through me, Holy Spirit.  Stir my heart and fine tune my hears to what you’re speaking.  Let me be your voice in prayer today.  Use me to proclaim your will and your kingdom reign.  Pray through me, Holy Spirit.

O Lamb of God, I worship you.  Thank you for laying down your life for me.  You have bought my life with your blood, and I give you full title deed.  I am yours.  I lay all that I am at the foot of the cross.  The only hope I know in death is your resurrection.  I choose to step into new life with you.  Thank you that I walk now in eternal life.  My life is in you, Lord.  Thank you for life.  I choose the abundant life that lays beyond the cross.  I love you.

Lord, on this day that we remember your sorrow and your passion, help us to feel the price you paid and appreciate your sacrifice as we hold on to the hope of your resurrection.  As we taste the bitter herbs and salty tears of Passover, remind us that though weeping may endure for the night – Your joy comes with the morning of new mercy and resurrection to new life. 

Father, let this truly be the season of resurrection.  Father, I pray for new life to come to those who have been dormant and cold.  Raise up those who have been hibernating in their spirits.  Awake your children, your Church, and your Kingdom to this new season of abundant life.  Stir a great revival and renewal in us.  Let a springtime revival burst forth and blossom here. 

Open the graves of dreams and callings that have died within us.  Resurrect our passion to do the things that we have set aside in discouragement and neglected in distraction.  Renew our purpose and zeal for your will.  Break though the barriers of seasons past.  I speak life to forgotten dreams and visions.  I speak life to neglected words of prophecy that have lain in the dust.  This is the hour of your power.  This is the hour of your resurrection in us.  Arise in us and do your will and work through us. 

Be alive in me.  Live your life through me.  I place my life on the cross next to yours.  I lay down in the grave next to you.  I step forth from that tomb with your life inside of me.  It is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives inside me.  For your glory.  For your purpose.  Live in me. 

Holy Spirit, we ask for deep and clear revelation and understanding of all that was accomplished in the death and resurrection of our Savior and Lord.  We stand in awe at what you were willing to do for us. 

Help us to walk in worthiness and respect of your sacrifice.  Qualify us to be worthy.  Cleanse us and bring us into right-standing.  

Draw and direct us into the place where we can walk in all that you’ve intended for us.  Position us in the portals of heaven and your kingdom where we can participate in your reign.  Draw us.  Direct us.  Position us strategically.  Put us in the right place at the right time.  Help us to not miss one divine appointment. 

Lord, I pray for a flood of your love and the fruit of loving kindness to saturate your people.  Bring us into unity.  Take us beyond tolerating one another and teach us to love unconditionally.  Cause the “brethren to dwell together in unity.”

Remove every hindrance that separates us from you and your healing touch.  Come in like a flood and heal us. 

We are grateful for all that you have prepared for us.  Help us to access those treasures.  Lord, let faith and tenacity arise in your people to press in and receive all the benefits of the death and resurrection. 

We need a fresh breath of your spirit like a spring breeze – to fill us the high octane energy and love.  Let your church inhale a full and fresh breath of your spirit.

In Jesus’ name we pray in agreement.