Train us to recognize your voice

Thank you for the warmth of your presence.  You are the great and mighty God and worthy of all praise and honor.  I worship you. 

Help me Lord, to be sensitive to your voice and responsive to your call.  Teach me to be a ready servant. 

Show me how to be effective in prayer.  Teach me how to release my faith when it’s time to speak to the mountain, bind and loose, tear down strongholds, and pray the word.  Teach me to pray the fragrant prayers that please you and accomplish your purpose.

Help me to switch my focus from self-centeredness to Christ-centeredness.  I choose to put away all of my “stuff” and turn my attention to you, Lord.  Swallow up my little world in the vastness of you.  Absorb me into your essence and help me to abide there.  I want to be where you are, to walk where you walk, to see through your eyes and to know your heart. 

How can I serve you in prayer today?  What needs to be spoken?  What do you want to accomplish?  How can I partner in agreement with you?

_That my people would know my voice._

“…and his sheep follow him: for they know his voice.”  John 10:4b

Lord, I pray that your people – your sheep – would know and recognize your voice.  Help us Lord, to silence the confusion and distractions of everyday life so we can tune our ears to hear your voice alone.  Help us to be so familiar with the sound of your voice that we know it intimately.  Help us to identify you with certainty.  Protect us from those who would impersonate or imitate you and lead us away from your path and protection.  Let us know your voice.   

Lord, when your voice thunders from the clouds and you utter your voice before your armies, help us not to quake and be paralyzed with fear – cause us to rise to the battle cry.  Help us not to run and hide from the sound of your voice as Adam did, but rather cause us to run to your embrace like the prodigal son.

“…Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”  John 18:37b

Father, help us to be so submerged in your word that we are actually “of the truth” – that your word is in us to the point of becoming an integral part of our being.  Let the truth within us resonate with the sound of your voice like a tuning fork.  Put us on the same wave length.  Tune us to the right/true frequency.  We long to hear you clearly, Lord.  

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Roar, Lion of Judah

In times like these my cry for help is worship.  I cry out my total dependence on you.  You are my source, my Father, my deliverer and healer.  All that I am and all that I have I lay in a broken heap at your feet.  Consume this humble sacrifice so I can start over.  Baptize me in your loving-kindness.  Immerse me in your river of life until I am clean, refreshed and new.  Help me.  Be my God. 

Now that I am emptied of all my “stuff” – I invite you Holy Spirit to come and inhabit this earth-suit.  Pray through me, Holy Spirit.

Lord, I pray for those who are on the front-lines and invading the kingdom of darkness.  Let your word be a ready weapon in their mouths.  Be their shield and protection.  Reveal the plots and tactics of the enemy against them.  Forearm and prepare them for whatever lay ahead.  Fight for them, Lord.  Give them evangelistic strategy and a harvest of souls. 

Roar, Lion of Judah.  Roar until our enemy quakes in feeble surrender.  Roar until the chains fall from the captives.  Roar until the facades of man’s laws and policies fall like the walls of Jericho.  Roar until the chains of addictions fall off.  Roar until cancer shrivels and dies.  Roar until the intimidators cower in fear.  Roar, Lion of Judah!  Roar out your fierce war cry until it becomes our sound of triumph.  Roar until we dance in victory. The kingdom, the power and the glory are yours forever and ever.  AMEN – So be it.

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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