Father God,

Today, I ask that You draw us together in prayer as Your people under Your Name before Your throne with faith in Your promises and Your power. While our daily prayer in solitude feeds us, sustains us, and keeps us before the throne, I pray that Your Name would be magnified and the power of prayer multiplied by our joining in unison against the darkness of this world.

Give us hearts that long to pray with others. Give us courage to push aside the distractions and excuses that prevent our joining together. Give us strength to press into the promises You have laid out for our blessing and provision. Teach us to have the faith that moves mountains. Teach us to pray without ceasing. Teach us to cast aside the distractions of this world and look to our Deliverer.

Through our collective prayer, set us free to do the work that You have called us to do in this world as sojourners yet conquerors.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.

Father God,

Today, I pray for those who are pursuing You with their lives and feeling the intense resistance of the enemy fighting them at every turn. We know there will be persecution for those who carry the banner of Your Name, the world will fight back. We are told that clearly in Your Word and we see it so many times whether in churches trying to follow You or individuals trying to stand for Your Truth in their areas of influence and vocation.

The enemy comes at us in so many ways, whether through physical afflictions, relational disruptions, obstacles to our work, or simple distractions from the real calling. We may stand on our faith, but we still feel the attacks in our bodies and souls. We pray together that You would be our shield and extinguish the fiery arrows. We pray that You would make our armor strong to resist whatever attack the enemy uses.

Grant that we would have success over the enemy’s work against us as we seek to apply Your Word in all areas of life. Drive back the darkness and tear down the gates of hell arrayed against us. Set us free from the enemy’s fingers of oppression. Heal our sickness. Make right our relationships. Tear down the obstacles erected in our way. Raise up Your Name through our work and give light into the darkness that cannot be hidden.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.

Father God,

Today, I pray for stillness in the storms of life. So often, we can be so frantic, tossed about by the waves which come at us. We are moved to and fro even by the regular waves of average days, but then bigger storms come at us and we get even more distracted or dismayed.

I pray that neither the waves of our daily walks nor the waves of extraordinary storms would cause us to stagger nor stumble, that no waves would cause us to take our eyes off You and Your promises. I pray that our focus and our resolve and our faith would rest in the stillness of Your Mighty Hand.

I pray that You would fill Your children’s souls with the peace that transcends understanding.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.

Father God,

Today, I pray for clear voices from the pulpits of Your true churches to resound throughout the land, proclaiming the fullness of Your Truth into all areas of life. I pray that You would make clear the understanding of those called to stand in the pulpit and empower their tongues by Your Spirit to speak that Truth clearly to Your people.

Then I ask that Your Spirit within Your people would respond in repentance and obedience to that Word as it is preached. I pray that the internal resistance and stubbornness of Your people would be overcome by the working of Your Spirit, such that they could not resist the Truth in it fullness presented to them.

I pray that Your Word would bear fruit as it is proclaimed, as it is enacted through the obedience of Your people. I pray that we would see 100 fold harvests manifest wherever the Truth is rightly proclaimed through the discipling of the nations.

I pray that all who attempt to hinder or oppose Your proclaimed Truth would be humbled by the revealing of their foolishness and wickedness. I pray that Your Truth and Your people proclaiming Your Truth would be lifted high above the darkness of the world to stand as a beacon of light to those You call.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.

Father God,

Today, I pray for those families where they are just trying to survive the economy, the inflation, the growing needs of their family. There has always been so many who must live from paycheck to paycheck, each time wondering if some surprise expense will cause them to fall short again. You have provided for them through past times. You have filled in the gaps with unexpected resources.

Through these times, so many have grown closer to You, learned to trust You, and had their needs met. We thank You for those spiritual fruits, yet we do lift them up that You would continue to provide for them and to bless them further.

Therefore, we pray that You would give them wisdom to gain ground in the month to month. We pray that You would multiply their loaves and fishes to cover more needs they have with resources left over for another day. We pray that You would continue to draw them in closer in faith such that they keep their eyes on You no matter how big the waves of life get.

We pray that You would bless them abundantly so that they may not only rest in Your provision, but that they might be Your hands and feet in blessing others with Your overflowing gifts.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.

Father God,

Today, I pray that You would press the truths of Isaiah 55:8-13 deep into our thoughts and our feelings. We so often and so easily live life according to what our eyes see and what our minds think.

On one hand, we see the outworkings of cause and effect leading us to believe that our salvation or blessing require our working, our righteousness. To move beyond seeing life through the lens of our work, we must step beyond what is seen and look to the promises of Your Word which here in Isaiah tell us of Your pardon when we repent and turn from sin. The work of the Servant has accomplished something that is based on ways and thoughts far above what we could ever hope for or imagine.

On the other hand, we walk through trials and persecutions which also do not make sense especially as those storms often persist for what seems like an eternity on this earth. Again, we do not understand Your Ways as Your purposes for our lives work out in time, yet again we have promises both here in Isaiah and throughout the Word. Here in Isaiah we see that Your Word and power are always effective at bringing about Your purposes for Your people. The rains from heaven bring forth seed and bread leading to creation’s singing. Why do we doubt that a Heavenly Father who would give us such a gift would not also give us our daily earthly bread and work all things together for good?
Today, let us find rest in the already but not yet of Your promises, not expecting to understand all of Your ways and thoughts, but having a faith of a mustard seed, enough to find peace in the Love and Power of Your Mighty Right Hand to save.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.

Father God,

Today, I pray against the growing divisions in our culture arising from our society’s loss of the ability to communicate well. While the effects of Babel were to separate groups of people out geographically across the world, the present epidemic of miscommunication is separating even those who share a common language. Whether within families, between neighbors, or across groups of people within a nation, there is a loss of understanding, a growing distortion of communication, and from that a growing angst against others individually and collectively.

I pray that You would remove the fingers and influence of the enemy who is working through this chaos of poor communication to divide family member from family member, neighbor from neighbor, group from group. I pray that Your presence would come into our midst and drive back the spiritual forces that have deceived us into these patterns. I pray that Your presence would uncover our hidden sinful patterns that have taken root which undergird the patterns of miscommunication. I pray that You would root out our sinful nature which perpetuates these miscommunications and through humility and repentance to restore clear godly communication one with another.

I pray that we would learn to love one another well through speaking and listening as those indwelt by the Spirit who calls us to walk justly in peace one with another.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.

Father God,

Today, I pray for the parents of those children who are struggling through the chaos of PANS and PANDAS where an infection has caused their child to change into another personality. There is so much in this world where we as parents see threats to our children and can guard them from those threats. We work so hard to protect them and to raise them up in a world where the Fall has opened the door for illness, for injury, for bullying, for disappointments, and so much more to harm their body and their soul.

And then out of nowhere, what seemed like a simple strep throat, a simple viral illness, a simple GI bug, or whatever turns their lives and our lives as parents upside down. I pray that You would be present with those parents whose storm is thick and heavy, to be present in the midst of their child’s unconsolable rages, cries, panics, and confusions. I pray that the fingers of this world’s darkness would be released from their child’s mind as the inflammation of PANS and PANDAS disrupts functioning.

I pray that You would give these parents wisdom to know when to hold, when to stop, when to move, when to speak, when to remain silent, and how to pray through the chaos. I pray that Your presence would shield the child from physical harm during the periods of irrationality. I pray that You would give the parents open doors to get help that heals the physical inflammation rather than just pour water on the fire.

I pray that You would keep the parents’ faith alive and strong during the long nights of asking “How long Oh, Lord.” Meet these families in their darkness and deliver them.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.

Father God,

Today, I pray for those who feel like their life is in freefall into a dark swirling black pit, that You would speak clearly in their despair that “I am there with you”. So many today are going through various forms of depression from a variety of reasons (many aptly described in MLJ’s book, Spiritual Depression). The world has grown darker as a whole and many are going through personal storms that make their lives even darker than the world.

Looking around, they see so many who seem to be going through life without a care in the world. ln a way this makes their own dark storm seem even worse as they feel isolated and alone. Even the church body seems distant to many as Your children have often forgotten how to walk alongside those going through dark storms.

Be there in the midst of their storms, in the midst of their darkest nights and remind them that their Lord and Savior, their Creator and Sustainer is with them to uphold them as Your children, as ones on whom Your Name rests as a seal. Grant them a peace which can only come from the throne of Grace. Tell them “I am there with you.”

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.

Father God,

Today, I pray for Your Presence in the midst of Your people. I ask that You make Your presence known in the midst of those who seek You, those who call out Your Name in the storm, who have come to the complete realization that only You can deliver them.

I cry out with those who know that their present help and future security rest in the hands of their loving Father. Together we cry out for the Presence of the Living God to come down into the waves and walk on the water again. We wait in hope for Your deliverance. We wait in hope of Your provision. We wait in hope of Your sustaining presence to be all that we need.

You know what Your people need better than we do, yet we do know that Your Presence means our security. Come and answer our cries.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.