Director’s Message: If we are not careful, our prayer time can be so overwhelmed with crises—broken marriages, broken homes, broken bodies, broken ministries, broken churches—that we spend all our prayer energy on these emergencies. Sometimes I feel that my “secret place” has become a “spiritual ER” and my prayer life is in perpetual “Code Blue.” To counter this, I try to follow Paul’s example of “preventative praying”—asking the Lord to mature and establish believers before any crises develop. Here are some examples of what I like to call his “wellness prayers.” I find great encouragement in praying them over my church, family & friends.
Philippians 1:9-11 – And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Ephesians 1:15-19 – Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power.
Ephesians 3:14-19 – For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Daily Prayer Emphases for November:
MONDAY – Pray that our single adults will not fall into sexual impurity—and if they have, that conviction will so overshadow them that they repent and change their ways.
TUESDAY – Pray for Biblical values to be respected by our national, state, and local politicians.
WEDNESDAY – Pray for the Lord to lead and empower our Cornerstone Conference officials as they lead us forward in Kingdom Expansion.
THURSDAY – Pray for the adult children & grandchildren of our pastors & ministry leaders who are far from God.
FRIDAY – Pray for new IPHC churches to be birthed and for like-minded unaffiliated churches to seek fellowship with the IPHC.
SATURDAY – Pray that President Obama and the members of the 111th Congress will prove to be friends of Israel and friends of the innocent.
SUNDAY – Pray that sinners will be saved & believers discipled in our churches today.
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