intercessory prayer

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Intercessory Believer’s Prayer: O Lord, according to your Word, we enter your courts with Thanksgiving and Praise. Most High God, Master and Creator of the Universe, we humbly bow before you and worship you with all of our heart, soul and mind. Like Jesus instructed us, we start this prayer out with Thanksgiving—deeply grateful and thankful that you DO, indeed, hear the prayers of your children. We reverence You with awe and wonderment as we try to fully grasp this fact. What is man that you are mindful of him? We are but fallible “lumps of clay” and yet we are invited into the most Holy of Holies to commune with you. Like Esther, we are welcomed in even when unsummoned by the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. We are free to enter your chambers like favored children to a Father. This is almost too wondrous to take hold of. When we get a complete divine revelation on this promise, then we will truly understand this scripture: The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. ~James 5:16 We acknowledge the incredible right and privilege you have given us to walk directly into the Presence of the most Powerful and Effective force in the Universe and BOLDLY ask for assistance. So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most. ~Hebrews 4:16 The devils tremble at this privilege that you have afforded us through the blood of Jesus Christ. Help us to fully take hold of the extent of this opportunity. Forgive us for the times when we have not utilized this right effectively through lack of Faith. Lord Most High, we are in dire need of your assistance. There are forces afoot that would attempt to destroy your Creation‐‐Forces that seek to steal, kill and destroy your Church. The Enemy is like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. You said that we would have Life and have it more abundantly. You said the gates of Hell would not prevail against your Church. For your sake, O God, and based on the unfailing promises of your Holy Word, do not let the forces of Evil and Darkness prevail. We ask the Righteousness, Peace and Joy would abound so that your name would be honored and glorified. We believe that both Israel and America were formed for Your Glory—both nations Providentially placed under your Covenantal Contract. We acknowledge our failure to live up to our side of the Covenant. We have NOT lived as we should. We have NOT obeyed all of your commands. We have NOT placed you first in our lives. We confess that our nation, America, is currently on a dangerous pathway towards the idolatry of Human Secularism which seeks to remove you from every aspect of our daily public lives. And in doing so we have not only failed to follow in Christ’s footsteps to help “set the captives free”, but have become captives ourselves to a unGodly philosophy that will ultimately destroy the very foundations of our country. O God, we sincerely repent of our personal and national sins. We repent of the sins of omission as well as commission. These sins include idolatry, murder, anger, stubbornness, dishonesty, corruption, greed, sloth, lust, envy and the ultimate sin of Pride. We take no solace in the fact that some of us may not have personally embraced sins such as abortion or marriage redefinition BUT by apathy or indifference have allowed evil to flourish. We have not followed your Biblical mandate to resist the Devil and have a passionate zeal for your commandments. Master, please have mercy on us. We beg for your grace and mercy. We are undeserving of your mercy but your Holy Word says you are patient, kind, loving, merciful and longsuffering. Please, because of who YOU are and not because of what WE are—hear our prayer and grant our petition this day. Then may all the kingdoms of the world truly know that YOU are our God and that we have no other gods but You. May you get all the glory, honor and praise. May your Kingdom come quickly and may your will be done here on Earth as it is in Heaven. We pray this prayer with great expectancy, looking upwards for our ultimate Salvation when you will return to set things right forever and ever. Amen.

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Intercessory Believer’s Prayer:  O Lord, according to your Word, we enter your courts with Thanksgiving and Praise.    Most High God, Master and Creator of the Universe, we humbly bow before you and worship you with all of our heart, soul and mind.  Like Jesus instructed us, we start this prayer out with Thanksgiving—deeply grateful and thankful that you DO, indeed, hear the prayers of your children.  We reverence You with awe and wonderment as we try to fully grasp this fact. What is man that you are mindful of him?  We are but fallible “lumps of clay” and yet we are invited into the most Holy of Holies to commune with you.  Like Esther, we are welcomed in even when un‐summoned by the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.  We are free to enter your chambers like favored children to a Father.  This is almost too wondrous to take hold of.  When we get a complete divine revelation on this promise, then we will truly understand this scripture:  The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. ~James 5:16  We acknowledge the incredible right and privilege you have given us to walk directly into the Presence of the most Powerful and Effective force in the Universe and BOLDLY ask for assistance.  So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most. ~Hebrews 4:16  The devils tremble at this privilege that you have afforded us through the blood of Jesus Christ.  Help us to fully take hold of the extent of this opportunity.  Forgive us for the times when we have not utilized this right effectively through lack of Faith.       Lord Most High, we are in dire need of your assistance.  There are forces afoot that would attempt to destroy your Creation‐‐Forces that seek to steal, kill and destroy your Church.  The Enemy is like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.  You said that we would have Life and have it more abundantly.  You said the gates of Hell would not prevail against your Church.  For your sake, O God, and based on the unfailing promises of your Holy Word, do not let the forces of Evil and Darkness prevail.  We ask the Righteousness, Peace and Joy would abound so that your name would be honored and glorified.  We believe that both Israel and America were formed for Your Glory—both nations Providentially placed under your Covenantal Contract.    We acknowledge our failure to live up to our side of the Covenant.  We have NOT lived as we should.  We have NOT obeyed all of your commands.  We have NOT placed you first in our lives.  We confess that our nation, America, is currently on a dangerous pathway towards the idolatry of Human Secularism which seeks to remove you from every aspect of our daily public lives.  And in doing so we have not only failed to follow in Christ’s footsteps to help “set the captives free”, but have become captives ourselves to a un‐Godly philosophy that will ultimately destroy the very foundations of our country.    O God, we sincerely repent of our personal and national sins.  We repent of the sins of omission as well as commission.  These sins include idolatry, murder, anger, stubbornness, dishonesty, corruption, greed, sloth, lust, envy and the ultimate sin of Pride.  We take no solace in the fact that some of us may not have personally embraced sins such as abortion or marriage redefinition BUT by apathy or indifference have allowed evil to flourish.  We have not followed your Biblical mandate to resist the Devil and have a passionate zeal for your commandments.   Master, please have mercy on us.  We beg for your grace and mercy.  We are undeserving of your mercy but your Holy Word says you are patient, kind, loving, merciful and longsuffering.  Please, because of who YOU are and not because of what WE are—hear our prayer and grant our petition this day.    Then may all the kingdoms of the world truly know that YOU are our God and that we have no other gods but You.  May you get all the glory, honor and praise.  May your Kingdom come quickly and may your will be done here on Earth as it is in Heaven.    We pray this prayer with great expectancy, looking upwards for our ultimate Salvation when you will return to set things right forever and ever.  Amen.