Post by Nicole Schocke Howard on Aug 29, 2012 13:24:27 GMT -5
22. Lord, I thank You that You have a high purpose for my life. Help me to know what that purpose is. I want to do great things for You, but I know that only You can make that happen. Only Your greatness in me can accomplish great things through me. So I submit myself totally to You. I give You my life and all that I have to be used for Your glory.
May He grant you according to your heart's desire and fulfill all your purpose.
Psalm 21:4
23. Lord, I lift up every one of my relationships to You and ask You to bless them. I ask that Your peace would reign in them and that each one would be glorifying to You. Help me to chose my friends wisely so I won't be led astray. Give me discernment and strength to separate myself from anyone who is not a good influence. I release all my relationships to You and pray that Your will be done in each one of them. I especially pray for my relationship with each of my family members. I pray You would bring healing, reconciliation, and restoration where it is needed. Bless these relationships and make them strong.
God sets the solitary in families; He brings out those who are bound into prosperity.
Psalm 68:6
24. Lord, I pray that You would bless my family and friends. Specifically I lift up to You (name). Help me to have a good relationship with each other of these people. Take anyone out of my life who influences me in a way that is contrary to your will. I also lift up to You my church family and people I see in my work and throughout the day (name people if they come to mind). Enable me to be a light to them.
Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving.
Colossians 4:3
25. Lord, I pray for any relationships I have with people that don't know You. Give me words to say that will turn their hearts toward You. Specifically I pray for (an unbeliever or maybe someone who walked away from God). Soften this person's heart to open her (his) eyes to receive You and follow You faithfully. I also pray for godly friends, role models, and mentors to come into
my life. Send people who will speak the truth in love. I pray especially for people who are trustworthy, kind, loving, and faithful. Help us to be always kind, encouraging, and forgiving toward one another.
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ forgave you.
Ephesians 4:31-32
26. Lord, send people into my life with whom I can pray often. Whenever I have the opportunity to pray with others, help me to come to a place of complete unity with one another. May we always be in one accord so that our prayers are effective and powerful. Helps us to submit to one another in the fear of God (Ephesians 5:21). Help us to "walk by the same rule" and "be of the same mind" (Philippians 3:16). Thank You that You will hear and answer our prayers as a result.
Be of the same mind toward one another.
Romans 12:16
27. Lord, guide my every step. Lead me in Your righteousness and make Your way straight before my face (Psalm 5:8). As I draw close and walk in intimate relationship with You each day, I pray You will get me where I need to go. Even as Jesus said, Not My Will, but Yours, be done (Luke 22:42), so I say to You, not my will but Your will be done in my life. I delight to do Your will O God (Psalm 40:8). You are more important to me than anything. Your will is more important to me than my desires. I want to live as Your servant, doing Your will from my heart (Ephesians 6:6).
Not everyone who says to Me, "Lord, Lord," shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
Matthew 7:21
28. Lord, give me confidence to bring all my prayers before You. Help me to trust Your willingness to hear and respond. Enable me to pray according to Your will at all times. My ultimate prayer is for Your will to be done in all things. Teach me how to pray so that I can always stay in the center of Your will.
Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have ask of Him.
1 John 5:14-15
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