article: a call to prayer

A CALL TO PRAYER

A Personal Prayer

Heavenly Father, bind me to yourself in the bond of perfect love. Make me one with you, even as Your Son is one with You, in thought, in word and in deed.

Establish my heart in this covenant relationship with yourself. By swearing to me, You bind yourself to me for ever. You cannot break or change Your word and all that is written must be fulfilled in my life.

Let me know the power of Your oath to consecrate me completely to Your will. (Hebrews 7:28)

Lord Jesus Christ, feed Me with Your flesh and Your blood. Build up within me Your spiritual body, so that I may be strong in Your strength and able to resist all the temptations of the Evil One. Cleanse me from all sin and purge my conscience from every dead work, that I may be alive to Your will and purpose. Clothe me with Your immortal and incorruptible Spirit and the whole armour of God that I may wage a good warfare against the enemy. Make me bold and fearless against the power of the enemy to pull down his strongholds and release Your power into human lives.

Holy Spirit, intercede through me with the language of the Spirit when I know not what to pray for with my own mind.

Fill my thoughts with revelation and the knowledge of the Word of God, that my faith might be strong to take hold of the promises, and claim a mighty visitation of Your holy presence, that many may be swept into the Kingdom of God.

Scriptures:

Isaiah 55:1-3
John 17:21
Hebrews 6:17-20
Hebrews 7:24-25
Hebrews 13:20-21

A Prayer for Covenant Unity in the Body of Christ

Heavenly Father, Send out Your light and Your truth into the hearts of Your people. Reveal to them the power of the oath of Your covenant, and enable them to enter into it, so that You may establish them in perfect faith to be strong in Your love and power.

Let each one hear Your voice swearing to them as You did to Abraham, to David, to Moses, and the prophets, and to Your Son when You appointed Him to be our Great High Priest.

Moreover, let there be the oath of the Lord between individuals to safeguard and establish relationships between husbands, wives and children. Also, between members of Your people in relationships with each other in churches and fellowships; also in inter-church relationships between leaders and people.

Father, honour Your Name in such relationships. Drive out the power of strife and division, and let the blood of Your Son flow freely throughout the whole body of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Heavenly Father, reveal Yourself to Your people as the covenantmaking and covenant-keeping God, and bind the hearts of Your people together in true covenant relationship. Do this, in the Name of Jesus, for the honour and glory of Your Name, so that every evil power will be destroyed, and the Church, which is the Body of Your Son, will rise triumphant to take over the kingdoms of this world and establish Your everlasting kingdom on earth.

Scriptures:

Isaiah 55:1-3
Isaiah 56:6-7
Psalm 43:3
Psalm 89:1-4
Luke 1:67-75
Hebrews 6:12-20
Hebrews 13:20-21
2 Corinthians 1:20-21

A Prayer for revelation to see the true value of the Lord's table

Heavenly Father, You are the Father of glory. Open our eyes to see the true value of the Table of Your Son. Grant us the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him as the Covenant Sacrifice, so that we may truly enter into Him, and He into us.

Enlighten us with Your light and glory - shine into our hearts the glory of Your Son as the One who laid down His life for us all in order to make us ONE in HIM.

Let the spirit of that sacrifice enter into each one of us, that we might lay down our lives for each other.

Purge away from our hearts all strife and division, and establish the Covenant of Your Peace which cannot be removed.

Lord Jesus, You gave Yourself for us to set us free from all iniquity, all self-seeking, lawlessness and pride. We give ourselves to You, for You are meek and lowly in heart, and we shall find rest to our souls.

Holy Spirit, You are the Paraclete - the One called alongside to help us. Come and work in power in our hearts. Let us see Jesus in all His glory that we may bow down and worship at His wounded feet.

Let us feel the power of His blood upon us, melting our hearts and causing us to flow together in love and unity, that the world may know that we are one with the Living God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the three-in-one, the one-in-three, the Blessed Holy Trinity.

Scriptures:

1 Corinthians 5:7-8
Luke 24:30-32
Isaiah 54:10
Acts 2:41-43, 46
1 Corinthians 11:25-26
Luke 22:15-20

A Prayer for God's Covenant Power to Conquer the World

Heavenly Father, You are the God of Abraham. We, who are in Christ, are the seed of Abraham.

Open the eyes of Your people, the young and the old, from the least to the greatest, to see Your Covenant, the oath which You swore to a thousand generations, to give us the land of promise - which is now the whole world - for You made him the father of many nations.

Bring Your people into union with Yourself and with one another, so that You may bring upon them the 'greatness of Your power', so that the 'kingdoms of this world will become the Kingdom of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ'.

Let us receive Your 'so great salvation' - Your visitation and intervention - so that every stronghold of Satan will be put under our feet. Cast down 'the accuser of the brethren', by ministering through Your beloved Son the Blood of the Lamb, and enable each one to overcome the Devil.

Raise up Your Overcomers - Your Manchild –- the Seed of the Woman - 'who will keep the commandments of God and have the testimony and faith of Jesus.' (Rev 11:17) Do this for Your honour and praise and glory, in the Name of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Scriptures:

Galatians 3:29
Hebrews 6:13-20
Genesis 17:1-6
Revelation 12:1-17
Revelation 11:15-19
Hebrews 2:3
Hebrews 10:12-14
1 Corinthians 15:24-28
Psalm 2
Psalm 110
Hebrews 7:28

A Prayer for the Family

Heavenly Father, You are the God of the Everlasting Covenant. You have committed Yourself by Your oath and promise to bless, save and deliver our children from the hands of the enemy.

This covenant obligation extends to our children in their generations. I take hold of your pledge this day, that You will give each member of our families 'one heart and one way' by putting Your fear in our hearts.

This is for our good and the good of our children, to give us a spiritual heritage in You. It is also for Your benefit that You might have 'a godly seed': an inheritance in us. Make us therefore into a people ready and prepared to meet Jesus, our Heavenly Bridegroom.

I thank You for Your covenant grace and mercy. I thank You for the Body and Blood of Jesus, which You have given to us to make us one, and to be our life and power. Cover and protect each member of our families with the Blood of the Covenant.

Holy Spirit, I expect You now to work in their hearts and minds, and draw them to Jesus for His life and power. Satan, I take authority over you in the Name of Jesus. I command you now to take you hands off our families. I bind your power and activity by the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant, and command you to be removed from their lives.

Lord Jesus, take action on this prayer, and release Your power - Your Body and the 'Blood of sprinkling' - on their lives. Do this for the Father's glory, for the honour of His Name, and the Kingdom of God. Amen.

Scriptures:

Jeremiah 32: 38-41
2 Corinthians 1:20
Isaiah 44:3-5
Isaiah 49:24-25
Isaiah 59:19-21
Isaiah 60:1-2
Isaiah 55:1-3
Isaiah 56:6-8

A Prayer for lives laid down as Living Sacrifices

Heavenly Father, deliver Your people, not only from sin, but from every legal bondage that they might serve You in the power of the Holy Spirit as Your sons and daughters.

Create Christ Jesus, Your Son, within each one - in the inner man - the life of the New Creation, which is 'Faith working by Love.'

Cause each one to become 'erfect in Christ Jesus' so that they may be filled with the Father's love, and lay down their lives as 'living sacrifices' for You and for one another. Let it be done soon, Father, for the 'whole creation waits for the manifestation of the sons of God' in order to be delivered from the bondage of corruption.

You did not do this willingly, but You allowed this 'in hope' for the coming of the glory of God.

Our Father, we long for the 'redemption of the purchased possession', when we shall be clothed upon with a body like unto that glorious body of Your beloved Son, who has paid the price for us I suffering and dying to deliver us from sin and death.

Again we pray, do this for Your honour and praise and glory in Jesus, Name.

Scriptures:

Colossians 1:28
Romans 12:1-2
Galatians 5:6
Galatians 6:15
Romans 8:19-23
Ephesians 1:13-14
2 Corinthians 5:1-6
Philippians 3:18-21
Hebrews 2:14-18

Intercessions of Jesus

"This man, because He continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood, wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them." Hebrews 7:24-25

1. Father, Glorify Me, that I may glorify thee, so that I may give eternal life to those You give Me, that they may know Thee as the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.
   
   
2. Father, Glorify Me with Thine own self with the glory I had with Thee before the world was. I have manifested Thy Name to the men Thou gavest Me out of the world. You gave them to Me, and they have kept Thy Word. They know that all things I have are from Thee. I gave them Thy words and they believe You sent Me. I pray for them for they are Yours. All Mine are Thine and Thine are Mine, and I am glorified in them.
   
   
3. Father, keep through Thine own Name those You have given Me, that they may be one, AS WE ARE ONE. I kept them in Thy Name, and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the scripture be fulfilled. Let them have My joy fulfilled in themselves. The world hates them. Don't take them out of the world, but keep them from the evil. Sanctify then through Thy truth. Thy Word is truth. As You sent Me, I send them into the world. For their sakes, I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified through the truth.
   
   
4. Father, I pray for all those which shall believe on Me through their word, THAT THEY ALL MAY BE ONE, even as We are one. I in them and Thou In Me, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me.
   
   
5. Father, I will that they also whom Thou has given Me be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which Thou hast given Me for Thou lovest Me before the foundation of the world.
   
   
6. Righteous Father, The world hath not known Thee, but I have known Thee, and these have known that Thou hast sent Me. I have declared unto them THY NAME, and I will declare it, that the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them and I in them.