CHURCH
1 Peter 2:5,9
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ… ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light;
(Other Scriptures: 1Cor.12:12-31; 14:26 Eph.3:10; 4:3-16)
Areas to consider: Unity of the brethren, outreach in the community including: prison ministry, feeding the homeless and poor, friends to the widows and orphans, focus on servant evangelism, supporting one another with kind words, thoughts and actions, building up one another in love; prayerfully and financially supporting church leadership and local houses of God, purity in the lives of believers, restored relationships in the churches, worship, prayer, the study of the Bible, the five-fold ministry, gifts and talents, vision and purpose, growth and protection, passion, balance, maturity, relevance without worldliness, focus on pleasing God in every area
Thank God for:
- • Knitting the Church together as He sees fit
- • Sharing His power, authority, wisdom & purposes with us
- • Devoted Church leadership and their families
- • Missionaries around the world spreading the love and gospel of Christ
- • Local church congregations & ministries, whether large or small, young & old, and of all nationalities
- • The victory we have in Christ
- • The freedom to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ freely
Repent for:
- • Disunity in the Body
- • Ungodliness in the Church
- • Not taking God's Word seriously
- • Placing God below other things in our lives
- • The Church not using the power & authority it has been given
- • Allowing confusion and foolishness to dwell in our lives and churches
- • Not fulfilling the Great Commission
- • Getting caught up in minor issues while ignoring the major issues
Declare:
- • That Jesus Christ is Lord of His Church
- • The Church shall glorify God
- • The Church shall walk in power, purity, unity, & love in and outside of their particular congregation
- • The Church shall delight in worshipping God and God will delight in the worship of His people.
- • The resources of this world will flow into God's Temple and will be used for His purposes
Pray:
- • That God's people would humble themselves and pray
- • That wise strategies for effective work to be down-loaded to the Church
- • For missionaries worldwide and those who support them locally
- • For brothers and sisters who are being tortured and persecuted for their faith
- • That God’s people would receive emotional and spiritual healing and walk in wisdom, power & character
- • That the Church would learn how to be salt and light in the world & souls would be saved
- • That the Church would bind the enemy and loose the prisoners
- • That the Church would cooperate with the Holy Spirit in Her preparation as the Bride
- • That we would have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church
- • That any special meetings in the State would be blessed
- • Deepening of spiritual walk
- • Salvation of souls from Scriptures distributed
- • For funds to translate and spread the Bible throughout the world
- • For expansion of personal witnessing skills
- • For all publishers of Scriptures, that the gospel would go freely throughout the world
- • That unsaved people will welcome the gift of Scripture, and that those already won to Christ will grow in grace and knowledge and share their faith
- • For continued open doors to hotels and motels, schools and colleges, prisons and jails, hospitals and convalescent homes, the military, and police and fire personnel
- • For congregations, pastors, missionaries, and Bible teachers to know God’s Word is inspired, inerrant, and infallible and to share the true message of salvation through the Blood of Christ
- • A closer walk with God through prayer and by reading, meditating on and memorizing His Word
- • To remain sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit
Resist the enemy:
- • Resist the temptation to complain or be disrespectful about God’s church
- • Resist the temptation to bring discord and division
- • Resist the enemy's attempt to bring oppression and depression upon the people of God
- • Resist apathy, hopelessness, doubt and unbelief
- • Resist the reasoning of man
See? That wasn't so hard! Have a blessed day. I leave you with this quote on revival:
Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility. - Charles Finney
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