PRAYING THE BIBLE - I

THE APOSTOLIC INTERCESSORY PRAYERS

It is Saturday and the end of the first week of this Blog and I want to give you something a bit different and very practical:
Sometimes it is difficult to find the language to pray. How can I express to God what is in my heart? If I am to pray within His will - what is that will? Sometimes I get "Intercessors Block". I hope that the below list may be helpful in their entirety or as a stimulus. Today’s submittal is a list of prayers prayed by the Apostles. I have adapted the language so that the prayers may be applied to different circumstances by the entire church in any given geographic area. These prayers are personalized and are meant to be used for all the saints in all the congregations in any given city or area.

I. Acts 4:29-30
Lord, grant that your bondservants may speak your word with all confidence and boldness by releasing the anointing of your Spirit upon them, while you extend your hand to heal through them with signs and wonders being released through the name of your holy servant Jesus.

2. Romans 10:1
Our hearts desire and prayer is for the salvation of the lost (for natural and spiritual Israel).

3. Romans 15:5-6
That God may supernaturally grant the saints and the congregations of the Lord in this area the ability to be of one mind and one purpose with each other, that with one accord we may with one voice glorify God in the church in this area. / Cor. 1:11-12; Phil. 1:27; Phil. 2:1-3; John 17:21-22

4. Romans 15:13
That the God of all hope would supernaturally fill the church with all joy and all peace in believing that the church in this area may abound in hope by the power and revelation of the Holy Spirit, (vs. 33)

5. Romans 16:20
That the God of Peace would soon crush Satan's works and put them under the feet of the church by the manifestation of the works of the kingdom with wisdom, signs and wonders.

6. 2 Cor 1:3-5
May the God of all comfort fully comfort the saints and enable them to comfort others by the power of your Spirit. That your comfort abundantly flow to them in Jesus Christ.

7. 2 Cor. 13:9
That the church in this area may be made complete in gifts, fruit and wisdom, by the
demonstration and revelation of your Spirit.

8. Eph. 1:16-19
That God may give us a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Jesus. That the eyes of our heart may be enlightened, so that we may experience the fullness of God's calling and might understand the fullness of the glory of the Father's inheritance in the entire church in our area and that we might experience the surpassing greatness of God's power in our lives and ministries.

9. Eph 3:16-19
That God would strengthen each believer in the church throughout this area with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that the fullness of Jesus may be expressed in our hearts and lives as we are rooted and grounded in love for God and for one another. That each believer may be able to fully comprehend what is the breadth and length and height and depth of Jesus' love for them and Jesus' love for His Father so that we might experience the fullness of God's Spirit working in and through our lives and through each congregation in this area.

10. Eph 6:19-20
Pray on the behalf of the leadership of the entire church in our areas, that words of utterance would flow through them supernaturally as they open their mouths to speak the word. That they might minister with the boldness that comes from being under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. (I believe this is a prayer for anointed prophetic preaching with the operation of the gift of Faith.)

11.Phil. 1:9-11
That the saints deep love for Jesus and for one another would abound more and more and that this love would be expressed with true spiritual knowledge and discernment, so that we might be able to clearly discern what God calls excellent so that our lives might be sincere and blameless in God's sight until the end. That our lives might be filled with the fruit of righteousness, which comes through experiencing the presence of Jesus in our hearts.

12.Phil. 4:7
That the peace of God which surpasses all comprehension would supernaturally guard the
mind and the emotions of the saints in our area, especially in times of spiritual warfare.

13. Phil. 4:19,23
That God the Father would supply all the needs of the church according to His riches in glory and that the grace of the Lord Jesus might be powerfully manifest on the human spirit (inner man) of each believer.

14. Col. 1:9-11
That each congregation and each believer might be filled with the knowledge of God's will in each specific area of our lives and ministries and that God would add spiritual wisdom and understanding to this knowledge so tat we might fully please the Lord and bear good fruit in our ministries.

15. Col. 4:3-4
That God might open to the church a greater door for the word. In other words, that the word might go forth by the spirit of wisdom and revelation and be confirmed with signs and wonders.

16. Col. 4:12
That the church and its leadership might firmly stand in perfect wisdom, being fully assured in all the will of God for all its ministries. That the prophetic spirit of wisdom and revelation would flow in the hearts of the church.

17. I Thess 3:10-13
That God would release ministry that would complete what is lacking in any area of church life and that God may cause the church to increase and abound in love and compassion for one
another and for the lost, so that God may establish the saints with hearts unblamable in holiness.

18. 7 Thess. 5:23
That God Himself would personally sanctify the saints in every dimension, spirit, soul and body and that He would keep us in this purity without blame, until His coming.

19. 2 Thess. 11-12
That God may purify and lead this church into maturity that, He may count this church worthy of completely fulfilling our specific calling so that we might fulfil every aspect of our vision and desire to do good and that we might fulfil the work of faith with manifestations of great power, in order that the name of Jesus may be glorified in us.

20. 2 Thess. 2:16-17
That the Lord Himself and God our Father would comfort and strengthen our hearts in every
good word. In every ministry and every outreach of His word.

21. 2 Thess. 3:1-5
That the Word of God may spread rapidly and be magnified through signs and wonders and that God would grant the release of the full conviction of the Spirit on the Word. (7 Thess 1:5; John 16:8; Acts 19:20) That we may be delivered from perverse and evil men as God's anointing rests upon us. That the Lord would strengthen and protect us from the evil one, and that the Lord would direct our hearts into knowledge of the Father's love for us and that He direct our hearts into His love for Jesus and for all the saints and into the patience, perseverance and steadfastness that Jesus had under trials and temptations. (Rom. 5:5; John 17:6; Gal 1:11)

22. Hebrews 13:20-21
That God might fully anoint and equip us in every good work and ministry, to completely do His will in this area and then in our outreach to the nations. That God would supernaturally work in us that which is pleasing in His sight for the church in this area.

23. 1 Peter 5:10
That the God of all grace will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish each congregation in this area and each believer, in a supernatural way with power and revelation.

24.2 Peter 1:2
That grace and peace be multiplied to the saints as God supernaturally releases greater revelation of the knowledge of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ by opening the eyes of our heart. (2 Peter 3:18; Eph. 1:17-18)