Saturday Prayer (27APR19)

SATURDAY PRAYER – (27APR19) Our Most Gracious Heavenly Father, we come to you this day, so that we may pour our hearts out to you. We first want to say, “Thank you,” for all the many blessings that you have given to us and the provision for our needs that you in your grace have supplied. We know that without you, we would have nothing and be nothing, so we just want to praise and honor your Name for what you have done in our lives and what we have seen you do in the lives of others. Lord, we ask that if there is anything that we have done against you and/or against others, that you will forgive us and cleanse us from our unrighteous sinful ways. We desire to be more like you and to serve you with the purest of heart. Lord, we ask that you will help us daily in our Christian walk. It is not easy traveling this wrong and there are so many obstacles in our paths. Yet, you promised that you would be our Guide. 

Lord, many of us are trying to be the leaders that you have called us to be and it does not go without its challenges publicly and privately. We ask that you will help us to be encouraged and to stay focused on you. Many of us who are doing our best to teach your Truth are attacked on every front, so we ask that you will help us Lord as we continue to do your work. As we pour into others, we ask that you will refill and replenish us even the more. Help us in our hours of discouragement as you did with Elijah. Keep us from being in fear when the enemy taunts us as you did with Hezekiah. Give us people who will lift up our hands in support as you did with Moses. Remind us to rely on you and not our numbers as you did with Gideon. We know that we are living in the last days and that your return is soon, so we pray that we can be bold like Paul and be able to endure to the end regardless of how many times we get shipwrecked and imprisoned. We know that we have a Heavenly reward and must keep striving for the Prize of the High Calling. 

We pray for those who are sick, dying, homeless, the elderly and widows. We pray that you will be their Healer, Restorer, Provider, Caretaker, and Companion. Lord, we have a sister who will be having meniscus surgery soon, and she is suffering from arthritis in both knees. Lord, we pray that you will do what the doctors cannot do alone, and give her complete healing rather that be through their hands in the operating room, or through a miracle supernaturally. We pray for her peace in the midst of her health challenges. We also pray for another sister who has battled cancer and has gone through Chemo. We pray that you will be with her and keep her so that her body will be cancer free and not be attacked by the enemy any longer. We pray for the sister who is missing serotonin in her body and has had to take certain medications that she would prefer not to be on. We pray for you to miraculously replace what she needs so that she can get off of all medications and be fully equipped in body, mind and soul to serve and honor you. We pray for a brother who has honored the country as a peace officer. He has served and protected his community, but now, he has back issues that cause him to be in a lot of pain most days. Yet, he is still trying to serve you. We pray that you will be gracious to him and bless his health where he can be pain free, or at least, hurt less where he feels ultimate relief. He is a mighty warrior for you.

We pray for those who are being persecuted around the world for their faith and their families. We ask that you will protect them and even in the midst of persecution, they will know that you are able, and that you will get all the glory for their sacrifice, which has not gone in vain. We pray for Israel, so that they will know that earthly sacrifices are not acceptable to you, but that sacrifice of your Son has already been made. We pray for families to be restored, marriages to be united and healed, children to be protected from conception and beyond, lost loved ones to be saved, and those within our nation and abroad to turn their hearts to you. We pray for the provision of everyone who is in need and for those whom you have called to transition either away or to jobs, homes, relationships, churches, etc., we pray that you will be there with them to adjust according to your will. We pray over the children and we ask that you will save the babies who are being torn from their mothers’ wombs every single day. There is so much more that we could say, but we ask that your will be done on the earth as it is in heaven and that your return is soon. We pray all these things in your Son’s name, Yeshau-Hamashiach. Amen.