Category Archives: Prayers

Prayers

Trusting Father’s Love

Father, I honestly don’t feel very free right now. I hurt from rejection and disillusion. I never thought the church would wound me this bad. I know you love me, but I feel trapped in my own pain.

 

Father, help me to rest in Jesus spirit. Help me to feel and experience your unconditional love. Let me not get caught up in the trap of trying to earn your love. I have come to understand it is only at those times I truly trust in your love that I am free. Any time I doubt or feel that you have rejected me like people do, and I am back to human struggling. At those times, please Holy Spirit, remind me that Father’s love is unconditional. I can do nothing to make Him love me any more than he already does. Help me to remember and fully trust that eternal truth. The weekend is coming again, Jesus, and I am going to trust in your grace and Father’s love to see me through. No matter what happens this weekend, Lord Jesus, let me bathe and walk in Father’s love. Let that trust in Father’s love strengthen me and change me from the inside out. Thank you Jesus, in your own great name we pray! Amen!

Prayers

Help Us With Your Love, Father

Father in heaven, the most high. Father we thank you for the many different ways you show us your unconditional love. Yes, it is true that at times we doubt, and at times we feel you are withholding your love, but deep in our hearts and spirit we know that is not true. We really do know that in the final reality you are the only one that will not withhold love. Your care and concern for us goes far beyond our understanding, and we want your love to touch us in the most tangible ways.

 

Help us Jesus to feel Father’s love. Help us to see it with our eyes, and sense His love with our spirit. As this week progresses, we look for your love in each and every day. Help us to express our love for you, in praise and worship and a thousand other ways. Thank you Lord! Amen

Prayers

No One Seems To Care, Lord!

No One Seems To Care, Lord!

I have tried, and tried to inspire zeal into the church, but many are consumed with their politics, cell phones, money issues, and sports commitments. You, Lord, seem to fit in only if they have time for you - or need for you at the moment.  Why is the present generation so distracted by toys and worldliness?

Help us, Lord. The church needs you to step in and stir the pot! We need you to help all of us to seek your face with all our being.  Come Lord Jesus, come. And please help all of us who are weeping over the decline of your people in this modern age. Thank you, Jesus. Amen

Prayers

I Hate Church

Father, help me please! I find myself hating church. Not church as it should be, but I hate the human element. I hate the politics. I hate the busy bodies. I hate the culture. I hate the promises that are preached with great zeal, yet never seem to come to pass.

I find so much more peace and closeness to you when I sit in my lawn chair under the shade tree and talk with you and hear your word in scripture. Perhaps I have expected too much from church and people? Perhaps the many decades have taken their toll and all I want is you, and no more bull. No more gossip. No more churchianity. No more politics. No more service projects my mind and body can’t live up to. Father, help me. Above all things, help to seek you, and have your love, mercy, and compassion for all people. Thank you Jesus! AMEN!

Prayers

Blood Covenant Love

Father, it is in the name of Jesus, my Savior, I come to you and like Jonathan coming before David, I openly proclaim you, Jesus, as the King. I renounce any claim to any throne of importance or significance. You are the King, the King of Kings, and I just wish to be a prince at your right hand side. I open my arms, Jesus, and ask you to pour covenant love into my spirit like David did for Mephibosheth. Help me to accept the flow of your love and life into my spirit and help me to communion in the spirit with you. I thank you and praise you for blood covenant love and your willingness to pour it into me! Thank you Jesus! AMEN!

Prayers

Your Will Be Done

Father, it is in the name of Jesus, my savior, I come to you and thank you for being the God of love. Thank you for being love itself, and mercy and kindness and grace. Father I am coming to understand some of my burnout problem is my doing in expecting too much of others and imposing my will on the congregation. Much of the time I was not aware of pushing my will. I just thought I was a zealous leader. Lord, I now realize I need to put my will to death and let your will reign in the church and in my heart personally. When your will rules me, I am always satisfied with what you are doing in each person’s life. I don’t put pressure on others and I allow them to be a work in progress. Help me, Lord to crucify my will, ambitions, and selfish needs, and allow your will to flow in me like a life-giving river, flowing out to others. I repent of having my ambitions thrust upon the church and individuals, and I ask you to help me forgive myself for this subtle expression of self-will. Let your will be done in my life, the church, and on the earth as it is in heaven. I love you, Jesus!

Praying the Scriptures . . .

your kingdom come,
your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven. (Matt. 6:10 NIV)

He went away a second time and prayed, My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done. (Matt. 26:42 NIV)

Prayers

Is My Life A Waste?

Lord, Jesus, I cry out to you, with the feeling my life has been a waste. The church and Christianity have turned out very different than I was led to believe, or dreamed about on my own. Serving in the church is so different than what they taught at Bible College. I wasn’t expecting to be attacked. I wasn’t expecting to be victimized by members. I sure wasn’t planning on being dumped half way through my career.

Why do I feel like such a failure? I know in your eyes I have always tried to serve faithfully and honestly. I know in your eyes, my heart is pure and I have done the best job I could with the gifts I have. I know you will never leave me or forsake me. Lord, thank you for being who you are and what you are, a God of love.

Take my life now Lord, what’s left of it, and use it more and more for the glory of your Kingdom. I am yours. If man rejects me, fine. It’s you, Lord, I want to please and serve. Thank you for laying out your plans for me, and allowing me to be a tool in your hands for the Kingdom’s sake. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Lord. I love you, Jesus.

Praying the Scriptures . . .

. . . “surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” (Matt. 28:20 NIV)

My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word. (Psa.119:28 NIV)

My soul finds rest in God alone;
my salvation comes from him.
He alone is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will never be shaken. (Psa.62:1-2 NIV)

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. (Matt.11:28-30 NIV)

Prayers

Confusion

Help me Lord, I’m so confused.

It is very hard right now, Lord. I’m confused and so is my mate. We never dreamed we would be in this situation, worn out from ministry and disillusioned. We are feeling very confused. Yet, we do know you are aware of all things, and you have your plans for us and our service to you.

Help us to put away our own illusions and expectations, and just surrender to your spirit. Help us to find rest in you, Lord. We trust you to work out the details in the months ahead. We trust you to provide in the weeks ahead. We ask you and thank you for helping us make wise decisions this very day. This is your Kingdom, your plan, your family. Even though we feel confused, you know what’s happening and how it will all work out. Lord, Jesus, we step out of the way and rest in your spirit, giving you room and ground to perform a miracle. We give you our hurt, wounds, and confusion and we thank you for your peace of mind and spirit of adventure. We are in your hands, and we rest in you waiting for our direction. Thank you, Lord, we love you.

Praying the Scriptures . . .

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (Jer. 29:11 NIV)

My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word. (Psa.119:28 NIV)

Many are the plans in a man’s heart,
but it is the LORD’S purpose that prevails. (Prov. 19:21 NIV)

Commit to the LORD whatever you do,
and your plans will succeed. (Prov. 16:3 NIV)

Prayers, Wives

Wife In Pain

Father, I feel my husband’s pain. I live with his anger, discouragement, and depression every day. Why is this happening to us, to him, and to me? I feel like a ship out on the open sea in a storm, without a rudder or power to get back to shore. I don’t know what to do except cry out to you, day and night. I’m looking for the answer that you will give.

I thank you, Lord, that you are here for me. I don’t always feel you are close. I feel abandoned by my husband, my friends, my church, and even my family. But I know you are here. I know you experienced the feelings of betrayal and rejection during your darkest hour on this earth. You know exactly how I feel at this moment.

Lord Jesus, I give you thanks that I can experience your sufferings. I don’t like it, but I know this is changing me for eternity. You brought us together and it is your will that we work out our salvation together. We are learning in a very practical way what “..for better or for worse” really means. May the words of I Corinthians 13 really come true in me. That will have to be You because I don’t have the power to live that kind of love out myself. Thank you for your love that never fails!

Gracious God, I need your presence as never before. I ask you to give me wisdom to speak humbly and gently so that my husband will receive the words and not lash out at me, too. He needs me as his friend so very much but he keeps pushing me away. Lord, let me be your tender touch of grace to him and let me be your voice of compassion to him. I ask you to fill me with a fresh flow of your love that will cover a multitude of sins, his and mine. We want to be restored, Lord. Thank you for every morsel of forgiveness and grace that you pour into this situation. You are the answer, Lord, and I love you!

Praying the Scriptures . . .

I am in pain and distress;
may your salvation, O God, protect me. (Psa. 69:29 NIV)

For it is commendable if a man bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God. But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps. (I Peter 2:19-21 NIV)

He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. (Rev. 21:4 NIV)

I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth. (Rev. 3:8-10 NIV)

My soul finds rest in God alone;
my salvation comes from him.
He alone is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will never be shaken. (Psa.62:1-2 NIV)

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Matt.11:28-30 NIV

Prayers

Provision

Right now mere survival is challenging, Father. I thank you for being the God of provision. My family is in need, Lord, and my children are starting to have fears about the future. We never expected to be in this position. We don’t know if we will ever be in fulltime ministry again, and yet we need to take care of bills and provide for the children.

Thank you, Lord for your promise to never leave us or forsake us. Thank you for always taking care of us in the past, and seeing us through every trial and test in the past. Now we call out to you in our time of need and ask and thank you for your future provision. You are our source of all good things. You are the source of our blessings, and we give you all praise for this. We now give you every worry and fear we have regarding the future, and we take up your peace and provision. We love you, Lord. We trust you completely.

Praying the Scriptures . . .

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? (Matt. 6:25-29 NIV)

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matt. 6:34 NIV)

God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it. (1 Cor. 10:13 NIV)

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. (Matt.11:28-30 NIV)