Praying in the month of February

Day 1:

Thanksgiving & Declaration:

1 Cor. 15:57; Gal. 2:20; Psalm 124:7; Psalm 125:3; Isaiah 49:25

• Give thanks to the Lord, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Confess, “…I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. The life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me…”
• Command every sinful snare over your life to be broken and your soul to escape like a bird out of the snare of the trapper.
• Ask the Lord to contend with every sinful habit or ungodly behaviour that contends with our desire for holiness and righteousness.

Relationships:

• That we will do only what is beneficial and delight in God’s law (1 Cor. 6: 12-13; Rom. 7:22-25)
• We will not give themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity (Eph. 4:19; 1 Thess. 5:22)
• The spiritual discipline to guard the heart, keep the mouth free of perversity and keep corrupt talk far from our lips. (Prov. 4:23-24)
• That we will not let sin reign in our mortal body to obey its lusts, and we will not go on presenting the members of our body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present ourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and our members as instruments of righteousness to God. (Romans 6:12-14: 12)
• Pray for all those who are trusting the Lord for marriage partners (Gen. 2:18; 1 Cor. 7:2) 

 Day 2:

Spiritual growth: Ps. 1:2; Prov. 2:1-3; Ps. 119:9-11; Rom. 12:2; Gal. 5:16-18

• Pray for the boldness not to conform to this world, but to be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what the will of God is.
• Pray for a fresh fill of the Spirit of God and that, you will walk by the Spirit, and will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

  The Body of Christ & the Nation

• Remember His Church and this land with compassion | Isaiah 49:15-17
• Have victory over the challenges of His Church | Ex.14:1-15:4; Is. 41:11-12; Ps. 19:12-13
• Cause His word to spread through His Church grow mightily in member's heart, prevail in their lives & circumstances and turn seekers to disciples | Acts 6:7; 19:20
• Cause NCC-EP to be a place where prayers are answered and a place to grow in the knowledge of God's truth | 1 Kings 8:29-30
  

Day 3:

Leadership of EP & NCC: Is 54:2-5Gen. 18:17-18; 2 Kg 3:11; Gen. 15:1-6; Is 30: 21; 40:31; 54: 2- 3; Zech. 2:1-5

• Rebuke every spirit of ‘containment’ over Equipping People as a ministry.
• Pray that NCC-EP and all our Equipping Hubs will become ‘Cities without walls’.
• Ask the Lord to give our Pastors Akinola & Yinka wisdom and clarity of vision for the work of the ministry. Ask the Lord to give EP members a willing heart, strength, the ability and the resources to support the EP vision and the leaders.
• Pray for the NCC General Overseer and the leaders at EP for wisdom, clarity of vision and increase in anointing to operate in divine wisdom, revelation and divine enablement. Psalms 80:17; 104:4; Acts 4:29-34; Eph 6:19-20
• Declare that EP will expand to the left and right and nothing will stand in our way. Declare that outstanding promises of God will be established upon our life as a ministry.

New Year Corporate Fast: God of Possibilities

Daily start:

• Thank the Lord for all His benefits to you and all yours (Ps. 103:1-2)
• Confess that Jesus was delivered up because of your offenses; He was raised because of your Justification. (Rom. 4:25); therefore, as long as you’re not living in sin, no accusation of hell can hinder your prayers.
• Confess that Jesus was wounded for your transgressions, He was bruised for your iniquities; The chastisement for your peace was upon Him, And by His stripes you’re healed (Is. 53:5

• Thank the Lord that all His promises are Yes and Amen in Christ (2 Cor. 1:20); they are for you (2 Peter 1:4) and God is not a man that He will lie (Num. 23:19).

Day 1:

Envisioning:

• Lord, reveal to me, each day in 2018, the word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life. (Ps. 143:8)
• Throughout 2018, please reveal to me the season I am in and the understanding of what I should do (1 Chr. 12:32)

Possibilities:

• LORD, I confess you as the Lord over my life, home, finance, relationship, ministry and I confess that there is nothing difficult for you to do (Jer. 32:26-27)
• Lord I receive your grace for extraordinary achievement and fulfilment this year. I confess that You are able to do far more abundantly beyond all that i ask or think, according to the power that works within me. (Ephesians 5:20).

Transformational:

• Lord Jesus, I ask for an intimate revelation of You and Your Holy Spirit so that I will be strong, and resist ungodly challenges throughout this year (Dan. 11:32)
• Lord I ask for your grace to be transformational in my network in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity (1 Timothy 4:12)

Day 2:

Envisioning:

• Pray that Church leaders will operate in divine wisdom, revelation and divine enablement. Psalms 80:17; 104:4; Acts 4:29-34; Ephesians 6:19-20
• Lord, I will delight in you and I submit all my strategic planning, vision and process this year to your divine will and purpose. Ps. 37:4-5; Prov. 16:3; 19:21.

Possibilities:

• I believe you Lord that, as God of Possibilities, no promise is too hard for you to fulfil (Num. 23:19); no Prayer is too hard for you to answer (Jer. 33:3); no Problem is too hard for you to solve (Mark 4:35-41); and no Person is too difficult for you to save (Luke 7:36-50)
• I trust you Lord, for increase in divine power, love and sound mind. I will not be afraid, timid or careless in 2018. (I Timothy 1:7)

Transformational:

• I confess that my speech will always be gracious and life-giving. I will not lack appropriate godly response. (Colossians 4:6)
• Lord, strengthen me to prioritise spiritual development in my lifestyle and to focus on things that will add values to me spiritually. (Romans 8:5-7) 

Day 3:

Envisioning:

• Dear Lord, let all my plans be divinely orchestrated, my thoughts to be divinely inspired and my steps to be divinely directed throughout this year. (Prov. 16:9; Ps. 37:23-24; Isaiah 30:21
• Lord, in 2018, connect me with godly advisers and helpers of vision (Prov. 15:22)

Possibilities:

• Dear Lord, I ask for the wisdom, resources, strength & grace to do all things in 2018, through You who strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13)
• I decree an end, in the name of the Lord Jesus, to every sceptre of wickedness conflicting with the plan of God for my life and I declare that no power of wickedness shall rest on any area of my life and sin shall not have dominion over me (Psalm 125:3)

Transformational:

• Lord help us not to be conformed to this world, but to be continuously transformed by the renewing of our mind, that we may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God (Rom. 12:1-2)
• Dear Lord, please make me a positive change-agent in every area of life this year (Matt. 5:13-16)

Day 4:
Envisioning:

• Lord, show me your truth this year. (John 8:32).
• Lord, I confess that your word is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart (Heb. 4:12). Let your Word set me free from fear, doubt, unbelief and sin this year.

Possibilities:

• Lord, help me to maintain total focus on You and to prioritise what really matters this Year (Matt. 14:30)
• In the name of Jesus, I receive victory over every wall of hindrance (Jos. 6:1-21; Ps. 18:28-29)

Transformational:

• Lord, help me to win at least 2 people to you this year (Matthew 28:19)
• Pray that every tribe and tongue in your neighbourhood and in the United Kingdom will bow to the Lordship of the Lord Jesus.

Day 5:

Envisioning:

• Lord I believe you for clarity to write down the goals and plans you will inspire me with and I ask for the godly patience to wait for their fulfilment (Hab. 2:2)
• By your grace, I declare that my mind shall not be confused; my goals shall be accurately defined and divinely achieved (Hab. 2:3)

Possibilities:

• Lord, I receive your revelation and anointing to command life to every dryness (Ezek. 37), barren (2 Kings 2:19-22) and every dead thing (John 11:38-44) in my life, career, home, relationship or finance.
• Lord I believe you that as I give this year, it will be given to me. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into my life (Luke 6:38)

Transformational:

• Pray for the leaders in the Body of Christ to be greatly discerning to the heart of God and to walk in His truth.
• Pray that your Church members will have a heart for missions and outreaches and to see many people saved and added to God’s kingdom. Pray that God will send ‘labourers’ from and ‘builders’ to your Church as we make His business our business.

Day 6:

Envisioning:

• Lord I declare your word over my life that, the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard my heart and my mind in Christ Jesus (Isaiah 26:3; Phil. 4:7)
• Lord, I ask for the Strength of your Spirit to condition my mind to think on true, honourable, right, pure, lovely, positively reputable, excellent and praise-worthy things (Philippians 4:7-8)

Possibilities:

• In 2018, I shall diligently obey the voice of the Lord my God, to observe carefully all His commandments which He will command me. Therefore, I believe you Lord that all these blessings shall come upon me and overtake me, because i obey Your voice as the Lord my God: I will be blessed in the city, in the nation, in the fruit of my body, economically in the work of my hands, as employed or as self-employed, blessed shall be my income and resources. Blessed shall I be in my movements and in my journeys. I will be victorious over challenges and over my enemies, I will experience resounding victories. The Lord will command the blessing on you in your everything that adds value to my life and in all to which i set my hand, and He will bless me in this land which HE has given me and my descendants. (Deut. 28:1-9)

Transformational:

• Rebuke every spirit of ‘containment’ over your life, career, ministry and over your Church (Micah 2:13)
• I receive the grace to love the Lord my God with all my heart and with all my soul and with all my strength and with all my mind, and my neighbour as myself (Luke 10:27)

Day 7:

• Give thanks to the Lord and worship Him for what HE is able to do and what HE will do in 2018.
• Thank the Lord that all His promises are Yes and Amen in Christ (2 Cor. 1:20); they are for you (2 Peter 1:4) and God is not a man that He will lie (Num. 23:19).
• Commit the year into the Lord’s hands afresh.