December Prayer Blog

Day 1 | Start with thanksgiving – Joel 2:12; Jer. 30:19, Jer 31:17; Psa 125:3; Gal.5:22-26

• Give thanks to the Lord for bringing us to the last month of the year.
• Thank God for His faithfulness over your families, friends, your health, relationship, finance, and others.
• Ask the Lord open the heart of the Church everywhere to hear His truth when it is being preached (Acts 16:14)
• That we will receive His word with all readiness of mind and search the scriptures daily, leading to rising faith level among us. (Acts 17:11-12)
• Lord, cause Your word to grow mightily in our Church & prevail in members’ lives.  (Acts 19:20)
• Cause our members to walk in agreement with You Lord, and with Your word (Amos 3:3) and abide in Jesus (Jn 15:1-8)
• Lord, contend with everything that contend with Your purpose in the lives of Your people (Is. 49:25)
• Lord, crown the year 2023 with goodness in the lives of Your people (Ps 65:11)
• Holy Spirit, increase and ripen Your fruit in our lives (Gal. 5:22-25) to know the ways of God and glorify Jesus (Acts 18:24-28) 
• Souls of our members to escape every bondage, sinful addiction, ensnarement, or containment (Ps. 124:7; Col. 1:13)

Day 2. | Praying for the Church and Leaders (Spiritual & Civil) - Psa 125:1 | Psa 119:173 | 2 Thess 3:16 | Isa 26:2-4

• Thank God for our spiritual, civil, and political leaders (1 Tim. 2:1-4)
• Commit leaders into God’s hands (Psalm 89:20-29)
• Pray for God’s mandate and purpose to be fulfilled through our spiritual, civil, and political leaders (Is. 45:1-3)
• Ask for wisdom and peace continually for our leaders to fulfil Your mandate wherever they are placed. (Is. 33:6)
• Lord, direct our leaders’ steps by Your word and let no iniquity have dominion over them (Rom. 6:14-23)

Day 3 | Praying for rest of the World and missions.

• Pray for Nations of the world and ceasefire in Palestine, Niger, Sudan, and nations currently engaged in conflicts.
• Lord, contend with everything that contend with Your purpose in those nations (Is. 49:25)
• Lord, give us apostolic release to bless and send people out to take territories for Jesus.
• Ask for world citizens for our inheritance at EP and their countries for our possessions (Ps. 2:8)
• Pray for God to open “doors of ministry” for the Church to go to nations where the Gospel has not been preached yet.
• Ask God to open nations to EP and for us to ‘go to all nations’ near and far and preach the Gospel.