Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual
and the community must enter every day.
(Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
and the community must enter every day.
(Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Before You Ask
And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. (Matthew 6:7-8)
Many people think their prayers won’t work if they don’t utter them clearly enough, or fail to explain to God exactly what they mean, or don’t speak loudly enough to him with sufficient earnestness. But when this happens, prayer becomes so exaggerated that our Savior even forbids it.
Obviously Jesus does not want to discourage us from praying. His point is that when we pray we must have a sense of proportion. Once we have prayed, we must be quiet. We need to be like the farmer who has sown his seed. Help will come only when you are quiet in faith. Also in your sickness or with other needs, learn to be still and look to the Kingdom of God.
We can share our needs with the Father in a few words, without making a fuss, and rest assured that God already knows what we need and what he will do to help us. We don’t have to explain our requests in great detail to God, or try and make quite sure that he knows our needs. God knows about even the smallest matters and takes them straight into his heart. We can turn to him by glancing Heavenward, with no words at all. We can do this even when we pray about something concrete and tangible, or about something that specifically troubles us. We may realize that what we thought we needed is actually not necessary and that we can find a way right in the midst of how things are now.
This doesn’t mean that we just let things happen – as if everything will come of its own accord without our longing for it. Nor should we just cast a brief and hurried request at God’s feet. When this happens, we too easily lose sight of God, assume that everything comes to us without his help, and we forget to thank him. Then we cease to have a believing heart and are consequently not true children of God.
Jesus said, “Before you ask him.” Therefore we do need to make our requests known to him, otherwise many things will not be given that could have been given. It never displeases God when we come to him with our heartfelt requests. A real child asks for everything, knowing God has an ear for him. We should bring all our burdens and needs to him, for at the very least this helps to make us ever more aware that in all things God is the giver.
God always has our interest in mind. He carries our various needs with fatherly concern, eagerly waiting for us to come to him. He has not forgotten us. And when we feel tempted to think so, then all the more we should remember that he knows it all and cares for us. In fact, he knows much more about us and our needs than we do. Simple, childlike prayer is enough to move his heart, give you something out of the fullness of his compassion, and save you from all sorts of fear and trouble.
(Johann Christoph Blumhardt)
(The God Who Heals, Words of Hope for a Time of Sickness)
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Anonymous
Dear brethren in the Lord please help me to pray and support me in any way you can financially. there were lot of times I tried committing suicide but I was always stopped by either my mum or siblings. I finished high school 3yrs ago and till now I haven't gone to college due to financial crisis. my parents are unemployed and divorced, my siblings and I stays with our mother at her father's home where we are been treated even worst than slaves, we are totally abandoned by all. We need a house, a business for my mum, good education for my siblings and I want to go to college.my dad totally abandoned us because he wants me to study law in college but I refuse I told him my heart desire, what I want to study and ma mum and siblings supported me, he then told us to do whatever we want and that he isn't going not sponsor our education, he even told his siblings not to assist us. not like he and his siblings has been helping out in the first place my mum was the one catering for our every need, please help support my family financially and in prayers. we have no one to look upon except God. You can reach me through this e-mail (zikpatty@gmail.com). Thank you all may God bless you. Amen
Received: August 11, 2019
Anonymous
My husband got involve in a relationship with his ex, who is involve in the dark side. He said that he broke it off, but every time she makes contact, he tells her how much he loves her so she will not let go of him and now I experience severe attacks on my life, physically, emotionally as well as spiritually. I sense curses/soulish prayers or spells are spoken out over me. Please pray for protection for me and our marriage and a breakthrough spiritually, physically and emotionally for me. I have forgiving my husband, but really struggle to trust him, please pray for me for that too.
Thank you so much
Received: July 7, 2019
Edmund Krzeminski
[We read] In the King James Bible, Ezekiel 22:30: "And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none."
O God, please help us and teach us to build a wall [of prayer] around the USA, Canada, Poland and Great Britain. Are you ready to stand in the gap, where God is the Helper and Teacher?
Please pray that Great Britain, Poland, the USA/Canada would overcome for: (The Acts 26.18).
* Poland, pray for freedom from dead religion to saving faith of Jesus Christ as the Saviour and the Lord by faith only,
* the Church in the USA & Canada & Great Britain – Pray for repentance and cleansing of the church - Matt. 3.12 "Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
* my family:
1. Stir up the hearts of my family for ministry for me, my wife Dorothy, our daughter Ann, and our sons Peter and Daniel - "..but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord" Joshua 24.15
2. Pray for God's will, wisdom, discernment, revelation and recognition for me and my family; I ask God for Edmund’s work situation, God's direction for Edmund , Dorothy, Peter, Daniel and Ann (also God's protection over the company where she works),
3. God's order in my work. I ask God for great wisdom at my work. Blessings and the knowledge of Jesus Christ for my bosses. Thank God for the continuation of my work.
Edmund & Dorothy Krzeminski
Received: June 21, 2019
Veronica George
Please pray for my life I'm not married yet so pls pray for my marriage and my family my parents my brother and sisters and my job
Received: June 2, 2019
Veronica George
Please pray for my life I'm not married yet so pls pray for my marriage and my family my parents my brother and sisters and my job
Received: June 2, 2019
Anonymous
Please pray for my daughters one is being abused and she's in a occult. The other one is an alcoholic. The other one is obese and there wasn't have any self-esteem for herself and let this young man use her. And the one is being abused she's in a polygamous relationship in a cult. Pray for my grandchildren under her care. The guy that she's the one that's being abused he has weapons. I myself has no finances and need a better job so I can be financially secure and I need healing in my body mentally and physically so do my children and grandchildren need to be healed mentally and physically and be able to lose the weight that we must and break this curse of diabetes to my family. And all these people that are putting curses on my family that are being smiling in our faces will be exposed. Break this curse of sickness disease poverty. Healing in my family my children and my grandchildren come together as one and my children's my youngest children's dad decide to get together and be as one again. I need my vehicle I need a new vehicle so does my daughters! They need good jobs to get us out of poverty! Open doors of opportunities and blessings and break this curse of sickness and evil that people come into our lives and trying to destroy us exposed and father God in Jesus name I pray! I pray that I will get me a better job this week and when I go to the doctor it's going to be a blessing and my body will be healed from sores and pain and diabetes and eyesight my daughters also! Thank you all for praying and I also pray for you all everyone here I pray that God will keep his Holy Angels right about right around you guys and protect you from any hurt harm or danger! Have a blessed day!
Received: May 14, 2019
Anonymous
I have had a very difficult bondage going on in my life for years. It started when I told on my mom for having an inappropriate relationship . My father used that information to viciously assault my mother. I did not know he was a wife beater and adulterer and that he hated his mother for her abuse of him. My mom had also been mistreating me. At some point, after this I was so overcome with grief and a sense of having been responsible for what happened. I very clearly heard a voice speaking to me as if beside me. It said that I was responsible for what had happened and that I had to pay for my mother's life being so miserable by agreeing to forfeit my own life and take on hers. I felt myself disappear into a kind of mystical closet. This incident was so traumatic that I had forgotten it and it existed only in pieces. But something clearly happened to me. It seems as if I believe that I didn't deserve to live, have any rights as a person or have a life of my own. It also seemed as if from that moment on that same voice was there to accuse me if I was being abused by someone or if I did something wrong so that my daily life was one of shame, misery and failure, torment etc. I seemed to develop some ocd as a result . I suffered more child abuse later on. It seems that there is something spiritual that functions in my life almost like a kind of malignant narcissism that never lets up. If I cannot escape this snare and odd as if sounds, side with myself instead of against myself, my life and current relationship will be destroyed. I already have two destroyed marriages as a result. Both marriages had abusive elements/coercive control in them but there was still my own side of what was going on. I am NOT able to beat this on my own despite trying many will power and faith type attempts. Please pray for me, for deliverance. It seems as if the heavens are brass and there is a lack of anyone who truly hears from God at least in my location. And I desperately need to hear from God.
I am also trying to sell a piece of property that has serious potential but some issues as well. If I do not sell this property soon I will be forced into bankruptcy. If anyone feels led to pray for that I would be thankful.
One last thing. I am in a relationship with a man who believes but needs to experience Jesus for Himself, as do I. The problems i have spiritually have created such distress in our relationship that its causing us to fall out of love and become cold and hard towards one another. Please pray for God to put our relationship to rights. He is perhaps the most loving man I have ever known but he is being hurt by these things as well as I am. Please pray for us and for our relationship to be healed and for us to experience God in a real way that boosts our faith. I do not want to have yet another broken relationship. Thank you anyone who prays.
Received: May 7, 2019
Anonymous
Please pray for my cousin in the hospital again for ammonia, pray for my brother kidney disease his wife putting pressure on him, lots of insurance on him.pray for my daughter who is very over weight getting bigger every day pos, want eat right cant see how big she has gotten mentally cant think right because of the people in her life also sabotaging her. Pray my daughter will safely get out of the accult, her and my grandchildren she will have her eyes and ears open get the cult fake doctrine out of her life her eyes will be open.protect her children. My y oldest will have her eyes open heal from alcohol addiction raise her children right break the curses over her all my children and grandchildren my self break the curses off my youngest children daddy his mother and everyone that he has not noticed that has been bad in his life that has caused all havoc in his life,! Let him be cleared of all charges and he will give his self over to God break the nicotine addiction has a heavy toll on him! Pray for a healing for myself also diabetes everyone in my family , in poverty I want to be out of poverty my children and 6grandchildren. I just was bless with a job, making minimum wage, working very hard , car breaking down my children's also, on a fix income have doctors appointment depression have no one to turn to but will come to u all because I know my prayers will be answer in jesus name! Amen
Received: April 14, 2019
Rachel-Leah
I am praying for turn-around after coming out of a firey trial. I am believing for my own place and transportation, finances in order to fulfill all the assignments that Yeshua has for me, for His glory! Also to be able to see more people saved out of the occult, cults and paganism! Thank you for your prayers!
Received: April 10, 2019
Anonymous
Basically for years we have been battling sickness poverty and witchcraft, something diabolical attacks us at night, we wake up feeling exhausted, sore like we were in a car accident, something diabolical please intercede for us. Thank you in Christs Name