PRAYER FOR TODAY - February 5, 2015 (Understanding The Types of Prayer; Thanking God For All That He Has Done and Is Doing In Our Lives)

You have to understand that there are different types of prayers that you can pray to God.  There is the prayer of petition, which is a personal prayer where you pray to God about a specific need.   Then there is the prayer of intercession, where you stand in the gap for others.   Another type of prayer is the prayer of thanksgiving.    This is where you express your thanks to God for the things that He has done for you.    In Colossians 2, it tells us to abound in thanksgiving and Philippians 4, it tells us that by prayer and supplication with “thanksgiving”, we are to let our requests be known unto God.   So make sure you are taking time to not only ask God for the things in your life, but to also give God thanks for the things in your life.      

Colossians 2:6-7

As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

Philippians 4:6

Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

Father today we come to you with our hearts filled with thanksgiving.  Thanking You for the things that you have done and are doing in our lives.  Father we thank You for choosing us to be your vessels here on earth.   Thank You for the sacrifice of Your Son on the cross so that we can live and have eternal life.   Father You are so faithful.   We see, we know, and we acknowledge your faithfulness right now.   Father thank You for your steadfast and unchanging love for us.   Today we just take time to acknowledge You for who You are in our lives and to say thank You in Jesus name … amen.

PRAYER FOR TODAY - February 4, 2015 (Interceding For The Lost To Have An Encounter That Lines Up Their Will With God's Will)

We are called to be intercessors.   However, as you intercede on behalf of someone else, you must keep in mind that you can’t pray against a person’s will.   You can however, pray that God moves upon their heart so that they can see what is the true and acceptable will of the Father.    So as you pray, pray for a heart change to take place in the lives of the lost ones you are praying for.   Pray that they have an encounter with God that will change their mind so that they can line their will up with God’s will.   

2 Corinthians 4:4

King James Version (KJV)

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

“Father we lift up the lost before You right now.   For to be lost means to be unable to find your way.  Father we lift up those who don’t know the way to go right now.   Father help them.   Father meet them as you met Saul on the road to Damascus.   Father let them have an encounter with You.   An encounter that changes their whole outlook in life.   Father touch their hearts and heal their minds.   Father we pray that they see You like never before.  We pray that a desire to serve You arises within them like never before.   Father help them, heal them, and bring them to a point of change.    Father we plead the blood of Jesus that breaks every chain of bondage over their lives right now in Jesus name.  Amen”