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Let’s Pray for Connection

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Dear Father,

I pray you will guide my eyes to the connection that matters. Father, there are so many distractions. So many connections that tug at my heart causing my thoughts to sway from what matters above all else.

Lord, I pray you will guard my ears from hearing, my eyes from seeing, my thoughts from wandering, my heart from desiring, and (quite frankly) my American blood from boiling. How easy it is to seek connection to that which is familiar, safe, expected, “normal”…

Yet, Lord, you have provided connections that set a safe guard around all of me, inside and out. Connection to You above all else. Lord Jesus, thank you for this sweet and powerful connection! Thank you for salvation! Thank you for prayer! How greatly I cling to our conversations day by day, moment by moment.

Father God, build connections within our lives that lead to Truth. How hard this is, for what is truth? Lord, we know YOU are TRUTH, but in the world around us truth is uncertain. I pray you will stir within our hearts when true facts are presented before us. Cause us to walk away from falsehoods. Lead us in the way of right thinking and set our feet on your solid foundation. Discernment, Lord! For this I pray!!

Holy Spirit, weave us within a tapestry of family focused beauty! That our ears, eyes, thoughts and steps will be encompassed by a great cloud of witnesses. That we will be filled with words of encouragement and strength founded upon Jesus Christ! That we will be surety for one another. And that through our connection to you and to one another we may share Truth to the hungry world around us.

Connect us, Sweet Savior, within the safety of Your love.

Amen

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Let’s Pray for Open Eyes

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Lord, You designed truth. You are Truth. In a day where truth is reworked to fit each person in each differing situation, the idea that You are Truth is even more foundationally beautiful!

I pray you will set our eyes on the Rock. I pray you will open our eyes to the Way. I pray you will set our feet on the path that leads to life and life everlasting. Help us to SEE, to fully see, the truth that lays beneath our feet, that goes before us, that encircles all around us, that fills us.

Jesus you are so faithful and true. With all that we are, we say thank you!

Spirit, you are in us, with us, and for us. You breathe truth through us for our own heart to believe and for the open ears of those around us. Thank you!

Father, oh, how we adore you! You gift us with life and with Truth – living Truth! How sweet and loving are your gifts for us! Yes, Father, we adore you!

Lord God, may we lay___________________ at your feet? Father, please open his/her eyes to Truth! Selah.

Will you silence the voices of deceit that are swaying his/her thoughts and actions? Father God, you created us all. In the name of your Son, Jesus Christ, you have offered the free gift of eternal salvation upon all of your most precious creation. Dear Father God, I pray_______________ will receive this free gift so that the chains of lies and deceit will be broken, that his/her eyes will be opened, that truth will become the path on which he/she treads!

Yes, Father, we pray for clarity in our vision of truth. We pray this upon ourselves, our families, our leadership, our government, our president (Selah. Oh, Lord, hear the prayers on our hearts…), our world leaders, and upon the influencers of evil that crave to bring down all of the above.

In the mighty name of Jesus Christ we pray for Truth to lead, to prevail and to set the captives free.

Amen & Amen!!

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*Selah: pause to praise/worship

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Prayer for Churches

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Lord God,

Father, I pray for churches this morning. I pray for the people that gather together within these buildings. I pray for the men who open your Word week after week. I pray for those who lead worship. I pray for those who love on and care for the babies, the children, and the teens. I pray for hands that clean. For feet that lead. For hearts that pour out. For the ones that pray. For the shoulders that carry the tears that are shed. I pray for the Women who love one another. For the men who hold each other in accountability. For The church that opens its doors for us to gather and Unite and love and live and serve and Worship and grow and stand. Oh, I pray for our churches!

Father, I pray for churches in light of lockdowns. God, this is gross and an abuse of power. Lord, I pray for confident wisdom for these preachers as they make the decision to stand on Biblical truth and American freedom. I pray for the staff of elders and deacons to uphold Scripture as they support and defend the choice to stand, to remain open, to proclaim Scripture, to live in the land of the free and in the home of the brave.

Father, I feel like I’m proclaiming my personal conviction in this prayer, and perhaps I am. But I pray you will take my prayer of personal conviction and pour it out upon the church that is in need of confirmation or encouragement or boldness or strength or comfort.

Lord, we are not called to sit. We are called to serve, to shine your Light in a darkened world. And when our world is setting a precident of fear and separation and silence and darkness and compliance, ugh, my whole heart hurts.

Father God, equip your saints for such a time as this. 2020 was confusing and odd. 2021 is going to prove to be a battle. I firmly believe this. In this, I pray that you will speak with each of your called pastors and leaders and teachers and men and women and youth and churches (your body of Christ) and prepare each and every one of us to know fully where we stand as Christians in today’s world. Tell us what is required of us that we may be ambassadors of the Kingdom of God to the dark world around us.

Lord, I pray these things in the leading of the Holy Spirit.

I pray these words will be cast before Your Throne.

I pray You will hear and respond according to Your will and in Your way.

I pray our hearts and ears will be open to Your leading.

I pray we will all walk in accordance to Your direction.

I pray we will not judge one another for our various actions and convictions.

Rather, I pray we will uphold and support one another knowing that our cities and our audiences and our impact vary.

I pray above all else that the name of Jesus Christ will shine brighter and farther than any of our words or actions or convictions ever could.

All these things are prayed in the sweet name of Jesus,

Forever and always Amen & Amen!

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