Fill
Them with Your Life and Power
Fill Them
with Your Life and Power—
Prepare
them with the mighty inner strength that comes through Your Holy Spirit, so
that Christ may increasingly be at home in their hearts through faith. May they
be rooted and established in love, and have the power to understand, as all
Your people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep Christ’s love
really is.
May they
experience His love, though it is so great they will never fully understand
it—that they may be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from
You. (Ephesians 3:16-19)
Help Them
to Know Your Will—
Fill them with the knowledge of Your will
through all spiritual wisdom and understanding…so that they may live a life
worthy of the Lord and please Him in every way:
bearing fruit in every good work,
growing in the knowledge of God,
and being strengthened with all power
according
to His glorious might. (Colossians
1:9-12)
Equip Them
to Do Your Will—
May
You, our God of peace...equip them with all they need for doing Your will.
Produce in them, through the power of Jesus Christ, all that is pleasing to
You. (Hebrews 13:20)
Help Them
to Pray Every Day—
May they
come to You as Jesus taught them to, in worship and surrender, asking that their
needs be met, their sins forgiven, their lives protected from the evil one. (Matthew
6:6, 9-13)
Help them
to ask, seek, and knock with persistent prayer. Help them to always pray and
not give up. (1Thessalonians 5:17; Matthew 7:7-9; Luke 18:1)
May They
Come Boldly to Your Throne—
In Christ and through faith in
Him help them to approach You with freedom and confidence, coming before Your
throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace to help them in every time of
need.
(Ephesians
3:12; Hebrews 4:16)
Help Them
to Stand to Their Ground in Prayer—
May they
stay clothed in Christ, our armor of light—in the full armor of God. May they
pray Your will, so that You will hear and answer, whatever they ask! May their
prayers bring You glory. (Romans 13:12, 14; Ephesians 6:10-18; 1 John
5:14-15; John 14:13)
And for Those of Us Who Serve Together as
You Provide—
Bless
us indeed, for the sake of Your kingdom. Extend our outreach any way You
desire, that we may bear much fruit for Your glory. Keep Your hand upon us, so
that we’ll walk worthy of our calling. Strengthen and protect us from the evil
one.
(1
Chronicles 4:9-10; John 15:7-8; Ephesians 4:1; 2 Thessalonians 3:3)
In
Jesus’ name, amen.
