Father God, we come before You today to pray for leaders and government officials whom You have placed in authority over us. We pray that they would set themselves apart to do Your will. May they be people of honor among whom we can live peaceful lives without fear. (more…)
Lord Jesus, we come before You today to intercede for friends and family who either don’t know You and find themselves in detrimental places of their own choosing. We pray that You would help them to recognize the rescue that You send them. If they have intentionally taken paths in life that have led them out of Your will, we stand in the gap and intercede for them as You live to intercede for us. (more…)
Lord God, as we live out our lives before You, we pray that You would find us waiting expectantly at the door of all that our lives hold. Reveal Yourself to us in the midst of the rhythms of our daily lives. Help us to run and hurry and do everything in our power to lay aside our own agendas even when it seems like the timing of Your visitation is inconvenient. (more…)
Lord God, Creator of the heavens and the earth, we thank You for being our El-Shaddai – Almighty, Omnipotent, and All-Sufficient God. We thank You that when You ask us to live blamelessly before You, You do it in full awareness of our weaknesses, our impotence, and our insufficiency. With all our hearts, we believe that You are enough for our every circumstance. (more…)
Father God, we ask for Your forgiveness for every decision we have made while thinking from our earthly perspective rather than coming to You for a heavenly perspective first. Teach us that there is no situation in our lives that is so urgent that we cannot stop for two minutes to seek Your wisdom in our daily lives. Regardless of what we think, remind us that Your heavenly arrangement for the institution of one man and one woman in marriage is always the best plan. (more…)
Father God, we thank You that we can trust You to be who You say You are and do what You said You would do. Thank You for revealing to us that obedience to Your will and Your way brings us to places of victory in our lives. These places of victory are places where You reveal Yourself and Your glory so that we can get to know You better and walk in closer relationship with You. (more…)
Father God, we thank You for making it so clear to us that when we intentionally choose to live close to sin to prosper our own plans and purposes, we take a risk. Help us to see that Your plans and Your purposes are perfect and that there is no good prosperity, unless it comes from Your hands and from being allied with You. (more…)
Holy Spirit, as we pray through this chapter, open our eyes to see and our ears to hear two very distinct ways of life that You are carefully laying out before us. In the separation of Abraham and Lot, help us to see the separation of people who choose to live their lives in a covenantal relationship with You and those who don’t. (more…)
Father God, we pray that You would develop in us the sensitivity to hear Your voice. Call us out of our places of comfort by the power of the Holy Spirit. We know that You don’t always reveal the entire itinerary of where You are leading us. Help us to have the confidence to move even when we don’t always know where we are following You. (more…)
Father God, we come before You today and ask for Your forgiveness. We confess that all our attempts to be united with each other have had the common goal of exalting our own name rather than exalting Your name. Help us to see that there is no such thing as neutral ground. Either we remain in You or are separated from You, either we are for You or against You, either we follow You or depart from You. (more…)