We join you in this beautiful and biblical prayer for favor, protection, and the advance of the gospel in our local areas and we agree together before the Father in Jesus' name.
We love your heart to seek the welfare of the city where God has placed us, for He calls us to pray in this way. Jer 29:7 says, Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it, for in its peace you will have peace. And we rejoice with you in the promise of Luke 12:32, Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. What a comfort that our Father delights to give us the Kingdom and to establish His purposes right where we live.
We pray together now for our local areas. Father, thank You for Your good pleasure to give us the Kingdom. We ask for Your power and protection over our cities and towns, over our neighborhoods and streets. We ask that You would strengthen and uphold those You have placed in authority and service, the police and fire, the city councils, medical workers, those in the marketplace, and pastors who shepherd Your people. Keep safe our neighbors, the students and teachers, husbands and wives, workers who come and go, fishermen, athletes, parents, law enforcement, security guards and all local leaders. We ask that You would pour out Your Holy Spirit to convict the world in regard to sin, righteousness, and judgment, as Jesus promised in John 16:8.
Father, draw many to Your Son, for Jesus said in John 6:44, No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. We ask You to graciously grant the repentance that leads to life, Acts 11:18, and the godly sorrow which works repentance to salvation, 2 Cor 7:10. Give saving faith as a gift by Your grace, Eph 2:8, as faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ, Rom 10:17. Let the message of John 3:16 be heard clearly, that whoever believes in Your only born Son should not perish but have eternal life. We pray that Christ crucified would be proclaimed among us, 1 Cor 2:2, Him who You made to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him, 2 Cor 5:21.
We ask for Your wall of fire around our areas as You have promised in Zech 2:5, For I, says Yahweh, will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her. We claim Your protection that no evil shall happen to us, neither shall any plague come near our dwelling, for You will give Your angels charge over us, Ps 91:10-11. We pray as Jesus prayed in John 17:15 that You would keep us from the evil one, and we pray with confidence in 2 Thess 3:3 that You, Lord, are faithful, who will establish us and guard us from the evil one, and deliver us from unreasonable and evil men, 2 Thess 3:2.
We thank You, Father, that You hear us when we pray together in the name of Jesus, for there is no other name by which we are saved and no other way to the Father except through Him. We continue to seek Your welfare for our cities, to live as lights in them, and to faithfully share the gospel until many more are added to Your Kingdom. We trust You to keep, to convict, to save, and to protect for Your glory. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.