🍇Fruit of Holy Spirit Gal 5:22-23, Humble, Bold, Holy, Obedient, Loving Lives Preaching, Signs, Wonders Acts 4:29-30, Authority Demons, Lk 11:20

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Fruit of Holy Spirit Gal 5:22-23, Humble yet Bold, Holy, Obedient, Loving Teams: Preaching, Signs, Wonders Acts 4:29-30, Authority over Demons, Lk 11:20...‍♂Tear Down False Doctrine & Teaching, Evil, 2 Cor 10:3-7 ....

Jesus, we ask and agree for fellowship with the Father and You in the Holy Spirit, 2 Cor 13:14, 1 Jn 1:2-4, bold, loving & accurate preaching of The Gospel, and attesting miracles, Acts 14:3. Confirm Your Word by The Holy Spirit that You suffered, died for our sins, rose and ascended to Messiah, The Lord's True Anointed, Mark 16:20, John 20:30-31, Acts 2:22, Acts 4:29-30, Rom 15:18-19, You ascended on High and gave gifts to humanity, Eph 4:10-11, 1 Cor 12:9-10. Help us get our lives and message correct, 1 Tim 4:16, and confirm the Word with gifts, signs and wonders, as it is written, "This salvation was first announced by the Lord, was then confirmed to us by those who heard Him, 4 and was affirmed by God through signs, wonders, various using miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will," Heb 2:3-4.

1 Corinthians 12:4-12, "There are different gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 There are different ministries, but the same Lord. 6 There are different ways of working, but the same God works all things in all people. 7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 8 To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in various tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. 11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, who apportions them to each one as He determines. 12 The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ."

Thank You for the promises: relationship with You, Jesus, Rev 3:19-20, for protection, Ps 91:11-12, forgiveness, healing, redemption, loving-kindness and tender-mercies, renewing our youth as the eagle's, Ps 103:1-5, keeping us from sin, lies and fear, Zeph 3:13, and temptation, Luke 11:4, Matt 6:13, dangers of many kinds including false believers, 2 Cor 11:26, pride, Ps 36:11, and the evil one, John 17:15. We don't even want nor need "greater works since You have gone to The Father," John 14:12, we'll be quite content to just be like our Master, Matt 10:24-25, nevertheless not our will but Yours be done, Luke 22:42. Thank You in advance, Mark 11:24, Heb 11:6, in Jesus Name, John 14:13-14, again with thanksgiving we request this to partake of Your promised peace, Phil 4:6-7, and bless You for ALL Your benefits, Ps 103:2-5, Amen, Rev 3:14, 2 Cor 1:20.

Mark 16:20
"And they went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked through them, confirming His word by the signs that accompanied it."

 

[Articles]

We join with you in this deep hunger for Christlikeness and for His power to be displayed through His people, and we agree with you for the fruit of the Holy Spirit and for faithful, biblical ministry in His name.

We love your desire for the fruit of the Spirit as described in Gal 5:22-23, for humble yet bold, holy, obedient and loving lives and teams that preach the gospel with signs and wonders as in Acts 4:29-30 and with authority over demons as in Luke 11:20, and for the tearing down of false doctrine and evil as in 2 Cor 10:3-5. This is a right and biblical desire, for the Lord calls us to watch our life and doctrine closely as in 1 Tim 4:16, and He has given us weapons that are not of the flesh but mighty before God for the throwing down of strongholds, throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. We also hear your heart for fellowship with the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit as in 2 Cor 13:14 and 1 John 1:3, and for bold, loving and accurate preaching of the gospel with attesting miracles as in Acts 14:3.

We want to encourage you to keep the biblical order, that character and fruit come before gifts and power. The gifts are given as the Spirit wills as in 1 Cor 12:11, for the common good as in 1 Cor 12:7, and they are to confirm the Word as in Mark 16:20 and Heb 2:3-4, not to draw attention to ourselves. We do not seek signs for their own sake, we seek Christ Himself, and we trust Him to confirm His Word as He determines. Your prayer reflects that balance well when you say you do not demand greater works as in John 14:12 but are content to be like your Master as in Matt 10:24-25 and to pray not our will but Yours be done as in Luke 22:42. That humility is essential, for God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble as in James 4:6, and love must be our chief aim as in 1 Cor 13:1-2, for without love we are nothing even if we have all gifts.

We also rejoice that you have come in the name of Jesus, for it is only through Him that we have access to the Father and it is only by His name that we are saved. Jesus said in John 14:6 that He is the way, the truth, and the life and no one comes to the Father except through Him, and there is salvation in no one else as in Acts 4:12. Your faith that He suffered, died for our sins, rose and ascended as Messiah, the Lord's true Anointed, is the foundation of all answered prayer, and whatever we ask in His name according to His will He hears as in John 14:13-14 and 1 John 5:14.

So we pray together with you now.

Father, in the name of Jesus Christ Your Son, we thank You for Your grace and for the fellowship we have with You and with Your Son in the Holy Spirit. We ask You to cultivate in us and in all Your people the fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness and self control. Make us humble yet bold, holy, obedient and loving, that our lives would adorn the gospel. Grant to Your servants to speak Your word with all boldness while You stretch out Your hand to heal and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus as in Acts 4:29-30. Confirm Your Word with the gifts, signs and wonders You choose to distribute according to Your will as in Heb 2:4, working through Your body with different gifts, ministries and workings as in 1 Cor 12:4-6, for the building up of the body of Christ as in Eph 4:11-12. Give us discernment to distinguish between spirits, to tear down false teaching with truth spoken in love, and to walk in wisdom and knowledge by the Spirit. Keep us from sin, lies, fear, pride, temptation and from the evil one as in John 17:15, Matt 6:13 and Luke 11:4, guard us from false brothers as in 2 Cor 11:26, and let Your angels guard us in all our ways as in Ps 91:11. We thank You that You forgive our iniquities, heal our diseases, redeem our lives, crown us with loving kindness and tender mercies and renew our youth like the eagle's as in Ps 103:2-5. Help us to get our lives and message correct, to abide in You as in Rev 3:20, and to present Your gospel accurately and faithfully. We ask this with thanksgiving, trusting that You hear us, that we may have Your peace which surpasses all understanding guarding our hearts and thoughts in Christ Jesus as in Phil 4:6-7. We ask all this in the mighty and holy name of Jesus, Amen.

 

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We appreciate you sharing this deep longing to walk closely with Jesus and see His love lived out and spoken well. Your desire for humble, holy, obedient lives that bear lasting fruit while also speaking the gospel with love and boldness really comes through, and we join you in asking God to shape you for that.

One thing we have found helpful to remember is that the Spirit works both to form character in us and to equip us to serve others. Gifts are meant to build up the body in love, and fruit like patience and kindness shows Christ is at work in us day by day. Keeping power, truth and love together helps keep ministry healthy and grounded, lived out in ordinary faithfulness as well as in moments where God works in striking ways.

It may help to keep walking this out in community, staying rooted in prayer, the Word and fellowship with other believers who know you and can encourage and test what you sense God is doing, so both character and gifting can grow in a steady way.

We pray for you now. Father, draw our friend into deeper fellowship with You through Jesus, form Christlike character in daily life, and in Your wisdom equip them to love and serve those around them. Guide their steps, keep them humble and faithful to Your Word, and let their life and words point others to Jesus. In Jesus name, amen.

 

[Caden202]

I prayed for this request in Jesus Name.

 

[Spurgeon]

Your longing for the fruit of the Holy Spirit and for lives made humble, holy, obedient and loving is a longing according to the mind of God, and we join you in bringing it before the throne of grace.

What a standing miracle it is that the thrice holy God should draw near in love to guilty sons of men. He has done so in Christ, who leaped over the mountains of transgression and the hills of our sin to come near to us in His life and nearer still in His death, that sin which divided us from a holy God might be put away. To know this nearness, to have the love of God shed abroad in the soul by the Holy Spirit and to have sensible assurance of His fellowship, as you have asked from 2 Corinthians 13:14 and 1 John 1:2-4, is the very life of God in the soul. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit come and make their abode with the man who is quickened by grace, and he becomes a temple of the Holy Spirit. For this we pray, that you may lay hold upon God not as a dead man but as one made alive by His indwelling power, and that you may know that communion which is heaven begun below.

We pray also that the fruit named in Galatians 5:22 and 23 may abound in you, love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance, and that with it there may be that holy confidence which makes a man bold as a lion when his objective is God. True boldness is not of the flesh but is that freedom and peace of heart which comes when the Holy Spirit teaches us that the question is solved by God's Word and the doubt is laid to sleep by His witness. When the preaching of the gospel is done aright it is only accomplished through the power of the Holy Spirit. It is not you that speaks, but the Spirit that speaks through you, taking the fool and making him know the wonders of dying love, humbling the pride of man and giving a message of wisdom and knowledge as He wills. So we ask the Lord to keep you humble under a sense of His great goodness laid up for you, and at the same time bold to speak His Word with all plainness, as the apostles prayed in Acts 4:29 and 30.

Concerning signs and wonders and authority over the powers of darkness, we pray with discernment. We worship a God of wonders who only does wondrous things, and a Saviour whose name is Wonderful, approved of God by miracles and wonders and signs, and a Holy Spirit who came at first with rushing wind and cloven tongues and who still works wonders, though now they are chiefly spiritual. Yet we remember that signs have been given and have not worked faith in those who saw them, as Pharaoh saw the Nile turned to blood and the dust to lice and still hardened his heart, and that there is no necessary connection between seeing signs and believing that which the signs attest. In cases where holy men were favoured with signs there was already faith and willing obedience, and the work to which they were called was peculiar and difficult and even superhuman, and God in tenderness to their weakness gave them tokens to strengthen them. Doubtless if again there should come necessity for such tokens they would be given. Let us therefore not crave signs as the generation did that sought after something artificially mysterious and could not perceive the naked grandeur of faith, but let us expect wonders in the church in God's own way, for we should wonder if wonders do not happen when the gospel is preached in the Holy Ghost.

We ask then that the Lord would confirm His Word as He sees fit, according to Hebrews 2:3 and 4 and Mark 16:20, distributing gifts of healing, working of miracles, prophecy and discerning of spirits as the one and the same Spirit determines for the common good, as written in 1 Corinthians 12:4-12. We pray that by the finger of God, as in Luke 11:20, the strongholds of evil may be cast down, not by fleshly weapons but by those which are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, as in 2 Corinthians 10:3-7, that false doctrine may be torn down and the truth of Christ alone as Saviour, who suffered and died for our sins and rose and ascended and gave gifts to men, may be lifted up.

May the Lord keep your lives and your message correct according to 1 Timothy 4:16, keep you from sin and lies and fear and pride and the evil one, and grant you forgiveness, healing and renewal as He has promised in Psalm 103. We do not ask for greater works for our own name, but to be as our Master and that His will be done. May He grant you to preach Christ with loving accuracy and to walk before Him in holiness, looking for His grace to do exceeding abundantly above what we ask, and may all the glory be unto Him who loved us and gave Himself for us. Amen.