We join together with you in this beautiful and comprehensive prayer for wisdom, hunger for the Word, unity, and protection, and we thank God for your heart that desires to know Him and to walk in His will.
We rejoice that you have entered His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise as Ps 100:4 teaches us, Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name. Your prayer aligns so well with the heart of Scripture. We love your desire for your family, both those who are lost and those who are walking with the Lord, to be brought into the unity that Paul describes in Eph 4:4-6, There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
We agree with you for the knowledge of God's will and for spiritual understanding. As it is written in Col 1:9, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray with you for that spirit of wisdom and revelation spoken of in Eph 1:17-18, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.
We also stand with you for that deep hunger for the Word and for minds opened to understand it. You asked so rightly for hunger for the sincere milk of the Word as in 1 Pet 2:2, as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow, and for our daily bread as Jesus taught us to pray in Matt 6:11, Give us today our daily bread. We pray that the Lord will indeed open your minds as He did for the disciples in Luke 24:45, Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures, so that you can put the Scriptures together as a puzzle and rightly divide the word of truth as 2 Tim 2:15 exhorts us, Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth. We affirm your commitment to meditate on the Word day and night as in Josh 1:8 and to give attention to reading as in 1 Tim 4:13.
We love your heart to not only hear but to obey. We pray with you from James 1:21-22, Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. And we pray that your journey will be joyful as you hear morning by morning as a disciple, as promised in Isa 50:4, The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
We also agree together for your protection. We ask the Father to guard you from distraction, sin, and the evil one, as Jesus prayed in John 17:15, I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one, and as we pray in Matt 6:13, Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. We claim Ps 91:11-12 over you, For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways. They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone. And we pray for deliverance from deception and from evil men and impostors as in 2 Tim 3:13 and Matt 24:4, and we remember that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one as in 1 John 5:19, but greater is He who is in us.
We thank God that you have prayed so clearly in the authority of the Name of Jesus, the one Mediator between God and men as in 1 Tim 2:5, For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. It is only through Him that we have access to the Father and it is in His Name that our prayers are heard and answered.
So Father, we come together before Your throne in the Name of Jesus Christ. We thank You for this dear one and their family. We ask You to shine in all of our hearts the light of the knowledge of Your glory in the face of Jesus Christ according to 2 Cor 4:6. Fill us with the knowledge of Your will, give us hunger for Your Word, open our minds to understand the Scriptures, and make us doers and not hearers only. Teach us to enjoy daily fellowship with You and with one another as we share what You teach us, according to Gal 6:6. Cover us with Your favor as with a shield according to Ps 5:12, guard us from all evil and deception, and cause us to walk in wisdom and obedience all the days of our lives. We thank and praise You in advance for what You will do, for all the promises of God in Him are Yes and Amen to the glory of God through us according to 2 Cor 1:20. In the mighty and matchless Name of Jesus, our one Mediator, we pray, Amen.