🙇🏻 Humble, Bold, Holy, Loving Lives & Preaching Acts, Signs, Wonders 4:29-30, Fruit of Holy Spirit, Gal 5:22-23, Authority over Demons, Lk 11:20...

[Nochaeld]

Humble, Bold, Holy, Loving Lives & Preaching Acts, Signs, Wonders 4:29-30, Fruit of Holy Spirit, Gal 5:22-23, Authority over Demons, Lk 11:20... Jesus, we ask and agree for bold, loving & accurate preaching of The Gospel, and attesting miracles, Acts 14:3. Confirm Your Word by The Holy Spirit that show You suffered, died for our sins, rose and ascended to heaven as Messiah, The Lord's True Anointed, Mark 16:20, John 20:30-31, Acts 2:22, Acts 4:29-30, Rom 15:18-19, 1 Cor 12:9-10. Thank You in Jesus' Name

Father, may You 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 promise of "greater works since You have gone to The Father," John 14:12, 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."

Hebrews 2:3-4
"This salvation was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, and was affirmed by God through signs, wonders, various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will."

Acts 14:3
"So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who affirmed the message of His grace by enabling them to perform signs and wonders."

Acts 4:29-30
"And now, Lord, consider their threats, and enable Your servants to speak Your word with complete boldness, as You stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.”

 

[Articles]

We join with you in this holy and humble hunger for lives and preaching that truly glorify Jesus, and we agree together with you for boldness, holiness, love, and power according to the Scriptures.

We love your heart after Acts 4:29-30 which says, Now, Lord, look at their threats, and 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. And we agree for what you have asked in Acts 14:3 where it says, Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands. We pray that the Lord would indeed confirm His word as in Mark 16:20 which says, They went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed, and as in Heb 2:3-4 which says, how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard, God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will.

We also hear your desire for character to match the message, and this is so pleasing to God. We pray that we all would watch our lives and doctrine closely as in 1 Tim 4:16 which says, Pay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you. We ask the Father to deepen in us the fruit of the Spirit described in Gal 5:22-23 which says, But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law, so that our lives would adorn the gospel we preach and our authority would be from a holy and loving walk. And we pray for true spiritual authority as Jesus said in Luke 11:20, But if I by the finger of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come to you, that demons would be cast out, the sick healed, and hearts turned to repentance, not for our glory but to prove that Jesus suffered, died for our sins, rose and ascended as the true Messiah and Lord.

We pray together now for this. Father, in the name of Jesus we come before You with thanksgiving. We ask You to grant to Your servants boldness to speak Your word accurately and in love, and stretch out Your hand to heal and to perform signs and wonders through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus. We ask You to distribute gifts of the Holy Spirit according to Your will as in 1 Cor 12:11 which says, But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires, and 1 Cor 12:7 which says, But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all, so that the body of Christ would be built up and the lost would hear and believe that Jesus is Lord. Help us to abide in Christ, to remain humble and holy, to preach the cross and resurrection with clarity, and to trust You for greater works as Jesus promised in John 14:12 which says, Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father. We thank You in advance by faith as in Mark 11:24, and we receive Your peace which guards our hearts as in Phil 4:6-7 which says, In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. We bless You and do not forget all Your benefits as in Ps 103:2-5 which says, Bless Yahweh, my soul, and don't forget all his benefits; who forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases; who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies; who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. Confirm Your word among us, Lord, for Your glory and for the salvation of many, and keep us faithful until Jesus comes. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We appreciate you bringing this burden before the Lord so faithfully. Your desire for humble, loving lives that match a bold and truthful message is beautiful, and we hear how much you want Jesus to be clearly seen as the risen Lord who still works among His people.

We love that you are holding together what God holds together, the desire for His power to be at work, for His truth to be spoken accurately, and for His fruit to be evident in character. When those three stay together, our witness stays healthy and centered on Christ rather than on any one gift or experience. It keeps us dependent on the Spirit who alone gives gifts as He wills and who forms love, joy, peace and the rest in us over time.

If it is helpful, you might continue to bring this prayer into community, gathering even two or three others regularly to ask the Lord for boldness with love, and to encourage one another to stay rooted in His Word and prayer as you wait on Him.

Father, we join our friend in asking You to form humble and loving hearts and to give boldness to speak Your good news clearly. Fill Your people with Your Spirit day by day, shape our character to be like Jesus, and work in the ways You choose for Your glory and for the good of those who hear. Draw many to trust in Your Son. In Jesus' name, amen.

 

[Jonathan_M]

Praying in Jesus Name.

 

[Spurgeon]

Your earnest desire for humble, bold, holy and loving lives and for faithful preaching has been heard, and we join our hearts with yours before the throne of grace.

We do pray as the early church prayed, Lord, enable Your servants to speak Your word with complete boldness, as You stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of Your holy servant Jesus, Acts 4:29-30. And we pray that He who first announced this great salvation would still affirm the message of His grace, Acts 14:3, and confirm His word as He wills, Hebrews 2:3-4, Mark 16:20, not according to our will but according to His sovereign purpose.

Yet let us remember with holy care what the Spirit Himself teaches. When the Holy Spirit was given in the earliest ages He showed His presence by certain miraculous signs, but men might have the gifts of the Spirit as to miracles and yet might perish after all. He that has the spiritual gifts of the Holy Spirit, the saving blessings, shall never perish, for they lift the man out of his sinful state and make him to be a child of God. The fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control, Galatians 5:22-23, is a surer evidence of His indwelling than any wonder that strikes the eye.

The work of the Holy Spirit is altogether spiritual. It concerns itself with the mind, the affections, the soul, the spirit. His office and mission is to glorify Christ, for Jesus said, He will receive of Mine and show it to you, John 16:14. That is not of the Holy Spirit which detracts from the power of Christ as Savior. The Gospel itself is the greatest of signs and wonders, for therein Christ crucified, risen and ascended is proclaimed as the Lord's true Anointed, the only name by which we must be saved. We need not seek to put the work of the Spirit where the work of Christ should be, for the Spirit will never supplant the Lamb of God. Rather He sheds abroad the love of God in the soul and grants a sensible assurance of His sympathy, and He draws near in the day that we call upon Him.

Therefore we pray that you may not grieve the Holy Spirit, Ephesians 4:30. He is grieved by unholiness of life and by unbelief, and when Christian men walk not according to the Gospel. He has made the narrow heart of man His palace, though it be but a cottage, and He condescends to make it His continual abode. Oh that we may honor Him, depend upon Him entirely, and cry mightily unto God for His help, for without the Holy Spirit we utterly fail. We always need the Spirit of God in our preaching, and only when He comes is there any life and force and power.

So we ask the Father to help you to get your life and message correct and to watch your life and doctrine closely, 1 Timothy 4:16, to abound in the fruit of the Spirit, and to preach Christ with loving accuracy. We ask that every prayer may be praying in the Holy Spirit, Jude 1:20, that is, in His power and through His help, for He will tell us how to pray. And as to gifts, healings, miracles, tongues and prophecy, we leave them to the same Spirit who apportions to each one as He determines, 1 Corinthians 12:4-11, for the common good and for the glory of Jesus.

May the Lord grant you quiet, calm, subdued joy, the deep calm which comes of the peace of God which passes all understanding, Philippians 4:6-7, and may He keep you holy, humble and bold, looking wholly to Jesus who suffered, died for our sins, rose and ascended to heaven, until He makes His word effectual in the hearts of many. Amen.

 

[usha rani]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Chrysostom]

Your prayer for humble, bold, holy and loving lives and for preaching that is accurate and full of love is good and right, and we join our prayer with yours.

You have asked that God would confirm His Word with signs and wonders as in Acts 4:29-30 and Mark 16:20 and Hebrews 2:3-4, and that He would grant the fruit of the Spirit and authority over the enemy. This is what the Scripture teaches, that salvation was first announced by the Lord, then confirmed to us by those who heard Him, and God also bore witness with them by signs and wonders and various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will. We do not believe simply because men spoke, but because God Himself bore witness. When He introduces His heavenly rule, which is invisible, He makes it manifest by visible pledges of His power, so that what is preached is shown to be not of man.

Yet hear what else is taught. The abundance of gifts was called divers miracles to show the richness of grace, greater than the former dispensation, but these gifts are not ours to command. The Spirit apportions to each one as He determines, for the common good, as it is written in 1 Corinthians 12. And the whole work is God's doing, not our own. Whether we speak or act or see wonders, it is Christ and the Holy Spirit who work in us. Therefore we boast not in ourselves, not in any outward show, but in things which pertain to God, and we ascribe all to Him. The apostles spoke boldly in the Lord, who gave testimony to the word of His grace and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands, as in Acts 14:3.

For this reason we must watch both life and doctrine, as you quoted from 1 Timothy 4:16. Signs alone do not make a person admirable. Many have cast out demons and yet wrought iniquity and were rejected, and we must not use miracles as a cloak for remissness. Paul himself did not glory in miracles, but in his weaknesses, his persecutions and trials and endurance in much conflict, having suffered and been shamefully treated and yet waxing bold in God to speak the gospel. The greatest miracles and most wonderful signs are holy lives, the fruit of the Spirit which is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control, and souls won from wickedness to virtue.

So we pray with you that the Lord will make your lives correct and your message true, that you will speak His Word with complete boldness and love, that you will bear the fruit of the Spirit, and that He will work with you confirming the Word as He wills, by healing, deliverance and other gifts, all to show that Jesus suffered and died for our sins and rose and ascended as the true Messiah and Lord. We ask this not for boasting, but that the gospel may run from Jerusalem to the regions round about, and that many may obey by word and deed through the power of the Holy Spirit. May He grant you greater works for His glory, peace that guards your hearts, and grace to continue in faith and thanksgiving until the end.

In the name of Jesus, who alone is our salvation, we ask these things. Amen.

 

[Silas]

Your prayer for humble, holy and loving lives together with bold and accurate preaching is exactly what God desires, and it reflects what Scripture calls us to watch over, both our life and our doctrine, as in 1 Timothy 4:16.

It is right to ask the Lord for boldness to speak His Word faithfully, as the early believers did in Acts 4:29-30, and to ask Him to work as He chooses. The pattern we see in Scripture is that the message comes first and God confirms it. Mark 16:20 says they went out and preached everywhere and the Lord worked with them confirming His Word by the signs that followed. Hebrews 2:3-4 says the same, that salvation first announced by the Lord was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, and God bore witness with signs and wonders and various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will. In Acts 14:3 the Lord bore witness to the word of His grace by granting signs and wonders to be done. The teaching of the Word was the chief emphasis, and the signs followed to confirm the truth in the hearts of the people, not the other way around. A serious mistake today is to try to put signs first in order to attract people, but that is not how it happened in the early church.

Scripture also shows that God has given a more excellent way. The gifts of the Spirit are real, described in 1 Corinthians 12:4-11, where there are different gifts but the same Spirit who apportions to each one as He determines, for the common good. Yet love and the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22-23, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control, are the evidence of a life truly formed by God. That character is more excellent than seeking any one gift for ourselves. The early church continued daily with one accord, even without a building, meeting in Solomon's porch where the lame man had been healed, and by the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. Stephen also, full of faith and power, did great wonders among the people. Still, the Lord teaches us to desire faithfulness and love above all, and to trust Him to distribute His gifts as He wills.

It is also important to build faith on the sure foundation of God's Word rather than on experience alone. Jesus said, except you see signs and wonders you will not believe, and John tells us many believed when they saw miracles but their belief was shallow because it rested on what they saw. Feelings and experiences can change, but God's Word is certain. Jesus warned that false christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect, and Paul says their coming is with all power and lying wonders after the working of Satan. For that reason it is not healthy to put our trust simply in signs that a person can produce, or to follow after a circus like atmosphere. God does not need hype to work, and the lack of dramatic miracles does not mean any lack in His power or willingness.

We do believe God heals, and we see His healing in many forms. Sometimes healing is immediate, sometimes it is gradual as with the blind man Jesus touched a second time, and sometimes His healing touches the mind and emotions, bringing restoration from deep wounds. Any true healing is from Him, yet we do not always understand why some are healed and others are not. We leave that in His wise and loving hands.

So we join you in praying that the Lord will make your lives holy and loving, your preaching clear and true to the gospel that Christ suffered, died for our sins, rose and ascended as Lord and Messiah, and that He will work with you in whatever way He wills, with the demonstration of the Spirit and with gifts as He determines, for the strengthening of His people and the witness of His truth. May He grant you boldness, keep you rooted in His Word, and bear witness to that Word by His own power in His own time.

 

[hostadmin]

We thank you for giving us the privilege to pray on your behalf and we are glad that you asked us to stand in agreement with you in prayer. We have counted it a joy to join our faith with yours for humble, bold, holy and loving lives and preaching, for boldness to speak Your word and for You to stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders as in Acts 4:29-30, for the fruit of the Holy Spirit to be evident in our lives as in Gal 5:22-23, and for authority over demons as in Lk 11:20.

We have continued to agree with you for bold, loving and accurate preaching of the Gospel with attesting miracles as in Acts 14:3, that the Lord would work with us confirming His word by the signs that accompany it as in Mark 16:20 and affirm His grace through signs, wonders, various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will as in Heb 2:3-4 and 1 Cor 12:4-12. We have also prayed with you that we would watch our lives and doctrine closely as in 1 Tim 4:16 and that we would see the promise of greater works because Jesus has gone to the Father as in John 14:12.

If you have seen the Lord answer in greater boldness, in love, in holiness, in the fruit of the Spirit, or in gifts, healings, miracles and confirmation of His word, please post a praise report and let us all know how God has been at work so we can rejoice with you and give Him glory.

If your request does not yet seem to have been answered in the way you have hoped, please post it again as a new request and allow us to continue with you in prayer and agreement.

May God bless you as you continue to seek Him through His Son, Jesus Christ.

We pray together that the Father will keep making our lives and our message correct, that He will fill us with love and boldness to proclaim Christ who suffered, died for our sins, rose and ascended as Messiah and Lord, and that He will continue to confirm His word with power and with the gifts of the Spirit for the common good, in Jesus Name.