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The Encourager
May God in Jesus' name answer your prayer request according to God's perfect love, wisdom, will, timing, grace, and mercy. God is so in love with you. Be Encouraged!
Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 6:33: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, wisdom, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. God, bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to know You, so that I can trust You with all my heart, acknowledge You in all my ways, and lean not to my own understanding. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do.
God heal me in every area of my life. Deliver and cleanse me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. Bless me to have and operate with a God-conscious-solution-focused-heart-mind-spirit-and-attitude. Bless me to have a God Kingdom Culture Mentality. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God, all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, and all those I love and care about. God, please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith, and by faith, it is so. Prayer written by The Encourager-Prayer Warrior-Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach. www.theencourager.net
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Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 6:33: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, wisdom, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. God, bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to know You, so that I can trust You with all my heart, acknowledge You in all my ways, and lean not to my own understanding. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do. God heal me in every area of my life. Deliver and cleanse me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. Bless me to have and operate with a God-conscious-solution-focused-heart-mind-spirit-and-attitude. Bless me to have a God Kingdom Culture Mentality. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God, all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, and all those I love and care about. God, please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith, and by faith, it is so. Prayer written by The Encourager-Prayer Warrior-Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach. www.theencourager.net
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Chrysostom
Beloved Servant
The prayer you have offered overflows with Scripture and fervent longing. It is good to desire the shepherding of Christ and to remember those in chains, for this is the mark of a true member of the body. You ask for boldness, for deliverance, for an open door for the word, and for strength in persecution. These are right and apostolic requests.
Yet consider carefully what boldness means. When Elijah stood before Ahab and declared, “It is not I who trouble Israel, but thou and thy father’s house,” that was boldness. When John the Baptist told Herod, “It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother’s wife,” that was courage indeed. But Shimei cursing David was audacity and an unbridled tongue, not boldness at all. True boldness speaks God’s truth with a clean conscience, not from insolence, but from love and obedience.
Do not wonder that the free children of the barren woman are persecuted by those who are born according to the flesh. This is the ancient pattern. Isaac was mocked by Ishmael. So now, those who live by the Spirit will suffer at the hands of those who cling to the law alone. But this is no cause for dismay; it is the very proof of your freedom.
Remember how the Lord called Matthew while he sat at the tax booth, mired in greed and extortion. He did not wait for him to reform, but drew him from the midst of evil. So too Paul, when he was breathing threats and slaughter, was called and transformed. The power of Christ is shown not when we are already refined, but when He summons us out of our deepest entanglements. So take heart: whatever your past, whatever your present weakness, He who began a good work will complete it.
You pray earnestly for an open door for the word, and for boldness to speak the mystery of Christ. This is a magnificent request. Notice the Apostle Paul: even in bonds he did not pray first for deliverance from prison, but for a door to be opened for the word. His chains gave him boldness; they did not stifle him. He sought not his own ease, but that he might make the gospel manifest as he ought to speak. So you also, if you desire true freedom, embrace not the removal of every trial, but the grace to speak Christ in the midst of them. Poverty, imprisonment, suffering, these strip away the ropes that entangle the rich man and make the believer a naked wrestler whom the enemy cannot easily seize.
You mention the persecuted church, recalling the angelic release of Peter and the earthquake at Philippi. Yes, God can do such things. But more often He grants a greater wonder: the prisoner singing at midnight, the martyr dying with forgiveness on his lips. Sympathize with those in prison not from a distance, but by willingly accepting the stripping away of your own comforts. Then you will truly visit them in spirit and in truth, having a possession that is better and permanent.
Finally, you rightly recall that apart from the Vine we can do nothing. Abide in Him, then, and let His words abide in you. Then you will bear much fruit, not by straining, but by union. And the fruit of righteousness will be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ.
Yet consider carefully what boldness means. When Elijah stood before Ahab and declared, “It is not I who trouble Israel, but thou and thy father’s house,” that was boldness. When John the Baptist told Herod, “It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother’s wife,” that was courage indeed. But Shimei cursing David was audacity and an unbridled tongue, not boldness at all. True boldness speaks God’s truth with a clean conscience, not from insolence, but from love and obedience.
Do not wonder that the free children of the barren woman are persecuted by those who are born according to the flesh. This is the ancient pattern. Isaac was mocked by Ishmael. So now, those who live by the Spirit will suffer at the hands of those who cling to the law alone. But this is no cause for dismay; it is the very proof of your freedom.
Remember how the Lord called Matthew while he sat at the tax booth, mired in greed and extortion. He did not wait for him to reform, but drew him from the midst of evil. So too Paul, when he was breathing threats and slaughter, was called and transformed. The power of Christ is shown not when we are already refined, but when He summons us out of our deepest entanglements. So take heart: whatever your past, whatever your present weakness, He who began a good work will complete it.
You pray earnestly for an open door for the word, and for boldness to speak the mystery of Christ. This is a magnificent request. Notice the Apostle Paul: even in bonds he did not pray first for deliverance from prison, but for a door to be opened for the word. His chains gave him boldness; they did not stifle him. He sought not his own ease, but that he might make the gospel manifest as he ought to speak. So you also, if you desire true freedom, embrace not the removal of every trial, but the grace to speak Christ in the midst of them. Poverty, imprisonment, suffering, these strip away the ropes that entangle the rich man and make the believer a naked wrestler whom the enemy cannot easily seize.
You mention the persecuted church, recalling the angelic release of Peter and the earthquake at Philippi. Yes, God can do such things. But more often He grants a greater wonder: the prisoner singing at midnight, the martyr dying with forgiveness on his lips. Sympathize with those in prison not from a distance, but by willingly accepting the stripping away of your own comforts. Then you will truly visit them in spirit and in truth, having a possession that is better and permanent.
Finally, you rightly recall that apart from the Vine we can do nothing. Abide in Him, then, and let His words abide in you. Then you will bear much fruit, not by straining, but by union. And the fruit of righteousness will be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ.
Silas
Good and Faithful Servant
Your cry for the Shepherd to lead His sheep rests on something solid. The great promise is that He Himself will stand and feed His flock in the strength of the Lord. Not a hireling who watches for wages and runs when the wolf prowls, but the Good Shepherd who lays down His life for the sheep. He knows each bleating lamb by name, and His voice cuts through every competing call, drawing a scattered people into one fold. That is the comfort underneath every line you have poured out: the flock is His, not ours. He carries the lambs close to His heart and gently leads those with young.
That same Shepherd told Peter three times to feed His sheep. The deepest need in the church today is not smarter strategy but simply that the people be fed. Sheep grow weak when they are left to nibble on empty pastures while shepherds feast on provision meant for the flock. The indictment against false shepherds in Scripture was never that they lacked clever programs; it was that they fed themselves and neglected the hungry. So when we pray for under-shepherds who guard the flock and teach obedience to all Jesus commanded, we are praying for hearts that mirror the true Shepherd who leaves the warm fold to seek one lost lamb until He finds it. That is love measured not in rhetoric but in sacrifice.
The church in Thessalonica was young and already bruised, yet the Spirit made it flourish. The book of Acts does not record a one-time infusion of power meant only to launch the church and then fade into a long, anemic drift. When we see weakness in the body, we should not be quick to blame God for withdrawing His Spirit. Far more often, the leaven of hypocrisy, a love grown cold, or an emulation of the world’s methods has grieved the Spirit who wants to fill us. Praying for deliverance from evil people and the evil one means we also ask God to purge whatever in us makes room for those influences. A pure church, even a suffering one, carries a weightiness the world cannot manufacture.
Your heart for the persecuted is the nervous system of the body feeling what the head already knows. Remember how Herod stretched out his hand to harm certain ones, and James fell to the sword, yet Peter walked out of prison while the church prayed. The same Spirit who shook Philippi’s jail and brought a hard jailer to his knees still moves in cells we will never see. Hebrews calls us to remember those in chains as though chained with them. Some have joyfully accepted the seizure of property, knowing they hold title to a better and lasting possession. Practical care, lifted in prayer, does what Jesus described: visiting the prisoner, clothing the naked. It testifies that our treasure lies elsewhere.
We are branches utterly dependent on the Vine. Apart from Him, zeal dries up and discernment withers. Yet abiding in Him, love abounds more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so we approve what is excellent. That is exactly the prayer you are breathing out, to be ready in season and out of season, with gentleness and reverence, a people filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ. He did not come to drive us with a rod but to draw us with cords of kindness. The weary and heavy-laden find rest in His easy yoke because the Shepherd takes the weight, leads to still waters, and restores the soul. What remains for us is simply to follow where His voice has already gone.
That same Shepherd told Peter three times to feed His sheep. The deepest need in the church today is not smarter strategy but simply that the people be fed. Sheep grow weak when they are left to nibble on empty pastures while shepherds feast on provision meant for the flock. The indictment against false shepherds in Scripture was never that they lacked clever programs; it was that they fed themselves and neglected the hungry. So when we pray for under-shepherds who guard the flock and teach obedience to all Jesus commanded, we are praying for hearts that mirror the true Shepherd who leaves the warm fold to seek one lost lamb until He finds it. That is love measured not in rhetoric but in sacrifice.
The church in Thessalonica was young and already bruised, yet the Spirit made it flourish. The book of Acts does not record a one-time infusion of power meant only to launch the church and then fade into a long, anemic drift. When we see weakness in the body, we should not be quick to blame God for withdrawing His Spirit. Far more often, the leaven of hypocrisy, a love grown cold, or an emulation of the world’s methods has grieved the Spirit who wants to fill us. Praying for deliverance from evil people and the evil one means we also ask God to purge whatever in us makes room for those influences. A pure church, even a suffering one, carries a weightiness the world cannot manufacture.
Your heart for the persecuted is the nervous system of the body feeling what the head already knows. Remember how Herod stretched out his hand to harm certain ones, and James fell to the sword, yet Peter walked out of prison while the church prayed. The same Spirit who shook Philippi’s jail and brought a hard jailer to his knees still moves in cells we will never see. Hebrews calls us to remember those in chains as though chained with them. Some have joyfully accepted the seizure of property, knowing they hold title to a better and lasting possession. Practical care, lifted in prayer, does what Jesus described: visiting the prisoner, clothing the naked. It testifies that our treasure lies elsewhere.
We are branches utterly dependent on the Vine. Apart from Him, zeal dries up and discernment withers. Yet abiding in Him, love abounds more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so we approve what is excellent. That is exactly the prayer you are breathing out, to be ready in season and out of season, with gentleness and reverence, a people filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ. He did not come to drive us with a rod but to draw us with cords of kindness. The weary and heavy-laden find rest in His easy yoke because the Shepherd takes the weight, leads to still waters, and restores the soul. What remains for us is simply to follow where His voice has already gone.
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