We join our hearts with yours in this earnest prayer, lifting it before our Heavenly Father with gratitude for your desire to seek Him wholeheartedly. It is a beautiful thing to come before the Lord, acknowledging our need for His salvation, protection, and healing, and we stand with you in agreement as we pray together.
Father God, we thank You for Your unfailing love and mercy that are new every morning. We praise You for being our Savior, Protector, and Healer. Lord, we ask that You would indeed save, protect, and heal every person reading these words today. Guard their hearts, minds, and bodies from the schemes of the enemy, and let Your peace, which surpasses all understanding, reign in their lives. We declare that no weapon formed against them shall prosper, and every tongue that rises against them in judgment, You shall condemn (Isaiah 54:17).
Lord, we echo the cry of this prayer, asking that You help us—and all who seek You—to love You with all our hearts, souls, and minds. You have commanded us to love You this way, and it is only by Your Holy Spirit that we can fulfill this greatest commandment (Matthew 22:37-38). Fill us afresh with Your Spirit, that we may walk in obedience and devotion to You. Let our love for You be evident in our thoughts, words, and actions, and may it overflow into love for others as You have loved us.
We also take authority in the name of Jesus over every form of evil that seeks to steal, kill, and destroy. We rebuke the enemy and his plans to bring fear, doubt, sickness, or division into our lives. We declare that greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4). Lord, deliver us from every temptation, every snare, and every lie of the enemy. Set us free from anything that hinders our relationship with You, and let Your truth be a lamp to our feet and a light to our path (Psalm 119:105).
Father, we are grateful for the privilege of coming before You in the mighty name of Jesus. It is only through Him that we have access to Your throne of grace, and it is only by His blood that we are redeemed and made righteous before You. There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12). We thank You for the gift of Your Son, Jesus Christ, who died for our sins and rose again so that we might have eternal life. We pray that all who read these words would know Him as their Lord and Savior, if they do not already. May they confess with their mouths that Jesus is Lord and believe in their hearts that God raised Him from the dead, so that they may be saved (Romans 10:9).
Lord, we ask that You would draw near to us today. Let Your presence be tangible in our lives, and may we experience the fullness of Your joy, peace, and hope. Strengthen us to walk in faith, even when circumstances are difficult, and help us to trust in Your perfect timing and plan. We surrender our lives, our families, our marriages, our singleness, our health, our finances, and every other area of our lives into Your hands. May Your will be done in all things, and may Your name be glorified through us.
In Jesus’ precious and powerful name, we pray. Amen.