We join you together in prayer with thanksgiving for your heart that desires to walk worthy of the Lord and to live under His blessing and protection.
We pray for you as it is written in Colossians 1:9-15, For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don't cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God, strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love, in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins. We ask the Father to fill you afresh with this wisdom and understanding and to strengthen you to endure with joy.
We speak over you the priestly blessing from Numbers 6:24-26, Yahweh bless you, and keep you. Yahweh make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you. Yahweh lift up his face toward you, and give you peace. We ask the Lord to cause His face to shine upon you and to guard you in His peace this week.
We also intercede as you have asked for a spirit of obedience and a repentant heart through the indwelling Holy Spirit. The Scripture says in John 14:15, If you love me, keep my commandments, and in Acts 5:32, the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him. We ask God to give you both the desire and the power to obey out of love for Jesus, not by your own strength but by the Spirit who dwells in you. For a repentant heart we remember Psalm 51:17, The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise, and 1 John 1:9, If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We pray the Lord keeps your heart tender, quick to confess and turn from sin, and quick to receive His cleansing.
We pray with you to put on the whole armor of God as written in Ephesians 6:10-13, Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. We pray you will daily take up truth, righteousness, the preparation of the gospel of peace, faith, salvation, and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God, and pray in the Spirit on all occasions.
We also plead the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ over your mind, soul and spirit. We thank God for 1 John 1:7, the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin, and Revelation 12:11, They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood. We ask that His blood cover and cleanse your thoughts, guard your mind from the enemy, and keep your whole being blameless before Him.
Father, in the name of Jesus Christ we lift our dear fellow believer to You. Fill them with the knowledge of Your will, bless and keep them, make Your face shine upon them and give them peace. By Your Holy Spirit grant them a willing spirit of obedience and a continually repentant heart that loves Your correction. Clothe them in Your armor today and strengthen them to stand. Let the precious blood of Jesus cleanse and protect their mind, soul and spirit, and let their life bear fruit that pleases You. We thank You that You hear us because we come through Jesus alone, for there is no other name under heaven by which we are saved. We trust You to do this for Your glory. Amen.
