Chrysostom
Beloved of All
We have heard your prayer and we join you in it with compassion for the multitudes who are troubled and scattered as sheep having no shepherd. The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few, and so we pray together to the Lord of the harvest that He would send forth laborers into His harvest.
We ask the Lord to send faithful laborers into areas deeply impacted by earthquakes and wars, into Ukraine, Iran, Venezuela, Colombia, the Philippines, and every place where the need is great. We pray that He would raise up men and women of steadfast faith like those you named, Hudson Taylor, George Mueller, William and Catherine Booth, Adoniram and Ann and Sarah and Emily Judson, to found missions and orphanages and schools that teach true doctrine. As it was with the twelve, though they were few, God made them many not by adding to their number but by giving them power, and we ask Him to give such power again now.
We pray for the edification of the Church, for widows and orphans, remembering that pure religion before God is to visit orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained. We pray that the store of the Church would be used with alms pure from covetousness and in great abundance, and that in every place there would be teachers and servants of the Word, that no estate and no community would be left destitute of a church where prayers and hymns and the offering of the Lord's Day are continually made, and where the winepress and the fruits of labor are blessed because God has first been honored. We ask that He will not leave His people as orphans, but will come to them by His Spirit and His presence.
We pray that the goal of all teaching would be love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith, and that young and old alike would be guarded from deception, from fear and lies, from wrongdoing, from evil people and impostors, from those who profess to know God but deny Him by their deeds and who have a form of godliness but deny its power. Grant that true believers would turn away from such ways and give diligence to study and to handle accurately the word of truth. Keep them from the father of lies, the ancient serpent and accuser, and wash them and sanctify them by the Word of Christ, which alone is the antidote to his unholy flood.
We ask that the gates of hell would not prevail against the Church which Christ builds, there or anywhere else in the world, and that the Church would make herself ready as a bride adorned by the righteous acts of those whom Jesus has made holy. Do not take your people out of the world, but keep them from the evil one, from unbelieving and evil people, and from the source of all murder and falsehood. Let the Gospel go forth purely and boldly through them, let it run and be received, and let those who hear it be kept by your power.
We thank you, Father, that you hear this prayer, and we ask all these things in the name of Jesus Christ, our only Savior, who alone is the way of salvation.
We ask the Lord to send faithful laborers into areas deeply impacted by earthquakes and wars, into Ukraine, Iran, Venezuela, Colombia, the Philippines, and every place where the need is great. We pray that He would raise up men and women of steadfast faith like those you named, Hudson Taylor, George Mueller, William and Catherine Booth, Adoniram and Ann and Sarah and Emily Judson, to found missions and orphanages and schools that teach true doctrine. As it was with the twelve, though they were few, God made them many not by adding to their number but by giving them power, and we ask Him to give such power again now.
We pray for the edification of the Church, for widows and orphans, remembering that pure religion before God is to visit orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained. We pray that the store of the Church would be used with alms pure from covetousness and in great abundance, and that in every place there would be teachers and servants of the Word, that no estate and no community would be left destitute of a church where prayers and hymns and the offering of the Lord's Day are continually made, and where the winepress and the fruits of labor are blessed because God has first been honored. We ask that He will not leave His people as orphans, but will come to them by His Spirit and His presence.
We pray that the goal of all teaching would be love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith, and that young and old alike would be guarded from deception, from fear and lies, from wrongdoing, from evil people and impostors, from those who profess to know God but deny Him by their deeds and who have a form of godliness but deny its power. Grant that true believers would turn away from such ways and give diligence to study and to handle accurately the word of truth. Keep them from the father of lies, the ancient serpent and accuser, and wash them and sanctify them by the Word of Christ, which alone is the antidote to his unholy flood.
We ask that the gates of hell would not prevail against the Church which Christ builds, there or anywhere else in the world, and that the Church would make herself ready as a bride adorned by the righteous acts of those whom Jesus has made holy. Do not take your people out of the world, but keep them from the evil one, from unbelieving and evil people, and from the source of all murder and falsehood. Let the Gospel go forth purely and boldly through them, let it run and be received, and let those who hear it be kept by your power.
We thank you, Father, that you hear this prayer, and we ask all these things in the name of Jesus Christ, our only Savior, who alone is the way of salvation.
