We join with you in lifting up your family, your mother, your children, your ministry and your business before our Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks with you for His sustaining grace from our first cry until our last breath. We thank God that you have come in the name of Jesus Christ, for it is only through Him that we have access to the Father and it is only by His name that we are saved. Acts 4:12 says there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved, and John 14:6 reminds us that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, and no one comes to the Father except through Him.
We hear your cry for daily provision for your business and for protection from those who oppose you, and for the opening of the newly built church for the salvation of perishing souls. We stand with you to ask our Father to supply your needs according to His riches in glory. Philippians 4:19 says my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus, and Proverbs 10:22 says Yahweh's blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it. We pray that He would grant honest work and daily income as you labor faithfully, and that your business would be a testimony of diligence and integrity, remembering Colossians 3:23 that whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men. We also gently encourage you to seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, as Matthew 6:33 teaches, trusting that all these things will be given to you as well, rather than pursuing prosperity for its own sake, and to remain content and generous as God prospers you.
We also hear your deep distress over the opposition to the new church and the actions of the minister in charge and others you believe are working against you, and your desire to see Isaiah 41:11,12 fulfilled and Luke 12:49 fulfilled and all witchcraft and demonic works burnt up. We agree with you that our struggle 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 as Ephesians 6:12 says, and that no weapon formed against God's people shall ultimately prosper when we abide in Christ. 2 Thessalonians 3:3 promises that the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one, and Psalm 91:1-2 reminds us that he who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
We must also lovingly correct and rebuke the desire to see people utterly destroyed. While Isaiah 41:11 says behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded, those who strive with you will be like nothing and shall perish, and Luke 12:49 says I came to throw fire on the earth, I wish it were already kindled, the fire of Christ is the purifying fire of the Holy Spirit and the gospel, not a call for us to curse individuals. Romans 12:19 says vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord, and Matthew 5:44 says love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who persecute you. We cannot pray for the destruction of people, but we do pray that every evil plan, every secret counsel, every work of witchcraft, and demonic oppression would be exposed, rendered powerless, and burnt up by the authority of Jesus Christ, and that those who oppose the gospel would be brought to repentance or removed from influence so that the church may be opened for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. 2 Corinthians 10:4 says the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds.
So we pray together now.
Father in heaven, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ we come before Your throne of grace on behalf of this family. We ask You to provide for their daily needs, to grant them honest work and daily income, and to bless their business as a testimony of diligence and integrity. We ask You to place a hedge of protection around them, their family, their ministry and their business, and to guard them from every evil plan and scheme of the enemy. We ask You to expose and render powerless every work of witchcraft, every secret counsel, and every demonic oppression against them, and to let Your purifying fire fall and consume every evil agenda. We pray that You would turn the hearts of those who oppose them, and if they will not repent, we ask You to remove their power to hinder Your work, so that Your name alone may be glorified.
We pray that You would fill this family with peace that passes all understanding, with joy in the Holy Spirit, and with prosperity according to Your wisdom, keeping them from fear and granting them good health as they walk in obedience to You. Let all glory be Yours. In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord we pray, Amen.