WE ARE WHO WE ARE IN CHRIST BY THE WILL OF GOD
Paul identified himself as an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy, as his brother.
LORD, we no longer have to worry about our self identify. Now as new creatures in Christ, You identify us in Him, and have put us in Your body with a calling according to Your will. LORD, we want to fulfill our calling with joy. We want to be Your instruments of peace to be employed by You to win the lost and our own lost loved ones. We pray for each member of Your church that each be in the post that You assigned. Those whom You have assigned to our lost loved ones, may they be obedient to You and be fully equipped with Your armor, and labor in love.
GREETINGS! GRACE AND PEACE TO US
In 2 Corinthians, the Apostle Paul addressed the church in Corinth together with all of God’s holy people throughout Achaia. He declared grace and peace to them from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. God is a Father to the household of faith in the church, and we are blessed with our Father’s and the Lord Jesus Christ grace and peace.
LORD, instead of greeting our brothers and sisters in the Lord with a “Hello” or “Hi,” we ought to bless each other by proclaiming your grace and peace upon us. We lift up our hands in praise to You heavenly Father! Fill us with Your grace and peace, we pray. We desire to have grace and favor before those we want to win for Christ. We want to be among the wise that win souls, including our lost loved ones.
PRAISE BE TO THE GOD OF ALL COMFORT
Praise be
to the
God and Father
of our
Lord Jesus Christ
the Father
of compassion
and the God
of all comfort
Who comforts us
in
all our troubles
For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ,
So also our comfort abounds through Christ.
Praise, praise, praise to You merciful God, Who abundantly comforts us in all our troubles. We give You thanksgiving for Your compassions that are new every morning, and great is Your faithfulness. We pray Your mercy says no to leave in condemnation our lost loved ones that are yet without strength and living in sin. We receive comfort that You sent Your Son to save even the chief of sinners. Glory to God! We pray our lost loved ones will come to the light and make peace with You through Your Son. Comfort them with Your Word and may Your goodness bring them to repentance.
WHY GOD COMFORTS US
God comforts us in all our troubles,
so that we can comfort
those in any trouble
with the comfort
we ourselves receive from God.
If we are distressed,
it is for your comfort
and salvation.
Father, we want to face all our challenges with courage and faith. You are ever with us and will never leave us nor forsake us. You comfort us and use us to strengthen others with the same grace and comfort You impart to us. We are the body of the church and the Lord Jesus is the head. We are more than conquerors through Your Son that loved us and gave his life for us and nothing shall separate us from Your love that is in Him.
The Lord Jesus declared that the gates of hell will not prevail against Your church. We can go with faith and courage because of Your anointing given to us to preach deliverance to the captives, with Your Word of truth open the eyes of blind, to proclaim freedom to those that are in bondage to sin, and to release the oppressed. Father, bless us with faith that works by love.
PATIENT ENDURANCE IN SUFFERINGS
If we are comforted, it is for your comfort,
which produces in you
patient endurance
And our hope for you is firm,
because we know that just as you share in our sufferings,
so also you share in our comfort.
Amen Father, our hope for us and our brothers and sisters is firm. You comfort us to comfort others. May we not waste any experience but learn from it. As we go through these trials we are encouraged that it is producing in us patient endurance. We desire to be fruitful as we go about Your business to win souls. Father, whomever you send to our lost loved ones, they are hand-picked by You, the all-knowing and all-wise God. May we all stay at the task with the patient endurance that works for us and benefits those that are believing in You through our witness and testimony.
DON’T BE UNINFORMED ABOUT THE TROUBLES WE EXPERIENCE
Brothers and sisters, God doesn’t want us to be uninformed about the troubles we experience. The Apostle Paul experienced troubles in the province of Asia. He said:
“We were under
great pressure,
far beyond our ability to endure,
so that we despaired of life itself.
Indeed, we felt
we had received the sentence of death.”
WHY WE SUFFER
But this happened
that we might
not rely on ourselves but on God,
Who raises the dead.
Father, there are those times when we feel we are at a loss and can’t take anymore. May You remind us by Your Comforter that this is only a feeling because with You who strengthens us we can do all things. May we never rely on ourselves, but learn to always depend on You who raises the dead!
LORD, you showed Your strength over Pharaoh when he would not let Your people go. He had all the world’s power, but no match for Your power! Your sovereignty cannot be denied.
Your Spirit is the best witness, and we call upon You to be the witness in our own lives. May the lost and our lost loved ones acknowledge Your deliverance for us and of our brothers and sisters in the Lord that were once blind and lost, but now are found, and safely in Your flock.
We want for our lost loved ones to bow their knee to Your name and confess that Jesus Christ is Lord of all to Your glory. We want our lost loved ones to surrender themselves to You because You first loved them.
HE HAS, HE WILL, HE WILL CONTINUE
He has
delivered us from such a
deadly peril,
And He will deliver us again.
On Him we have set our hope
that He will continue to deliver us.
Our heavenly Father, thank You for all the times You have delivered us and our lost loved ones from deadly peril. We have Your Word that You will deliver us again, and will continue to deliver us. We have set our hope on You. For You are God alone, and if You be for us, what can stand against.
As for our lost loved ones, we have Your Word, to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and we shall be saved and our house.
WE HELP THOSE THAT ARE SUFFERING BY OUR PRAYERS
We help those that are suffering by our prayers!
Then many will give thanks for the gracious favor granted us
in answer to the prayers of many.
Father, we are praying for others, and they are praying for us, especially for those that suffering for being a Christian and taking a stand for Your truth in wanting to win the lost. We are praying for the ones whom You send to our lost loved ones, and we pray our loved ones will be freed by hearing and believing Your truth, so that many thanks will rise up to You for granting our prayers and there be great rejoicing in heaven and earth!
WE DEPEND ON GOD’S GRACE
Our conscious testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world--
and especially in our relations with one another in the church--
with integrity
and godly sincerity,
not relying on world wisdom
but on God’s grace.
Grace, grace, marvelous grace is what we want to receive from You Father. We rely on Your grace for us to live in godliness and live with wisdom. We need Your grace when facing a difficult person or situation. The grace that saved us is the grace we need always. We desire this grace for our lost loved ones. Help them against all odds, heavenly Father. Be merciful to them and save them from their sins. LORD, You said that today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation. Save them today we pray.
OBEYING GOD’S WILL
Paul the Apostle was confident to visit the Corinthians so that they might benefit twice. He wanted to visit them on his way to Macedonia and to come back to them on his way back, and then to have them send him on his way to Judea. He asked if he was fickle when he intended to do this, or to make his plans in a world manner, so that in the same breath he could say “Yes, yes” and “No, no.”
LORD, we should not be presumptuous and get ahead of you, or fall behind when You prompt us to act. We should not do anything that is not in Your plan for us. Help us to know when to be still and allow You to fight our battles, and when You want us to take action. We don’t want to go anywhere without You leading us, or do anything of ourselves. We embrace Your Word, that in You we live, and move, and have our being. May those You send to our lost loved ones be obedient and heed Your instructions. Deliver our lost loved ones from those that are a stumbling block to them and don’t seek Your glory.
WE SAY AMEN TO GOD
As surely as God is faithful, the Apostle Paul’s message to the church as inspired by the Holy Ghost is not “Yes” and “No.” For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among the Corinthians by Paul, Silas and Timothy was not “Yes” and “No.”
GOD’S PROMISES ARE “AMEN” IN CHRIST
In Him
it has always been “Yes.”
For no matter how many promises God has
made, they are “Yes” in Christ.
So through Him the “Amen” is spoken by us
to the glory of God.
IT IS GOD
Now it is God
who makes both us and you
stand firm in Christ.
He has anointed us,
set His seal of ownership on us,
and put His Spirit in our hearts
as a deposit,
guaranteeing what is to come.
Father, we don’t have to worry if we are going to fall, because we do not rely on our flesh or the arm of flesh. It is You who makes us stand firm. You have anointed us, You set Your seal that we belong to You, and You’ve put Your Spirit in our hearts as a deposit. Your coming for us is guaranteed. LORD, we trust in Your salvation for our lost loved ones that they will not be left behind. No doubt, we shall come rejoicing bearing our sheaves with us!GOD IS OUR WITNESS
We can call God as our witness and even stake our life on it, as did the Apostle Paul. And he said, “that it was in order to spare the Corinthians that he did not return to Corinth.”
Compassionate God, You are not willing that any should perish but come to repentance and receive Jesus as their Lord and personal and sufficient Savior. You did not call Your church to condemn, but to be Your ambassadors and take to the lost the Gospel of peace between You and man through Your Son. We trust in Your anointing to do this work, we wholly depend on Your Spirit to be the faithful and true Witness.
WORKING TOGETHER WITH JOY
We should not lord it over others’ faith, but work with others with joy, because it is by faith that we stand firm.
LORD, help those that have been offended through people in the church. We don’t want for our lost loved ones to be spectators and contentious. We pray our church members be patient and work in Your love with those that oppose themselves. Have Your way LORD, to convince the world of sin, righteousness and of judgment.
Those whom You have added to the church, we pray they have a teachable spirit. We thank You for Your Spirit, and trust the Teacher. We are praying that we labor in Your love with joy. It is by faith in Your truth that we stand firm, and it is by grace through faith that our lost loved ones will be saved. Hosanna! In Jesus name, amen.
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