ACCEPTANCE
Father God, we are so relieved and happy to have been reconciled to You because of our Savior, Jesus. What love You showed us to be called Your children. We are so blessed to be Your family, to no longer be rejected but accepted by You in the beloved. Now LORD, we pray we also find grace and favor among the brethren in the church. In the church there are still issues because of yielding to the flesh and not following after the spirit. This is not good when it comes to winning our lost loved ones and they witness poor testimonies. But with You LORD, who came to save and seek the lost, nothing will stand in the way and the gates of hell will not prevail against Your church.
IT'S THE GOSPEL, CHRISTIAN
+Help us receive revelation from You, Father God, and to respond to You when it comes to our affairs in the church and with the church leadership. It's about the saving Gospel, LORD, we want to be sure we are not wasting our energy and lives and that we are not running and have not been running our race in vain.
May we Your body always present this Gospel in the church and preach it to the world. Send Your saving gospel to our lost loved ones.
Father, send us Christian companions, fellow-pilgrims like Barnabas and Titus that You sent to the Apostle Paul. After 14 years he met personally with the esteemed leaders of his day. The issue: The law verses the freedom You've given us in Christ. In those days there was the issue of circumcision.
+Deliver Your church and our lost loved ones from confusion and wrong teachings and false believers that have infiltrated into the church ranks. Let us the church know that we know, and may our lost loved ones know that You give to all believers grace and freedom in Christ Jesus, no longer to be slaves to live under the law, whether Jew or Gentile. These false brethren want to make Your people slaves again. But may we not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved and be preached to the world and to our lost loved ones. Let them hear this pure Gospel, repent, and be saved.
GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS
Father, You let us know through the inspiration of Your Spirit in the writings of the apostle Paul that before You those that are held in high esteem in our churches should make no difference t us. You do not show favoritism and they should add nothing to the MESSAGE You've ALREADY written in the Bible. May these brethren, those esteemed as pillars," and all members of the churches recognize the grace given Your laborers, the entrusted task of the preaching the gospel both the the Jews and the Gentiles, for there is one gospel. In Paul's day, Paul was entrusted to preach to the Gentiles and Peter to the Jews.
+May it be You, LORD GOD, who is at work in Your laborers to preach Your saving gospel, for it should be You that gives us all the grace to do Your work.
You are the Director to send forth Your laborers to the world and to our lost loved ones that they might be saved.
REMEMBER THE POOR
LORD, may Your church continue to remember the poor, the very thing Your people should be eager to do all along.
BE NOT AFRAID TO STAND FOR THE TRUTH
Father God, even in the apostles early church after Jesus had risen from the dead, the "spiritual giants" made mistakes and got tempted to pull back to their old ways and the law. They also influenced other strong brethren in the faith.
LORD, we don't want to be ashamed to be seen and fellowship with new converts, and especially with those that are walking in Your truth and light. We do not want to be hypocritical and two-faced to behave a certain way with one group of Christians and another way with another group. We also want to be able to confront people in the church that are doing this, as the apostle Paul did when he opposed Cephas.
+LORD, help us and lost loved ones to act in line with the truth of the gospel. May we walk by faith and not have religious customs that are thought to be necessary to be saved. We know a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
+LORD, we know grace is not a license to sin, but freedom from sin. We died to the law so that we might live for You and have been crucified with Christ, and we no longer live, but Christ lives in us. The life we now live in the body, we live by the faith in the Son of God, who loved us and gave himself for us. May we not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing.
+By Your grace, LORD, save our lost loved ones.
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