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Sign Guestbook \| View Guestbook Comments? Questions? [email protected]	Prayer topics Prayers For My Community - First Nations, All Nations Forgive My Sinful, Self-Centered Attitudes, Lord Protect and Guide Us As We Pray, Lord I Want to Hear Your Voice, My Loving Father God Prayer for my Community - First Nations, All Nations Date: October 5, 2004 I pray again for the native people all through BC and Canada and North America, and for aboriginal people throughout the world. Dear God, please break the power of territorial spirits and traditional beliefs which are opposed to the Spirit and to the redemption by Jesus Christ. Break through, destroy, and then rebuild by the power and blood of King Jesus. And by the power of the Holy Spirit, and the love and purpose of the Father. Heal the land, Lord, heal the hurts, heal the historical differences, prejudices, hatred and bitterness. Replace it with the eternal and perfect love and peace and joy and holiness of our wonderful God and King eternal, mighty, powerful, worthy of all glory and honor and praise. Thank You, Lord. Amen! Then break forth from the native peoples to spread Your glory, in a mighty roaring fire of cleansing and purifying among the peoples who have moved into the land, and caused such pain and sorrow. Bring repentance and forgiveness and love, dear Lord. Break all the bitterness and hatred and resentment and sorrow, dear God. Heal the pain, oh dear God, please heal the pain. Revive us, dear God, sanctify and make us holy, fill us with Your Spirit, dear Lord, that we may go into all the world, starting at home, and among our cultural neighbors, and in our country, and going to the uttermost parts of the world to spread the great, glad, wonderful, joyous, eternal hope and news of Your kingdom and Your Kingship. In Jesus’ name! Thank You for my paper route (including the income!). Thank You for walking me through it each time, and helping me to pray for my home, my neighborhood, my community, the native people… for a great and mighty outpouring of Your Spirit and a great harvest and ingathering of souls into Your kingdom. Lord, it is not Your will that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. You can do this! All! Just imagine! You are that big! Let Your will be done! It is Your will, it is in Your Word. Lord, I pray that You will especially do Your work in the seniors in the community who have hardened their hearts toward You for so many years that it seems like it is impossible for them to even hear Your voice any longer. But nothing is impossible for You. Soften, break their hardened hearts, Lord Jesus, until they fall on their faces in sorrow and repentance, and cry unto You to forgive their sins and their resistance to You. Save them, Lord God, sanctify and make them holy. Then use them to reach their children and grandchildren and great grandchildren. Lord, You have also been showing me that so many people are content without You. They feel that their nice homes and belongings and jobs and community and fun are all they need. Oh, dear God, help them to see that they need You! Destroy their comfort, Lord, till they cry out to You in their pain and loneliness and emptiness and sorrow. And then You can come into their lives and give them wholeness and satisfaction that they never even imagined could exist. Oh, do this work in our community, dear God. Lord, I believe You have shown me that there is a great darkness in the area of ____ Street, especially centered on the land where the ____ is located. Lord, please use me to continue to pray for the breaking and total destruction of the power of the enemy; and for the power of God, of the Holy Spirit in all Your strength and glory, to break forth and totally fill up every corner of darkness with the light of Jesus… every bit of dirt and darkness blown away, never to return. That is Your ultimate will, isn’t it, Father? Do Your work, fulfill Your purposes, dear Lord, in the name of Jesus. Thank You, Lord. Lord, I pray for the people who are already in Your family, who already are light flickering in their community, Jesus. Please pour out on them the oil of Your Spirit, so that they shine forth like mighty beams of light breaking through the darkness, destroying the haunts, the dark closets and corners and hide-outs of the enemies, reaching into every crack and crevice until the glory of the Lord falls down and fills all the people with a mighty wind and tongues of fire. Bring Pentecost upon us, dear God. Give us boldness, courage, desire, deep longing and determination and perseverance and love to reach out to every lost soul, every hurting person, those who know You already and those who are still lost, all alike, to bring them into a great harvest of Your kingdom before it is too lat, dear God. Help us to love others as You do. Oh God, break our hearts with the things that break Yours. Bring us into unity and holiness and deep, abiding prayer and obedience and worship and evangelism until all our community, all our country, all our world is reached with Your gospel. Transform us, Lord. Renew us. Place in us the heart and mind of Christ. Make us one, Lord, as You are one. Don’t let us give up, keep us going until Your will is accomplished. Thank You, Jesus. In Your precious name I pray, Amen. Oh God, thank You for revealing Yourself, Your purposes, Your will to me through Your Holy Spirit and the love of Jesus and Your Word. Thank You for Your great salvation. Thank You for entering into such a beautiful relationship with “such a worm as I.” Return to the top Forgive My Sinful, Self-Centered Attitudes, Lord Date: October 7, 2004 Oh, dear God, I feel You have been showing me so much to pray for and about. But I am having a real struggle knowing how – or if – I should share that with others. I just feel a great need, a great burden, to pray together. Oh dear God, don’t let me and my emotions and personal experiences and interests get in the way of what is truly Your will. Forgive me for my self-centeredness, Lord. I just keep seeing more and more of it every day. And I am so embarrassed and humiliated – made humble, realizing what people must think. And even more so, what You must think. But You know me, Lord. You know my heart, You know that I do want to serve You and that I am ashamed, even astounded, of my sinful, self-centered attitudes, words, actions, thoughts. Oh dear God, purify my life. You have purified my spirit by the blood of Jesus. But oh dear God, how totally rarely, almost never, does my life match up. Again and again I begin to see myself as that wretch, that worm, that lost one the hymn writers speak of. Oh God, I read today in Exodus about the priest’s clothing, and how, if they came into the holy place, and, even more so, into the Holy of Holies, if they did not enter in perfect consecration and holiness and anointedness, they would die! Oh God, I want to be holy before You! Lord, I don’t care anymore about “my” things or “my” passions, or “my” responsibilities, or “my” purpose and plans. I just want to be wrapped up in love and relationship and obedience and praise and holiness with and to You. Help me, Jesus. Help me, Holy Spirit. Please, help me Father. My God, three-in-one. Hallelujah! Dear God, please be my Lord, my master, totally in control, with me in total trust and obedience to You. You do love me, always, intensely, forever good – so I can trust You and know You. Thank You, Lord. Amen. Return to the top Protect and Guide Us as we Pray, Lord Date: October 9, 2004 Dear God, it wasn’t easy this morning praying on my route. I had a hard time focusing, and sometimes I felt a great weight. But on Friday morning papers I really sensed Your Spirit and the prayers of our life group. Lord, I don’t know for sure what’s always happening, and I know my feelings aren't reliable, but I also know what Your Word says about the enemy’s activity when Your people start to pray. Protect us, Lord. Guide us how to pray, in the Father’s will, by the blood of Jesus, dear Holy Spirit. Give us strength and perseverance, dear God. Build our character and our love for You and for others, and our obedience to Your will, our repentance and sorrow and submission to You, dear God. Impassion us, dear God, by the power of the Holy Spirit. Return to the top I Want To Hear Your Voice, my Loving Father God Date: October 16, 2004 Lord, what about hearing Your voice? I read that book, The Veil, about the pioneers who encountered the Mormons, and it brought tears to my eyes, because the way they were hearing Your voice reminded me so much of how I used to hear You speak so gently to me, “My child...,” and it just seems so long since that was happening, and I can’t help but think that it is my fault, it is me who isn’t sitting still and listening. I feel like maybe I’ve been so busy seeking my purpose and trying out different ways to serve You and serve others, and trying so hard to do the things we are told to do, like “pray till you pray” and “read the Bible through” and so on, and I have been doing those things, but I feel like maybe I have gotten so busy that I haven’t had time to just sit and listen to You. Like Martha instead of like Mary. Maybe my husband telling me I’m doing too much at church is not just him wanting attention, as I have been thinking, but maybe it is wisdom from You. I am beginning to see that he has a relationship to You that I didn’t know existed. It’s a bit hard to take, or even accept, because I feel awfully left out, and that hurts. Lord, it hurts like rejection… I guess it’s a thing I always wanted to share, but it’s not so easy for him. Anyway, You are teaching me to leave it all in Your hands, and I do, do, do thank You for that. Well, I am hearing Your voice in others ways, as I prayer walk, and at other times too. This morning You clearly brought to my mind various names to pray for, and a burden to do so. And things to pray for, too, in relation to my neighborhood, community, nation. But Lord, maybe I just need to hear You tell me You love me. Is it okay to ask that? I know You do love me… I just need a “hug.” I love You, Lord. You are so beautiful and wonderful to me. Praise Your precious name, Lord. Thank You for Your great salvation, dear Jesus. Thank You, Holy Spirit, for helping me pray. Thank You, Father, for Your loving purposes and direction and for shaping me. You are my God, the only God. I praise Your name always. Amen! Return to the top
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	Main Page \| My Articles for The Life Connection \| Prayers and Meditations \| Poetry Haida Gwaii Reflections \| Education & Home-School \| Family
Sign Guestbook \| View Guestbook Comments? Questions? [email protected]	Prayer topics Prayers For My Community - First Nations, All Nations Forgive My Sinful, Self-Centered Attitudes, Lord Protect and Guide Us As We Pray, Lord I Want to Hear Your Voice, My Loving Father God Prayer for my Community - First Nations, All Nations Date: October 5, 2004 I pray again for the native people all through BC and Canada and North America, and for aboriginal people throughout the world. Dear God, please break the power of territorial spirits and traditional beliefs which are opposed to the Spirit and to the redemption by Jesus Christ. Break through, destroy, and then rebuild by the power and blood of King Jesus. And by the power of the Holy Spirit, and the love and purpose of the Father. Heal the land, Lord, heal the hurts, heal the historical differences, prejudices, hatred and bitterness. Replace it with the eternal and perfect love and peace and joy and holiness of our wonderful God and King eternal, mighty, powerful, worthy of all glory and honor and praise. Thank You, Lord. Amen! Then break forth from the native peoples to spread Your glory, in a mighty roaring fire of cleansing and purifying among the peoples who have moved into the land, and caused such pain and sorrow. Bring repentance and forgiveness and love, dear Lord. Break all the bitterness and hatred and resentment and sorrow, dear God. Heal the pain, oh dear God, please heal the pain. Revive us, dear God, sanctify and make us holy, fill us with Your Spirit, dear Lord, that we may go into all the world, starting at home, and among our cultural neighbors, and in our country, and going to the uttermost parts of the world to spread the great, glad, wonderful, joyous, eternal hope and news of Your kingdom and Your Kingship. In Jesus’ name! Thank You for my paper route (including the income!). Thank You for walking me through it each time, and helping me to pray for my home, my neighborhood, my community, the native people… for a great and mighty outpouring of Your Spirit and a great harvest and ingathering of souls into Your kingdom. Lord, it is not Your will that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. You can do this! All! Just imagine! You are that big! Let Your will be done! It is Your will, it is in Your Word. Lord, I pray that You will especially do Your work in the seniors in the community who have hardened their hearts toward You for so many years that it seems like it is impossible for them to even hear Your voice any longer. But nothing is impossible for You. Soften, break their hardened hearts, Lord Jesus, until they fall on their faces in sorrow and repentance, and cry unto You to forgive their sins and their resistance to You. Save them, Lord God, sanctify and make them holy. Then use them to reach their children and grandchildren and great grandchildren. Lord, You have also been showing me that so many people are content without You. They feel that their nice homes and belongings and jobs and community and fun are all they need. Oh, dear God, help them to see that they need You! Destroy their comfort, Lord, till they cry out to You in their pain and loneliness and emptiness and sorrow. And then You can come into their lives and give them wholeness and satisfaction that they never even imagined could exist. Oh, do this work in our community, dear God. Lord, I believe You have shown me that there is a great darkness in the area of ____ Street, especially centered on the land where the ____ is located. Lord, please use me to continue to pray for the breaking and total destruction of the power of the enemy; and for the power of God, of the Holy Spirit in all Your strength and glory, to break forth and totally fill up every corner of darkness with the light of Jesus… every bit of dirt and darkness blown away, never to return. That is Your ultimate will, isn’t it, Father? Do Your work, fulfill Your purposes, dear Lord, in the name of Jesus. Thank You, Lord. Lord, I pray for the people who are already in Your family, who already are light flickering in their community, Jesus. Please pour out on them the oil of Your Spirit, so that they shine forth like mighty beams of light breaking through the darkness, destroying the haunts, the dark closets and corners and hide-outs of the enemies, reaching into every crack and crevice until the glory of the Lord falls down and fills all the people with a mighty wind and tongues of fire. Bring Pentecost upon us, dear God. Give us boldness, courage, desire, deep longing and determination and perseverance and love to reach out to every lost soul, every hurting person, those who know You already and those who are still lost, all alike, to bring them into a great harvest of Your kingdom before it is too lat, dear God. Help us to love others as You do. Oh God, break our hearts with the things that break Yours. Bring us into unity and holiness and deep, abiding prayer and obedience and worship and evangelism until all our community, all our country, all our world is reached with Your gospel. Transform us, Lord. Renew us. Place in us the heart and mind of Christ. Make us one, Lord, as You are one. Don’t let us give up, keep us going until Your will is accomplished. Thank You, Jesus. In Your precious name I pray, Amen. Oh God, thank You for revealing Yourself, Your purposes, Your will to me through Your Holy Spirit and the love of Jesus and Your Word. Thank You for Your great salvation. Thank You for entering into such a beautiful relationship with “such a worm as I.” Return to the top Forgive My Sinful, Self-Centered Attitudes, Lord Date: October 7, 2004 Oh, dear God, I feel You have been showing me so much to pray for and about. But I am having a real struggle knowing how – or if – I should share that with others. I just feel a great need, a great burden, to pray together. Oh dear God, don’t let me and my emotions and personal experiences and interests get in the way of what is truly Your will. Forgive me for my self-centeredness, Lord. I just keep seeing more and more of it every day. And I am so embarrassed and humiliated – made humble, realizing what people must think. And even more so, what You must think. But You know me, Lord. You know my heart, You know that I do want to serve You and that I am ashamed, even astounded, of my sinful, self-centered attitudes, words, actions, thoughts. Oh dear God, purify my life. You have purified my spirit by the blood of Jesus. But oh dear God, how totally rarely, almost never, does my life match up. Again and again I begin to see myself as that wretch, that worm, that lost one the hymn writers speak of. Oh God, I read today in Exodus about the priest’s clothing, and how, if they came into the holy place, and, even more so, into the Holy of Holies, if they did not enter in perfect consecration and holiness and anointedness, they would die! Oh God, I want to be holy before You! Lord, I don’t care anymore about “my” things or “my” passions, or “my” responsibilities, or “my” purpose and plans. I just want to be wrapped up in love and relationship and obedience and praise and holiness with and to You. Help me, Jesus. Help me, Holy Spirit. Please, help me Father. My God, three-in-one. Hallelujah! Dear God, please be my Lord, my master, totally in control, with me in total trust and obedience to You. You do love me, always, intensely, forever good – so I can trust You and know You. Thank You, Lord. Amen. Return to the top Protect and Guide Us as we Pray, Lord Date: October 9, 2004 Dear God, it wasn’t easy this morning praying on my route. I had a hard time focusing, and sometimes I felt a great weight. But on Friday morning papers I really sensed Your Spirit and the prayers of our life group. Lord, I don’t know for sure what’s always happening, and I know my feelings aren't reliable, but I also know what Your Word says about the enemy’s activity when Your people start to pray. Protect us, Lord. Guide us how to pray, in the Father’s will, by the blood of Jesus, dear Holy Spirit. Give us strength and perseverance, dear God. Build our character and our love for You and for others, and our obedience to Your will, our repentance and sorrow and submission to You, dear God. Impassion us, dear God, by the power of the Holy Spirit. Return to the top I Want To Hear Your Voice, my Loving Father God Date: October 16, 2004 Lord, what about hearing Your voice? I read that book, The Veil, about the pioneers who encountered the Mormons, and it brought tears to my eyes, because the way they were hearing Your voice reminded me so much of how I used to hear You speak so gently to me, “My child...,” and it just seems so long since that was happening, and I can’t help but think that it is my fault, it is me who isn’t sitting still and listening. I feel like maybe I’ve been so busy seeking my purpose and trying out different ways to serve You and serve others, and trying so hard to do the things we are told to do, like “pray till you pray” and “read the Bible through” and so on, and I have been doing those things, but I feel like maybe I have gotten so busy that I haven’t had time to just sit and listen to You. Like Martha instead of like Mary. Maybe my husband telling me I’m doing too much at church is not just him wanting attention, as I have been thinking, but maybe it is wisdom from You. I am beginning to see that he has a relationship to You that I didn’t know existed. It’s a bit hard to take, or even accept, because I feel awfully left out, and that hurts. Lord, it hurts like rejection… I guess it’s a thing I always wanted to share, but it’s not so easy for him. Anyway, You are teaching me to leave it all in Your hands, and I do, do, do thank You for that. Well, I am hearing Your voice in others ways, as I prayer walk, and at other times too. This morning You clearly brought to my mind various names to pray for, and a burden to do so. And things to pray for, too, in relation to my neighborhood, community, nation. But Lord, maybe I just need to hear You tell me You love me. Is it okay to ask that? I know You do love me… I just need a “hug.” I love You, Lord. You are so beautiful and wonderful to me. Praise Your precious name, Lord. Thank You for Your great salvation, dear Jesus. Thank You, Holy Spirit, for helping me pray. Thank You, Father, for Your loving purposes and direction and for shaping me. You are my God, the only God. I praise Your name always. Amen! Return to the top
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