jezreel new testament church
Sowing God’s love in the communities of Stanley and beyond
Prayer Diary for September 2010
Wednesday 1st
Romans 12:1
1) Lord I thank you for Your mercies that You pour upon us and Your outrageous grace.
2) Lord I offer my body as a living sacrifice to You. I give You my heart, my mind, my soul that I might be holy and pleasing to You.
3) Lord I pray this would be my reasonable service. That my life would be an act of worship to You, giving You the glory. Lord I surrender all to You.
Thursday 2nd
Romans 12:2
1) “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world.” Lord this is my prayer that I would not be squeezed into the mould of the world and follow the way of the world.
2) Lord I pray I would be transformed by the renewal of my mind that I would follow fully after You, that You would change my thinking, I would listen only to Your voice and Your direction and not the ways of the world.
3) Lord help me to see things as You see them, to be transformed by You, then I will know and be able to walk in You will, Your good, pleasing and perfect will for me.
Friday 3rd
1 John 2:15-17
1) “Do not love the world or anything in the world.” Lord I pray that this world would not have any hold over me. Lord I pray I would be seeking after You and Your kingdom.
2) Lord we know that the things of this world will pass away, they are only temporary. Lord fix my eyes on You.
3) Lord I thank you that You and Your word will never pass away. Lord I pray I will do the will of God and carry out Your purposes in my life.
Saturday 4th
2 Corinthians 4:18
1) Lord I pray my eyes would not be on the things of this world which are temporary.
2) Lord I fix my eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.
3) Lord I fix my eyes on You and the things of your kingdom which are eternal. Lord let my complete focus be on You and only You.
Sunday 5th
Romans 12:3
1) Lord I pray I would boast in You alone and not in the things I do because it is only through You we can do anything. When we are weak then You are strong.
2) Lord teach me to put the needs of others before my own.
3) Lord I thank you for the amazing sacrifice of Your Son Jesus who gave Himself for me.
Monday 6th
Romans 12:4-5
1) Lord I thank you that You have made us all different and unique but of equal value in Your kingdom.
2) Lord I pray that we would value each other just as You value us. Lord I pray that You would help us to love and support each other that others would know we are Your disciples because of the love we have for each other.
3) Lord Jesus we pray again that we as Your body would have that oneness just as You and the Father are one.
Tuesday 7th
Romans 12:6
1) Lord I pray that You would reveal to me the gifts You have given me. Lord I pray You would help me develop the gifts You have given me and to use them the way You want them to be used.
2) Lord I thank you that You have given us all different gifts and we all need each other to function as Your body. Lord I pray that we would honour and respect each others gifts and encourage one another.”
3) “Lord I thank you for the gift of prophecy because it is then we are hearing the heart of the Father. Lord continue to speak to us through Your prophets and help us to hear what is been said and act upon Your word.”
Wednesday 8th
Romans 12:7-8
1) Lord help us to use the gifts you have given us. Lord teach us to step out in faith and reliance on You.
2) Father we pray for those who have a gift of serving that they would serve. If it is teaching let them teach. If it is encouraging, let them encourage. If it is contributing to the needs of others let them give generously. If it is leadership let them govern diligently. If it is showing mercy, let them do it cheerfully.
3) Lord I pray that whatever gift we have we would use it to give glory to You. Lord I thank you that You have equipped us with everything we need and You give us good gifts.
Thursday 9th
Romans 12:9
1) “Let your love be sincere a real thing.” Father I pray in a world that offers conditional love we would offer unconditional love that reflects You.
2) “Hate what is evil, loathe all ungodliness, turn in horror from wickedness, but hold fast to that which is good.”
3) Father I pray we would not get sucked into the things of the world but would hold fast to what is good. Lord I pray my life will honour You in all I do and say.
Friday 10th
1 John 4:7-8
1) “God is love.” Lord I pray for a deeper relationship with You that I might truly know Your love for me.
2) Lord I pray that I would seek You so that the love You have in Your heart for me will be in my heart also.
3) Lord fill me with Your love that I might be able to give Your love to others.
Saturday 11th
1 Corinthians 13:4
1) Lord increase Your love within me that I might live the way You intend me to live. Change my heart O lord.
2) “Love endures long and is patient and kind.”
3) Lord I pray I would be patient and kind by Your help and through the power of Your spirit that lives in me.
Sunday 12th
1 Corinthians 13:4
1) “Love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy.”
2) Father help me to remember that I am blessed with every spiritual blessing and I am an heir of the King and if I give to You, You will give to me a good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over.
3) Lord I thank you that I am rich in You. Father help me to see through Your eyes and not the eyes of the world as those things the world values are only temporary and will pass away.
Monday 13th
1 Corinthians 13:4
1) “Love is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.”
2) Father let my boast be in You alone because of all You have done for me.
3) Lord I acknowledge You as the source of all I do and give all the glory to You.
Tuesday 14th
1 Corinthians 13:5
1) “Love is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly.”
2) Lord I pray I would put others before myself.
3) Lord I pray the way I am with others would glorify You. I would live by Your standards and not the standards of the world. I would love my neighbour as myself.
Wednesday 15th
1 Corinthians 13:5
1) “Love (God’s love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it (it pays no attention to a suffered wrong).”
2) Lord I thank you that I can be secure in Your love for me. It is as I gain a greater revelation of Your unending love for me that I can live like this. Help me to receive Your love.
3) Lord I pray for Your servant heart and that heart of forgiveness.
Thursday 16th
1 Corinthians 13:6
1) “Love does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail.”
2) Lord I pray I would stand up for Your truth and not compromise Your word.
3) Lord I pray I would not delight in evil but rejoice in the truth. Lord I thank you that I am in the world but not of it.
Friday 17th
1 Corinthians 13:7
1) “Love bears up under anything and everything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything (without weakening).”
2) Lord I thank you when I have Your love I can face anything and I can live the way You intended me to live.
3) Lord I thank you for the love and grace You lavish upon me. Lord I pray I will extend that love and grace to others.
Saturday 18th
Romans 12:10
1) “Love one another with brotherly affection (as members of one family) giving precedence and showing honour to one another.”
2) Lord it is Your command that we love our neighbour as ourselves. Thank you Lord that You pour in Your love that I can pour it out to others.
3) Lord I pray I would honour others above myself.”
Sunday 19th
Romans 12:11
1) Lord I pray I would be aglow and burning with the Spirit, Your Spirit that dwells within me.
2) Lord fan into flame a passion for You Lord that I might serve You with all of my mind, my body, my soul and my spirit.
3) Lord help me to be totally abandoned to You and all You desire me to do.
Monday 20th
Romans 12:12
1) Lord I pray I would be joyful in hope because the joy of the Lord is my strength.
2) Lord I pray I would be steadfast and patient in suffering and tribulation with Your help and strength.
3) Lord I pray I would be faithful and constant in prayer because You tell us to pray without ceasing.
Tuesday 21st
Romans 12:13
1) Lord I pray we would not only pray for our brothers and sisters in need but we would give practically as well.
2) Lord help us to practise the gift of hospitality.
3) Lord I thank you that You bless us so we can bless others.
Wednesday 22nd
Romans 12:14
1) Lord I pray that I will forgive others as You have forgiven me. That I would bless and not curse.
2) Lord, Your word tells me, “Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
3) Lord Jesus I pray I would have that same attitude as You had when You were dying on a cross, when You said, “Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”
Thursday 23rd
Romans 12:15
1) “Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.”
2) Lord Your word tells us we are all part of the one body therefore when one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honoured, every part rejoices with it.
3) Lord I pray we would support and love one another the way Your word instructs us.
Friday 24th
Romans 12:16
1) Lord I pray we would live in harmony with one another, as unity commands a blessing.
2) “Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position.”
3) Lord You came to seek and to save the lost, the hurting and the dying. Lord help me to spread Your love among these people.
Saturday 25th
Romans 12:17
1) “Do not repay anyone evil for evil.”
2) Lord Your word tells us to turn the other cheek. Lord we pray that we would repay evil with good and forgiveness. Lord let your light shine through us.
3) “But take thought for what is honest and proper and noble aiming to be above reproach in the sight of everyone.” Lord we pray that our lives would be a reflection of You.
Sunday 26th
Romans 12:18
1) “If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.”
2) Lord I thank you that You equip us to do everything You ask us and it is Your spirit that empowers and enable us to do these things.
3) Father I pray we would be sensitive towards other people and live the way You intended us to live, glorifying You in all that we do. More of You and less of me.
Monday 27th
Romans 12:19
1) “Do not take revenge.”
2) “Lord we recognise that Your ways are different than the world we live in. Lord I pray Your will be done in me.
3) “For it is written, “It is mine to avenge, I will repay” says the Lord”. Lord I recognise You are a God of justice and it is not up to us to take revenge. Lord You are constantly watching over us.
Tuesday 28th
Romans 12:20
1) Lord Your word tells us, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty give him something to drink.”
2) Lord we pray that we would bless and not curse.
3) Lord Your word tells us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. Lord we pray for Your love to flow out of us.
Wednesday 29th
Romans 12:21
1) “Do not let yourself be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”
2) Lord I pray we would be carriers of Your light, Your truth and Your goodness. Lord I pray we would see others as You see them and behave towards them the way You would behave towards them, offering them Your love and forgiveness.
3) Lord we know that we can only live like this if we go deeper and deeper into You. Lord consume us with Your love. Take us deeper, take us higher.
Thursday 30th
Philippians 4:4-5
1) “Rejoice in the Lord always [delight, gladden yourselves in Him] again I say Rejoice.” Lord helps us to rejoice always in You no matter what the circumstances are.
2) “Let all men know and perceive and recognise your unselfishness, (your considerateness, your forbearing spirit.)”
3) Lord we thank you that it is You that transforms us. Lord we give ourselves to You that You would change and transform us to be the people You intend us to be and live the way You desire us to live and not to conform to the standards of the world. Lord we thank you that it is Your love within us that enables us to do this.