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Prayer Relay Movement September 19, 2020 Leave a Comment

Prayer For My Girlfriend: Bringing God’s Power

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It is important to pray for our loved ones at all times. Not least because of how much they mean to us. The ones that spend a lot of time with us tend to influence us more than we realise. That is why this prayer for my girlfriend is crucial for any Christian. This is someone that you may potentially spend your whole life with.

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Oftentimes who we are during this period shapes who we are within the context of a marriage. Changing the title of the relationship and cementing it with a commitment before God will go a long way. However, it does not miraculously change us as a person.

It does not alter the dynamics of our relationship. Problems that we have now if unresolved will carry into our marriage. There will be uncertain times in this universe that we live in. The cynical will remind us that death is the only certainty. It is easy to forget God’s awesome blessings in this lifetime. The gift that is the wonderful angel, your girlfriend, being one of these awesome blessings.

Prayer To Restore A Fractured Relationship

We are individuals. There is no chance that we will always see eye to eye. In the best cases, we would handle our disagreement in a loving manner. The worst cases leave us with hurt.

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Galatians 6:2 King James Version
²Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

When our relationships are fractured, a resolution ought to be reached before the hurt turns to bitterness. Our prayer here is that wherever there is hurt, there would be healing.

Prayer

Dear Heavenly Father,

I pray for my girlfriend. Lord whatever hurt that I may have caused her unknowingly, would you open my eyes to see it. Even if I am not to see it, father, I pray that you would bring healing where I have caused hurt.

Lord, I pray that my heart would be softened to let go of any offense that she may have caused me. Grant me a heart that is forgiving at all times. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Dear Lord,

I pray that our relationship would be even stronger as a result of this. I know that where you are there is transformation. Raise us to a greater dimension. Where our efforts would have failed cause us to walk in victory. In Jesus’ name. Amen

Birthday Prayer for My Girlfriend

Birthdays are an important day, whether we choose to celebrate them or to see them as just another day. Ultimately, the Lord has granted us the grace to see another year on this planet. That is something to be grateful for.

When our loved ones’ birthdays come along, the sentiment is the same. The Lord has blessed us with the grace to spend another year with them! That is a cause for celebration. Our prayer today is one of preservation and growth.

Prayer

Dear Heavenly Father,

I bless your name for seeing my girlfriend through to another year on this planet. I am blessed to be witness to it. I pray that your hand would be evident in her life at all times. Cover her with the blood of Jesus against the plots of her detractors. I pray for good health, peace of mind and eternal happiness for her. In the mighty name of Jesus. Amen

Good Morning Prayer for My Girlfriend

One of my favourite times to pray for my girlfriend is first thing in the morning. Our world is filled with uncertainty. God forbid that she would face any day without his covering.

What are some of the things that I pray for in the morning on behalf of my girlfriend?

Success throughout the day
Against anything that will rise against her
That God would go ahead of her
That she would not lose sight of him as the world swamps around her.

Prayer

Dear Heavenly Father,

I thank you for my beloved girlfriend. This morning I place her in your hands. Lord, whatever she has her eyes set on today, let it be guided by you into a resounding success. Bless the works of her hands. In Jesus’ name! Amen

Dear God,

I come against any arrows of the enemy that will fly against my girlfriend today. You are her rock and fortress. I thank you for covering her, for sheltering under your wings. No weapon formed against her will prosper. In Jesus’ name. Amen

Heavenly Father,

I ask that you would order my girlfriend’s steps as she ventures out today. May her foot never be set where you have not ordered. Go ahead of her. In Jesus’ name. Amen

Lord,

More than anything may she always remember that you are God. Where would she be without your grace? May your presence never be forgotten based on circumstances that my girlfriend faces today. In the mighty name of Jesus! Amen

Purpose

Psa 138:8
The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.

The danger of any relationship is that one would hinder the other’s God-given purpose. In an ideal situation, a couple would push one another towards that purpose. We want to pray that her heart desires may not fall to the wayside. Although difficult times will come, the Lord, Jesus Christ will see her through.

Prayer

Lord,

I thank you because nothing ever happens without you knowing. Nothing ever happens by chance. I pray that you would show me where and how to support my girlfriend in your purpose. May I never be seen to steer her off your path.

Lord,

I pray that you would use my girlfriend as a beacon for your glory in my life. May she always be one to push my closer to you. May my calling be strengthened by her presence and efforts. In Jesus’ name. Amen

Conclusion

Through the work of Christ and that of the Holy Spirit, we stand on the faith that these prayers have already been answered. We are believing God for divine intervention in our relationships. There is power even in a short prayer. Especially when it is done with love for special people in our lives.

May the Lord uphold those that are dearest to you. The aim should be for this to become a common thread in the fabric that is your prayer life. That you would continue to polish the gems that God has given us, that they may shine eternally.

I want to encourage you to use your text messages as a way to encourage your girlfriend. Let her know that the Lord is with her. Remind her that there is a bright side to every struggle that she may face. Your prayers are not in vain, dear Christian. You will experience God’s special glory.

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Prayer Relay Movement May 25, 2020 Leave a Comment

What stops us from praying

What stops us away from praying every day?

I have often wondered what stops us from praying? When God started the Prayer Relay, all he sent us out to do was to re-cultivate a culture of prayer in a world where it is dying more and more daily.

The fact that he says re-cultivate told us that this culture was there before, but has become more and more eroded by the modern world. This post will point out some of the things that have and continue to steal prayer from our generation. What stops us from praying every day? What stands in the way of our intimacy with God?

Walking with God means prayer happens naturally. What draws us away from God?

Lack of faith

Unlike in any previous generation, Christianity has become more and more challenged and times even mocked or ridiculed if that is at all possible. This has caused many believers to stray from their faith. Those who do not understand the times will be drawn away from what they believe in. The bible says Daniel understood from prophecy, that their time of captivity was close and began to pray it into coming.

He secured it in prayer. His understanding drew him into prayer. Most people nowadays do not recognise how prophetic these days are, thus they stray from prayer, yet like Daniel this is when they should be securing themselves in prayer. Read the word. Understanding it brings you unbreakable faith. Lack of faith is the first thing that draws us away from prayer. Daniel 9:2

Romans 10:17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.

2. Sin

I for one noticed this pattern in my own life, how sin sucks the prayer out of me. Glory to God for revealing this to me, for I have come to understand that when you fall is the time you need your father more.

Imagine being a child climbing a tree that your father warned you not to, if you found yourself in immediate danger, would you not call your father even though you know he warned you against what you are doing? I know I would.

What King David stood out for was his ability to accept his wrongs and take his faults before the Lord, even when you have failed him God’s love remain intact. He loves you regardless of you flaws, and believe you me, he knows them all!! Sin draws us away from prayer.

Romans 8:35 ³⁵Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death?

3. Unforgiveness/Self-condemnation

I believe one of the greatest tragedies in the church is that over the years, the church has used fear to motivate people into believing. As a result we do not have the relationship with God as he wants us to have. In most believers our fear of God is nor reverence, it is “scared” fear. As Andrew Wommack put it ,”We have been taught the God father instead of God the Father.”

As a result when we fail God, even though he forgives us it is hard to forgive ourselves. I am led to believe that the greatest reason for this is our fear for what “The God Father” will do to punish us for this. God is a tenderly loving father, he has and will always forgive us for our sin. Although that is not liberty to go and sin. Self-condemnation draws us away from prayer.

Psalm 103:12 12As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

4. A misconception of Love

Over the years I have come to understand that I had a very gross misconception of love. Thus I have found true love in Christ. Knowing him more has shown me what love really is. God is love! End of story.

What I thought was love was my affection for a female, which would soon fade away when she did something that I did not approve of or like. Yet even when I do things that God does not approve of or like, he still loves me, because he is love.

Most of our love today is based on a give and take relationship. She loves me, so I love her. I define love as “Giving my all and expecting nothing back.” If it is returned that is awesome, if not I still love anyway. An understanding of love puts you in a place of self denial, self betray even.

When you know love, you can’t help but pray. You just have this yearning in you to see people better and happier, and knowing the Lord can do this you take it all to him. A misconception of love draws us away from prayer.

Yesterday we talked about what draws us from prayer. If you missed the post you can read it here. In that post we looked at four things that draw us from prayer. Which we identified as sin, self-condemnation, misconception of love and a lack of faith. Today we will move on to four more. Once these have been identified, it is up to you as an individual to evaluate yourself and make it right for your own good.

Prayer allows us to communicate with our father, to speak our hearts and more so to grant him dominion in our lives, you need to understand that he does not force himself on you. The devil understands this, which is why he seeks to take away prayer from your life.

Without prayer, you are more vulnerable to his attacks, you are weak! Let us identify more of these things and make a change. The things that draw us away from God are usually also the things that draw us away from prayer.

The bible says, Adam, who had always had fellowship with God went and hid. Something that had happened caused him not to feel comfortable seeing God. It caused him not to feel comfortable speaking with God.

He had always been naked. What changed was that he began to worry about what God would see of him. He had something to hide.

5. Compartment life.

Most believers live compartmentalised lives. Lives where we have decided that this is where God can come in, and this is where he cannot. What we fail to realise is that God is a man of principle, he is a man of “all or nothing”.

He says in Revelation 3:15-16 15‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. 16‘So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.

He knows your deeds, he knows your wrongs and has already forgiven you. He desires that you would be either hot or cold. There is no grey area with God, you are either for or against him. Your own life will speak for you in this, how you choose to live when you are not in the public eye, he knows your deeds. Compartment life draws us from prayer.

6. Self Righteousness

Self righteousness keeps us from prayer. When we tell ourselves that we are in right standing with God. When we become unrepentant, we reach a point when God is no longer your God, you treat him as though he were your friend.

Do not misquote me “he is your friend”, but just as it is with your earthly father, even though he may be your friend he remains your father and is still to be viewed and treated in that capacity.

Isaiah 64:6 6For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Our righteousness is in our father through Christ, so we have no right to self righteousness.

Romans 5:17 17For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

7. Arrogance/Selfishness and naivety

Joel Beeke taught that a prayerless man is selfish because he does not pray for other, he is arrogant because he does not seek God’s will for his own life. When you understand the need for the hand of God on your own life, the need for prayer cannot possibly be overstated.

You need God to order your footsteps, so you ask him to. You need God to defend you against things that you cannot physically see let alone protect yourself from.

Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

You are naïve if you think it is by your own strength that you do what you do any day of the week. It is only through his enabling grace. Arrogance and selfishness are part of what draws us away from prayer.

8. Anger

The greatest phenomenon I have come to see, even among atheists is an anger against God. Many say they prayed at a time of need and did not see his hand, thus he is not in existence. God is a loving father, he said he would never leave nor forsake us.

I have been at points in my life where I felt he had done just that, but looking back now I see why that was the best thing for him to do, as it has all moulded me towards being the man that he wants me to be, the man that I want to be. Some do not pray, for they want to evade his will.

They are afraid of what his plans for them are, they do not want him to take them away from what they know. The only place you should ever let yourself be comfortable is in his will, because no matter what wind blows you have built on solid rock.

Let nothing take away your prayer. Just to have an audience with the King of Kings is in itself healing and therapeutic to me. I know my worries are in capable hands. Release your anger, anger with God can only hurt you! Anger draws us from prayer.

Father I commit my prayers into your hands. Enable me to possess that union with you. I thank you for that grace of an audience with you. I know it is well with me. In Jesus’ name.

Go ahead and share this with someone. Let us re-cultivate a culture of prayer. God bless you

Originally posted 2014-05-02 23:39:36.

Prayer Relay Movement May 25, 2020 1 Comment

What makes prayer so defining?

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DEFINING PRAYER

Of all our module titles, this one doesn’t sit too well. How can one fully define something as amazing as prayer? Prayer is simple as a concept but rather complex in practice. It is the one area of ministry that no one can police you.

Deep down we are all a people who appreciate human appreciation and approval. A well decorated church will get complimented on its look. A great praise and worship leader will be complimented on his/her gift, and perhaps even invited in sing at events.

Prayer warriors get none of this glory, yet their work is the most critical. Just let that sit in your spirit for a second. In truth, a “Well done” on earth is one less from heaven. Prayer meetings are still some of the least attended events in most churches across the world. There is no glitz and glamour in prayer. Prayer is just work. It’s effort. It is tiring, and can often be frustrating for the unseasoned intercessor.

At the core of it prayer is warfare. You are making a stand for God’s kingdom to come on this earth and his will to be done in the lives of his people. You are making a stand against plots and efforts of the devil and his cohorts. You don’t see it in the physical, but your prayer cause a shift in the realms of the spirit. Something begins to happen when you pray.

Daniel 9:23

The moment you began praying, a command was given. And now I am here to tell you what it was, for you are very precious to God. Listen carefully so that you can understand the meaning of your vision.

Daniel continued to press in for a response for his prayer, yet the bible shows us that the Lord had long released the answer that Daniel had requested. It was the continual pressing of Daniel that caused the Lord to command his angel to see what was going on. There are situations that we remain in that have long been resolved in heaven. Our giving up on earth before the response has become manifest means the results may never come to pass.

Is your view of Christ clear?

The role of intercessors is that of stepping in where everyone else has given up or turned away. We can be overly simplistic about prayer, but the Lord says he is after those who will pray in “Spirit and in Truth”. We live in a “politically correct” world, where truth is subjective. The Lord’s truth is universal. Are you and I still seeking that truth?

The greatest problem with a lot of learned men and esteemed theologians going as far back as Jesus’ time, is thinking that they have arrived. Thinking that they have figured this thing out. It is the learned scholars that would miss the Messiah’s coming because they believed they knew it all. Prayer strips you of all that false self-awareness and esteem.

A know it all, Saul, spent a long time diligently persecuting the God whom he thought his persecuting actions were in service of. Ponder on that for a moment. For it is not at Act 9:4 when the Lord asks, “Why do you persecute me”, that Saul was transformed.

There were scales that had to fall out of his eyes. What are some scales that may be hindering your view of Christ? What are some scales that may be giving you a false view of who God is?

In this age of spiritual fathers and spiritual children, we must always ask ourselves if we can still see the cross from behind these men and women that we stand. Or are you beginning to mistake them for Christ? Think about it.

At its very core, prayer is self-searching, and not self-serving. It is reflective, it seeks to grow. Are you still actively seeking growth in the Lord? Don’t get comfortable, because the disciples were comfortable. Don’t let your moment of exposure become a moment of reckoning. Peter didn’t know himself enough to realise that he could deny the man he often vowed he could die with or for.

Luke 8:8

⁸I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

This is a question that we often reflect on as a team. The answer however, lays within each one of us. We decide if the son of man finds faith on earth, with our actions on a day to day basis. Prayer is bridging the gap between a faithless generation and a God who seeks faith. Is this something that you are actively vested in? We are all called to pray that HIS kingdom would come.

There are numerous versions of prayer that are seen and demonstrated in scripture. They all share one key ingredient, which is the HEART behind it all. The true openness of sharing everything with Christ. Is your heart in your prayers? It is pointless to simply go through the motions and hope for the best.

Testimony

Revelation 12:12

They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.

This is one of our favourite scriptures as a ministry. You see, testimonies are a two-way street. The bible is filled with people’s testimony of Christ and all the other awesome things that the Lord has done. Our day to day lives are filled with these too.

The apostle Paul put it best, we called to be living epistles. Your life is a moving testimony, a testament of who God is, or at least that is what it is supposed to be. I would go as far as to say that testimony is a form of prayer. When you showcase the work of God in your life, that is prayer. As we have already received the blood of the lamb, the word of our testimony is the missing link in our journey to living as overcomers.

Others hear it (faith comes)

Your testimony is a gift to others. When they hear it, their faith is strengthened. They are reminded of who God is. They are reminded or made aware of what the Lord is capable of. Their faith is built, and you are a part of that. May the Lord fill your mouths with testimonies, in Jesus’ name. Become more vocal in sharing these. It is not bragging, you are bragging on God, not yourself.

You hear it (reinforced)

Your testimony is also a gift to yourself. It is one that affirms your faith. As you share it, it reminds you as well, who God is to you, and what he can and has done for you. Wont he do it again?

The enemy hears it!

Martin Luther is known to have prayed loudly, wanted the devil and his cohorts to hear him. When you share your testimony, it puts the devil’s defeat in your case into the open.

It encourages others who are under his hold to push further in faith and in prayer. There are people who have been in the dark for so long that they can no longer dare to imagine the light, your testimony becomes that sound that the deaf hear.

Blind Bathemeus could not have seen Jesus, he was blind after all. It was the sharing of testimonies and all the wonders that Jesus was doing, that aroused something inside of him. Let your testimony arouse faith inside someone today, in Jesus’ name.

This module is part of our free prayer course.

Enjoy it, grow, share it! God bless you!

Originally posted 2018-01-25 22:34:05.

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