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Heartfelt Christmas Prayer For You and Yours

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Christmas Prayer

Perhaps it is Christmas morning as you are reading this? Christmas is one of the most celebrated events across the world for Christians and non-believers alike. Over the years we have slowly turned our backs on what this day is all about. We have forgotten the reason that we celebrate Christmas. It is no longer about Christ for most people.

It has become “Happy Holidays” and “Merry X-Mas”. The answer is right in the name. Christmas is about Christ. This post is for those that have stuck to the roots and want to continue to celebrate Christ. We will cover Christmas prayers and include supporting Bible verses as we remember the birth of Jesus.

Isaiah 9:6 King James Version (KJV)

6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

The prophet Isaiah foretold this day generations before it was to come. He told us that this child’s name will be called “Wonderful”, he would be called “Counsellor”, he would be called “The Mighty God”, “The Everlasting Father” and of course, “The Prince of Peace.”

All of this is who he became and who he remains today. Christ’s birth was heaven’s sacrifice. God knew that his son would die for our sins. His birth set our redemption from damnation into motion.

Let’s Say Our Christmas Prayer

Lord Jesus,

We come together to thank you. We want to thank you for being the word made flesh. We thank you for dwelling among us. Father, we honour you for leading the wise men to see you, so they could testify that you had indeed been born.

We thank you for being our hope eternally. You hold my heart and that of others who are saying this prayer. We do not know where we would have been if not for your grace. If not for your sacrifice. You have granted us peace of mind for a day just to humbly come before your throne and call you Abba.

Your name is indeed Wonderful. You are Lord over my heart and mind. You are Lord over each day. You are the joy that cometh in the morning. You make each morning make us happy. Thank you for being there for us at every turn.

You are the power behind our powerful prayers. There is untold healing power in your name. Your name is Counsellor. We are never alone. You are forever here with us. We ask that as we celebrate you, you would renew my mind-body. Lord make me an instrument that can carry your glory. Your death and sacrifice are not in vain.

We pray that you would bring families together in harmony on this day. Let all brokenness be made whole in you. For you are whole. We speak life into every dead family relationship.

Pride will not prevail. We speak humility into hardened hearts. Father, let this be a day of reconciliation. Bring your people together. In Jesus’ name, I pray.

Our nations desperately need you oh Lord. We know you died that we would have peace and peace more abundantly. For that is the reason you came to earth. Make our nations whole again. Teach us to love one another as only you can.

Open our eyes to see each other as brothers and sisters instead of enemies. Political and ideological divisions have torn us apart. Yet, you are the Mighty God. May your strength be fully displayed. Raise a mighty testimony in Jesus’ name.

You are the everlasting father. As the world continues to turn their backs on you, Lord let our arms remain open. Let our hearts remain welcoming to you. Dwell in me, oh Lord. It is because of your pardoning that we are pardoned. We are grateful oh Lord.

You are the Prince of Peace. Let your presence in our homes always bring with it peace. We acknowledge God’s strength and authority. As the day goes and the night comes, let us go to our beds with grateful thought and grateful hearts.

Let it not only be today that we celebrate you. May we continue to abide in you now and forevermore. In Jesus’ name Amen.

Merry Christmas from us

We want to take this opportunity to wish you a merry Christmas. It has been another incredible year for us so far. The Lord has been gracious to us in ways that we cannot even begin to describe to you.

The growth and reach that we have seen are beyond our wildest dreams. We set some ridiculous goals when God gave us this vision. As we get closer and closer to it we realise how ambitious it was. However, we know the might of the God that we serve.

Thank you to everyone that continues to support this ministry. There is plenty more to be done. There are plenty more people to be reached with prayer. God grants us a gift that reaches those that we could never physically reach.

Intercessors influence nations and kings from their war rooms. Our hope is that as you rest this Christmas God ignites prayer in you. There is a ministry waiting to come forth for your family, community and your nation as a whole. Thank you for saying a Christmas prayer with us.

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Prayer for Grandchildren

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Why We Say Prayer for Grandchildren

One of the amazing blessings that we get to enjoy your well-deserved while on earth is that of being able to care for grandchildren. For most of us, just the opportunity to see them is all that we could ask for. However, as we would’ve known from raising our own children there is only so much that we can do. The rest, well, lays in the capable hands of the Most High God. It’s such a comforting feeling to know that when we fall short, there somebody else overseeing this process and intervening on our behalf.

As amazing as we may think we are or are indeed, we may actually be we are imperfect. There are so many things that we would like to do and say that may not manifest in the ways that we would have intended. Unfortunately, these are the sort things affect children in their developmental phase in ways that we could not recognise in time or remedy.

Fortunately, we always have God to turn to. Praying for your grandchildren is one of the greatest gifts that could ever give them. This goes beyond being able to teach them to pray and also goes to a place where you are able to ask for divine intervention in places where you were not able to intervene all I’m not presents to intervene.

Throughout scripture, you’d find generation after generation the children would always have the blessing of the parents or grandparents. There is untold power in the words of a spoken over your children and grandchildren.

Genesis 48

Jacob Blesses Joseph’s Sons

48 Now it came to pass after these things that Joseph was told, “Indeed your father is sick”; and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. ²And Jacob was told, “Look, your son Joseph is coming to you”; and Israel ^[a]strengthened himself and sat up on the bed. ³Then Jacob said to Joseph: “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me, ⁴and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people, and give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’

If you’re not speaking over you when children I can most certainly guarantee you that somebody else is speaking into the lives. Even the smallest of ways are things at the watch the fees of a listen to somebody else is telling them what they are is tender who they can be and turn them what they can and cannot do. It is up to you to impart knowledge that they can do all things through Christ and strength.

Wisdom and stature

The first thing I’m going to pray over is that as Christ grow in wisdom and stature our grandchildren will be like him in that sense. I will pray that as they grow God’s wisdom is in them and everything that they do that all the decisions are in line with his will.

Luke 2:52 New International Version (NIV)

⁵²And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

Father, I thank you for my grandchild/ren in Jesus name. As they grow I as that you would be a light unto their path. Lord, even at times when they may not realise that they need you. Where they go astray, I ask that you would guide them back onto the path of righteousness.

Order every footstep that they will take. Lord, may my grandchildren always be about your business. Let your will manifest in every area of their lives. That they would desire you. I pray that you would grant them wisdom in every possible way. May they desire wisdom, seek wisdom and find wisdom. In Jesus’ name! Amen

Psalm 119:133 New International Version (NIV)

¹³³Direct my footsteps according to your word;
let no sin rule over me.

Parenting

Parents, guardians and we as grandparents play significant roles in the raising of our children. A lot of who they become is down to who we are. The bible teaches us to train a child in a way that he/she is to walk. If we are unable to train them, best believe someone out there will do the training for us. In most cases, the path that they are led onto will not be the one that we want for our grandchildren. Our next prayer point is for the people that are in these important roles.

Proverbs 22:6 New International Version (NIV)

⁶Start children off on the way they should go,
and even when they are old they will not turn from it.

Lord Jesus, we thank you for the parents and guardians that will be in these children’s lives. We ask that your wisdom would guide them in the way that they should train the child. Let it not be done through their own wisdom but through yours. Lord, we acknowledge that your ways are higher than ours. Even in our grandest of wisdom and love, we may fall short. We put it all into your hands. Open our eyes to the things that we should say. Teach us to use our words to build and not to break these children. The latter is easier done. We ask this in Jesus’ name! Amen

Health

Even where the rest of the things go well, health is of utmost importance. Bad health will cut short lives that have greatness ahead of them. God forbid that your grandchild would not achieve that which the Lord has set them out to achieve. The bible tells us that the Lord knew our grandchildren before they were formed. They are his seeds on this planet. Our prayer is that they would be healthy and fruitful ones.

Jeremiah 1:5 New International Version (NIV)

⁵“Before I formed you in the womb I knew^[a] you,
before you were born I set you apart;
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

Dear Heavenly Father,
We ask that you grant our grandchildren the gift of good health. We pray that every part of their body would function as it was intended to. Lord, we speak against any diseases in body, mind or spirit. Lord, we minister healing in Jesus’ name! May your mighty hand come upon them in all that they do. From the top of their heads to the soles of their feet, divine health is their portion in Jesus’ name! Amen

Friends

We understand from scripture that Lot was preserved because of this relationship with Abraham. The disciples would never have turned the worlds upside down if not for their relationship with Christ. In fact, those that saw them after Jesus had died, knew they had been with him.

I believe the boldness of Shadrek, Mishaek and Abednego was founded in their shared faith. It is in walking together that their names were written in history eternally. By the same token, we also know that countless men and women fall daily due to the company that they keep. Our prayer today is that our children would be surrounded by the sort company that propels them towards God’s best for their life.

Dear Heavenly Father,
We thank you for the lives of our grandchildren. We ask that you would guide them at every turn in Jesus’ name. Lord, let no one that is not going to lead them to you is rooted in their lives. If there is anyone right now that will draw them away from your will we as that that relationship come to an end in Jesus’ name. Lord, we pray that you would surround them with men and women after your heart. Raise mentors to guide them in their walk. In Jesus’ name! Amen

Live a Full life

At the end of his life, the Apostle Paul famously said that he had lived and poured everything that he had out of him. Not that anyone would ever doubt that. This is a man who met Christ on his route to Damascus and ended up turning the world upside down. Having said that, most people never get to this point.

Everything that has been put inside of us by God needs to come out and impact the world. The Bible tells us that all of creation is groaning and waiting for the sons of God to manifest them among us. For how long so the wait? That is down to us. Our prayer for today is that whatever has been placed inside our grandchildren come forth and be poured out to impact those around them in Jesus name.

Father God, We thank you for grandchildren. We thank you for everything that you set them out to do on this earth. God, for that we thank you because we know that their time on this planet will not be in vain. We thank you because we know that you alone know the plans that you have for them, Lord, plans for the good, no harm is to come to them. They will bear every seed that you’ve put inside of them. Father, we call it fourth look at in Jesus name.

Every gift, every talent that you put inside of them, Lord God, we call it forth. That they would be the wise stewards that use their gifts to expand your kingdom. May their gifts be a light that will show others to you. Whatever has remained buried inside of them for too long, let it come forth.

Let those that have sought to bury these gifts be put to shame. They buried them but didn’t realise that they were seeds. We call them up to sprout into their calling. We pray that they may impact those around them. In the name of Jesus. We call our grandchildren into fulfilment, into your wholeness, right now.
In the mighty name of Jesus. In every of their life, may that they would be fruitful. Lord, there will be a fruitful in everything that they set out to do, in Jesus name. We ask that when their life comes to a natural end they would’ve lived for and died empty Lord God in Jesus name I pray. Amen.

Scriptural References

Genesis 48

Luke 2:52

Psalm 119:133

Jeremiah 1:5

Proverbs 22:6

Originally posted 2019-12-24 22:48:28.

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Do you Pray for your city?

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How to pray for your city

Like all other Christians, well and every other person in this world (I HOPE), I am very displeased with the state that this world is in. Do you pray for your city? The state that the media industry is in. The state that my city is in, high rates of crime and senseless murder and violence.

It deeply troubles me. When believers congregate we often sit and discuss these things and murmur and complain, at how the Lord has been pushed to the side in our societies, but what are you doing about it?

What are you doing to make that city you are unhappy about better? We complain about how our children are no longer allowed to pray in school. Are we really teaching them to pray at home? The bible teaches us in

Proverbs 22:6 Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.

Before your children actually leave our homes to be open to what the world will teach them, you should have already set them on a path that they should not depart from.

There is a greater disease in our own homes than in these schools if we fail to direct our children. You are responsible for equipping those who will pray for your city.

Ezekiel 22:30 “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.

The Lord is not impressed by your complaining and blaming politicians, no matter how wrong they may be. He is still searching for men and women who will stand in the gap and lift a land out of destruction. Your prayer can lift your city out of destruction.

Remember when Sodom and Gomorrah were about to be destroyed, the Lord spoke to Abraham and he stood in the gap for the whole city, and finally for Lot and his family.

Prayer Walk: pray for your city

Who are you standing in the gap for? I have not had the pleasure of being part of the New York Prayer Walk, but I know such initiatives are needed more and more. God belongs in your city!

Daniel’s generation saw great feats of the Lord, simply because even in a time where sin was rampant, there were men like Daniel who prayed for their cities. There were men who prayed for their people. Men who prayed for their generation. Who are you praying for?

You need to pray for your city. Some will say, well it is frowned upon in my city. These last days require men like Daniel who would pray to the Lord even when the law of the land declared not to.

I don’t know about you but I’d rather have the whole world frown at me while the Lord smiles at me, than have the whole world smile at me while the Lord frowns.

These days need men like Shadreck, Mishaek and Abednego who were willing to even die than serve other God or king, or prime ministers, or friends, or family. Pray for your city ladies and gentlemen.

Image Credit: (Photo: Facebook/GBIMC) Gandhi said, “Be the change that you want to see.” If you want to see prayer in school, let’s see prayer in your own home. In your city where it has not been banned. Use what is at your disposal to release what is not!

Even the devil should fear the prayers you send up for your city. I know prayer changes situations, I have seen it time and time again.

When you pray for your city, nothing that occurs will shake you. You will know you have already committed it all to the King of Kings. The reason why tyranny is standing, is because your prayers are not rising against it!

Don’t wait for someone else to pray for your city. Twyse put it best for me,

“If you wait to see trouble before you pray, you are already in trouble.”

Share this article with someone else, let God use it to move someone else to pray for their city as you pray for yours. Jehovah I commit every reader into your hands right now, give them a burden for your glory in their cities.

Prayer Points for Your City

It is one thing for us to comment on our shortcomings. Our goal is never to leverage condemnation. We want to be enablers of doers of the word of God. Here are some ideas for prayer points for your city.

Raise the church in my city

Romans 8:22-24 New King James Version (NKJV)

²²For we know that the whole creation groans and labours with birth pangs together until now. ²³Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. ²⁴For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees?

Our prayer is that the church would rise and take its rightful place in my city. Not a church that is boggled up in the semantics of partisanship. Rather one that is sold out for Christ. One that would never align itself with unrighteousness, but stand for the will of God.

Spiritual Takeover of my city

Ephesians 6:12 King James Version (KJV)

¹²For 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.

Beyond what we can see in the physical realm, there are a lot of things that go unnoticed. The bible tells us that this is where the real battle is. We are not fighting against flesh and blood. It is not the people we encounter daily that we are fighting.

It is not the greedy wealthy or corrupt politicians. There are rulers in the spiritual realms. We are praying for righteousness to penetrate our cities.

May your kingdom shine from inside of them today. Touch my city oh, Lord! Amen. Now go and pray for your city. Sign up to our mailing list, there’s a lot that God is doing in this season, be a part of it. God bless you. If you have a prayer request send it here www.prayerrelay.com/prayer-requests, our team will pray with you.

Originally posted 2014-05-12 21:45:18.

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