PRAYER DIARY

will be led to Your choice for them, O God 3. Help us to recognise the ministries You are calling us to, both outside and inside the church and may we fulfil them with diligence 4. In all our relationships both with Christians and non-Christians guide us with all wisdom, helping us to always act and react in a way that honours You, O Lord 5. Give us the wisdom to seek first Your kingdom and Your righteousness so that all things we need will be added to us, O God 23rd – Psalm 18:37-38 Overcoming hindrances that war against us 1. Lord, help us daily to throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles so we can run with perseverance the race marked out for us 2. Help us to crucify our sinful nature and instead allow our new spiritual nature to reign supreme in our lives 3. Lord forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us 4. Deliver us from all evil, we pray 5. Enable us to humble ourselves under Your mighty hand, O Lord, to resist the devil and see him flee from us 24th – Psalm 18:39-40 Armed and anointed to overcome 1. Arm us with the humility that enables the Holy Spirit to work powerfully through us, we pray 2. Arm us with an understanding of the Word of God which we can use as the Sword of the Spirit, we ask 3. Arm us with the powerful and effective prayer that comes from the lips of the righteous, we pray 4. Arm us with the faith that can take You at Your word, O Lord, and move mountains 5. Arm us with a single-minded determination to do Your will as a first priority, O Lord, rather than our own 25th – Psalm 18:41-42 The plight of the lost 1. O God, since choosing to make You an enemy is the most foolish thing a person can do, use us to win for You, those who currently reject You 2. As we contemplate the horrors for those who are separated from their Creator forever in hell, may it move us to spread the Good News 3. Holy Spirit give us the wisdom and sensitivity to explain sin and salvation, heaven and hell as the circumstances are required 4. Enable us to love those who reject us and Your gospel, O Lord, so that we never stop praying for them and seeking to win them to Christ 5. For those who reject You ,Heavenly Father, because they have never known a loving earthly father, help us to be the love of the Father in action to them 26th – Psalm 18:43 Raised up to positions of influence 1. Raise up Your people from the church to all kinds of positions of power and influence and every area of nation, O Lord 2. Raise up Your people to be heads of companies, where they can decide and carry out godly polices 3. Raise up Your people within companies and organisations, to positions where they can influence the decisions, directions and polices of those organisations 4. Raise up Your people to positions of influence in every part of public life and service, O God, to be salt and light and resist the trend of ungodliness 5. Raise up Your people to positions where they can influence for good those who govern us and make the laws of this land 27th – Psalm 18:44-45 Strongholds broken down 1. We take authority over every spirit of violence that influences the people in our neighbourhood and bind them in the name of Jesus 2. We take authority over every spirit of immorality and bind them in Jesus name 3. We take authority over and bind in Jesus’ name, every spirit of religion in our neighbourhood that blinds the people into thinking there are ways to God other than through Christ 4. We take authority over every spirit of lawlessness on our streets and bind their power in Jesus’ name and ask You would drive lawlessness from our neighbourhoods 5. We take authority over every spirit of witchcraft and the occult in our neighbourhood and bind their powers and influence in Jesus’ name 28th – Psalm 18:46 The living God 1. May we constantly draw strength from the knowledge that You are the living God who never slumbers or sleeps 2. When we feel weak, cause us to remember that You are our Rock and our solid Foundation, O God 3. Since we live because You have created us, O Lord and we are born-again because You have re-created us in Christ, help us to live in the power of Your Spirit daily 4. May everything within us constantly give You praise, O God our Rock, because though we were to gain the whole world, its value is nothing compared to our eternal salvation in Christ 5. Reign in every part of our lives, O God

29th – Psalm 18:47-48 Subduing nations 1. As we pray for all communist nations that reject the reality of a living God, break through the propaganda and open the minds of their people to the truth of the Gospel 2. As we pray for those nations ruled by dictators who persecute Your church, O Lord, overcome their hindrance to the gospel and let many be saved 3. As we pray for all Muslim nations, especially those who forbid any expression of the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ, open the door of salvation to their populations 4. As we pray for all democratic countries who try to suppress the truth of the gospel through ridicule, ungodly laws and regulation, shake them out of their arrogance 5. As we pray for all nations that follow other religions and persecute the church, overcome their opposition, Holy Spirit and bring many to faith in Christ 30th – Psalm 18:49 God’s praise among the nations 1. Shake You church from complacency in our nation and cause it to stand firm against corrupt and evil ways, turning back the tide of evil, for Your glory, we pray 2. We pray for all those nations that are materially poor, that believers in them may demonstrate that they are nevertheless rich in Christ, to the praise of Your glory 3. As we pray for the believers in those nations where they are persecuted for Christ, may their brave witness bring You praise, O God 4. Send revival in each nation, O Lord, while there is still time and may Your church bring You praise in the midst of those revivals 5. Move in sovereign power in Israel, Holy Spirit, causing converted Jews to give praise by acknowledging Jesus as their true Messiah 31st – Psalm 18:50 God’s victories 1. In the midst of the trials of life, O Lord, help us to live as overcomers because of our relationship with You 2. Keep our eyes fixed upon Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith, so that we always are able to see above and beyond any present trials, we pray 3. Help to always realise, O God, that the trials of this present world are not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed in us 4. As we live in a fallen world and are surrounded by wickedness, help us always to remember that Christ has already won the battle and the defeat of all wickedness is certain 5. O Lord, may we have such an assurance of who we are in Christ that we can always be overcomers