In order for us to be in the reality of the Body of Christ to hasten the Lord’s return, we need to be blended; we need to be harmonized, tempered, and mingled together with the saints, losing our distinctions as we do all things through the cross and by the Spirit to minister Christ to […]
Let’s pray for the saints to see that, in instituting the table, the Lord Jesus made a covenant with the New Testament believers
Dear saints, let’s pray that the saints would see that the new covenant promised to Israel in Jeremiah 31:31-34 was absolutely, thoroughly, and completely fulfilled by the Lord Jesus when He established His table and that in instituting the table, He made a covenant with the New Testament believers (Jer. 31:31, 33-34; Matt. 26:26-28; Mark […]
Let’s pray for the saints to see the importance of the Lord’s table in carrying out God’s move so that they will earnestly keep it
Dear saints, let us pray that from the type of the Passover the saints would see the importance of the Lord’s table in carrying out God’s move and would be encouraged to earnestly keep this weekly feast (1 Cor. 11:23-26; cf. Num. 9:1-5). The Passover in the Old Testament was a yearly reminder to the […]
Let’s pray for the saints to shepherd people out of love for them, an interest in them, a burden for them, and adequate prayer for them
Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would shepherd people out of love for them, an interest in them, a burden for them, and adequate prayer for them, practicing to write down their names, praying for their spiritual welfare constantly, visiting them regularly, bringing them to home meetings, and establishing them in the church […]
Let’s pray for the saints to labor and endeavor consistently and persistently, not expecting quick results
![Whom [Christ] we announce, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present every man full-grown in Christ; for which also I labor, struggling according to His operation which operates in me in power. Col. 1:28-29](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Whom-Christ-we-announce-admonishing-every-man-and-teaching-every-man-in-all-wisdom-that-we-may-present-every-man-full-grown-in-Christ.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1)
Dear saints, let us pray that, according to the divine operation in them, the saints would take the way of laboring and endeavoring consistently and persistently, undeterred by obstacles, not disappointed by setbacks, and not expecting quick results (Col. 1:28-29 and note 281; Acts 20:20, 31; Eph. 4:11-13). Whatever way you take, you should do […]
Let us pray for the saints to travail in birth over their spiritual children until Christ is formed in them
Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would follow the pattern of the apostle in learning to travail in birth over their spiritual children until Christ is formed in them (Gal. 4:19). Paul told the Galatian believers that he was again travailing on their behalf. Travail refers to painful labor in childbirth. In this […]
Let us pray for the saints to foster the new believers as a nursing mother and as an exhorting father
Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would follow the apostle’s pattern to foster the new believers as a nursing mother cherishes her own children and as a father exhorts, consoles, and testifies to his own children (1 Thes. 2:6-8, 11). In verse 8 Paul continues, “Thus, yearning over you, we were well pleased […]