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Let us pray for the saints to follow the apostle Paul’s pattern in boasting in those gained, perfected, and built up through him

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For I know your eagerness, of which I boast on your behalf to the Macedonians, that Achaia has been prepared since last year; and your zeal has stirred up the greater number of them. 2 Cor. 9:2

Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would follow the pattern of the apostle Paul, who boasted in those who had been gained, perfected, and built up through him (2 Thes. 1:3-4; Phil. 2:16-17; 2 Cor. 9:2; 1:14). In 2 Thessalonians 1:3 and 4 Paul … [Continue reading]

Let us pray for the saints to consider their spiritual children as their hope, joy, crown, and glory

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For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at His coming? Are not even you? For you are our glory and joy. 1 Thes. 2:19-20

Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would follow the apostle’s pattern in considering the ones saved and nurtured by them as their hope, their joy, their crown of boasting, and their glory (1 Thes. 2:19-20 and note 20-1; Phil. 4:1). Here Paul … [Continue reading]

Let us pray for the saints to have a burden, an interest, and a care for people in order to gain them

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So then, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, in the same way stand firm in the Lord, beloved. Phil. 4:1

Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would have a burden, an interest, and a care for people in order to gain them as the Lord’s increase, and that the saints would bring this matter to the Lord and ask Him to infuse them with His heart for … [Continue reading]

Let us pray for the saints to learn to turn people from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God

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Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light; who delivered us out of the authority of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love. Col. 1:12-13

Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would learn to preach the gospel as the apostle Paul did, turning people from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God that they might be transferred into the kingdom of God (Acts 26:18; Col. … [Continue reading]

Let us pray for the binding of the blinding work of the god of this age

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And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in those who are perishing, in whom the god of this age has blinded the thoughts of the unbelievers that the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine on them. For we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake. Because the God who said, Out of darkness light shall shine, is the One who shined in our hearts to illuminate the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 2 Cor. 4:3-6

Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would learn to pray for the binding of the blinding work of the god of this age so that the gospel of the glory of Christ might shine into the hearts of many unbelievers (2 Cor. 4:3-6 and notes 3-1, 4-1, and … [Continue reading]

Deny the self and Apply the Killing Power of the Cross to our Natural Disposition under the Lord’s Shining

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But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not out of us. 2 Cor. 4:7

The Spirit is operating in us and around us to deal with our outer man, our self, our natural disposition, by the killing element of the cross in the compound Spirit, by the discipline of the Holy Spirit, by the shining of Christ as the Spirit, and … [Continue reading]

Let us pray for the saints to learn to exercise the Lord’s authority to bind the strong man, Satan

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And amazement came upon all, and they spoke to one another, saying, What is this word? For with authority and power He orders the unclean spirits, and they come out. Luke 4:36

Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would learn to exercise the authority of the headship and lordship of Christ, the Head, in praying to bind the strong man and in preaching the gospel to plunder sinners out of the kingdom of Satan into the … [Continue reading]