You are in absolute control. Your will will be done. You will do strange and mighty things in miraculous ways. Hear our prayers. May they be in compliance with Your will.
We thank You for the gift of this new day. We live in a world full of distractions. We are pulled off course. Help us keep our focus on You and only You. We want to see what Your will is for us and for others around us. We want to plant seeds that would revive the hearts of those around us.
Thank You for the Holy Spirit who convicts. Give us more humility. Help us to serve in the places You want us to serve. Help us not just do things that worked in the past. May we hate sin. May we grieve it like the Holy Spirit grieves. Guide us.
Thanks that corporate prayer lifts us toward you. May our prayers reach Your heart and please You. We want our desire to be for You. Fulfill the purpose that You have for us today. We want to seek Your face and not Your hand. We want Your perfect will to be done. We thank You for Your great heart that none would perish but that all would come to You.
May there be more of You and less of us. Look inside and find what is not pleasing to You. Break us. Bring revival. Start with each one of us. We are so weak. Please strengthen us. May Your Holy Spirit fall upon us.
We come to You because we need You. Stir us up and change our hearts. Remove the complacency. Turn our hurts back to You. We see in Your word that when sin comes in, Your favor is lost. We want Your favor to be renewed. Stir us up to get rid of the sin in our lives. We have to come to repentance. Lord, let Your Spirit fall on us. Let us turn completely to You. Let us follow the leading of Your Spirit. Protect us from the lies of the enemy.
Thank for the opportunity to come to pray. We lift up the inner city of Cleveland. Change the culture, poverty, lack of education, and men that don't care about thie wives and children. Be with the inner city churches to be a light and beacon to speak the truth.
Cause our political leaders and business leaders to not trust in the arm of flesh. Let them trust in You. Bring a rebuilding of NE Ohio to NE Ohio.
Let a revival start with us. May we be broken and contrite. May we picture You on the cross and realize that You did it for us. Help us to humble ourselves and pray and seek Your face. Help us as a church. Help us affect the lives of one other person.
We lift up our high schoolers and middle schoolers. Do a mighty work in NR, Brecksville, in Parma and beyond. Be with our students. Protect them spiritually and physically. Bring leaders to stir in our student's lives. May their faith be their own, not their pastor's or parent's faith. Work in the lives of our teachers. They have the potential to be destroyed every single day by the enemy. Destroy his work in their lives instead.
We read in the Bible that Solomon did not finish well. He never really caught it. So, maybe David was not the dad he should have been. Help our parents raise kids in the faith. May our kids not be distracted from You by having bad relationships like Solomon developed.
Give our children direction. We pray, dear God, that Your Spirit would move in a mighty way for or children in our schools to know You.
We pray for the 600 plus teachers that were let go in Cleveland yesterday. Lift us up from a loss of hope. Act in a mighty, visible way. There is no doubt that You are Lord of Lords. We are faltering. We need a visible, mighty work from You.
You sent a Nehemiah to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. You sent an Ezra to help. So, send a modern day Nehemiah and an Ezra to NE Ohio. May politicians and spiritual leaders work together in dependence on You to accomplish Your purposes. Revive NE Ohio, Lord Jesus.
We have been rebellious and judgmental toward those who do not see as we see. Change begins in our own hearts. How can we share Your love if we reject others. May we gently, kindly, accurately talk of You. Use us today for Your purposes.
We ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. But when Your goodness and loving kindness appeared, You saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to Your own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom You poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior (Titus 3:3-6).
We can never reach the end of You. We lift You up. You can do far more than we have asked. Do it. Make it so. Have Your way.
Work powerfully with the ministry that Bay Presbyterian is starting at the old Blessed Sacrament Church on the near Westside. Bless the collaboration with Bay Pres, Grace CMA, Fellowship Bible, and CVC to join forces to help. Save marriages there. Save people there. Change lives there.
We thank You that You are doing Your work. Work on our behalf. We praise You, Lord, for what we can expect, Lord.
Open the eyes of believers in America. Help us not chase after the things of this world. Give us a new dream to pursue. Help us to serve and honor and live for You. Help us to live for You.
We claim the wisdom which is from above and is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace (James 3:17-18).
We pray for those going to Ghana, El Salvador, Ukraine. May they pray the right things for their trips. May we choose righteousness and truth. May we go to these different countries with Your wisdom. May we know Your truth because we are in Your Word. Show favor on all our trips. We pray for finances for these trips. May we depend on You.
We have another national day of prayer coming soon. Some people oppose this day and bring this day under attack. May people see that You are the foundation of our country. May others not squelch Your work.
Help us not be ashamed of the gospel. Change hearts and lives. Help us to join us in Your work. Help us to be able to give a reason for the hope that is in us.
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