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As I spent time preparing, God encouraged me with these words from the Bible:
Proverbs 18:21:
The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit. (NIV)
Isaiah 55:10-12
So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth;
It will not return to Me empty,
Without accomplishing what I desire,And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it. (NASV)
I want to speak life over the people for whom I'm praying. I want to pray with power and know that I'm praying God's will. Periodically in the past I've prayed specific scriptures that I've felt led to pray over my husbands, sons, or others. Today as I prepared I felt impressed to do this more.
I picked some common prayer situations and scriptures to get the group started:
Unbelievers to come to faith
John 6:44 - that God would draw him to Himself
2 Corinthians 4:4 - that Satan would be prevented from blinding him to truth
Deuteronomy 4:29 - that he would seek after God
Proverbs 3:13-14 - that God
would bless her
with wisdom and help her to gain understanding Ephesians1:17-18 - a prayer for wisdom and revelation
Colossians 1:9 - for wisdom and understanding by the Spirit
James3:17 - for heavenly wisdom
Strength and stamina for specific situations before a fellow Believer
Ephesians 3:16-17 - for strengthening in his inner being
Philippians 4:13 - to remember and experience that he can do all things through Christ's strength
Colossians 2:7 - that he would be rooted, grounded, and strengthened in faith
2Thessalonians 2:16-17 - for God's strengthening
That a fellow Believer would experience godly self esteem
Ephesians 2:10 - that she would recognize in the deepest part of her heart that she is God’s masterpiece
Psalm139:14 - that she would recognize in the deepest part of her heart that she is fearfully and wonderfully made
Matthew22:37-39 -that God’s Holy Spirit inside of her would empower her to love God, himself, and others
That a fellow Believer would experience fruitfulness
John 15:8 - that God would bless him and that he would bear much fruit and bring glory to God
James1:25 -that he would look intently into God’s Word and, by the power of the Holy Spirit, practice what he reads and experience God’s blessing on his life
Jeremiah17:7-8 - that God would root him in Himself and nourish & refresh him and cause him to bear fruit
1 Corinthians 1:4-7 - that he would use the gifts God's given him to bear fruit
I'm interested to see what God's going to do in our prayer time tomorrow night and in the coming days.
