Scripture-Based Prayers
Father God, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I pray for our national, state, and local leaders. I thank you for these men and women and I ask you to prepare their hearts to be receptive to your Word and send laborers of the gospel to them. Please protect them along withe our military, law enforcement, and all first responders. I pray that they, and us under their authority, may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.
Father, according to Revelation 12:11, we overcome because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their witness or testimony. Lord I pray for [ ]. I plead the blood of the Lamb over our lives today. The word of my testimony is...
Psalm 23
Yahweh, You are our shepherd, we shall not want. You makes us lie down in green pastures; You lead us beside quiet waters. He restores our soul; He guides us in the paths of righteousness For Your name’s sake. Even though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we fear no evil, for You are with us; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort us. You prepare a table before us in the presence of our enemies; You have anointed our head with oil; Our cup overflows. Surely goodness and lovingkindness will pursue us all the days of our lives, And we will dwell in the house of Yahweh forever.
Lord, according to Psalm 91, we that dwell in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I say of you Lord, you are our refuge and our fortress: our God; in you will we trust. Surely you shall deliver us from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. You shall cover us with your feathers, and under your wings shall we trust: your truth shall be our shield and buckler. We shall not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flies by day; nor for the pestilence that walks in darkness; nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday. A thousand may fall at our side, and ten thousand at our right hand; but it shall not come near us. Only with our eyes shall we behold and see the reward of the wicked. Because we have made the Lord, which is our refuge, even the most High, our habitation; there shall no evil befall us, neither shall any plague come near our dwelling. Father God, you have given your angels charge over us, to keep us in all our ways. They shall bear us up in their hands, lest we dash our foot against a stone. We shall tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shall we trample under our feet. Because we have set our love upon you, therefore you will deliver us: you will set us on high, because we have known your name. We shall call upon you, and you will answer us: you will be with us in trouble; you will deliver us, and honor us. With long life you will satisfy us, and show us your salvation.
Father God, I recall and receive the benefits that Jesus provided for us. You forgive all our sins; you heal all our diseases; you've redeemed our lives from destruction; you crown us with your loving kindness and tender mercies; you satisfy our mouth with good things; so that our youth is renewed like the eagle's. Lord, you execute righteousness and judgment for us against oppression. You make known your ways to us. Thank you for your grace and mercy.
Heavenly Father, according to Isaiah 54, you have given us a covenant of your peace that shall not be removed. I thank you that all of our children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be their peace. In righteousness we shall be established: we shall be far from oppression; for we shall not fear. Terror shall not come near us. Whoever gathers together against us shall fall. No weapon that is formed against us shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against us in judgment, we shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and our righteousness is of you Lord.
Father God, in Jesus' name, I ask that you will give to us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of you: the eyes of our understanding being enlightened; that we may know what is the hope of your calling, and the riches of the glory of your inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of your power to us who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which you worked in Christ, when you raised him from the dead, and set him at your own right hand in heaven.
Father, I ask that you would grant us, according to the riches of your glory, to be strengthened with might by your Spirit in our inner man; that Christ may dwell in our hearts by faith; that we, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that we might be filled with all the fullness of God. I thank you that you are able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to your power that works in us.
According to Colossians 1:9-11, I ask you to fill us with the knowledge of your will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that we might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to your glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.
In Jesus' name I pray, amen!
Evening Prayer
In peace I will both lie down in and sleep,
For You alone, O Yahweh, make me to abide in safety.