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Heavenly Father, to You belong all our worship and praise for the coming
of Your Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior, who has come to bind the strong
man, Satan, to spoil his house, and to set the captives free. Today I again freely renounce,
as once I renounced at my baptism, the devil and all his works and all
his ways. Strengthen my
heart and mind today to stand against all the workings of Satan,
especially those that would hinder my life of prayer and faith. Teach me to rejoice, not in
spirits’ submission to me, but in my having been written in Your book
of life. Curb the forces of
evil that would delight in keeping Your people from bold and courageous
witness to Jesus’ forgiveness, especially those forces in our world
that seek to use terror and violence to keep people living in fear.
Heavenly Father, to You I come in thanksgiving for all Your mercy to me. Send to me in His fullness Your
blessed Holy Spirit, so that my prayer may always spring from faith and
hope in Your promises. Thank
You for the love that You have for me, a love that goes back into all
eternity and forward into all eternity.
Thank You for bringing that love into human history in the
sending of Jesus to bear my sin and be my Savior. For His sake, You have pledged
me eternal life. For His
sake, You have granted me His perfect innocence. Thank You for making me complete
in Him, for clothing me in His perfection, for giving me the full rights
of your children. Help me
to live out His incarnate love in all my interactions with those around
me.
Gracious Lord Jesus, You stepped out in full confidence in the Father’s
promises when You accepted Your role in winning my salvation. I praise You for taking on my
humanity so that I might be assured of God’s rich grace. You lived in utter faithfulness
to the Father’s call, and You became the obedient Son that Adam and
Israel failed to be – and that I have failed to be as well. Even when hateful kings and
others set themselves to destroy You, yet You lived constantly under the
Father’s gracious protective hand.
Thank You, Lord Jesus, for Your willingness to follow the Spirit’s
prompting, to go to the desert and to be tempted by Satan. Thank You for Your resolute
perseverance in the will and Word of the Father. Thank You for using Your
knowledge of the Scripture to defeat Satan in face-to-face conflict. Thank You for Your obedience
even to the point of death, refusing the easy way at every turn. Teach me to trust in You and You
alone when I face difficulty, trial and temptations.
Gracious Lord Jesus, clothe me today with all that I need to live for
Your honor and glory. Lamb
of God, cover me with Your blood that I may be assured of Your love in
the face of evil and destructive spirits.
Outfit me in the armor of God that I may stand against the devil’s
schemes. Let me wear the
belt of truth and the breastplate of righteousness, my feet all the
while fitted with the gospel of peace.
Empower me with the shield of faith to quench Satan’s flaming
arrows, with the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which
is the Word of God. Teach
me to live by faith and prayer in every crisis and to resist the
temptation to rely on my actions and commitments.
Since You, Lord Jesus, are seated at the Father’s right hand, You have
also blessed Your people with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly
realms. Help me to realize
that truth as I stand in the trenches where evil and tyranny continue to
rule. Give me strength to
live in full dependence on You for all that I need, for this life and
for that which is to come. Help
me to recognize the deceits and deceptions of Satan wherever they arise,
especially in those areas where my self-interest clouds my judgment.
Holy Spirit, help me to remember that the weapons I fight with are not
worldly weapons, but those that have divine power to demolish satanic
strongholds. Demolish those
idol thrones and shrines that I have erected within my own heart and
life, so that You might use me to proclaim Your truth to others. Lord and Giver of life, we come to You in prayer for those
who reside among the garbage dumps outside of Guatemala City. By the power of Your Word, break
down the strongholds that Satan clings to in Guatemala. Make known abroad in that land
and in every land the truth that Jesus Christ is the firstborn from the
dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth.
Lord God, grant strength and direction to each member of our Servant’s
Heart team, turning us from sin to serve You alone. Keep us in unity of faith and love as we seek to serve You as
a team. Encourage and
uphold all those who serve in the Servant’s Heart ministry in
Guatemala, that their service and witness would frustrate Satan’s
purposes of destruction and confusion.
Teach us to rely upon You for all the resources needed,
especially for the spiritual power that can come from no one else but
Your Son, who has taught us to pray, “Deliver us from the evil one.” Through the strong, holy and
powerful name of Jesus we pray. AMEN!
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