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Day 19: Let’s Pray

Love is a weapon; love was at the center of the hiding incident right after the apple in the Garden of Eden. “Surely you will not die.” The enemy of love casts doubt on love. In essence he is saying, “God is holding back from you, how can you trust his love, you could make a way for yourselves?” And bringing God into question, our enemy makes their push and we fall. One day, we will get the garden back, when Jesus comes back on his warhorse (no donkey this time) with all power and authority to end the great war and turn the page into the larger story. This is what Solomon writes about in Ecclesiastes chapter 3, and I love how the Amplified Version translates it, verse 11…

He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end.

Let’s pray…

Holy Spirit, I sincerely embrace you as my Counselor, my Comforter, my Strength and my Guide. Thank you for sealing me in Christ. I honor you as my Lord, and I ask you to lead me into all truth, to anoint me for all of my life and walk and calling, and to lead me deeper into Jesus today. I fully open my life to you in every dimension and aspect – my body, my soul and my spirit – choosing to be filled with you, to walk in step with you in all things. Apply to me, blessed Holy Spirit, all of the work and all of the gifts in Pentecost. Fill me afresh, blessed Holy Spirit. I receive you with thanks and give you total claim to my life.

Heavenly Father, thank you for granting to me every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus. I receive those blessings into my life today and I ask the Holy Spirit to bring all those blessings into my life this day. Thank you for the blood of Jesus. Wash me once more with his blood from every sin and stain and evil device. I put on your armor – the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of the readiness of the Gospel of peace, the helmet of salvation. I take up the shield of faith and the sword of the Spirit, the word of God, and I wield these weapons against the evil one in the power of God. I choose to pray at all times in the Spirit, to be strong in you, Lord, and in your might.

Father, thank you for your angels, may they guard me at all times this day. Thank you for those who pray for me; I confess I need their prayers, and I ask you to send forth your Spirit and rouse them, unite them, raising up the full canopy of prayer and intercession for me. I call forth the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ this day throughout my home, my family, my life and my domain. I pray all of this in the name of Jesus Christ, with all glory and honor and thanks to him.

As you reflect on all this with God today, consider asking Him:

Father, how does your fierce love arm and protect me? How is it a weapon against the enemy’s lies about you, and about me?

Holy Spirit, who can I pray for today? Who can I pray over, speaking over their hearts a blessing and declaring their position in the Kingdom today? And who can I bless by praying against the enemy in their life, bringing the cross, resurrection and ascension in intercessory prayer over their life?

Father, is there one phrase or sentence that feels like it’s just for me today? Would You help me hear it clearly and understand why it matters?