Key Prayer Tips … Intercessory Requests for Others help you move on
and beyond your own concerns.
and beyond your own concerns.
Helpful Tips for
Staying Encouraged in Christ
by Sharon Johnson | 07-08-08
Staying Encouraged in Christ
by Sharon Johnson | 07-08-08
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Tip #3 - Prayer - Move Beyond Self
A. Be Watchful. (Internally and externally, God is always
speaking to communicate a thought, a solution, or an awareness
of something that pertains to others, not just to oneself. Often
during quiet times, reading or while praying, His message
returns again. It’s not to be dismissed or ignored, especially if
it's something that will be a real help to someone. As in any
conversation, address the issue back to God for clarity and
direction with confirmation of His Word as the driving force.
B. Anticipate. Intercede on their behalf, asking God to meet the
needs that would benefit and improve their quality of life. For
example …
- Increased Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding.
- That their Confidence & Faith, or lack of, to be perfected.
- For their Protection and Deliverance.
- For His Direction.
- Increased Spiritual Growth & Maturity - Love.
- Firm Establishment - Rooted and grounded in love, hope,
prayer and thanksgiving. - Open Opportunities for advancement and Boldness of
Speech, especially in leadership roles. - Completion of His Will.
- Nourishment in the Words of faith.
- Fruitful spirit in every good work.
- Peace from worry.
- Fellowship in the gospel.
- Strength and Endurance.
- C. Expectation. What do you get out of all this? Why go the extra
mile? Seeds sown in goodness reap a harvest of the same
- D. Simplicity. In God’s hand, so much more can be done with
far less. Specific details are not always needed when a general
prayer request like the examples above are made on their
behalf. Although God already knows the problems of an
individual and how to solve it, interceding for them provides an
excellent opportunity for us to be blessed in our areas of need too.
B5 …
- First Thessalonians 3 verse 12
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one
toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
Colossians 4 verse 2
Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
Second Thessalonians 1 verse 3
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is
meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity
of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
B6 …
- First Thessalonians 3 verse 13
To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness
before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ with all his saints.
First Thessalonians 1 verses 2 & 3
2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of
you in our prayers;
3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of
love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight
of God and our Father;
B7 …
- Colossians 4 verses 3 & 4
3 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door
of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in
bonds:
4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
B4 …
- First Thessalonians 3 verse 11
Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,
direct our way unto you.
Philippians 1 verses 9 & 10
9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in
knowledge and in all judgment;
10 That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be
sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
B3 …
- Second Thessalonians 3 verses 1-3
1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have
free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:
2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked
men: for all men have not faith.
3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you
from evil.
B2 …
- Philippians 1 verse 14
And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my
bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
First Thessalonians 3 verses 5 & 10
5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know
your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you,
and our labour be in vain.
10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your
face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
B8 …
- Colossians 4 verse 12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you,
always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand
perfect and complete in all the will of God.
B9 …
- First Timothy 4 verse 6
6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou
shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the
words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
B10 …
- Colossians 1 verse 10
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being
fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of
God;
Philippians 1 verse 11
Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus
Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
B11 …
- Philippians 4 verse 6
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known
unto God.
B12 …
- Philippians 1 verses 4 & 5
4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with
joy,
5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
B13 …
- Colossians 1 verse 11
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power,
unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
Ephesians 3 verses 13 & 16
13 Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you,
which is your glory.
16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to
be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
Second Thessalonians 1 verse 4
So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your
patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye
endure:
C …
- Ephesians 3 verse 20
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all
that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Philippians 1 verse 19
For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer,
and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
First Timothy 2 verses 1-3
1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers,
intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a
quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
Scriptures to Reference: Kings James Bible
B1 …
- Colossians 1 verse 9
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to
pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the
knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
Philippians 1 verse 12
But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which
happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of
the gospel;
Ephesians 3 verses 17-19
17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being
rooted and grounded in love,
18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth,
and length, and depth, and height;
19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that
ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
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