Lord, we
your Shepherds gather as one body and standing on the truth of your word come
to you this day submitting everything about our lives and the duties that you
called us to open our entire body, spirit, and soul to understand the knowledge
and wisdom that it takes to serve you. Daddy, your word is quick and powerful,
sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul
and spirit, the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and
intents of the heart. Please direct us to harvest the power within to
uproot evil and destroy the power of darkness and not ourselves. God helps us
through the power and direction of the Holy Spirit that we will hold fast to
the truth as it written in your word and that it shall not depart from our
mouths as we continue to meditate upon it day and night. Father, most of the
time the major problem we have is observing truly what is written within and
for this reason we can not reap the promises of prosperity and success honestly
as it was written. We have turn to evil and human ways to achieve these
promises and please help us to make your word the foundation of all we do from
this day forth.
We have
sin and fallen short of your good intentions for our lives. Therefore, daddy we
come to you as one body groaning and afflicted from our sinful ways for
direction. We have lost the right path a long time ago and walk in the darkness
of human logic and reason. You are a merciful God who does not find
pleasure in the downfall of your people. We are certain that as we repent and
turn from our evil ways and call on you with one voice that you will hear our
groaning and release us from this bondage. You promise that even if you
shut the heaven, command locust or send pestilence, and we repent of our evil
ways, call upon your name and humble ourselves, pray and seek your face that
you will forgive our wicked ways and heal us. Daddy, in many ways the heaven
has been shut to us and we cannot fully harvest and use the power and authority
left with us for the spreading of your kingdom news to the ends of the earth.
We ourselves are weak and many among us have fallen ill from one disease or
another. Heaven has been shut because of our evil ways. We cannot benefit from
the fruits of wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. The keys to the kingdom
have been withdrawn from many of your shepherds and these days many shepherds
have to turn evil ways in order to manufacture keys for binding and loosing. We
confess that the heavens has been close to us because we have fail to bind our
will to your truth but have follow blindly after the deceptions of the material
world as presented to us by Satan. We lost the keys which open the doors
to combat Satan as he enters into our lives and ministries like a flood.
He has presented to us on silver and golden platters the kingdom of
materialism. The lust for riches, money, and worldly influence and favour
which dies on the day we die. He has instill in us the spirit of false
pride, greed, lust, evil desires, fear, disunity and enticing habits that have
kept us in bondage for so many years.
Daddy,
you who dwellest between the cherubim, thou art the God, even thou alone
of all the kingdoms of the Earth, thou who made heaven and earth, bow
down thy ear and hear, open thine eyes and see, and hear our plea. You are the
highest God, the great and mighty who keep covenant and mercy. May the power of
the Holy Spirit cause us to fear you like Noah in preparing the ark, like
Abraham tested in the offering of his son Isaac, like Jacob in the vision of
the ladder and the covenant of God, the Egyptian midwives refuse to take the
lives of the Hebrews children. May our fear for you father be the motive for
the obedience of your word.
Lord
Jesus, we are conscious of the fact that you were bruised, bore our grief
and sorrow, wounded for our transgressions, smitten and afflicted by God in our
place and like a sheep led away to die that we may have the power to
bruise the head of the enemy even as he bruise our heel. You shed your precious
blood that we may be free. We submit our lives to do your will even as we
experience it miracle working power that unites, protects, leads, guides us,
and the sheep you have given us to care over. We need you to soak us with
this precious cleansing blood that we will walk in the path of righteousness as
a body.
Now that
we have prayed for forgiveness and repented of our sins, please direct the path
of our feet back to the light of day. Empower us with the power of the Holy
Spirit that we may be renewed in your truth and be ready to proclaim your word
day and night. Give us fully that power and authority to heal the sick, raise
the dead, set the captives free from prison, and direct your shepherds and the
flocks entrusted to us in your path.
Please feel free to enter into the corridors
of the Shepherds Lighthouse Bugle Magazine. It is our prayer that as you leave
your footprints that it will remain in the sands of this work and you will take
away a gift more precious than you ever imagine in your entire life.
