Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Teach Me How to Pray

Sulad Jhun Cardeinte

1.*Prayer for encouragement

We praise You Lord for the many blessings we received from you. We thank you for guiding us all the time and for sending Jesus Christ to save us from our sins. Thank you for what you have done for us. Thank you for dying on the cross to take away our sins. Help us to Lord to know You more because we want to have strong faith in You. Lord, our sins are many. We need you Lord because we are sinners and we are separated from you. We ask you Lord to forgive us from all our sins. We need your help Lord because we want to give our lives fully to you everyday. Lord, thank you for your promise that you will not leave us nor forsake us. Help us to find time to pray. Satan is so happy when we forget to pray. Satan has made many ways to keep us from praying. We ask you Lord to remind us to pray all the time so that we won’t be overcome by temptations. Help us to give up the sins that we love so much so that you will hear our prayers. Thank you Lord for helping us and for giving us strength to overcome our weaknesses. Help us to give our life fully to you everyday. Help us to be faithful to you. Help us to obey your will. I pray for brother Somchai and his family. May you continually bless them spiritually and materially. As we are waiting for your coming, may your Holy Spirit will change our hearts, so that we will be ready when You come. All these I pray in Jesus name amen.

2.*Prayer before giving Bible study

Thank you Lord for giving us time to study Your Word. We admit that we are sinners. We have done many things that don’t please you. Many times, we run away from You. We have lived our lives for ourselves. We are so sorry and we repent. We ask you to forgive us. Thank you for dying on the cross to save us. You have done what we couldn’t do for ourselves. We come to you now and ask you to take control of our lives, we give it to you. Help us to live everyday in a way that pleases you. In a special way, I pray for brother Somchai as he’s going to study Your words may you guide him through Your Holy Spirit. Give him wisdom so that he may able to understand Your word. Help us to believe your words and take away all our doubts. Thank you for the promise that whatever we ask in your name, you will do it. Please, send your Holy Spirit to help us understand Your plan of salvation to us. Bless us all today. Give us peace of mind. Help us to love one another. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

3.*Prayer after Bible study

Thank you Lord for giving us Your words that helps us understand your plan of salvation to us. Thank you also for sending Your Holy Spirit to us, who helps us to know what You want us to do. May Your Holy Spirit help us to grow in the knowledge of our Savior Jesus Christ. So that we will be change and our character will become like Him. Help us to know You more. We want You to be the ruler in our lives. May your Holy Spirit will continually work in our hearts. I pray that you will bless brother Somchai. Help him to make the right decision. May you are always there in every decision he makes. Bless also his family. Give them health and keep them safe. Protect them from sicknesses and bad people. Bless them materially and spiritually. You know them and You know what is best for them. But I asked You Lord, that if they have problems, please helps them. We believe that Your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. I pray that every day You would always be the center of our lives. Forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

4.*Prayer for members who have problem

Thank you Lord for the life, for the protection and for the health. We don’t know our future. But thank you Lord that you know what lies ahead and you know everything about us. Thank you that you know what is best for us. Brother Somchai is facing big problem today and You know it. Help him to decide the best things to do to solve it. You are the source of help and strength. I ask you Lord to solve his entire problem. We believe that You can help us. Lord you understand our pain and sorrows. When we start to follow you Lord, Satan is not happy and he will attack us and he will do everything possible to prevent us from trusting you. Lord, in ourselves we are not strong enough to resist him. But thank You Lord for the Holy Spirit who comes close to us to help us every problem we face. Thank you Lord for the promise that you will not leave us nor forsake us. You know the future and what is best for us. Lead us always to the right direction so we will know the right way to go. Gives us strength to face our problems. Give us a clear direction. And help us to understand Your will. Help us not to doubt. Help us to trust you more even in difficult situation. Satan gives us problem to keep us away from you. We know that this is the work of Satan. And he will do all in his power to stop us from believing you. But we thank you Lord for the Holy Spirit that gives us strength, to help us and to help brother Somchai in this problem. Help us to be faithful to you no matter what comes into our lives. Lord, we know that Your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for Your coming. Forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

5.*Prayer before giving sermon

Thank you Lord for being so good to us. Thank you for the guidance of the Holy Spirit and thank You for the many blessings we received from you throughout the week. We worship you because You are our Creator and we owe everything we have to You, including our lives. We are so thankful for protecting us and for giving us health and other blessings. As we listen to Your words today, may these inspire us and help us to be ready for Your coming. We ask Your Holy Spirit to Help us to live a victorious Christian lives. Help us to develop a closer relationship with You. So that in everything we do, it will be pleasing to You. Take away all our doubts and help us to trust You more. Help us to believe to receive what we are praying for. Help us not to doubt. May your Holy Spirit dwell in our hearts. We believe that your coming is very soon and so help us to walk closer to You in every moment in our lives. Forgive us from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

6.*Prayer after giving sermon

Thank you so much Lord for the worship we have today, that helps us to understand more about your plan to us. Thank You for the Holy Spirit who is able to help us in many ways. To help us in bringing love, joy, healing, wisdom and conversion. Thank you for the words we have just heard, that helps us to have a closer relationship with You and gives us encouragement and hope. May Your Holy Spirit will help put Your words in our heart. So that we may draw our heart closer to You, to help us love You more. Thank you Lord that you suffered and died for us that we may be able to have eternal life. May You keep us safe as we go home. We ask You to bless us with the things we need, such as knowledge, guidance, peace and health. Help us to grow more spiritually. We ask You to give us a clean heart. Help us to know You more and more. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

7.*Prayer for the doubting

Thank you Lord for the time to pray. Thank you for the life we have. Help us to believe your promise that we will receive what we ask if we believe to receive it. We admit that we are sinners. We have done many things that don’t please you. We have lived our life for ourselves. We ask you to forgive us. We believe that you died on the cross for us, to save us. You did what we could not do for ourselves. Thank you Lord for your promise that you will supply all our needs. Nothing is impossible with you Lord and so we ask you to supply the need of brother Somchai. We come to you now and ask you to take control of my lives, we give it to you. Help us to live every day in a way that pleases you. We love you, Lord, and we want to spend all eternity with You in heaven. Help us to develop a closer relationship with You. Help us to believe to receive what we are praying for. Help us not to doubt. Take away all our doubts and unbelief. Help us to believe that nothing is impossible with you. We want You to be the ruler in our lives. Please provide us with our spiritual and material needs. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Forgive us from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

8.*Prayer offered for the local co-Bible workers

Thank You Lord for choosing us to be Your instruments in reaching other people. Thank You for sending your Holy Spirit to lead us. Help us not to do Your work with our thinking and in our strength. Lord, we want to work under Your direction, so help us to be your humble instruments. So that your name will be praise in everything we do. Help us live like Jesus in our homes, our work and our neighborhoods. Help us to use our talents to lead people to You and to strengthen Your church. So that the work you want us to do will be done in a right time. Thank you for Your promise that when we seek, we will able to find and when we knock, the door will be open and when we ask, we will receive. Help us to please You in every way. Use us to be Your instruments to bring people to know about your great plan of salvation. May Your Holy Spirit open the way for us to share Your great love to the people around us. We ask You Lord to fill us with genuine love for our friends and neighbors. Help us what to do to be a good friend to those around us. May your Holy Spirit guide us in every word and deed so that we may say and do the right thing at the right time. May the life of Jesus will be seen in our lives. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

9.*Prayer for members who is leaving for work

We praise Your name Lord for what You have done to each of us. Thank you for the life and for giving us another day to work and to do our daily responsibilities. We thank you for the health, strength and for the many blessings we received from You. In a special way, I pray for brother Somchai as he leaves for work. I pray that you will protect him. Please bless him and his family. Bless his work, his fellow workers and the company he is working in. Take good care of him and give him wisdom and strength as work. I ask You also to please take care of his children as they leave for school and wherever they are. Please protect them and bless them. Thank you for giving us your Son Jesus Christ who died for us. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Forgive us from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

10.*Prayer for the food

We thank you Lord for being so good to us and for the fellowship we have today. We thank you for the health and for the life. We thank you for all the blessings and for providing our daily needs. Thank you for the good food. Bless the hands that are so kind to prepare for this. May you continually bless them. Bless this family and their livelihood. We thank you Lord for giving them the job, to give them source of their income to live on and meet their daily needs. Bless the food we are about to eat today. May this give us good health and strength. Thank You for keeping us healthy, strong and able. May your name will always be glorified in everything we do. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

11.*Prayer for the sick

Lord, we humbly come to You today to ask Your blessings. You know brother Somchai so much better than I do. You know his sickness and the burden he carries. You also know his heart. Lord, I ask you to be with Somchai now, to work in his life. Let your will be done in his life. Lord, I pray for brother Somchai because your Word says I should pray for his healing. I believe you hear this earnest prayer from my heart and that it is powerful because of your promise. I have faith in You to heal him, but I also trust in the plan you have for his life. We trust You because you are the best doctor and the greatest healer. Lord, I don't always understand Your ways, and why Somchai has to suffer, but we trust you. I ask that You look with mercy and grace towards him. Let him know You are there with him through this difficulty. And may You always be glorified in his life and also in mine. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

12.*Prayer for members about to travel

We praise your name Lord for the life we enjoy each day. We thank you for keeping us safe all the time. I pray for brother Somchai as he travels to Bangkok. May Your angels will watch over him. Keep him safe in his entire trip, so that he would be able to come back in a right time. Bless also his family he left behind in a short time. May You take care of their daily needs and will keep them safe. Help us always to continue to grow spiritually and be connected to You through prayer, Bible study and meditation. Help us to trust You more. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

13.*Prayer before going to bed

Thank You Lord for the success of our activities today. May your Holy angels will watch over us as we rest tonight. We ask You to wake us up early tomorrow so we could spend time with You in prayer and in Bible study. Thank You Lord for dying in the cross for us. Help us to watch and pray continually. Lord, we need Your help because we cannot change our hearts. And so we surrender our lives to you now. Because it is only You who can transform us. We humble our hearts and we recognize our weaknesses. But we thank You for sending us Your Holy Spirit to work in our hearts. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Give us peace of mind as we sleep tonight and forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

14.*Prayer before starting the day

Our Father in Heaven, thank You for the new day. We know You love us so much. Thank You for Your love and care. Thank You Lord for waking us up and for the new strength. We want to start our day with You because we want to draw closer to You everyday. We ask You to take control of our lives today. And help us to give our lives completely to You. We ask You Lord to transform our hearts, that we become more and more like Jesus. We ask You to strengthen us to be kind to each other and to be witnesses to the people around us. May Your name will be glorified in everything we do. Help us to be faithful in our work today. As we start to do our responsibilities, may You guide us and protect us from any harms and dangers. Help us to be blessings to the people around us. Use us Lord to lead them to You. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

15.*Prayer for comfort in loss

Lord we come to you today to seek Your comfort and guidance. We believe that you love us and you are there all the time. You suffered and died for us and you understand the pain and grief we bear at this moment. To experience death, sickness, and pain are not part of Your plan because You want us to be happy. But Satan is making troubles to give us sufferings. I pray for brother Somchai and his family. Please help them in this time of loss and overwhelming grief. Sometimes it’s hard to understand why our lives are filled with pain and heartache. But we turn to You as we seek to find strength because You will not leave us. Help us not to despair. Brother Somchai’s heart is crushed, but I know that you will not leave him. Please Lord shows him your compassion. Help him through the pain so that he will hope in you again. We believe the promises in your Word to send him fresh mercy each day. Though we can't see what lies ahead of us today, I trust your great love will never fail him. Thank You for Your promises that You will come again to take us to heaven, to end up all our sufferings. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

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