Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Forgive Us, Father: Prayer Note #99



   Dutch Sheets’ prayer: “Father, why is the thing we need the most, the thing we do the least? Why are most of us so busy we don’t have time?

You must have many frustrated days when Your eyes roam to and fro throughout the earth in search of someone whose heart is completely Yours.
  

You must weep often when You seek for a man or woman to stand in the gap to fill the breech and find no one.

Your heart must ache at times for us, Your people, to rise up and be what You’ve called us to be. 


We humble ourselves before your throne and ask You to forgive us for our lack of prayer. And forgive us as leaders, Lord, who have not told Your people the truth.

Forgive us as a church – the Body of Christ – for allowing evil to rule in this land when You have more than more than enough power in our wombs to change it. 


Forgive us, Lord. Cleanse us now and break the curses we have allowed to rule over us. Forgive us and cleanse us from the sin of apathy, complacency, ignorance and unbelief.

Wash us with the water of Your Word. Break off of us this lethargic prayerlessness, which we justify a thousand different ways. 

It really boils down to disobedience, unbelief and sin. 


Let there be an anointing that comes from Your throne to hungry people who are tired of status quo, of mediocrity, of death and destruction…We are tired of lack and disease. We are tired of sin. We are hungry for something – the God of the Bible!” 


Today’s Prayer Note #99 - Forgive Us, Father taken from Dutch Sheets’ book, Intercessory Prayer (211, 212) 


The next Prayer Note on 12/20- A Most Amazing Prayer Meeting


[Father, we are in need of being reminded of our individual responsibility in getting The Gospel out to others. Please show us what we can do...]



Today’s quote:                          The Cycle of Nations:

From bondage to spiritual faith
From spiritual faith to great courage
From courage to liberty
From liberty to abundance
From abundance to complacency
From complacency to apathy
From apathy to dependency
From dependence back again into bondage

Alexander Tyler - 1750


Our thought for today:  Don't allow others to control your attitudes. 
Tomorrow’s post:  Vicarious Intercession  Oswald Chambers
A Popular post:   BECOMING MORE FRUITFUL





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