Rob's Daily Prayer
We've addressed the issue of prayer in a variety of articles, blogs and a Quantum Prayer Series. I thought it might be helpful to give an example of a precisely crafted daily prayer. As a general rule I set aside 20-30 minutes at the beginning of every day to continually lay siege to Heaven on a wide variety of topics that are of the deepest interest to me.
Every Meaningful Word
Over decades I've refined and memorized my personal prayer. While often improvising by adding additional points I try not to skip any. Every word has been crafted to be extremely meaning to me and I hope to God.
The exacting nature of my first prayer of the day creates the groundwork I use to pray more freely thereafter. I start by humbling myself through laying an extensive foundation of repentance. Next I begin the process of interceding in detail on behalf of the people and issues I care most deeply about. Once these first two aspects of prayer are accomplished I move into serious intercession for issues great and small, weaving in and out of repentance, adoration and petition. As you will see, I directly and indirectly employ dozens of scriptures, daily exploring their meaning and the power they contain.
I feel more confident to continue employing several if not all Seven Modes of Prayer throughout the day.
While the length and detail of my personal prayer list may seem overwhelming but I strongly recommend investing the time and energy to create and daily pray one of your own. If you hope to move or prevail in prayer with God, the Devil, Circumstances and Men on behalf of people you care for it would be wise to "care enough" to create a list of things to ask daily ask God for. In the Biblical parable of the persistent widow, Jesus promises God will speedily vindicate or answer prayer but only of those who "cry out day and night."
Rob's Personal Daily Prayer
Starting with Repentance
"Dear God, I ask you to forgive my sins of omission and commission, often willful and repeated. A myriad of them unknown to me. Vices extolled as virtues. Virtues suppressed by vices. Condemning to idol words. Debts owed to You and others. Please continue to deliver and protect from every evil thing and danger, from sin, self, Satan and the spirit of Antichrist to accidents, incidents, illnesses and injuries by the blood of Jesus Christ may there be no ill effect.
I ask you to forgive my sins, the sin of my wife Cathy, my son Derek and my daughter Bethany as well as all those people, places and things I have been, am and will be praying for including my mother, my brother and his wife, Shelby Jakie and Daily."
Provision and Influence
"I ask you to bless my ministry, career and business. Please bless 'Eternity...The Wager' and Series. Bless God Blog and Quantum Christianity, Truth Talk and all the projects I have in my heart and mind to do. Bless Care Consulting and Accurate Painting, restoring their income to what they were in better days and Antique Time if necessary.
(Here I ask for blessings on a handful of friends)
Asking really BIG! (Note: single quote denotes scripture quotation or paraphrase)
"I ask for 'the gift of prophecy. To understand all mysteries and have all knowledge and all faith, all working by love. To speak in all tongues of men and angels and be prepared for all good deeds.' (1 Corinthians 13)
And that I might not be alone, but that 'all God's people would be prophets' 'filled with all the fullness of God' from this moment forevermore.
That you would send us into 'all the world to preach all your gospel to all people everywhere learning together to obey all the things you yourself have commanded and that all signs and wonders would accompany Your message including the healing of all the sick, raising of all the dead, casting out of all devils and demons. Giving sight to all the blind, hearing to all the deaf, speech to all the mute both physically and spiritually."
Corporate and Personal Concerns
"I ask for these Seven things:
- A new 'Pentecost' with an immediate global impact of a Million Upper Rooms.
- Power from on High for myself and family, friends and colleagues. All Christians everywhere and our descendants forever.
- Provision: a 5 to 6 figure salary for myself annually and 6 to 7 figure budget for Quantum Christianity both secured, retroactive for doing the best work I've done in the Kingdom.
- Passion for the 'wife of my youth.' That she be wise, virtuous and beautiful filled with all the fruit and gifts of the Holy Spirit.
- For my 'prodigal son' Derek, that he might instantly and fully come to his senses and grant you the full honor due the Tri-Omni God, King of Kings and Lord of Lords and grant me the honor due a father and leader.
- That my princess daughter Bethany would do the same, while I'm yet praying. That together our family and friends would be filled with 'the Holy Ghost and fire.' That we 'would be preserved entirely blameless spirit, soul and body to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.'
- For a beautiful new premises on a wonderful new property, preferably in a forest perhaps above the snow line overlooking an ocean, lake or tinkling city that I might do my work in peace, sin less and prepare myself and others for that which is to come."
Forgiveness, Restitution and Resource
"Please forgive our sins and 'help us forgive those who sin against us.' Issues real and imagined, past, present and future. Sins of omission and commission, willful and repeated, unknown and ongoing.
Help us not to be vindictive by 'vindicated,' immediately in this life and eternity. For myself I ask for 2, 10, 1,000, 1,000,000 fold the resources I had previous to and would have had without the subsequent betrayals of ministries and colleagues. Wealth, salary, district, title, product, productivity, resource, receptivity, lack of resistance and lasting results.
Health, family blessings, family blessings, family blessings... 'Love, peace, joy, faith, hope, righteousness and glory in the Holy Ghost.'
Thank You for and please continue to deliver and protect from all debt and taxes, loss of income, repossessions and foreclosures, bankruptcy and divorce. Please increase my fortunes that I might pay out of a small percentage all that is owed and owe 'no debt that of love' and be fully paid on that account."
Love and Glory of God Ephesians 3
"I pray these things to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ of whom all the families of Heaven and Earth are named. That You might grant by You glory that we should be strengthened with all might by Your Spirit which dwells in us by faith. That being rooted in Your love we might comprehend the length, depth, width and height and know the love of God that passes knowledge.
And that we might be filled with all the fullness of God...
with all the fullness of God...
with all the fullness of God...
Now unto You who are able to do exceedingly, abundantly beyond all we can ask or think, according to the power that works within us which I prayed repeatedly would be immediate and unlimited. May there be glory in Your church, through Jesus Christ, throughout all ages, including this present dark and evil one, world without end.
Have mercy and grace, grace, grace..."
Prostration and Intercession
"Dear God I confess once again that I and the entire human race, perhaps a hundred billion past, present and future are but 'dust in the balance' before any aspect of Your Omnity or even Your creation of space, time or matter.
'We are as a mist, here in the morning and burnt off by mid morning.' We are thinking feeling sinful reeds to whom a little water added or withheld can mean life or death. We are soulish spirits in bloody meatcycles on skeletal sticks, 'fearfully and wonderfully made' yet with little or no concern over the demands of our Maker to be obedient, productive and thankful. And this, even though for the most part we are born between feces and urine and for all our pomp will die as dogs.
Nevertheless, it is written that even we might become beloved dust, 'heirs of God and joint heirs of Christ.' 'For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
So I pray that You would help us 'come today and reason together, though our sins be as scarlet that we might be washed white as wool.' That through abortion and other acts of global violence and evil we have covered the Earth in crimson, reaching to Heaven and filling it with scandal to our shame, that we might be washed white as snow. By the love and will of God the Father. By the bood and work of God the Son. By the fruit and gifts of God the Holy Spirit. Blessed Omnity, Three in One.
I ask that You would speak to us immediately, forgivingly and gloriously and that we 'would not harden our hearts against Your voice' and that You Oh Great, Awesome and Awful God would do the same, hearing and answering our prayers today.
That you would help us to come humbly and boldly, successfully and repeatedly, victoriously, joyously and gloriously 'before Your throne of grace to obtain mercy, help and resource at this time of need.'
For while we stand before You utterly condemned for our sin, particularly my generation and the next in First World Nations and beyond, and are without excuse even our behavior is not without explanation!
For is it not written that he that condemns and accuses us first 'tempted and deceived us, and angels,' so I pray as the Lord taught:
'Our Father in Heaven, Your name is Holy. Your Kingdom come and will be done on Earth, today, as it is in Heaven. Thank You for giving us so much. Please give us even more and far more wisdom on how to use it particularly on behalf of those with the greater need. Please forgive our sins, trespasses and debts and help us forgive those who sin and trespass against us and are indebted to us as previously prayed. Particularly I ask that You lead us not into but out of all temptation. All sin, above, about and within. All evil, the evil One, the evil Him and his for Yours is the Kingdom, Power and Glory forever, of which I and we know little but I suspect they are to be feared, revered and desired above all things in appropriate ways."
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