Circle Of Prayer


Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual
and the community must enter every day.
(Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

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Before You Ask

And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. (Matthew 6:7-8)

Many people think their prayers won’t work if they don’t utter them clearly enough, or fail to explain to God exactly what they mean, or don’t speak loudly enough to him with sufficient earnestness. But when this happens, prayer becomes so exaggerated that our Savior even forbids it.

Obviously Jesus does not want to discourage us from praying. His point is that when we pray we must have a sense of proportion. Once we have prayed, we must be quiet. We need to be like the farmer who has sown his seed. Help will come only when you are quiet in faith. Also in your sickness or with other needs, learn to be still and look to the Kingdom of God.

We can share our needs with the Father in a few words, without making a fuss, and rest assured that God already knows what we need and what he will do to help us. We don’t have to explain our requests in great detail to God, or try and make quite sure that he knows our needs. God knows about even the smallest matters and takes them straight into his heart. We can turn to him by glancing Heavenward, with no words at all. We can do this even when we pray about something concrete and tangible, or about something that specifically troubles us. We may realize that what we thought we needed is actually not necessary and that we can find a way right in the midst of how things are now.

This doesn’t mean that we just let things happen – as if everything will come of its own accord without our longing for it. Nor should we just cast a brief and hurried request at God’s feet. When this happens, we too easily lose sight of God, assume that everything comes to us without his help, and we forget to thank him. Then we cease to have a believing heart and are consequently not true children of God.

Jesus said, “Before you ask him.” Therefore we do need to make our requests known to him, otherwise many things will not be given that could have been given. It never displeases God when we come to him with our heartfelt requests. A real child asks for everything, knowing God has an ear for him. We should bring all our burdens and needs to him, for at the very least this helps to make us ever more aware that in all things God is the giver.

God always has our interest in mind. He carries our various needs with fatherly concern, eagerly waiting for us to come to him. He has not forgotten us. And when we feel tempted to think so, then all the more we should remember that he knows it all and cares for us. In fact, he knows much more about us and our needs than we do. Simple, childlike prayer is enough to move his heart, give you something out of the fullness of his compassion, and save you from all sorts of fear and trouble.

(Johann Christoph Blumhardt)

(The God Who Heals, Words of Hope for a Time of Sickness)


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Julia

Most High, Glorious God, enlighten the darkness of our minds. Give us a right faith, a firm hope, and a perfect charity, so that we may always and in all things act according to your Holy Will. Amen. (Saint Francis of Assisi)

Received: October 5, 2017

Julia

The Golden Arrow Prayer

May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable,

most incomprehensible and ineffable Name of God

be forever praised, blessed, loved, adored

and glorified in Heaven, on Earth,

and under the earth,

by all the creatures of God,

and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ,

in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.

Amen.

Received: October 4, 2017

Julia

May light eternal shine upon them, O Lord, with thy saints for evermore: for thou art gracious.

Eternal rest give to them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them: with thy saints for evermore, for thou art gracious.

Amen.

Received: October 2, 2017

Julia

Lust for Violence, a prayer

Heavenly Father,

It is so easy to reach out and strike someone because we feel frustrated and angry at life.

Angry with you, God.

Our hearts ache for acceptance and understanding. For a decent meal and a working toilet. For the means to help our suffering loved ones who need help but have no way of getting it.

Help all of us who pray for those who see no other way to relieve their anger except through hurting others.

Soothe the very choppy emotions inside those who believe passionately in committing violence.

Send the army of guardian angels down to us to protect those who are the targets of violence.

Make yourself known to those who have forgotten or have never known the blessed compassion of your son, our Lord Jesus Christ.

Father, bring us your peace.

Amen.

Received: September 28, 2017

Julia

Heavenly Father, we take into our hearts those who were deeply affected by the act of a man whose heart was full of hatred at the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, Tennessee.

We ask that their suffering be eased by the remembrance of our Lord's suffering on the cross. We ask that they stand tall and proud in the glare of the lights of the news media, and that their faith remain strong throughout this ordeal.

We thank you that so many grieve for their fellow Christians who have been struck by evil.

Amen.

Received: September 25, 2017

Julia

As the fury of winds and rain ravage parts of our planet, may all of us accept the might and majesty of God and kneel before the Lord, our Maker, in humility.

Amen.

Received: September 11, 2017

Julia

Beloved Jesus, reach down and enfold in your loving arms the people in Mexico who are suffering. Ease their pain, and guide them to help that they so sorely need. Amen.

Received: September 9, 2017

Anonymous

In the name of Jesus, I bind and break the power of all curses spoken, all rituals or sacrifices committed, all divination, spells, incantations, meditations, and all sorcery or magic.

I release and call upon:

The Spirit of the Lord

The Spirit of Wisdom

The Spirit of Understanding

The Spirit of Counsel

The Spirit of Might

The Spirit of Knowledge

The Spirit of Mercy

The Spirit of Grace

The Spirit of Peace

I call for the fear of the Lord upon myself Evans and my wife Susan and my sons Trevor and Lincoln.

In the name of Jesus, I place Shields of Faith over the minds of myself,my wife and children against infiltration from end-time mind control.

Thank you Father, that no weapon the enemy forms against us shall prosper because we are covered by the blood of Jesus christ.

Amen.

Received: September 9, 2017

Anonymous

Heavenly Father, I bind my brothers, Jamlick and Nelson, from using witchcraft in the future.

Please cast protection from any evil spirits over myself, my wife, and our children.

I know that you are the one with all the power to expel evil from all our lives.

I trust in your power to protect all of us in the name of Jesus our Lord and saviour.

Amen.

Received: September 9, 2017

Anonymous

Heavenly Father, please release the binding of my womb. I want two healthy children by my husband. You have given me the grace to beat cancer, and now please grace me with the ability to bear children.

Received: September 1, 2017

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