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Sumner's Personal
Daily Prayer List!
This is my personal daily prayer list. This has transformed my
prayer life. Lets pray what God told us to pray for and see great
things happen on a daily basis. All because of
Christ, Sumner
My Personal Prayer List-Ps 100:4
(Please read all verses at least once)
Think what you are praying, visualize!
1 Thankful-Saved,De16:3-BlessingsLk17:17
2 Praise-v4-Who He is and what He does
3 Laver-judge self-confess sin 1 Jn 1:9
4 Lovest thou Me? Jn21:15,Say:I love You Abba Father, Lord Jesus,
Holy Spirit
5 Ask for H.S. to fill-control you,1 Jn 5:14f
6 Widsom 1 Ki 3:7-9 Jas 1:5 Prov 3:13ff
7 What do You want me to do? Acts 9:6
8 Ask for lost souls-Jas 4:2;Acts 16:14
9 Give me boldness-Acts 4:29-31;2Tim1:7
10 Heal me-Asa sought not God 2Ch16:12 Biblical Prayer List 1 Tim
2:1-4
11 Pray-"first of all": vs 1; Lk 5:5 "I will"
12 "All men"6 billion-2-B saved-"Thy will "
13 All kings-to be saved-v4"Thy will done"
14 All in authority-Gov. etc-saved-Thy will
15 Send forth laborersMt 9:37;Acts13:2-4
16 Peace o Je-all Is-savedPs 122;Ro 10:1
17 Enemies-God bless-do good Mt 5:44 What to pray for people-Col
1:9-11
18 Put a hunger within them Ps 42:1,2
19 Put a hedge around them Job 1:10
20 Put Your hand upon them Ezra 7 & 8
The Lord's Prayer List Lk.11;Mat.6:9-15
21 "Say": Hallowed be Thy name Lk 11:2
22 Thy kingdom come-U come Rev 22:20
23 Thy will be done on earth-as in heaven
24 Give us this day our daily bread-needs
25 Forgive us our sins as we forgive 11:4
26 Lead us not into temptation 11:4
27 Deliver us from evil (the evil one)11:4
28 Thine is the kingdom-Mt16:15 Lk 6:46
29 Thine is the power-not mine Zech 4:6
30 Thine is the glory-not mine Isa 42:8
31 List family, children,
loved ones, friends
32 Pastor, church,
ministries, missionaries
33 Special requests: Matt 6:10,Eph.6:18
Upgrade lists regularly on 3x5 cards; Jabez' prayer list 1 Chron
4:10
34 Bless me indeed cf Jacob Gen 32:26
35 Enlarge my borders, ministry,
impact
36 Let Your hand be upon me Ezra 7 & 8; 7:6 "requests" 7:9 Came to
Jerusalem; 7:28 ...strengthened 8:18 Brought help; 8:31 Delivered
"by the hand of God"
37 Keep me from evil; Jabez was a nobody
and God granted him his requests!
Ask, He is still doing it today! Ja 4:2
The General's
Advice
Scripture: 1 Chronicles 26:26b
“The generals and captains and other officers of the army had
dedicated to the Lord” NLT
Once while traveling the General’s car broke down. He took advantage
of the opportunity while waiting for repairs to talk with a group of
factory workers who were laid off and looking for work. The General
said, "Some of you men never pray, you gave up praying long ago. But
I'm going to say to you; won't you pray for your children that they
may be different?" Within minutes hundreds of men knelt in silent
prayer for their families.
Some time later two employees of the General’s decided that their
satellite branch was not working out and suggested the General close
it down. The General sent back a telegram with two words on it, "TRY
TEARS." They followed his advice and a mighty increase resulted.
During his life time the General traveled nearly 5 million miles to
58 countries in the early 20th century when travel was difficult at
best compared to today. His message was clear and he was well
received wherever he went. You and I know him as General William
Booth the founder of the Salvation Army.
And his spiritual advice wherever he traveled:
"Work as if everything depended upon your work, And pray as if
everything depended upon your prayer."
Let's Pray What
God Asked Us To Pray
We gladly pray for Joe's toe like he asked us to pray
We pray for Jack's back like he asked us to pray
We pray for Jane's pains because she asked us to pray
Why on earth don't we pray for the things God specifically asked:
- Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, they shall prosper who love
Israel Ps 122:6
- Pray the Lord of harvest that he will send forth laborers"
Matt 9:38
- When you pray say, "Hallowed be Thy name" Don't you want His
name hallowed. He does Luke 11:3.
- "Thy kingdom come" That is the only way to have world peace
Lk 11:2.
- "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven" No president
or king can make it happen
Lk 11:2.
- "Give us this day our daily bread" Lk 11:3
- I exhort that prayers be made for all men..who would have
all men to be saved" 1 Tim 2:1-4
- I exhort that prayers be made for kings--to be saved 1 Tim
2:2-4
- I exhort that prayers be made for all in authority--to be
saved 1 Tim 2:2-4
Praying what God asked for has transformed my prayer life. It is
thrilling. You know you are praying in the will of God.
A missionary on furlough told this true story while visiting his home
church in Michigan. 'While serving at a small field hospital in
Africa, every two weeks I traveled by bicycle through the jungle to
a nearby city for supplies. This was a journey of two days and
required camping overnight at the halfway point.
On one of these
journeys, I arrived in the city where I planned to collect money
from a bank, purchase medicine, and supplies, and then begin my
two-day journey back to the field hospital. Upon arrival in the
city, I observed two men fighting, one of whom had been seriously
injured. I treated him for his injuries and at the same time talked
to him about the Lord. I then traveled two days, camping overnight,
and arrived home without incident.
Two weeks later I repeated my journey. Upon arriving in the city,
I was approached by the young man I had treated. He told me that he
had known I carried money and medicines. He said, 'Some friends and
I followed you in to the jungle, knowing you would camp overnight.
We planned to kill you and take your money and drugs. But just as we
were about to move into your camp, we saw that you were surrounded
by 26 armed guards. At this, I laughed and said that I was certainly
all alone in that jungle campsite. The young man pressed the point,
however, and said, 'No, sir, I was not the only person to see the
guards, my friends also saw them, and we all counted them. It was
because of those guards that we were afraid and left you alone.'
At this point in the sermon, one of the men in the congregation
jumped to his feet and interrupted the missionary and asked if he
could tell him the exact day this happened. The missionary told the
congregation the date, and the man who interrupted told him this
story: 'On the night of your incident in Africa, it was morning here
and I was preparing to go play golf. I was about to putt when I felt
the urge to pray for you. In fact, the urging of the Lord was so
strong, I called men in this church to meet with me here in the
sanctuary to pray for you. Would all of those men who met with me on
that day stand up?' The men who had met together to pray that day
stood up. The missionary wasn't concerned with who they were, he was
too busy counting how many men he saw. There were 26.
This story is an incredible example of how the Spirit of the Lord
moves in behalf of those who love Him. If you ever
feel such prodding, go along with it.
Keep On Asking!
You have heard over and over that when a sports team gets down
and out, losing game after game, the coach will say, "lets get back
to the basics."
I want to get back to basics about prayer. If
your prayer life isn't producing, working, getting answers, is a
chore, here are some basics that work:
There are two parables in the Bible about prayer.
1. Luke 11:5 Jesus tells about the man who went to his friend
at midnight asking him for three loaves because a friend of his came
to see him and he had nothing to feed him. The friend he came to
said, "It's midnight, I can't get up and give you now." His friend
was desperate and kept on knocking until the man said because he
kept on knocking he got up and gave him his request. The lesson?
Keep on asking and asking and asking to get your answers
2. Luke 18:1-8. The widow who went to the
unjust judge and asked, "Avenge me of my adversary" but the judge
would not. She kept on asking and the judge granted her request.
They both teach one main thing. KEEP ON ASKING. Too often people
pray for something a time or two and wonder why they get no answer.
Two things, either you are not ready for the answer or God is
getting you ready for the answer and you give up too easily. Lesson
number one. "Don't give up too easily, Keep on asking until He
answers. More on this later.
Pray Fervently For
Your Pastor
WE MUST PRAY FERVENTLY FOR PASTORS. I
believe this is an attack of satan. Sumner
Too often, we fail to recognize how close our ministers and their
families are to burnout. Studies and articles reflect the hard truth
about American pastoral ministry:
The average tenure in ministry has declined from 21 years in 1990 to
12 years today.
94% of pastors say they feel pressure to have a perfect family.
90% feel inadequately trained to cope with the demands of ministry.
80% of pastors say ministry has a negative impact on their own
families.
70% say their self-esteem was higher before they began ministry.
40% consider quitting every Monday morning.
25% of clergy marriages end in divorce.
Pressures like these drive 1,600 shepherds out of the ministry every
month. That's 19,000 pastors each year - not including the
missionaries and specialized ministers who add the pressures of
crossing cultures and raising funds to the mix.
Pray for the Peace
of Jerusalem,
They Shall Prosper That Love Thee - Ps
122:6.
Out of obedience to the only living Lord God of glory, we ought
to "pray for the peace of Jerusalem." Of of course, that does not
mean we "hate" the Arabs or anyone else. Just pray for the peace of
Jerusalem. Make sense?
It does not take a rocket scientist nor great Bible scholar to see
enough to make you realize the coming of the Lord Jesus draws nigh!
As I hear my dear pastor friends say, "Any minute now."
Sadly, I do not hear enough said about "They shall prosper that love
Israel." What ever you do please don't fall into the trap of
thinking prosper materially. I am fed up with the worldly,
materialist Christianity invading the church of the Lord Jesus.
"Having food and raiment, therewith be content." Bless God, every
Christian and every church I know needs desperately to prosper
spiritually.
Oh, how we need to see more people born of God and made new
creatures in Christ Jesus. Then every church needs to see a revival
of that first love for the Lord Jesus, for one another and for the
lost. Make sense?
Do you love Israel enough to pray for the peace of Jerusalem? This
should be on our daily prayer list not an annual urge to pray for
the peace of Jerusalem. Go a step further with Paul who said, "My
hearts desire and pray for Israel is that they might be saved" Rom
10:1. You will glad you did or wish you had one day! Make sense?
With the world as it is and country after country turning against
Israel and I find so many Christians do
not pray for the peace of Jerusalem, I feel an urge to run this
again. What say ye?
Overcoming Opposition to Prayer
Daniel 10:12-14 (KJV)
- read Daniel chapter 10 for context
Then said (the angel) unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the
first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to
chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come
for thy words. {13} But the (fallen angelic) prince of the kingdom
of Persia withstood me one and twenty days:
Many Christians may feel God's presence as they go through the day,
but when they stop to pray, and really talk to Him, suddenly a
thousand things are running through your mind, and it is hard to
concentrate on the Lord. Is there any good way to pray without
getting sidetracked by other things? This problem can become so
annoying that Christians may give up trying to engage in lengthy and
fervent times of prayer.
This is probably a universal phenomenon which accompanies prayer,
especially serious prayer, since Satan will do anything to disturb
our prayer-life or distract us from praying. He knows that when we
pray, he is in greatest danger of being defeated with regard to some
person he is tormenting or some other evil scheme he is cooking up.
If he can stop us from praying, his defeat is deferred.
I can remember when our four children were little, I would settle
down to pray at home, all of a sudden my kids would start yelling,
or want to sit on daddy's lap or have a question or decide to pull
each other's hair out. They could be playing quietly all night and
not disturb me, but the minute I would attempt to pray, they started
in.
After a while it became apparent to me what was happening. This was
not just a coincidence. It was a cheap trick of Satan, to try to
make me have to choose between praying, and paying extra attention
to my little ones. What a dilemma...to make me choose between those
precious ones and my precious Lord. Sometimes, I would recognize the
ploy, and get annoyed at Satan for putting me in this dilemma, but
then if I got angry, it would look to my children that I was angry
at them. And so it was a multi-layered victory for the evil one.
The Still Small Voice
Not long ago I heard a story about a young man and an old
preacher. The young man had lost his job and didn't know which way
to turn. So he went to see the old preacher. Pacing about the
preacher's study, the young man ranted about his problem. Finally he
clenched his fist and shouted, "I've begged God to say something to
help me, preacher, why doesn't God answer?"
The old preacher, who sat across the room, spoke something in reply,
something so hushed it was indistinguishable. The young man stepped
across the room. "What did you say?" he asked. The preacher repeated
himself, but again in a tone as soft as a whisper.
So the young man moved closer until he was leaning on the preacher's
chair. "Sorry," he said. "I still didn't hear you." With their heads
bent together, the old preacher spoke once more. "God sometimes
whispers," he said, "so we will move closer to hear Him."
This time the young man heard and he understood. We all want God's
voice to thunder through the air with the answer to our problem. But
God's is the still, small voice ... the gentle whisper. Perhaps
there's a reason. Nothing draws human focus quite like a whisper.
God's whisper means I must stop my ranting and move close to Him,
until my head is bent together with His. And then, as I listen, I
will find my answer. Better still I find myself closer to God.
And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire:
and after the fire a still small voice. (1 Kings 19:12)
Morning and Evening
Spurgeon, Charles H.
“Therefore will the Lord wait that he may be
gracious unto you.” - Isaiah 30:18
God often DELAYS IN ANSWERING PRAYER. We have several instances of
this in sacred Scripture. Jacob did not get the blessing from the
angel until near the dawn of day-he had to wrestle all night for it.
The poor woman of Syrophenicia was answered not a word for a long
while. Paul besought the Lord thrice that “the thorn in the flesh”
might be taken from him, and he received no assurance that it should
be taken away, but instead thereof a promise that God’s grace should
be sufficient for him.
If thou hast been knocking at the gate of mercy, and hast received
no answer, shall I tell thee why the mighty Maker hath not opened
the door and let thee in? Our Father has reasons peculiar to himself
for thus keeping us waiting. Sometimes it is to show his power and
his sovereignty, that men may know that Jehovah has a right to give
or to withhold.
More frequently the delay is for our profit. Thou art perhaps kept
waiting in order that thy desires may be more fervent. God knows
that delay will quicken and increase desire, and that if he keeps
thee waiting thou wilt see thy necessity more clearly, and wilt seek
more earnestly; and that thou wilt prize the mercy all the more for
its long tarrying.
There may also be something wrong in thee which has need to be
removed, before the joy of the Lord is given. Or, God makes thee
tarry awhile that he may the more fully display the riches of his
grace to thee at last.
Thy prayers are all filed in heaven, and if not immediately answered
they are certainly not forgotten, but in a little while shall be
fulfilled to thy delight and satisfaction. Let not despair make thee
silent, but continue instant in earnest supplication.
Enter into his gates with
thanksgiving
Psalms 100:1
The priest, the believer of the Old Testament, entering the house
of God, the tabernacle (Exodus
25:8), to go to the altar of incense,
the place of prayer (Revelation 8:3,4), came through the one "gate"
(Exodus 37:14). Trying to enter any other way would have meant
death. Jesus said, "I am the door" John 10:9, "no man cometh unto
the Father but by me" John 14:6. The first thing the priest would
have seen, and he could not have missed it, was the huge brazen
altar where the lambs were slain, sacrificed and the blood was shed.
It is the picture of Calvary.
God says enter with "thanksgiving." Do you remember when the Lord
Jesus healed the ten lepers, leprosy was worse than aids, and only
one turned to give thanks and He asked, "Were there not ten
cleansed? But where are the nine" Luke 17:17? That is totally
inconceivable. How ungrateful can you be? The word of God says, "Be
ye thankful" Colossians 3:15.
You remember that awesome passage in Romans 1:21-23 where we are
told about the world, "Because when they knew God, they glorified
him not as God, neither were they thankful...Wherefore God gave them
up to uncleanness...vile affections...and to a reprobate mind." Some
suggest that there are millions of people and probably nations that
God has "given up..." because they were not thankful and did not
respond to what God showed them. What a tragedy.
"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
For men shall be unthankful," 2 Timothy 3:1-4. Did you notice that
in the midst of such horrible sins and atrocities is the sin of "unthankfulness."
God places a very high priority on thankfulness and we should too.
In fact, God says, "In everything give thanks for this is the will
of God in Christ Jesus concerning you" 1 Thessalonians 5:18. No
wonder He says, "Enter into His gates with thanksgiving." To enter
into His presence or to enter into any day with thanksgiving will
transform your prayer life and your life. |
