Text: ‭‭‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭1:17‭-‬19‬ ‭

[17] And remember that the heavenly Father to whom you pray has no favorites. He will judge or reward you according to what you do. So you must live in reverent fear of him during your time here as “temporary residents.” [18] For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And it was not paid with mere gold or silver, which lose their value. [19] It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God. 1 Peter 1:17-19 NLT

The first part of  our prayer today will focus on asking God to deliver the Church from the claws of wicked spiritual leaders. who  are doing wickedly against the covenant and thus are bringing reproaches to the Body.

Let us Pray:

Father God,  we thank You for the gift of life and salvation of our souls.

We affirm that You are Holy, Righteous, and Just.  And that if you were to judge us for our sins, none among us would be saved. 

Thank You that Your goodness led us to repentance,  and Your mercy also prevailed over the judgments against us.

We come into the Throne of Grace, to obtain help from You who is able to kill and make alive.

We and our religious leaders have sinned against You, and have broken the covenant of brotherhood. 

We have not upheld your integrity in the world,  rather, we have become the object of worldly scorn in that we allowed the world and not the Word to transform us. 

We deserve all that is going against us in our nations.

But You O God remain faithful even when we are not. 

Remember Your covenant by the shed blood of the Lamb without blemish. 

Remember that Jesus Christ paid forward to redeem us from the consequences of our sins. 

We are grateful for the grace of forgiveness and cleansing from all unrighteousness.

However,  we ask that you remove from their leadership positions, those spiritual leaders whose candles no longer burn to direct people to you, and who have become the link that brings reproach to the Body of Christ.

Replace them with those who will honor the covenant of brotherhood,  feed your people with knowledge, understanding, and be the definition for righteousness in this depraved world.

In Your mercy O God, cover the shame of Your people and rescue us from the strife of tongues due to the wickedness of our leaders.

We stand against the evil spirits influencing idolatry, the worship of religious leaders, sexual sins and other lifestyles contrary to godliness. 

We command all those evil spirits and their relatives to leave our churches and fellowship groups, and go at once to the feet of Jesus Christ. 

We ask that You work in Your people O God, to no longer take part in the unfruitful works of darkness,  but to live Holy lives that testifies of Whose they are. 

Help us O God, to redeem the time,for the days are filled with vileness. 

Continue to work in us, both to will and to do of your good pleasure, and to live as light and salt in this world, in the matchless name of Jesus Christ.

Shalom from Hephzibah Christly, TheSpiritualWarrior, Dec. 29th 2023.