Examples of Prayer

 

Salvation • A Christian Struggling with Sin • Wisdom & Direction • Physical Healing • Comfort • Faith & Trust • Protection

 Salvation:
⁸ If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:8-9)
⁹ That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.¹⁰For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. (Romans 10:9-10)

Suggested Prayer

Dear God,
I confess that I am a sinner and I have not lived my life for you. I ask forgiveness for my sins. I believe Jesus is your only Son and that He died on the cross for my sins and you raised Him from the dead. I receive Jesus Christ now as my Lord and Savior. I turn my life over to Him and ask you to change me from the inside out. Thank you for your salvation to me. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
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 A Christian struggling with sin:
¹Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.²Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.³For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.⁴Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are proved right when you speak and justified when you judge.
¹⁰Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.¹¹Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.¹²Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. (Psalm 51:1-4; 10-12)

Suggested Prayer

Dear God,
You know the struggles I am having with ongoing sin. Please forgive me my sins. Please deliver me from bondage to sin and create in me a pure heart to live only for you. I rededicate my life to you. Please send your Holy Spirit in all His power to help me live my life exclusively for you. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
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 Wisdom & Direction:
⁶Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.⁷And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:6-7)
⁵If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. (James 1:5)

Suggested Prayer

Dear God,
You know the situation I face. I don’t know what to do. I release my need and my anxieties to you right now and ask that you give me your peace that surpasses understanding, and the wisdom how to resolve my circumstances. Enable me to patiently await your timing for the resolution of the problem and what I need to be doing on my own in the meantime. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
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 Physical Healing:
²³Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.²⁴News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and he healed them. (Matthew 4:23-24)

Suggested Prayer

Dear God,
I know that you can heal me. You know the pain I am in. I ask that you heal me from my sickness, whether it be divinely or through doctors and medicine. I also know that your will is made perfect through me when I am surrendered to you. If your perfect will does not include my healing, then I ask you to give me the joyful patience of affliction and the peace of heart to glorify you through my illness. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
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 Comfort:
³Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, ⁴who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.⁵For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. (2 Corinthians 1:3-5)
Jesus speaking: ²⁸“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28)

Suggested Prayer

Dear God,
You know my situation and you know how much I need your comfort in my life right now. Please let me sense your overwhelming love for me right now to see me through the storm I am facing. Please send me your divine comfort and enable me to totally rest in you. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
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Faith & Trust:
¹Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. . .
⁶And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. (Hebrews 11:1, 6)
⁵Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; ⁶in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. (Proverbs 3:5-6)

Suggested Prayer

Dear God,
Please give me the faith and trust in you for the circumstance I’m facing. Please develop my faith to think and act in line with your ability to provide, not mine. Please enable me to trust you with all my heart and not to lean on my own understanding. Please teach me to see the incomparably great power you have and not limit myself to my abilities.In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
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Protection:
¹⁰The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe. (Proverbs 18:10)
Jesus speaking: ³³“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble.But take heart! I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33)

Suggested Prayer

Dear God,
You know the life situation I am facing and I am concerned about my safety. I ask for your divine protection. I ask that you send your angels to watch over me and my loved ones. I ask for the peace of heart that Jesus promised in a world filled with trouble. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

For A Financial Need

Father, I come boldly before Your throne of grace that I may obtain help in this time of (financial) need in my life.

     You said that we have not because we ask not. So I come before You in prayer, making my request known unto You, and asking for Your provision in supplying this need before me; for You said that if evil men know how to give good gifts unto their children, then how much more will our Heavenly Father give good gifts (and needful things) to His children that ask Him. So I ask through prayer, and by faith in Your unfailing Word for this petition. 

     Father, You told us in Your Word, that if we would seek first the Kingdom of God and all of Your righteousness, You would bless all of our needs to be added unto us. You also told us in Your Word that if we would delight ourselves in You, that You would give us the desires of our heart. Father, I pray that You would help and bless me to always seek You and Your righteousness first and foremost in my life; and I pray that I will always find my delight in You; and as I do so, I thank You for supplying every one of my needs, and blessing me with the desires of my heart.

     Lord, You are my Shepherd. And as my Shepherd, I confess Your Word that I shall not want (or be in lack of) any good, beneficial, or needful thing in my life. For You are the God of my provisions, who supplies all my needs according to Your riches in glory; and You promised that You would not withhold any good thing from Your people who walk upright before You. 

     Father, You said that Your Spirit runs to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Yourself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are mature towards You; therefore, I thank You for showing Yourself strong unto me against my enemies of debt and lack, and giving me victory over them as You supply this need, as well as every need in my life.

     Father, You warned us that we would have many afflictions, but You also promised that You would deliver us from them all. Therefore, I thank You for Your strong hand of deliverance in supplying and meeting this need for me. For Your Word says that You have never forsaken the righteous, nor allowed his seed to beg for bread. And Father, I confess according to Your Word that I am the righteousness of God—not because of my works, but because I am created in Christ Jesus, and I am made righteous through Him.

     Father, You have established us as kings and priests unto the Most High King, Jesus Christ; and You said that  when a king shall decree a thing, it shall be established. So by Your authority, I decree that this present need in my life is established, and all of my needs are met and fulfilled.

     Father, I thank You for the power and the authority You have given unto us to speak to our circumstances. For You said that we can speak to our mountains and command them to be removed and cast into the sea. So Father, by the authority of Your Word, I speak to this mountain of debt, bills, and financial obligations before me. I speak to my (name Your specific bills or financial obligations), and I command them to be uprooted, removed from before me, and cast into the sea.

     Father, as Jesus blessed the two fish and five loaves of bread and multiplied them to be able to feed the five thousand and still have plenty left over, I also speak the Word of God to my finances, and I command them to be multiplied to be able to pay all my bills; and I thank You that I still have plenty left over. And, I confess Your Word that I am completely out of debt,  and I owe no man anything but to love them.

     Father, I thank You for the promise of Your Word that You would rebuke the devourer for my sake. So by Your promise, and by the authority You have given unto me, I bind every hindering spirit that has attacked my finances. I bind every spirit of debt, lack and insufficiency in my life; and by the Word of the living God, I rebuke and cast them down, and I command them to loose and release every hold from my life and my finances, by the power and the authority of the name of Jesus Christ.

     Father, according to Your Word, if an enemy is caught stealing, he must return seven-fold of that which he has stolen. Father, I have caught the enemy stealing (from me). For Your Word has revealed and exposed him as the thief that comes to steal, kill and destroy. So Satan, I command you by the authority of God’s Word to return everything you have stolen from my life. And, for every “single” thing you have stolen from my life and my finances, I command you to return unto me seven times that amount, by the authority of the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ.

     Now Father, I believe Your Word, and I am fully   persuaded that what You have promised, You are also able to perform. And this is the confidence that I have: that if I ask anything according to Your will, I know that You hear me; and since I know that You hear me, I know that I have the petitions that I desire and I have asked of You. I believe it, and I receive the blessings of the Lord in my life.

In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray, AMEN!