O, Lord,
Right now, we assemble the armor You have given us.
We will not be led by our emotions,
but by Your word, which is truth.
We submit, therefore, our emotional lives to You and Your truth.
We submit our hearts to the righteousness of Jesus Christ
and refuse to trust in ourselves for righteousness.
All righteousness comes from You.
We confess all known sin that stands between You and us
and between ourselves and others.
Reveal to us anything unresolved remaining in our lives
that will prohibit us from being able to witness today -
both verbally and by lifestyle.
We are Your ambassadors,
no matter where we are, today or tomorrow.
Faith in You is our protection, O Lord;
We take You as our shield of protection.
You stand between us and the enemy.
Help us to recognize the origin of every thought that comes to us today.
We choose to bring all our thoughts captive to Your thoughts.
We place Your helmet of salvation upon our heads.
We have been redeemed.
We have been delivered from this present evil age
and transferred into the Kingdom of the Son who You love.
We take Your written Word and hide it in our hearts.
We yield our minds and our mouths
to the Holy Spirit for Scripture recall and proclamation.
We yield our lives to the filling of the Holy Spirit.
Help us to walk on “high alert” to Your presence in our lives today.
After all is said and done, Lord,
we ask that You would make us strong in the Spirit.
We seek to rely on Your strength, not our own.
We need You as Protector and Shelter, God.
We cannot stand against the plans
that the enemy has for us
in our own ability.
As we move through life,
we understand that we aren’t facing
mere frustration with other people;
the source of much of our conflict
is from unseen spiritual forces of evil in our world.
Therefore, we resolve to hold before us
every defense You give us,
so that we might stand against
whatever opposes Your plan for Your Kingdom,
and having done everything we can do,
we trust in Your grace to be our foundation.
And so we stand, braced by Your truth,
and guarded by Your righteousness (and not our own);
we are enabled by the power of the gospel
to actively bring Your peace to this sin-sick world –
prompt us to step out in confidence.
No matter what happens to us,
we are safeguarded by the faith which You give;
the subtle schemes and the blatant attacks of the evil one
can’t pull us away from Your love for us.
Your salvation keeps and holds us even
in the midst of pain that we didn’t imagine was coming.
We have the sword of the Spirit – the word of God –
which dwells in us.
Holy Spirit, continually prompt us
to give You free reign our lives,
reminding us to keep our ongoing conversation
with the Father alive and vibrant.
In all our prayer, keep us alert and consistent;
put in our hearts the issues and situations
for our loved ones and for the world
that You want us to discuss with You.
And when You prompt us to pray,
protect us from distraction,
so that we can partner with You
in Your work for the world.
In this, we want to be like Jesus,
who was constantly pointing back to the Father;
reminding us that He wasn’t living by his own agenda,
but only by what the Father was showing Him.
Show us, Father, as well, how You want us to follow Jesus.
Hear us as we follow Christ’s example in prayer,
as we pray together, saying…
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
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