THE HOUR OF PRAYER

THE HOUR OF PRAYER

I.  Introduction
Some have been asking about filling an hour of prayer on kingdom prayers and not selfish, local praying.  When one is engaged in intimate praying, you cover the things nearest and dearest to you.  You pray for youself; your own struggles, weakness, health issues, problems and such.  You pray for you family, they are close to your heart and mind.  They occupy much of your prayers and concerns for their spiritual plight, eternity, links to the world, in-laws and such.  You pray for you church family, wide and vast is this consideration of health, sins, problems and interest for your extended family of brothers and sisters in Christ.

But kingdom prayers are different.  A part of the kingdom is found in us, our family and our local church; yes, we pray that they are, but extended beyond our normal reach of interest, thoughts, cares and prayers is kingdom prayers. 

Kingdom prayers are found in time, eternity, and wholeness of nations, men's souls, the earth and all that is therein.  Knowing that He is over all and controls all.  We pray for His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven.  Knowing God's will is very important to be praying rightly; to not know His will is to be found praying against His will and possibly praying for our own will.  'You ask amiss, not knowing'.  Knowing God's will is found in agreement with His Word.  We must know the Word to know the will of God.

II.  Application

Praying Scriptures is found to be praying God's will.  Praying them rightly is of wisdom and discernment.  For example, to pray for lost sinners to be saved, is in agreement with God's Word, that 'He would have all to be saved'. But to pray for them to be saved an continue in their sin is not praying rightly. They msut renounce their sin, repentance, confession, profession and obedience.  A false hope is found in this and wrong praying is found also. 

Praying Scriptures is to pronounce now that which God has already pronounced.  A promise, a directive, a statement by God about Himself or His plans is to hold onto to pray His will be done. 

A couple catgeories to pray for the hour (suggestions is all):

1. Worship/Adoration - listing of the Names of God and their specific meanings; listing His attributes and thinking how He has demonstrated those in Scripture, history and your own personal life;  Declaring the Scriptures that tell us of Who He is and what He has done;  One of the greatest impacts of this Name is found in Exodus 34:5 - 9; God decalres His Name before Moses;

2.  Confession - a recongition of how high and holy God is and how low and sinful I am, we are, and His church is.  I did a word study through the Scriptures of 'Sin'.  I found it very helpful in learning how to pray for sins by the pronouns used.
Pronouns, 'I have sinned', 'my sin' - a very personal declarative;  'You have sinned', 'they have sinned' - is not being a part of the sin, but recognizing it;  'he, she sinned' individual sin; 'we have sinned' inclusive of us all under the weight of sin against God and His ways.  The confession, repentance is importance on how the pronouns interact with us and our dealing with it. 

Jesus came to the demonic man and said, 'What is thy name?'  and he answerd, 'My name is, Legion, for we are many.'  Somewhere in reference I read or heard that a legion represents the number of 70.  Seventy makes up a legion.  So I was led to direct the confession of legion, 70 sins:
1. Lies; 2. Adultery; 3. Fornication; 4. Drunkenness; 5.  Unthankful; 6.  Unholy; 7.  Neglect; 8. Disobedient to God; 9. Disobedient to parents; 10.  Murder; 11. Steal; 12. Rob God of tithes; 13. Sloth; 14. Waste of time/life; 15. Hate; 16. Idolatry; 17. Lust; 18. Pride; 19. Envy; 20. Jealousy; 21. Anger; 22. Wrath; 23. Strife; 24. Unfaithful; 25. Love of self; 26. Vanity; 27. Self-exaltation; 28. Unbelief; 29. Luke-warm; 30. Half-hearted; 31.  Profanity; 32. Prayerlessness; 33. Evil; 34. Materialism; 35. Love of Money; 36. Breaking the Sabbath (for us the Lord's Day, Sunday); 37. Take the Lord's Name in Vain; 38. Covet; 39. Abortion; 40. Homosexuality; 41. Gambling; 42. Gluttony; 43. Witchcraft; 44. Hypocrisy; 45. Excessive Indulgence; 46. Divorce; 47.  Atheism; 48. Agnosticism; 49.  False Religions; 50.  Lack of Compassion; 51.  Unloving; 52.  Brawling/Fighting; 53.  Unclean; 54.  Self-willed; 55.  Debt;  56.  Apathy;  57.  Neglect of the Widows; 58.  Neglect of the Orphans; 59. Foolish;  60. 

Each of these are found in Scriptures as being condemend of God.  AS of yet, I have not posted the Scriptures for all these.  In time I hope to complete that.  The following are a beginning of recognition of such sins and where to find them:

-- Look at the 10 Commandements:  Exodus 20; Deuteronomy 5;  Go down through each commandment and see blessing and curse of 'Thou shalt' and 'Thou shalt not'.

--Also, sins to be recognized from ourselves is found where Jesus said, 'Out of the heart proceed these things.'
Matthew 15:19, "Evil thoughts, murders, adutleries, fornication; thefts, false witness and blasphemies"  There are 7 sins mentioned here.
Mark 7:21,  "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, v. 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, and evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:  v. 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile theman."

--Found in Titus 3:2 - 3 reveal other like minded sins of our doing:  speaking evil of men; brawlers/fighters; cruel and unkind; foolish, disobedinet, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, malice, envy, hateful, hating one another

3.  His Glory - the adoration and worship of His Name sake;  The manifest Presence in revival that is declared when His glory comes down.  'His glory filled the temple'; 'His glory sat upon the ark'; 'they were filled with the Spirit' are examples of His glory being manifest to men.  Sin and the devil seek to mar His glory and erode it away.  WE pray in opposite fashion, that His glory be found everywhere and upon all.  'Let Your glory be throughout all the nations.'  'Let all the earth be filled with your glory'

4.  Praying against hell - the devil has come; darkness is thick in the world and lives of men, 'men loved darkness rather than light'; evil is spreading quickly;  while the church adds, evil is multiplying, our prayers are to counter this development.  We must see the ways of the devil and pray against them.  It is the tearing down of his strongholds and ways.  Of course, it is not simply enough to tear them down, but pray for the the right ways to built up and established. 

The Devil's ways to pray against - lies, 'a refuge of lies', hypocrisy, deceptions, half-truths, hindrances, trickes, temptations, forces, powers, whisperings (Hath God said?), plans, devices, come in like a flood (Isaiah 59:19), imaginations, strongholds,  scheming, manipulating, followers, organizers of sinful plights; discouragement, fleshly trust; vanity; humanism, coerce them, corrupt them, etc.

As we learned the attributes of God, to cause us to see His splendor; so we should know our enemy.  Seeing the Devil's attributes should be a way to help us to counter and pray against his tatics and ways.  But if we don't knwo them, then we will not have how to pray against such. 



We must see that this is all simply about Light vs. darkness; Holy vs. sin; Heaven vs. hell; eternity vs. temporal; righteousness vs. unrighteousenss; etc.

5.  Church - It is the bride of Christ.  It is to be what God desires for it to be, through its members.  Pray in covering these things of His church, His body, His bride. 

6.  Time - He is Alpha and Omega, beginning and end;  He is everalsting, eternal, always was, is and being.  And in this it is hard for us to see the plans that He has for us, because of our limited vision.  Praying kingdom prayers is praying for the continuance of His desire from the beginning, that man would glorify His Creator.  His plan of redemption has always been. 'While was in sin, Christ loved us and died for us'.  It is the proclamation of this truth to incorporate into our prayer life of not only what He has done, in which we can offer thanksgiving; but in that which is, happening presently and that which shall be, His ultimate glorification at the end.  This is a vast concept and will be devleoped later.  I hope that you understand some of it in praying it through for God's will to be done. 

7.  World, the earth - it is not men's nor is it Satan's.  The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof.  He is creator of heaven and earth.  The nations are under His authority.  We are to pray for the nations, for the spheres.
Directional - north, south, east and west;  Isaiah 43:4- 7; Isaiah 59:19, west and east are set forth to pray for. 
Nations - 200 nations in the earth; how many do you know?  each having a remnant in them, the church; how these nations operate affects the church?  It is needful to pray for the nations governments, education, freedoms.  It is our responsbility to pray for the government leaders, elections, officals, lawas, judicial courts, edicts and such.  Praying against restrictions, limitations, Satanic hindrances, attacks, sin and evil.
7 contients  - North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and Antarctica;
Population - 7 billion in the earth; 2 billion in Asia with restraints by the darkness; a prayer for the 10/40 window of 2.82 billion, 6,000 unreached people groups are found in this location; 
1.6 billion Musulums in the world; rapidly increasing; other religions all brought on by lies, deceptions of Satan and his demonic influence over the minds, nations and people.  Oh, for Light to shine in this vast darkness!


This is a beginning of topics that can be developed in your own way or other things that you would like to add.  I will continue as time permits to work on this with more specifics and Scriptures for your benefit. 

Blessings as we pray, to pray for one another and for His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven for His glory.

until,
dan

August 9, 2012 - began;
Update:
August 10, 2012;