Prayers of Petition Protocols

 

 

From The Art of Prayer

 

 

 

 

 

Petition Praying for Individual(s)

The bottom, bottom line of those who you're praying for have had evil opposition in their history. Without exception — from generational iniquity prior to their conception, through the trauma and spiritual dynamics in the lives of their parents while in the womb, to the sin-cursed world system & sin, to traumas in their own lives. Regardless of their outer appearance and conduct, their heart has been broken, yielding at least a measure of brokenness in their life.

 

Therefore, the foundation of your prayer(s) for them targets the HEART of the matter. The following, based on Col. 3:13-17; 1 John 1:5—2:17, is an effective declaration & proclamation aloud from your HEART — regardless of how near or far from them you are geographically. Please be strongly encouraged to consider that the implications include an authentic, simple relational connection because, ultimately, your real Father is also their real Father. And that all of our hearts—your heart—also needs healing. You and the person you’re praying for are not insulated (Romans 5:5; 12:9-10).

 

Adopted from a Wayne C. Anderson prayer protocol:

 

 

"Please forgive me. I Love you.

Since before you were conceived in your mother’s womb:

you have been wanted, needed & deeply loved.

I've longed to see you in the heart of the Father, what He's hoped and designed for you uniquely.

...You, your unique gifting and gifts are wanted & needed.

I speak LIFE to your destiny & Holy Spirit intervention.

His Words of life abundant I invoke upon you – He is Truth.

I invoke His Name upon you– you find your identity by His name.

His Being longs for you.

His love initiates life in you so that you also might love.

Y’shua (Jesus) has always wanted you, needed you, and deeply loved you.

I am sorry for the hurt and pain around you and us.

I have always wanted you, needed you & deeply loved you.

Please forgive me. I Love you."

 

 

And if/when you are in proximity, periodically do 'a drive-by,' dropping a brief word of simple encouragement that they are loved, unique, and wanted, with zero expectation of any positive response.

 

 

P.S. The following background from T. Austin-Sparks may simply be helpful:

 

"Christ's love compels us." (2 Cor. 5:14)

“He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity…”  (Psalms 78:38)

"The love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit" (Rom. 5:5).

"Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them… Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other." (Rom. 12:9,10)

"'Jesus loved them [His disciples] unto the uttermost (John 13:1).'  And I think in that statement, there is the most wonderful thing that ever came into this world. Jesus had had a lot of trouble with those men. They had often misunderstood Him. They had often disappointed Him. They were really a very poor lot of men... He knew what a poor lot of men they were, but He loved them unto the uttermost. That is the first thing about this love. It is not offended by our failures. He does not withdraw His love because we make mistakes. We may often disappoint Him, we may often fail Him, we may often grieve His heart, but He goes on loving us. He loves us unto the uttermost, right to the end. He is not offended by our failures. That is a very different kind of love from our love. This is God's love in Christ...

 

"You know, it is so easy to talk about love, to pretend to love, to use the language of love, [to say in fear, 'I love you in Christ'], to sing hymns about love, and it can all be sentimental; perhaps we all know people who have told us that they love us, but very often they are the very people who have hurt us most. Now, the love of Jesus was not sentimental; it was practical. He did not go in with His disciples and say, 'Brothers, I do love you very much.' He showed that He loved them by what He did for them. It was not sentimental love, it was practical love. And this is the love with which He loved them unto the uttermost... These things which characterize the love of Christ for His own ought to characterize us in love for others. That is why the Holy Spirit has come. So that as He loved us to the uttermost, so ought we to love one another."

 

 

By T. Austin-Sparks from: "That They May All Be One, Even As We Are One" - Meeting 3

 

 

 

Perseverance in Prayer

Consider the widow's story who cried out to the unjust judge to avenge her enemy. He finally answered her after she wore him down with her continual appeals. This is a picture of perseverance in prayer. This is where your battle will be won, rather than through your performance or your skill.  "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts" (Zech 4:6).  Our Father is a just God who does not relate to you is the unjust judge in that story. Our heavenly Father is actually cheering you on to continue to appeal to Him to defeat your adversaries.  Jesus (Y’shua) is also interceding on your behalf.  There is a court in heaven where Jesus (Y’shua) presents the petitions of God’s sons and daughters. Keep praying. Don’t quit. It is the lifeblood of your calling with Him.

“Then the Lord said, ‘Learn a lesson from this unjust judge. Even he rendered a just decision in the end. So don’t you think God will surely give justice to His chosen people who cry out to Him day and night? …I tell you, He will grant justice to them quickly! But when the Son of Man returns, how many will He find on earth who have faith?’”   (Luke 18:6-8)

Adopted from Listening to the Father’s Heart Devotional 9/22 by Os Hillman  

 

 

 

 

Confession Prayer Aloud is Planting Seed That Will Inevitably Produce the Fruit of Faith Within You

Different from a prayer of petition, consider the parable of the sower at Mark Chapter 4. “Jesus said, ‘If you can’t understand the meaning of this parable, how will you understand all the other parables? (verse 13)’”  As the farmer, we plant God’s Word (seed) in our hearts (the ground); we water it (the seed) by ‘the water of the word’, continuing to confess it aloud (Rom. 10:17). Like farmers, we harvest in a different season than we plant. “We don’t even know how it works (Mk. 4:27),” but it germinates in our heart and inevitably produces the “green stalk” (verses 28, 29) of faith—specific faithspecific to the Word of God (His promises) that we confessed. It works every time!  See also Romans 1:17.

 

That is when we come to know that we know that we know, that we know in our heart of hearts (experience revelation) that we have received what we’ve been sowing (confessing aloud) into (Mark 11:24; Rom. 1:17; Jas. 5:15; 1 John 5:14-15). It isn’t until then that we pray the “prayer of faith.” We pray the prayer of faith once we are in faith.

 

 

 

 

 

Prayer In the Midst of the Storm

“Meanwhile, the disciples were in trouble far away from land, for a strong wind had risen, and they were fighting heavy waves.” (Matthew 14:24)

 

 

 

 

 

Petition Praying for Yourself Protocols

The bottom, bottom line is you have had evil opposition in your history. Without exception from generational iniquity prior to your conception, through the trauma and spiritual dynamics in the lives of your parents while in the womb, to the sin-cursed world system & sin, to traumas in your own life. Regardless of your outer appearance and conduct, your heart has been broken, yielding at least a measure of brokenness in your life.

 

Therefore, the foundation of your prayers for yourself targets the HEART of the matter. The owner of this website, along with the Holy Spirit, has composed a Bible study that unmasks the dynamics that broke your heart and, therefore, offers how to craft personalized, effective prayer for yourself.  As a good start, here is a sample chapter that is available for free download.

 

 

 

 

Effective Freedom Now Prayers

And, please be aware that we followers of Jesus are behind enemy lines. In truth, we cannot be spectators but must learn to pray and fight as soldiers. We have a cunning, desperate enemy who lives to bind us, ensnare us, and “steal, kill, and destroy” us through false accusation. Here are several effective ‘now’ prayers against the enemy’s calculated, false accusations, when needed.

 

 

 

 

 

Resentment / Unforgiveness Prayer of Repentance and Freedom

Mark 11:25, 26 is one of many passages that warn us about our agreement with resentment or unforgiveness. Jesus: “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive them, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.”

 

 

 

 

 

Prayer for Parents Daily Declaration

“Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward.”   (Psalms 127:3)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prayer for Household Provision and Economic Freedom

“Beloved, I pray above all things that you may prosper, and be in health, even as your soul prospers.” (3 John 2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prayer for Restoration and Sevenfold Recovery

“Yet when the thief is found, he must restore sevenfold; though it may mean selling everything in his house to pay it back.”  (Proverbs 6:31)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Praying for Protection for Yourself

One additional aspect of enemy opposition in many of our lives is the occult or cunning, powerful evil from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. It is a counterfeit to the purely good, righteous-in-love power of The Holy One—our Father God.  Here is an effective daily prayer protocol of protection.

 

 

 

 

 

Links 

 

Sowing Financial Seed—Giving

If this website is helpful and the Holy Spirit is prompting you to sow financial seed, please visit HERE

 

“For His divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who has called us to glory and goodness. And by that same mighty power, He has given to us exceeding great and precious promises; that by these you all might be partakers of the Divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” (2 Peter1:3-4)  There are 750 promises in the New Testament alone.

 

 

The Prayer That Unlocks All Promises

 

 

“For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.”  (Titus 2:11-14)  Contrast and understand grace as defined in the Old and New Testaments.

 

 

This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, ‘The just shall live by faith.’”  (Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11; Habakkuk 2:4)

 

 

“So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.” (Hebrews 3:19)  See Doubt and Unbelief concerning God’s Word

“He personally bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.” (1 Peter 2:24)  How to access God’s healing and keep it.

 

 

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood [ourselves; peoples], but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”  (Ephesians 6:12)  See the reality of evil, Satan, or the devil

 

 

“Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.” (3 John 1:2)

 

 

 

Link to God's Plan for Humankind

 

 

 

 

Thank you Wayne C. Anderson