PREFACE
Part of your battle in the Christian World is
your daily prayers. It is desirable to establish a
pattern for your daily praying. You do not need to
pray exactly as we do but let the Holy Spirit show you
what to pray about. It needs to be personalized for
your life. These examples may help you to establish
your prayers. We have several prayers that we use
almost every day except for interruptions. These
prayers help us get the day started off in the Lord.
As priest and head of the home, I pray out loud and
Earline agrees with me. It is very important and
powerful for husband and wife to agree together in
prayer.
PRAYER OF
THANKSGIVING
I usually get up at 6:00 a.m. every morning.
After toiletries, I exercise and then give thanks to
God to get the day started off right. It is extremely
important that we maintain "an attitude of gratitude"
towards God for the constant help He gives us. If you
are grateful to God, this will solve many of your
problems and wrong thought processes. While I am
getting dressed, Earline may be praying in bed before
she gets up.
"Our Dear Heavenly
and Gracious Father, thank you for divine health:
mental, physical, spiritual and material for Earline
and I. Thank you for all blessings known and unknown,
and for showering down blessings on us so great that
we can not receive them. Thank you for the complete
restoration of our bodies. Thank you for restoring
Earline's mouth, torso and feet. Thank you for
restoring my face, back and legs. We especially thank
you for restoring us from cancer and lupus. Thank you
now for restoring our mouths and respiratory systems
so that we can do Your Work. Amen."
PRAYER AT
THE BREAKFAST TABLE
Before we eat breakfast, we pray another
prayer for the food and other things. We believe that
you should pray before every meal. Pray out loud if
possible; if you can not, pray silently. It is
extremely important for God to bless the food you eat
to protect your body. I pray the following prayer and
Earline agrees with me.
"Our Dear Heavenly
and Gracious Father, thank you Lord for a good day,
for protecting us against powers, principalities, evil
forces in this world and spiritual wickedness in high
places. Now Lord, we apply the blood over and bind
Satan away from Earline and I, Marie, Nathan and Nat,
our jobs and our clients, Manna Baptist Church, Lake
Hamilton Bible Camp, Trinity New Testament Fellowship,
A & E Testing, our possessions and everything that
we have any part in. Lord send your angels to minister
unto us, build a ring of Holy Ghost Fire around us and
cover us with Your Blood. We pray for the United
States of America and Israel, the Christians and the
Jews, the churches that worship JESUS in spirit and
truth. We ask for courage, understanding, wisdom and
strength. We pray especially for the leaders and ask a
double portion for our families. We ask divine favor
with You in accordance with the Holy Word of God, with
each other and those we come into contact with today.
We confess that this is the day that the Lord has
made. We will rejoice and be glad in it for God has
not given us a spirit of fear but of power, love and a
sound mind. He that is in us is greater than he that
is in the world. If God be for us, who can be against
us? You have given us power over all the power of the
enemy and we intend to exercise it by the leadership
of the Holy Spirit. Now Lord, we ask that you lead,
guide, direct and protect us. Let us walk in your
perfect will; we yield ourselves to you today. We
thank you for our food, clothing and shelter, for
everything that you have done for us known and
unknown. We ask you to bless this food to our bodies,
purify and cleanse it so that our temples will be fit
for the Holy Spirit to reside in. All these things we
ask in the Blessed Name of JESUS CHRIST, our Lord,
Master and Savior. Amen."
PRAYER FOR
THE DAY
We usually eat breakfast in a restaurant.
After we come home, we pray for the day. After the
following prayer, we pray for specific needs that we
feel impressed to pray about. This is a prayer for the
world and things that are important to us. I pray this
prayer, Earline agrees with me, and she then prays as
she is led.
"Dear Lord, we ask
you to forgive Earline and I of our sins, teach us and
show us so that we will be pleasing in your sight. We
pray for ourselves, Marie, Nathan and Nat, this day
and the leadership of the Holy Spirit. We thank you
for each other, this day and most of all for You. We
pray for our relatives and friends, our Christian
brothers and sisters. We pray for those who labor in
the field of DELIVERANCE, for their families, churches
and ministries that You would give them a triple-fold
portion of courage, understanding, wisdom and
strength. We pray for the Army of the Lord that it
would grow strong and mighty and be valiant and do
exploits in the Name of JESUS CHRIST. We pray that
DELIVERANCE would come to the forefront of
Christianity. We pray for those that we have
ministered to, for their families, churches and
ministries that they would go on with the Lord. We
pray for all men everywhere that they would come into
the saving knowledge of JESUS CHRIST. We pray for
Manna Baptist Church, for Butch and Lois; for Lake
Hamilton Bible Camp, for Glen and Erma, Kevin and
Patti, and Daniel; for Trinity New Testament
Fellowship, for Reggie and Pat. We pray for the
five-fold ministry, for their families, churches and
ministries. We pray for A & E Testing and for our
business. We pray Your Blessings on these. We bind up
all powers, principalities, evil forces in this world
and spiritual wickedness in high places. We lose the
powers of God: warring angels, ministering angels,
Holy Spirit and the Seven-Fold Spirit of God to come
down and do a mighty battle on earth today. We bind up
every force of evil and loose every force of good that
we have the power and authority to do so in JESUS'
Name. We thank you Lord for power and authority over
the enemy, and the use of the Name of JESUS CHRIST for
its in His Name we pray. Amen."
PRAYER IN A
RESTAURANT
It is not necessary to pray a long prayer in
a loud voice in a public place. In fact, this practice
may do more harm than good to Christianity. We feel it
is better to softly pray a short prayer out loud than
not to pray at all. We use this prayer for a meal or
for a snack in public. It can also be used at home for
snacks between meals.
"Our Dear Heavenly
and Gracious Father, thank You Lord for this food.
Bless, purify and cleanse it so that we can be fit
temples for the Holy Spirit to reside in. We break any
curses on it and eat it with thanksgiving. For it's in
JESUS' Name we pray. Amen."
PRAYERS
DURING THE DAY OR NIGHT
The remainder of the day we pray as the Holy
Spirit leads us. These can be prayers in other TONGUES
or in English. These can be prayers together or alone.
They can be prayers out loud or silently. They can be
prayers with your eyes closed or just going about the
business of life. There is no set way that you have to
pray. If we have a God consciousness, the Holy Spirit
is praying through our spirit without ceasing. If it
is important, we try to get together to pray and
agree. Sometimes we ask the Holy Spirit to impress the
other person to pray at the same time when we are
separated. It is beautiful to know that the other mate
was praying at the same time in an emergency.