Earlier in the week I was honored to be asked by the World Intercessor Network to submit a prayer as a guest prayer warrior, so the following prayer will go out by worldwide email distribution tomorrow. and I’d like to ask everyone to join with me in praying for the Lord to be magnified and glorified by the prayer. It is my sincerest hope, prayer and belief that the Lord will specifically use it to lead someone to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Sharon thought I might want to share my heart and concerns for marriage restoration, but everything I tried to write on that topic was TOTALLY blocked! But just as soon as I let that go and asked the Lord to show me what HE wanted me to write, this is what came out! It’s clearly a message of salvation, so let’s pray the Holy Spirit goes ahead of it and makes a way, preparing hearts to receive it and make a decision for Christ. After all, seeing our husbands or wives saved is the most important prayer for anyone standing for marriage restoration who does not have the assurance that their spouse is saved, and we know that when they are in right relationship with the Lord, they will be in right relationship with us and others.

Dear Lord, we confidently approach Your throne of grace today with praise and thanksgiving in our hearts and on our lips, for You are GREAT and worthy to be praised! We thank You for your everlasting love and for Your most amazing grace, through which You chose to sanctify us, setting us apart in accordance with Your will and good pleasure for the praise of your glory!
We thank You for giving us Your word which is a lamp for our feet and a light for our path. And for sowing the seed of Your word into our hearts, so we can experience the power, blessings, and provisions of Your kingdom, which You, Lord Jesus, told us would not come with signs or visible display or be seen here or there, because it’s within us. And which we know is not about food and drink, but about righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit! So we thank You for giving us eyes that see, ears that hear, and hearts and minds that understand Your word, Lord. And for the hunger we have for every word that comes from Your mouth, which teaches us how to live as we seek first Your kingdom and Your righteousness, and for Your absolute assurance that You will then be faithful to give us everything else, including the desires of our hearts when we delight in You!
We thank You that Your plans for us are for good and not for evil, to give us a hope and future. And we thank You that NO plan, No insight and NO wisdom can succeed against You, or us when You are for us! And that the gates of hell can not prevail against us; that NO weapon fashioned against us will prosper!
We thank You, Lord Jesus, that because we acknowledge you as the Christ, the Son of the living God, You have given us the keys of the kingdom of heaven and Your assurance that whatever we bind here on earth will be bound in heaven, and that whatever we loose here on earth will be loosed in heaven.
Therefore, through the authority given to us in Your name, Jesus, we bind up Satan and his wicked and demonic spirits, all forces of hell, and demolish all arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we loose the power of the Holy Spirit to help us take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Since we know this may be a difficult day for some receiving this prayer, and for many others who are experiencing challenging and difficult times in their lives, marriages and families, we pray for them to feel Your love in a very special way. May they be rooted and grounded in your love today, Lord, May the experience and feel the wonder and power of your amazing grace and love. May this not be a day of sadness, but a day of rejoicing, because we KNOW You LOVE us and YOU have ALL things that concern us in the control of Your Almighty hand.
And we pray that on this day which might otherwise tend to be discouraging, that You will bring some special incident of hope and encouragement to each man and woman reading this prayer. We know You care about us in every detail of our lives, and many of us have experienced that down to even the smallest of details, so bless us with Your presence and encouragement today. Fill each of us with an extra measure of faith this day, Lord. Help us to keep our eyes on you and not on our circumstances. Help us enjoy the many things You bless us with every day of our lives instead of dwelling on that one thing we might not have or enjoy today. Show us how to express Your love by loving others, especially those who are not interacting in love with us. Let us be more focused on the love we demonstrate and give to others, rather than concerning ourselves with how others may or may not love us. Let us walk in love today that You might be glorified.
And Lord, please touch the hearts of our spouses and family members who are not walking in right relationship with You. It is the greatest desire of our hearts that they know You as Lord and Savior, and there are many of us who don’t have the comfort of knowing that our spouses and family members are saved, so our prayer for them is that Your Holy spirit will move in their lives today in a most powerful, supernatural way and bring them to the saving knowledge of You, Lord Jesus. We know You came to set the captives free, and many of our spouses, family members and friends live in bondage of some kind today, so we come against all manner of sin, bondage, strongholds, deception, adultery, disobedience and disbelief in the name of Jesus Christ, the name from which we know Satan must flee. We cover our loved ones with the blood of the Lamb today and it is the word of our testimony that they will be saved and that they will walk in right relationship with You. We pray that they will se You in us, and that all of our interaction with them glorifies You, and that we remember that every encounter we have with them either leads them toward You or away from you.
Be Thou glorified in this day that You have made Lord, Let us rejoice and be glad in it! Let Your love shine in and through us today! Amen.

For anyone reading this prayer who does not yet know and acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, please understand that the Bible tells us that ALL men have sinned and come short of the glory of God and that the wages of sin is death, but that the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior! Eternal life, AND the power, blessings and provisions of the kingdom of God while on earth, are available to us because Jesus Christ, who is the Son of the living God, died on the cross and shed His blood (without which there is no remission or forgiveness for sin), to atone and make the blood sacrifice necessary to pay for our sins, past, present and future! And NO sin is too big or terrible for the blood of Christ to cover and wash away. BUT, Romans 1:20-21, warns us that since God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, men are without excuse. So denying God’s existence will not keep us out of Hell. The only thing that can do that is believing and acknowledging through confession that Jesus is the Son of God, and that He died on the cross for the forgiveness of our sins and rose again three days later. If you feel the presence of the Holy Spirit in your heart right now and want to make Jesus the Lord of your life, please say this short and simple prayer:
Lord Jesus, I know I am a sinner and that You are the Son of the living God. I know that You love me so much that You died on the cross and shed Your blood for the forgiveness of my sins, and that You rose again three days later. So I ask You, Jesus, please forgive my sins and come into my heart and be the Lord of my life, because from this day on I am Yours. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
If you just prayed that prayer, welcome to the kingdom of God and the body of Christ! And now you need to confess your salvation and faith in Jesus to someone else, and find a local church where you can worship and serve your AWESOME Lord and Savior. You are beginning a wonderful journey beyond anything you could ever imagine, and you’ll NEVER regret making a decision for Jesus!
If you need to discuss your decision, or even questions you have about making such a decision, please email me at linda@famfellowship.com or call me at 850-391-4073, or talk to any of the fine men and women affiliated with the WIN ministry. May the Lord bless and keep you!

In His Love,
Linda Wattu

Posted Saturday, August 19th, 2006 at 3:16 pm in Seeds Of Faith.