Text: Esther 4:1-16
- Give Him praise and thanks again because He has a purpose for your life as an individual.
- Also give Him thanks for there is an assignment for us as a church – Closer to Jesus Ministries.
- Receive a fresh anointing / mantle to pray and thank Him for it.
- Ask Him to give you burden, direction and strategy to pray and that when you pray, you will know how to hit the target aright.
- Ask the LORD to open your spiritual eyes to understand what your spiritual responsibility is to yourself, your assignment to your family and the body of Christ.
- Ask Him questions like:
-“Why am I saved for such a time like this?”
-“Why am I alive for such a time like this?”
-“Why am I in this country for such a time like this?”
-“Why am I in this church (CTJ) for such a time like this?”
– “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” – Acts 9:6. So that when He comes or when your time is up here on earth, you and I can boldly say, “I have fought the good fight…..”2 Timothy 4:7
- Make a commitment to the LORD that no matter what it takes, you will do what He tells you to do and that you are available for Him to use you as an instrument / vessel of honor in His hands – Esther 4:16.
- Proverbs 28:1; 2 Timothy 1:7 – Ask Him for boldness (as a lion), power, love and sound mind to serve Him.
- Isaiah 11:1-3 – Make a demand for the Spirit of the LORD to rest upon you, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, counsel and might, knowledge and fear of the LORD. See also Romans 8:10-11; 2 Corinthians 13:5.
- Isaiah 22:22 – Pray like this, “Lord I receive now the grace to carry out spiritual responsibility that you assign to me. As you put the key of the house of David upon Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, please put upon me (or give me) my spiritual responsibility for my family or generation.”
- Galatians 4:19 – Pray that the life and character of Jesus be formed in you and I as individuals and also in the life of all the members of Closer to Jesus Ministries. That when people see you, they have seen Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 11:1; Ephesians 5:1 & Philippians 3:17
- Isaiah 56:7; Col 4:2 – Pray again that the Holy Spirit shall indeed make us men and women of prayer, Christians who experience the grace and power of God through prayer. Men who influence their world and gain victory over kingdom of darkness through prayer. Ask Him to make you a strong Christian on your knees.
- Isaiah 41:15 – Ask the Lord to make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth this year. Ask Him to make you His battle axe to execute righteousness and justice. Ask Him to use you and His church to accomplish what He said in Isaiah 42:6-7.
- Isaiah 42:16 – Ask Him to give you the grace and direction for what He expects from you as an individual in 2009.
- Psalm 32:8 – Ask Him to give us the grace and direction for what He expects from us as a church in 2009.
- Isaiah 43:4 – Ask Him to send committed and consistent men and women to this church that will help us to carry out the assignment for the sake of the kingdom.
- Colossians 1:9-10 – Obedience to God’s word is fundamental to effective prayer, and there is no substitute to obedience. Ask the Lord to fill His children with the knowledge of His will and enable everyone to live a life that pleasing to Him in all things. Pray that God’s desire and purpose will become predominant in our prayer lives. Our prayers shall truly be for the extension of His kingdom on earth.
- Ezekiel 37:1-14; John 5:25 – This is the month of resurrection. Ask Him to resurrect in your life every good thing that is dead – pray life, fellowship with Him, soul winning, giving to the work of the kingdom etc.
- Pray from Isaiah 2:2-3 – Invite people to church by the Spirit of God. Ask Him to bring back all the people that belong to this ministry, those who visited and are still not sure whether they should come or not.
- Give Him thanks and praise again for answered prayers.