PRAYING BIBLICAL PRAYERS – PART 2

WHY USE BIBLICAL PRAYERS?
i -- They are YHVH's prayers. These are the prayers that we can count on. The prayers of Yeshua and the apostles -- specifically Paul and John in the book of Revelation.
ii -- The victorious church theology is strongly developed in the Biblical prayers. YHVH put these prayers into the hearts of His servants to pray because He plans to answer them. -- That the church might be filled with the fullness of YHVH -- Ephesians 3. Living in the atmosphere of those prayers will leave you with an unshakable conviction of a victorious church. The theology of the victorious church is in itself lodged in the prayers that burn in YHVH's heart.
iii -- The prayers contained in the Bible are a launching pad for more. Then the Spirit can take us anywhere He wants to take us. Ruach HaKodesh is not limited to any model. This is the foundation that we launch from. When we launch from the Word then all kinds of Ruach Kodesh activity comes with the safety net of the Word under us.
iv -- Almost every single prayer of the New Testament is for the church:
a -- The only prayer recorded in the New Testament for the lost is for Israel – Romans 10.
b -- The reason Asia was touched in Paul's day is because there was an anointed church in Ephesus. Elohim's strategy is to labour for the anointing of Ruach HaKodesh to be released on the church. An anointed church brings in the great harvest in power and in unity.
c -- When we pray for the church we love the church. The tendency for an adversarial attitude towards the church is overcome by praying for it.
d -- Elohim cause us to pray for the church to be anointed. In the process we fall in love with the church and with the harvest that we pray in.
e -- We cannot keep a wrong spirit towards the church that we continually pray for.
F -- Those prayers burn in YHVH's heart. They are guaranteed. They are already signed. They are just waiting for a co-signer on the earth. They are guaranteed. They are human friendly. They are designed for the way the human soul works. Even if we may not be conscious of it, human life is arranged around routines and patterns!
G -- The biblical prayers do not represent the totality of Ruach HaKodesh's prayer ministry. This model is not the limitation, but it is the starting point. From there we can launch out into all of the creativity of Ruach HaKodesh as He leads us in different settings and in different ways.
H -- We were made for these prayers and these prayers were designed for the human spirit. These prayers have great longevity in them. They will not wear out by using them.

Summary: The prayers in the New Testament are not a limitation. They are not prohibitive of other prayer models. It is the launching pad and the safety net. It is a safe place. YHVH is the Ultimate Psychologist. He knows the human heart like nobody. The biblical prayers are -- human friendly. YHVH designed these prayers for weak and broken people to soar in YHVH and to enjoy unity with each other.

EXAMPLE PRAYERS FOR THE CHURCH
1 -- Ephesians 1:16-19 -- I keep asking that YHVH of our Adonai Yeshua Moshiach, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know Him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints and His incomparably great power for us who believe. -- That YHVH may give us a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Yeshua. That the eyes of our heart may be enlightened, so that we may experience the fullness of YHVH's calling and might, understand the fullness of the glory of the Father's inheritance in the entire church in our area. And that we might experience the surpassing greatness of YHVH's power in our lives and ministries.
2 -- Ephesians.3:16-19 -- I pray that out of His Glorious Riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Moshiach may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Moshiach and to know this love that surpasses knowledge; that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of YHVH. -- That YHVH would strengthen each believer in the church throughout this area with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that the fullness of Yeshua may be expressed in our hearts and lives as we are rooted and ground in love for YHVH and for one another. That each believer may be able to fully comprehend what is the breadth and length and height and depth of Yeshua’s Love for them and Yeshua's Love for His Father so that we might experience the fullness of YHVH's Spirit working in and through our lives and through each congregation in this area.
3 -- Colossians 1:9-11 -- For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking YHVH to fill you with the knowledge of His Will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of Elohim and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of YHVH, being strengthened with all power according to His Glorious Might so that you may have great endurance and patience -- That each congregation and each believer might be filled with the knowledge of YHVH's will in each specific area of our lives and ministries and that YHVH would add spiritual wisdom and understanding to this knowledge so that we might fully please Elohim and bear good fruit in our ministries.
4 -- Philippians 4:19-20 -- And my YHVH will meet all your needs according to His Glorious Riches in Yeshua Moshiach. To our Elohim and Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen. -- That YHVH the Father would supply all the needs of the church according to His Riches in Glory and that the Grace of Adonai Yeshua might be powerfully manifest in the human spirit -- inner man -- of each believer.
5 -- Romans 15:5-6 -- May YHVH Who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Yeshua Moshiach, so that with one heart and mouth you may glorify YHVH and Father of our Adonai Yeshua Moshiach. -- That YHVH may supernaturally grant the saints and the congregations of Elohim in this area the ability to be of one mind and one purpose with each other, that with one accord and one voice we may glorify YHVH in the church in this area. -- 1 Corinthians 1:10-12; Philippians. 1:27; Philippians. 2:1-3; John. 17:21-22