Boundless Prayers
Prayer of Emotional Awareness
God, your word says you fearfully and wonderfully made me. You gifted me with a body, mind and soul. You blessed me with the ability to feel emotion. I ask that you help me to understand my emotions, accept them as they come and submit them to you. In this moment I acknowledge that I am feeling _______ I submit this emotion to you. Show me what you want to reveal to me about my emotion right.
Prayer of Community
Lord, you, by nature, are a God of community. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit. From the beginning of creation, your plan for us has always been communion with you and those around us. To be exposed and unashamed before you and others. God, I pray that you would teach me to love others as I love myself. Help me to prioritize my friendships and to fight to maintain the bond of love. God, I pray that you continue to bring good and godly friends into my life. Those that will challenge me, accept me and serve alongside me as we pursue the path that Jesus lays before us. I thank you for the blessing of the community.
Prayer of Healing
Lord, you are the maker of my body. You knit me together in my mother’s womb and you called my design good. God, I know through your Word that you are the great healer, and you designed my body miraculously. Right now I call on You and your miraculous healing power to touch my body. I ask for sustained health and your wisdom in learning to care for my body. I ask for the right resources to care for myself. I ask for Your insight to understand how you uniquely made me. Help me to work with and not against the body you have given me, because it is a good gift from you. For our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. (1 Cor 6:19) and that by your stripes, I am healed.
Prayer of Sabbath
Jesus, you are the King of Peace and the Lord over the Sabbath. I thank you that you created the Sabbath as a path to peace and an act of trust. I repent of all the times I have ignored your instruction to rest my body and mind. Teach me to set down the things in my life that would keep me from rest. Help me to trust you with those things. Help me obey your command to rest and also extend rest to those around me, so that we can live in alignment to your word.
Prayer of Surrender
Dear Jesus, my redeemer and friend. I thank you for the invitation to follow you and become your disciple. Today, and every day, I choose you. You lead and I will follow. I let go of my idols, anything that I love more than you. I lay it all at your feet knowing that you who began a good work in me will be faithful to complete it. Holy Spirit I ask you to convict, correct and comfort me as I seek to hear from you daily. My desire is for my spirit to feel connected to yours now and in every moment.
Prayer of Invitation
Jesus, help me to open the doors of my heart where I have knowingly or unknowingly kept you presence shut out. Show me the areas that I feel I have to keep pristine for those on the outside looking in. Show me the area I feel I have to tidy up in your presence. Show me the areas I feel I must keep hidden from you and others. Show me the part of myself that I have buried and don’t see.. I invite you in, Jesus. Help me to surrender these areas knowing that you will never stop loving me.
Prayer of Laying Down & Taking Up
Jesus, in Your name and by Your power, I lay down and reject the lie that ____________ confess that this lie is not from you, and I repent for giving it power in my life. God continue to teach me your ways and your truth and allow the truth to set me free.
Jesus, in Your name and by Your power, I accept and take up the truth that ____________. I open my hands and heart to You and this gift You offer me. Thank You for Your truth.
Prayer of Listening
God, your Word says, “My sheep hear my voice.; I know them, and they follow me” Jesus help me to learn to hear your voice. Help me to learn to discern your voice from mine and others. Help me to still my soul as I wait on you Jesus. Is there is anything you want to tell me today? (listen)
Thank you, Lord Jesus, for your voice in my life. You are the lamp unto my feet and the light unto my path. Help me to listen and obey today.