🙇🏻 Help SHIFT Focus seek 1st, Matt 6:33, Duties Tit 3:14 New Things Isa 42:9 Heal, Forget Lies Behind Press to Upward Call Phil 3:13-14, Pray Save Former Rom 10:1... SHIFT FOCUS to Ask GRACE to TRANSITION -- be on guard for ourselves and the flock of God You placed under our charge here, among us, Acts 20:28-31, and meet pressing needs, Tit 3:14 Lastly I need wisdom, clarity & inner healing, head is sick, not pressed out with oil or bandaged, Isaiah 1:6, My soul, my soul... My heart, my heart... Jer 4:19, He restores my soul, Ps 23:3, Weary and heavy laden, His yoke, rest for soul, Matt 11:28-29, 30 -- “O afflicted one, storm-tossed, and not comforted, Behold, I will set your stones in antimony, And your foundations I will lay in sapphires," Isa 54:11. Thank You for powerful and effective prayers, James 5:16. He rewards diligent seeking, Heb 11:6, in Jesus Name.
🙌 Father, first we thank You for any desire for sanctification, prayer, private devotion, study and outreach -- "for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure," Phil 2:13. So we ask You for the ability to "take heed to ourselves," Acts 20:28, and "pay close attention to ourselves and our teaching," 1 Tim 4:16, "in order to ensure our salvation, (first and then) our hearers and the flock of God among us."
🙏 We ask TRANSITIONAL SHIFT of mercy and grace for Prayer and Study, Open Doors for Evangelism, Fellowship and Counseling Rev 3:7-8... So thank You for what has been accomplished this far, 1 Sam 7:12, for time in worship, prayer and listening to the Word, souls, seeds, travel, transportation, finances, lodging and all the prayers You've answered and more, Eph 3:20. Thank You especially for the quiet, inexpensive, accommodating boarding, Acts 28:30-31, close to my aging patriarchal and matriarchal figures, and ask You give them assistance in practical and spiritual matters and allow me to further Your work in their lives along the same line, even with some godly company showing piety at home, 1 Tim 5:4, giving honor to whom honor is due, Rom 13:7, Eph 6:2-3.
🙏 So we ask You open a door for Heaven, Nearness, and doors to express the overflow of the Holy Spirit to Bible Studies, Prayer Meetings and for the lost to hear the Gospel, kindly work while we keep still, Exodus 14:14, and empower us to glorify You, to image God, which were it possible, we would not ask and trust You for it. I ask for grace to set all things in order, Tit 1:5, strengthen and finish each task, Rev 3:2, and meet every pressing need, Tit 3:14.
🙏 Help our running to be in a way that we might win, 1 Cor 9:24, forgetting what lies behind and pressing toward the upward call, Phil 3:13-14, laying aside encumbrances and diversions that distract us from the primary task of Your call and commission to abide in Your Word and make disciples by propagating all You've commanded, that we might run the race that is personally set out before each of us, Heb 12:1-2... Thank You for the Your love and leadership, the fellowship of abiding in Christ and guidance of The Holy Spirit, John 10:3-4, Rom 8:14, grace to save the past BUT MORE for new evangelism, encouragement, discipleship, fellowship with The Body and Bride of Christ, and formal study, Ecclesiastes 7:18. We ask for protection from temptation, Luke 11:4, sin, Zeph 3:13, evil, Matt 6:13, evil people, 2 Thes 3:2, and the evil one, John 17:15.
🙏 We still ask for son's mom's full, authentic repentance to life and full trust in Christ and be regenerated, and that she be hedged about with thorns so she can't pursue her lovers, Ho2:6-7, and for him to be saved early, Rom 10:1, and protected and directed into the love and character of Jesus Christ, nourished on Your Word), 2 Tim 3:15, Yet the MAIN PRAYER is ability to PRIMARILY FOCUS on THE NEW, Isa 42:9, Isa 43:19, Isa 48:6. Thank You in Jesus' Name...