My Prayer Strategy #1 from the Armor of God Series

In the "Armor of God" study, Priscilla Shirer asks us to write prayer strategies taken from our "Actionable Intel" after each five days of homework during the week.  I'm sharing with you my first personalized prayer strategy to give you an example/idea.  Of course, your "Actionable Intel" will differ from mine when you write your prayer strategies.

(taken from my 2015 journal)

Father, I want my passion for you to return.  Passion to pray. Passion to read and mediate on your Word.  Passion for the lost. Passion for Bible study.  Passion to pray for others.  Passion to see our world revived.  Passion for your return.

I give you my past and all its regrets.  I believe at times I see prayer as a chore and not a privilege.  I repent Father God.  There are times as well I feel guilty if I don't pray, times of frustration when I do pray because it overwhelms me.  There's so much to pray for, so much to focus on.  I need your help Lord.

I need the want to in putting my armor on every day and "with all praying" - pray.  I feel I've lost my cutting edge.  I want it back Lord.  I want to see prayer as a tool against the enemy, to have great faith and not lag behind.

Please, Lord, stir up the passion in me again.  Help me to realize that it's only you who can do this. On my own I am weak and cannot make this happen.  I need my desire to be divinely recovered.  

So, Lord, I am reaching outward and upward to you.

I need the cutting edge of hope, faith and passionate confidence in you again.  Wind of God's Spirit blow on me again.

So:

• Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me - Psalm 51:10.

You said this: (personalized the scriptures)

• You will give me a heart to know you, for you are my Lord, and I will be your people.  You will be my God, for I will return to you with my whole heart. - Jeremiah 24:7
• I will call upon you and come and pray to you, and you will listen to me.  I will seek you and I will find you when I search for you with all my heart - Jeremiah 29:12-13
• Lord, you will circumcise my heart and the heart of my descendants to love you Lord my God with all my heart and with all my soul, so that I may live - Deut. 30:6
• I will love you Lord my God with all my heart and with all my soul, and with all my mind and all my strength - Mark 12:30
• You will give me a new heart and put a new spirit within me; you will remove my heart of stone and give me a heart of flesh - Ezekiel 36:26

I will thank you Lord for doing this in my life.  I am grateful for your faithfulness and your goodness. I am thankful for what you did to defeat the enemy and open the way to a new passionate, vibrant walk with you.  I am asking you in faith, believing that what I have asked is according to your will for me and what you desire to give to me.

I now expectantly wait to receive this promise of newness and freshness from your Spirit for:

• You will come to me like the rain, like the spring rain, watering the earth - Hosea 6:3

Help me maintain the passion when it comes.

I praise you for it!  And I say yes to receiving and regaining my passion again!

Amen