05/02/08: Trials sent by God

Jonah 1:4

1. When trials come into our lives, o Lord, help us to discern and recognise those that are sentby the devil to trouble us and those that are sent by you to get our attention


2. For any person we know now who is experiencing trials sent by the powers of darkeness, we take authority over them right now and rebuke them in Jesus' name


3. For any of us who are experiencing trials at your hand o God, give us the wisdom to understand, trust you and learn everything we need to from your loving discipline


4. Give us the maturity not to run from God-sent hardships or to complain but rather to recognise that is how you help us grow spiritually


5. help us to thank you for the good times and bad times and to trust you in both, being able to say, 'the Lord gives the Lord takes away; blessed be the name of the Lord

04/02/08: Running away from God

Jonah 1:3

1. When our instinct is to run from your word, o Lord, please arrest us by your spirt and bring us to our senses


2. For all the backsliders we know who are running from you, arrest them right now by your Holly Spirt and restore them to yourself


3. If, as a church, we are in any sense avoiding what you would have us do, may we hear from you clearly, turn arround add go in the directionyou desire us to go


4. If, as individuals we are out of your will right now because of wrong choices, convict our hearts cause us to repent and turn to you


5. For every unbeliever we know who knows the truth of your word in their heart but is deliberately suppressing it, save them, o God

03/02/08: ...its wickedness has come up before me

Jonah 1:2

1. Have mercy on our city O lord, and all the wickedness that takes place in itsboundaries
2. Forgive our lawmakers who have steadily dismantled the righteous laws that were once based upon the Bible
3. Turn the hearts of those who rule over us o Lord, that they may return the laws of this nation once more back to the rightous ways of our God
4. Forgive and have mercy on those in our city who scoff at you ways who delight in rebelling against your revealed morality
5. Help us o God, for you have said that righteousness exalts a nation but sin is adisgrace to any people

02/02/08: Go...and preach

Jonah 1:2

1. Lord, give us the heart and compassion to go into all the word and preach the gospel
2. Each day give us opportunities to share Christ throuhg Christlike behaviour and acts of compassion
3. Give us opportunities each day to be able to share Christ through words of witness
4. Helpus not to pass the buck to others but toeach take up our personal responsibility to be ambassadors for Christ
5. Give us the right words at the right time and the wisdom when to speak and when to be silent, o Lord

01/02/08: The word of the Lord came

Jonah 1:1

1. O God! open ours ears that we may hear your prophetic word
   
2. Speak to us as individuals and may we be careful to oney what you say, o Lord
   
3. Speak to us as a church; may we discern your voice and collectively act upon it. o god
   
4. raise up in your church and in our nation, our God, those who will bring the prophetic voiceof God in these immoral days
   
5. Speak in the wind, speak in the earthquake, speak in the fire and speak throughyour still small voice o God of all the earth