Almighty Father, King of glory, The God who is Love, the same yesterday today and forever, I worship you and adore you. I thank you for your righteousness, peace and joy. I thank you because I can come boldly into your presence and be sure to receive mercy. I thank you for demonstrating the greatest love possible by giving up your Only begotten Son, to die for me and in so doing, making it possible for me to become a member of your family. I thank you for the assurance of Eternal Life through His resurrection from the dead.
I adore You, O Faithful and True because I know You will keep your promise to forgive me if I confess my sins, and cleanse me from all iniquity. And I rejoice at the thought that over the years, You have accomplished your Word in my life to keep me from falling and that You will indeed continue preserve me blameless until the day you call me Home.
I magnify your Name for the way you have kept Your Church for over 2000 years, in spite of the internal and external forces against her. Indeed you have always proved yourself mighty to accomplish your promise that the gates of hell shall not prevail against Your Church. With you as the Captain of our warfare, you have empowered Your Church through Your Holy Spirit to break down all the resistance of evil forces and contrary spirits. It is indeed not by our power or by our might that Your church lives in all nations of the world, and is marching on today. Thank you God the Holy Spirit for continually manifesting yourself in all negative situations and circumstances that the Church has ever faced, and giving her victory.
Father, we confess that if it all depended on the words, deeds and actions of your people, we would have self-destructed a long time ago. That is why we cannot but exalt your holy Name at every opportunity and in all circumstances. Glory and honour be unto you from everlasting to everlasting.
Father we have sinned and we keep sinning against you. Among others, we confess our sin of legalism, hypocrisy, judgmental spirit, and idolatry, which things you hate. We renounce all the idols we have erected by ourselves for our own purposes. We renounce all celebrities we have raised up to replace the simplicity that is in You. We renounce the idols of positions and titles we have created, in order to elevate above others in Your Body, leaders whom You have instructed to be her servants. We have lifted our denominations above YOU and have bowed down to them.
We have short-changed Your Church by worshipping roles and functions on the basis of sex which were not set by you, and which You clearly set the example to disdain and disregard while you were here on earth, to the detriment of Your Kingdom’s advancement. We have worshipped mammon by using cunning devises to wrest money from poor widows and orphans whom You expect us to care for in practicing the pure religion.
Father, even the knowledge of Your Word, we have distorted and corrupted for use to our own ends. We have multiplied activities and programmes that are inspired by our own flesh. We have come up with strategies to save souls by our own power, making exaggerated promises of healing and health, and encouraging unverifiable and doctored testimonies. We have proclaimed miracles in your precious Name that only originate from the imaginations of our own hearts. In so doing, we have made our supposed converts twice the children of hell! And we have chosen to focus more on purchasing gadgets and constructing buildings and infrastructures rather than spending and being spent to draw in the souls of men to You as you instructed us. We have even tried to constrain You within the limits of our man-made rituals, traditions and comfort zones for our own convenience.
It is only by Your mercies that we are not consumed, O God our Father. We implore you to please forgive our foolish ways and re-clothe us in your holy mind, so that we may serve you in purer lives and worship you with deeper reverence. Help us to see you more clearly, love you more dearly, and follow you more nearly day by day until you come to catch us unto Yourself on that glorious Day.
Lord God, as Moses broke down the golden calf into smithereens that the waters flushed away, as you yourself upturned the tables of those who turned your house into a den of thieves, and scattered all their wares, we now follow your instruction to break our fallow ground.
We break all the hardened ground that has dried up the heart of the Body of Christ. We uproot every unfruitful tree of the world, the flesh. or Satan that is not planted by you, no matter how deep or how long its roots have penetrated, and cast it into the fire of your wrath. We command all tentacles that have spread all over the world to comprise your Truth to dry up and be cast into the fire of your wrath. We condemn the troubling activities of all the little foxes of despair, discouragement, slander, gossip, murmurings and complaints that spoil the vine. We command them all to dry up and be cast into the fire of your wrath.
We ask you Father to please send the refiner’s fire to sweep through your Church and consume every weed that is sucking up the blessings of your word in the life of your people. Holy Spirit we call on you to please blow away all the useless chaff so that Your light in us can shine through to your glory.
Father we ask you to release upon us the water of cleansing, of purging and of purification. Let your blessed water of life seep deep into the Body of Christ to soften our stubborn heart, refresh our souls and revive our spirits. Restore Your Church O Lord to what we are supposed to be, and reposition us to follow in the direction that you have set for us.
Shine the sun of righteousness upon us O Lord, and make us a field you have blessed. So that whatsoever things are true, pure, lovely, of good report and just. May whatsoever is honest, has virtue, and is noble flourish and abound within us. Preserve in your Church an unblemished name and make us more useful and relevant in this world than ever before. Above all Father, help us to show more love and respect for all members of the Household of Faith so that we may truly become the instruments of your glory, and your glory alone, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
You are the one who enables us to will and to do Father God. So we pray that you put in our hearts the desire to tap into all that pertains to life and godliness that you have already given us. Help us Father to add to our faith, the virtue of righteousness, peace, joy, gentleness, meekness patience, goodness and kindness.
Grant us the grace to add to virtue, knowledge, so that we continually demonstrate mor wisdom, understanding, insight and spiritually discernment and perception. Give us a clearer vision of you and revelation of you ways so that your Name is glorified through us.
We ask that you please add to our knowledge, self control and help us to demonstrate it through our self-discipline, moderation, modesty, diligence, accountability, and sobriety.
Lord, please help us to add to self-control, patience so that we can indeed bear all things endure all things and persevere in Your Truth. Help us to be long-suffering Lord that we may continually decrease and You increase in us. And help us to continually demonstrate the love that never fails through mercy, kindness, goodness and forgiveness.
In Your mighty Name, we take authority over all the powers and principalities of manipulation, control, monitoring spirits, coercion, intimidation, fanatism, frenzy, deception, delusion and seduction working against the members of Your Body. We bind them and cast them into the dark abyss to await their final judgment. We bind all the spirits behind exploitation, abuse, oppression, repression, suppression and depression in your children and cast them into the dark abyss to await their fate in hell.
We break all the scales in the spiritual ears, remove all the stoppers in spiritual ears and pull down all curtains that impede the constant renewing of the minds of your children. Take us back to our first love, first faith and first works, heavenly Father. And continue to take all the glory Lord and be exalted from everlasting to everlasting in the mighty and precious Name of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.