31st October 2012 – I thank you Lord that I can count on your faithfulness. You will never let me down. I am so sorry that I am most unlike you, and let you down so often. I pray for your mercy and forgiveness which I know I do not deserve. Nevertheless, I am grateful that it is so freely available.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 218.
30th October 2012 – Heavenly Father, I don’t want to be somebody who says one thing and does another. Please keep me from such two-faced hypocrisy. Please help me to live a life that brings honour to you and causes others to want to worship you.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 217.
29th October 2012 – Lord thank you for all that you have given to me as a sacred trust. I acknowledge that it is your property and not mine. You have called me to manage your goods. Help me to do it in a way that pleases you, the true Owner.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 216.
26th October 2012 – Lord, please have mercy on our land. We confess our many sins and ask for your undeserved mercy. Turn our hearts back to you we pray.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 215.
25th October 2012 – Thank you Lord that you never call without equipping. You qualify the called. I may not be a prophet, but help me to do what you’ve put into my hand with all my heart.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 214.
24th October 2012 – Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you? (Psalm 85:6)
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 213.
23rd October 2012 – Help me Lord to concentrate on removing the plank from my own eye before devoting my undivided attention to someone else’s splinter!
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 212.
22nd October 2012 – Lord Jesus, please give to your church such a burden for lost souls that we will both intercede and go. Keep us from being Jonah-like ‘spectators’.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 211.
19th October 2012 – Lord, I ask again today for your Sovereign work in this land, bringing great numbers to turn from sin and back to you. Please send the revival we have long sought.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 210.
18th October 2012 – Lord, I express to you my heartfelt desire to be a person of prayer at all times. Forgive us that it so often takes the arrival of some unwanted providence to get us on our knees. I want to seek you when seas are calm and not just when they are stormy. To you indeed be all the praise. You are my Rescuer and there is none like you.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 209.
17th October 2012 – Lord help me to take off my running shoes that would take me from you, and put on my walking boots to keep in step with you.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 208.
16th October 2012 – Lord, forgive us our failure to pray for our leaders as regularly and as fervently as we should. We have been their critics more than their intercesors.This is a sin of omission. We confess it to you, asking your forgiveness, and your help to be the people of prayer you are calling us to be.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 207.
15th October 2012 – Have mercy on us, O God for our wilful abandonment of you, and for all that this has led to in our society. Help us to come to our senses and return to our Father.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 206.
12th October 2012 – Thank you Lord for your amazing grace to me. I do not deserve your overwhelming kindness.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 205.
11th October 2012 – Lord God, please impart to us a ‘never say die’ attitude in our prayers. When we are convinced that something needs to change; that it is your will that it should be different; give to us the strength, the courage, the resolution to lay siege to it on our knees. Cause us to employ every spiritual weapon in our armoury until the breakthrough comes.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 204.
10th October 2012 – ‘When I survey the wondrous cross’ I am amazed at your mercy dear Lord. It is too much to take in when I think that you would go to such lengths to block my path and turn me around on my crazy dash to destruction. Thank you for your great and immeasurable love.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 203.
9th October 2012 – Lord give us the ability to see the younger people in the church through your eyes. Help us to pray for them and support them on their journey towards becoming all that you want them to be.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 202.
8th October 2012 – I ask for a yearning, fainting, crying out desire for God. I want to long for you with the utmost intensity Lord, and I know you will fully satisfy all my longings.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 201.
5th October 2012 – O Lord open my lips that my mouth may speak forth your praise. Help me not to be blushing, but bold about your gospel. Help me, like Paul, to be gripped by this message, and eager and wholehearted in wanting to spread it. Visit your whole church with a new anointing I pray.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 200.
4th October 2012 – Lord cause my eyes to be always open to be able to see the deceitfulness of sin, and to see through its lies. Help me to not fall for any of them. I am now your willing slave. Lord have YOUR way in me.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 199.
3rd October 2012 – Lord, I cannot answer for those who came before me, and I cannot control those who will come after me; but help me to run my leg of the race well, and enable me to finish well I pray.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 198.
2nd October 2012 – Lord help me to finish well. Don’t let me fall at the final hurdle.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 197.
1st October 2012 – Lord, please give us leaders who are only interested in your ‘vote’; who please you above all.
For today’s Bible Notes – See Stephen’s Bible Notes for October – 196.
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