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“They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations.” You will be called repairers of broken walls, restorers of streets with dwellings.” Isaiah 61:4, 58:12
"Therefore I positioned men behind the lower parts of the wall, at the openings; and I set the people according to their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows. And I looked, and arose and said to the nobles, to the leaders, and to the rest of the people, "Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, great and awesome, and fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses." (Nehemiah 4:13-14)
Day 1
Thank you, Father, that You are restoring the judges of Fresno/Clovis as at the first and our counselors as at the beginning. Our hearts' cry is that Fresno/Clovis become RIGHTEOUS— a FAITHFUL city. (Isaiah 1:26).
Father, we ask in the name of Jesus, that because we are SEEKING the peace and welfare of Fresno/ Clovis, and PRAYING to YOU for it, we will ENJOY peace and welfare. (Jeremiah 29:7).
Father, we plead with you that Fresno/Clovis will be delivered because the believers of these cities have acknowledged our poverty of spirit, to not look to our own wisdom, but draw from the wisdom that is from above. (Ecclesiastes 9:15).
Father, we pray in your name, that Your people in Fresno/Clovis are not caught up in building our own houses and adorning them, but we are consumed with building YOUR house; and therefore, YOU are the Keeper and Guard of our cities. (Haggai 1:9; Psalm 127:1).Father, we are grateful that Fresno/Clovis is rejoicing because it is going well with the uncompromisingly righteous. By the blessing of the influence of the UPRIGHT, we will call our cities EXALTED. (Proverbs 11:10-11).
Father, Your people of Fresno/Clovis are pleading with you to scale the city walls of the mighty and bring down the strongholds in which these cities trust. We ask this in the powerful name of Jesus. (Proverbs 21:22).
Day 2
Thank you, Father, that You are purging Fresno/ Clovis of scoffers who would set it afire, inflaming the minds of the people, and because Your people are seeking Godly wisdom, you are turning away wrath. (Proverbs 29:8).
Father, we lift our voices to you and thank you for the song that You have given us to sing over Fresno/ Clovis which says, “We have a strong city, the Lord sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks.” (Isaiah 26:1).
Father, our anguished prayer is that Your people in Fresno/Clovis are called a HOLY people, the REDEEMED of the Lord. We call these cities SOUGHT OUT, cities NOT FORSAKEN. (Isaiah 62:12). Father, thank you that through your supernatural power, You are making Fresno/Clovis to be cities set on a hill, whose light cannot be hidden. (Matthew 5:14).
Father, we plead with you that Fresno/Clovis will be called the FAITHFUL CITIES OF TRUTH, and they be full of boys and girls playing in its streets. (Zechariah 9:3,5).
Thank you Father, that You are raising up Your people, through your churches, to rebuild the ancient ruins, and to raise up the former desolations and renew the ruined cities and devastation of many generations. You are causing us to be called the repairers of the breaches and restorers of streets to dwell in. (Isaiah 61:4; 58:12).
Day 3
Father, because You are the holy and just Creator of this world, IT, and ALL of its fullness and ALL who dwell in it belong to You. We are blessed that “ALL” includes Fresno/Clovis. (Psalm 24:1).
Father, You have said in Your word that NO CITY divided against itself will last or continue to stand. Therefore, in the mighty Name of Jesus, through your shed blood, we ask that you rebuke the spirits of division, over Fresno/Clovis and cause them to flee. That all of their assignments and effects against these cities be cancelled in the Name of Jesus. We humbly ask you to loose UNITY, HARMONY and PEACE in Jesus’ Name. Father, we acknowledge that You Yourself are our PEACE—our bond of UNITY and HARMONY. You have made us ONE BODY in these cities and are breaking down, destroying and abolishing every hostile dividing wall between us. We also ask that Your people in these cities be eager and strive earnestly to guard and keep the HARMONY and ONENESS of the Spirit in the binding power of peace. We strive to live together in such mutual harmony and such full sympathy with one another, that TOGETHER we are UNANIMOUSLY with UNITED HEARTS and ONE VOICE praising and glorifying You. We are welcoming and receiving to our hearts one another as You have received and welcomed us, so that all may observe our good works through you and glorifyYou. (Matthew 12:25; Ephesians 2:14; Ephesians 4:3; Romans 15:5-6).
Thank you, Father, that You are setting up Your banner—Your standard displayed because of the truth in Fresno/Clovis for those who fear and worshipfully revere You, to which we may flee from the enemy. We fervently ask you to bring forth the Spirit of the Fear of the Lord to come upon ALL of the people of these cities, so that Your banner would cover us all as ONE MAN. (Psalm 60:4; Ezra 3:1b; Nehemiah 8:1).
Thank you Father, that You are in the process of taking away the impure speech of the inhabitants of Fresno/Clovis and giving us pure speech from pure lips that we may ALL call upon Your Name with ONE UNANIMOUS CONSENT and ONE UNITED SHOULDER bearing Your yoke. (Zephaniah 3:9).
Father, we plead with you that Your people will be DWELLING TOGETHER in UNITY in Fresno/ Clovis, so that Your anointing is consecrating the whole body. We hold on to your promise that because we are unified, You are commanding the BLESSING upon us, even LIFE forevermore. We also praise you for Your promise that as we become ONE, NOTHING that we imagine to do is impossible for us. (Psalm 133:1-3; Genesis 11:6).
Father, we ask in Your name that the people in Fresno/Clovis become ONE—PERFECTLY UNITED —just as You are in the Son, and the Son is in You, so that others are convinced and fully recognize that You have sent Your Son. (John 17:21, 23).
Day 4
Thank you Father, that You are making Your Name known and revealing Your character—even Your very Self—to Your people in Fresno/Clovis, so that the SAME LOVE, which You have bestowed upon JESUS is IN US and is felt in our hearts. (John 17:26).
Thank you Father, that the mighty works You are bringing forth in Fresno/Clovis are causing repentance and heart changes that will CONTINUE and REMAIN. (Matthew 11:21, 13).
Father, we urgently pray, that because the spiritual leaders of Fresno/Clovis are SANCTIFYING themselves and COMING TOGETHER to PRAY and SEEK YOUR FACE for these cities WITHOUT REGARD TO DIVISIONS; and because they are, in UNISON, making ONE SOUND to be heard in praising and thanking You, that Your GLORY is being MANIFESTED in their midst. (II Chronicles 5:11-14).
Father, You have said that as Jesus is, so are we in this world. Therefore, because He said that He was called for the purpose of preaching the gospel to CITIES and TOWNS, we, too are called to THIS PURPOSE. Father, burn it into our hearts that we have been sent by You to Fresno/Clovis to preach the gospel. (I John 4:17; Luke 4:43). Father, give us a heart for the lost.
Father, we acknowledge that Fresno/Clovis belongs to YOU. We are grateful for Your promise that YOUR cities would yet again overflow with prosperity. (Zechariah 1:17). We pray against corruption in our cities in the name of Jesus.
Father, we call forth, in the name of Jesus, YOUR FIRE upon Fresno/Clovis to devour all of its strongholds. (Amos 1:7). We pray against gangs, all addictions, homelessness, poverty, porn, etc.
Day 5
Thank you Father, that You are sending Your SPIRIT OF ELIJAH upon Fresno/Clovis to turn back the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient, incredulous and unpersuadable to the wisdom of the upright. Our anguished prayer is for ALL the inhabitants of these cities to have a knowledge of and holy love for Your will. We are grateful that You are in the process of making ready for Yourself a people in these cities perfectly prepared in spirit, adjusted, disposed and placed in the right moral state. (Luke 1:17). We pray for family unity.
Father, our fervent prayer is that Fresno/Clovis is filled with flocks of men, women and children who know, understand and realize that You are the Lord, the Sovereign Ruler, calling forth loyalty and obedient service. (Ezekiel 36:38).
Father, because You have promised that Your people would renew the ruined cities, we boldly ask, in YOUR name, that every area where there is ruin in Fresno/Clovis, whether in spirit or in the natural, is RENEWED by your mighty power at work within and through YOUR people. (Isaiah 61:4)
Thank you Father, that You are destroying the schemes and confusing the tongues of gang members and those who would stir up strife and violence in Fresno/Clovis. Thank you that those who are stirring up strife against these cities are falling away TO YOUR PEOPLE. (Psalm 55:9; Isaiah 54:16). We pray against gangs and for the safety of law enforcement in Fresno/Clovis.
Father, we humbly ask in Your name that the inhabitants of Fresno/Clovis would flourish like the grass of the earth. (Psalm 72: 15b).
Thank you, Father, that You are making the HUNGRY IN SPIRIT to dwell in our cities, so that they may prepare Fresno/Clovis for YOU to inhabit. (Psalm 107:36).
Thank you Father, that You are delivering and defending Fresno/Clovis, to save it out of the hand of the enemy for Your own sake and for the sake of Your people in this place. (Isaiah 37:35; 38:6).
Day 6
Thank you Father, that You are raising up men and women in righteousness and directing them in how to build up Fresno/Clovis. (Isaiah 45:13). We pray for all city leaders in Fresno/Clovis.
Thank you Father, that You are stirring up the spirits of Your people to rebuild YOUR HOUSE in Fresno/Clovis. (Ezra 1:5b). We pray for REVIVAL.
Father. You tell us to seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you and to pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you to will prosper. Therefore, we boldly accept, that Fresno/ Clovis belongs to Your people in order to bring You glory. We shout VICTORY in the Name of Jesus, for You have given us these cities. We dedicate Fresno/Clovis and ALL that is in them to YOU, Lord. (Deuteronomy 11:24; Joshua 6:16-17; Jeremiah 29:7)
Father, we urgently pray that we, as Your people, let NOTHING TERRIFY us, even though there are those in gangs and other evil entities that would seek to WEAKEN OUR HANDS for the task through FEAR by surrounding us with counselors who would counsel against us to frustrate our purpose and plans to rebuild Your house. STRENGTHEN OUR HANDS, Father. YOU are all we need—You are more than enough—to complete the task. When the enemy sees Your work completed in Fresno/ Clovis, we boldly pray he will FEAR and fall far in his own estimation, for he will see that the work was done by YOU. (I Peter 3:6; Ezra 4:4-5; Nehemiah 6:9, 16).
Thank you Father, that You are anointing Your people to be REPAIRERS OF THE BREACHS in Fresno/Clovis. In Nehemiah's day, Jerusalem's walls were torn down and its gates were burned with fire. When the enemies of Israel saw that the BREACHES of the wall were being CLOSED, they became VERY ANGRY because they realized that as soon as ALL the BREACHES were closed, the city would be IMPENETRABLE. We pray this for Fresno/Clovis. (Nehemiah 1:3; 4:7).
Father, our prayer is that we will not be discouraged when we see the enemy becoming enraged, but that we see his anger as a SURE SIGN of his INEVITABLE DEFEAT. Thank you that the intensity of the battle will press us into YOU, Father, and it will cause us in Fresno/Clovis to be all the more vigilant to set a watch against him day and night. Prepare us Lord, as ONE MAN Father, that we will build and work on the wall with one hand, and hold a weapon with the other. (Nehemiah 4:17) Father, fill your people of Fresno/Clovis with courage and commitment.
Day 7
Lord, Give us a revelation that the walls of Fresno/Clovis are a LIVING WALL made up of LIVING STONES—Your Body—and the gates are representative of the ELDERS of the city. A wall with NO BREACHES means a city with NO PLACE for the enemy to enter. Cause us to see that, as Your church, in Fresno/Clovis, we DESPERATELY need one another. We cannot make a city-wide impact without a UNIFIED city-wide church. Your Word says that it is the FALSE PROPHET who is like a fox among ruins and waste places, but it is the TRUE PROPHET that goes up into the BREACHES and builds up the wall for the house of the Lord that it might stand in battle in the day of the Lord. So, Father, we ask that You would give us the grace to close EVERY BREACH caused by selfishness, competition, jealousy, division, enmity, strife, unforgiveness, denominationalism, sectarianism. exclusivism, gossip, backbiting, spiritual pride, idolatry, or ANY OTHER SIN of Your church, of our church ___________________________ so that Fresno/Clovis will go down in history as cities that were set on a hill, whose light could not be hidden. (Ezekiel 13:4-5; Matthew 5:14).
We pray, Lord, that NOT ONE of Your people in Fresno/Clovis be a fulfillment of the prophecy that, in the latter times some will turn away from the faith, for if we observe Your church in this city, yet see NO CHANCE of it becoming holy, we have turned away from faith in that area, and if we look at our cities and it seems INCURABLE, then our faith needs to be rebuilt upon Your promises. (I Timothy 4:1).
Deliver us from all self-righteousness, apathy, fear, unbelief and ANY OTHER SIN that would hinder the moving of Your Spirit in Fresno/Clovis. Burn it into our hearts, Father, that these cities strength to stand against the onslaught of the enemy is NOT dependent upon the faith of a few or even many INDIVIDUAL BELIEVERS in these cities, nor is it dependent upon INDIVIDUAL CONGREGATIONS. It is dependent upon the RELATIONSHIPS between these individual believers and congregations. In other words, our strength is measured by the WALLS' state of REPAIR!
Lord of the Harvest, we sense that You are about to issue the command to lower our net for the final harvest. Up until now, we have seen only a limited harvest, because we can catch just so many fish with individual hooks and bait, but a NET can capture MANY. Help us to see that there is only ONE NET spread over Fresno/Clovis—NOT many little nets made up of individuals or congregations—but ONE NET. It, too, is a LIVING NET comprised of all those TRUE BELIEVERS who are DEAD to the world and ALIVE unto YOU. The knots joining the net together are symbolic of the RELATIONSHIPS between Your people in these cities. If the net over these cities is torn and in a bad state of repair, when You issue the command to lower it, much of the harvest in this city will escape the net through the holes and tears. You have said in Your Word that the world would know we are Your disciples by our love for one another. Father, you have saved WHOLE CITIES in the past, and You are able to do it again. If there was HOPE for SODOM, for the sake of ten righteous men, then there is HOPE for US! Father, we ask that You would raise up NET MENDERS in Fresno/Clovis, who will not rest until every tear has been mended, for the more perfectly repaired our net is, the greater the harvest will be in Fresno/Clovis. In Jesus’ Name we pray—that mighty Name above all other names, which is our BANNER of PEACE, and our BOND of UNITY and HARMONY to abolish every hostile dividing wall between us. Amen! (Isaiah
58:12; Nehemiah 1:3; 4:7- 17; 8: 1; Ezra 3: 1; 1 Peter 2:5; Ezekiel 13:4-5; Matthew 5:14; 1 Timothy 4: 1; Matthew 11:23; Luke 5:4; John 13:35; Jonah 3: 10; Genesis 18:32; Ephesians 2:14).
Ask your Pastor to create this:
CREATE PRAYER FOR Your CHURCH FAMILY
Prayer against addictions- I plead that You would empower ________________to face and deal with the pressures of life, instead of turning to the addiction of ____________ for the strength to cope. Teach ______________ to turn to You. Reveal Yourself to him/her as the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. Let Your mercy and comfort flow into ___________'s life (2 Corinthians 1:3-4, 8-9).
Prayer for marriages- Holy Spirit, I plead that You will convict _________and __________about the problems in their marriage. I pray that Your conviction would be deep and sharp. Deliver __________ and ____________ from being defensive and self-righteous about the problems in the marriage and Your conviction concerning these things. Grant that _________ and __________would humbly accept Your conviction and will change as You deal with him or her. (John 16:7)