prayers for holyness

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YOU SHALL BE HOLY FOR I AM HOLY

Lord God, you are kadosh, kadosh, kadosh – holy, holy, holy. You are infinitely pure and separate from sin and altogether different from any created thing. Because you have been born again, and you have given us a new nature and we are your sons and daughters and your Holy Spirit is living in us… help us to be holy as you are holy.

We thank you Lord our God that our old nature be put to death and that your Spirit empowering our new nature can give us victory over our old nature and its corrupt desires when we get close to you and stay close to you. So help us get close to you and stay close to you. Fill us with your Holy Spirit and help us live by your spirit. (Romans 6)

Avinu Malkaynu, our father and our king, thank you for making us dead to sin and alive to you. Help us to resist the lure of sin so that we do not obey its evil desires, enable us to offer every part of ourselves to you who brought your people from death to life so that our lives are instruments of righteousness. Holy Lord, thank your for your grace that teaches us to say NO to ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age while we wait for your blessed hope – the appearing of the glory of our great God and savior Messiah Yeshua. Lord please give us more of your grace that teaches us to say NO. (Titus 2)

God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, we know that those who are friends of the world are your enemies, so help us be your friend and not your enemies, work in us so that we have our friendship with you and not with the world. (James 4)

Heavenly father, since we have been raised up with Messiah and since we have died and our lives are hidden with Messiah in you, help us to keep seeking the things above, where Jesus is seated at your right hand, give us minds that are set on things above and not on things that are on earth. (Colossians 3)

Great creator God you created us and when we joined rebellion of the fallen angels, you redeemed us at a great cost. Help us offer out of gratitude our bodies to you as a living sacrifice. This is holy and pleasing to you and is our true and proper worship. Help us not to be conformed to the pattern of the world but be transformed by the renewing of our minds so we can live the way you want us to live, the way that is right and pleasing to you. (Romans 12)

God who is light, we know that the night is nearly over and the day is almost here. Help us to put aside the deeds that people do in darkness – wild parties, drunkenness, sexual immorality, jealous behavior, and fighting. Help us behave decently as people behave during the day. Help us to be close to Messiah, which will prevent us from thinking about how to gratify the corrupt desires of the old nature. (Romans 13)

Infinitely holy God, help us not to be worldly and materialistic. We know if anyone loves the world, love for you is not in him or her. For everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life does not come from you but from a fallen world, the world and its desires will pass away, but whoever does your will will live forever – and since we want to live forever with you, help us do what you want.

(1. John 2)

The greatest love song of the universe was sung in pain, agony and shame. I knew it was for you. I saw your face and I took your place ! Take up your cross and follow me…

 

 

 

The heart of a loving Father in heaven… he sees when you are in pain, be it physical or spiritual… he sees, he understands and he wants you to be well. He sent his son Jesus to the cross, not only so that you receive forgiveness of your sins through his shed blood but in Isaiah 53 it also says that we experience healing and deliverance from evil powers…

3 Despised and forsaken of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with afflictions; as one from whom one hides his face, so was he despised, and we esteemed him not.

4 Truly he bore our sickness, and took upon himself our pains; but we thought him punished, smitten of God, and bowed down.

5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities; punishment was upon him that we might have peace, and by his wounds we were healed.

6 We all went astray like sheep, each turning to his own way; but the Lord cast the iniquity of us all upon him.

When I was in prayer today, Heavenly Father told me, my children are so sick. I want my children to be healthy. I felt very strongly the compassion and his concern behind these words, and also his love.

We activate this healing and liberating power by first of all believing that HE can and will do it. Many suffer from chronic and also incurable diseases for which there is no medicine even today. When we read in Luke 13 from verse 10, how Jesus was in the synagogue on Shabbat and a woman who had a spirit of weakness for 18 years and was totally bent… we see the great mercy of our Lord, but also that there are probably diseases that have spiritual causes. In verse 16 it says

But this one, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan, behold, had already kept bound eighteen years, should she not be loosed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?

He knows exactly the causes of your suffering. And he wants to meet you as a Savior. Sometimes our suffering also has to do with our own misconduct, sin, or bad habits and addictions. There, too, we need deliverance. The worst thing you can do in this phase is to be ashamed and not ask Jesus for forgiveness and help.

In Mark 3 there is also an interesting healing on Shabbat. You have to know that the Shabbat was holy for the Jews. You were not allowed to do any work, that included healing, unless it was something life threatening. Jesus thus broke the law and was accused for doing good, they even wanted to kill him:

3 And he went again into the synagogue. And there was a man there who had a withered hand.

2 And they lay in wait for him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

3 And he saith unto the man that had the withered hand, Arise, and stand in the midst.

4 And he says to them: May one do good or do evil, save life or kill on the Sabbath? But they held their peace.

5 And looking on them round about with anger, grieved because of the hardness of their heart, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored to health like the other.

6 Then the Pharisees went out, and immediately held counsel against him with the Herodians, how they might put him to death.

Both of these people had suffered for many years, and Jesus healed them. He also wants to heal you, if you want that.

Gladly we pray for you… Shabbat Shalom

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