Praying for Your Prophets

A proverb I try to use to motivate people to prayer is, “You get what you pray for. If nothing is what you’re praying for, you get that quickly.”

Asking the Spirit how to pray or what to pray for is wise. Then praying as He leads is powerful. We frequently need answers to questions that we don’t feel are within reach, though. Sometimes the answers seem hidden. The Spirit has set some people in the Body to help with that (1 Corinthians 12:18).

Prophets, people who receive words of wisdom, and people who receive words of knowledge are with us to help us receive communication from the King of Heaven and Earth. If you don’t know anyone with any of these gifts, yesterday was a good day to start praying that you would find them at work around you.

If you do know some of these people, they will be much blessed if you are praying for them to be Godly and full of faith, and that the rest of the fruit of the Spirit will fill their hearts and minds. Pray for their ability to sort out ideas that originate in their minds or from our enemies from ideas that the Holy Spirit gives them. Pray for them to have courage and much love.

Pray for faith to operate around them. Even Jesus could not do many mighty works in environments that surrounded Him with doubt, like His hometown (Mark 6:5). An atmosphere of faith, though, can draw miracles through people, like the woman who was bleeding for 12 years (Matthew 9:20).

Pray for the Lord to speak to you through them, to clarify or confirm what you sense to be the Spirit giving you instruction. If you prayed that one night, and the next day someone called you with the report of having had a dream about you last night, the information becomes more objective than subjective; more valuable, and more “verified.”

If one of these people brings you a word out of the blue, thank them for sharing it with you and go to prayer to seek confirmation or correction of it. Expect them to be awesome as you pray for it to happen.