Praying for you and Cheering you on!

If anything, I highly recommend checking out the song In Jesus Name below. It’s one of my favorites on the radio right now and very applicable to today’s challenge.
Have you ever spent time praying for a friend or for anyone else before? Have you struggled with knowing what to say, how to pray, how to make a request to the Lord? If so, then I trust that the prayers mentioned in today’s challenge will be of great assistance to you.
The apostle John’s prayer for his friend Gaius in 3 John 1:2 (HCSB) is as follows, “Dear friend, I pray that you may prosper in every way and be in good health physically just as you are spiritually.”
Was the apostle John endorsing the prosperity gospel, or just naturally praying that his friend would succeed in life and be in good health? Here’s a LINK from gotquestions.org that will aid in our understanding of the apostle John’s prayer.
We tend to live in a very competitive and self-absorbed world…praying such prayers for others is what ought to set us apart from the world. In your time of prayer today let me encourage you to take the focus off yourself and pray for someone else as the apostle John did for Gaius. Ask the Lord to lay someone on your heart and then send them a message…letting them know you’re praying for them, cheering them on. Trust me, we all need a prayer cheerleader in our lives.

Songs:

• In Jesus Name (God of Possible) by Katy Nichole
• Blessings by Laura Story (with Lyrics)
• My Prayer for You by Alisa Turner

Prayers:

• Philippians 1:9-11 (HCSB) And I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment, 10 so that you can approve the things that are superior and can be pure and blameless in the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
• Romans 10:1 (NLT) Dear brothers and sisters, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved.
• Romans 1:9 (NKJV) For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers,
• Ephesians 1:16 (NKJV) do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers:
• 2 Timothy 1:3 (NKJV) I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day,
• John 17:20-26 (NIV) Jesus Prays for All Believers
  • 20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. 24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. 25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”