Loving Heavenly Father, I come to worship You in the wonder of what You have chosen to reveal in Your Word about Yourself. The majesty of Your creation displays Your awesome greatness. I see Your omnipotence when I look upon the vastness of the universe. I praise You that You are everywhere present in the extremities of the universe and that You are greater than Your creation.
I look upon the immensity of man's accumulated knowledge and remember Your omniscient possession of all knowledge. The steady march of time causes me to reflect upon the fact that You are eternal, without beginning or end. The lying, sinful ways of humanity evident everywhere cause me to long for the one who is Truth and who reigns in absolute justice.
I praise You, loving God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for what You have reveled about Yourself in the written Word of God. I affirm that Your Holy Word is an inerrant revelation of Your holy Truth. I ask forgiveness for my neglect in reading, memorizing and meditating upon Your Word. What an ugly, sinful wrong it is for me, my family and my fellow believers to treat Your holy Word so lightly when it has been made so available to us. Wash away our guilt, and create within believers' hearts a longing to know and read Your Word.
Through Your Word, Heavenly Father, I came to know the Lord Jesus Christ as my Savior from sin. In Your Word He is revealed as the one who became God in human flesh and was victorious in Himself over the world, the flesh and the devil. In Your Word I learn that, though He was tempted in every way I am tempted, He never sinned. Your Word declares that, as one of us, He fulfilled all righteousness. Your Word declares that He was wounded for my transgressions and bruised for my iniquities. It declares that He became sin for me and that my sins and offenses against You were laid upon Him when He died in my place upon the cross.
It is in Your Word that the mighty truth of His triumph over death and the grave in resurrection power is established. Your Word declares with assuring detail the Lord Jesus Christ's ascension into heaven and His present glorified overseeing of His church. Because of the declarations of Your Word, I look for my Savior to come again with power and great glory. I love You, Heavenly Father, for having given me Your Word.
I praise You, loving God, that You have graced us with the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Thank You for revealing Your Word to me in the wonder of His mighty work in this world and in believers. Thank You for declaring in Your Word that the Holy Spirit came to convict the world of its sinful guilt. I ask for the Holy Spirit to greatly intensify His work of convincing people of their sin against a holy God. May the Holy Spirit so open people to the spiritual seeing and hearing of Your Word that they again will cry out in repentance. Thank You, also, that the Holy Spirit exalts righteousness by revealing the righteous things of Your Word. I ask Him to do that with powerful persuasion.
I pray that the Holy Spirit will, by Your Word, reveal to human hearts the certainty of an approaching accountability to God. May that sobering fact settle upon people until they can find no rest apart from coming to our Lord Jesus Christ.
Blessed Holy Spirit, You are the one who breathed out God's Word in divine revelation through human instruments. I ask You now to use that Word to speak personally to believers. Grant new insights to God's appointed leaders to promote interest, reading, memorization and meditation upon God's Word among God's people. I ask You, Holy Spirit, to raise up anointed revivalist, evangelists and preachers who will be able to make the Bible known with compelling power to a lost world.
I pray the mighty power of God's holy Word against Satan and his kingdom. Confront and defeat Satan's lies with the truth of Your Word. May the comfort of Your Word relieve people from Satan's accusations, torments, and terror. I ask that the warnings of Your Word will alert people to Satan's tactics to bring them into bondage. Invade Satan's kingdom with salvation's message in Your Word and bring multitudes from the darkness of hell into the kingdom of light and eternal life.
I recognize, Heavenly Father, that revival will never come unless a deep, personalized hearing of God's Word comes to human hearts. In the name of my Lord Jesus Christ and by the power of His blood, I pull down Satan's power to dishonor and discredit God's holy Word. I bring in prayer the power of the Holy Spirit against all satanic strongholds assigned to hinder the Word of God from being heard and understood by the hearts of people. I invite the blessed Holy Spirit to exalt the Word of God and to reveal its mighty power in ways that will confound the enemies of truth. Cause people to hear Your Word with a new profound depth, and move pastors and churches to proclaim and teach Your Word with a contagious freshness.
I affirm, Heavenly Father, that Your Word is alive and powerful. I rejoice that though heaven and earth will pass away, not one tiny word of your holy truth will ever fail. Grant to Your Word great success in our day. Use Your holy Word to move our nation to revolutionary revival. I do love Your Word, O Lord, and I give myself to know it better and to live it more. I offer this prayer in the name of Him who is the Living Word, my Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
These prayers may be reproduced for free distribution when the following credit is attached:
Mark I. Bubeck, copied from: The Rise of Fallen Angels
(Chicago, IL. Moody Press, 1995)
Sincerely,
Mark I. Bubeck
Prayers distributed by:
INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR BIBLICAL COUNSELING
1551 Indian Hills Drive, Suite 200
Sioux City, IA 51104
(712) 277-4760
International Center for Biblical Counseling, Inc.
THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR BIBLICAL COUNSELING, INC. is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing professional pastoral counseling in harmony with biblical principles and sound psychological practices. The Center serves as both a treatment center for the emotionally troubled and spiritually distressed as well as a training center providing instruction in biblically based procedures and treatment methods for counseling spiritually oppressed individuals. The Center also seeks to provide an international forum among Christian professionals, ministers and laymen on the subject of helping the spiritually oppressed.
Dr. Mark I. Bubeck, author of The Adversary, Overcoming the Adversary and The Rise of Fallen Angels, is a former pastor and the founder and president of ICBC. His ministry with the Center includes training seminar development, conference speaking, and limited counseling.
