Prayer Toolkit

Over the years we've found that intercessory and intentional prayer is one of the most effective ways for us to do battle. We often refer back to these Daily Prayers from our friends at Ransomed Heart Ministries, and strongly encourage you to incorporate these into your prayer life.  

The Daily Prayer (find more, including an extended version and prayers for healing and freedom at the Ransomed Heart webpage)

My dear Lord Jesus, I come to you now to be restored in you – to renew my place in you, my allegiance to you, and to receive from you all the grace & mercy; all the Life & Love I so desperately need this day. I honor you as my sovereign Lord, and I surrender every aspect of my life totally and completely to you. I give you my body as a living sacrifice; I give you my soul and my spirit as well; my heart, mind & will. I cover myself with your blood – my spirit, my soul and my body. And I ask your Holy Spirit to restore my union with you, seal me in you, and guide me in this time of prayer. In all that I now pray, I include {if married, include your spouse and any children}. Acting as their head, I bring them under my authority and covering, and I come under Your authority and covering. Holy Spirit, apply to them all that I now pray on their behalf.

Dear God, holy and happy Trinity, you alone are worthy of all my worship, my heart’s devotion, all my praise and all my trust and all the glory of my life. I worship you, bow to you and I give myself over to you in my heart’s search for life. You alone are Life, and you have become my life. I renounce all other gods, all idols, and I give you the place in my heart and in my life that you truly deserve. {Renounce specific idols & lesser lovers} I confess here and now that it is all about you, God, and not about me. You are the Hero of this story, and I belong to you. Forgive me, God, for my every sin. Search me and know me and reveal to me any aspect of my life that is not pleasing to you. Reveal to me where you are working in my life and what story I am living in.  And grant me the grace of a deep and true repentance.

 Heavenly Father, thank you for loving me and choosing me before you made the world. You are my true Father – my Creator, my Redeemer, my Sustainer and the true end of all things, including my life. I love you, I trust you, I worship you. Thank you for proving your love for me by sending your only Son, Jesus, to be my substitute and representative. I receive him and all his Life and all his Work, which you ordained for me. Thank you for including me in Christ, for forgiving my sins, for granting me his righteousness, for making me complete in him. Thank you for making me alive with Christ, raising me with him, seating me with him at your right hand, granting me his authority and anointing me with your Holy Spirit. I receive it all with thanks and give it total claim to my life.

 Jesus, thank you for coming for me & for ransoming me with your own life. I honor you as my Lord, I love you, worship you, trust you. I sincerely receive you as my redemption, and I receive all the Work and Triumph of your Crucifixion, whereby I am cleansed from all my sin through your shed blood, my old nature is removed (Romans 6:1-3), my heart is circumcised unto God. I take my place in your cross and death, whereby I have died with you to sin, to the flesh, to the world and to the evil one. I am crucified with Christ and I have reckoned myself to be dead to sin and my flesh with all its passions and desires. I put off the old man and choose to put on the new man. I choose to put to death evil desires and patterns of flesh with all its pride, unbelief, and idolatry .

{Pause here & identify specific patterns of the flesh (Galatians 5:22) that I am crucifying today}.

I put off the old man. I bring the cross of Christ between me and all people, all spirits, & all things. Holy Spirit, apply to me, {and all those God has placed in your family and under your direct influence} the fullness of the Work of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ for me. I receive it with thanks and give it total claim to my life.

Jesus, I also sincerely receive you as my new life, my holiness and sanctification, and I receive all the Work and Triumph of your Resurrection, whereby I have been raised with you to a new life, to walk in newness of life, dead to sin and alive to God. I am crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me. I take my place in your Resurrection, putting on the new man in all holiness and humility, in all righteousness and purity and truth. Christ is now my life, the one who strengthens me. Holy Spirit, apply to me, {and all those God has placed in your family and under your direct influence} the fullness of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ for me. I receive it with thanks and give it total claim to my life.

Jesus, I sincerely receive you as my everlasting deliverance from and victory over Satan, and I receive all the Work and Triumph of your Ascension, whereby I have been raised with you to the right hand of the Father and established with you in all authority. I take my place in your Ascension, whereby I am given fullness in you, in your power, authority and dominion over every ruler, power, authority and spiritual force of wickedness. I claim the cross and blood of Jesus Christ against Satan, against his kingdom, and against all his emissaries and all their work against me and against my domain. Satan is defeated, the prince of this world is cast down, the rulers and authorities are disarmed. Greater is he who is in me than he who is in the world. Christ has given me authority to overcome all the power of the evil one and I claim that authority now over and against every enemy. Holy Spirit, apply to me, {and all those God has placed in your family and under your direct influence} the fullness of the Work of the Ascension of Jesus Christ for me. I receive it with thanks and give it total claim to my life.

Holy Spirit, I sincerely receive you as my Counselor, my Comforter, my strength and my guide. Thank you for sealing me in Christ. I ask you to lead me into all truth, to anoint me for all of my life and walk and calling, and to lead me deeper into Jesus today. Apply to me, blessed Holy Spirit, all of the works and all of the gifts in Pentecost. I fully open my life to you in every dimension and aspect, choosing to be filled with you, to walk in step with you in all things. Fill me afresh, blessed Holy Spirit. I receive you with thanks and give you total claim to my life & to {and all those God has placed in your family and under your direct influence}.

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for granting to me all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus. I receive those blessings into my life today and I ask the Holy Spirit to bring all those blessings into my life this day. Thank you for the blood of Jesus. Wash me with his blood from every sin and stain and evil device. Armor me with your armor – the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, and the shoes of the Gospel, the helmet of salvation. I take up the shield of faith and the sword of the Spirit, the word of God, and I wield these weapons against the evil one in the power of God. I choose to pray at all times in the Spirit.

Heavenly Father, thank you for your angels. I summon them in the authority of Jesus Christ and release them to war for me and my household.  Thank you for the intercessors; I ask you to send forth your spirit and raise them up, arouse them, unite them, establish and direct them, raising up the full canopy of prayer and intercession for me. I call forth the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ this day throughout my home, my family, & my life.

All this I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, with all glory and honor and thanks to him.[1]

[1] This prayer is adapted from one I found in Ed Murphy’s The Spiritual Warfare Handbook