By Mark Swanburg
Today we’re going to be praying and petitioning our God on behalf of the homeless in our community. Take a deep breath and relax and invite God’s presence into where you’re at right now as we begin to pray.
Father, we petition you as your church on behalf of the homeless people in our community in Grants Pass, as the homeless situation continues to grow, Father, people are being robbed of the potential that you have for them.
We petition you in the name of Jesus, both to intervene in regards to those who are called specifically to the ministry, that you would give them a double portion, that you give them the wisdom and the counsel to be able to speak into people’s lives, to help them to overcome all of their difficulties. We’re also aware that a lot of the issues surrounding this, have to do with principalities in high places.
And we know that you’ve given the church the power and the authority to be able to call down those things which are destructively destroying people’s lives. That we know the enemy would love to take the beauty of your humanity and steal from it and kill it and destroy it. And so we pray in the name of Jesus against any kind of principality and high place, and every form of evil that is trying to prosper against the people that are subject to homelessness right now.
And we tear down those places in the name of Jesus. Father, we’re petitioning you that you will intervene on behalf of the brokenhearted and those who are struggling, who are cold, who are hungry. And, we want to do our part as far as being able to help those people in the best way possible. But we actually need your intervention to be able to give us the wisdom and the counsel for the best ways to be able to do that.
So I just pray in the same way that Ephesians 1 speaks about our eyes being open, the eyes of our hearts and that we gain a greater knowledge of who you are. I pray that blessing over every homeless person in our community, Lord God, over every addiction. That in Your Word, Jesus said that, “if I’d be lifted up, I would draw all mankind unto me.”
And I pray that that drawing would take place now in our community, that the homeless in our community would come to the knowledge of who you are and the principles that you’ve laid down of how to prosper in life. Give us the tools to be able to minister to them. And we speak life and light over the homeless people in our communities, and we just ask you to intervene in a powerful way and to deliver those people from the afflictions and the suffering that they’ve undergone.
They are your children, and you have made them, Lord God.
We pray for all these things in the name of Jesus, and we thank you, Lord God, for the power and authority that you give us to do so. Amen.
