The Chinese version is after the English one.
中文版本在英文版本下。
Lord Father,
We thank you for setting up various services in church. It is such an amazing way to hear You, worship You, encounter You every week in a congregation, to fulfil many teachings from the Bible.
In Isaiah 61:1-2, it says,
“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,
because the Lord has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners,
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour
and the day of vengeance of our God,
to comfort all who mourn.”
Dear Lord, we pray for our preachers in services. In the name of Jesus, we pray that the Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on them, because the Lord anoints them. Lord, anoint them with Your Holy Spirit, from the soul to their mind to their affection to their guts, from their knowledge, to their past experience, to their will to serve, to their way of expressions. Anoint them. Make them for Your use.
Lord, please make them proclaim the good news to the poor. From financially poor, to spiritually poor, or whatever way in hunger. Send them by Your Words, Your truth, to bind up the broken-hearted. Release Your healing power in their words, so that people who are hurt, who are distressed, who are suppressed, who are neglected, who are offended, who experience a loss, who is betrayed, who are struggling with living matters and so on, will be touched by God.
Lord, open our preachers’ mouths to proclaim freedom for the captives, when most people are not aware of being in captivity. Use them to make people know the Truth, and the Truth will set them free. Through them, please Lord, to break the lies in people’s life. Make them show the rules of love, peace and justice in Heaven, which are different from the rules of economy, politics or distorted love, in an understandable way, so that people know what they are going to seek for. Through their preaching, they guide people to seek God in Jesus’ name, by the precious blood of Jesus Christ they are redeemed and renewed. Praise to be the One who calls us out of darkness into His wonderful light! Lord, through Your Words, release the congregation from darkness as prisoners of soul.
Holy Spirit, open our preachers’ mouth to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour. Yes, this is the time that our Father is opening His arms to embrace us, giving us rings and robes which only sons and daughters of God could have. We ask in Jesus’ name that whoever listens to the preach at this church, will be put on their rings and robes of sons and daughters, that they are no longer condemned, never abandoned and rejected.
Dear Lord, please teach our preachers to proclaim the vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn. For God’s justice is proceeding, in ways to be seen or not to be seen. Our Lord is the ultimate Judge, whom we can always seek for refuge, strength, comfort and dignity.
Lord, we also pray for the communion in our service. Let the way Jesus broke His body and shed His blood reappear in each communion. Holy Spirit please fill us in within, every time when we share Jesus’ flesh and drink His blood.
We pray for worship in music, too. In Jesus’ name we proclaim that everyone in the worship team is a priest, who lifts up people to seek God, and lets God touch His people.
We pray for all the equipment, effects and people working behind the scene. Make them for Your use and glorify Yourself, Lord. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
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為牧者及教會領袖禱告 (2)
親愛主我們的父：
我們感謝祢在教會中建立各種事工。祢以奇妙的方式，讓我們每週聽到祢的聲音，敬拜祢，與祢相遇，把聖經中的許多教導實現出來。
在以賽亞書61:1-2中說：
「主的靈在我身上，
因為耶和華用膏膏我，
叫我傳福音給貧窮人，
差遣我報告被擄的得釋放，
將被囚的釋放出來，
報告默哀的年期歸於耶和華，
報告我們神受憤怒的日子，
安慰一切悲哀的人。」
親愛的主，我們為每個主日的講員禱告。奉耶穌的名，我們祈求主的靈臨到他們身上，求祢以聖靈膏抹他們，從靈魂到頭腦到情感到五臟，從他們的知識、過去的經歷、事奉的心志，到他們口出的言語，膏抹他們，使他們成為你所使用的器皿。
主啊，開他們的口，叫他們向貧窮的人傳福音，無論是財政上的貧困，屬靈上的貧困，或在其他方面感到飢渴的人。用祢的話語，祢的真理，差遣他們安慰傷心的人。藉他們的言語釋放你醫治的能力，使那些受傷、困擾、壓抑、被忽視、受轄制、經歷損失、被背叛、在生活中掙扎等等的人能被神觸摸。
主啊，開啟我們傳道人的口，宣告被擄的人釋放——即使大多數人都沒有意識到自己被囚禁。使用他們使人知道真理，讓真理將叫他們自由。藉著他們，主啊，打破人生中的謊言。求祢幫助他們以人們容易明白的方式，展示天國裡愛、平安和公義的律則，這些規則與世上經濟、政治或扭曲的愛的律則截然不同，求祢透過講道使聽的人知道他們需要追求什麼。藉著他們的傳道，引導人們奉耶穌之名尋求神，藉著耶穌基督寶血得贖和更新。讚美那位呼召我們離開黑暗進入奇妙光明的主！主啊，藉著你的話語，釋放會眾脫離靈魂的黑暗，如同囚徒獲釋一樣。
聖靈啊，開啟我們傳道人的口，宣告耶和華悅納人的禧年。是的，這是我們天父敞開雙臂擁抱我們的時刻，賜給我們只有神的兒女才能擁有的戒指和袍子。我們奉耶穌的名祈求，在教會聽講道的每一個人都能穿上他們神兒女的戒指和袍子，不再被定罪，永不被拋棄和拒絕。
親愛的主，請教導我們的傳道人宣告我們神的憤怒，安慰一切悲哀的人。因為神的公義正在進行，縱然神的工作有時可見，有時或不可見。我們的主是最終的審判者，祂是我們始終可以尋求庇護、力量、安慰和尊嚴的避難所。
主啊，我們也為教會的聖餐禱告。讓耶穌擘開身體、流出寶血的方式在每一次的聖餐中重新顯現。聖靈啊，請在我們分享耶穌的身體和寶血時充滿我們。
我們又為音樂敬拜禱告。我們奉耶穌的名宣告，敬拜團隊中的每個人都是一位祭司，他們把人們帶到祢面前，讓祢觸摸祢的子民。
我們為所有幕後的設備、效果和工作的人禱告，使他們成為祢使用並榮耀自己的器皿。
奉耶穌基督的名求。阿門。
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