Prayers

Prayers Ideas for 11 October 2025
For our Congregations, the wider Church (LCANZ), Pastors Conference, and Synod
These points are not prescriptive, nor exhaustive:

Father God, in Your Name, we bless all who participate in this Hour of Prayer. May they have a renewed sense of the
depth of Your love and care for each of us, individually.
That this hour would be sacred to You, and to the Praise, Honour and Glory of Your Name alone. In Jesus Name, Amen.
We pray God’s Word to Him. We pray His Promises back to Him, we Praise Him for who He is, His attributes/ his
character/ remind ourselves we’re in the presence of The Sovereign Lord God Almighty, High King of Heaven.

Prayers Prompters and Thoughts for “An Hour of Prayer, Your Time, Your Space” Sat 11th Oct 2025
These points are not prescriptive, nor exhaustive:
We can have full confidence that God is accomplishing His Purposes, His way, in our lives, individually and collectively,
whatever that might mean and look like. [1] Jer 29:11
The following are prayers many of us have been praying for some time:
• We acknowledge that all of us fall short of God’s Glory every single day. It’s only by the Grace of God through
the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ that we can come into His Presence at all!
• We pray that God would continue to stir up a real hunger for Himself and the Truth of His Word in the hearts of
all people, bringing them to Himself, taking us to them by whatever means He chooses to use.
• That hearts which have been ploughed deeply would be open to God’s word wherever it’s heard,
• That all ministers and lay readers across this wide brown land and to the four corners of the earth in every tribe
and nation would be inspired by the Holy Spirit with every word God knows we need to hear.
• That each of us understands in our hearts that in every worship service, lay reading or preaching, we’re having
an audience with our Sovereign Lord God Almighty High King of Heaven.
• That each of us would take seriously our responsibility to pray for our Pastors and all leadership: that we would
be their “Aaron and Hur” Exodus 17:8-16, prayerfully holding up their leadership arms in the spiritual battle that
we are in.
• That God would continue to bring people from the highways and byways of wherever we live, here in Australia,
NZ and the World, and that He would take us to them in our local neighborhoods, that we would go willingly.
• That we would be fair, just and merciful, and walk humbly with our God.
• That each of us, as part of the priesthood of all believers, would seek God’s face anew every day, in repentance,
asking for a fresh anointing and infilling of His Holy Spirit: Come Holy Spirit, You are Welcome here!
• That we surrender our will to Jesus for His Spirit to lead us, and God’s will be done on earth as it is in Heaven,
whatever that might mean and look like. Matt 6:10; Phil 2:13; Rom 8: 5-9.
• We bless the priesthood of all believers that we call the LCANZ in its current entities, in Jesus Name. We come
against division, contention and strife, [Eph 4:31, 32] and we release justice, fairness and reconciliation. As we
bless this priesthood of all believers, we put aside our own thoughts and desires and we release God to activate
His purposes in us, individually and collectively, In Jesus Name, Amen [1a]
• Forgiveness frees us to go forward, while bitterness tethers us to the past. Be first in Line to Forgive. Forgive one
another, just as God has forgiven you because you are in Christ. Col 3:13[Our Daily Bread Video Devotional]
• We pray that God would continue to accomplish his Purposes, His way, at this time, His way, not our way.
• That all of us have an ongoing, conscious awareness that we’re in the presence of our Sovereign Lord God
Almighty, High King of Heaven: that He is the unseen listener to every conversation, both in our self talk and
with others.
• That all would be aware of the “cloud of witnesses…. That we run the race set before us with
perseverance…fixing our eyes on Jesus” Heb 11: 17- 12:1-2 remembering “The Angel of the Lord encamps
around those who love and fear Him, and delivers them” Ps 34: 7-9. In Jesus Name, Amen
• In the Name of God, The Father, God, The Son, and God, The Holy Spirit, we bless the hearts of the entire
priesthood of all believers that we call the LCANZ in its current entities. We bless each one to be open to the
wooing of the Holy Spirit and to become more and more responsive to God’s voice. We bless them with the
overspill of the Kingdom of Heaven, that they would experience and exhibit the fruit of the Holy Spirit: his love,
joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, long suffering, faithfulness, self-control, His words, wisdom, sensitivity,
clarity, compassion, insight and His mind. In Jesus Name, Amen. [2]
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• That each of us in this priesthood of all believers would exhibit filial love, respect, kindness, generosity and
compassion toward one another. [3.]
• That we would choose to see one another through Jesus’ eyes, lens, and hear one another through His ears.
• That each of us would daily spend time in Worship, Praise and Thanksgiving, followed by prayer, in both the lead
up to, during and post, on line Pastor’s Conference 15th Oct and Synod 18th Oct 2025, singing hymns and songs,
for not only does the Lord inhabit the Praises of His people, but singing is spiritual warfare (2 Chron 20: 1- 24)
and keeps our eyes, hearts and minds on The Lord Jesus.
• We Bless you, the Lutheran Church of Australia and New Zealand, in all your entities, in the Name of The Father,
The Son and The Holy Spirit. We bless you in our States, Territories and New Zealand. We Bless you in your
worship life, in your congregations, we bless you in the offices of the various Ministries, Bishops, Pastors and
SMP’s. We Bless you in the homes of individual congregational members, across Australia and New Zealand. We
Bless you in the capital cities and in the regions. We release the Kingdom of God in all these places. Come Holy
Spirit, You are welcome in all these places! We release love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and
goodness and gentleness and faithfulness and self-control and unity into all of these spaces. In the Name of
Jesus, we release ideas from our Heavenly Father’s Throne Room to help every individual in this priesthood of all
believers in their walk with our Lord Jesus Christ. We release favor in all our congregations in their mission and
ministry, in their Sunday schools, Youth groups, Bible Studies, and outreach into their neighborhoods, In Jesus
Name Amen [4.]
• “All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.”
J.H. Jowett
[1] Liz Wieland
[1a] [2.] [4.] Adapted from Richard Brunton: The Awesome Power of Blessing
[3.] Beverley Heidenreich

For further resources please reachout to the church office and we can send further prayers.