Romans 10 ~ Praying Scripture

Please read Romans 10.

Meditate on verse 1.

Brethren, my heart’s desire and my prayer

to God for them is for their salvation.

Paul loved the Jewish people and desired for them to be saved.  They were disobedient and obstinate, but Paul knew from personal experience that God could even save them (Romans 10:13, 21).

Who has God placed in your life that is disobedient and obstinate and in desperate need of the righteousness of Jesus Christ?  As their faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7), pray Romans 10:9, 13, 15, and 17 over yourself and them.

“LORD, faith comes from hearing Your Word.

May my feet take the Good News of good things to _________________.

Please let them confess with their mouth You, Jesus, as Lord,

and believe in their heart that God raised You from the dead. 

Save them, Jesus!  Let them call on Your Name!”

Romans 9 ~ Praying Scripture

Please read Romans 9.

Meditate on verse 15.

For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,

and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

God is sovereign.  God’s purpose according to His choice will stand (Romans 9:11).

God calls (Romans 9:11).  God has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires (Romans 9:18). 

These are truths about God that can be difficult to comprehend, but they are still the truth.  He is the Molder; you are the molded (Romans 9:20).  And amazingly, He invites you to be a prayerful watchman as He molds those you love (Isaiah 62:6-7). 

Pray Romans 9:15, 17, and 23 over those you are faithfully guarding.

“LORD, please choose to have

mercy and compassion on ______________________.

LORD, raise them up to demonstrate Your power in them,

that Your name might be proclaimed throughout the whole earth.

Please make known the riches of Your glory upon them as vessels of mercy,

which You prepared beforehand for glory.

In Your Name, Jesus~”

Romans 8 ~ Praying Scripture

Please read Romans 8.

Meditate on verse 1.

Therefore there is now no condemnation

 for those who are in Christ Jesus.

If you are in a covenant relationship with Jesus Christ, say this aloud inserting your name in the blank.  “There is now no condemnation for _________________.”

That is the truth.  That is a fact about you that Satan did not want you to know.  Stop condemning yourself for sins you committed in the past.  God does not condemn you, and He tells you in Romans 8 how to stop the condemnation you keep heaping on yourself.  Set your mind on the things of the Holy Spirit.  When your mindset is on the Spirit the result is life and peace.  You can change your mindset by reading the Bible everyday, memorizing a phrase or two, and using God’s Word to take your thoughts captive to the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5).  For example, every time your mind starts to wander to your past, say “there is now no condemnation for me because I am in Christ Jesus.”  Say it hundreds of times until your mindset changes.  God wants you to live in His life and peace.  You can live there when your mind is set on the Truth.

Pray Romans 8:5-11 over yourself and those for whom you are standing guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“LORD, please help _____________ and me no longer

set our minds on the things of the flesh.

 Let us set our minds on the things of the Spirit. 

For the mind set on the flesh is death,

 but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace. 

Those who are in the flesh cannot please You, God. 

LORD, let Your Spirit dwell in _____________ and me. 

We want to belong to You.

  Make our spirits alive because of righteousness. 

Spirit of God, You raised Jesus from the dead.

 Dwell in us.  Give life to our mortal bodies.

In Your Name, Jesus~”

Romans 7 ~ Praying Scripture

Please read Romans 7.

Meditate on verses 24-25a

Wretched man that I am!

 Who will set me free from the body of this death?

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!

In Romans 6, Paul commanded you to consider yourself dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.  He exhorted you to not let sin reign in your mortal body and to not go on presenting the members of your body to sin but to present yourself as an instrument of righteousness to God.  In chapter 7, Paul illustrated the only way you can keep those commands. Paul used the pronouns “I,” “me,” and “my” nearly 50 times in Romans 7.  They are used in the context of frustration and apparent defeat in Paul’s battle with sin.  “My flesh;” “I practice the very evil;” “sin dwells in me;” “wretched man that I am!” 

If you are united with Christ, then “I,” “me,” and “my” should no longer be your focus.  And if you are the focus of your life, then Romans 7 probably describes you.  Like Paul, you must come to the end of yourself and realize it is ALL about Jesus Christ your Lord.  The struggle with sin is born out of selfishness.  Paul realized he could not conquer sin in his life.  Jesus Christ was the ONLY One who ever conquered sin.  Let Him conquer yours today.

Pray Romans 7:24-25 over yourself and those for whom you are standing guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“LORD, ____________ and I are wretched people apart from You.

Only You can set us free from this body of death.

Thank You, God, through Jesus Christ our Lord,

we can be free from sin!”

Romans 6 ~ Praying Scripture

Please read Romans 6.

Meditate on and memorize verse 11.

Consider yourselves to be dead to sin,

but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6 is a freeing chapter.  If you are in Christ, this is the truth about you:

            *You have died to sin.

            *You cannot still live in sin.

            *You can walk in newness of life.

            *Your old self was crucified with Christ.

            *Your body of sin can be done away with.

            *You are no longer a slave of sin.

            *You are freed from sin.

            *You live with Christ.

            *You live to God.

            *Sin will not be master over you.

            *You are a slave of righteousness.

Satan did not want you to know those facts about yourself, but now you do.  Satan wants you to believe the lie that you will spend the rest of your time on earth struggling with your old nature instead of victoriously living your new identity in Christ to the glory of the Father.  Now that you know the truth about yourself, you can obey the first exhortation in Romans ~ “Consider yourself to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus (Romans 6:11).”

Pray Romans 6:3-7 over yourself and those for whom you are standing guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman.

“LORD, may my family be baptized into You, Christ Jesus, into Your death.

 As we have been buried with You through baptism into death,

may we be raised from the dead through the glory of the Father with Christ,

so we too might walk in newness of life. 

Let my family be united with you, Jesus, in the likeness of Your death,

certainly we will also be in the likeness of Your resurrection.

Let us always know that our old self was crucified with You

 in order that our body of sin might be done away with,

so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;

for he who has died is freed from sin.

In Your Name, Jesus~”