Our topic for our open heavens today April 2nd 2024 is “prayers for the church”

Memory Verse Open Heavens Devotional April 2, 2024

⁹ For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Colossians 1:9

Bible Verse Open Heavens Devotional April 2, 2024

¹⁶ Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

¹⁷ That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

¹⁸ The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

¹⁹ And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

²⁰ Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

Ephesians 1:16-20

Prayer Points from Open Heavens Devotional April 2, 2024

1. Father, thank You for the glory that You have put on Your church and for everything You are doing through Your church on the earth.
2. Lord, please help the church in my nation to remain faithful to Your calling. Don’t let the church derail from its purpose on earth, in Jesus’ name.
3. Father, please let Your love increase amongst the different denominations of the church. Let us all see ourselves as one, in Jesus’ name.
4. Father, please help church leaders all around the world. Protect them from all the attacks of the enemy, and don’t let them get weary in doing Your work, in Jesus’ name.
5. Father, please provide the resources for Your church to advance Your kingdom here on earth, in Jesus’ name.
6. Father, please increase the influence of the church in every area of life and every aspect of human endeavour, in Jesus’ name.
7. Father, please help the church in my nation to overcome all the challenges that may arise; help us to emerge triumphant, in Jesus’ name
8. Father, please let Your Spirit and power fill Your church. Help us to experience more of Your power, even more than the churches of old, in Jesus’ name.
9. Father, please provide everything that the church needs to carry out Your mandate of winning souls to Your kingdom. Equip and empower us to fulfil Your mandate on earth, in Jesus’ name.
10. Father, please plant Your undying love in the church so that we can show love to the world and attract more souls to Your kingdom, in Jesus’ name.
11. Father, please give the church the wisdom to dominate in our generation, and even in generations to come, in Jesus’ name.
12. Your personal prayer point for Your local assembly.

Hymn Open Heavens Devotional April 2, 2024

1. Onward, Christian soldiers!

Marching as to war,

Looking unto Jesus,

Who is gone before;

Christ, the Royal Master,

Leads against the foe;

Forward into battle,

See His banners go.

CHORUS

Onward, Christian soldiers!

Marching as to war,

Looking unto Jesus,

Who is gone before.

2. At the name of Jesus

Satan’s host doth Ilee;

On then, Christian soldiers

On to victory!

Hell’s foundations quiver

At the shout of praise:

Brothers, lift your voices,

Loud your anthems raise.

3. Like a mighty army

Moves the Church of God:

Brothers, we are treading

Where the saints have trod.

We are not divided,

All one body we

One in hope and doctrine,

One in charity.

4. Crowns and thrones may perish

Kingdoms rise and wane;

But the Church of Jesus

Constant will remain:

Gates of hell can never

‘Gainst that church prevail;

We have Christ’s own promise-

And that cannot fail.

5. Onward then, ye people,

Join our happy throng;

Blend with ours your voices

In the triumph song:

“Glory, praise and honour,

Unto Christ the King”,

This, through countless ages,

Men and angels sing.

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