Friday, November 4, 2011

Lakeland City Prayer

 
Mayor Gow Fields , Commissioners and citizens of Lakeland. I greet you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is our savior and soon coming King. 

We are citizens of Lakeland gathered here to exercise our first amendments rights to declare the Lordship of Jesus Christ in our lives and this city. It is our belief that God has chosen our city from before it’s founding for a sovereign move of his Holy Spirit, that he might demonstrate His great love to us.  That lives will be forever changed and we the citizens of Lakeland will carry the demonstration of His love to the surrounding cities, counties, states and nations of the world.

Based on this belief, I offer this prayer.

Father, You are God our creator. And as such it is by no coincidence that we are all here today. Your word says Phil. 1:6  Our God, who began the good work in us, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.
Lord we ask you to complete the work you began in the learly1890’s when Lakeland was in it’s infancy and you placed a spiritual destiny upon our great city. Many of us know that destiny has yet to be fulfilled. We know Lord that this will be a city known as a place where people can find a true relationship with you. A spiritual awakening will take place here,   
Luke 1:17 that will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

We know that in order for us to see this we must seek your face,
John 7:37 we must draw unto you, so you will draw unto us.
James 4:8 We must forsake worldliness and the immorality that accompanies it. We must take a moral stand and have the courage to speak out against all that is morally wrong. And have the confidence that you will back us up.

God we call forth a shaking of everything that can be shaken. Heb. 12:27 Break down the walls of disunity. Expose and eliminate that which is not right and establish righteousness in its place. Let our sin that separates us be forgiven. Psa. 51:10  Lord, create in us a clean heart.

Father as a city we stand fast against principalities and powers of evil as outlined in Eph 6:12. Let domestic violence, homelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, witchcraft, idolatry and all other things that seek to destroy our society have the light of the Gospel shine on it, and bring hope to the hurting.

Lord I lift up our leaders that they may know this same hope, and the calling you have placed upon them to be in office at such a time as this.
Matt. 4:16 I pray that their hearts will be flooded with your great light so that they can understand this confident hope you give to all who call upon your name.

Lord position the church to be ready for the harvest, and send us more laborers full of the Holy Spirit and your power. Matt. 9:38

Lord in your name, I place a hedge of protection over the business within Lakeland. Make them prosperous and healthy. Let the souls of the owners and managers prosper in the knowledge of your great Love. Eph. 3:19

Let our schools experience an outpouring of your Holy Spirit, that our children will be changed by the power of that same love. Luke 18:16

Father, let it start today with the leaders of our city. Let the decisions they make be made by your great wisdom. Psa. 96:13 Let righteousness and justice be established in our courts and prisons.
Protect our police, fire and emergency forces. Give them divine wisdom in every situation.

Lord let the election that will take place in this city tomorrow, and all future elections, be guided by your hand. You establish governments and you tare them down. Give us a Godly government in Lakeland that the people may rejoice in their righteous acts. Prov. 29:2

We know by the Holy Spirit that this is your will. 1John 5:14 says, “And so this is the confidence that we have in you, that, if we ask any thing according to your will, you hear us: And if we know that you hear us, we know that we have the petitions we ask.


Thank you Jesus for your great Love.
In your name

Amen



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