PRAYER BULLETIN FOR MONDAY 7TH - SATURDAY 12TH MAY 2018

   GROWING IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST

 

I gave up all that inferior stuff so I could know Christ personally, experience His resurrection power, be a partner in His suffering, and go all the way with Him to death itself. Philippians 3:10 (The Message Bible).

Knowledge has been defined as a justified true belief. When what we believe has evidence to prove its validity, then knowledge could be said to have been gained. It is not enough to pledge allegiance to a particular denomination or church body when Christ is not known.

The basic problem plaguing the body of Christ today is hypocrisy. Most of us claim to have known Him whereas He is not in the picture and as a result, by the time you ought to be teachers yourselves, you find someone to sit down with you to go over the basics on God again – starting from square one and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat (Hebrew 5:12).

Knowing Him is a process thing that emanates from being born again to a day-to-day walk with the Holy Spirit. Jesus expects every believer to grow to the level where he can teach others and to grow in grace and knowledge of Christ (2 Peter 3:18). By so doing, the believer will not remain a spiritual babe who is unskillful in the WORD just as Paul encouraged believers to be “rooted and built up in Him” (Colosians 2:7).

This week there is a call for a deeper fellowship with the Holy Spirit who is the source of nutrients for every believer who desires to grow in the grace and knowledge of Christ. As you pray these prayer points for spiritual growth, the Holy Spirit will draw you into a deeper and fulfilling relationship with Christ in Jesus name, Amen.

DAY 1: Father LORD, let me be filled with the spirit of wisdom and understanding in the knowledge of Christ, in the name of Jesus (Isaiah 11:1-5, 2 Peter 3:18)

DAY 2: Father LORD, let my spiritual eyes be continually open to behold wondrous mysteries pertaining to life and godliness out of your law (Ps. 119:18, Daniel 2:22)

DAY 3: Let the word of the LORD have free course and be glorified in me, in the name of Jesus (Acts 19:17-20)

DAY 4: God, help me to comprehend the breadth, length, depth and height of the love of Christ, and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that I might be filled with all the fullness of God in the name of Jesus (Ephesians 3:17-19)

DAY 5: Father LORD, create in me the heart that will embrace the truth of your suffering and death (Psalm. 51:10, Philippians 2:8 )

DAY 6: Father LORD, help me to know Him (Christ) and the power of His resurrection (Philippians 3:10)