Priscilla Shirer - A Prayer for You
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Summary
In this heartfelt personal prayer, Priscilla Shirer shares how a middle-of-the-night awakening led her to intercede specifically for her listeners, distinguishing this genuine moment from AI-generated content. She passionately prays for freedom, victory, and a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit over individuals, their families, and the global church amid worldwide unrest and chaos. The core call is for believers to rise in full surrender, serious prayer, repentance, and maturity, reflecting Christ’s character to shift culture while fixing eyes on Jesus, the ultimate hope and victor.
Waking Up to Pray
Hey there. Last night I was up in the middle of the night, and whenever I wake up then, I’m not quite sure why. I can’t put my finger on it. I always just pray. I pray for my family. I pray for the needs of others. I pray for the needs that I see in the community and the culture around me.
So I was praying in the middle of the night, and it made me think, you know what? I wanted to pray for you. And I thought I would just tell you that there are a lot of prayers floating around right now that look exactly like me. It’s AI.
This Is Really Me
I’ve been stopped by so many people who say, «Thank you for the daily prayer. Every day you are praying on the date of that particular day.» And I always struggle when they say that because I’m so glad it has been a blessing to them. But it’s actually not me; it’s someone creating AI prayers.
I’m glad that the Lord can use anything, but I want you to know that in this moment, this is actually me. It is not AI, and it is a privilege today to be able to personally pray for you. Let’s pray.
Thanking God for Access
Lord, I thank you so much for the gift that we have to be in your presence. I can’t believe that you are the God of the universe, and yet you hear us when we pray. You know us. You know our struggles. You know our weaknesses. You know our failings and our faults.
And yet you allow us to come boldly to the throne of grace. In fact, you invite us to come boldly to the throne of grace, knowing that we will have the ear of a holy, powerful, mighty God. And not only are you mighty, but you care for us.
Praying for Every Listener
So, Lord, I lift up every single one of my brothers and sisters who are on the other side of this prayer. You care for them. You know the details of what stresses them, concerns them, worries them, keeps them up in the middle of the night, and causes them anxiety.
Father, I pray right now in the name of Jesus for everything and everyone attached to them: their sons and their daughters, their grandsons and their granddaughters, their nieces and their nephews, their parents, their spouses, Father, their friend circle.
A Fresh Outpouring
I am praying for everyone and everything attached to them that your Holy Spirit will fall afresh upon them. That you will awaken in all of us a deep desire for spiritual things—a deep desire for your Holy Spirit. Let your Spirit rest heavily. Open blinded eyes. Soften hardened hearts.
Break the bondages in our lives and in the lives of the people we love that are keeping us and hindering us from experiencing everything that you have for us. Father, I pray for freedom in the name of Jesus. I pray for victory in the name of Jesus.
Breaking Demonic Assignments
I pray that you would lift off of us anything that the enemy has assigned to our households, to our loved ones, to us, to our health, to our well-being, Father, that is keeping us and hindering us from experiencing everything that you have for us.
Father, we just take authority over every demonic assignment—not in our own power, but in the power of the matchless name of Jesus Christ, in which all authority rests. Father, you alone deserve to be praised. So we fix our eyes on Jesus.
Hope Amid Chaos
And Lord, there is no other hope we know in this day and time and age where every time we look at our Instagram feed, social media, or take in the news happening in the different countries in which we live, everywhere across the landscape of the entire planet, there is unrest, division, chaos, confusion, and violence.
And Father, it is overwhelming to us. Thank you that you are seated on the throne. Thank you that your sovereignty reigns. Thank you that you are omniscient and omnipresent. So Father, I thank you that right now, in the name of Jesus Christ, where there feels like hopelessness, you would rain down a sense of security and hope on every single one of us.
You Have the Final Word
That we will know that no matter what the devastation is that we’ve seen or even experienced in our personal lives, it does not have the final word; you do. So, Father, let your spirit remind us that we are children of God. Let the Spirit remind us that there is no other hope except through Jesus Christ.
I thank you, Lord, that you have already won the victory. We can trust you. We can count on you.
Rising Up as the Body of Christ
Now, I’m praying for those who are disciples, those who are believers in Jesus Christ. I’m praying for the global body of Christ to rise up to her full stature. I pray that where we are playing games, where we are not serious about full surrender, that for all of us where we’re not serious about prayer, Lord, you said if we call out to you, if my people who are called by my name, if we humble ourselves and pray, you’ll hear us, and you’ll heal the whole land.
So, Father, I’m asking you to make us serious about prayer, serious about surrender, serious about walking with you, honoring you, obeying you, and giving you the fullness of our lives.
Repentance and Renewal
We repent, Lord. We ask for your forgiveness in those areas where we are falling short, and we pray that from this day forward, we will not just be churchgoers, but we will be people who are the body of Christ—the reflection of the character of Christ, the love of Christ, the unity of Christ, the mind of Christ—that we would bring it to bear in every post we comment on, in every line we say, in every way we correspond with people we don’t know, strangers online, and people we do know in our sphere of influence who need to hear your word through our mouths.
Fruit of the Spirit
So, Father, I’m praying that you would give us wisdom, insight, clarity, and discernment, Father. And that I’m praying that the fruit of your Spirit filling us will be evident through our lives: love, joy, kindness, peace—all of those things that reflect you.
I am praying that it will be seen through the body of Christ and that culture will be shifted because God’s people show up, not just physically, but in our spiritual full maturity and stature as sons and daughters of the most high God.
Fixing Our Eyes on Jesus
We believe you. We trust you. And our eyes are fixed on you in Jesus' name—the name that is above every name. The name at which demons tremble, the name at which every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that you indeed are Lord. We do it today, Father. We say you are Lord. We submit our lives to you in Jesus' name. Amen.