1. Freedom from Fear
Perhaps more frequently than any other command, the Bible tells us not to fear. At the same time many of us live in cultures both saturated with and fueled by fear. I know I fear failure. I fear discomfort. I fear the loss of my health, security, and status. But this is not normal life for a follower of Jesus. John tells us that “perfect love drives out fear.”E. Stanley Jones, a world-class missionary who lived most of his life in India, encourages, “Then discipline yourself against all anxiety and fear. Fear is the enemy – not the thing of which we are afraid, for most of our fears are never realized. They never come. Those that do come can be used in the purposes for which we live.”
May God add his grace to our discipline, resulting in lives free from fear.
The above is the first thing to pray about for others. There are nine more. All of them, though coming from a denominational source, seem to have good application as we seek to be more specific in our prayers for those workers for whom we have prayed the Lord to send into the harvest.