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Prayers for Increase

Passage to Ponder

1. Why should New Testament believers pray for Old Testament promises? These promises now too belong to us in Christ.

Ephesians 2:12 (ESV)  remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Ephesians 2:13 (ESV)  But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:17 (ESV)  And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near.
Ephesians 2:18 (ESV)  For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
Ephesians 2:19 (ESV)  So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

1. God promised increase for His people. 

Psalm 115:12 (ESV)  The LORD has remembered us; he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron;
Psalm 115:13 (ESV)  he will bless those who fear the LORD, both the small and the great.
Psalm 115:14 (ESV)  May the LORD give you increase, you and your children! 

Our Petitions for Increase

We pray for Increase in will.

• Father, please increase our REVELATION of Your will.

Ephesians 5:17 (KJV) ¹⁷  Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

Colossians 1:9 (ESV) ⁹  And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

1 Corinthians 2:15 (KJV) 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

• Father, please increase our PARTICIPATION in Your will.

Colossians 1:10 (ESV) ¹⁰  so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

Colossians 4:12 (NLT2) ¹²  Epaphras, a member of your own fellowship and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his greetings. He always prays earnestly for you, asking God to make you strong and perfect, fully confident that you are following the whole will of God.

Psalm 40:8 (KJV) ⁸  I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

Hebrews 13:20-21 (ESV) 
²⁰  Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,
²¹  equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. 

• Father, please increase the MANIFESTATION of Your will in the earth.

Matthew 6:10 (KJV) ¹⁰  Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

We pray for Increase in wisdom.

• Father, please grant us increased wisdom for Evangelism.

Proverbs 11:30 (KJV) ³⁰  The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise. 

Daniel 12:3 (KJV) ³  And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

Matthew 4:19 (KJV) ¹⁹  And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

Luke 21:15 (KJV) ¹⁵  For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.

Colossians 4:5-6 (ESV) ⁵  Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.
⁶  Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

• Father, please grant us increased wisdom for Family.

Proverbs 24:3-4 (ESV) ³  By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;
⁴  by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. 

Proverbs 14:1 (KJV) ¹  Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands. 

Matthew 7:24-25 (ESV) 
²⁴  “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
²⁵  And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 

• Father, please grant us increased wisdom for Finances.

Proverbs 24:3-4 (ESV) 
³  By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;
⁴  by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. 

Proverbs 8:14 (ESV) ¹⁴  I have counsel and sound wisdom; I have insight; I have strength. 

Proverbs 8:18-21 (ESV) 
¹⁸  Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness.
¹⁹  My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.
²⁰  I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,
²¹  granting an inheritance to those who love me, and filling their treasuries. 

• Father, please grant us increased wisdom for Work.

Ecclesiastes 10:10 (HCSB)¹⁰  If the ax is dull, and one does not sharpen its edge, then one must exert more strength; however, the advantage of wisdom is that it brings success. 

Exodus 31:3 (NASB) ³  "I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of craftsmanship,

Isaiah 28:23-29 (NIV) 
²³  Listen and hear my voice; pay attention and hear what I say.
²⁴  When a farmer plows for planting, does he plow continually? Does he keep on breaking up and harrowing the soil?
²⁵  When he has leveled the surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cummin? Does he not plant wheat in its place, barley in its plot, and spelt in its field?
²⁶  His God instructs him and teaches him the right way.
²⁷  Caraway is not threshed with a sledge, nor is a cartwheel rolled over cummin; caraway is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a stick.
²⁸  Grain must be ground to make bread; so one does not go on threshing it forever. Though he drives the wheels of his threshing cart over it, his horses do not grind it.
²⁹  All this also comes from the LORD Almighty, wonderful in counsel and magnificent in wisdom. 

• Father, please grant us increased wisdom for Ministry.

Exodus 28:3 (KJV) ³  And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.

We pray for Increase in refreshing revivals.

• Father, please grant us ever increasing refreshing revivals in our personal lives. 

Psalm 119:88 (NASB) ⁸⁸  Revive me according to Your lovingkindness, So that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth. 

Psalm 143:11 (NASB) ¹¹  For the sake of Your name, O LORD, revive me. In Your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble. 

Isaiah 57:15 (KJV) ¹⁵  For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

• Father, please grant us ever increasing refreshing revivals in our household and family. 

Psalm 80:17-19 (NASB) 
¹⁷  Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand, Upon the son of man whom You made strong for Yourself.
¹⁸  Then we shall not turn back from You; Revive us, and we will call upon Your name.
¹⁹  O LORD God of hosts, restore us; Cause Your face to shine upon us, and we will be saved. 

Ezekiel 34:26 (NLT2) ²⁶  I will bless my people and their homes around my holy hill. And in the proper season I will send the showers they need. There will be showers of blessing.

Isaiah 60:4 (NIV) ⁴  "Lift up your eyes and look about you: All assemble and come to you; your sons come from afar, and your daughters are carried on the arm. 

• Father, please grant us ever increasing refreshing revivals in our churches. 

Psalm 85:6-7 (KJV) 
⁶  Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
⁷  Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.

Acts 3:19 (KJV) ¹⁹  Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

• Father, please grant us ever increasing refreshing revivals in our city. 

Psalm 68:9 (NLT2) ⁹  You sent abundant rain, O God, to refresh the weary land. 

Zechariah 10:1 (KJV) ¹  Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field. 

2 Chronicles 7:14 (KJV) ¹⁴  If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

• Father, please grant us ever increasing refreshing revivals in our nation.

Ezekiel 13:5 (KJV) ⁵  Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.

Ezekiel 22:30-31 (KJV) 
³⁰  And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. ³¹  Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.

Psalm 33:12-22 (KJV) 
¹²  Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
¹³  The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
¹⁴  From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
¹⁵  He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
¹⁶  There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
¹⁷  An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.
¹⁸  Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
¹⁹  To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
²⁰  Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
²¹  For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.
²²  Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.