Prayer Assignments

Apart of our personal prayer life, the Lord does give us different assignments concerning prayer needs on the earth. A prayer assignment is whenever you have a strong desire to pray for a particular place, need, person, or situation. Sometimes people have prayer assignments for a short season, a day, a few years or even a lifetime. In any case, God gives us prayer assignments because we have the anointing and faith to get the job done in prayer. Prayer assignments are all through out scripture, from Elijah, Nehemiah, Ezra, Daniel, Anna, Paul and Silas to the saints that prayed for Peter out of prison, all these examples had a particular burden through prayer and the Lord gave them the influence to meet the need either spiritually or physically. Many times God will place a burden on our heart for a situation and it is our responsibility to pray what God reveals to us concerning that unction. The Holy Spirit is the only one who gives prayer assignments and our responsibility is to stay yielded to receive from the Lord what we are to pray.

In the previous module we discussed praying the will of God and waiting to receive what the Lord wants us to pray. Whenever you pray, inquire of the Lord what he wants you to pray and the pray accordingly. Many times the Holy Spirit has already placed our prayer assignment in our heart. That thing that bothers you about your nation, job, friend, church, community, or family member is probably the thing that the Lord has placed upon you as a prayer assignment. Many times, we express our heart in the wrong ways and we end up hurting and hindering that which we are called to pray for. There are so many Christians that see issues in the church and instead of praying for it they began to gossip and talk about what they see and cause more of a problem. Imagine, if every believer would start talking less and praying more how our world would be. When inquiring of the Lord what to pray, the best thing to do is to pray what’s on your heart. If you stay true to your heart, you will never go off. Many times what is on your heart is your prayer assignment. In prayer we are able to affect change in places that we may never have a chance to physically visit or see naturally. Your prayer assignment may be some far off country and you may never have the opportunity to go and work in missions to help but you can go there in the Spirit. There is no distance in prayer.

                  Sometimes your prayer assignment would cause you to physically make a difference. We see this with Nehemiah chapters 1 and 2. Nehemiah was so distraught to hear that the walls of his city were tore down that he prayed to God and the king granted him favor allowing him to go to his nation and start an initiative to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. The burden that he had for his country led him to be the revolutionist that launched a movement in Jerusalem. Your prayer assignment can sometimes be associated with your life purpose. The main things is to stay true to where God has called you. Again, if you follow your heart, you will never be off. Follow what the Lord has already place inside of you and your prayer life will full of victorious stories of God’s miracles power.