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Pray for a Sense of Assurance

Petition 3.9 | ESV

We must pray for the comfortable sense of our reconciliation to God and our acceptance with him.

That we may have some evidence of the pardon of our sins and of our adoption.

O let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that sin has broken rejoice. Psalm 51:8(ESV)

Say to each of your children, “Take heart, my son, my daughter; your sins are forgiven.” Matthew 9:2(ESV)

Let the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify my conscience from dead works to serve you, the living God. Hebrews 9:14(ESV)

Let your Spirit witness with my spirit that I am a child of God, and if a child, then an heir – an heir of God and a fellow heir with Christ. Romans 8:16-17(ESV)

Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.” Psalm 35:3(ESV)

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Pray for Reconciliation with God that you may Have His Blessing and Abiding Presence

Petition 3.8 | ESV

That we may have the blessing of God.

O God, be gracious to me and bless me and make your face to shine upon me; Psalm 67:1(ESV) yes, let God, my God, give me his blessing. Psalm 67:6(ESV)

May the LORD, he who made heaven and earth, bless me from Zion; Psalm 134:3(ESV) bless me with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 1:3(ESV)

O that you would bless me indeed! 1 Chronicles 4:10(KJV) Command the blessing upon me, even life forevermore; Psalm 133:3(ESV) for you bless, O LORD, and it shall be blessed. 1 Chronicles 17:27(KJV)

Let me receive blessing from the LORD, even righteousness from the God of my salvation. Psalm 24:5(ESV)

Have you but one blessing? Indeed, you have many blessings! Bless me, even me also, O my Father; Genesis 27:38(ESV) yes, let the blessing of Abraham come to me, which comes to the Gentiles through faith; Galatians 3:14(ESV) and the blessing of Jacob, for I will not let you go unless you bless me. Genesis 32:26(ESV)

That we may have the presence of God with us.

If your presence will not go with me, do not bring me up from here; Exodus 33:15(ESV) never leave me nor forsake me. Hebrews 13:5(ESV)

O cast me not away from your presence, or ever take your Holy Spirit away from me; Psalm 51:11(ESV) but let me always dwell with the upright in your presence. Psalm 140:13(ESV)

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Pray for Reconciliation with God that you may be in Covenant with Him and Know His Favor

Petition 3.7 | ESV

That we may be taken into covenant with God and admitted into a relationship with him.

Be to me a God, and take me as one who belongs to you, as one who is counted among your people; Hebrews 8:10(ESV) and make me offer myself freely on the day of your power, Psalm 110:3(ESV) though I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Luke 15:19(ESV) For how would you set me, who has been rebellious, among the sons, and give me the pleasant land? But you have said that I shall call you, My Father, and not turn from following you. Jeremiah 3:19(ESV) Shall I not therefore from this time call to you, “My Father, you are the friend of my youth”? Jeremiah 3:4(ESV)

Lord, I hold fast your covenant; Isaiah 56:4(ESV) to you I join myself in an everlasting covenant; Jeremiah 50:5(ESV) O that you would make me pass under the rod and bring me into the bond of the covenant, Ezekiel 20:37(ESV) that I may become yours. Ezekiel 16:8(ESV)

Make with me an everlasting covenant, your steadfast, sure love for David. Isaiah 55:3(ESV)

That we may have the favor of God and an interest in his special love.

I entreat your favor, O God, with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise, Psalm 119:58(ESV) for in your favor is life; Psalm 30:5(ESV) yes, your steadfast love is better than life itself. Psalm 63:3(ESV)

LORD, make your face to shine upon me and be gracious to us; LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon me and give me peace. Numbers 6:25-26(ESV)

Remember me, O LORD, with the favor you show to your people. O help me with your salvation, that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones and may rejoice in the gladness of your nation and may glory with your inheritance. Psalm 106:4-5(ESV)

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Pray for Reconciliation with God that you may Know His Peace

Petition 3.6 | ESV

We must likewise pray that God will be reconciled to us, that we may obtain his favor and blessing and gracious acceptance.

That we may be at peace with God and his anger may be turned away from us.

Being justified by faith, let me have peace with God through my Lord Jesus Christ, and through him let me have access into that grace in which believers stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Romans 5:1-2(ESV)

Be not a terror to me, for you are my refuge in the day of disaster. Jeremiah 17:17(ESV)

In Christ Jesus let me, who once was far off, be brought near by the blood of Christ; for he himself is his people’s peace, who has broken down the dividing wall of hostility between us, that he might reconcile us to God through his cross, thereby killing the hostility, and so making peace. Through him, therefore, let me, who has made myself a stranger and an alien, become a fellow citizen with the saints and a member of the household of God. Ephesians 2:13-19(ESV)

You have no wrath: would that you had thorns and briers to battle? You would burn them up together; yes, you would burn them up together; but you have encouraged me to lay hold of your protection, that I make peace, and have promised that I shall make peace. Isaiah 27:4-5(ESV) O let me therefore agree with you and be at peace, that thereby good may come to me. Job 22:21(ESV)

Heal me, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise. Jeremiah 17:14(ESV) Do not be angry with me forever but revive me again, that I may rejoice in you. Show me your steadfast love, O LORD, and grant me your salvation. Psalm 85:5-7(ESV)