Wednesday Night Prayer August 14, 2024

Economy/Business Mountain

 This applies to all aspects of our culture that deal with the balance of the production of resources, the distribution of resources, and the consumption of resources. This sphere of society includes every area of the marketplace (sciences, banking, medicine, retail, services, the restaurant industry, trades, etc.). It also includes our federal, state, and local governments. The mountain of business/economy plays a vital role because it provides the funding and other resources that every other mountain of influence needs to exist. 

1^st Prayer Point: We serve the God of provision, Jehovah Jireh. He delights in providing for us. He delights in revealing His mysteries and wonders to us. We enter His throne room with thanksgiving and praise for all He is doing.

Philippians 4:19 (HCSB) And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Psalms 121: 1-2 (HCSB) I raise my eyes toward the mountains. Where will my help come from? 2 My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

1 Timothy 6:17 (HCSB) Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be arrogant or to set their hope on the uncertainty of wealth, but on God, who richly provides us with all things to enjoy.

• We praise you Lord for Your provisions and we trust in you alone.
• Thank the Lord that we don’t have to wear ourselves out to get rich. He is more than enough. Proverbs 23:4 (HCSB) Don’t wear yourself out to get rich; stop giving your attention to it.
• Thank you, Lord, for your faithful servants who are already impacting this mountain for your Kingdom.
• Thank you for establishing your Kingdom on the mountain of economy as it is in Heaven.

Luke 6:38 (ESV) Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure, you use it will be measured back to you.

• God, thank You that You made a way for your people to be blessed, regardless of the economy. Thank you that as we continue to give, by Your leading, You bless our seed and it is given unto us, a good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over.

2^nd Prayer Point: We choose to serve Jehovah-Jireh (the Lord my provider) and not mammon. The major spiritual influences on the economy mountain are greed and poverty. They work with the principality mammon to influence this mountain. Mammon, an excessive desire for money and wealth, wrestles for God’s seat in our lives, causing us to always strive for more. 

Matthew 6:31-32 (HCSB) 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Luke 16:13 (NKJV) No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. 

• Pray for the Lord to reveal in our personal lives where we have come into agreement with a spirit of greed, poverty, and mammon.
• Lord, we repent for believing these lies. We ask that you forgive us for not putting our trust in you and you alone. Help us to trust in you, for you are Jehovah Jireh, our provider.
• We break the stronghold of greed, poverty, and mammon off our lives now in Jesus’ name.

3^rd Prayer Point: We can take back influence in this sphere by passionately desiring the gifts of the Holy Spirit. These gifts will unlock the wisdom, creativity, and understanding we need to make this shift happen.

1 Corinthians 12: 7-11 (HCSB) A manifestation of the Spirit is given to each person to produce what is beneficial: 8 to one is given a message of wisdom through the Spirit, to another, a message of knowledge by the same Spirit, 9 to another, faith by the same Spirit, to another, gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10 to another, the performing of miracles, to another, prophecy, to another, distinguishing between spirits, to another, different kinds of languages, to another, interpretation of languages. 11 But one and the same Spirit is active in all these, distributing to each one as He wills.

• Pray that we will begin to operate in these gifts in our everyday lives.
• 6 Isaiah (HCSB) And one called to another: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts; His glory fills the whole earth. Pray that the Lord will reveal His glory or riches in this world to every believer in this sphere of influence (Scientists, medicine, technology, bankers, business owners, etc.). His glory in all the earth is waiting to be discovered and prophetically called out of obscurity. 
• Pray that the voice of the Lord will be what people in this sphere seek above all else.
• Pray for believers in this mountain who are feeling discouraged, oppressed, or that they don’t have a voice. Pray that God will strengthen them, empower them in their place of influence, and give them a new strategy and direction. 
• Pray for those who want to start a business or who feel called to any area of this sphere of influence. Ask the Lord to give them courage, creativity, boldness, integrity, resources, wisdom, and His favor.

4^th Prayer Point: We also want to pray against corruption that has infiltrated the business/economy sphere of influence.

• Pray for wisdom and truth to arise in our governmental leaders in this sphere and for all corruption to be exposed and removed.
• Pray for our local Chamber of Commerce: We ask that these leaders work to create commerce that is honoring of your Word and will help transform this region for You. Lord, let them make decisions concerning our communities’ commerce that will bring Biblical principles to the forefront of everything they do.
• We are asking for Christian men and women to be elevated among these boards and in the leadership of these organizations.
• Pray that we will be a people who work and labor with excellence and not with an entitlement mentality.                                       

Ephesians 6:7 (HCSB) Render service with a good attitude, as to the Lord and not to men. Psalms 90:17 (HCSB) Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish for us the work of our hands- establish the work of our hands! Colossians 3:17 (HCSB) And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. Colossians 3: 23-24 (HCSB) Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically, as something done for the Lord and not for men, 24 knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord-you serve the Lord Christ.