The Daily Prayer from John Eldredge and Ransomed Heart Ministry. This prayer has been very helpful to me in preparing for the daily grind and to preempt the spiritual warfare that is part of the daily battle of a Christian.
My dear Lord Jesus, I come to you now to be restored in you, to be renewed in you; to receive your life and your love and all of the grace and mercy I so desperately need from you this day. I honor you as my sovereign and I surrender every aspect and every dimension of my spirit and soul and body to you now; my heart, my mind my will. I cover myself with the blood of Christ – spirit, soul, body, heart and I ask your Holy Spirit to restore me in you today – to renew me in you and to lead this time of prayer. In all that I now pray (include wife and children by name) acting as their head I draw them under your authority and under your covering. I cover them with your blood Jesus, their spirit, soul and body; their heart,mind and will. I ask your Holy Spirit to apply to them all that I now pray on their behalf acting as their head. In all that I now pray, I stand in agreement with your Spirit, Jesus – with my allies and intercessors – by your Spirit alone.
Dear God, holy and victorious Trinity, you alone are worthy of all my worship, my heart’s devotion, all my praise, all my trust and all the glory of my life. I love you, I worship you, I trust you and I give myself over to you God in my heart’s search for life. You alone are life and you have become my life. I renounce all other gods, I renounce all idols and I give to you, God, the place in my heart and in my life that you truly deserve. This is all about you and not about me. You are the hero of this story and I belong to you. I ask your forgiveness for my every sin. I ask you to search me and know me and reveal to me where you are working, what you are asking and that you would grant to me the grace of your healing and deliverance and a deep and true repentance.
Heavenly Father, thank you for loving me and choosing me before you made the world. You are my true Father—my Creator, my Redeemer, my Sustainer, and the true end of all things, including my life. I love you; I trust you and I worship you. I give myself over to you, Father, to be one with you in all things as Jesus is one with you. Thank you for proving your love for me by sending Jesus to be my deliverer and my life. I receive him and all his life and all his work that you provided for me. Thank you for including me in Christ, for forgiving me my sins, for granting to me his integrity and righteousness, for making me complete in him. Thank you for making me alive with Christ, raising me with him, seating me with him at your right hand, establishing me in his authority, and anointing me with your love and your spirit and your favor. I receive it all with thanks and give it total claim to my life—my spirit, soul, and body, my heart, mind and will. I bring the life and the work of Jesus over (wife and children by name) and over my home, my life, household, my vehicles, work, finances and throughout my domain and I stake it there in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus, thank you for coming to ransom me with your own life. I honor you as my sovereign; I love you, worship you, trust you and I give myself over to you now – spirit, soul and body; to be one with you in all things. Jesus I sincerely receive you as my deliverer from sin, death, judgment, and from the kingdom of darkness and its every claim. I receive all the work and triumph of your cross, death, blood and sacrifice for me, whereby my every sin is atoned for, I am ransomed and transferred to your kingdom, my sin nature is removed, my heart is circumcised unto God, and every claim being made against me is canceled, broken and disarmed by your cross and your blood, death and sacrifice this day throughout my kingdom and my domain. With (my wife and children by name) I now take my place in your cross in which I have died with you to sin, to my flesh, to the world, and to the evil one and his kingdom. I take up the cross and crucify my flesh (specifically name the things you need to crucify today). I crucify all pride and arrogance, idolatry, adultery, unbelief - I put off the old man. I ask you Father to apply to me (my wife and children by name) all of the work and all of the triumph, the fullness of the cross, death, blood and sacrifice of Jesus Christ for me. I receive it with thanks and give it total claim to my spirit, soul and body, my heart, mind and will.
Jesus, I also sincerely receive you as my life, my holiness, my strength and sanctification; I receive all the work and triumph of your resurrection, whereby you have conquered sin, death and judgment – death has no mastery over you, nor any foul thing. And I have been raised with you to a new life, to live your life - dead to sin and alive to God. With (wife and children by name) I now take my place in your resurrection and in your life, whereby you have become my life; you are my life, and I am saved by your life. I reign in life through your life. I put on the new man – your life, humility, love and forgiveness, your integrity and purity and truth, your wisdom and discernment and cunning, your strength, courage, valor, joy, creativity and your union with the Father. I receive your life today, Jesus, and I make no provision for any other anywhere in me. Father I ask you to apply to me all of the work and all of the triumph in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and in His life this day. I receive it with thanks and give it total claim to my spirit, soul and body, my heart, mind and will. Jesus, I also sincerely receive you as my authority, rule, and dominion, my everlasting triumph against Satan and his kingdom, and my ability to bring your Kingdom at all times and in every way. I receive all the work and triumph in your authority, your ascension and your throne whereby you have judged Satan and cast him down. You have disarmed his kingdom; all authority in Heaven and on Earth is given to you every ruler, power, authority and spiritual force of wickedness. All authority in Heaven and on Earth has been given to you Jesus, all authority in Heaven and on this Earth is yours, and you are worthy to receive all glory and honor, power and dominion, now and forevermore. I have been given fullness in you, in your authority. With (wife and children by name) I take my place now in your ascension, and in your throne, whereby I have been raised with you to the right hand of the Father and established in your authority. I now bring your authority, rule, dominion and your kingdom over (wife and children by name), my life today, my home, household, land, vehicles, finances, my office, over all my kingdom and domain. I now bring the fullness of the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, the power of his cross, the resurrection and ascension against Satan and against his kingdom; against every foul and unclean spirit raised against me this day - against every foul power and every black art, against all forms of spiritual warfare coming against me this day. I disarm them through the full work and triumph of the Lord Jesus Christ and in Jesus’ name. (At this point I spend a good bit of time naming all foul and unclean spirits that I know have been attacking me both historically or situationally, and that are likely to attack me such as fear, doubt, accident, injury, death, the Religious spirit, pride, arrogance – the list is long) I send all foul and unclean spirits and all foul powers and black arts, all things raised against me this day banished from my life, home, family, household, kingdom and domain in the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth who came in the flesh and in Jesus’ name. I ask you Father to apply to me all of the work and all of the triumph in the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ and in his ascension shared with me. I receive it with thanks – I give it total claim to my spirit, soul and body, to my heart, mind and will.
Holy Spirit, thank you for coming. I love you, I worship you, and I trust you. I sincerely receive you and I receive all the work and victory in Pentecost, whereby you have come, you have clothed me with power from on high, sealed me in Christ; you have become my union with the Father and the Son, become the Spirit of truth in me, the life of God in me, my Counselor, Comforter, Strength, and Guide. I honor you as my sovereign, and together with (wife and children by name) I fully open every aspect and dimension of my spirit, soul and body, heart, mind and will to you and you alone together with the Father and the Son, to be filled with you, to walk in step with you in all things. Fill me afresh. Restore my union with the Father and the Son. Lead me into all truth, anoint me for all of my life and walk and calling, and lead me deeper into Jesus today. I receive you with thanks, and I give you total claim to my life. Heavenly Father, thank you for granting to me every spiritual blessing in the Heavenlies in Christ Jesus. I claim the riches in Christ Jesus over my home, over (wife and children by name), over my vehicles and finances, my work, office, throughout my kingdom and my domain. I bring the blood of the Lord Christ over my spirit, soul, and body, my heart, mind and will. I ask you to armor me with your armor. I gird myself with the belt of truth; I put on your breastplate of righteousness, shoes of your gospel and the helmet of your salvation. I take up your shield of faith and your sword of the Spirit, and I choose to be strong in the Lord and in the strength of your might and to pray at all times in the spirit. I summon your angels and I ask them to guard, to protect and to establish your kingdom throughout my kingdom and throughout my domain this day and to destroy all that is raised against me; to be my companions throughout the day. Jesus I ask you to send your spirit forth in your kingdom and to wake, rouse, quicken and unite my intercessors and my allies this day which you would raise up the full company and canopy of prayer and intercession for me. I call forth the kingdom of God and the glory, rule and dominion of the Lord Jesus Christ over my life, home, kingdom and throughout my domain this day - all of this in the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ and in Jesus’ name; with all thanks, worship and praise to you Jesus. Amen
The scriptural references for this prayer can be found here.
The scriptural references for this prayer can be found here.