Praying for the needs of Church on the Rock Abilene By Bishop Rob Nichols and His wife and Cheif prayer Partner Pastor Deadra Moody

Pastor Deadra Nichols Finished her bachelors degree at Liberty University. early in the pursuit of her degree she took a course that encouraged that leaders should pray about problems in the Church. some years latter in conversation with Pastor Walter Shane White told me that he comes from a testimony of people giving Churches millions of dollars land and property. Further Pastor Deadra Nichols has been teaching us to cast our cares on Him for He cares for you ( 1 Peter 5:7 “7 casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.” Psalm 55:22 “22 Cast your burden on the Lord, And He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.” ) After a conversation about my anxiety with my wife and her encouragement for me to “cast all my cares on the Lord” that I undertake the writing of this prayer guide.

God is a good father, however; our experience with our own fathers may be hindering our faith. cleansing our hearts from hardness and doubt.

Father God,

You know our history and our hearts better than we do. You know our disappointments and how those disappointments can lead to a lack of faith. We have no desire to stand in judgement of our earthly fathers our doubt your love for us. We ask that you would help us to release our unrighteous judgments and resentments against you as our Heavenly Father as will as our own earthly parents. We ask that these strongholds of Hell be removed from our lives so that we may be the Christians you have called us to be.

Here is our confession from Your word that you are A good father and that you truly care for us and are good in nature and are to be trusted competently.

2 Thessalonians 2:16 NKJV

16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace,

Psalm 73:1 NKJV

1 Truly God is good to Israel, To such as are pure in heart.

We are trusting in God and Him alone for the finances of Church on the Rock, Abilene in keeping with the advice of the class that Pastor Deadra took and the diaries of Mr. George Müller we have yet to speak of the financial needs of the church we are asking the Lord first, if we publish the needs it will be on His leading and guidance and not in the flesh.

We ask Lord that you would increase our faith.

Luke 17:5–10 NKJV

5 And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.” 6 So the Lord said, “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you. 7 And which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’? 8 But will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare something for my supper, and gird yourself and serve me till I have eaten and drunk, and afterward you will eat and drink’? 9 Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not. 10 So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.’ ”

Faith to ask

Matthew 7:7–11 NKJV

7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

The two of us are asking in unity

Matthew 18:19 NKJV

19 “Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.

We are asking the mountain of financial lack be removed and cast into the sea.

Matthew 21:18–23 NKJV

18 Now in the morning, as He returned to the city, He was hungry. 19 And seeing a fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, “Let no fruit grow on you ever again.” Immediately the fig tree withered away. 20 And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither away so soon?” 21 So Jesus answered and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ it will be done. 22 And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” 23 Now when He came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people confronted Him as He was teaching, and said, “By what authority are You doing these things? And who gave You this authority?”

We ask that your work be continued on earth by us.

John 14:12–21 NKJV

12 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. 13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. 15 “If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. 19 “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. 20 At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. 21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

We ask because your word encourages us to.

James 5:13–18 NKJV

13 Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms. 14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

We are to ask The Lord to meet our needs.

Philippians 4:19 NKJV

19 And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Matthew 6:11 NKJV

11 Give us this day our daily bread.

Luke 12:27 NKJV

27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Lord we ask that you increase the offerings to operational needs of the Church inducing everything needed for benevolence and outreach we ask Lord that you also replace what we have had to move to make it this far.

We ask this in faith without doubting that you would move.

We do not want to limit you in anyway Lord but however you meet the need Lord we ask that you increase the giving of the people of Church on the Rock,Abilene,

Lord we thank you that you have called us into deeper faith. Help us Lord to move as you have called us to move in the supernatural. I for sure am not doing this for any other reason then to be obedient to your call to us. we thank you for your goodness and faithfulness to us. it is the name of King Jesus that we ask these things- Amen.