Kingdom Prayers Sample

Responses to and Benefits from Suffering

[This prayer is a summary of the Enduring Through Suffering Bible Reading Plan on YouVersion.]

Lord, I want to respond well to difficulties You allow into my life. Please help me by Your Spirit to delight and glorify You and to grow in my own faithfulness and maturity by doing these things when faced by unpleasant circumstances:

Think about Your perspective on it;

Wait for You and rely on You for relief;

Hope in You and seek You;

Quietly submit to You;

Humbly respond to You and to the human agents;

Not grumble or complain;

Examine my life;

Worship You;

Call out to You;

Not fear;

Mourn;

Commit my life to service even in difficulty;

Avoid distractions from Kingdom purposes;

Seek to please You in the midst of it;

Act righteously, even when it will result in persecution;

Rejoice greatly;

Be glad;

Not resist evil people acting against me;

Love my enemies;

Pray for those who persecute me;

Love You more than anyone, including family members;

Count You as more important than anything in life;

Be willing to sacrifice everything for You;

Deny my own will and desires and serve Your purposes daily;

Not be selfish or conceited;

Humbly consider others as more important than myself and serve their interests;

Not use my position to my advantage but rather to serve others;

Humble myself by being willing to suffer for the benefit of others;

Be encouraged;

Continue proclaiming the good news of Jesus publicly and privately;

Continue teaching others about the Kingdom life publicly and privately;

Promote the Kingdom wherever I go;

Welcome instruction about the Kingdom even when it leads to suffering;

Model service in the midst of suffering for other believers;

Imitate followers of Christ who suffer well for serving You;

Persevere, demonstrate faith, and endure;

Be filled with the Spirit;

View the trials as identification with You and for Your sake;

Continue to speak the truths of the Kingdom that I have believed;

Not lose heart;

Fix my eyes on unseen and eternal realities rather than my present situation;

Not cause others to stumble;

Show great endurance through every kind of unpleasant circumstance and situation;

Live out purity, understanding, patience, and kindness;

Demonstrate a Spirit-filled life of sincere love, truthful speech, and godly power;

Show forth righteous living in spiritual warfare in the face of any response;

Be content with being considered false, being beaten, poor, sorrowful, and dying;

Work hard for the Kingdom;

Be willing to face every kind of difficulty, danger, discomfort, and sorrow;

Be concerned for the welfare of others;

Boast in my weakness;

Delight in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties;

Glory in my sufferings;

Share in Your sufferings;

Consider myself a sheep to be slaughtered and sacrificed;

Be willing to lose my freedom;

Count any and every earthly thing as a loss compared to knowing Christ;

Participate in Your suffering and death willingly;

Intentionally suffer through self-discipline as a sacrifice of service;

Seek to please You;

Consider my service and sacrifice as the least I can do for You;

Die to self with You;

Persevere;

Practice Your commands;

Serve as Your ambassador and represent Your desires and ways to others;

Fervently pray with cries and tears to You for relief;

Reverently submit to You;

Remember Your faithfulness in past suffering;

Stand with others who are suffering and join them in it;

Joyfully accept the confiscation of my property;

Live by faith;

Not shrink back from serving or speaking for You;

Choose to be mistreated with Your people rather than hiding my heavenly citizenship in order to escape;

Value Your treasures more than the treasures of this world;

Embrace any sacrifice You call on me to make;

Love God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength;

Keep Your commands;

Welcome and choose every form of opposition and pain and discomfort for Your sake;

Resist and struggle against sin, even to death;

Not make light of discipline;

Not lose heart;

Endure hardship, knowing its benefits;

Respect You and submit to You;

Consider it pure joy;

Let endurance have its full result;

Be patient and persevere;

Bear up under unjust suffering;

Patiently endure unjust suffering;

Not commit sin or deceive to escape hardship;

Not lash out at those causing me pain;

Not threaten;

Entrust myself to You, knowing You will judge righteously;

Not fear threats or be frightened;

Revere You as Lord;

Be prepared to give a witness for my hope, with gentleness and respect;

Arm myself with the purpose to suffer as You did and with Your attitude;

Not be surprised at fiery ordeals and tests because they are expected and normal;

Rejoice at the opportunity to share in Your sufferings;

Be alert and of sober mind;

Resist the devil, firm in my faith;

Be aware that believers around the world are suffering for their faith;

Not be afraid of future suffering; and

Be faithful to the point of death.

As I do respond in this fashion, I ask that You will, in and through the suffering:

Position me to bless others;

Test, refine, and prove me and my faith;

Give me hope;

Show me Your love is unstoppable and You are good and all I need;

Show me You are listening and are near;

Bless me;

Comfort me;

Equip me to comfort others;

Prepare me to inherit the Kingdom of heaven;

Increase my reward in heaven;

Discover my true and real life in You;

Help me know You more intimately;

Help me become more like You and identify with You more fully;

Help me gain more of Your character;

Demonstrate the permanence and power of Your love for me;

Save my life in You;

Cause me to bear more fruit;

Teach me peace;

Teach me to hope in my future eternal comfort and blessing;

Demonstrate Your trust in me and honor of me;

Give me joy;

Announce Your message broadly;

Encourage others in their faith;

Show love to my brothers and sisters in the faith;

Show my worthiness of the Kingdom;

Make room for Your justice;

Show Your power in me;

Demonstrate Your life in me;

Foreshadow my future glorification (as in Your resurrection);

Cause others to be drawn to You;

Result in thanksgiving from others for my sacrificial ministry;

Renew me day by day through Yourself;

Bestow eternal rewards;

Prove my genuineness;

Validate my ministry;

Validate my words;

Make my life known;

Enrich the lives of others;

Show where my true riches are, where my heart is;

Keep me humble;

Give me perseverance, godly character, and hope;

Honor me;

Show that I am Your child and heir of Your glory;

Demonstrate my conquering life in You;

Advance the gospel;

Give confidence to fellow believers;

Demonstrate my faith in You, which is my righteousness;

Show me the power of Your resurrection, and help me share in it;

Provide access to Your life and help me reign with You in eternity;

Give me strength to stand;

Crown me with glory and honor;

Perfect me;

Teach me obedience;

Be especially attentive to my prayers;

Enable me to experience better and lasting possessions;

Provide a pathway to receive Your promises;

Be the way of salvation;

Show that the world is not worthy but You are;

Provide an opportunity for amazing victories that will glorify You;

Teach me discipline;

Deepen my holiness;

Produce a harvest of righteousness and peace in my life;

Produce endurance, perfect me, and make me complete in You;

Enable You to demonstrate Your compassion and mercy;

Prove the genuineness of my faith;

Bring the result of praise, glory, and honor to You;

Help me find favor with You;

Fulfill my calling;

Bring the enemies of the Kingdom to shame;

Keep me free from sin’s allure;

Cause me to live more fully for Your will and desires;

Increase my future joy;

Increase Your glory in my life and the fullness of the Holy Spirit;

Bring to pass my restoration, strengthening, firmness, and steadfastness;

Enable me to receive the victor’s crown; and

Achieve Your good purposes in my life.

These can happen only by Your mercy and grace. Thank You for Your mercy and grace!