FURTHER PRAYERS

LORD SUSPEND IT 

Sometimes the obstacle does not need to disappear. God can simply stop it from determining the outcome.

Gravity remained real when Elijah went up.

Water remained water when Jesus walked upon it.

Peter’s chains, guards and iron gate were real—until heaven intervened.

2 Kings 2:11 • Matthew 14:25–29 • Acts 12:6–10

The limitation existed. 

God suspended its ability to determine the outcome.

WHERE MIGHT I NEED THIS?

A policy that ordinarily excludes me. 

An institutional barrier.

An economic constraint.

A qualification or requirement I do not possess.

A protocol that appears immovable.

A circumstance that human calculation says cannot change.

PRAY

Father, wherever an established limitation stands between me and Your purpose, exercise Your sovereignty over it. Suspend every barrier that must be suspended and make a way where the normal order says there is no way, in Jesus’ name.

LORD REVERSE IT

Sometimes the problem is not lack of progress. Something is actually moving in the wrong direction.

Hezekiah saw the shadow move backward.

Sarah’s biological condition had passed the normal expectation for conception, yet God restored what age had taken.

The axe head had already sunk. God made it rise again.

Isaiah 38:7–8 • Romans 4:19 • 2 Kings 6:5–7

Human calculation may say:

“It is too late.”

But too late for the natural does not necessarily mean too late for God.

WHERE MIGHT I NEED THIS?

A declining business.

A deteriorating relationship.

A career moving backwards.

An adverse decision.

A lost opportunity.

A damaged reputation.

A financial decline.

Something people have already written off.

PRAY

Father, wherever anything contrary to Your purpose is moving in the wrong direction, intervene. Reverse decline. Reverse loss. Reverse adverse decisions. Restore opportunities and possibilities that human calculation has declared irrecoverable, in Jesus’ name.

LORD, ACCELERATE IT

Sometimes nothing is fundamentally wrong with the process. The supernatural intervention is acceleration.

Aaron’s rod budded, blossomed and produced ripe almonds in an extraordinary period.

Joseph spent years preparing—but moved from prisoner to national leader in one day.

Preparation happened progressively. Manifestation happened suddenly.

God did not manufacture Joseph’s competence on the morning Pharaoh called him.

God accelerated what diligence had prepared.

WHERE MIGHT I NEED THIS?

Years of learning.

Years of serving.

Years of building.

Years of sowing.

Years of developing competence.

Years of relationships.

Years of faithful stewardship.

Then God creates:

One introduction.

One conversation.

One recommendation.

One decision.

One opportunity.

One day.

PRAY

Father, let my preparation meet Your appointed time. Wherever I have faithfully prepared, served, sown and waited, breathe upon that preparation. Compress unnecessary delay and accelerate me into the manifestation of what You have been preparing me for, in Jesus’ name.

LORD, BYPASS IT 

Sometimes God produces an outcome without the process ordinarily required to produce it.

At Cana:

No vineyard.

No grapes.

No harvest.

No crushing.

No fermentation.

No waiting.

WATER → WINE

Jesus did not merely accelerate the process.

He bypassed it.

The conception of Jesus provides an even more profound example: when God’s redemptive purpose required it, the normal reproductive route was not a limitation to Him.

WHERE MIGHT I NEED THIS?

 “I must know somebody first.”

 “I must have this qualification first.”

 “I must pass through these ten positions first.”

 “This organisation has never done it this way.”

“Nobody gets there without X.”

Those may describe the normal route.

But the normal route is not God.

PRAY

Father, wherever the normal process is unnecessary for Your purpose, bypass it. Give me access I could not manufacture, opportunities I could not engineer and outcomes that cannot be explained merely by the route I travelled. Let Your purpose—not human convention—determine what is possible, in Jesus’ name.

GROWTH ANCHOR™️ IN THE SEEN

BUILD YOUR GROWTH ANCHOR™️ IN THE SEEN WHILE TRUSTING GOD TO WORK IN THE UNSEEN.

LORD, HELP ME DO MY PART

Joseph still had to become competent.

David still had to learn leadership.

Esther still had to prepare.

Solomon still had to govern.

The supernatural did not make responsibility unnecessary.

PRAY

Father, show me what belongs to You and what belongs to me. Give me wisdom to know the difference. Where I need discipline, make me disciplined. Where I need competence, help me develop it. Where I need structure, help me build it. Where I need to sow, help me sow. Where I need relationships, help me build them. Let me never call irresponsibility faith, in Jesus’ name.

LORD, MULTIPLY WHAT I HAVE FAITHFULLY SOWN

God does not abolish seedtime and harvest.

He can magnify the harvest.

The seed may be ordinary while the harvest becomes extraordinary.

PRAY

Father, remember every good seed I have sown through obedience, generosity, prayer, integrity, service, sacrifice and faithful work. Breathe upon those seeds. Let ordinary sowing produce extraordinary harvest, and let no righteous seed remain buried beyond its appointed season, in Jesus’ name.

LORD, BUILD ME FOR WHAT I AM ASKING FOR

Sometimes what feels like delay is development.

David was anointed long before he was enthroned.

God was not merely preparing a throne for David.

God was preparing David for the throne—and preparing Israel to trust David.

Perhaps the prayer is not:

“Lord, bypass this season.”

Perhaps it is:

“Lord, don’t let me leave this season without everything You intended it to build in me.”

PRAY

Father, prepare me for what I am praying for. Build my character, competence, capacity, credibility and relationships. Do not allow me to arrive somewhere my development cannot sustain me. And when the preparation is complete, accelerate me into the place You have prepared for me, in Jesus’ name.

LORD, HELP ME DELIVER MY ANCHOR

Before the breakthrough:

“God, I will serve You.”

“God, I will support Your work.”5

“God, I will use my influence for You.”

“God, I will become a blessing.”

Then the breakthrough comes.

The test is what happens next.

Use a highlighted statement:

ANCHOR IS NOT ONLY SOMETHING YOU WRITE BEFORE THE BREAKTHROUGH.

IT IS SOMETHING YOU DELIVER AFTER THE BREAKTHROUGH.

If you said the promotion would expand your Kingdom influence—deliver it.

If you said the business would finance God’s work—deliver it.

If you said your breakthrough would help others—deliver it.

If you said your platform would propagate the Gospel—deliver it.

If you committed to 12-1-3—deliver it.

PRAY

Father, when the answer comes, do not let me forget why I asked. Give me the integrity to deliver my Anchor. Let every resource, relationship, position, platform and opportunity You entrust to me accomplish the Kingdom purpose I committed it to. May the blessing never become greater than the Blesser, in Jesus’ name.