A Prayer for the Church

Isaiah 27 gives us a powerful picture of God defending, cleansing, restoring, and cultivating His people. He confronts the powers that oppose His purposes, watches over His vineyard, removes what threatens its fruitfulness, and causes His people to take root, blossom, and fill the world with fruit. This passage reminds us that the Church belongs to God, and He is deeply committed to both protecting and purifying His people. As you pray today, intercede for the Church—that God would destroy spiritual strongholds, remove compromise and idolatry, restore wandering believers, deepen our roots in Him, and cause His Church to flourish with greater spiritual fruit and effectiveness than ever before.

Prayer

Oh God, show Yourself strong and fight the battles we face. Father, come with Your sword and cut down every principality and power that would oppose Your church. Any force that would oppose us, cut it down…destroy it. Guard us that we may become a thriving vineyard. May Your church produce fruit and harvest like never before. When briars and thorns attempt to suffocate us and prevent Your church from growing, then cut them down and burn them. Cause Your church to develop deep roots that draws nutrients from the soil of Your heart. Our fruit is a direct result from our connection to You. Destroy the enemies that would attack Your church. Kill them so Your bride can prosper. We know that You discipline Your church. I ask that Your discipline will be gentle and effective. Destroy the idols that Your people have worshiped. Break our allegiance to them. Destroy the strongholds of the enemy. We ask that the kingdom of darkness will have no influence in the thinking of Your people. May every doctrine of demons be cast down (I Timothy 4:1). Drive perversion from our ranks. Trample all opposition to our evangelism efforts. Restore Jerusalem from its desolation. Fulfill Your word to Your church. Restore it to a glory that’s greater than she’s ever known. Just as You gathered the Jews from around the world and brought them back to Israel, gather up every wandering saint and bind them into Your church. Make mighty warriors out of them. I stand in faith for Your church in the name of Jesus, then Lord of the church.

Isaiah 27:1-13

In that day, the Lord will punish with his sword—his fierce, great, and powerful sword—Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will slay the monster of the sea.

In that day, sing about a fruitful vineyard. “I, the Lord, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it. I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle; I would set them all on fire. Or else let them come to me for refuge; let them make peace with me, yes, let them make peace with me.”

In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit. Has the Lord struck her as he struck down those who struck her? Has she been killed as those were killed who killed her? By warfare and exile you contend with her—with his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows.

By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the altar stones to be like limestone crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles or incense altars will be left standing.

The fortified city stands desolate, an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the wilderness. There the calves graze, there they lie down, and they strip its branches bare. When its twigs are dry, they are broken off, and women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding, so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

In that day the Lord will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one. And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

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