Freedom Prayer Scripture
BIBLICAL FRAMEWORK FOR ETHOS CHURCH'S FREEDOM PRAYER MINISTRY
Here are the scriptures that form the basis of our approach. For a fuller understanding of them, we encourage you to read them in the context in which they appear in the Bible.
FREEDOM
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1
WAITING ON THE LORD
Be still before the Lord, wait patiently for him... Psalm 37:7
Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10
The Bible is replete with Scriptures exhorting us to wait on the Lord and meditate on his Word.
PRAYING TOGETHER
Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them. Matthew 18:19-21
ASKING FOR GREATER KNOWLEDGE & UNDERSTANDING OF THE FATHER, JESUS, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a
future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me wholeheartedly. Jeremiah 29:11-14
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:16-19
CONFESSING & TURNING AWAY FROM SIN
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. James 5:15-17
RELEASING UNFORGIVENESS & JUDGMENT AGAINST OTHERS
Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you. Luke 6:37-38
ASKING GOD TO SHOW US STRONGHOLDS & LIES WE BELIEVE SO WE CAN WALK IN THE LIGHT
For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ… 2 Corinthians 10:3-5
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son
cleanses us from all sin. 1 John 1:7-8
BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF OUR ACCESS TO GOD, THE FATHER
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that He opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Hebrews 10:19-21
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God. Galatians 4:4-7
LOOKING TO THE LORD FOR HEALING OF OUR HURTS & WOUNDS
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Psalm 34:18
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. Psalm 147:3