Macroprayer

MACROPRAYER

People pray for a specific person, about an issue or problem, for someone who is sick, and the like.

Why do we limit God in our prayer to individual situations?

Why not pray for everyone in the world?

Why not ask God to bless everyone in the world always?

We can pray on a "macro" level.

Call it macroprayer, praying large in scope, large in extent.

God knows what we need before we pray. He knows the needs of everyone in the world. For those who cannot express their prayers in words, the Spirit can plead for them in groans that God can hear. So, we may pray as follows...

God, you know the needs of all your people in this world, and you hear the groanings of the Spirit in regard to those who are unable to adequately express their needs to you. Since you are able, and want to, we ask you to always take care of the needs of everyone in this world. And may we always listen to your Spirit, and be moved to be your tools in helping those whom we can help in this world.

You can express your own macroprayers as the Spirit moves you.

Sometimes the Spirit may talk to you in your heart and say, "Don't ask me to do this. You do it for me!"

Examples of God's Macroprayer

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Matthew 6:13 (English Standard Version ©2001)

Holy Father, keep them and care for them - all those you have given me - so that they will be united just as we are.
John 17:11

Give us our food day by day.
Luke 11:3

And forgive us our sin - just as we forgive those who have sinned against us.
Luke 11:4

And don't let us yield to temptation.
Luke 11:4

For everyone who asks, receives.
Luke 11:10

Everyone who seeks, finds.
Luke 11:10

And the door is opened to everyone who knocks.
Luke 11:10

Pray at all times and on every occasion in the power of the Holy Spirit. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all Christians everywhere.
Ephesians 6:18

Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.
Philippians 4:6

Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all Christians everywhere.
Ephesians 6:18

Scripture About Prayer

The truth is, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father. You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, because the work of the Son brings glory to the Father. Yes, ask anything in my name, and I will do it.
John 14:12-14

Jesus looked at them intently and said, "Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible."
Matthew 19:26

Anything is possible if a person believes.
Mark 9:23

When God promised Abraham that he would become the father of many nations, Abraham believed him. God had also said, "Your descendants will be an numerous as the stars," even though such a promise seem utterly impossible! And Abraham's faith did not weaken, even though he knew that he was too old to be a father at the age of one hundred and that Sarah, his wife, had never been able to have children.
Romans 4:18-19

And the Holy Spirit helps us in our distress. For we don't even know what should pray for, nor how we should pray. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's own will. And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.
Romans 8:26-28

Pray at all times and on every occasion in the power of the Holy Spirit. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all Christians everywhere.
Ephesians 6:18

And I am sure that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on that day when Christ Jesus comes back again.
Philippians 1:6

I love the Lord because he hears and answers my prayers. Because he bends down and listens, I will pray as long as I have breath!
Psalm 116:1-2

The Lord is close to all who call on him, yes, to all who call on him sincerely.
Psalm 145:18

For I know the plans I have for you. They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen.
Jeremiah 29:11-12

Pray for those who persecute you!
Matthew 5:44

Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be honored. May your Kingdom come soon. May your will be done here on earth, just as it is in heaven. Give us our food for today, and forgive us our sins, just as we have forgiven those who have sinned against us. And don't let us yield to temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
Matthew 6:9-13

If two of you agree down here on earth concerning anything you ask, my Father in heaven will do it for you. For where two or three gather together because they are mine, I am there among them.
Matthew 18:19-20

If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.
Matthew 21:22

The next morning Jesus awoke long before daybreak and went out alone into the wilderness to pray.
Mark 1:35

Afterward he went up into the hills by himself to pray.
Mark 6:46

Afterward, when Jesus was alone in the house with his disciples, they asked him, "Why couldn't we cast out that evil spirit?" Jesus replied, "This kind can be cast out only by prayer."
Mark 9:28-29

Listen to me! You can pray for anything, and if you believe, you will have it.
Mark 11:24

But when you are praying, first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins, too.
Mark 11:25

But Jesus often withdrew to the wilderness for prayer.
Luke 5:16

One day soon afterward Jesus went to a mountain to pray, and he prayed to God all night.
Luke 6:12

Pray for the happiness of those who curse you. Pray for those who hurt you.
Luke 6:28

Once when Jesus had been out praying, one of his disciples came to him as he finished and said, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples." He said, "This is how you should pray: 'Father, may your name be honored. May your Kingdom come soon. Give us our food day by day. And forgive us our sin - just as we forgive those who have sinned against us. And don't let us yield to temptation.'"
Luke 11:1-4

For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And the door is opened to everyone who knocks.
Luke 11:10

One day Jesus told his disciples a story to illustrate their need for constant prayer and to show them that they must never give up. "There was a judge in a certain city," he said, "who was a godless man with great contempt for everyone. A widow of that city came to him repeatedly, appealing for justice against someone who had harmed her. The judge ignored her for a while, but eventually she wore him out. 'I fear neither God nor man,' he said to himself, 'but this women is driving me crazy. I'm going to see that she gets justice, because she is wearing me out with her constant requests!'" Then the Lord said, "Learn a lesson from this evil judge. Even he rendered a just decision in the end, so don't you think God will surely give justice to his chosen people who plead with him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will grant justice to them quickly! But when I, the Son of Man, return, how many will I find who have faith?"
Luke 18:1-8

I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me because of their testimony. My prayer for all of them is that they will be one, just as you and I are one, Father - that just as you are in me and I am in you, so they will be in us, and the world will believe you sent me.
John 17:20-21

For God said to Moses, "I will show mercy to anyone I choose, and I will show compassion to anyone I choose." So receiving God's promise is not up to us. We can't get it by choosing it or working hard for it. God will show mercy to anyone he chooses.
Romans 9:15-16

Be patient in trouble, and always be prayerful.
Romans 12:12

Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand.
Philippians 4:6-7