31 Ways to pray for Jim and Judy

31 Ways to Pray for Jim and Judy McCabe


1. Focus on God  
Pray for Jim and Judy to stay focused on God and His plans above all else. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided to you (Matthew 6:33).

2. Faithful Bible Study  
Pray for Jim and Judy to spend time in the Word and ask God to give them discernment. 
Be diligent to present yourselves approved to God, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, correctly teaching the word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15).

3. Confession and repentance  
Pray for Jim and Judy to regularly seek examination by God and to repent from any errors that have crept into their lives. Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the everlasting way (Psalm 139:23-24).

4. Humility
Pray for Jim and Judy to have a spirit of humility and to willingly ask God for wisdom in carrying out their assignment. Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously and without criticizing, and it will be given to him (James 1:5).

5. Purity  
Pray for Jim and Judy to be so renewed by God’s Word that no sin will have dominion over them.
Make my steps steady through Your promise; don’t let sin dominate me (Psalm 119:133)

6. Boldness  
Pray for boldness and passion while doing partnership development; when Judy is doing recruitment and Jim working with the retirees. Pray also for me, that the message may be given to me when I open my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel (Ephesians 6:19).

7. Rest  
Ask God to help Jim and Judy recognize their need for weekly rest away from ministry responsibilities. He said to them, ‘Come away by yourselves to a remote place and rest a while’ (Mark 6:31).

8. Protection from distraction  
Pray for Jim and Judy to stay focused on the ministry they’ve been called to and not be distracted by issues of the day. Hold on to the pattern of sound teaching that you have heard from me in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. Guard, through the Holy Spirit who lives in us, that good thing entrusted to you (2 Timothy 1:13-14).

9. For their support / funding needs.                                                                                                          Pray for Jim and Judy to keep trusting God to provide the money needed / required to begin and continue on in their assignments. The labourer is worthy of his wages. (1 Timothy 5:18)

10. Dependence on God  
Pray for Jim and Judy to model a life of dependence on God. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not rely on your own understanding; think about Him in all your ways, and he will guide you on the right paths (Proverbs 3:5-6).

11. Gracious speech  
Ask God to give Jim and Judy the grace to know how to respond to each person.
Your speech should always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person (Colossians 4:6).

12. Spirit of unity  
Pray for a spirit of unity as Jim and Judy work together and with other ministry partners.
Now may the God of endurance and encouragement grant you agreement with one another according to Christ Jesus (Romans 15:5).

13. Resist temptation  
Pray for Jim and Judy to be quick to take the escape God provides when temptation sneaks up on them. God is faithful and He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation He will also provide a way of escape, so that you are able to bear it (1 Corinthians 10:13b).

14. Retreat with God  
Pray for Jim and Judy to take personal prayer retreats to get their direction from Him.
The Lord God has given Me the tongue of those who are instructed to know how to sustain the weary with a word…He awakens My ear to listen like those being instructed (Isaiah 50:4).

15. Stand firm  
Pray for Jim and Judy to stand firm under affliction, when discouragement hits and to look forward to eternal glory. For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory (2 Corinthians 4:17).

16. Daily prayer  
Ask God to help Jim and Judy protect their time for prayer and personal mediation in God’s Word.
But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the preaching ministry (Acts 6:4).

17. Devotion to God  
Pray for Jim and Judy to maintain their devotion to Christ. But I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be corrupted from a complete and pure devotion to Christ (2 Corinthians 11:3).

18. Hear God  
Ask God to teach Jim and Judy to hear His voice and follow Him.
The sheep follow him because they recognize his voice (John 10:4).

19. Boast in the Lord  
Pray for Jim and Judy to be quick to give God the credit.
So the one who boasts must boast in the Lord (2 Corinthians 10:17).

20. Direction from God  
Pray for Jim and Judy to get their direction from the Lord only. I am the Lord your God, who teaches you for [your] benefit, who leads you in the way you should go (Isaiah 48:17).

21. Peace  
Pray for Jim and Judy to give all their anxious thoughts to the God and rest in His peace.
Don’t worry about anything, but, in everything through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses every thought, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:6-7).

22. Prayer support  
Pray for Jim and Judy to enlist personal prayer support and ask God to call faithful intercessors to respond. So Peter was kept in prison, but prayer was being made earnestly to God for him by the church (Acts 12:5).

23. Strong marriage 
Pray for Jim and Judy’s marriage to be strong and healthy. Husbands, in the same way, live with your wives with understanding of their weaker nature yet showing them honor as co-heirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered (1 Peter 3:7).Wives submit to your own husbands leadership as to the Lord. (Ephesians. 5:22)

24. Eyes to see like Jesus                                                                                                                         Ask God to give Jim and Judy eyes to see as He sees and empower them to love the unlovely, the rejected, and the outcasts as Jesus did. Man does not see what the Lord sees, for man sees what is visible, but the Lord sees the heart (1 Samuel 16:7b).

25. Express love  
Pray for Jim and Judy to model loving God completely and others as themselves. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength (Mark 12:30).

26. Hunger for God  
Ask God to give Jim and Judy a hunger and thirst for Him and for His word. But solid food is for the mature- for those whose sense have been trained to distinguish between good and evil (Hebrews 5:14).

27. Persistence  
Pray for endurance, stamina, and pacing for Jim and Judy to insure long-term, fruitful ministry.
I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3:14).

28. Team spirit 
Ask God to build strong support teams who will come alongside Jim and Judy in their work and that God gets the glory. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth... for we are God’s co-workers…(1 Corinthians 3:7-9).

29. Obedience 
Pray for Jim and Judy to love and obey God, and to be known for their dependability to obey regardless of outside pressure. If you love Me, you will keep My commandments (John 14:15).

30. Sacrifice of holy living 
Ask God to empower Jim and Judy to be healthy in mind, body, and spirit.
…I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind…(Romans 12:1-2).

31. Children  
Please pray for Jim and Judy’s children: Their spiritual walk with God. Jody – 28 has our first grandchild, due Nov. Pray for her health and well being. Caleb, her husband, that God keeps him safe and helps him be the godly leader they need. Josh – 26 student, pray he can stay focused and get school done. Pray also for the relationship he is in, that it will glorify God. Jordan – 22 student, pray that he stays focused and gets school finished.