Pray for the Lord’s Correction of His People with Grace and Mercy, that the Church might reform. (Ezekiel 9.1-11; 1 Peter 4.12-19)

1. Pray that the Lord would chastise His Church, in love, with those fatherly judgments, correcting her, and conforming her to His Word, and that the Church would not turn away from the judgments of the Lord. (Hebrews 12.4-17)
2. Pray that we would be a humble people, receiving the corrections of the Lord, and that we would behave ourselves not like the proud, who resist the judgments of the Lord. (Zephaniah 3.11-13)
3. Pray that the Church would be teachable, that in a day when the visible Church has gone so far afield from her Scriptural moorings, that we would hear the voice of the Lord, and return to that one sure foundation. (Ephesians 2.19-22)
4. Pray that the Lord would be pleased to expose our false hopes, other foundations, and those places where we have departed from sound doctrine, Biblical worship, Scriptural government, especially when we have thought His Word insufficient. Pray that our Church leaders would ground everything in the Church upon the sufficient Word of Christ, and that the people of God would follow that leadership. (Matthew 28.18-20; 2 Timothy 3.15-17)
5. Pray that the Lord would, in His kindness, restore a Biblical sense of Church discipline and order, that Church authority would be exercised always in support of the people of God as revealed in Scripture, and that every false way would be
   rooted out of the Church, and that under Christ she would recover this mark of the true Church, and the principles necessary for her advancement in the world. (1 Corinthians 5.1-13; 2 Corinthians 2.5-11)
6. Pray for God’s people, that we would have proper priorities concerning the advancement of Christ’s Kingdom in this world—that we would understand the Lord’s way of reformation, that it begins ecclesiastically, and then moves on to
   the world, such that we would seek first the reformation of the Church. (1 Peter 4.12-19)
7. Pray for Zion, that God would cause her to shine as that great city set upon a hill, whose holiness and uprightness, obedience and reflected glory cannot be hidden, to the reformation of the whole world. (Isaiah 60.1-14)