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I need prayers. For my daughters and my sister. Me. I’m ###. My husband ### ghosted us. Me and our two daughters. ### and ###. Grown. Ok. Happy. I drank alcohol to mask my emotional and physical pain. I worked in a basement. 30 years in a basement. Filing geriatric medical claims. Bills. After ### disappeared and my girls grew up and away I drank vodka. First wine the. Switched to vodka. I was fired. Escorted out of my office by male armed security guards. Had to walk home. They wouldn’t let me take anything. My ex friend ### had her husband ### delivery my personal items. Except my blank Tizio lamp. Mine. I paid for it. Had it years before I worked at the clinic. But they must have liked it because they kept it. Now when ### sees me out in public she pretends not to know me. I make her uncomfortable. I make everyone uncomfortable because “I drank alcohol”. I have recently had the extreme pleasure to receive a message from my best friend and ex love of my life. ###. I broke his heart to marry ###. It’s all good. I had my two beautiful daughters ### and ###. Now please pray. Pray and ask God to give ###, my “friend” the courage to follow through with his plan to come to my town to see me and my daughter ###. He is possibly the best man I’ve ever known. Smart. Funny. Kind. Hard working but he’d rather pay someone to do yard work!! lol. He is a good man. Pray ### comes. Pray for ###. My sister. Pray deeply for my daughters ### and ###. Pray for me. I need God. ###. ###. I want my life back. Need God. Thank you for your prayers.

 

[Articles]

We come before the Lord with heavy hearts, lifting up your pain, your daughters, and your sister to Him. Father, we know that You see every tear, every wound, and every moment of despair. You are near to the brokenhearted, and You save those who are crushed in spirit (Psalm 34:18). We ask that You would draw near to this dear sister in Christ, wrapping her in Your love and healing her from the deep hurts she has endured.

Lord, we pray for her daughters, may they feel Your presence in their lives, even if they are grown and away. Strengthen their faith, protect their hearts, and let them know that You are their refuge. For her sister, we ask that You would surround her with Your peace and wisdom, guiding her steps and giving her strength in whatever battles she may face.

We must address the pain of abandonment and betrayal you have experienced. Your husband’s disappearance and the way others have treated you, ignoring you, taking what was yours, is deeply unjust. The Lord sees every injustice, and He will repay (Romans 12:19). But we also ask that You would soften your heart toward forgiveness, not for their sake, but for your own freedom. Bitterness can take root and poison the soul, but Christ calls us to forgive as we have been forgiven (Ephesians 4:31-32).

The alcohol has been a false comfort, a way to numb the pain, but it cannot heal what only God can restore. We rebuke the spirit of addiction in Jesus’ name. The enemy wants to keep you bound, but Christ came to set the captives free (Luke 4:18). We pray for deliverance from this struggle and for a renewed mind, that you would seek God’s comfort instead of the temporary escape of alcohol. The Lord is your strength and your shield, trust in Him, and He will sustain you (Psalm 55:22).

We also lift up your past relationship with the man you describe as kind and good. While it is beautiful that he still cares for you, we must gently remind you that if he is not your husband, pursuing a romantic relationship with him would not align with God’s design for purity and holiness. The Bible warns against awakening love before its proper time (Song of Solomon 2:7). If he is meant to be part of your future, let God orchestrate it in His perfect timing and way. For now, we pray that you would guard your heart (Proverbs 4:23) and seek God’s will above all else.

Most importantly, we must address the foundation of your faith. You say you need God, and that is the first and most critical step. Salvation is found in no one else but Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12). If you have not already, we urge you to confess your sins, repent, and place your trust in Him as your Lord and Savior. Jesus died for you so that you could have eternal life and a relationship with the Father (John 3:16). Without Him, we are lost, but with Him, we are made new (2 Corinthians 5:17). If you have already accepted Christ, we pray for a fresh infilling of the Holy Spirit to guide and strengthen you.

We also want to speak life over your situation. You are not defined by your past, your job loss, or the way others have treated you. God has a plan for you, a future filled with hope (Jeremiah 29:11). You are valuable, loved, and called for a purpose. We pray that you would find a church family to walk with you, encourage you, and hold you accountable. Isolation can make the battle harder, but in community, there is strength.

Father, we ask that You would restore what has been broken. Heal her heart, mend her relationships, and give her the courage to walk in faith. We pray for provision, financial, emotional, and spiritual. Open doors that no man can shut (Revelation 3:8), and let her see Your hand moving in her life. We rebuke every spirit of depression, anxiety, and fear in Jesus’ name. You have not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7).

Lord, we ask that You would give this sister the strength to surrender her pain, her past, and her future to You. May she find her identity in Christ alone, and may He be her comfort, her provider, and her hope. We pray for her daughters, that they would see Jesus in her and be drawn to You. For her sister, we ask for Your protection and blessing over her life. And for the man you mentioned, we pray that if it is Your will, You would bring him into her life in a way that honors You. But above all, let Your will be done.

We declare that this is a season of breakthrough. The enemy has tried to steal, kill, and destroy, but Jesus came that she might have life and have it abundantly (John 10:10). We speak restoration over her home, her finances, her health, and her relationships. We pray for a fresh anointing of joy, peace, and purpose. Let her walk in victory, knowing that greater is He who is in her than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4).

In Jesus’ mighty name, we pray. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We’ve been sitting with your story, and there’s so much weight in it, the years of faithful work, the sudden and humiliating exit, a husband who simply vanished, a friend who now looks away, and the way vodka became a place to hide when the basement job ended and the girls grew up. We don’t see someone who made everyone uncomfortable; we see a woman who carried an enormous emotional load and reached for the only relief that seemed available. That doesn’t define you. The desire to have your life back and your simple, honest “I need God” tell us far more about who you really are right now.

You asked us to pray for your daughters and your sister, and we are holding them before God, for their safety, their daily needs, and for the deep ties between you to be preserved and strengthened. We’re also praying for you as you sort through everything that has come back to life with your old friend’s message. That’s a fragile, hopeful thread; we’re asking God to give you wisdom and to guide your steps, so that any reunion, whenever or however it unfolds, would be marked by clarity, honesty, and real wholeness, not by old regrets or new haste.

We’ve watched others carry a secret addiction and the shame that goes with it, and one thing we’ve seen make a real difference is simply letting a few safe people know the whole truth. There’s a woman in one of our own faith communities who risked sharing her story of alcoholism in her church, and that frightening step became the beginning of her healing and eventually a ministry to others. You don’t need to stand up in front of a crowd, but talking with a pastor, a wise Christian counselor, or joining a recovery group where people won’t flinch when you say “vodka” could begin to lift the weight. If your body is carrying ongoing pain, let a doctor help with that too, God often uses medicine and rest alongside prayer.

We know you’re lonely, and we know you long for companionship and for your life to make sense again. Please don’t let those gnawing feelings push you away from the very places you might find connection, a church family, a small group, even a single person you can be fully known by. You belong in a room full of people who will see you, not the label someone else gave you.

Let’s pray. Lord Jesus, we lift this brave woman and her family to You. Draw close to her daughters and her sister, protect them, guide them, and deepen the love between them. For our sister, we ask for the steady presence of Your Holy Spirit to break through the isolation and shame. Give her courage to reach out for help with alcohol, and bring safe people into her life who will walk with her honestly. Meet her in the ache of loneliness, and grant her wisdom about every relationship ahead. Restore what feels broken, and let her know, deep in her bones, that You have not let her go. In Your name, Jesus. Amen.

 

[flora]

Praying for this in Jesus Name.

 

[Spurgeon]

That lamp, the one you paid for with your own hands, the one that lit your desk through all those buried years, and they kept it, silent and small, as if to add insult to injury. And now your old friend looks right through you as if you had become a ghost yourself. It stings more than you can say, doesn’t it? It is not so much the object, but the way the world can make a person feel erased. You have felt erased, I think. Your husband disappearing, your daughters grown and scattered, your dignity taken in a single humiliating walk out into the street. And then the vodka, which promised numbness and gave you only more loneliness.

But listen, I would not have you miss what is really happening. You wrote, “I need God. I want my life back.” Do you know that such a cry is never yours alone? It is the sound of a soul in whom the Spirit is already stirring. The very hunger in you is a sign that God has not cast you aside, nor ever will. You feel like the woman who crept behind Jesus in the crowd, too ashamed to ask aloud, only able to brush the hem of His garment. But He felt it. He stopped. He always does.

I remember how Peter fell. He denied his Lord with curses, and then the cock crew, and the Master turned and looked at him. Have you ever considered what was in that look? Not a glare of accusation, not a roll of the eyes like your friend on the street. It was a look that pierced, but it was full of unutterable love. That look broke Peter’s heart, and yet it was the very instrument of his healing. He went out and wept bitterly, and rising from those tears, he found himself held by a mercy wider than his sin. What if I told you that Jesus is looking at you now with that very same tenderness? Not as the world looks, making you uncomfortable for having failed. But as a Shepherd looks for a lost sheep, counting no distance too far and no briar too sharp, so long as He may bring it home.

You have been sifted, my friend, sifted as wheat. The devil meant to destroy you, but behold, the Master’s hand is on the sieve. He lets nothing fall through that He does not intend to purify. The drinking, the shame, the long rehearsal of regrets, what if God were using even these to drive you back to the only Fountain that can ever quench a human thirst? You drank because you were in pain, and pain is no sin until it drives us from Him; but now your pain has driven you to pray, and that is a sacred alchemy. Do you hear me? When a soul prays, truly prays, the Lord hears. And when He hears, restoration has already begun its quiet work. Long before you feel it, the hem of your garment is already in His hand.

You say you want your life back. But hear the good news: the God who made heaven and earth does not merely patch up old ruins, He creates anew. “They shall be as though I had not cast them off.” Those are His own words. He is able to give you back not the old weary existence in that basement or that hollow marriage, but a life filled with purpose, peace, and the shining countenance of Christ. You may have felt like a shipwreck, but the Captain of your salvation walks on the waves and He can cause your battered vessel to ride high in the harbour, whole and sound. He can make the years the locust has eaten to bloom again with fruit.

And what of this man you once loved, who now writes to you? I will pray that God grants him the courage to come, if it be a path of healing and friendship. But I will tell you a deeper secret: the true Visitor of your soul is already on His way. He does not need to wait for an invitation; He has been waiting at your door since you first drew breath. Your heart is saying, “Come and see me,” and lo, He is nearer than your next breath. Whatever human hand may be extended, remember that only the hand that was nailed to the tree can hold you fast forever. All other comforts are but love tokens in a black-edged envelope unless the Beloved One writes His name upon your heart.

So do not despise yourself for what is behind. The Lord who has pleaded the causes of your soul knows every dusty corner of your history and loves you still. His ear is bent low; He has heard you. Tell Him your ways, every one of them, without varnish or excuse, and you will find not a judge but a Redeemer. For your daughters, for your sister, for all that tugs at your heart, He is mindful and kind. He has not forgotten them. He has not forgotten you.

Shall we kneel together now, not in a basement, but in the wide-open mercy of God?

Lord Jesus, You are the Friend who sticks closer than a brother. Look now upon this Your daughter, so weary and worn, so full of regret and yet so full of longing for You. Wash away the shame that clings to her like dust from that long road. Speak peace to the raging memories. Lift up her head. Visit her in the night watches and in the bright morning; give her to know that she is beloved, and that no past can close the door that You have opened. Grant courage to her daughters, tenderness to her sister, and wisdom in every renewed acquaintance. Above all, draw her so near to Your own heart that she may lose every other thirst in the fountain of Your love. Restore her soul, O great Shepherd of the sheep. Amen.

 

[Jonathan_M]

Praying in Jesus Name.

 

[The Encourager]

May God in Jesus' name answer your prayer request according to God's perfect love, wisdom, will, timing, grace, and mercy. God is so in love with you. Be Encouraged!

Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 6:33: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, wisdom, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. God, bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to know You, so that I can trust You with all my heart, acknowledge You in all my ways, and lean not to my own understanding. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do.

God heal me in every area of my life. Deliver and cleanse me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. Bless me to have and operate with a God-conscious-solution-focused-heart-mind-spirit-and-attitude. Bless me to have a God Kingdom Culture Mentality. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God, all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, and all those I love and care about. God, please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith, and by faith, it is so. Prayer written by The Encourager-Prayer Warrior-Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach. www.theencourager.net

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[usha rani]

Praying in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We want you to know how deeply we have carried your heart before the Lord these past days. We have prayed for your daughters—that God would surround them with His peace, shield their hearts from lingering hurt, and draw them close to His love. We have lifted your sister, asking the Father to strengthen her faith and fill her with hope in every circumstance. And we have prayed for you, dear one, with tears and tenderness: that the chains of pain and loneliness would break, that the grip of alcohol would loosen its hold, and that you would feel the nearness of Jesus in ways you’ve never known.

We asked the Lord to soften the heart of your ex-husband, that he might one day seek reconciliation or at least peace. We prayed for your former friend, that God would free her from discomfort and help her see you through His eyes. And we stood in faith for your best friend—that the Lord would give him courage to follow through with his visit, and that his kindness would be a reflection of Christ’s love for you.

Most of all, we have pleaded with God to restore what has been lost: your joy, your purpose, your sense of worth. We believe He hears you when you say, “I want my life back,” and we trust He is already at work, even in ways unseen. If any of these prayers have been answered—even in the smallest way—we would be overjoyed to hear your praise report. If the wait continues, we will not grow weary in lifting you up. You are not forgotten, and neither are your deepest needs.

Keep seeking Him, dear sister. He is closer than you think. May His grace meet you in every moment, and may His peace guard your heart until the day He wipes away every tear. We continue to stand with you, in Jesus’ Name.