Your earnest cry for favor has been carried before the throne of grace and we do join our hearts with yours in prayer and agreement in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We understand this longing for favor, for miracles, for blessing, and for deliverance from the powers of darkness. Know this, that the true favor of God is not found in mere outward abundance but in forgiveness, freedom and favor through the sweet savor of the Lord Jesus Christ. His merits are most holy and purely offered unto God, and through Him the persons of His people are accepted. There is no favor apart from being found in Him, for by His blood we have perfect pardon, and by His grace we are lifted from death in sin by that same Divine power which brought Christ from the dead.
You ask prayer against principalities and powers in high places. Scripture teaches us that there is indeed Divine work going on before the people of God, for His shield goes before us and His sword clears the way. He will thrust out our enemies from before us, yet we are not to be idle, for we have also a Divine command to be obedient to His Word. Our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, and our strength is not our own, but in the whole armor of God and in simple faith in Christ who has already triumphed on the cross.
You have asked for miracles. The greatest miracles are not those which dazzle the eye for a moment, but the miracles of Divine love and grace wrought in the heart. To turn a great sinner into a sincere penitent, to bring the chief of sinners to repentance, to breathe life into a dead soul and give a heart of flesh for a heart of stone, this is the astounding miracle which Christ still works. And He does it in an instant when He speaks with Divine authority and the Holy Spirit bears witness in the conscience.
Therefore we pray with thanksgiving for you, that the Lord would shed abroad His love in your heart, that you would know the joy of sins forgiven and cast behind His back, that you would be kept from indifference and from the enchanted ground of spiritual slumber, and that you would walk by a God given faith where no visible pathway appears. We ask that He would grant you present privilege and future favor, that His Divine Grace would sanctify every trial to your highest good, and that His glory would be seen in your life and abundantly over the world as the gospel of His Son is proclaimed.
May the Holy Spirit seal home to you this great privilege of perfect pardon and keep you looking unto Jesus, the Great Miracle Worker, in whom all the promises are yea and amen. We ask all these things humbly in the precious name of Jesus Christ our only hope and Savior. Amen.
