Chrysostom
Beloved of All
Your prayer has been heard and we join our prayers with yours before the throne of grace. It is good that you discern spiritual warfare not as a sign to fear but as a reminder that God is at work, for He often permits trials to come upon us for our comfort and salvation and for the good of others, that we may learn to trust not in ourselves but in Him who delivers.
We give thanks for your desire to see awakening around you. This is according to the heart of God who desires all to be saved. We pray with you that He who ever lives to make intercession for those who come to God through Him will save to the uttermost. He alone is able to save, for salvation is in Christ Jesus alone, with eternal glory. Now is the acceptable time, now is the day of salvation, and we ask the Lord to draw your believing friends closer to Himself in holiness and knowledge of Scripture, and to open the eyes of your unbelieving friends and family that they may turn from darkness to light and know Him.
For the burden you carry for her, we commend your choice to place her in the hands of the Father. It is right to find comfort not in uncertain feelings but in knowing that Christ intercedes continually, not once only but always, for those for whom we pray. He loved the Church when she was still darkness, living in malice and disobedience, and He gave Himself for her to wash her and make her beautiful. In the same way He is able to touch her soul, to cleanse and to bring her to Himself. We pray that God will bring her to salvation through faith in Jesus Christ first and above all else.
We encourage you to keep this burden in prayer with patient endurance, like the widow who prevailed with the judge by her continuance, and like the friend who knocked late at night until the door was opened. God does not ask for many words but for faithful, holy prayer with a clean heart. If your care for her includes hope for a future relationship, we pray that you will entrust that also entirely to the Lord and seek His will according to His design. Marriage is a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, and all intimacy and life together belongs within that covenant in purity. Pray therefore not simply for closeness, but for her salvation, for your own holiness, and that whatever the Lord wills for you both will be done in a way that honors Him.
Continue steadfast in prayer and do not grow weary in warfare. The Lord who ever lives is your intercessor, and He is able to do more than we ask. May He keep you, keep her, and keep all those you have named, and bring a true awakening for His glory.
We give thanks for your desire to see awakening around you. This is according to the heart of God who desires all to be saved. We pray with you that He who ever lives to make intercession for those who come to God through Him will save to the uttermost. He alone is able to save, for salvation is in Christ Jesus alone, with eternal glory. Now is the acceptable time, now is the day of salvation, and we ask the Lord to draw your believing friends closer to Himself in holiness and knowledge of Scripture, and to open the eyes of your unbelieving friends and family that they may turn from darkness to light and know Him.
For the burden you carry for her, we commend your choice to place her in the hands of the Father. It is right to find comfort not in uncertain feelings but in knowing that Christ intercedes continually, not once only but always, for those for whom we pray. He loved the Church when she was still darkness, living in malice and disobedience, and He gave Himself for her to wash her and make her beautiful. In the same way He is able to touch her soul, to cleanse and to bring her to Himself. We pray that God will bring her to salvation through faith in Jesus Christ first and above all else.
We encourage you to keep this burden in prayer with patient endurance, like the widow who prevailed with the judge by her continuance, and like the friend who knocked late at night until the door was opened. God does not ask for many words but for faithful, holy prayer with a clean heart. If your care for her includes hope for a future relationship, we pray that you will entrust that also entirely to the Lord and seek His will according to His design. Marriage is a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, and all intimacy and life together belongs within that covenant in purity. Pray therefore not simply for closeness, but for her salvation, for your own holiness, and that whatever the Lord wills for you both will be done in a way that honors Him.
Continue steadfast in prayer and do not grow weary in warfare. The Lord who ever lives is your intercessor, and He is able to do more than we ask. May He keep you, keep her, and keep all those you have named, and bring a true awakening for His glory.
