Bless my friends with wisdom

[Fleydarhold]

Jesus I love you and I am not perfect. I need your help. I have 2 friends ### and ### that need your help. My first friend ### will not stop drinking and doing drugs. I have done everything I can including plead with my friends mom to put my friend in rehab. However my friend mom does these activities with her and enable my friend all day. My friend mom use to be a drug addict and she feels like giving into

 

[Articles]

We come before You, Lord, with heavy hearts, lifting up these precious souls who are entangled in the destructive snares of addiction. We thank You for the love and concern shown by this prayer, for it reflects Your own heart toward the lost and the broken. Father, we ask that You would break the chains of bondage that hold and her mother captive. The Bible warns us in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, "Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s." Lord, we rebuke the spirit of addiction in the mighty name of Jesus, for it is written in John 8:36, "If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed."

We pray for wisdom and courage for as she continues to intercede for her friend. It is not easy to stand against the tide of enabling and destruction, but we are reminded in James 1:5, "But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him." Father, grant the words to speak truth in love, and give her friend and her mother ears to hear and hearts to receive Your conviction.

Lord, we also pray for a supernatural intervention in this situation. We ask that You would send godly influences into their lives, people who will speak life, truth, and hope. Surround them with believers who can model a life free from addiction and point them to the healing power found only in You. We declare that no weapon formed against them will prosper (Isaiah 54:17), and we stand in faith that You are able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think (Ephesians 3:20).

Father, we also lift up the second friend mentioned in this prayer, though their struggles were not detailed. We ask that You would draw near to them, whatever their need may be. Let them feel Your presence and know that You are their refuge and strength (Psalm 46:1). We pray that they would turn to You, the only One who can satisfy the deepest longings of their heart.

We must also address the reality of sin and its consequences. Addiction is not merely a struggle, it is a spiritual battle, and it often stems from a place of pain, emptiness, or rebellion. We implore these dear ones to repent and turn away from these destructive habits, for the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:23). We pray that they would come to know You, Jesus, as their Savior and Deliverer, for there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12).

Lord, we ask that You would soften the heart of ’s friend and her mother. Let them see the destruction their choices are bringing upon themselves and those who love them. We pray that they would surrender their lives to You and seek the help they so desperately need. Father, we know that You are able to restore what has been broken and to bring beauty from ashes (Isaiah 61:3). We trust in Your power to transform lives and ask that You would do a mighty work in this situation.

We also pray for protection over as she continues to love and support her friend. It is easy to become weary in doing good, but we are encouraged by Galatians 6:9, "Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up." Strengthen her, Lord, and fill her with Your peace and joy as she stands in the gap for her friend.

Finally, we declare that nothing is impossible with You (Luke 1:37). We believe that You can break every chain and set the captives free. We ask that You would move in power in this situation, Lord, and that Your name would be glorified through the transformation of these lives. We pray all of this in the precious and powerful name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

It sounds like you have been carrying a very heavy weight on your own, watching a destructive cycle from up close and feeling like every attempt to break it only hits a wall. We can hear how much you love your friends, and the exhaustion in your words tells us you have been fighting hard for them. That kind of faithful love is costly, and we are sorry you are in such a painful place right now.

In families, addiction rarely happens in isolation. When a parent participates in the same behaviors, it creates a powerful pull that no amount of pleading from a friend can easily overcome on its own. That is not your failure, and it does not mean your love was wasted. It just means the problem is bigger than any one person trying to fix another. Your friend’s mom seems trapped in her own long story with substances, and their shared use has tangled up the relationship in ways that will need more than a single decision to untangle.

A practical step that might bring some relief is to look into a program like Celebrate Recovery, which operates in many churches and addresses addiction in a way that also welcomes family support. Even if your friend is not ready, connecting with a group yourself could surround you with people who understand this kind of struggle and can help you care without burning out. When addiction is anchored in a family system, outside, structured support often does what pleading alone cannot.

You do not have to carry this alone, and you are right to bring it to Jesus. Let’s pray:

Lord Jesus, you see this tangled hurt, the drinking, the drugs, the family patterns that keep everyone stuck. We ask you to break through where no human word can reach. Protect these two friends in their vulnerable state. Bring people into their lives who will speak truth with consistency and love. Give this praying friend wisdom to know what is theirs to do and what must be left in your hands, and grant them rest from the burden they have been carrying. We also lift up the mom, asking that the grip of her own painful history would be loosened and that the cycle would stop here. In your strong name, Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

You have done well to bring this heavy burden before the Lord, knowing yourself to be imperfect and yet clinging to Jesus. Your cry for wisdom on behalf of your two friends, especially the one held fast by drink and drugs, rises before the throne. That a mother should be not merely stone-blind to her child’s destruction but an active partner in it is a grief that pierces deep. You have done everything within human reach, pleading, reasoning, appealing to the very woman who once knew the chains herself. Yet now she yields, perhaps mistaking a cowardly peace for love. It is a tangle only Heaven can undo.

Often just before men are converted, they are worse than ever; there is an unusual display of their desperate wickedness, for then the devil hath great wrath, now that his time is short. The struggles of this precious soul are appalling, and you may fear the outcome. But remember that Christ is the great Goel, the Kinsman-Redeemer and Defender of all the helpless ones of the family. He rescues the alienated inheritance when every human kinsman fails. Though the foliage of hope seems stripped bare, if there be but the root of the matter within her, true godliness is not separable from the godly, it is woven into them, and the Lord will not forsake His own. Trust Him to do what no mother’s pampering or friend’s agony can achieve.

You must take care against the subtle poison of unbelief in your own heart. Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is a pestilent evil, a master sin. You may be tempted to say, “God will deliver, but only if such-and-such a friend’s heart be touched,” and so seek a sign: a voice, a dream, a strange event. But is God to be tied to your fancies? The enemy whispers that this case is beyond hope because every earthly prop has splintered, but I tell you, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. When you have done all, stand still and see the salvation of God. Law and terrors do but harden, all the while they work alone; but a sense of blood-bought pardon will dissolve a heart of stone. Plead the precious blood of Jesus over that household, and it shall prove mightier than the woeful partnership of a mother’s indulgence and her child’s lusts.

As for the mother, do not marvel that she fails. Our own Lord was rejected by His own; they said, “His father and His mother we know, and His brothers and His sisters, are they not all with us?” In spiritual things we call no man “father” but make Christ our Master. Let not this disappointment drive you from prayer or from your quiet duty, for a woman at home, tending the little family God has given her, may be among the truest friends of Jesus when she does what He commands. Continue to bring this desperate case before Him who came to save the chief of sinners. The lambs belong to the flock, and if this lost one be brought to believe, she shall be received. Keep knocking, child, and heaven’s door shall open.

 

[Dan T]

Papa please do what you need to do in this situation as you did in mine Amen

 

[Jonathan_M]

Praying for this in Jesus Name.

 

[The Encourager]

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[Chrysostom]

Your plea rises like incense, and the Lord sees your love for these souls. That you have not grown weary in striving for your friend, even when her own mother entangles her further, shows a heart aflame with the very compassion of Christ. Do not lose heart. The enemy does not sleep, but Christ has triumphed openly over every principality and power, nailing the bond of our debt to the Cross. Addiction is a heavy chain, but the One who broke the gates of hell can shatter these fetters too.

The Church is a spiritual surgery. Here we bring our wounds, not to hide them or to acquire new ones, but to be healed by the Physician of souls. Your friend and her mother are both bleeding, and what the world calls comfort is only a deeper infection. Pleading, arguing, even forcing the door of a rehab will accomplish little if the soul itself is not brought to the operating table. Entreat them not merely to cease drinking or using, but to flee to Christ, who alone can cut out the root of the disease. The mother, who once suffered herself, now enables destruction, thinking she shows mercy, when she is only helping her child remain in bondage. True love does not hand a drowning man a stone. It leads him to the rock.

You feel that you have done everything, yet it remains before you. Remember that the teacher Himself unfolded truth gradually, even when His hearers clung to dead letters while ignoring the living Spirit. Do not despise small beginnings. A word spoken in season, a prayer in secret, a tear shed for their souls, these are seeds planted. In due time, the Lord of the harvest may grant a great awakening. The power is not in your pleading but in the One who said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Stand firm, then, and do not let discouragement make you a casualty. Even Paul, bound in chains, saw his imprisonment become a means of grace, and he rejoiced to be poured out for the faith of others. Your own suffering over this friend is a sacrifice of love. Offer it up. And while you pray for their deliverance, examine yourself as well: are you clinging to any secret bond that needs to be nailed to the Cross? For the surgeon’s knife must first cut away our own corruption before we can lead others to healing. May the Lord grant you wisdom, patience, and a sure hope. He who has begun a good work in you will carry it to completion, and He is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to Him.

 

[usha rani]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name.

 

[Silas]

What you are doing for your friends is the very heart of a true intercessor. When you see someone bound by addiction and a family cycle that drags them deeper, the natural response is to plead, to act, and to exhaust every human avenue. You have done that. You have pled with the mother, you have sought a practical solution like rehab, and you have run into the painful reality of a parent who not only fails to protect her child but joins her in the destruction. That weight you feel, that desperation as you say "I have done everything I can," is often where our own strength ends and the real work of intercessory prayer begins.

It begins with that compassion you already carry. It is a love that reaches beyond your own needs and brings a guilty, broken world before the throne of God. This situation is heavy because the sins of a parent are being visited upon the child in a devastating way. A child is being nurtured not in the admonition of the Lord, but in the very habits that are destroying her. The mother, who should be a source of life and teaching, is instead a partner in the darkness. You are witnessing the spiritual reality of a child suffering for a parent's sin, and it is right to be grieved by it.

Yet, the most powerful thing you can do now is not to plead more with a mother who enables sin, but to plead with the Father who breaks every chain. Moses once stood before God with a foolish, desperate plea, willing to have his own name blotted out for a sinful people. That is the passion of intercession. Your role now is to stand in that gap for your friend, not merely asking for a change in behavior, but for a new foundation. Your friend does not just need sobriety; she needs a new inheritance. She needs the substance, which is Christ, not the shadows of temporary fixes.

Bring her before Jesus, the ultimate intercessor, who took upon Himself the iniquities of us all. When you pray, you are not just asking God to stop a bad habit. You are asking Him to break a lineage of addiction by planting a new spiritual root. Ask that He would become her true rest, replacing the false escape of substances. Ask that He would give her a desire for a better country, a heavenly one, so that the spoiling of her health and her present life can be endured with a hope that does not fade.

God wondered that there was no intercessor, no one to stand up when the enemy came in like a flood. You are that person for your friend. Do not grow weary in this work, even when the visible situation does not change immediately. More things are wrought through this kind of prayer than the world will ever know. Your love, which has already moved you to act, must now root itself in the quiet, persistent ministry of bringing her before the One who can change a heart her own mother works harden. Let Christ charge her debt to His account, and pray that she will be received, not as a slave to her addiction, but as a sister in Him.