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Please remove my ### from our lives. Let me go be with whom he wants or loves. I pray he is punished and weeps what he sows since he wishes to act so ugly. Punish ### for being negative, selfish, and mean. Help me understand them and remove these burdens from my life.
 
We hear the heaviness of your burden and we join with you in bringing it before the Lord, yet we must gently correct the spirit of this prayer as it is not aligned with God's heart.

It is understandable to feel hurt, exhausted and wounded by those who have been negative, selfish and mean toward you, and to desire relief and distance from that pain. God does invite us to cast our burdens on Him. We are told in 1 Pet 5:7 to cast all our worries on him, because he cares for you, and in Ps 55:22 to cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. Jesus himself says in Matt 11:28 Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. We do pray with you for that rest and for wisdom to understand what you are walking through.

However we cannot join you in praying for punishment or that this man would weep for what he sows, or that others would be punished. Vengeance does not belong to us. Scripture is clear in Rom 12:19 Do not seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord. And again in Matt 5:44 we are commanded, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you. In Eph 4:31-32 we are told let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

It is true that in Gal 6:7 whatever a man sows, that he will also reap, and God is just and will deal rightly with unrepentant sin. But our call is not to ask for their harm, but to pray for their repentance, for conviction and for transformation, and for God to bring justice in His perfect and merciful way while we release bitterness from our own hearts so it does not become a root that defiles us.

We also notice your request does not mention the name of Jesus Christ, and we want to lovingly remind you that it is only through Him that we have access to the Father. Jesus said in John 14:6 I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. And in Acts 4:12 we are told there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved. If you have not already, we encourage you to place your trust in Jesus Christ, believing that He died for your sins and rose again, confessing Him as Lord, for in Rom 10:9 we read that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. It is in His name we pray and find peace for our burdens.

If the man you speak of is your husband, we believe marriage is a lifelong covenant before God between a man and a woman, and we pray for marriage to be honored and for reconciliation where possible. If he is pursuing others whom he wants or loves outside of marriage, that is sin before God, whether fornication or adultery, and we pray he would turn from it and seek holiness. If this is a courtship relationship that is not yet marriage, we encourage you to seek God's will for a godly spouse, another believer who will love you as Christ loves the church, and to pursue relationships only in a way that honors God and leads toward marriage. In either case we do not pray for harm to come to him, but for God to work in his heart and yours.

So we pray together now.

Father in heaven, we come before You in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, lifting up our sister who is weary and burdened. Lord, You see the hurt, the selfishness and meanness she has endured, and You know every detail of these relationships. We ask You to lift this heavy burden from her and give her rest, to pour out Your peace that surpasses understanding and to grant her wisdom and clarity to understand these people as You see them, with eyes of truth and grace. Soften her heart to forgive as You have forgiven us, and remove all bitterness and desire for revenge, replacing it with love and mercy. We pray not for punishment upon those who have hurt her, but for their conviction, repentance and salvation, that they would turn from negativity and selfishness and be transformed by Your Spirit. If it is Your will to remove these individuals from her life or to bring separation from an ungodly or harmful relationship, we ask You to do so clearly and provide a godly path forward, and if restoration and healing is Your will, we pray for that instead. Lead her toward relationships and, if You will, toward a godly marriage that honors You. Draw her ever closer to Jesus, that she would know Him as her Savior and find her strength and identity in Him. We ask all this in the name of Jesus Christ, our only hope and mediator, amen.
 
We hear how worn down you feel in this marriage, and how much you want relief from the hurt and the ugliness you have been facing. Wanting the pain to stop and even wanting the one who hurt you to feel it is an honest, human response when you have been treated in a mean and selfish way.

One thing we have seen help others is recognizing that holding onto a desire for payback, even when it feels justified, often ends up weighing heaviest on the person carrying it. It can turn a soft heart hard over time without bringing the peace you are longing for. Forgiveness in the Christian life is often talked about as two parts that do not happen all at once. One is a decision to release the right to get even and leave justice in God's hands. The other is a slower, emotional healing where resentment is gradually softened, and that takes time and often support.

If it would help, consider taking your unfiltered honesty to God in private prayer, exactly as you feel it, and then sharing this burden with one trusted pastor or counselor who can walk with you at your pace and help you sort what is in your control and what is not.

Father, we lift this hurt to You. You see the pain in this marriage and the exhaustion it brings. Bring wisdom, protection and calm, help our friend release what is too heavy to carry alone, and lead step by step toward healing and clarity. In Jesus' name, amen.
 
Your burden has been heard, and the sorrow and bitterness you feel are not hidden from the Lord who sees the heart. It is a heavy thing to live under unkindness and selfishness, and to feel that another has acted ugly toward you, and it is right to bring that grief honestly before God.

Yet in your prayer you have asked that God would punish another and make him reap weeping for what he has sown. Hear what the Word teaches us, for there the Lord says vengeance belongeth unto Him, and we are called to another way. If we have felt the bitterness of our own sin against Christ, that bitterness takes away all bitterness against our fellow men. One effect of truly mourning for our sin is that we become sweet, gentle, kind, tender and forgiving towards others, remembering how much we offended God and how freely He has forgiven us.

There is forgiveness with God, and it is a divine forgiveness, I even I am He that blotteth out thy transgressions. It is a surprising forgiveness, a complete forgiveness, an eternal forgiveness, not because we deserve it but because Christ died, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God. He not only forgave us at the first, but He continues daily to forgive, and His forgiveness is so complete that when a man trusts Christ his sin is gone as though it had never been. If you have received such manifest forgiveness, so much outward sin forgiven, then for you to forgive ought to be as natural as to open your hands. Even as Christ forgave you, so also do you.

We cannot join you in asking God to punish any person or to bless a parting that would lead either of you into a relationship outside His holy design. Marriage is a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, and all intimacy and living together belong within it, and salvation is through Jesus Christ alone. To ask God to bless what is contrary to His Word would not be for your good or for the good of the other. Instead we will pray as Christ teaches us to pray.

Let us pray that the Lord will search your heart and his heart, that He will bring conviction where there is sin and comfort where there is wounding, that He will teach you both to seek forgiveness through the blood of Christ, and that He will remove bitterness not by cursing but by cleansing. May He grant you understanding, not after the flesh, but with the wisdom that comes from above, and may He lift this burden by making Christ very sweet to you, so that the world and its wrongs lose their power to embitter you. If there is sin to be forsaken, may God give grace to forsake it. If there is a covenant to be honored, may God give strength to honor it in holiness. And if you have not yet believed in the forgiveness of sins for yourself, do as Luther did and say, I believe in the forgiveness of sins, and believe it for yourself now, for there is forgiveness, there is forgiveness with Him.

We will continue to pray that the Lord will work in you a forgiving spirit, that He will guard you from revenge which is paltry while forgiveness is great minded, and that He will lead you into peace that comes from knowing your own debt has been blotted out and nailed to the Cross.
 
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, the way You want me to know You. So that I will trust You with my life and anyway that You move in my life. Bless me to trust You with all my heart, lean not to my own understanding, acknowledge You in all my ways, and allow You to direct my footsteps and actions. 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

Heal Me Lord Jesus Spirit, Soul, And Body
 

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