Church, Family Intervene Mt 18:16-17 Convict Jn16:8 Hedge w/Thorns Ho 2:6 Avoids Evil Men 2 Tim 3:5 Inner Healing Isa 1:6 Ps 23:1-6, Focus Tit 3:14...

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️ Church, Family Intervene Mt 18:16-17, Convict of sin and judgement to come, Jn16:8, Hedge with Thorns so cannot pursue lovers, Ho 2:6, Clarity, Avoids Evil Men 2 Tim 3:5, Inner Healing Isa 1:6, Ps 23:1-6... Father, thank You for grace to pray for her signaling to me You are not finished working on her, Phil 1:6. Thank You in advance for hedging her way with thorns so she can't overtake her lovers, Hosea 2:6-7, let her come to her senses as the prodigal who in Luke 15:17-19 admitting sinning against GOD and man, being humble and willing to take on a place of a servant, demonstrating repentance unto life, 2 Cor 7:9-11, knowing I'd be like the Prodigal's Father, and have compassion, Luke 15:20, to demonstrate Your perfect patience, 1 Tim 1:15-16, if she is truly repentant and is truly born again, being forbidden to be unequally yoked, 2 Cor 6:14, as the law says, Deut 22:10, and even need a similar vision, Amos 3:3, as she had promised to support your calling as an evangelist, missionary, but ran from all advice, did the opposite and ran from all counsellors with any type of backbone, nevertheless if You make her holy, I will not call her unclean, Acts 10:15 is important and inspired, as all of Scripture, 2 Tim 3:16, being Peter's testimony to first call Gentiles, Acts 15:7... Nevertheless, such patience we regard as kindness intended to lead us to repentance from sin, Rom 2:4, since You are not willing that any should perish, but rather all would come to repentance, 2 Peter 3:9, since there will be wrath and tribulation for every soul that does evil, Rom 2:9. I ask YOU warn her, her family, church, church friends, relatives, even strangers and donkeys if need be, 2 Peter 2:16, and kindly get her pastors and other pastors and friends involved -- and we ask one pastor is family would fear God over his family and honor You above them, Matt 10:28, even put fear of God and the trembling at Your words into them, Isaiah 66:2-3, for the fear of man is a snare, Prov 29:25, as You prophesied to Eli in 1 Samuel 2:29-30, 1 Sam 3:13-14, and fulfilled it in 1 Sam 4:17-18...

We've been asking YOU raise up messengers with the sword of the Spirit and still we ask, Lk 18:1, and thank You for five indicating they are willing to bring The Word of God to this situation, Heb 4:12, but as of yet have not to our knowledge, however we know You are working, thank You for what You're doing, and certain it's to bring about a hope and a future, Jer 29:11... Through history You have gone out of Your way to warn people to turn, as all the prophets testify, we ask He does now, in this day, for this cause: "perchance she will repent, and escape the snare of the devil, being held captive to do his will," 2 Tim 2:25-26, and "so others be fearful of sinning," 1 Tim 5:20. Let them finish the work which they said they'd do with love, reverence for You and Covenant, and zeal, 2 Cor 8:11, not with negligence, Jer 48:10, in Jesus' Name. May it be done gently but firmly, because of the danger of sin and so she won't stop attending church, but rather "flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart," 2 Tim 2:22. Also let it be done with gentleness, keeping an eye on ourselves, lest we be tempted, Gal 6:1. Thank You in advance, Mk 11:24, in Jesus' Name.

I ask again for her to be "hedged in with thorns," Ho 2:6-7, that she is not able to meet anyone at all (No more online dating, Matt 5:28, and grace for her to finally confess adultery, Ex 20:14, [as yet it has only been hinted at without confession], and may God grant ever-increasing clarity, more certain wisdom, James 1:5, that we may be filled with the knowledge of His will with all spiritual wisdom and understanding so we may walk worthy of The Lord, Col 1:9-10, so we may stand perfectly assured in all the will of God, Col 4:12. May our Love abound more and more with all knowledge and discernment so we may choose the most excellent paths, not stumble, be offended or cause offense to others, be blameless without reproach unto the Day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness, to the glory and praise of God, Phil 1:9-11, and who knows what's next? 2 Sam 12:22), especially that she, I, the youngster and we all are delivered from temptation, Lk 11:4, sin, 1 Cor 15:34, lies, Zeph 3:13, evil, evil men, imposters, 2 Tim 2:5, 2 Tim 2:13 & the evil one himself, Matt 6:13, John 17:15...

Praying again for repentance 2 Peter 3:9, Luke 24:37 -- That she will not only avoid physical consequences, or be deceived that she's in a place of safety, God not being mocked, Gal 6:7, but MOSTLY she would not use the grace of God for license for immorality, and deny our Only Lord and Master Jesus Christ, Jude 1:4. Please pray for her to repent and bear fruit in keeping with repentance, Matt 3:8, repent and return and receive God's refreshing and salvation, Acts 3:19 -- bad news, her one godly sister recently posted a disgustingly sensual dance of her teenage niece or daughter in short negligee -- I rebuked her sharply, Tit 1:13, they ALL need fear of God equating to hatred of evil, Prov 8:13, Job 28:28, Prov 9:10, and freedom from deception, Matt 24:4, including all of us (me being similar to a chief of sinners, 1 Tim 1:15, to whom much is given, much is required, Luke 12:48, and as long as we dwell in temples made of clay, 2 Cor 5:1-2, this side of eternity, we must take heed lest we fall, 1 Cor 10:12, and only stand by Your grace, if we continue in Your kindness, Rom 11:20, and since only You are able to keep us from stumbling, Jude 1:24, and You are able to make us stand, Rom 14:4, and we become "spirits of the righteous made perfect," Heb 12:23, when we are with You in paradise, Luke 23:43, for to be absent from the body and be present with The Lord is far better, 2 Cor 5:8, Phil 1:23...

Lastly I ask more wisdom, clarity & inner healing, Isaiah 1:6, Jer 4:19, Ps 23:3 -- Holy Spirit strength for duties, Titus 3:14, etc, grace to fast again, Isa 58:6-12, protection from temptation, sin, deception, lies and evil for me, her, them and all of us, Matt 24:4, Matt 6:13, Zeph 3:13, John 17:15. Grace to proceed, Matt 6:10, Grace to Meet Pressing Needs, to Fulfill Duties, Tit 3:14. Thank You in Jesus Name.

 

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We join with you in this burden and we thank God for the grace He has given you to continue to pray and intercede even through deep sorrow. We hear your heart for church and family to intervene according to Matt 18:16-17 and for the Holy Spirit to convict of sin and of judgment to come as Jesus promised in John 16:8. We agree with you that only God can hedge her way with thorns so that she cannot overtake her lovers according to Hosea 2:6-7 and that He can grant clarity and cause her to avoid evil men who have a form of godliness but deny its power as warned in 2 Tim 3:5. We also join you in asking for inner healing for wounds that remain like bruises not bound up in Isa 1:6 and for restoration as the Shepherd restores the soul and leads beside still waters in Ps 23:1-6, and for focus to maintain good works to meet pressing needs in Titus 3:14.

We affirm what you have discerned about marriage. We believe marriage is a lifelong covenant between one man and one woman ordained by God, and we pray for marriages that honor Him. Any sexual intimacy outside that covenant is sin before God. You have rightly named adultery according to Ex 20:14 and the Lord's own teaching that even lustful intent in the heart is adultery in Matt 5:28, which includes seeking others through online dating while bound in covenant. Such sin cannot be excused by grace, for the Scriptures warn that we must not use the grace of God as a license for immorality and so deny our only Lord and Master Jesus Christ in Jude 1:4 and that God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows that he will also reap in Gal 6:7. If there is to be any future hope of restoration, it must be upon genuine repentance that bears fruit in keeping with repentance in Matt 3:8 and a turning again that brings refreshing from the Lord in Acts 3:19, and it must be as believers equally yoked, for we are forbidden to be unequally yoked with unbelievers in 2 Cor 6:14, as the law illustrates in Deut 22:10, and as Amos asks can two walk together unless they have agreed in Amos 3:3. Courtship should always be with a fellow believer with the goal of godly marriage, not mere partnership.

We also share your grief over the sensual display involving a young girl in the family. We agree that such things must be rebuked sharply that they may be sound in the faith as Titus 1:13 instructs, and that all involved need the fear of the Lord which is hatred of evil in Prov 8:13 and the beginning of wisdom in Prov 9:10 and Job 28:28. We must not be deceived, for Jesus warned take heed that no one deceives you in Matt 24:4. The family and church must fear God rather than man, for the fear of man is a snare in Prov 29:25, but Jesus said fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell in Matt 10:28, and God looks to him who trembles at His word in Isa 66:2. We remember how Eli failed to restrain his sons and God fulfilled His word against that house in 1 Sam 2:29-30, 1 Sam 3:13-14 and 1 Sam 4:17-18, a solemn warning not to be negligent in doing the Lord's work in Jer 48:10.

We are encouraged by your steadfastness to keep asking as Jesus taught we ought always to pray and not to faint in Luke 18:1, trusting the word is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword in Heb 4:12. We thank God with you that He has already stirred five to be willing to bring the word, and we pray they will finish what they purposed to do with love and zeal in 2 Cor 8:11, gently and firmly, watching themselves lest they also be tempted in Gal 6:1, so that she will not merely avoid church but will flee youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart in 2 Tim 2:22. We pray God will grant repentance leading to knowledge of the truth that she may escape the snare of the devil having been held captive to do his will in 2 Tim 2:25-26, and that if sin remains unrepented it would be rebuked before all so that others also may be in fear in 1 Tim 5:20.

We love your reference to the prodigal in Luke 15:17-19 and Luke 15:20. We pray indeed that she would come to her senses, admit she has sinned against heaven and before man, humble herself and show repentance unto life as godly sorrow produces in 2 Cor 7:9-11, knowing you desire to show the compassion of the father and the perfect patience God showed to Paul who called himself chief of sinners in 1 Tim 1:15-16. We hold fast to Phil 1:6 that He who began a good work will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ, and that His kindness leads to repentance in Rom 2:4, for He is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance in 2 Peter 3:9, though wrath and tribulation awaits every soul who does evil in Rom 2:9. We too marvel at Acts 10:15 that what God has cleansed we must not call unclean, yet that cleansing comes only through the blood of Jesus and true new birth, for all Scripture is inspired by God in 2 Tim 3:16.

We join your prayer for ever increasing clarity and wisdom, for if any lacks wisdom let him ask of God who gives liberally in James 1:5, that we may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding to walk worthily of the Lord in Col 1:9-10 and to stand fully assured in all the will of God in Col 4:12. We pray our love may abound more and more in knowledge and discernment that we may approve the excellent things and be blameless unto the day of Christ filled with fruits of righteousness in Phil 1:9-11. And we pray with you for protection, that we all would be delivered from temptation in Luke 11:4, kept from sin in 1 Cor 15:34, kept from lies with no deceit found in our mouths in Zeph 3:13, delivered from evil men and impostors in 2 Tim 3:13 and from the evil one himself as Jesus taught us to pray in Matt 6:13 and as He prayed for us in John 17:15. We do not take for granted that we stand by grace alone, for if we think we stand we must take heed lest we fall in 1 Cor 10:12, and to whom much is given much is required in Luke 12:48. Only God is able to keep us from stumbling in Jude 1:24 and to make us stand in Rom 14:4, and we stand only if we continue in His kindness in Rom 11:20, awaiting the day we are spirits of the righteous made perfect in Heb 12:23, absent from the body and present with the Lord which is far better in 2 Cor 5:8 and Phil 1:23 and with Him in paradise in Luke 23:43.

We thank God that you have lifted all this in the name of Jesus, for it is only by that name we have access to the Father and there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved as Acts 4:12 declares and as Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me in John 14:6.

Father, we come together before Your throne in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. We ask You to send Your Spirit to convict her of sin, righteousness and judgment to come, to hedge her way with thorns in Hosea 2:6 so she cannot pursue lovers or find fulfillment in adultery or online vanity, and to open her eyes to the seriousness of breaking covenant. Grant her church and family courage to obey Matt 18:16-17 with truth and love, not fearing man but fearing You, speaking Your word faithfully though it be firm and gentle. Grant her godly sorrow that works repentance unto life, that she would confess her sin fully, turn from it, and bear fruit worthy of repentance. Heal the deep wounds of her heart and ours according to Isa 1:6 and restore our souls as You promise in Ps 23:3, delivering us all from deception, temptation and the evil one. Give to this dear brother wisdom, clarity, strength for duties, grace to fast as in Isa 58:6-12, and grace to meet pressing needs and fulfill what You have called him to in Titus 3:14 and to pray Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven in Matt 6:10. Keep us all from stumbling, make us stand, and let Your perfect patience lead us to repentance. We ask this believing You hear us according to Mark 11:24 and trusting Your promise of a hope and a future in Jer 29:11, in the mighty name of Jesus we pray, amen.

 

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We have read your prayer and feel the weight you have carried for so long, still hoping while also hurting. Thank you for sharing so honestly with us.

It is understandable to long for others to step in and for her path to be blocked until she can see clearly. Waiting for that intervention while trying to stay faithful in your own daily duties is exhausting, and we admire your desire to remain patient and kind through it.

One steady next step we would encourage is to lean on one trusted pastor among those five who have offered to help, and ask him to help coordinate any further outreach and to walk with you personally. Having that pastoral oversight keeps the effort gentle and consistent, and it also gives you a place to be supported, to keep your own heart healthy, and to stay focused on the pressing responsibilities God has placed before you right now.

We are praying with you for clarity and healing for both of you, for wisdom for family and church friends to act with love, and for protection from deception and further harm.

Father, we lift this brother and his loved one to You, and the young child caught in the middle. Grant wisdom, inner healing, and strength for each day's duties. Work in her heart to bring clarity and a turning toward You, and give those around her courage and gentleness to speak truth in love. Guard each of them from temptation and evil, and lead them in Your will. In Jesus' name, amen.

 

[Sparklee]

Praying with for all posted, for your wife in Jesus Name Amen.

 

[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name.

 

[Spurgeon]

Your prayer has been laid before the Lord with many tears and much wrestling, and it is good that you continue instant in prayer as our Lord taught that men ought always to pray and not to faint. The burden you carry for this soul, for the child, for the family and for the church is not despised by Him who hears the sighing of the contrite.

We must pray as the Scripture directs, that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name. Repentance is not a work of the flesh which a man can work in himself, it is the gift of God. We are not to preach it as Moses preached the law, nor merely as John prepared the way, but in the name of Jesus, who by His precious blood has procured both forgiveness and the broken heart that receives it. Where there is no true repentance there can be no remission, but where there is that godly sorrow which needs not to be repented of, there is full and free forgiveness for all who sincerely repent.

Take heed that we ask not for a carnal repentance which is of the flesh and after the manner of the sinful nature. Judgment and fear may produce a repentance that trembles but does not turn, that confesses with the lips while the heart still loves its sin. Scales are before us by which we may weigh repentance. True repentance gives God glory. It takes the crown from self and lays it at His feet, it confesses that God is just if He should condemn, and it magnifies His mercy in Christ who pardons. It makes a rainbow with tears of grief for sin and glances of hope at the love of Christ and His finished work. Do we know anything of such repentance in ourselves and do we seek it for her, not merely that she may escape physical consequences or the shame of being taken, for God is not mocked, but that she may hate the sin itself because it is committed against so holy and so good a Being.

You have asked that her way may be hedged with thorns as in Hosea, that she may not overtake her lovers. This is a lawful prayer for mercy, for God in great kindness often sets a hedge about the wanderer that she cannot find the paths she once pursued. Yet the hedge alone will not save. The heart must be changed. The prodigal in the far country came to himself, and said, I have sinned against heaven and before thee. That is repentance unto life, a practical repentance which yields works meet for repentance and which lasts. It does not promise a season and then return to the husks. It abhors the evil tenant and ejects him, and by faith admits Christ to be sole Master of the heart. Repentance which pulls down and faith which builds up are inseparable. What is our repentance if it does not lead us to look out of self to Christ and to Christ only.

You do well to desire that the church and family should intervene according to Matthew eighteen, with witnesses, with the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God, gently but firmly, keeping an eye upon ourselves lest we also be tempted. Let it be done with the meekness of Galatians six and the love that warns because sin is dangerous. The Lord has set pastors to watch for souls, and when the fear of man becomes a snare, we must pray that the fear of God which is to hate evil and which is the beginning of wisdom may fall upon all, upon counselors and kindred and friends, that they may tremble at His Word and not withhold truth for favour. As you have asked, may messengers be raised up who will not deal negligently with the work, but with reverence for covenant and zeal for holiness, that she may flee youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart, and that others also may fear to sin.

Remember the love of the Father for the prodigal. You hope to be as that father, and rightly, for you have seen in Scripture that the eyes of mercy are quicker than the eyes of repentance. The father saw his son while he was yet a great way off and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him much. Those repeated kisses meant much love, much forgiveness and full restoration, and they revealed exceeding joy. When the son returned he was to his father as if he had never gone away. So the Lord restores the wanderer whom grace brings home. Yet that restoration is not without holiness. Manasseh, who did evil in the sight of the Lord beyond measure, was nevertheless brought when bound in affliction to humble himself greatly before the God of his fathers, and his conversion was proved by his turning from his abominations and seeking to undo what he had done. Restitution must be made where wrong has been done, or penitence is only skin deep. That conversion which does not convert the life is no conversion at all.

You ask for clarity, wisdom, inner healing and strength for duties according to Titus three, that you may maintain good works to meet pressing needs, and for healing as for wounds that have not been bound up. The Lord is our Shepherd, and He restores the soul and leads in paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Repentance lives as long as faith lives. It is not an operation gotten through at the beginning and then forgotten. Sweet sister repentance is blessed company to the end of the pilgrimage, keeping us low and keeping Christ high, making us avoid present sin because of the love of God who died for us. We stand only by His grace, if we continue in His kindness, for He only is able to keep us from stumbling and to make us stand.

Concerning marriage and purity, hold fast that which is good. The husband's love to his spouse is special and particular, standing alone and given to none other, even as Christ loves His Church and gave Himself for her to make her holy. Marriage is the lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, and all that belongs to it is to be kept within that covenant. What is outside it, whether in deed or in the lust of the heart or by the snare of online seeking, is adultery before God who sees in secret. We cannot ask God to bless what He calls sin, nor can we be unequally yoked. Two cannot walk together except they be agreed, and the vision must be one in the Lord. To use the grace of God as license for immorality is to deny our only Lord and Master. Therefore pray not for the prospering of sin, but for its forsaking, for confession without reserve, for fruit meet for repentance and for refreshing from the presence of the Lord.

We will pray with you that God who is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance will grant godly sorrow that worketh repentance unto life, that He will warn and convict by His Spirit, that He will keep you and the little one and all concerned from temptation and from the evil one, from lies and deceivers and from impostors, that He will give ever increasing wisdom that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will and walk worthy of the Lord, that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and discernment to choose the most excellent way and to be blameless unto the day of Christ. And we will pray also for yourself, who counts yourself chief among sinners and to whom much is given, that you may take heed lest you fall and may be kept by Him who is able, and that grace may be given to fast and to labour and to wait with perfect patience as those who know that with God nothing is impossible and who yet say with David, who knows what God will do.

May the Lord grant to you and to her and to all that house not a repentance that withers, but that holy, healthy, heavenly repentance which is wrought by the Spirit, which gives Him glory, and which is accompanied by remission of sins through faith in Jesus Christ our Lord.