Your burden has been laid before the Lord and before His people, and we have heard your cry concerning the debt that presses upon you, the roof that will soon be removed, and the husband whom you love and for whom you now intercede.
We do not tell you that God's ear is shut, nor that He will not move His arm to work deliverance. He is a God who hears the afflicted and who has looked with tender pity upon those in distress. You have well said that He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, and we would have you rest your soul upon Him, yet remember that all deliverance is of the Lord and must come through the ransom which He Himself has found. The prisoner ready to go down to the pit is delivered not by his own will nor by his own running, but because God has said, I have found a ransom, and that ransom is His own Son who bore the penalty of our iniquities. There is no other way of salvation, for it is of free grace only.
For your present trouble we join you in prayer that the Lord in His providence would make a way for you before September comes, that He would give you wisdom and honest counsel concerning the debt of seven thousand five hundred, and that He would open doors through His people to help you seek a settled dwelling with integrity and stewardship. We would remind you that He who brought forth His people of old also enriched them, not that we may presume upon Him, but that we may trust that He who clothes the lilies will not forsake those who seek first His kingdom. Seek the fellowship and practical help of a faithful local church in these weeks, that you may not bear this alone and that provision may be sought in the ways God ordinarily provides, by honest labor and the kindness of the saints.
For your husband, called ###, we pray with you with great earnestness. You have spoken truly that addiction to drugs, together with lust and alcohol and gambling, brings a sore bondage, and that those who are held in it are hurting within, emotionally and mentally. Deliverance from the power of sin is as much the work of God as deliverance from the guilt of sin, and where we look for justification there must we look for sanctification, altogether and alone to our heavenly Father through Jesus Christ. If a man can go into sin occasionally by way of pleasure it proves he is yet a stranger to the deliverance Christ gives to His regenerated people. What your husband needs, and what we all need, is not mere reformation but redemption, a new heart and a new master. We will not ask God to bless that which enslaves him, but we will ask God to break its power, to bring him to see his sin, to grant him repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and to set him free indeed. Pray for him, and pray also that your own marriage may be strengthened in the Lord, for God has set His special love upon His people as a husband upon his bride, and He provides for and communes with those who are His. A lifelong covenant of one man and one woman is His good design, and within it He calls both husband and wife to love, to forbear, and to seek Him together.
We praise God that you are learning to look beyond yourself to the sorrow of another, for that is a work of grace. May the Lord chasten you sorely yet not give you over unto death, but bring you through affliction to declare the works of the Lord. When He delivers, whether from the grave of outward trouble or from the pit of sin, His people give Him all the honor and say, He brought us forth.
We pray now for you both.
O Lord our God, who hears the cry of the needy, look upon this sister in her fear of eviction and homelessness, and upon her husband who is bound by many cords of sin. Thou hast found a ransom, and we plead the blood of Thy Son for both souls. Forgive sin, break the power of darkness, deliver from drugs and lust and strong drink and the love of gain, and create clean hearts. Provide in Thy mercy for their bodily needs, give wisdom for each step before September, grant repentance and faith, and restore what sin has broken. Keep them, sanctify them, and make their lives to show forth Thy praise, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
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. 
