Silas
Beloved of All
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Thank you for sharing this burden and for your love that continues to intercede for this man and for his family. We join you in praying for him before the Lord.
We pray first for his salvation, because that is the greatest need any person has. The name Jesus itself means the Lord is salvation, and He became the author of eternal salvation by going to the cross in obedience to the Father. The grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all, and Scripture urges us that now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation. To be saved is not simply to say words or to affirm a creed that others have said, and even the evil spirits recognized who Jesus was yet were not saved. Salvation comes when a person puts trust in Him as Savior and submits to His Lordship, confessing with the mouth that Jesus is Lord and believing in the heart that God raised Him from the dead. God is gracious and patient and long suffering, not wanting any to perish, but that patience is not to be presumed upon. We pray that God would draw your former loved one to that genuine faith while the door is open.
We also pray for his health in his serious and life threatening condition. The apostle John wrote to his friend Gaius that he wished above all things that he would prosper and be in good health even as his soul prospered. That was a beautiful and loving wish from one friend to another, not a blanket promise that God will heal every sickness in this life in the way we ask. There is a real connection between the health of the soul and the rest of our lives, and we certainly desire his physical well being. We know the Lord has power over sickness and over the spiritual realm. When He walked among us He healed the leper, He healed the servant of the centurion, He healed Peter's mother in law, and in the evening multitudes came with sicknesses and He healed them, fulfilling what Isaiah said, that He bore our infirmities and carried our sicknesses. Yet Scripture also shows that God does not will physical healing in every case in this present life, as we see when Paul prayed three times concerning his thorn in the flesh and the Lord answered differently. The greatest miracle in any life is the forgiveness of sins and the gift of eternal life. So we pray for healing for this man according to the Lord's mercy and wisdom, asking the Great Physician to touch his body, to give wisdom to those caring for him, and above all to prosper his soul through salvation.
We pray as well for his healing from trauma and for the emotional and behavioral struggles you mentioned, and for the wake up call you desire for him. God calls every person to repentance, which means a real change, not only feeling sorry about consequences. There is a sorrow that is merely of this world and works death, and there is a godly sorrow that works repentance leading to salvation. True repentance bears fruit that shows a new direction, a turning from what is evil and a doing of what is good because one has come to know God. One man in Scripture wept bitterly, but he was weeping because he had lost his inheritance, not because he truly turned from his sin. We pray that God would grant this man godly sorrow, that he would see his need clearly, turn from dysfunctional patterns, and bring forth fruit that demonstrates a changed heart and mind by the power of the Holy Spirit.
We lift up his loved ones as you asked, praying that they too would receive the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ alone and that God would guard their well being. May the Lord work in each of their hearts to seek Him while He may be found.
Father, we bring this man before You and ask for Your mercy upon him. Save him by Your grace through faith in Jesus Christ, heal his soul and, as You will, his body, grant him true repentance and a transformed life, and draw his loved ones to Yourself. We trust him to Your loving and sovereign hands and ask that Your will be done in his life for Your glory. In the name of Jesus our salvation we pray, amen.
Thank you for sharing this burden and for your love that continues to intercede for this man and for his family. We join you in praying for him before the Lord.
We pray first for his salvation, because that is the greatest need any person has. The name Jesus itself means the Lord is salvation, and He became the author of eternal salvation by going to the cross in obedience to the Father. The grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all, and Scripture urges us that now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation. To be saved is not simply to say words or to affirm a creed that others have said, and even the evil spirits recognized who Jesus was yet were not saved. Salvation comes when a person puts trust in Him as Savior and submits to His Lordship, confessing with the mouth that Jesus is Lord and believing in the heart that God raised Him from the dead. God is gracious and patient and long suffering, not wanting any to perish, but that patience is not to be presumed upon. We pray that God would draw your former loved one to that genuine faith while the door is open.
We also pray for his health in his serious and life threatening condition. The apostle John wrote to his friend Gaius that he wished above all things that he would prosper and be in good health even as his soul prospered. That was a beautiful and loving wish from one friend to another, not a blanket promise that God will heal every sickness in this life in the way we ask. There is a real connection between the health of the soul and the rest of our lives, and we certainly desire his physical well being. We know the Lord has power over sickness and over the spiritual realm. When He walked among us He healed the leper, He healed the servant of the centurion, He healed Peter's mother in law, and in the evening multitudes came with sicknesses and He healed them, fulfilling what Isaiah said, that He bore our infirmities and carried our sicknesses. Yet Scripture also shows that God does not will physical healing in every case in this present life, as we see when Paul prayed three times concerning his thorn in the flesh and the Lord answered differently. The greatest miracle in any life is the forgiveness of sins and the gift of eternal life. So we pray for healing for this man according to the Lord's mercy and wisdom, asking the Great Physician to touch his body, to give wisdom to those caring for him, and above all to prosper his soul through salvation.
We pray as well for his healing from trauma and for the emotional and behavioral struggles you mentioned, and for the wake up call you desire for him. God calls every person to repentance, which means a real change, not only feeling sorry about consequences. There is a sorrow that is merely of this world and works death, and there is a godly sorrow that works repentance leading to salvation. True repentance bears fruit that shows a new direction, a turning from what is evil and a doing of what is good because one has come to know God. One man in Scripture wept bitterly, but he was weeping because he had lost his inheritance, not because he truly turned from his sin. We pray that God would grant this man godly sorrow, that he would see his need clearly, turn from dysfunctional patterns, and bring forth fruit that demonstrates a changed heart and mind by the power of the Holy Spirit.
We lift up his loved ones as you asked, praying that they too would receive the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ alone and that God would guard their well being. May the Lord work in each of their hearts to seek Him while He may be found.
Father, we bring this man before You and ask for Your mercy upon him. Save him by Your grace through faith in Jesus Christ, heal his soul and, as You will, his body, grant him true repentance and a transformed life, and draw his loved ones to Yourself. We trust him to Your loving and sovereign hands and ask that Your will be done in his life for Your glory. In the name of Jesus our salvation we pray, amen.
