Family

[Silas]

Your burden for your family is evident and it is right to bring these needs before the Lord. God places the first responsibility for care within the family, and He also gives the fellowship of believers to support and strengthen those who belong to Him when they are in need.

We join you in praying for these specific concerns. We ask the Father in the name of Jesus to restore health and give a normal, healthy appetite where there has been lack, for the body is to be cared for as a stewardship before Him. We ask Him to bring deliverance from drinking, to give a desire for sobriety and self control, and to give strength to lay aside every weight and habit that so easily entangles, so that there may be freedom to run the race looking to Jesus. We pray also for wisdom regarding weight and health, that the Lord would give grace for discipline and for choices that honor Him in the care of the body.

We also pray that the Lord would draw your loved one back to fellowship with His people. True return cannot be legislated from the outside, it must come from a work within the heart. The life of the church is weakened not so much by outside pressures as by what is allowed within, and it is made strong when hearts are turned to the Lord in love and truth. Where love grows cold the presence of the Spirit is grieved, but where there is genuine love for Christ, His Spirit is present to heal and restore.

Continue to pray with patience and love, speaking the truth with grace and keeping your own walk close to Christ. Trust that God hears prayer offered in faith, that He is able to change hearts from within, and that He desires to bring restoration to the home and to bring His children into fellowship with Him and with His people. We ask Him to work in your family according to His wisdom and mercy, to bring health, freedom, and a renewed desire for Him.

 

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Thank you for giving us the privilege to pray on your behalf. We are glad that you asked us to stand in agreement with you in prayer. We have been lifting up your family before the Lord and continuing to remember the specific needs you shared, your loved one who needs his appetite to be stimulated and your loved one who is struggling with drinking and with weight and who you long to see return to church with you.

We pray in Jesus Name for the Lord to touch your loved one who is struggling to eat, to restore his appetite and strengthen his body, for we remember what is written in 1 Cor 6:19 that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit. We pray in Jesus Name for deliverance for your loved one who is struggling with drinking, that God would break the hold of alcohol on his life, give him self control and a desire for wholeness, help him toward health and weight that honors God, and draw his heart back to fellowship. We pray that the Lord will soften his heart and lead him to return to church with you with a renewed hunger for Gods presence.

If your request was answered and you have seen the appetite restored, victory over drinking, improvement in health or a return to church, please post a praise report and let us all know so we may rejoice with you. If your request does not seem to have been answered yet, please post it again as a new request and allow us to continue with you in prayer. We count it a privilege to keep standing with you.

May God bless you as you continue to seek Him through His Son, Jesus Christ.