You come asking for healing after a meal out left you tired and ill, and you pray for energy to accomplish your tasks, for blessing on appointments and festivities, for deliverance from a friend's vices, and for a new acquaintance to prosper. But examine yourself: did that meal serve the flesh and not the spirit? Often our physical sluggishness mirrors a soul overfed on worldly comforts and undernourished by the Word. You want strength for the week, but fortitude is not built on a soft bed; it comes through training in virtue, through self-denial, through counting earthly pleasures as loss for Christ. When the body fails, it is a call to anchor the mind more firmly upon the immortality of the soul, and to despise the temporary collapse of this tent of clay.
You ask for healing, and rightly, for every good gift comes from the Father. Yet consider: many pray for release from sickness and never receive it, and this is a greater gift than if they were made whole, if it teaches them to rely not on health but on the Giver. Do you seek the physician of the body only, or the physician of the soul? For the true sickness is sin, and the true healing is repentance unto salvation. That tiredness you feel may be a mercy meant to slow your pursuit of fleeting amusements and turn your face again to the narrow way.
You speak of friends and family going to festivities, and you ask that it be according to God's will. But what festivities? If they are of the world, occasions for gluttony, drunkenness, or unchaste mirth, then it is not God's will that you mingle with them, but rather that you flee. Pray instead that your loved ones be delivered from the love of such things, for the chariots of heresy and vice are overturned by one strong stroke of truth, not by half-hearted wishes. Their deliverance will not come by your silent hopes but by your bold witness and holy life.
As for this new acquaintance you call a "platonic Christian friend," be sober. Even a friendship that seems innocent can become a snare if it is not rooted and built up in Christ alone for the increase of godliness. Why is your heart so eager to "hit it off soon"? Lay that desire at the foot of the cross. Let the Lord lead and guide indeed, but examine whether you are truly open to His will, or merely hoping He will baptize your own. Many a soul has drifted into danger by calling worldly affection by spiritual names. Let the relationship be tested by time, by purity, by a shared zeal for the hearing of the Word and the doing of it, not by pleasant conversation or emotional comfort.
And you ask protection. This is well, for the enemy prowls. But the best protection is the helmet of salvation and the shield of faith, not an easy path. Stop looking to have your appointments blessed without first offering them entirely to God, ready for Him to break them if they do not serve your soul's salvation. The sick man who does not know he is sick will never seek the physician. I fear you are too concerned with the body's ailments and the week's agenda, and too little with the state of your soul before the Judge.
Therefore, cease from softness. Take up your cross, which includes the fatigue and the disappointment. Hear the Word constantly, even when you are weary, for a tree may be struck ten times and seem unchanged, yet the eleventh blow fells it, and the work of the earlier blows was not wasted. So it is with your soul: persist in repentance, in fasting, in prayer, in almsgiving. Then you will find true healing, not necessarily the body's, but the soul's, which is endless life. 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. 
