Freedom, Protection and Restoration

[Cralmilan]

Jesus, I pray for my older daughter to release herself completely from this very toxic relationship with this young man swiftly with no regrets. I pray Lord that You will restore her respectful beautiful personality and remove this imitating behavior of hostile, arrogant and authoritative manner she has toward me and her job. Restore her humble personality she was brought up with. Lord guide her to follow the biblical teachings again she was brought up to follow. Humble her to honor and thankful for her parents and family again, guide her to be grateful to You and stop her from obeying this young man and his family. Lord release her from this toxic bondage that is causing her financial hardship and exhaustion. Let her see clearly that she belong to You and not to this young man. And this living arrangement is not home. Guide her to be thankful and respectful toward the family You have blessed her with. Open her eyes to see the Godly young man You have in store for her and not settle for this manipulation, arrogant, control and disrespectful young man. Lord remind her that she needs to honor her parents not this young man and his family. Lord, I pray that she will see clearly that living together outside of marriage is not a marriage and for her to stop treating this arrangement as a marriage and an obligation to obey him. Convict his mother of her overstepping behaviors and focus on correcting her son and have him move back home alone. Release my daughter from this undue responsiblities. Lord my older daughter is being influenced by this young man's mother who encouraged them to live together outside of marriage. His mother has been a selfish negative influence. She knows of his negative behaviors but has place this bondage upon my daughter to fix and the same time his mother is enabling her son's negative behavior toward others. Lord, my older daughter is going down a dark path with this young man and she thinks it is love. I pray that she will be truthful of the toxicity and the false hope of this relationship. I pray that her friends will speak up as they see clearly how this young man has taken her kindness for granted, his exploitation, his manipulation, his dishonesty, his division, his isolation and his disrespect toward her. Lord I know nothing is impossible for You. My daughter is ignoring all the red flags and giving up her independent and self worth. Lord let her see from now onward that living together outside of marriage is not Your will for her life. This young man is rebellous, dishonest, controlling and lazy, I ask Lord that You speak to his mother to let her know he is her responsiblity and for her to stop putting undue responsiblity upon my daughter and giving ungodly selfish advice. Lord I pray that my daughter will have a great and productive time at her conference today fill with Your favors and blessings. Protect my older daugther from any negative instigation by having this young man there. Let her prioritize her work over this young man and not be distracted by his disrespectful influence. Lord, show this young man that You have authority over my daughter and to block the stubborn authority he has over her and the disrespect he has over her work. God restore her gratefulness, grace and thankfulness for her work. Jesus, I ask that You protect my older daughter from this young man's ungodly selfish, disrespectful and jealous advice and lifestyle. I ask You Lord to guide my daughter out of this ungodly lifestyle and have her move back home swiftly with no regrets but only a feeling of restoring her self-worth, her respect for others, independence, and freedom in You, Lord and the unconditional love of her family you have blessed her with. I declare that this young man and his mother will not steal her peace, her purpose, or her love and unity with her family. Completely remove the stubborn ungodly hold they have upon her swiftly. Lord I ask for protection for me and my family from the disrespect and strife from this young man. Lord, speak to my daughter, let her hear Your words, “You are Mine. You are My daughter. You belong to Me, and I will protect You with every ounce of My power from this ungodly relationship with this young man.” Please continue to join me in speaking to my older daughter’s mind, heart, and spirit, open her eyes, dear Jesus to all the red flags and not to make excuses for this young man anymore. Jesus let her know, she is not being loved; she is being used. Living together outside of marriage is not a marriage. He is not her significant other, she should not idolize and obey this young man anymore or put him and his family before her God-giving family, her faith and jobs with a purpose. Her finances are not his to manage, budget or spend, and I pray his father will intervene with authority and have him return home alone swiftly. He is dishonest, selfish, disrespectful and not ready for a relationship. This man’s greed and manipulation are not love; he does not have the right to exploit her finances for his selfish benefit and control. He and his mother should not be able to instigate havoc, disrespect, division, isolation in our family, and his lifestyle is not a home for my daughter. Show him Lord that he is not ready for a relationship. Jesus help my daughter to not change the way she was raised to please this young man and his mother. Show my daughter this is a dark path she is taking with this young man and show her that being ungrateful toward her family is not the biblical teaching she was raised to follow. Block her Lord from confiding in his mother and saying this that pleases this woman's ears. Let my daughter stop trying to prove to her that our family does not matter. Lord guide my daughter to stop giving up her self worth just to get this woman's approval. Show her Lord, that disowning her family that God blessed her with just to please this young man is not Your will for her life. Let her see the spiritual attacks she and our family are under because of this ungodly relationship. The division, isolation, chaos, ungratefulness, disrespect, and exhaustion this lifestyle and relationship has caused. Lord remove the stubborn hold these people have on her and let her not want to live this lifestyle anymore. Lord whisper to her right now: “Walk away. You do not belong to this young man and his family, You don't have to obey these people, Trust and respect your family. Trust Me. I will provide, protect, and restore everything he’s trying to take from you. I am praying for supernatural clarity to flood her mind, so she sees him for who he truly is, a wolf in sheep’s clothing, not a shepherd. Lord teach this young man’s mother to stop putting undue responsibilities upon my daughter and for her to stop overstepping her boundaries. It is overwhelming, Jesus, please block these people's disrespect. She is not her mother and her to have her son move back home alone. He is not ready for a relationship. I ask Lord that his father will see the destruction he has caused in my daughter's life, let him take authority, guide his son to move back home alone swiftly. Let him have his wife focus on fixing only her children and stop the manipulation and brainwashing behaviors toward my daughter. Speak to her firmly, Lord, that my daughter is not homeless, that You have anointed a family for her Lord and block her from guiding my daughter down a dark path and to be disobedient to her parents and disown her siblings and supportive network of extended family and friends. I know with my daughter's recent promotion that God has blessed her with this lazy young man is already spending it his way and it's starting to put her on a budget that benefits him. Please Jesus, block my daughter from listening to the young man's mother and help my daughter to stop enabling him to control her, show her Lord this is not security or love, it is exploitation. Lord guide my daughter to move back home swiftly with no regret. Restore her freedom, independence, self-worth, freedom, gratefulness for her family, and satisfaction swiftly. Jesus, guide me as I navigate the difficult situation. I ask that Your presence will go in front of me as a shield from all the attacks and disrespect that I experience from following the biblical teachings against this ungodly life. Bless me Lord with supernatural strength to overcome all obstacles I face with Your courage, grace, favor, protection, and strength. I plead the blood of Jesus Christ over me and my children. No weapon formed against us shall prosper. I ask for know nothing is impossible for You, Lord. I believe in the power of prayers and I put all my faith and trust in You. Jesus, I ask for a special blessing upon my family today. Lord, fill us with Your Holy Spirit in every aspect of our lives. Saturate us with Your peace, love, favor, protection, and healing. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.

 

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We join you in lifting up your older daughter before the Lord and we hear the deep burden you carry for her freedom, protection and restoration. We stand with you in prayer that the Lord will open her eyes to see clearly and give her the courage to walk away swiftly from this bondage with no regrets.

We must speak plainly about what you have discerned so rightly, that living together outside of marriage is not marriage and is not God's will for her life. Scripture is clear, Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers, Hebrews 13:4, and Flee sexual immorality! Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body, 1 Corinthians 6:18. What she is treating as a marriage and an obligation to obey this young man is fornication, and it brings spiritual, emotional and financial exhaustion and confusion. We rebuke this ungodly living arrangement and the deception that it is love or security when in truth it is exploitation, control and manipulation. A boyfriend or girlfriend relationship should be a courtship with the goal of marriage to another Christian believer, not a substitute for marriage, and we pray she will embrace that biblical standard again. We also affirm the sanctity of marriage as a lifelong commitment between a man and a woman, and we pray that if it is God's will for her to marry, it will be to a godly man who honors Christ and honors her.

We also see the painful change in her personality toward you, her family and her work, the hostile, arrogant and authoritative manner and the dishonoring of parents. The Word says, Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right, Ephesians 6:1, and Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, Ephesians 6:2. She was brought up in biblical teaching and we pray that training will bear fruit again, for Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it, Proverbs 22:6. We are reminded also, Don't be deceived! Evil companionships corrupt good morals, 1 Corinthians 15:33, and Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness, 2 Corinthians 6:14. This young man is described as rebellious, dishonest, controlling and lazy, and his mother encouraging this cohabitation and overstepping her boundaries is an ungodly and selfish influence. We rebuke that enabling and the placing of undue responsibility upon your daughter to fix her son, and the brainwashing that causes her to seek approval from this woman while disowning the family God has blessed her with.

We pray together for supernatural clarity to flood her mind and for the stubborn ungodly hold to be broken completely.

Father in Jesus' name, we come before Your throne of grace and we lift up this precious daughter to You. Lord, You see her and You know her by name, she belongs to You and not to this young man. We ask that You break every ungodly soul tie and every chain of manipulation, control, isolation and disrespect that binds her. Open her eyes to see the red flags she has been making excuses for, and let her know in her heart that she is not being loved, she is being used, and that this greed and financial exploitation is not love. Convict her deeply that her finances are not his to manage, budget or spend, and that she does not have to obey him or his family before You and before her parents. Restore to her the humble, respectful and grateful personality You created her to have, and restore her thankfulness for her family, her faith and the work You have given her with purpose and promotion. We ask that You block the disrespectful influence of this young man over her work, especially at her conference today, and let her prioritize You and her responsibilities without distraction. Protect her from jealous, selfish and disrespectful advice and from any negative instigation. We pray for this young man and his mother and father, that You will convict the mother for overstepping and for encouraging fornication, and convict the son of his dishonesty and laziness, and move upon his father to take godly authority and call his son to return home alone, for he is not ready for a relationship. Let Your Holy Spirit whisper to this daughter, You are Mine, You are My daughter, You belong to Me, and I will protect You with every ounce of My power. Lead her to move back home swiftly with no regrets, with restored self-worth, independence, freedom and peace in You, and with renewed love and unity with her family. We plead Your protection over this mother and her whole family, for No weapon that is formed against you will prevail, Isaiah 54:17, and He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty, Psalm 91:1. Strengthen this mother as she navigates this difficult situation with courage, grace and favor, and let her stand firm on biblical truth without wavering. We thank You that For nothing spoken by God is impossible, Luke 1:37, and that You are able to provide, protect and restore everything the enemy has tried to take. Fill this family with Your Holy Spirit, with Your peace, love, favor, protection and healing, and guide this daughter to desire only the godly young man You have in store for her, if marriage is Your will, and to walk in purity and honor until that day. In the mighty and only saving name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen.

 

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We hear how heavy this has been for you, and how much you love your older daughter. Watching her change toward you and her work, feeling the financial strain and exhaustion on her, and seeing her pulled away from family while living in this arrangement has been painful and wearing. It makes sense you are asking God so earnestly for her freedom and for peace in your home.

We are joining you in prayer for her safety and clarity today, especially as she is at her conference. We pray her work is protected from distraction and that she feels steady and respected there.

When someone is isolated and under a lot of pressure, direct confrontation can sometimes push them further away even when our concern is right. One gentle step that often helps is to keep the bridge with her warm and open. Short, consistent check-ins that focus on her wellbeing and let her know home is still a safe place to return to, without debate about the young man in that moment, can keep the door open for her to hear you later. It also helps to have one or two wise, trusted people around you for your own support, a pastor or counselor you can talk with confidentially as you set loving limits around finances and how you will be treated in your own home.

We are also praying for you for strength and rest as you carry this.

Jesus, we lift this daughter to You and ask You to guard her, restore her sense of worth and independence, and guide her steps. Give her eyes to see what is true and give her parents wisdom, protection and peace as they love her. Lead her back to what is good and to the family You have given her. In Jesus' name, Amen.

 

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I prayed with you for this, in Jesus' powerful Name, Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

Your prayer has been laid before the Lord and we join our hearts with yours in crying to Him for deliverance, protection and restoration.

We hear the weight of your sorrow as a parent who has watched a beloved daughter walk into a bondage that is not of God. Take comfort in this, that nothing in this trial lies outside the fence of Omnipotent overruling. Troubles do not spring out of the dust, but the Lord Himself permits and orders all things, and that which comes by His permission bears the aspect of chastening from a Father's hand. He has chastened sorely, yet He has not given over to death. Even this sharp smart can be made profitable, to awaken, to humble, and to bring back the wanderer.

There is hope, for God has not only invented a way of deliverance, but He has found a ransom. As it is written, Then He is gracious unto him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the Pit, I have found a ransom. Nobody would have thought of such a way of deliverance from the pit through a ransom if God had not thought of it. It is a gift of Divine Love, and there is music in it as God looks upon a sinner slipping down and says, Deliver him. We pray that this word may be fulfilled for your daughter, that she may be saved not only from guilt but from the power of sin, from herself, from evil company, from the devil, and from going down to the pit.

For deliverance from the power of darkness is as much the work of God as deliverance from the guilt of sin. He has taught many to say, He has delivered us from the fascinating power of sin, from the power of darkness. We ask the heavenly Father, to whom alone we must look for sanctification, to work this deliverance in her. That He would break the fascination of this ungodly bond, open her eyes to see clearly, and give her supernatural clarity to see this relationship for what it is, not love but use, not security but exploitation, not a home but a snare. May she see that living together outside of marriage is not marriage at all. Marriage is a covenant before God of one man and one woman for life, the result of choice and mutual delight and complacency, not a mere arrangement of convenience or passion. What she now calls an obligation to obey is no such obligation before God. Her first duty under God is to honor her parents and to walk in the biblical teachings in which she was raised.

We pray with you that the Lord will turn her, for we cannot turn ourselves from outward sins and inward evil nature without a stronger arm than our own. The Lord says, Turn you, turn you from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel. He hates putting away and delights to call the wanderer back. Oh that He would grant her a true turning, that she would be kept from her iniquity, that she would say with David, I kept myself from my iniquity, not because she could not sin, but because God kept her and she would not. Restore to her, O Lord, that humble, respectful and grateful spirit, that thankfulness for family and for work, and remove the hostile, arrogant and authoritative manner that has come upon her. Let her no longer seek the approval of those who encourage her in disobedience, nor give up her self worth to please them, nor disown the family You have anointed for her.

We join you in asking that God who will surely raise His people from the dead will also raise her from this great trouble. He who will redeem the body from the grave will redeem His child from all evil and bring her up from the pit of trouble even when she is ready to perish. We pray for her conference and her work, that You would shield her from distraction and disrespect, that she would prioritize the purpose You have given her, that You would restore her grace and thankfulness for her labor, and guard her finances from greed and manipulation. Let her see that her provision is from You, not from the control of another.

We pray also for this young man and his parents. Convict where there is overstepping, selfish counsel and enabling of sin. Let his father take rightful authority and responsibility, and let his mother cease to place undue burdens upon your daughter and to guide her down a dark path. Show this young man that he is not ready for a relationship, that he must answer to God, and that his rebellious and controlling ways must be repented of. We do not ask God to bless what He has called outside His will, but we ask Him to bring conviction, truth and repentance to all involved, and to block every influence that would foster division, isolation, chaos and disrespect in your family.

For you who have prayed so faithfully, we ask that His presence would go before you as a shield, that You would be kept in supernatural strength, courage, grace and favor as you stand for biblical truth. We plead the blood of Jesus Christ over you and your children, believing that no weapon formed against you shall prosper, and that He who calls you will give you comfort. Be of good comfort, rise, He calls you. There is no balm in Gilead apart from Calvary, but at Calvary there is full redemption.

May the Lord grant that your daughter, being delivered, shall not die but live and declare the works of the Lord. May she return to her first love, to say again from the heart, I the chief of sinners am, but Jesus died for me, and may her restoration be as life from the dead, to the praise of Him who has found a ransom. In the name of Jesus Christ our only Savior we pray, Amen.