Chrysostom
Beloved of All
We join you in bringing your older daughter and your whole family before the Lord Jesus Christ, and we thank you for sharing this burden so openly.
We pray with you for freedom, protection, restoration and healing. We ask the Father in the name of Jesus, through whom alone we have salvation and adoption as sons and daughters, to surround your daughter with His clarity and courage today. May He deliver her from evil and supply every good thing she needs, and may she hear in her heart that she belongs to Him, that she is His daughter, and that He is able to protect and restore her.
We agree with you that living together outside of marriage is not marriage, and we do not ask God to bless what He has not called holy. Marriage is the lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, and life together, including sexual union and making a home, belongs within that covenant. We pray that your daughter will see this truth clearly, that she will recognize the exhaustion, financial hardship, division, isolation and spiritual oppression that have come with this arrangement, and that she will have wisdom and courage to step away swiftly and completely and without regret.
We pray that the Lord will open her eyes to see that she is not being loved as God intends love to be, but being used, and that greed, laziness, control, dishonesty and manipulation are not love. We pray that no one will be allowed to steal her peace, her self worth, her purpose, her fellowship with those who love her, or her unity with her family. We ask that God will break the hold of ungodly influence, including the influence of this young man and his mother, so that she will no longer idolize or obey them above her faith, her God given family and the purposeful work God has given her. May she stop seeking counsel that keeps her in this way of living and remember the biblical values she was raised with.
We pray that she will see the contrast you described, the peace and beauty of a courtship that honors God, like that of her younger sister, and understand that God desires that same good for her, a relationship marked by patience, respect, purity and commitment rather than chaos and confusion. Give her supernatural clarity to see this young man as he truly is, not as a shepherd or provider ready for marriage, and to see that this lifestyle is not a home.
We pray for your family in this spiritual battle. Lord, guard your people from division, ungratefulness, disrespect and weariness. Fill each of you with Your Holy Spirit, saturate your home with Your peace, love, favor, protection and healing. Restore to your daughter her faith, her freedom, her independence, her joy and her fellowship with her family. Restore what has been taken and draw her gently back to You and to the safety of home and family.
We pray that like the woman whose faith made her whole, your daughter will hear Christ say, be of good cheer, and will respond in faith and be made whole. May that faith make her a daughter in the fullest sense, receiving the Spirit of adoption and walking in the freedom Christ gives.
We continue to stand with you, asking for Jesus to whisper to her, walk away, trust Me and trust the family I gave you, I will provide, protect and restore. May He guide her steps today and tonight and bring healing to all of you.
In the name of Jesus we pray, Amen.
We pray with you for freedom, protection, restoration and healing. We ask the Father in the name of Jesus, through whom alone we have salvation and adoption as sons and daughters, to surround your daughter with His clarity and courage today. May He deliver her from evil and supply every good thing she needs, and may she hear in her heart that she belongs to Him, that she is His daughter, and that He is able to protect and restore her.
We agree with you that living together outside of marriage is not marriage, and we do not ask God to bless what He has not called holy. Marriage is the lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, and life together, including sexual union and making a home, belongs within that covenant. We pray that your daughter will see this truth clearly, that she will recognize the exhaustion, financial hardship, division, isolation and spiritual oppression that have come with this arrangement, and that she will have wisdom and courage to step away swiftly and completely and without regret.
We pray that the Lord will open her eyes to see that she is not being loved as God intends love to be, but being used, and that greed, laziness, control, dishonesty and manipulation are not love. We pray that no one will be allowed to steal her peace, her self worth, her purpose, her fellowship with those who love her, or her unity with her family. We ask that God will break the hold of ungodly influence, including the influence of this young man and his mother, so that she will no longer idolize or obey them above her faith, her God given family and the purposeful work God has given her. May she stop seeking counsel that keeps her in this way of living and remember the biblical values she was raised with.
We pray that she will see the contrast you described, the peace and beauty of a courtship that honors God, like that of her younger sister, and understand that God desires that same good for her, a relationship marked by patience, respect, purity and commitment rather than chaos and confusion. Give her supernatural clarity to see this young man as he truly is, not as a shepherd or provider ready for marriage, and to see that this lifestyle is not a home.
We pray for your family in this spiritual battle. Lord, guard your people from division, ungratefulness, disrespect and weariness. Fill each of you with Your Holy Spirit, saturate your home with Your peace, love, favor, protection and healing. Restore to your daughter her faith, her freedom, her independence, her joy and her fellowship with her family. Restore what has been taken and draw her gently back to You and to the safety of home and family.
We pray that like the woman whose faith made her whole, your daughter will hear Christ say, be of good cheer, and will respond in faith and be made whole. May that faith make her a daughter in the fullest sense, receiving the Spirit of adoption and walking in the freedom Christ gives.
We continue to stand with you, asking for Jesus to whisper to her, walk away, trust Me and trust the family I gave you, I will provide, protect and restore. May He guide her steps today and tonight and bring healing to all of you.
In the name of Jesus we pray, Amen.
