Chrysostom
Beloved of All
Your prayer has been heard and I join you in bringing it before the Lord with a heavy and hopeful heart. I hear your love for your daughter and your desire to see her walk in freedom, clarity and peace, and I stand with you in asking God to answer according to His mercy and truth.
We agree together that living together outside of marriage is not marriage in the eyes of God. Marriage is a lifelong covenant between one man and one woman, given by God for love, faithfulness and protection, and all intimacy belongs within that covenant. What is outside of it cannot give the security and honor that God intends, and it often brings the very exhaustion, division and confusion you have named. We do not ask God to bless what He has not ordained, but we ask Him to lead your daughter out of it into what is good and holy.
I pray now for your older daughter, that God will flood her mind with supernatural clarity and give her courage and wisdom to release herself swiftly and completely from this relationship. May the Lord open her eyes to see that control, laziness, greed, dishonesty and manipulation are not love, and that being used is not being loved. May she see that no person has the right to exploit her finances, to take authority over her life, or to draw her away from her faith, her family and the purpose God has given her in her work. May she cease to idolize or obey this young man and his mother, and may she stop seeking counsel that keeps her in a way of life contrary to the biblical values she was raised with.
As Christ called the woman of faith daughter because her faith had made her so, I pray your daughter will hear the voice of her true Father saying you are Mine, you are My daughter, you belong to Me and I will protect you with all My power. May she trust her family and trust Him, and know that He will provide, protect and restore what has been taken. May she see the peace that comes from a beautiful and ordered courtship rooted in piety, gentleness and the fear of God, where a husband is truly a husband and a protector, not a master, and may she desire that good gift rather than a house that is not a home.
I pray that the Lord will gently guide her to walk away without regret and to return to the fellowship of her family, and that He will restore her faith, her freedom, her self worth, her peace and her joy. May He deliver her from every spiritual attack and from the chaos, isolation and disrespect that have surrounded this arrangement, and may He bring healing where there has been weariness and division.
I also ask for a special blessing upon your whole family today and tonight. May the Lord fill you with His Holy Spirit in every part of your lives and saturate your home with His peace, love, favor, protection and healing. May He keep you united, guard your hearts and minds, and establish you in virtue and order, which alone bring lasting sweetness and pleasure.
Continue to speak the truth in love, to pray without ceasing, and to commit this matter into the hands of Christ. When we seek His will first and ask Him to provide what is best, He honors that trust and will answer. May He grant you perseverance and may He grant your daughter a considerate mind and a firm faith, so that she may obtain a better and lasting deliverance. In the name of Jesus we pray, Amen.
We agree together that living together outside of marriage is not marriage in the eyes of God. Marriage is a lifelong covenant between one man and one woman, given by God for love, faithfulness and protection, and all intimacy belongs within that covenant. What is outside of it cannot give the security and honor that God intends, and it often brings the very exhaustion, division and confusion you have named. We do not ask God to bless what He has not ordained, but we ask Him to lead your daughter out of it into what is good and holy.
I pray now for your older daughter, that God will flood her mind with supernatural clarity and give her courage and wisdom to release herself swiftly and completely from this relationship. May the Lord open her eyes to see that control, laziness, greed, dishonesty and manipulation are not love, and that being used is not being loved. May she see that no person has the right to exploit her finances, to take authority over her life, or to draw her away from her faith, her family and the purpose God has given her in her work. May she cease to idolize or obey this young man and his mother, and may she stop seeking counsel that keeps her in a way of life contrary to the biblical values she was raised with.
As Christ called the woman of faith daughter because her faith had made her so, I pray your daughter will hear the voice of her true Father saying you are Mine, you are My daughter, you belong to Me and I will protect you with all My power. May she trust her family and trust Him, and know that He will provide, protect and restore what has been taken. May she see the peace that comes from a beautiful and ordered courtship rooted in piety, gentleness and the fear of God, where a husband is truly a husband and a protector, not a master, and may she desire that good gift rather than a house that is not a home.
I pray that the Lord will gently guide her to walk away without regret and to return to the fellowship of her family, and that He will restore her faith, her freedom, her self worth, her peace and her joy. May He deliver her from every spiritual attack and from the chaos, isolation and disrespect that have surrounded this arrangement, and may He bring healing where there has been weariness and division.
I also ask for a special blessing upon your whole family today and tonight. May the Lord fill you with His Holy Spirit in every part of your lives and saturate your home with His peace, love, favor, protection and healing. May He keep you united, guard your hearts and minds, and establish you in virtue and order, which alone bring lasting sweetness and pleasure.
Continue to speak the truth in love, to pray without ceasing, and to commit this matter into the hands of Christ. When we seek His will first and ask Him to provide what is best, He honors that trust and will answer. May He grant you perseverance and may He grant your daughter a considerate mind and a firm faith, so that she may obtain a better and lasting deliverance. In the name of Jesus we pray, Amen.
