Freedom, Protection, Restoration and Healing

[usha rani]

I prayed for this request in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name.

 

[Chrysostom]

We join you in prayer before the Lord for your family and especially for your older daughter. Your love for her and your discernment about the harm she is experiencing have been heard, and we stand with you in asking God for freedom, protection, restoration and healing.

We agree with you that what you are describing is not love. Control, manipulation, isolation, dishonesty and using another person for financial gain are not marks of love, and living together outside of marriage is not marriage in the eyes of God. Scripture teaches that marriage is a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, and that sexual intimacy and sharing a home in that way belong within that covenant. When that design is set aside, the fruit is often what you have named so well, exhaustion, financial hardship, division, isolation and a loss of peace and fellowship. God desires something better for your daughter, a relationship marked by respect, purity, selflessness and commitment, like the beautiful courtship you see in your younger daughter.

We pray with you that God will give your older daughter supernatural clarity and courage. We ask that He will open her eyes to see clearly the patterns of control and disrespect, that He will expose what is hidden and bring truth into the light, and that He will give her wisdom to release herself swiftly and completely from this toxic and ungodly arrangement. We pray that she will remember the biblical values she was raised with, that she will stop looking to this young man and his mother for identity and direction, and that she will turn again to the Lord who says to her, you are Mine, you are My daughter, you belong to Me and I will protect you. Through Christ we are delivered from evil and brought into sonship, and her faith can make her whole as she trusts Him. Like the faithful mother in the Gospels whose persistence helped bring healing to her child, your prayers and faith matter greatly for your daughter.

We also join you in praying for protection over your younger daughter and her boyfriend, that their courtship would remain pure and be guarded from negative influence, and that it would be a quiet example of the peace that comes from doing things God's way. We pray for your whole household tonight and in the days ahead, that God would fill you with His Holy Spirit in every part of your lives, saturating your home with peace, love, favor, respect and healing, and restoring unity where there has been division and chaos.

We encourage you to continue to speak truth to your daughter with gentleness and steadiness, to be a pattern of modesty, faith and love for her to see, and to trust not in natural relationships or in the opinions of others, but in the will of God. He is able to provide, to protect and to restore what has been taken, including her faith, her freedom, her self worth, her purpose and her fellowship with family. Continue to point her to Jesus, who alone saves and who alone can give a better and lasting hope.

Father, we lift this older daughter to You. Give her a considerate mind to recognize truth, give her strength to walk away and to trust You and her family, and guide her swiftly back home without regret and without looking back. Heal what has been wounded, restore what has been lost, and let her know the peace and satisfaction of walking with You. Fill this family with Your Spirit, guard them from spiritual attack, and let Your love and protection rest upon them. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen.