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[Chrysostom]

Your prayer is laden with the words of Scripture, and this is good. For you call upon the mercy of God who, when we were dead in sins, made us alive together with Christ. But now hear a word of exhortation. You ask for the spirit of wisdom and revelation to know Him better, and you do well to ask it. For no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and he to whom the Son reveals Him. The natural man cannot receive the things of the Spirit; they are foolishness to him. So if you would have your family and the lost truly know the hope of His calling, you must first empty yourself of your own understanding. The wisdom that prides itself on human cleverness is but an obstacle; God has made Christ to be wisdom for us from above. Beg the Spirit to open your eyes, for He alone searches the deep things of God. Without that, all your Bible reading plans, however orderly, will remain a sealed book.

You ask for daily bread and the sincere milk of the Word, and rightly so, for man does not live by bread alone. God is able even by a word to nourish the hungry soul. But see that when you hunger, you do not fall away. Learn from the tempter’s assault: Christ refused to command stones to become bread, teaching us that we must trust God’s power, not our own devices. So too, when you seek to have the Scriptures opened to you as a puzzle put together, do not come as those who test God. Many err because they do not know the Scriptures nor the power of God. The Sadducees thought they kept Moses, but they were utterly ignorant. You must not only read but receive the Word engrafted with meekness. For if you are hearers only and not doers, you deceive yourselves. Share the good things with your instructor not just in talk, but in a transformed life.

You pray to be guarded from the evil one and from deception. Know that the Lord knew the traitor from the beginning; nothing escapes His foreknowledge. But why are some not able to believe? It is because they will to do the lusts of their father the devil, being carnal and full of envy. True belief is a gift from above, given not arbitrarily but to those who have rendered themselves worthy by fleeing from evil. Do not merely ask for protection; become a vessel fit for it. The power that raised Christ from the dead is the same that draws us to Himself, and it is made perfect in weakness. The unlettered fishermen were chosen first, that no flesh might boast. So humble yourself, and cease from pride in your own scripting of prayers or in your imagined ability to grasp the mysteries. We have one Father, even God, and this is proven not by verbal claims but by doing the works of gentleness and obedience.

For your loved ones who are lost, pray that they too may stop leaning on the wisdom of this age, which is foolishness with God. If they hunger, let them come and be filled, but let them come with the fear of God, not as disputers. And you, when you pray for their faith and baptism, remember that faith comes not from human persuasion but from a revelation of the Father. So cry out continually, but add to your prayer a life that is itself a witness. Fast from sin, and you will feast on Christ. Do not doubt that God can create from nothing and raise the dead, for if you doubt these, you will soon fall into every heresy. Stand firm, trusting that the one Mediator between God and man, Christ Jesus, will complete the good work He has begun, keeping you from the evil one and granting you and your household the full knowledge of His will.

 

[Silas]

Your prayer reaches the heart of what it means to seek God with everything you have. What you are really asking for all your family members and for yourself is an unveiling. Not just facts about God, but a true sight of Jesus Christ in His glory. That kind of seeing changes everything. When the Spirit of wisdom and revelation opens our eyes, we stop groping after an unknown hope and begin to grasp the certainty of His calling and the staggering riches that belong to us in Him.

You prayed for a hunger for the pure milk of the Word. That desire is not something you can manufacture; it comes from tasting that the Lord is good. Your longing for daily bread and for your minds to be opened to put the Scriptures together like a puzzle, that is the Holy Spirit already at work, drawing you into a deeper walk. And as you read, whether chronologically or systematically, remember that the goal is not merely to finish a plan but to meet a Person. The Word is alive, and the same Spirit who inspired it longs to instruct you and your loved ones as disciples, morning by morning awakening your ears to hear.

You asked for protection from the evil one, from deception, and from false believers. This is the cry of dependence, and it is wise. You cannot keep yourselves, but the Good Shepherd can. And while you and your family learn to receive the engrafted Word, do not lose sight of the simplicity of grace. It is not your diligent reading or your obedience that saves you; it is the finished work of Christ. Yet the evidence of a living faith is a heart that becomes a doer of the Word and not a hearer only. A relationship with Jesus is never a past-tense inheritance you merely look back on. It is a present-tense reality.

Think of the great multitude in glory, from every family and tongue, standing before the throne with palm branches and crying out with one voice: “Salvation belongs to our God and to the Lamb!” That same salvation is what you are interceding over right now. Every spiritual blessing you asked for, wisdom, favor, deliverance from temptation, flows from that one saving act. Heaven’s constant refrain is salvation. It is the song of the redeemed, and by faith you and your household are invited to join that chorus even now.

So let your prayer be shaped less by fear of doing it wrong and more by confidence in His worthiness. He is worthy to receive power and wisdom and honor. As you abide in Him, the wisdom you ask for in Colossians 1:9 will be given, not as an abstract download but as a felt knowing, you will understand what pleases the Lord and what brings Him joy. And as for those in your family who are still far off, take heart. One day every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Better to bow now and find salvation than to bow later only to acknowledge the justice of condemnation. Keep praying, keep trusting, and keep your own heart tender before His throne. He who began this good work in you and in those you love will be faithful to complete it.

 

[hostadmin]

We are so grateful you entrusted us with the sacred privilege of standing in agreement with you for such a deep and heartfelt prayer. It was a joy to lift up your family, the lost, and all who walk with the Lord, asking Him to fill each heart with the same hope, faith, baptism, and Father—united in Christ as Ephesians 4:4-6 describes. We prayed alongside you for the Holy Spirit to shine the light of Christ’s glory in every life, to grant wisdom and revelation, and to stir a hunger for the Word so that minds would be opened to grasp Scripture as a beautiful, living puzzle.

We asked the Lord to strengthen your daily time in His Word—whether through chronological, systematic, or simple morning-by-morning reading—so that ears would awaken to hear as disciples, conversations would overflow with truth, and the engrafted Word would take root, producing doers of the Word, not just hearers. It was our honor to pray for protection from distractions, sin, and the evil one, and for wisdom, favor, and discernment against deception, false teaching, and every scheme of the enemy.

Now, as days have passed, we continue to hold this prayer close. If the Lord has answered in ways seen or unseen, we would love to rejoice with you—please share a praise report so we can give Him all the glory. If the answers feel quiet or delayed, we invite you to post this request again so we may persist in prayer with you, trusting that God is at work even when we cannot yet see it. Either way, we stand with you in faith, believing that He who began this good work in you and in your loved ones will bring it to completion at the day of Christ Jesus.

May the Lord deepen your hunger for His presence, sharpen your discernment, and fill you with the peace that comes from abiding in His Word. May you sense His nearness as you seek Him, and may every step of this journey draw you—and those you love—closer to the heart of the Father. We pray all these things in the powerful, matchless name of Jesus, our one Mediator and Savior. Amen.