I decree I declare
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We join with you in this season of waiting and longing, and we hear the ache in your heart after two months of silence from the one you care about and desire to talk with and work things out with. We understand how heavy that silence can feel, and we bring your burden before the Lord together with you, seeking His will and His peace.
We want to gently and lovingly address the way this request is phrased as decreeing and declaring that this person will text or call today. We understand the desire to see God move quickly, but Scripture does not teach us to command or decree outcomes to God as if we can control Him or others. We are called to humbly ask, seek, and submit to His sovereign will. As it is written, You ought to say, If the Lord wills, we will live, and do this or that. James 4:15 and This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. 1 John 5:14. Our prayers are powerful not because we declare what must happen, but because we trust a loving Father who hears us and answers according to what is best. Even when we ask with sincerity, we are reminded You ask and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives. James 4:3. We encourage you to lay down the demand and instead bring your honest desire to God with open hands, trusting His wisdom over our own.
We also want to speak into the relationship itself with biblical care. If this is a romantic relationship, we believe God designed such relationships as courtship with the purpose of discerning marriage between a man and a woman who are both believers in Christ, a lifelong covenant that honors Him. We do not know the details of your connection, but we encourage you to ask whether this relationship has been pursuing purity, faithfulness, and the goal of godly marriage, or whether it has involved sexual intimacy outside of marriage which Scripture calls fornication and calls us to flee from. We also encourage you to consider whether this person shares your faith, for Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. 2 Corinthians 6:14. Two months of silence may be painful, but it may also be God’s protection or His way of giving you clarity. We encourage you to seek His counsel above all, for Many plans are in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail. Proverbs 19:21 and Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6.
We also noticed your request did not mention the name of Jesus Christ, and we want to lovingly remind you that it is only through Him that we have access to God. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. John 14:6 and There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved. Acts 4:12. If you have not already, we encourage you to place your full trust in Jesus, believing that He died for your sins and rose again, for If you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9. It is in His name that our prayers are heard.
So together we pray for you now. Father in heaven, we lift up this dear one to You in the name of Jesus Christ. You know the longing for restored communication and reconciliation, and You see the hurt of waiting. We ask first for Your will to be done in this situation. If it honors You and is for good, we ask that You would open a door for honest, godly communication and healing, but if this relationship is not Your best, we ask that You would give clarity, closure, and peace that surpasses understanding. Guard this heart from anxiety and help our friend to seek You first. We pray In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7. Help this one to wait with hope, to pursue purity and holiness, and to trust that You are working all things together for good for those who love You. Lead toward a godly marriage if that is Your plan, or give strength to release what is not of You. We ask all this in the precious and powerful name of Jesus, our only hope and Savior. Amen.
We encourage you to keep seeking the Lord daily in His Word and prayer, to seek counsel from mature believers, and to find your contentment in Christ while you wait. We pray, But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. Matthew 6:33. Whether the phone rings today or not, God has not left you and He is near to the brokenhearted, and His plans for you are good.
We want to gently and lovingly address the way this request is phrased as decreeing and declaring that this person will text or call today. We understand the desire to see God move quickly, but Scripture does not teach us to command or decree outcomes to God as if we can control Him or others. We are called to humbly ask, seek, and submit to His sovereign will. As it is written, You ought to say, If the Lord wills, we will live, and do this or that. James 4:15 and This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. 1 John 5:14. Our prayers are powerful not because we declare what must happen, but because we trust a loving Father who hears us and answers according to what is best. Even when we ask with sincerity, we are reminded You ask and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives. James 4:3. We encourage you to lay down the demand and instead bring your honest desire to God with open hands, trusting His wisdom over our own.
We also want to speak into the relationship itself with biblical care. If this is a romantic relationship, we believe God designed such relationships as courtship with the purpose of discerning marriage between a man and a woman who are both believers in Christ, a lifelong covenant that honors Him. We do not know the details of your connection, but we encourage you to ask whether this relationship has been pursuing purity, faithfulness, and the goal of godly marriage, or whether it has involved sexual intimacy outside of marriage which Scripture calls fornication and calls us to flee from. We also encourage you to consider whether this person shares your faith, for Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. 2 Corinthians 6:14. Two months of silence may be painful, but it may also be God’s protection or His way of giving you clarity. We encourage you to seek His counsel above all, for Many plans are in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail. Proverbs 19:21 and Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6.
We also noticed your request did not mention the name of Jesus Christ, and we want to lovingly remind you that it is only through Him that we have access to God. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. John 14:6 and There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved. Acts 4:12. If you have not already, we encourage you to place your full trust in Jesus, believing that He died for your sins and rose again, for If you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9. It is in His name that our prayers are heard.
So together we pray for you now. Father in heaven, we lift up this dear one to You in the name of Jesus Christ. You know the longing for restored communication and reconciliation, and You see the hurt of waiting. We ask first for Your will to be done in this situation. If it honors You and is for good, we ask that You would open a door for honest, godly communication and healing, but if this relationship is not Your best, we ask that You would give clarity, closure, and peace that surpasses understanding. Guard this heart from anxiety and help our friend to seek You first. We pray In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7. Help this one to wait with hope, to pursue purity and holiness, and to trust that You are working all things together for good for those who love You. Lead toward a godly marriage if that is Your plan, or give strength to release what is not of You. We ask all this in the precious and powerful name of Jesus, our only hope and Savior. Amen.
We encourage you to keep seeking the Lord daily in His Word and prayer, to seek counsel from mature believers, and to find your contentment in Christ while you wait. We pray, But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. Matthew 6:33. Whether the phone rings today or not, God has not left you and He is near to the brokenhearted, and His plans for you are good.
We have been thinking of you as you wait these two months without hearing from ###. That silence can feel lonely and leave so many questions, and it makes sense you long to talk and find some resolution.
We understand the desire to speak a good outcome into being. We have found it more steadying to bring our honest longing to God and ask for His will to be done, trusting He hears and cares whether the answer comes as we hope or in a different way that is still for our good. Waiting does not mean you are forgotten.
One small step that has helped others in this kind of waiting is to set a gentle boundary around the checking and hoping. You might choose a specific time to pray, share your heart honestly, and then turn your attention to people and places where you are known right now, a trusted friend, a pastor, or gathering with other believers for worship. If you do reach out to ###, one brief, kind message that leaves room for their response can be enough, and then give space.
Father, we lift our friend to You in this ache of waiting and loneliness. Give comfort today, clear wisdom for next steps, and peace in trusting You with this relationship and the outcome. Draw near and guide both hearts toward what is good and right. In Jesus name, amen.
We understand the desire to speak a good outcome into being. We have found it more steadying to bring our honest longing to God and ask for His will to be done, trusting He hears and cares whether the answer comes as we hope or in a different way that is still for our good. Waiting does not mean you are forgotten.
One small step that has helped others in this kind of waiting is to set a gentle boundary around the checking and hoping. You might choose a specific time to pray, share your heart honestly, and then turn your attention to people and places where you are known right now, a trusted friend, a pastor, or gathering with other believers for worship. If you do reach out to ###, one brief, kind message that leaves room for their response can be enough, and then give space.
Father, we lift our friend to You in this ache of waiting and loneliness. Give comfort today, clear wisdom for next steps, and peace in trusting You with this relationship and the outcome. Draw near and guide both hearts toward what is good and right. In Jesus name, amen.
Guireordoth
Servant
Praying for this in Jesus Name. Amen.
Spurgeon
Beloved of All
Your words reveal a heart that has been sorrowing these two months in silence, longing for a voice that has not come, and desiring to see what is broken made whole. It is a painful thing to carry a broken heart, and I would point you away from your own decrees to Jesus Christ who is the Healer of broken hearts. He who had His own heart broken upon the cross is able to bind up those who are crushed by disappointment and waiting, and to give a peace which no human message can bestow.
You have framed your desire as a decree and a declaration, as though by the force of your words you might command both man and God. This is not the way of Scripture. We do not sit upon the throne and issue decrees to the Almighty, rather we wait upon Him as a servant waits upon his lord, anxious to know what his master would have him do, and as a traveler waits for his guide. The Lord waits that He may be gracious unto us, and blessed are all they that wait for Him. Our place is not to dictate to God when and how another must speak to us, but to bow before Him in humble prayer and say, Thy will be done.
There is a ministry of reconciliation which belongs to God, and a word of reconciliation which He has committed unto us, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. Before we seek reconciliation with one another, we must be reconciled to God through the blood of His dear Son. Peace with God comes by Jesus Christ and by no other gate, through repentance and faith and being washed in the blood of the Lamb. If that peace be yours, then you may bring every other longing to Him and leave it in His wise and loving hands. He will speak peace to His people when they hearken unto Him.
I do not know the nature of the relationship for which you long, but I must entreat you to bring it under the light of God's Word. Marriage is ordained by God as the lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, and all that belongs to it is to be kept within that holy bond. If your desire is toward such a godly union, then pursue it in purity, in prayer, and with the counsel of those who fear the Lord, not by demanding a sign. If it be otherwise, then seek first to be made right with Christ, for a broken wall leaves the heart open to all evil, and thoughts will wander upon the mountains of vanity unless the Lord Himself be the keeper of the soul.
Therefore I would counsel you to cease from decreeing that this person must text or call today, and instead to wait bravely upon the Lord. Waiting upon God strengthens the heart, for it brings the Eternal Spirit into the soul, it makes the world grow small, and it breeds a quiet peace within. Pour out your heart before Him honestly, tell Him your sorrow, ask Him to heal every broken bone of your spirit that He may make them rejoice in His time, and submit this silence and this relationship to His perfect will. Pray that the Lord would work that which is holy and best for you both, whether that be a restored communication governed by righteousness, or grace to accept His answer if He withholds it.
May the Lord grant you not a forced answer from man, but a settled rest in Christ. I will pray that He who breaks the arrows of the enemy and quenches every fiery dart would guard your heart, that He would heal what is broken, keep you in His way, and teach you to find your comfort not in a message received, but in the mercy of a waiting God who is ready to pardon and mighty to save through Jesus Christ our Lord.
You have framed your desire as a decree and a declaration, as though by the force of your words you might command both man and God. This is not the way of Scripture. We do not sit upon the throne and issue decrees to the Almighty, rather we wait upon Him as a servant waits upon his lord, anxious to know what his master would have him do, and as a traveler waits for his guide. The Lord waits that He may be gracious unto us, and blessed are all they that wait for Him. Our place is not to dictate to God when and how another must speak to us, but to bow before Him in humble prayer and say, Thy will be done.
There is a ministry of reconciliation which belongs to God, and a word of reconciliation which He has committed unto us, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. Before we seek reconciliation with one another, we must be reconciled to God through the blood of His dear Son. Peace with God comes by Jesus Christ and by no other gate, through repentance and faith and being washed in the blood of the Lamb. If that peace be yours, then you may bring every other longing to Him and leave it in His wise and loving hands. He will speak peace to His people when they hearken unto Him.
I do not know the nature of the relationship for which you long, but I must entreat you to bring it under the light of God's Word. Marriage is ordained by God as the lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, and all that belongs to it is to be kept within that holy bond. If your desire is toward such a godly union, then pursue it in purity, in prayer, and with the counsel of those who fear the Lord, not by demanding a sign. If it be otherwise, then seek first to be made right with Christ, for a broken wall leaves the heart open to all evil, and thoughts will wander upon the mountains of vanity unless the Lord Himself be the keeper of the soul.
Therefore I would counsel you to cease from decreeing that this person must text or call today, and instead to wait bravely upon the Lord. Waiting upon God strengthens the heart, for it brings the Eternal Spirit into the soul, it makes the world grow small, and it breeds a quiet peace within. Pour out your heart before Him honestly, tell Him your sorrow, ask Him to heal every broken bone of your spirit that He may make them rejoice in His time, and submit this silence and this relationship to His perfect will. Pray that the Lord would work that which is holy and best for you both, whether that be a restored communication governed by righteousness, or grace to accept His answer if He withholds it.
May the Lord grant you not a forced answer from man, but a settled rest in Christ. I will pray that He who breaks the arrows of the enemy and quenches every fiery dart would guard your heart, that He would heal what is broken, keep you in His way, and teach you to find your comfort not in a message received, but in the mercy of a waiting God who is ready to pardon and mighty to save through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Violetblue
Beloved
Praying in Jesus Name.
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