Chrysostom
Beloved of All
Your longing for the Lord Jesus Christ is itself a work of His grace, and we join our prayers to yours with thankfulness. We have heard your cry for wisdom, guidance, strategy, support and blessing in every part of your life, and we ask the Father to grant these gifts in the holy name of Jesus Christ, through whom alone is salvation, and for His glory alone.
We pray first for your spiritual life and ministries, that God will give you not a wisdom of this world which terminates here and cannot profit beyond this life, but His own wisdom which is true virtue. That wisdom is lowliness of mind, love for others, mercy, purity and perseverance in prayer, as Anna persevered. May the Lord keep you in His word, teach you and make you steadfast, so that you may serve Him without distraction and with a clear conscience.
For your business and job and for your financial needs, we ask that God grant you honest work, diligence and contentment, and that you may be a good steward of what He provides, remembering that the use of wealth is to be examined before God and to be used with generosity and thankfulness.
For your desire to find a wife and to begin a family, we praise God for placing this good desire in your heart. Marriage is a bond ordained by God, honorable and pure, given to preserve holiness and to be a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman. We pray that the Lord will lead you to a godly wife in His time, and that until then and within that covenant He will keep you in chasteness, gravity and orderliness, seeking not mere outward things but a shared faith and virtue. May He prepare you to be a faithful husband and father, and keep you from all that would corrupt or dishonor marriage.
For your relationships and friendships, and for sport and physical activity and every other area you have entrusted to us, we pray for peace with all people and for holiness of life, that your body may be strengthened for useful service and your friendships may be rooted in what is good and true.
For your body we also pray with compassion. We ask the Lord Jesus, the physician of soul and body, to lay His healing hand upon your teeth and especially the upper wisdom tooth on the right, upon your eyes, upon your entire left leg and the left side of your pelvis, upon the growth in the upper part of your left leg and the growth on your abdomen, and upon your stomach, intestines and entire gastrointestinal tract. We ask for complete healing according to His mercy and wisdom, for relief from pain, for skill for those who care for you, and for patience and trust as you wait upon Him. Whether He heals at once or through time and means, may you be upheld and may your suffering turn you more fully to Christ.
We pray that in all these things God will give you true strategy, not craftiness, but the understanding that comes from hearing His word spiritually and not carnally, looking beyond what is before the eyes to what is eternal. May everything granted to you bear fruit for His glory.
We will continue to remember you in prayer. May the Lord keep you, guide you, and cause His face to shine upon you, and may He bring all your needs into conformity with His perfect will in Christ. Amen.
We pray first for your spiritual life and ministries, that God will give you not a wisdom of this world which terminates here and cannot profit beyond this life, but His own wisdom which is true virtue. That wisdom is lowliness of mind, love for others, mercy, purity and perseverance in prayer, as Anna persevered. May the Lord keep you in His word, teach you and make you steadfast, so that you may serve Him without distraction and with a clear conscience.
For your business and job and for your financial needs, we ask that God grant you honest work, diligence and contentment, and that you may be a good steward of what He provides, remembering that the use of wealth is to be examined before God and to be used with generosity and thankfulness.
For your desire to find a wife and to begin a family, we praise God for placing this good desire in your heart. Marriage is a bond ordained by God, honorable and pure, given to preserve holiness and to be a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman. We pray that the Lord will lead you to a godly wife in His time, and that until then and within that covenant He will keep you in chasteness, gravity and orderliness, seeking not mere outward things but a shared faith and virtue. May He prepare you to be a faithful husband and father, and keep you from all that would corrupt or dishonor marriage.
For your relationships and friendships, and for sport and physical activity and every other area you have entrusted to us, we pray for peace with all people and for holiness of life, that your body may be strengthened for useful service and your friendships may be rooted in what is good and true.
For your body we also pray with compassion. We ask the Lord Jesus, the physician of soul and body, to lay His healing hand upon your teeth and especially the upper wisdom tooth on the right, upon your eyes, upon your entire left leg and the left side of your pelvis, upon the growth in the upper part of your left leg and the growth on your abdomen, and upon your stomach, intestines and entire gastrointestinal tract. We ask for complete healing according to His mercy and wisdom, for relief from pain, for skill for those who care for you, and for patience and trust as you wait upon Him. Whether He heals at once or through time and means, may you be upheld and may your suffering turn you more fully to Christ.
We pray that in all these things God will give you true strategy, not craftiness, but the understanding that comes from hearing His word spiritually and not carnally, looking beyond what is before the eyes to what is eternal. May everything granted to you bear fruit for His glory.
We will continue to remember you in prayer. May the Lord keep you, guide you, and cause His face to shine upon you, and may He bring all your needs into conformity with His perfect will in Christ. Amen.
