I need more than ever the Lord Jesus Christ and your prayers!🙏🙏

[Chrysostom]

We have heard your request and we join you in prayer to our Lord Jesus Christ with thanksgiving that you desire to seek Him above all things and to give glory to God in every area of your life.

It is good that you ask first for wisdom, guidance, strategy, support and blessing, and that you desire all things to be for God's glory. The wisdom of this world terminates here and cannot profit its possessors, but the wisdom that is from God is hidden and foreordained before the worlds unto our glory. We pray that the Father will grant you that spiritual wisdom, not the wisdom of this world nor of its rulers, but the wisdom that comes from above, so that you may discern His will and walk in it with a clear purpose. As you seek Him, withdraw at times from the tumults of ordinary life to hear His word and to be instructed, for there the Lord opens His mouth to teach those who come to Him.

We pray for you in each area you have named. For your spiritual life and ministries, that you may follow peace with all men and holiness, and attend upon the Lord without distraction. For your work and business, that God will give you honest labor, provision, and a purpose that serves Him and does good to others, using all things with moderation and thankfulness. For your desire to find a wife and to establish a family, we pray that God will lead you according to His design. Marriage is a bond ordained of God, honorable and pure, given to preserve holiness and to keep life chaste and orderly. We pray that you will keep yourself pure, and that if the Lord grants you marriage, it will be as Scripture teaches, a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, where you live faithfully with your own wife and forsake all others, embellishing that union with gravity, chasteness and order. For your financial needs, for your relationships and friendships, and for your sport and physical activity, we ask for God's sustaining grace, that you may use strength and leisure not for display or excess, but for health, discipline and service, and that all these things may be ordered well for His glory.

We also bring before the Lord your body for healing, in the name of Jesus Christ. We pray for your teeth, especially the upper wisdom tooth on the right, for your eyes, for the entire left leg and the left side of the pelvis, for the ball in the upper part of the left leg, for the ball on the abdomen, and for your stomach, intestines and gastrointestinal tract. We ask the Great Physician to have mercy, to ease pain, to restore what is afflicted, and to grant you complete healing according to His perfect will, that you may be strengthened to serve Him.

May the Lord grant you wisdom to use every gift well, whether in singleness or in marriage, in work or in rest, knowing that it is not marriage or any other state itself that hinders or helps, but the purpose of the heart that uses it well. May He keep you in faith in Jesus Christ alone, through whom we have salvation, and may all that you do abound to His glory.

We continue to pray for you, asking all this in the holy name of Jesus Christ, to whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit be glory, honor and might, now and forever. Amen.

 

[Silas]

Thank you for sharing your heart so openly and for expressing your deep need for Jesus Christ. That desire itself is the most important thing, because life with God is not just believing facts about Him but entering a vital, life changing relationship with Him through faith. Whoever believes into Him shall not perish but have everlasting life, and from that relationship all other wisdom and help flows.

You asked for wisdom, guidance, strategy, support and blessing in every area, and you are right to ask. The Scriptures teach that there are two kinds of wisdom. One is the wisdom of this world which leads to strife and confusion, and the other is the wisdom from above which is pure and peaceable. True wisdom is not just good advice, it is found in Christ Himself, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. He was there at the beginning when the heavens were prepared and the earth was founded, and He still speaks today. To find Him is to find life and to obtain favor from the Lord. That wisdom is better than rubies and nothing you desire can compare with it. It will lead you toward purity and holiness rather than sensuality, toward peace rather than conflict, and its ways are pleasantness and peace. It becomes a tree of life to those who lay hold of it. So we pray that you will watch daily at His gates, hear His instruction, keep sound wisdom and discretion, and let Him guide you into the path of the righteous. Keep feeding your spiritual life as faithfully as you feed your body, through prayer and the Word, because even the Son of God showed us the necessity of prayer, rising early to seek the Father, and how much more do we need that communion.

At the center of all of this is who is on the throne of your life. Every life revolves around some axis, and for many it is self. Yet a self centered life is destined for emptiness and frustration. The kingdom of God is simply having the King on the throne, bowing your heart to Him as Lord and letting Him be the center. When you surrender as Jesus did, praying not what I will but what You will, that is where victory is won. As you commit your life to Him in that way, He will keep you by His power through faith in a way you cannot keep yourself, and everything can then be for His glory, which is your highest and best purpose.

We join you in prayer for each area you mentioned. For your spiritual life and ministries, that God would keep you close to Jesus, make your witness natural and joyful out of what He has done in you, and bear fruit that remains. For your business and job, for the financial area, and for all other practical needs, that He would give you clear guidance, integrity, diligence and provision, and teach you to trust Him as your source. For your desire for a wife and family, we pray that the Lord in His perfect time would lead you to a godly wife according to His design for marriage as a lifelong covenant between one man and one woman, a relationship marked by purity, faithfulness and Christ centered love, and that you would be prepared to love and lead such a family well. For relationships and friendships, that He would surround you with peaceable, faithful people and help you to sow peace so you may reap righteousness. For sport and physical activity and every other area, that He would give you strength, discipline and balance for His glory.

We also lift up your physical needs with compassion. The Lord sees you fully, there is nothing hidden from Him, and He is moved with compassion toward those who suffer. We pray for your teeth, especially the upper wisdom tooth on the right, for your eyes, for the entire left leg and the left side of the pelvis, for the swelling in the upper left thigh and the swelling on the abdomen, and for your stomach, intestines and entire gastrointestinal tract, that God would bring complete healing according to His mercy and power, for He alone can do what no other can. At the same time we remember that the deepest need in any life is the forgiveness of sins, which is greater even than physical healing, and we thank God that through Jesus that forgiveness is already offered. We ask that He would touch your body and also continue His deeper work of grace in your soul.

May the Lord grant you wisdom and understanding in His ways, establish your steps, give you His peace as one who has been reconciled to Him, and cause all that you do to reflect His goodness. We are praying that you will know His presence, His guidance and His keeping in every part of your life, in the holy name of Jesus Christ.