We join you in thanking our Father for the improved video time you have seen and we agree with you that God still does miracles today and that He hears our prayers when we ask according to His will. We rejoice with you over this answer and we continue to ask with you for more face to face time, for as it is written in 2 John 1:12, we hope to be with you and to speak face to face that our joy may be made full, and we pray that the Lord would open that door in His perfect timing and way.
We pray with you that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you being rooted and grounded in love may be strengthened to comprehend the breadth and length and height and depth and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God, and that He who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think would cause His love to overflow in your home, Eph 3:17-20.
We lift up your desire to train up your child in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, Eph 6:4. We pray for grace and wisdom for you as a father to do this faithfully, remembering Deut 6:6-7 that these words which God commands shall be on your heart and you shall teach them diligently to your children and talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way. We agree with you that your child would be encouraged to honor both father and mother, for this is the first commandment with a promise, Ex 20:12 and Eph 6:1-3, and that even in a difficult season the Lord would establish convenient and consistent communication that honors Him.
We also bring your wife before the Lord. We pray that the Lord would move upon her conscience and that she would do her husband good and not evil all the days of her life, Prov 31:12. We pray for godly communication between you, that your speech would be with grace seasoned with truth and love, Eph 4:29, and that you both would choose to serve the Lord, Josh 24:15, for we must obey God rather than men, Dan 3:18. Where there has been sin outside of God's design for marriage we must speak clearly, for marriage is ordained by God as a lifelong covenant between one man and one woman and sexual intimacy is reserved for within that marriage alone. Any sexual activity outside of marriage, whether fornication or adultery, is sin before God, Heb 13:4 and 1 Cor 6:18, and same sex relations are also forbidden. We pray that the Holy Spirit would convict of sin and of righteousness and of judgment, John 16:8, and hedge up her way with thorns as in Hos 2:6-7, not to harm but to prevent further sin, disease, unplanned pregnancies, and eternal destruction away from the presence of the Lord. We pray for her salvation, for God desires all people to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth, 1 Tim 2:4, and that she would come to repentance, for the Lord is not wishing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance, 2 Pet 3:9. We ask the Lord to guard her from deception, Matt 24:4, from having a form of godliness but denying its power, 2 Tim 3:5, and from those who profess to know God but deny Him by their works, Titus 1:16.
We agree that when we are weak then He is strong in us, 2 Cor 12:9, and we will gladly boast in our weaknesses that the power of Christ may rest upon us, 2 Cor 12:9-10. We remember that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by our Father who is in heaven, Matt 18:19, and that the Lord is not restrained to save by many or by few, 1 Sam 14:6.
We pray for protection for your child and for your wife and her family and for all who influence them, that the Lord would keep you from temptation and deliver you from the evil one, Matt 6:13 and John 17:15, for the whole world lies in the power of the evil one, Rev 12:9, but greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world, 1 John 4:4. We ask that He would give His angels charge over your child to keep him in all his ways, Ps 91:11-12, that he would be guarded by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed, 1 Pet 1:5, that he would be filled with the Holy Spirit even from a young age, Luke 1:15 and Luke 1:41, and taught the sacred writings which are able to make him wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus, 2 Tim 3:15, and that the evil one would not touch him, 1 John 5:18. We remember that there are more with us than against us and that the hills are filled with horses and chariots of fire, 2 Kings 6:16-17, for He makes His angels winds and His servants flames of fire, Ps 104:4 and Heb 1:7, and they are all serving spirits sent out to do service for those who will inherit salvation, Heb 1:14. Our help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth, Ps 121:1-2.
We thank you that you have asked in the name of Jesus, for there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved, Acts 4:12, and it is only through Jesus that we have access to the Father, John 14:6. We encourage you to continue to abide in Him, to pray without ceasing, and to trust Him to do greater things than we can ask or imagine, Jer 33:3 and John 14:12 and Eph 3:20, believing that whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive, Mark 11:24, for without faith it is impossible to please Him, Heb 11:6, and all the promises of God find their Yes in Christ, 2 Cor 1:20.
Father, we thank You for the miracle of improved communication already granted and we ask for more, for face to face time that is peaceful, orderly, and centered on Christ, for a wife who is convicted, drawn to repentance and to salvation, for a marriage that honors You, and for a child who is protected, nurtured, and brought up to know and love You all the days of his life. Let Your will be done in this family as it is in heaven. We ask this in the mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.