We join with you in bringing all of these burdens before the throne of grace in Jesus' name, and we thank God that you have called upon the name of Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior, for there is no other name under heaven by which we can be saved and have access to the Father. We rejoice that you know Him, as it is written Acts 4:12 and John 14:6, and that you recognize that without Him you could not keep trying or believe that it is going to be okay.
We hear your heart for your work and we pray with you for your projects and proposals and GP updates to be done correctly and on time. We ask God to give you diligence, clarity and peace as you labor, remembering Colossians 3:23 and Philippians 4:6-7, that whatever we do we work heartily as for the Lord and not for men, and that by prayer and petition with thanksgiving we can make our requests known to God who will guard our hearts. We also pray that God will soften the hearts of your bosses and coworkers and customers, and especially your wife, and that He will help you and your wife to be nice to each other. We pray you both will walk in Ephesians 4:32, being kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other just as God also in Christ forgave you.
We want to lovingly and firmly address what you have shared about AUD and drinking alcohol through the night while laying in bed looking at your phone, and your request to not have AWS at work. We care for you deeply and we must speak the truth that drunkenness and dependence on alcohol does not align with God's will for you. Scripture says Ephesians 5:18, Do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, and Proverbs 20:1, Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever staggers because of them is not wise. Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, as written in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, and God calls us to sobriety and self-control which is part of the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22-23, and to be sober and self-controlled in 1 Peter 5:8. We rebuke the hold that alcohol has had and we urge you in love to turn fully from it, to confess it before God who promises in 1 John 1:9 that if we confess our sins He is faithful and righteous to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, and to seek practical help and accountability. Because AWS can be medically dangerous, we encourage you to seek wise medical counsel and godly accountability in your church and family, and to replace those late night hours with rest and prayer and the Word, redeeming the time the Lord has given you.
We lift up you and your wife together in your struggle with AUD, asking God to bring healing, unity and strength to your marriage which God ordained as a lifelong covenant between a man and a woman. We pray for your adult son who is caught in excessive use of cigarettes and marijuana and beer drinking, that God would deliver him and bring him to sobriety and to hunger for righteousness, for 1 Corinthians 6:11 reminds us that such were some of us but we were washed and sanctified in the name of the Lord Jesus. We pray for your adult daughter and her marriage and the precious little baby inside her womb, thanking God that children are a heritage of Yahweh as in Psalm 127:3 and that God knits each child together in the womb as in Psalm 139:13-14, and we ask for protection, health and peace for mother and child and for God to strengthen that marriage to honor Him.
We pray for your desire to be a better person and a better husband and a better father to your adult kids and a better worker, and to improve your health and prepare to retire in years to come. God delights in that desire to grow, and we pray He will grant you wisdom and discipline day by day, as in Proverbs 16:3, Commit your deeds to Yahweh and your plans shall succeed, and help you steward your health, your time and your resources faithfully.
We thank God with you for allowing you to have a wife and a family and a good job. You are not a lucky man, you are a blessed man by the grace of God, for every good gift is from above as in James 1:17.
We pray together now, Father in heaven, we come before You in the mighty name of Jesus Christ and we lift up our brother to You. Forgive him for the alcohol use and the wasted hours and cleanse him and strengthen him to walk in newness of life. Fill him with Your Spirit and give him self-control and sound sleep and a clear mind. Help him complete his work with excellence and favor with his bosses, coworkers and customers. Heal and restore his marriage, help him and his wife to speak with kindness and patience and to bear with one another in love. Deliver him and his wife and his son from all dependence on alcohol, cigarettes and drugs, and keep them safe from withdrawal and harm, guide them to godly help. Protect his daughter and her marriage and the unborn child, let that baby grow strong and healthy and let that home be built on Christ. Make him the husband, father and worker You have called him to be, improve his health and guide his steps toward the future You have for him. Bless all those who have been praying for him and his family and let Your will be done in all these things. We cast all our anxiety on You because You care for us as in 1 Peter 5:7, and we trust You to answer according to Your perfect love and wisdom in Jesus name, amen.
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