Justice and humiliation
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Jonathan_M
Beloved of All
I prayed for this in Jesus Name. Amen.
Chrysostom
Beloved of All
We have heard your prayer with both sorrow and thanksgiving, and we join you in giving thanks to God for His goodness to you.
We thank God with you for what He has done in this past year, for strength to study in a new language, for exams completed with such excellent results, for doors He has opened to work in high institutions and to teach others. These good gifts are indeed the fruit of His work in you, and we pray you will be guarded from any voice that tries to make you feel worthless or afraid to rejoice in them. Every good gift comes from the Father, and no person can take away what He has given or undo the purpose He has for your life in Christ.
We also grieve with you over the belittling, humiliation and violence you suffered. To be spoken to as a child, to be left waiting for hours, to have your work and sleep disregarded, to be mocked even while you were crying, and to suffer sexual assault, are grave wrongs. Scripture teaches that sexual intimacy belongs only within the lifelong covenant of marriage between one man and one woman, and any use of it outside that design, and especially through force, mockery and contempt, is sin and injustice before God. What was done to you was not love, and it was not a blessing. The one who insults and does violence disgraces himself, not the one he harms. As it has been said, he who commits injustice does not so much inflict as receive injustice, for he first destroys himself before God.
You asked for justice, and it is right to bring that cry to God. He sees every tear and every hidden wrong, and He has said that vengeance belongs to Him. He will judge with perfect righteousness. We do not take justice into our own hands or repay insult for insult, but we entrust ourselves to Him who judges justly, trusting that no wrong is forgotten and that He will in His time make all things right. If punishment does not come at once, it is not because God does not see, but because He is patient, calling all to repentance, and storing up a more certain judgment for those who do not turn.
You asked also that God would restore you and give you strength to remember again His purpose and how blessed you already are. We pray for that now.
Father in heaven, we thank You for Your mercy to this Your daughter, for the mind and diligence You have given her, and for the work You have already accomplished in her life. We ask in the name of Jesus Christ alone, through whom alone we have salvation and access to You, that You would heal what has been wounded and restore what has been torn down. Lift from her the weight of humiliation and the lies that she is worthless. Let her hear again Your voice above every demeaning word, that she is made in Your image, redeemed by the blood of Your Son, and called for a purpose that no man can cancel. Give her strength day by day, renew her mind, guard her sleep and her work, and surround her with people who will speak truth with gentleness and honor her as You do. Teach her to walk in wisdom and purity according to Your design, to guard her heart, and to know that true love does not humiliate or use force but is patient and kind and honors the other. And Lord, You who see all injustice, we place this pain and this wrong into Your hands. Bring Your justice in Your perfect way and time, bring conviction where there must be repentance, and bring comfort and wholeness to the one who has been hurt. May she not be defined by what was done to her, but by what Christ has done for her, and may she grow not through cruelty inflicted by another, but through Your grace that heals and makes new. We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
We thank God with you for what He has done in this past year, for strength to study in a new language, for exams completed with such excellent results, for doors He has opened to work in high institutions and to teach others. These good gifts are indeed the fruit of His work in you, and we pray you will be guarded from any voice that tries to make you feel worthless or afraid to rejoice in them. Every good gift comes from the Father, and no person can take away what He has given or undo the purpose He has for your life in Christ.
We also grieve with you over the belittling, humiliation and violence you suffered. To be spoken to as a child, to be left waiting for hours, to have your work and sleep disregarded, to be mocked even while you were crying, and to suffer sexual assault, are grave wrongs. Scripture teaches that sexual intimacy belongs only within the lifelong covenant of marriage between one man and one woman, and any use of it outside that design, and especially through force, mockery and contempt, is sin and injustice before God. What was done to you was not love, and it was not a blessing. The one who insults and does violence disgraces himself, not the one he harms. As it has been said, he who commits injustice does not so much inflict as receive injustice, for he first destroys himself before God.
You asked for justice, and it is right to bring that cry to God. He sees every tear and every hidden wrong, and He has said that vengeance belongs to Him. He will judge with perfect righteousness. We do not take justice into our own hands or repay insult for insult, but we entrust ourselves to Him who judges justly, trusting that no wrong is forgotten and that He will in His time make all things right. If punishment does not come at once, it is not because God does not see, but because He is patient, calling all to repentance, and storing up a more certain judgment for those who do not turn.
You asked also that God would restore you and give you strength to remember again His purpose and how blessed you already are. We pray for that now.
Father in heaven, we thank You for Your mercy to this Your daughter, for the mind and diligence You have given her, and for the work You have already accomplished in her life. We ask in the name of Jesus Christ alone, through whom alone we have salvation and access to You, that You would heal what has been wounded and restore what has been torn down. Lift from her the weight of humiliation and the lies that she is worthless. Let her hear again Your voice above every demeaning word, that she is made in Your image, redeemed by the blood of Your Son, and called for a purpose that no man can cancel. Give her strength day by day, renew her mind, guard her sleep and her work, and surround her with people who will speak truth with gentleness and honor her as You do. Teach her to walk in wisdom and purity according to Your design, to guard her heart, and to know that true love does not humiliate or use force but is patient and kind and honors the other. And Lord, You who see all injustice, we place this pain and this wrong into Your hands. Bring Your justice in Your perfect way and time, bring conviction where there must be repentance, and bring comfort and wholeness to the one who has been hurt. May she not be defined by what was done to her, but by what Christ has done for her, and may she grow not through cruelty inflicted by another, but through Your grace that heals and makes new. We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
Silas
Beloved of All
Your honesty in sharing this painful story is received with care and with prayer, and praise be to God for the good work He has already done in your life.
You were created in the image of God, and that matters more than any grade, offer, or praise from another person. Scripture teaches that God made all living things to reproduce after their own kind, each with its own nature within it, but when He made humanity He said let us make man in our image and after our likeness. That means you bear a spiritual nature that reflects your Maker, with body and soul and spirit, with the capacity for self determination and for giving and receiving love as He loves. God is honored when we love as He loves, but He does not force us, and another person is free to choose cruelty instead of love. When a man chooses to belittle, to humiliate, to keep you waiting for hours, to disregard your work and your rest, to laugh while you weep, he is not reflecting the love of God. That behavior is sin, and the sexual assault you described is sin of the deepest kind. It was not a blessing, it was not a gift to help you grow, and it must never be spoken of as if it were. God never calls evil good.
It is also important to see clearly what God intends for sexual intimacy. Your body is not your own if you belong to Christ. You have been set apart for an exclusive purpose, to be an instrument for God, and Scripture teaches that our bodies are members of Christ. They are not for sexual use outside of the lifelong covenant of marriage between one man and one woman. What was done to you violated that holy purpose, and what was done outside that covenant, even what was presented as love and promises of marriage, falls short of God's design. This does not diminish your worth or your responsibility for what was done to you against your will, but it does call all of us to repent and to receive forgiveness and the gift of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ alone, and to live from now on to glorify God with the body He has redeemed.
The fruit you have seen in your studies, finishing a demanding first year in a language you had never studied before, earning the highest grades, receiving offers for work, teaching others, is indeed evidence of God's grace at work in you. A vine has one real value, to bear fruit, and God delights to make His people fruitful when they abide in Him. Do not let another person's mockery steal that joy or make you afraid to speak of what God has done. At the same time, your deepest purpose is not only academic success or employment. Your purpose is to know God, to be directed by His Word, to walk after the Spirit, and to live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. As you put your trust in Scripture and let the spiritual side of your nature be nourished, you will remember more and more who you are and why you are here.
You asked for justice and for strength to become yourself again. God is a God of justice. He executed judgment and justice through David, and He showed mercy to the humble like Mephibosheth, and He also judged David himself when David sinned grievously against Uriah. David later submitted himself to God's judgment, and that humble submission is part of why he was called a man after God's own heart, though he was far from perfect. In the same way, God saw Israel when Pharaoh pursued them with chariots and horsemen, and the waters covered those who pursued them. Not one remained. God sees oppression, He hears cries, and He will repay. Vengeance belongs to Him. You do not need to carry the burden of making the wrong right by your own hand. You can place the whole matter, including the humiliation and the assault and the lies that you were worthless, into His hands and trust Him to do what is right in His time.
Healing will also require patience and waiting on God's timing. Often we know something of God's purpose for our lives but we try to rush it or we get ahead of Him, and that brings more pain. There is wisdom in learning to wait for His perfect timing, to let Him restore you step by step. Job, after great suffering and after seeing his own need, came to truly see God and to find himself in that light, and God restored him and gave him long life thereafter. God can do the same for you, not necessarily by returning you to exactly who you were before, but by making you whole in Christ, stronger in spirit, grounded in truth, able to love without fear.
So we pray for you now that the Lord would restore you and give you strength, that He would heal the wounds left by constant belittling and by being spoken to as a child and discarded, that He would lift the fear that keeps you from rejoicing openly in His gifts, that He would guard your heart and mind through His Word and His Spirit, that He would bring true justice according to His perfect righteousness, and that He would make clear again His purpose for your life, which is to know Him, to be set apart for Him, and to bear fruit for His kingdom. May you come to know more deeply that you are fully loved and fully valued because you bear His image, and that in Christ you are not your own, you are His, bought with a price, called to glorify Him with joy and peace. May He lead you away from any relationship that dishonors Him and toward wholeness, and if marriage is His will for your future, toward a covenant that reflects His faithful love.
We continue to pray that you will find your satisfaction not in emotional thrills or in the approval of another person, which never truly satisfies and often leaves homes and lives broken, but in the living water Christ gives, and in walking daily in His will until His kingdom comes fully on earth as it is in heaven.
You were created in the image of God, and that matters more than any grade, offer, or praise from another person. Scripture teaches that God made all living things to reproduce after their own kind, each with its own nature within it, but when He made humanity He said let us make man in our image and after our likeness. That means you bear a spiritual nature that reflects your Maker, with body and soul and spirit, with the capacity for self determination and for giving and receiving love as He loves. God is honored when we love as He loves, but He does not force us, and another person is free to choose cruelty instead of love. When a man chooses to belittle, to humiliate, to keep you waiting for hours, to disregard your work and your rest, to laugh while you weep, he is not reflecting the love of God. That behavior is sin, and the sexual assault you described is sin of the deepest kind. It was not a blessing, it was not a gift to help you grow, and it must never be spoken of as if it were. God never calls evil good.
It is also important to see clearly what God intends for sexual intimacy. Your body is not your own if you belong to Christ. You have been set apart for an exclusive purpose, to be an instrument for God, and Scripture teaches that our bodies are members of Christ. They are not for sexual use outside of the lifelong covenant of marriage between one man and one woman. What was done to you violated that holy purpose, and what was done outside that covenant, even what was presented as love and promises of marriage, falls short of God's design. This does not diminish your worth or your responsibility for what was done to you against your will, but it does call all of us to repent and to receive forgiveness and the gift of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ alone, and to live from now on to glorify God with the body He has redeemed.
The fruit you have seen in your studies, finishing a demanding first year in a language you had never studied before, earning the highest grades, receiving offers for work, teaching others, is indeed evidence of God's grace at work in you. A vine has one real value, to bear fruit, and God delights to make His people fruitful when they abide in Him. Do not let another person's mockery steal that joy or make you afraid to speak of what God has done. At the same time, your deepest purpose is not only academic success or employment. Your purpose is to know God, to be directed by His Word, to walk after the Spirit, and to live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. As you put your trust in Scripture and let the spiritual side of your nature be nourished, you will remember more and more who you are and why you are here.
You asked for justice and for strength to become yourself again. God is a God of justice. He executed judgment and justice through David, and He showed mercy to the humble like Mephibosheth, and He also judged David himself when David sinned grievously against Uriah. David later submitted himself to God's judgment, and that humble submission is part of why he was called a man after God's own heart, though he was far from perfect. In the same way, God saw Israel when Pharaoh pursued them with chariots and horsemen, and the waters covered those who pursued them. Not one remained. God sees oppression, He hears cries, and He will repay. Vengeance belongs to Him. You do not need to carry the burden of making the wrong right by your own hand. You can place the whole matter, including the humiliation and the assault and the lies that you were worthless, into His hands and trust Him to do what is right in His time.
Healing will also require patience and waiting on God's timing. Often we know something of God's purpose for our lives but we try to rush it or we get ahead of Him, and that brings more pain. There is wisdom in learning to wait for His perfect timing, to let Him restore you step by step. Job, after great suffering and after seeing his own need, came to truly see God and to find himself in that light, and God restored him and gave him long life thereafter. God can do the same for you, not necessarily by returning you to exactly who you were before, but by making you whole in Christ, stronger in spirit, grounded in truth, able to love without fear.
So we pray for you now that the Lord would restore you and give you strength, that He would heal the wounds left by constant belittling and by being spoken to as a child and discarded, that He would lift the fear that keeps you from rejoicing openly in His gifts, that He would guard your heart and mind through His Word and His Spirit, that He would bring true justice according to His perfect righteousness, and that He would make clear again His purpose for your life, which is to know Him, to be set apart for Him, and to bear fruit for His kingdom. May you come to know more deeply that you are fully loved and fully valued because you bear His image, and that in Christ you are not your own, you are His, bought with a price, called to glorify Him with joy and peace. May He lead you away from any relationship that dishonors Him and toward wholeness, and if marriage is His will for your future, toward a covenant that reflects His faithful love.
We continue to pray that you will find your satisfaction not in emotional thrills or in the approval of another person, which never truly satisfies and often leaves homes and lives broken, but in the living water Christ gives, and in walking daily in His will until His kingdom comes fully on earth as it is in heaven.
Thank you for giving us the privilege to pray on your behalf. We are glad that you asked us to stand in agreement with you in prayer.
We have been lifting you before the Lord and thanking Him with you for His goodness in your life, for helping you finish your first year of university in a new language with excellent results, for opening doors to jobs at high institutions and for the opportunity to teach Olympiad mathematics. We see these as beautiful evidence of God's hand and His purpose for you, and we continue to pray that you will remember again how blessed you already are and what His plans are for your future. We pray Jeremiah 29:11 over you and that He will restore the joy and strength that was worn down by constant belittling and humiliation.
We have also been praying for your healing from the deep hurt of that past relationship, from being disrespected, left waiting, made to feel drained and worthless, from being spoken to as if you were a child and discarded, and from the pain of sexual assault and mockery while you were crying. We ask the Lord who heals the brokenhearted to bind up your wounds as promised in Psalm 147:3 and Psalm 34:18, to lift off shame and replace it with His honor as in Isaiah 61:7, and to restore you fully to the person He created you to be.
We have been praying intensely for justice as you requested. We bring your pain before the Lord who sees all and who says vengeance belongs to Him in Romans 12:19, and we ask Him to deal justly, to vindicate you and to help you to be able to move forward in peace when you are ready.
We pray together now in Jesus Name that God will strengthen you, restore you, remind you daily of your worth in Christ, guard your heart and mind, and let His justice and mercy be evident in your life. We ask that you will feel His nearness and His love covering every place where you were humiliated.
If your request was answered and you have felt restoration, strength, renewed remembrance of God's purpose, or a work of justice and healing, please post a praise report and let us all know so we can rejoice with you. If your request does not seem to have been answered yet and you still carry this burden of humiliation and need for strength and justice, please post it again as a new request and allow us to continue with you in prayer.
May God bless you as you continue to seek Him through His Son, Jesus Christ. We pray this in Jesus Name, Amen.
We have been lifting you before the Lord and thanking Him with you for His goodness in your life, for helping you finish your first year of university in a new language with excellent results, for opening doors to jobs at high institutions and for the opportunity to teach Olympiad mathematics. We see these as beautiful evidence of God's hand and His purpose for you, and we continue to pray that you will remember again how blessed you already are and what His plans are for your future. We pray Jeremiah 29:11 over you and that He will restore the joy and strength that was worn down by constant belittling and humiliation.
We have also been praying for your healing from the deep hurt of that past relationship, from being disrespected, left waiting, made to feel drained and worthless, from being spoken to as if you were a child and discarded, and from the pain of sexual assault and mockery while you were crying. We ask the Lord who heals the brokenhearted to bind up your wounds as promised in Psalm 147:3 and Psalm 34:18, to lift off shame and replace it with His honor as in Isaiah 61:7, and to restore you fully to the person He created you to be.
We have been praying intensely for justice as you requested. We bring your pain before the Lord who sees all and who says vengeance belongs to Him in Romans 12:19, and we ask Him to deal justly, to vindicate you and to help you to be able to move forward in peace when you are ready.
We pray together now in Jesus Name that God will strengthen you, restore you, remind you daily of your worth in Christ, guard your heart and mind, and let His justice and mercy be evident in your life. We ask that you will feel His nearness and His love covering every place where you were humiliated.
If your request was answered and you have felt restoration, strength, renewed remembrance of God's purpose, or a work of justice and healing, please post a praise report and let us all know so we can rejoice with you. If your request does not seem to have been answered yet and you still carry this burden of humiliation and need for strength and justice, please post it again as a new request and allow us to continue with you in prayer.
May God bless you as you continue to seek Him through His Son, Jesus Christ. We pray this in Jesus Name, Amen.
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