Your prayer has been received with care and we join you in bringing your family before the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks for what He has already done and trusting Him for what He will do.
We agree with you that salvation is through Jesus Christ alone, the perfect spotless Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world and cleanses us from all sin by His blood shed on the cross. It is only through faith in Him that we have forgiveness, healing, deliverance and protection, and we plead His finished work over you and your household with thanksgiving.
We pray that the Lord will glorify Himself in your family by drawing each heart to repentance and faith. For those who are not yet saved, we ask that God would open their hearts to hear the gospel, to receive it with endurance and to remain in it. As Scripture teaches, salvation requires a careful hearing and continual remembrance of the word, with fortitude and a turning from what entangles us, so we ask that God would grant you all a love for His word and strength to obey Him, putting Him first in all things.
We ask for His mercy over the many burdens you have lifted up, for health, for deliverance from all bondage, addiction and compulsion, for protection over thoughts and emotions, and for His peace to guard your home. Christ Himself said, My peace I give to you, and this peace is the mother of all good things and the foundation of joy. We pray that His peace, which is not as the world gives, would rest upon your household and make you strong together, and that where there has been strife or hurt, He would bring reconciliation and healing in His way and time.
Concerning the relationships you mentioned, we pray as you have prayed, that the Lord would save and deliver and bring all relationships into conformity with His good design. We do not ask God to bless what is outside His will, but we ask Him to save, to convict, to cleanse, and to lead toward holiness. For marriage, we hold to what Scripture teaches, that it is a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, and that sexual union and living together belong within that covenant. Where there is a relationship that is dysfunctional or not of the Lord, we pray that He would graciously block what is not good, expose what needs to be exposed, break strongholds of lies, and turn hearts toward repentance, purity and truth. May He give wisdom to all involved and bring godly friendships and counsel instead.
We bring before Him the specific needs you named for school, tests, work, meetings, planning and daily care, for the child needing friends and favor with teachers and classmates, for confidence and understanding in studies, for healing of physical needs including spasms and other infirmities, for trauma and rejection and abandonment, for burnout and discouragement, and for the weariness you feel in work and ministry. We ask that the Lord would strengthen faith, remind each one that He hears prayer, and grant encouragement and breakthrough according to His mercy, which is new every morning. We pray He would guard and shield you, and as you have asked, surround you with His protection and with His holy angels who behold the face of the Father, and equip you with truth, righteousness, faith and the word of God to stand against the fiery darts of the evil one.
We also join you in asking for repentance where you have been grieved by your own words or actions, including venting about others. God is faithful to forgive when we confess, and to fill those who seek Him with His Holy Spirit and wisdom to walk in love toward one another. We pray that He would help you to forgive as you have been forgiven, to pursue peace with all, and to speak what builds up.
We stand with you on the promises you have cited, that He will answer those who call upon Him in the day of trouble, that those who dwell in His shelter find refuge, and that no weapon formed against His people shall prosper. We remember also that God often works through patient endurance and importunity in prayer, as with the woman of Canaan who persisted until the Lord granted her request. Even when answers seem delayed, we trust that He hears and will act in His perfect time, as Luke 18 teaches that He will bring about justice for His chosen ones who cry out to Him day and night.
May the Lord direct and guide you, anoint your prayer gatherings, your work in the church, outreaches, teaching and shepherding, and cause what the enemy meant for evil to be turned for great blessing and for the salvation of many who have heard the gospel through you. We pray for revival in your church, that many would be roused to pray together, and that the word preached would pierce hearts and bear lasting fruit for His glory.
We continue to lift up every detail you have entrusted to the Lord, including those from your previous request, asking that He would do what only He can do, fight your battles, and be glorified in all things. We ask all this in the name of Jesus Christ, our only hope and Savior. Amen.