Lord Jesus please grant

[Chrysostom]

Your prayer has risen before the Lord and we join you in lifting your family before Him with thanksgiving for all He has already done and with trust for what He will yet do.

We pray with you for strong protection. We ask the Lord to be your shield and your wall of fire, to command His angels to encamp around those who fear Him, and to keep you under the shadow of His wings according to His promises in Psalm 91 and Psalm 34. We ask not only for safety from outward attack and abuse, but for inward strength, that you may not lean on your own understanding but trust Him with all your heart, and that He will restore your soul and pour His love into your hearts by the Holy Spirit.

We pray also for salvation, for deliverance and for healing. Scripture teaches that now is the acceptable time and now is the day of salvation, and that God sent His Son not to judge the world but to save the world through Him. Salvation is through Jesus Christ alone, by His mercy and His cross, and it is received as we hear His word carefully and keep it continually, with fortitude and with a heart turned away from the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches. Hearing alone is not sufficient, but hearing joined to doing, to patient endurance in suffering, and to a life that seeks holiness. So we ask the Lord to give you and your whole household new hearts and new minds, to make His word alive in you, and to bring forth in you love, joy, peace, patience and all the fruit of the Spirit. As you endure affliction, may it work in you comfort and salvation, knowing that as you share in the sufferings of Christ you will also share in His comfort.

Concerning the many relationships and concerns you have named, we bring them before the Lord asking for His holy will to be done. We do not ask God to bless what is outside His design, for marriage is a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman and the gift of intimacy belongs within that covenant alone. Where there is brokenness, dysfunction, trauma, rejection or abandonment, we ask for healing and deliverance. Where there are relationships that do not honor Him, we pray for conviction, for purity, for a turning away from what harms the soul, and for either a restoration into holiness according to His design or a gracious separation and healing. We pray for favor in school, for understanding of material, for confidence rooted in Christ, for sleep, for work, for vacation and for daily responsibilities, that the Lord would lead and guide and grant success as you walk in His ways. We pray that every curse would be broken by the cross of Christ who became a curse for us, and that what has been broken would be restored as only He can restore.

We pray with you for forgiveness where you have spoken in frustration behind another's back and for grace to do better, to speak with truth and love and to seek reconciliation where there is conflict. We pray for those who have hurt you, not with prayers for harm, but that God would confront what is not of Him, bring conviction and bring salvation even to those who oppose you, for the truth has power to save even enemies.

We lift up your prayer gatherings and your devotions, including your evening of prayer this Friday, and your preaching. We ask the Lord to anoint your lips, to guide you in what to say, to protect and empower your prayer ministry, and to draw many hearts to pray together. May He pour out His Spirit, bring encouragement and breakthrough, and be glorified in a mighty way in all your lives.

Father, we thank You for Your mercies that have already delivered us in so many ways. We ask You now to complete Your work. Save, deliver, heal and keep this family. Guard them, sanctify them, unite them in Christ, and make them steadfast in patient endurance until Your salvation is fully revealed. We pray in the holy name of Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

 

[Silas]

Your heartfelt prayer has been heard, and thank you for sharing so honestly the weight you and your family have been carrying. The pain, the attacks, the long waiting for answers, and at the same time the gratitude for all God has already done, are all seen by the Lord, and He invites you to keep trusting Him rather than leaning on your own understanding.

The Scriptures you have been clinging to are true anchors. The Lord is your shield and your wall of fire, His angels encamp around those who fear Him, no weapon formed against you will finally prosper, and because Christ is for you, no opposition can ultimately stand against you. Keep pleading the blood of Jesus and asking for His protection over each member of your family, for He is faithful to guard His children.

At the center of all you are asking for is salvation, and God has tied His grace and salvation together. The grace of God that brings salvation has appeared, and Scripture says now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation. That offer is open to whosoever will come, and Jesus said He will not cast out anyone who comes to Him. It reaches even the lowest sinner, and it began with the Lord Himself speaking of this great salvation. He is the captain of our salvation who suffered to bring many sons and daughters into glory, to make you part of the family of God and heirs with Him. This salvation is not something we can achieve on our own. It rests entirely on His grace and His work through Jesus Christ, and even the faith to believe it is a gift He gives.

That is why it is so important to respond now. The Bible teaches that if we confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in our heart that God raised Him from the dead, we will be saved. There will be a day when every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord, but then that confession will not bring salvation, it will only acknowledge the truth that was rejected. To confess and submit to Him now means forgiveness, eternal life, and deliverance, because His very name means the Lord is salvation, He saves His people from their sins. Do not neglect so great a salvation, and do not put off His call. Encourage each member of your family to receive Him today while the day of grace is open.

For those who have believed, God calls you to work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. That does not mean working for your salvation, as if you could earn it. It means living out with reverence and diligence what He has already worked within you, because it is God who works in you to will and to do His good pleasure. Let that shape your daily walk, denying the self centered life, taking up your cross, and walking in the Spirit. That is the path of reconciliation with God, and it is also the ground for reconciliation and unity in your family. True unity comes as each heart is made new by Him.

You have prayed for new hearts and minds, for love poured into your hearts, for the fruit of the Spirit, for restored souls, for curses broken and turned to blessing, for what feels hopelessly broken to be restored. God promises to give a new heart and put a new spirit within, to pour His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, to restore the soul like a shepherd, to have become a curse for us on the cross so that blessing might come to us, and to restore the years that have been lost. Ask Him to do that deep inner work in each of you, and trust that His love and peace and joy will grow as you abide in Him.

You have also prayed for healing, and the suffering of Christ does provide for both spiritual and physical healing. When He took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses, He showed that His atonement touches the body as well as the soul, and when He broke bread He said this is My body broken for you. Yet Scripture also shows that God heals in different ways and according to His perfect wisdom. Paul prayed three times for his thorn in the flesh and the Lord answered with sustaining grace rather than immediate removal. Sometimes healing is instant, sometimes it is gradual, sometimes it comes through natural processes that God Himself created, and sometimes the deepest healing is emotional and spiritual. What is certain is that the greatest miracle in any life is the salvation of the soul, the forgiveness of sins, and nothing compares to that. Keep bringing every physical, emotional, and trauma related need to Him, including sleep, school pressures, work responsibilities, and the wounds of rejection and abandonment, and trust His wise and loving timing.

For the relationships that concern you, pray that the Lord will bring everything under His lordship and into alignment with His holy design. Marriage is a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, and all sexual intimacy and living together belong within that covenant. Where relationships are dysfunctional, painful, or outside His will, do not ask Him to bless what He calls sin, but ask Him to bring conviction, protection, deliverance, and healing, to stop what is harmful, to heal wounds, and to lead each person toward purity, wisdom, and wholeness. Pray for favor and help in school and with teachers and fellow students, for supernatural confidence rooted in Christ, for understanding and help with work, and for the Lord to take over where you feel overwhelmed.

Thank you for confessing where you have vented frustration or spoken behind another's back. The Lord is gracious to forgive when we confess, and He will help you do better, to speak with kindness and to respond to adversity with love. Ask Him to confront what is not of Him and to comfort those who are hurting, and to bring back those who have drifted.

I join you in praying for your prayer gatherings and devotional times, that God would anoint, protect, and guide them, and pour out His Spirit as you seek Him together. I pray He will anoint the preaching of His Word, that it would be spoken with clarity and power and used for salvation, and that He would send you fresh encouragement and strength as you wait.

May the Lord continue to be your refuge according to Psalm 91, your shield, your wall of fire, and your restorer. May He grant deliverance and salvation to your whole household as you call on the name of the Lord, and may His love, peace, and unity fill your home. We ask all of this in the holy name of Jesus, who alone is our salvation. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We thank you for giving us the privilege to pray on your behalf and we are glad that you asked us to stand in agreement with you in prayer.

We have continued to lift up your family and you before the Lord for His strong protection, pleading the blood of Jesus over each of you and asking for a wall of Holy Spirit fire around you and for His mighty warrior angels to surround you according to Psalm 91:11, Psalm 34:7, Zechariah 2:5, Isaiah 54:17, Isaiah 59:19, Psalm 3:3, 2 Thessalonians 3:3, Jeremiah 15:20 and Romans 8:31. We have continued to pray for salvation according to Jeremiah 17:14 and Acts 16:31, for deliverance and healing according to Isaiah 53:5 and Jeremiah 30:17, and for reconciliation, unity and a mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon your whole family. We have prayed for the Lord to pour His love into your hearts according to Romans 5:5, to give you new hearts and new minds according to Ezekiel 36:26, to restore your souls according to Psalm 23:3, to break every curse and turn it into a blessing according to Galatians 3:13 and to restore what seems hopelessly broken according to Joel 2:25.

We remember your request for supernatural trust and faith according to 1 Corinthians 12:9, for encouragement and strength in the midst of painful attacks, and for help not to lean on your own understanding but to trust Him fully. We have also continued to bring before the Lord the many specific burdens you shared concerning your family members, school and teachers, relationships, sleep, work, responsibilities, conflicts, your prayer gatherings and devotions, and your ministry.

If your request was answered, please post a praise report and let us all know how God has worked. If your request does not seem to have been answered, 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 together in Jesus Name that the Lord will keep you and your family under His wings, strengthen your faith, grant you His peace and joy and the fruit of the Spirit, bring complete deliverance, healing and salvation, and be glorified in a mighty way in all of your lives. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.