MERCY AND SLVETION

[Chrysostom]

We have received your request for mercy, forgiveness, deliverance and salvation for the soul you named who is trapped, and we join our prayers to yours before the all pitying and merciful God.

The most grievous slavery is slavery to sin, and from this bondage God alone can deliver, for to forgive sins belongs to none other. Yet He is the God of mercies, rich in longsuffering, and He desires the salvation and benefit of all. To give us full assurance that He pardons, He showed all His longsuffering in one who called himself the chief of sinners, a blasphemer and persecutor, and had mercy on him. He did this so that no sinner afterward would despair of finding mercy, but each might be sure that if such a one was pardoned, there can be no doubt for others. If God pardoned him, He will not refuse mercy to any who turn to Him.

We pray therefore that the Lord Jesus Christ, whose body was broken for many for the deliverance of our race and who brought the true freedom that the old rites could only foreshadow, would look upon this soul with compassion. We ask that He would enlighten one who sits in darkness, rescue him from the power of Satan, grant him knowledge of the truth, true repentance, and the forgiveness of sins, and bring him from enmity to adoption as a son and to the kingdom of heaven, according to His unspeakable mercy and not according to any merit of our own.

We know also that even when God acts in mercy, prayer mightily contributes, and mercy seeks those who make themselves ready to receive it. So we exhort this soul and you who love him to continue in careful hearing of the word and continual remembrance of it, in fortitude, in contempt for worldly things, and in washing away every stain by repentance, by tears, by prayers and by works of mercy. For not even after the washing of baptism is the profit of repentance taken away, but the Lord taught us to pray daily, forgive us our debts, and promised in return to pardon us when we forgive others, holding out good hope through His grace.

As you help together by prayer, we trust the promise that He will have mercy on whom He will have mercy, and we ask that mercy and salvation be given through Jesus Christ alone, for there is no other name by which we are saved. We will continue to pray with you that this deliverance may be complete and that this life may be kept pure and steadfast to the glory of God. Amen.

 

[TONY MARTIN]

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we are praying for Her for forgiveness and eternal life with our Lord Jesus

 

[TONY MARTIN]

Her name is ###

 

[TONY MARTIN]

Christa Pike

 

[Silas]

Thank you for sharing this burden and for standing in the gap for this precious soul. Your cry for mercy, forgiveness, deliverance and salvation is exactly the kind of prayer that reflects the heart of God Himself.

Scripture shows that God delights to show mercy and is always looking for opportunity to extend it. When Moses interceded for Israel, it was God who had placed that intercession in his heart, because God wanted to be merciful. The Lord declared then that He will have mercy on whom He will have mercy and compassion on whom He will have compassion. That same heart has not changed. His mercy endures forever, and He is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in mercy.

Mercy means not receiving what we do deserve, while justice means receiving what we do deserve. Every one of us deserves judgment, but David cried, have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your tender mercies blot out my transgressions, and God abundantly pardons those who come to Him that way. The way God can be both just and merciful is through Jesus Christ. At the cross mercy and truth met together and righteousness and peace kissed each other. Truth and justice said sin must be judged, and mercy said the sinner must be forgiven, and both were satisfied when Jesus took the curse of sin upon Himself and provided salvation. That is why the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all.

That salvation is very near, even for someone deeply trapped and bound by the enemy. Scripture says it is as close as your mouth. If a person confesses with the mouth that Jesus is Lord and believes in the heart that God raised Him from the dead, he will be saved. It is as simple and as close as confessing, I am a sinner and I need Jesus, and trusting that He died and rose again. Today is the day of salvation, and whoever calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.

The enemy does seek to hold people in bondage, and many religious efforts only add to that bondage, but Jesus came to set captives free. Just as God delivered Israel from cruel slavery in Egypt, He is able to deliver a soul from the power of darkness and from demonic oppression. No pit is so deep that His arm cannot reach. The only way anyone perishes is by a deliberate and willful rejection of His offer of salvation. If the heart turns to Him, He hears the cry, He regards the affliction, and because His mercy endures forever He answers and forgives.

We are joining you in prayer for this one who is trapped.

Father, in the name of Jesus we ask for Your mercy upon this soul. According to Your tender mercies blot out transgressions and forgive sin. We ask that You deliver from the power of Satan and set free from every chain of bondage. Open eyes to see that mercy and truth have met in Christ, and that salvation is near. Grant repentance and faith to confess Jesus as Lord and believe that You raised Him from the dead. Let goodness and mercy follow this life from this day forward, and let Your paths of mercy and truth be known. We ask this knowing that You are the God of salvation and You delight to show mercy. Amen.

Continue to pray and, as God gives opportunity, to share the simple gospel of Jesus Christ with love and truth. God hears the cry of those who intercede, and He is faithful to draw near to those who call upon Him.