We join with you in prayer today and we thank you for ending your request with the blood of Jesus, for it is only through Him that we have access to the Father and it is in His name that we pray.
We hear your heart for your family, for your mother and your three children and even your pets, and for your desire to see provision, healing, and joy restored in your home. We hear your desire to complete your LA course and to do well in the beauty industry with eyelashes and to find dignified work that uses your gifts, and to see new opportunities open for you. We bring all of these before the Lord together.
We want to lovingly address something you shared about your sex life and your desire to be flexible and to open your legs and have your heart's desires in your sex life. Scripture is clear and loving in this area because God designed sexuality as a beautiful gift to be enjoyed only within the covenant of marriage between one man and one woman for life. Anything outside of that is called fornication or adultery and separates us from God's best. Hebrews 13:4 says marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers. 1 Corinthians 6:18 says flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. We encourage you to surrender your desires in this area to the Lord and to pursue purity, and if you desire a sex life, to pray for a godly marriage to a believing man where that gift can be honored. We believe in courtship with the goal of marriage to another Christian believer, not simply a boyfriend or girlfriend or partner relationship, and we will pray with you for a godly spouse if it is God's will, and for godly marriages for your children when they are of age, each to a Christian believer as well.
We also gently encourage you regarding speaking life and creating your own reality. While Proverbs 18:21 says death and life are in the power of the tongue, it is God who is sovereign and who creates and provides, not our words. Our trust is not in declarations or manifestations but in the Lord Himself and His will for us. Proverbs 3:5-6 says trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Matthew 6:33 says but seek first God's Kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Philippians 4:19 says my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
We understand your longing to be free from poverty and debt and to have enough to live and even to move and to enjoy simple blessings like barrettes for your hair or living near the beach. God cares about your needs and He also calls us to contentment and diligence as we trust Him. Colossians 3:23 says whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men. We pray for your studies that you would have focus and discipline to finish your online course well and that God would open doors for honest, excellent work in the beauty industry that honors Him.
We also hear the distress in your words about feeling sucked dry, used, put in machines, and having your energy taken, and about wanting healing in communication on the phone, in person, and online. We pray for God's perfect peace and protection over you and your mother and your children. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control as 2 Timothy 1:7 says. Philippians 4:6-7 says in nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. We pray that any confusion or fear would be replaced with the sound mind and assurance that you are kept in Christ, that your life and energy are secure in Him, and that He is your shield.
We pray together now.
Father in heaven, we come before You in the name of Jesus Christ Your Son. We thank You for this dear one and for her mother and her three children and we ask You to cover this family with Your blood and Your protection. Lord, we ask for Your will to be done in her LA course, give her clarity, understanding, and perseverance to finish well and to use her skills with excellence and integrity. Provide for her needs according to Your riches, deliver her from poverty and debt and lack, and teach her to be a good steward of what You provide. Give her a godly work ethic and open doors for work that is dignified and honors You, whether in the beauty industry or in entertainment if it is Your will and keeps her pure.
Lord, we ask for healing and restoration in her relationship with her mother and her children, and for grace in all communication, that Ephesians 4:29 would be true among them, that no corrupt speech proceed out of their mouths, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear. Bring unity, forgiveness, and joy into their home and let them sing with grateful hearts. We pray for godly marriages in Your timing, for her if You will a husband who is a faithful Christian believer, and for her children in the future, marriages between one man and one woman for life that honor You.
Father, we surrender her desires for intimacy to You and we ask You to purify her heart and make her whole. Help her to flee sexual immorality and to wait for Your best within marriage. Give her contentment and hope, and let her find her identity not in being an entertainer or in outward flexibility, but in being Your beloved daughter, fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalm 139:14 says we are fearfully and wonderfully made. Help her to delight herself in You first, for Psalm 37:4 says delight yourself also in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart, as those desires are aligned with Your will.
Lord, calm every fear and anxious thought, guard her mind and heart, and let her know that Romans 8:28 is true, that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. We ask for extraordinary favor that comes from walking closely with You, for provision, for health, and for peace that no one can take away. We ask all this in the mighty and saving name of Jesus Christ, our only hope and our redeemer. Amen.