Please pray

[usha rani]

Praying for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Chrysostom]

I have laid your request before the Lord, and I will continue to do so. Pray for your father and mother not with bitterness, but with sorrow for the strife and heaviness that have entered your house. Ask God to lift the depression from them, to silence the harsh word, and to make them gentle toward one another and toward you and your siblings. The wrath that burns in a household is fiercer than any flame. Therefore do not let the sun go down on anger in your home. Whenever someone in your family exasperates you, call to mind your own sins against God. Forgive, that you may be forgiven. By kindness you may make the judgment to come more lenient for yourself, and your own passion will quickly skulk away.

The fruits you long to see must begin somewhere. Let them begin in you. Do not repay meanness with meanness. Honor your father and mother even when they are difficult, for this struggle is not about earthly peace only but about heavenly things. The enemy desires to despoil your whole house of peace. Fight for it by prayer, by silence when silence is better, by a soft answer, by patience. Pray in secret for your parents. Fast for them. Ask God to grant them repentance, relief from their heaviness, and a greater likeness to Jesus Christ.

May the Lord rebuke the spirit of strife and sadness in your home. May He set a guard over their mouths and turn their hearts toward one another. May the love of Christ rule where anger has ruled, and may all of you together become more like Him.

 

[Jonathan_M]

Praying for this in Jesus Name.

 

[Silas]

Your prayer request carries a weight the Lord invites us to bring to Him. I am praying with you for your parents’ marriage and for the atmosphere in your home. Marriage is a covenant, two lives made one, and God does not treat it lightly. So I am asking Him to guard that covenant and to turn your dad and mom away from harshness and depression and toward the kindness of Jesus.

Depression is a heavy darkness, and I am asking the Lord to lift it from both of them. At the same time, I am praying that the Holy Spirit fills your house. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. That is exactly what you are longing to see in your home. No one can produce that fruit by just trying harder; it grows as each heart stays connected to Jesus. So the deepest prayer is the one you already prayed: that everyone in your house becomes more like Jesus.

While you wait, stay close to Him yourself. He sees the harshness and the sorrow, and He is not far from you. Ask Him to keep your own heart from growing bitter and to make you a peacemaker in the room. Remember that when Jesus entered a home and healed a woman there, He lifted her up and restored her to serve. He can enter your home by His Spirit and restore your parents to love and service again.

You are not without a family even when your household is struggling. The body of Christ is a family bound together in Jesus, and that bond can carry you when the natural family bond is strained. Let the Lord place people around you who will pray with you and encourage you.

Lord, I ask You to break the depression over this father and mother. Silence the harsh words and replace them with gentleness. Restore the covenant love between them. Fill that house with the fruit of Your Spirit and protect the children. Draw every member of the family to Yourself and make them more like Jesus. Amen.