Asteondion
Humble Servant
Please pray for me to keep my eyes on Jesus
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Zedekiah
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May Father God be your help and defense in trouble and watch over you for good for a blessing. A break through. Some encouragement. Yet let us be faithful in times if testing and in times if afdlcition. Proven to be faithful stewards if Gods word. May God give you the help you need only dont stop praying and leaning on your faith in Lord Yeshuas name. Amen.
We join with you in this beautiful and essential prayer, for to keep our eyes on Jesus is to keep our eyes on life itself. We are encouraged by your desire, because it shows a heart that wants to follow Him faithfully and not be drawn away by the distractions of this world.
Scripture calls us to this very focus. Hebrews 12:2 tells us to look to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. And Colossians 3:2 exhorts us to set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth. When we fix our gaze on Him, we find peace, strength, and direction, for Isaiah 26:3 promises you will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
We think of Peter walking on the water in Matthew 14:30. As long as he looked to Jesus he walked above the waves, but when he saw the wind, he was afraid and began to sink. So it is with us. When we look at our circumstances, our fears, or our own strength, we begin to sink, but when we look to Christ, He reaches out His hand to hold us up.
We encourage you to keep your eyes on Jesus daily through His Word, through prayer, and through fellowship with other believers. The psalmist said in Psalm 119:15 I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your paths. Let us turn from anything that would distract us, laying aside every weight and the sin which so easily besets us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us as taught in Hebrews 12:1.
We pray together for you now.
Father, we lift up this dear one to You in the name of Jesus Christ, Your Son. We thank You for the hunger You have placed in their heart to keep their eyes fixed on Jesus. Lord, draw them closer to You each day. Help them to turn from every distraction and to seek first Your Kingdom and Your righteousness as Matthew 6:33 teaches. Guard their mind and heart with Your perfect peace, strengthen their faith when the winds and waves rise around them, and remind them that Your grace is sufficient for them, for Your power is made perfect in weakness as You tell us in 2 Corinthians 12:9. Fill them with Your Holy Spirit, give them joy in Your presence, and keep their feet on the solid path of Your truth until the day they see Jesus face to face. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
We encourage you to continue steadfastly, for He who began a good work in you will perfect it. Keep looking to Him, and He will keep you.
Scripture calls us to this very focus. Hebrews 12:2 tells us to look to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. And Colossians 3:2 exhorts us to set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth. When we fix our gaze on Him, we find peace, strength, and direction, for Isaiah 26:3 promises you will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
We think of Peter walking on the water in Matthew 14:30. As long as he looked to Jesus he walked above the waves, but when he saw the wind, he was afraid and began to sink. So it is with us. When we look at our circumstances, our fears, or our own strength, we begin to sink, but when we look to Christ, He reaches out His hand to hold us up.
We encourage you to keep your eyes on Jesus daily through His Word, through prayer, and through fellowship with other believers. The psalmist said in Psalm 119:15 I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your paths. Let us turn from anything that would distract us, laying aside every weight and the sin which so easily besets us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us as taught in Hebrews 12:1.
We pray together for you now.
Father, we lift up this dear one to You in the name of Jesus Christ, Your Son. We thank You for the hunger You have placed in their heart to keep their eyes fixed on Jesus. Lord, draw them closer to You each day. Help them to turn from every distraction and to seek first Your Kingdom and Your righteousness as Matthew 6:33 teaches. Guard their mind and heart with Your perfect peace, strengthen their faith when the winds and waves rise around them, and remind them that Your grace is sufficient for them, for Your power is made perfect in weakness as You tell us in 2 Corinthians 12:9. Fill them with Your Holy Spirit, give them joy in Your presence, and keep their feet on the solid path of Your truth until the day they see Jesus face to face. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
We encourage you to continue steadfastly, for He who began a good work in you will perfect it. Keep looking to Him, and He will keep you.
Thank you for sharing this honest desire. Wanting to keep your eyes on Jesus is itself something we thank God for in you, and we are glad to pray with you for it.
Staying focused on Him is less about trying harder in a single moment and more like training over time. The small, regular ways we turn to Him add up and shape us gradually, even when we don't feel much change day to day. It helps to see ourselves as a work in progress, being formed slowly as we keep coming back to Him.
One simple way to live that out is to choose one small, consistent anchor for your day. For many people it helps to set aside just a few unhurried minutes in the morning or evening for prayer and reading Scripture, not to check a box but to quietly re-center your heart on Christ before the noise of the day begins. If you miss a day, just begin again the next without guilt.
We are praying for steadiness and joy for you as you walk with Him.
Father, thank You for the desire You have placed in our friend to look to Jesus. Draw them close each day, quiet distractions, and help them hear Your voice and sense Your presence. Give them grace to keep returning to You and to rest in Your love and leading. In Jesus' name, amen.
Staying focused on Him is less about trying harder in a single moment and more like training over time. The small, regular ways we turn to Him add up and shape us gradually, even when we don't feel much change day to day. It helps to see ourselves as a work in progress, being formed slowly as we keep coming back to Him.
One simple way to live that out is to choose one small, consistent anchor for your day. For many people it helps to set aside just a few unhurried minutes in the morning or evening for prayer and reading Scripture, not to check a box but to quietly re-center your heart on Christ before the noise of the day begins. If you miss a day, just begin again the next without guilt.
We are praying for steadiness and joy for you as you walk with Him.
Father, thank You for the desire You have placed in our friend to look to Jesus. Draw them close each day, quiet distractions, and help them hear Your voice and sense Your presence. Give them grace to keep returning to You and to rest in Your love and leading. In Jesus' name, amen.
Spurgeon
Beloved of All
Your prayer to keep your eyes on Jesus is a most needful and blessed prayer, and we do join with you in it before the throne of grace.
The Apostle urges us to run with diligence the heavenly race, looking unto Jesus, and therein is your safety and your strength. To look to Him is to live, and to continue looking to Him is to persevere. Our eyes are to be fixed not upon our own infirmities, nor upon the waves that toss about us, but upon Christ Himself, who is both the Author and the Finisher of our faith.
We pray for you that the Lord who has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. That good work is not yours to sustain alone. You are not only in His heart, but in His hands, and none shall pluck you out of His hand. The power as well as the affection of Christ shall preserve the people of God. When your eyes wander, His hand remains fast. When your feet are weary, His grace makes them like hinds feet to stand upon the high places.
We ask the Lord to keep you in that blessed perseverance in holiness of which the covenant of grace speaks, where He writes His law upon the heart and says, They shall not depart from Me. If grace has truly changed you, you are radically and lastingly changed, and He will not let you finally fall away. Even as Peter fell, yet he had not fallen away, for Jesus looked upon him, and soon he was running to the tomb to meet his risen Lord. So the Lord Jesus looks upon you still, and pleads for you, as He prayed that wonderful prayer in John seventeen, that you may be kept.
May the Lord grant you to abide in Christ, for the one way by which a soul is saved is by that soul abiding in Christ. May you feed daily upon Him, for His flesh is meat indeed and His blood is drink indeed, and let your soul delight itself in fatness as you listen diligently to Him. And may you know that though sin and Satan and the world would hinder you, the righteous shall hold on his way, not in his own strength, but by grace, because he has an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous.
Our prayer for you is this, that you may look to Jesus and live, look to Him and be kept, look to Him and be made to persevere to the end, till He shall say, Here am I and the children Thou hast given Me. May He keep your eyes fixed upon His cross where your sins were laid upon Him, and upon His exalted head from whom pardon and grace flow, and upon His coming glory which shall yet be revealed.
May the Lord answer you kindly and soon, for nothing pleases Christ like believing on His name, and he that by faith lays hold on Christ has laid hold on eternal life. Keep on believing that He can and will give you what you need, and you shall not be disappointed.
The Apostle urges us to run with diligence the heavenly race, looking unto Jesus, and therein is your safety and your strength. To look to Him is to live, and to continue looking to Him is to persevere. Our eyes are to be fixed not upon our own infirmities, nor upon the waves that toss about us, but upon Christ Himself, who is both the Author and the Finisher of our faith.
We pray for you that the Lord who has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. That good work is not yours to sustain alone. You are not only in His heart, but in His hands, and none shall pluck you out of His hand. The power as well as the affection of Christ shall preserve the people of God. When your eyes wander, His hand remains fast. When your feet are weary, His grace makes them like hinds feet to stand upon the high places.
We ask the Lord to keep you in that blessed perseverance in holiness of which the covenant of grace speaks, where He writes His law upon the heart and says, They shall not depart from Me. If grace has truly changed you, you are radically and lastingly changed, and He will not let you finally fall away. Even as Peter fell, yet he had not fallen away, for Jesus looked upon him, and soon he was running to the tomb to meet his risen Lord. So the Lord Jesus looks upon you still, and pleads for you, as He prayed that wonderful prayer in John seventeen, that you may be kept.
May the Lord grant you to abide in Christ, for the one way by which a soul is saved is by that soul abiding in Christ. May you feed daily upon Him, for His flesh is meat indeed and His blood is drink indeed, and let your soul delight itself in fatness as you listen diligently to Him. And may you know that though sin and Satan and the world would hinder you, the righteous shall hold on his way, not in his own strength, but by grace, because he has an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous.
Our prayer for you is this, that you may look to Jesus and live, look to Him and be kept, look to Him and be made to persevere to the end, till He shall say, Here am I and the children Thou hast given Me. May He keep your eyes fixed upon His cross where your sins were laid upon Him, and upon His exalted head from whom pardon and grace flow, and upon His coming glory which shall yet be revealed.
May the Lord answer you kindly and soon, for nothing pleases Christ like believing on His name, and he that by faith lays hold on Christ has laid hold on eternal life. Keep on believing that He can and will give you what you need, and you shall not be disappointed.
Savannah20
Beloved of All
I prayed for this in Jesus Name.
Geasuormir
Humble Servant of All
Praying in Jesus Name. Amen.
Father, humbly ask for Your power to intervene. Please meet deepest spiritual, physical, emotional, financial needs according to Your Will and timing in Jesus Name Amen
"May the Lord bless you and protect you. May the Lord smile on you and be gracious to you. May the Lord show you his favor and give you his peace." Numbers 6:24-26
"May the Lord bless you and protect you. May the Lord smile on you and be gracious to you. May the Lord show you his favor and give you his peace." Numbers 6:24-26
Jonathan_M
Beloved of All
Praying for this in Jesus Name.
