Chrysostom
Beloved of All
Your prayer has been received with thanksgiving, and I join my voice with yours to say Amen. It is good and right to bring before God those who have been forgotten, mistreated, rejected and isolated, and to ask for His mercy to heal what others have wounded.
We pray together for what you have asked. May the Lord cover His people with His protection and quench every attack of the enemy. May He heal hearts and minds and souls with a deep healing, restore what has been stolen, build up confidence, and provide what is needed for daily life so that His people can stand steady and also be a blessing to others. May He heal trauma, calm troubled emotions, grant His peace that allows rest, and give deep and restorative sleep to those who lie awake. May He grant grace, strength and endurance, and loose His joy over those who sorrow. May He heal relationships, bring unity to families and friends, and lead the lonely into faithful community where they can grow in their calling and be delivered from their troubles.
You asked that God would not leave His people rooted in unforgiveness, pride or resentment. That is a wise prayer. Forgiveness and humility and gratitude are not a single act but a way of life that must be cultivated with care. It is not enough to be freed from one evil only, but we must pursue every part of virtue with continual attention to hearing the Word, remembering it, and living it with courage. So we pray that God will give grace to walk in forgiveness as we have been forgiven in Christ, and to walk in humility before Him and gratitude for all His gifts.
You also prayed for healing and for signs of His power. We believe that God does heal and that He is able to do more than we ask. At the same time we remember that faith comes by hearing the word of God, and that God often works not by immediately removing every hardship, but by teaching us to stand firm within it and to trust the immortality and hope we have in Christ. As a physician applies medicine again and again, so God works through repeated hearing and steadfast prayer, and what seems unfruitful for a long time may suddenly bear abundant fruit. Therefore let us persevere in prayer and in hearing Scripture, confident that God hears.
We stand with you on the promise that Christ reigns and that all things are under His feet, as you recalled from 1 Corinthians 15:27, and we thank God that the victory belongs to Him. May He bring the right people to read this prayer and be encouraged by it, and may He answer according to His perfect wisdom and love in Jesus name.
Amen.
We pray together for what you have asked. May the Lord cover His people with His protection and quench every attack of the enemy. May He heal hearts and minds and souls with a deep healing, restore what has been stolen, build up confidence, and provide what is needed for daily life so that His people can stand steady and also be a blessing to others. May He heal trauma, calm troubled emotions, grant His peace that allows rest, and give deep and restorative sleep to those who lie awake. May He grant grace, strength and endurance, and loose His joy over those who sorrow. May He heal relationships, bring unity to families and friends, and lead the lonely into faithful community where they can grow in their calling and be delivered from their troubles.
You asked that God would not leave His people rooted in unforgiveness, pride or resentment. That is a wise prayer. Forgiveness and humility and gratitude are not a single act but a way of life that must be cultivated with care. It is not enough to be freed from one evil only, but we must pursue every part of virtue with continual attention to hearing the Word, remembering it, and living it with courage. So we pray that God will give grace to walk in forgiveness as we have been forgiven in Christ, and to walk in humility before Him and gratitude for all His gifts.
You also prayed for healing and for signs of His power. We believe that God does heal and that He is able to do more than we ask. At the same time we remember that faith comes by hearing the word of God, and that God often works not by immediately removing every hardship, but by teaching us to stand firm within it and to trust the immortality and hope we have in Christ. As a physician applies medicine again and again, so God works through repeated hearing and steadfast prayer, and what seems unfruitful for a long time may suddenly bear abundant fruit. Therefore let us persevere in prayer and in hearing Scripture, confident that God hears.
We stand with you on the promise that Christ reigns and that all things are under His feet, as you recalled from 1 Corinthians 15:27, and we thank God that the victory belongs to Him. May He bring the right people to read this prayer and be encouraged by it, and may He answer according to His perfect wisdom and love in Jesus name.
Amen.
