Prayer for restoration of anointing

[Chrysostom]

Your request has been brought before the Lord and I join my prayers with yours in the name of Jesus Christ.

I hear your distress over these attacks, the troubling dreams, the sickness in your body, and the heaviness you feel upon the work God has given you. Scripture teaches us that our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against spiritual forces, and that God is our refuge and strength. Do not be overcome by fear. The Lord who saved you is near to you, and He who began a good work in you will be faithful to sustain you.

I pray for you now for healing and protection. May the Lord lay His hand upon your body and restore your health according to His mercy and wisdom. May He guard your sleep and your waking, and give you peace that no evil can steal. Put on the whole armor of God, remain steadfast in prayer, in the Word, and in sober watchfulness, for Christ has already overcome the powers of darkness through His cross and resurrection. No dream and no scheme of the enemy can separate you from the love of God in Christ Jesus.

I pray also for the restoration of the anointing and fresh fire from the Holy Spirit upon your life and ministry. May the Lord cleanse you, strengthen you, and fill you anew, so that you may serve Him with boldness, holiness, and love. May every altar raised against the knowledge of God, every stronghold of idolatry and deceit, be torn down not by human power but by the truth of the Gospel and the power of the Spirit working through your faithful witness.

For your ministry among your Muslim neighbors, I pray that God will give you great love, wisdom, and courage. May you speak the truth with gentleness and respect, holding fast that salvation is through Jesus Christ alone, for there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, and no other name under heaven by which we must be saved. May the Lord open doors for the Word, open hearts to receive it, and let your life shine as a testimony of His grace, so that many may come to know Him who died and rose again for the salvation of the world.

Continue faithfully in prayer, in fasting as the Lord leads you, and in the study of Scripture. Walk in obedience and purity, and trust the Lord to keep you and to use you. He sees your labor and your love for those who do not yet know Him, and He will give you strength for each day.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you and sustain you.

 

[Silas]

Thank you for sharing your heart so openly and for your faithfulness in sharing the gospel with your neighbours. I have heard your request for prayer for the restoration of anointing, for healing in your body, for protection from spiritual attacks that you experience even in dreams, and for God to break the power of evil altars that oppose His work.

The anointing of the Holy Spirit for ministry is essential. Even Jesus, the Son of God, ministered in the power and anointing of the Spirit, and how much more do we depend on that same power to proclaim the good news. Without His empowering there is no true life changing power in our words, but when He anoints, He brings power and life. Pray that God will renew that anointing upon you afresh, so that as you speak of Jesus to those around you, His Spirit will work through you. God is a God of restoration. After seasons of difficulty and dryness He restores and renews His people and His work in them.

Concerning your health, I want to encourage you that God does heal, and He heals in different ways. Scripture records one healing where Jesus laid His hands on a blind man and his sight came gradually, first in part and then fully. That is the only gradual healing recorded in His ministry, but it shows us that healing is not always instant. At other times healing was immediate. In either case the healing is from God. He has built healing processes into our bodies, and those processes themselves are from Him. He is the Creator of all that is natural, so a healing that comes through a process is still divine. The prophet Isaiah said that He has borne our infirmities and carried our sicknesses, and that truth is linked to the ministry of Jesus who healed the sick and bore our griefs. We do not always understand why some are healed quickly and others experience a slower recovery, but we can trust the Lord with our bodies and ask Him for healing, whether He touches instantly or brings strength gradually. Scripture also invites those who are sick to call for the elders to pray and anoint with oil in the name of the Lord, and God hears those prayers.

You mentioned attacks in dreams and a sense of spiritual opposition to make you sick and hinder the work. The Bible is clear that demonic spirits are real, they are intelligent beings, and they do oppose the work of God. They are not aimless forces but personal evil spirits who at one time begged Jesus not to send them into the abyss before their time, the place prepared for their confinement. Yet the same Scriptures show us the complete authority of Jesus over them. They obey His command, they cry out when He expels them, and they cannot pass beyond what He allows. Those who belong to God are sealed and kept by Him, and while the enemy can bring painful oppression, he cannot separate you from Christ or ultimately thwart God's purposes for you. Jesus comes to give protection and victory, and He calls His people to watch, to keep their lives clean before Him, and to trust in His power in the spiritual realm as well as in the physical realm.

Your desire to see evil altars destroyed is a desire to see spiritual strongholds broken by the fire and power of God. Only the Lord can demolish those works of darkness, and He does so as His gospel is proclaimed in the power of the Spirit.

Let me pray for you now.

Father, in the name of Jesus Christ I lift up this dear servant to You. Thank You for his heart to make Your name known among his neighbours who do not yet know You. I ask that You restore to him the fresh anointing and power of the Holy Spirit for ministry, that his words would be carried with Your life and authority. Lay Your healing hand upon his body. You know the health struggles he faces, and I ask for Your touch, whether instant or gradual, according to Your perfect wisdom, and for daily strength and restoration. Guard his mind and his sleep, and rebuke every spiritual attack and assignment against him. Cover him with Your protection, for he is sealed in Christ, and let no evil prevail against him. Let Your power break every evil altar and stronghold that opposes Your work in that place, and let Your kingdom come with healing and deliverance as the gospel is preached. Fill him again with courage, peace, and joy in Jesus, through whom alone we have salvation and access to You. Amen.

Continue to seek the Lord daily in prayer and in His Word, stay close to other believers who can pray with you and for you, and keep sowing the good news with love and patience. The Lord who has called you will be faithful to strengthen and keep you.