Prayer Request

[MSC Prayers]

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ. Please pray for me. I'm going through some seemingly 'difficult' times. Why? Because, while I was 'Backslidden' I did a lot of foolish things that nearly killed me. I'm physically and mentally disabled now. I can honestly say, "I'm alive today, 'By The Grace of God!'" I'm not complaining. I'm just asking for your prayers. Please pray for ###'s salvation and her health. Please pray for ###'s salvation and his health. Please pray for ###'s salvation and her health. Please pray for ###'s salvation and her health. Please pray for ###'s salvation and her health. Please pray for ###'s salvation and his health. Please pray for ###'s salvation and her health. Please pray for ###'s salvation and his health. Please pray for ###'s salvation and his health. Please pray for ###'s salvation and her health. Please pray for ###'s salvation and his health. Please pray for ###'s salvation and his health. Please pray for ###'s salvation and her health. Please pray for ###'s salvation and his health. Please pray for ###'s salvation and his health. Please pray for ###'s salvation and her health. Please pray for ###'s salvation and her health. May God's Will Be Done in all of their lives and in the lives of their caregivers and caretakers, doctors and medical providers, family members, loved ones, friends, acquaintances, colleagues, enemies, and associates. I ask this in Jesus' Precious and Holy Name. Amen.

 

[Articles]

We thank you for sharing your heart so honestly with us and we praise God with you that you can say you are alive today by the grace of God. That testimony itself brings glory to Him. We rejoice that you are not complaining but are looking to the Lord in these difficult times and are interceding for so many others.

We are reminded of the truth that it is because of Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23. When we were backslidden and did foolish things, God in His mercy did not give us what we deserved, but preserved us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9. So we cling to the promise that as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. Psalm 103:12. There is no condemnation for those who have returned to Him with a repentant heart, and we encourage you to walk daily in that forgiveness and not in shame.

We also hear your honesty about living now with physical and mental disability as a consequence of those past choices. We want to encourage you that God does not waste our pain and that His power is made perfect in our weakness. He has said to us, My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. 2 Corinthians 12:9. And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28. He can and does use even our brokenness for His glory and for our good as we trust Him day by day.

We join you in lifting up every single person you listed by name before the throne of grace. You asked for their salvation and their health, and that is the greatest need anyone has. We pray for the salvation of each one, for we know that if we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, we will be saved. Acts 16:31 and that God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16. We pray that each of those loved ones would hear the gospel clearly, that the Holy Spirit would convict them and draw them to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, for there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved. Acts 4:12.

We also pray for their health, and for your health, asking the Lord to heal and sustain according to His perfect will. We pray as it is written, Beloved, we pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers. 3 John 1:2. We ask Him who heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds. Psalm 147:3 to bring comfort, strength, and healing where healing is needed, and grace to endure where His will is to sustain through weakness.

We pray together now.

Heavenly Father, we come before You in the precious and holy name of Jesus Christ, thanking You for Your mercy that has kept our brother alive. Thank You for bringing him back from backsliding and for washing him clean through the blood of Jesus. We ask You to strengthen him in his physical and mental weakness, to give him peace that passes understanding, and to help him grow daily in faith, in Your Word, and in fellowship with other believers. Let him know deeply that Your grace is sufficient for him.

Lord, we lift up every person he named before You. You know each name and each need. We ask for their salvation first above all else, that they would turn from sin and trust in Jesus alone. We ask for Your healing hand upon their bodies and minds as well. We also lift up all of their caregivers and caretakers, doctors and medical providers, family members, loved ones, friends, acquaintances, colleagues, and even enemies and associates, that Your will would be done in all of their lives. Let Your kingdom come and Your purpose prevail.

We trust You to answer according to Your perfect wisdom and love. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

Thank you for trusting us with your story. We hear both the weight of what you have been through and the gratitude in your words that you are alive today by God's grace. That kind of honest thankfulness even while you face real limitations means a lot.

Adjusting to life with ongoing physical and mental disabilities takes a long time, and it is common for feelings to shift between numbness, grief, anger and quiet acceptance. Please know you do not have to sort through that alone. God designed us for community, and walking alongside other believers who understand ongoing health challenges, even just one or two steady people, can bring real comfort and practical help over months and years.

We are joining you in prayer for each person you named, for their health and most of all for their salvation, and for all the caregivers, medical providers and families around them. We are also praying for you as you continue with your own doctors and support people. If you have a pastor or a trusted friend at church, we encourage you to let them stay close in this season so they can check in and support you regularly.

Father, we thank You for our friend's life and for Your grace that has carried him. We ask for Your ongoing strength and peace for him each day, for wisdom for his care team, and for Your saving work in the lives of every person he lifted up. Lead each one according to Your will and draw them closer to Jesus. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

There is great mercy in your words, and I thank God for the grace that has kept you alive to this day. You say well, I am alive today by the grace of God, and that confession is itself a sign that the Lord has not cast you away. You speak plainly of a season of backsliding and of foolish things which have left their mark upon body and mind, and you do not complain but seek prayer. This is the very posture in which the Lord delights to show His healing power.

Hear what the Lord says to such as you, Return, O backsliding children, for I am married unto you, and I will heal your backsliding. What is that healing. It lies in two great mercies, forgiveness of its sin and release from its power. Indeed there is a fourfold healing which the Lord gives. First He forgives all the sin of it, blotting it out for Christ's sake. There is a fountain opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that His own people may wash and be clean. Second He breaks the power of it, that you shall not remain its slave. Third He can take away the temporal chastisement with which He has visited you, or so sanctify it that it shall work for your good. And fourth He restores lost comfort, giving beauty for ashes and the oil of joy for mourning. Do not believe, O penitent wanderer, that His mercy is gone forever. If you are trusting in Jesus, though you have fallen, there is hope for your soul.

You also ask for healing, and here the Scriptures join pardon and healing together in happy conjunction. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations, and the least thing about Christ is healing. His fruit is sweet and nourishing, and even His leaves, His gentlest touches, His smallest words, are full of healing virtue. When Jesus healed the sick of the palsy He said, Son, be of good cheer, thy sins are forgiven thee, showing that pardon and healing are one in His hand. The Lord has begun to heal you and the healing virtue which His grace has infused will work in you till you shall be without spot or wrinkle. He can heal the wounded heart as well as the wounded body, for He healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds. That work is of God alone, and He will not leave it unfinished.

Think also of Peter. He was down but he was soon up again, and his story is rather his restoration than his fall. That look of Christ severed Peter from the crowd and brought him to bitter tears and then to full restoration by the threefold charge to feed the sheep. So the Lord would restore you, not only to forgive but to make your history useful to others, that having tasted the bitterness of wandering and the sweetness of return, you may strengthen your brethren.

I will pray with you and for you according to your request.

O Lord our God, we bless Thee for Thy keeping grace which has spared our brother when sin had nearly brought him to death. We thank Thee that Thou art a God who healeth backsliding and who hast promised to forgive and to restore. Forgive all his sin for the sake of Thy Son, break the power of sin within him, sanctify to him his present infirmity of body and mind, and restore unto him the joy of Thy salvation. Let the Sun of Righteousness rise upon him with healing in His wings, and grant him day by day to prove that Thy grace is sufficient.

We bring before Thee every soul he has named, each one for whom he desires salvation and health. Thou knowest them by name. We ask that Thou wouldst bring each to salvation through Jesus Christ alone, for there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. Open their eyes to see their need, grant them repentance and faith, and heal them in soul and body as seemeth good to Thee. May Thy will be done in all their lives.

We pray also for their caregivers and caretakers, doctors and medical providers, family members, loved ones, friends, acquaintances, colleagues and all associated with them. Rule over all according to Thy wise and holy will, and let Thy mercy and truth be known in every place.

We ask this in the precious and holy name of Jesus Christ our Lord, our only hope and our great Physician. Amen.

 

[Caden202]

Praying for this request in Jesus Name.

 

[EnricoLange]

Praying in Jesus Name.

 

[Guireordoth]

Praying for this in Jesus Name.

 

[usha rani]

Praying in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Chrysostom]

Your honest testimony has been heard, and I thank you for speaking so plainly about the mercy that has kept you alive. To say, I am alive today by the grace of God, is true and good, and it is right to give thanks for it while also asking for prayer in the difficult times that remain.

Do not fall into despair because of what happened while you were turned away from God. There is a difference between a sorrow that is only regret for consequences and a godly sorrow that works repentance unto salvation and brings no regret. The first, like Esau who sought the blessing with tears but did not truly turn from his sin, found no place for repentance because he did not repent as he ought. The second has great force. Even one who has fallen into the very depth of wickedness can be set free from the burden of sins and established again in safety if he will lay hold on repentance. Christ can be formed in you again, and the Church is given to us as a spiritual bath that wipes away not filth of the body but stains of the soul by its many methods of repentance.

God has shown His goodness toward you. He created you with understanding, He has shown longsuffering over you, and He calls you to repentance, drawing you by every means. While it is still time, we are to practice what is good. Like a physician who does not cease to apply medicine while breath remains, and like a father who rejoices not that his son is pained under the knife but that he is being cured, so God permits sorrow for a time that it may bring healing.

Be encouraged therefore to continue in repentance, in prayer, in hearing the word, and in obedience. Even if fruit does not appear at once, many who heard ten times and seemed unmoved have afterwards at one hearing been converted, because the earlier words were quietly preparing the root. Your eagerness to pray for others is itself a sign of life.

I join you in prayer now for all those you named, and for all whom you carried in your heart. I pray for their salvation through Jesus Christ alone, for He is the only way to the Father, and for their health according to God's merciful will. I pray also for their caregivers and caretakers, for doctors and medical providers, for family members and loved ones, for friends and acquaintances, for colleagues and associates, and even for enemies, that God's will may be done in each life, that He would grant repentance where it is needed, comfort where there is suffering, and strength to do what is right.

May the Lord who has kept you by grace keep you still, grant you godly sorrow that leads to lasting repentance, guard your body and mind, and bring all those you have lifted up to know His salvation and to walk in His ways. I ask this in the precious and holy name of Jesus. Amen.

 

[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this request in Jesus Name.