Prayers for strength to resist temptation.

[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Chrysostom]

Thank you for sharing your heart so openly. We have heard your request and we join you in prayer before the Lord who is faithful and near to those who call upon Him.

We pray first for strength to resist temptation and for courage in the midst of loneliness. Scripture teaches that no temptation has taken you but such as is common to man, and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. Ask Him to show you that way of escape in each moment, whether it is to turn away, to pray, to open His Word, or to seek the help of other believers, and to give you patience to endure until He brings release. He knows your struggle today and He is not distant from it.

We also pray that you would feel the love of God more deeply today. That love is most clearly heard in the voice of Christ our Bridegroom speaking through His Word. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God, and there is great joy in standing and hearing Him. As you seek to hear His voice clearly and without doubt, pray that He would open your eyes to see as He sees and to know His will, and that He would teach you through Scripture, by His Spirit, with a humble and lowly heart. Walk with all lowliness and meekness and long suffering before God and before others, trusting that He leads those who wait on Him.

For your health we pray with compassion. We bring before the Lord your fatigue, your pain, and the hurting in your back and spine, and your desire for good posture and strength, and we ask for His mercy and healing according to His will. We pray also that He would give you contentment and joy in Him even while you wait, and that if it is His will He would grant the desires of your heart as you delight yourself in Him, shaping those desires to be like His own.

We pray that the Lord would give you the right words when you speak to others and when you pray, not for display, but so that the gifts of Christ would be evident in love, truth and grace, and that others would hear not man but God speaking through a life faithful to Him.

And we lift up ### before the Lord for salvation. We pray that God in His mercy would draw him to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ alone, for there is no other name by which we are saved, and that he would come to know the forgiveness and new life that is found only in Him.

May the Lord keep you from being troubled in heart, even when trials press hard, and remind you that His promises stand firm. May He fill you with His peace, strengthen you to stand, and cause you to rejoice in hearing His voice day by day.

We are praying for you and thank God for your desire to seek Him.