We have heard your honest confession and we thank you for bringing this before the Lord and before us so we can agree together with you in prayer. We grieve with you over falling into sexual sin after a month of walking in celibacy, and we also rejoice that you desire restoration and to hear God's voice again. The guilt you feel is real, but we want to remind you that godly sorrow leads to repentance and restoration, not to condemnation.
Scripture is clear that sexual intimacy is holy and reserved for marriage between a man and a woman, and that sex before or outside of marriage is fornication. Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 1 Corinthians 6:18 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled, but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers. Hebrews 13:4 We say this not to shame you but to lovingly rebuke and call you back to the purity God desires for you, because His way protects your body, your heart, and your destiny. The good news is that when we confess, He is faithful. 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 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. Galatians 3:13 So we do not need to live under curses as a result of sin when we repent, we are cleansed and made whole in Christ.
We know you felt His presence strongly during your time of celibacy and now feel your light has dimmed and His voice seems fainter. That dimming is the grief of the Holy Spirit and the weight of unconfessed sin, not that God has abandoned you. He draws near when we return to Him. We pray with you for a clean heart and renewed fellowship. Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me. Psalm 51:10 I acknowledged my sin to you. I did not hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Psalm 32:5 God also promises a way of escape in every temptation. No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. 1 Corinthians 10:13 For you that way of escape may be marriage in God's timing, as you prayed, for it is written let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. 1 Corinthians 7:2
We agree with you for God's will concerning marriage and children. Your desire for a godly husband, for fertility, for your womb to be opened is beautiful and biblical. He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Psalm 113:9 Be fruitful and multiply. Genesis 1:28 Hannah prayed and God remembered her and opened her womb. 1 Samuel 1:27 We pray that if it is His will He will provide a godly spouse for you, a marriage that honors Him as a lifelong covenant between a man and a woman. We encourage you to see any courtship not as a casual boyfriend and girlfriend relationship or partnership, but as purposeful courtship with the goal of marriage to another Christian believer. Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. 2 Corinthians 6:14
Concerning the man you mentioned by name, we pray first and foremost for his salvation, for we know God desires all people to be saved. The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9 We ask that God would bring deliverance to him, soften his stubborn heart, and draw him to Jesus Christ. If he is not a born again believer walking in obedience, we counsel you not to pursue marriage with him, for a marriage built outside of Christ cannot fulfill the calling you desire. We pray that God will either save him and make him a godly man worthy of marriage, or if not him, that God will prepare you and prepare another godly husband for you in His perfect time. It is only by the name of Jesus that we have access to God. Jesus said I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. John 14:6 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 thank you that you prayed in Jesus name, and we affirm that faith in His shed blood and resurrection is our only hope for forgiveness and eternal life.
You asked for a word from God, a word of knowledge, the gift of prophecy and a seer's anointing like those in the Bible. We pray that your eyes be continually open to the things of God and that you hear His voice clearly. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. John 10:27 Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you do not know. Jeremiah 33:3 We encourage you to earnestly desire spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy for the building up of others. Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. 1 Corinthians 14:1 Yet we counsel you to seek the Giver more than the gift, to seek holiness and the Word above experiences, and to test every dream and vision against Scripture.
We lift up your health before the Lord, for your perfect health, fertility, hormones functioning properly, and healing of your liver, kidneys, gallbladder, thyroid, reproductive system, all organs, eyes and eyesight, and teeth. Beloved, we pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers. 3 John 1:2 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God. You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 We ask for God's healing touch upon every system you named.
We also pray for you concerning body dysmorphia and confidence. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well. Psalm 139:14 We pray that you will see yourself as beautiful as God sees you, not through the distorted lens of the world or the enemy, but through His eyes of love. We pray for confidence rooted not in appearance but in Christ.
We pray for your destiny, calling, purpose, motivation, creativity, provision, and boldness to converse well and to share your faith. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them. Ephesians 2:10 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11 Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed. Proverbs 16:3 We pray God will open a way for you to earn money in a way that honors Him. We pray for boldness, for God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. 2 Timothy 1:7 We pray for dreams and clear visions according to His promise that your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. Acts 2:17
We pray together now.
Father, in the name of Jesus Christ we come before Your throne of grace with our sister. We thank You that she has confessed her sin and we ask You to forgive her, cleanse her from all unrighteousness, and restore to her the joy of Your salvation. Wash her, renew her mind, and let her hear Your voice clearly again. Break every chain and every consequence of sin by the blood of Jesus, and redeem her destiny and calling. Lead her in purity and give her strength to flee every temptation and to walk in celibacy until marriage. If it is Your will, provide for her a godly husband, a man after Your own heart, and open her womb and make her fertile to bear children for Your glory. Heal her hormones, her liver, kidneys, gallbladder, thyroid, reproductive system, every organ, her eyes and eyesight, and her teeth. Make her whole. Heal her perception of herself and let her see her beauty as You see her. Open her eyes to see the world, others, and herself through Your eyes. Anoint her to hear You, to receive words of knowledge and prophecy according to Your will, with humility and discernment. Give her motivation, creativity, provision, and boldness to speak well and to fulfill the good works You prepared for her. Comfort her, assure her that her light is not quenched, for You are her light. Restore her and establish her in hope. We pray for the man she loves, that You would save him, deliver him from stubbornness and sin, and make him a new creation, or otherwise prepare another godly spouse for her. We ask all this in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our only Savior and Lord, amen.