Silas
Beloved of All
Your prayer for this soul is heard and we join you in lifting them before the Lord. It is beautiful to ask God to meet them with His loving kindness, to heal wounds, to soothe pain, and to bring hope where there has been quietness and heaviness.
We pray with you that God would give beauty for ashes as He promises in Isaiah 61 verse 3, and that He would lift the weight of worry, anxiety and fear and bring peace to their soul. Scripture speaks of two kinds of peace that belong together. First there is peace with God, which only comes through the blood of Jesus Christ who made peace for us on the cross. When a person trusts in Him, the war is over and they are no longer running from God. Then there is the peace of God that keeps the heart and mind steady day by day.
That daily peace is described as perfect peace for the one whose mind is stayed on the Lord because he trusts in Him, and as a peace that passes all human understanding. Jesus said, Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you, not as the world gives. The world cannot understand how a believer can be calm in turmoil, but that peace comes as the mind is turned toward Christ in trust.
For the anxiety and stagnation you mentioned, God gives a clear invitation. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Worry does nothing to solve a problem, but prayer places the burden in the hands of the Lord. The promise is that the peace of God will then guard hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. We pray that this dear one will learn to bring every care to Him with thanksgiving, and that God will keep their heart and mind in that guarding peace.
We also pray for healing in the full sense Scripture shows. Healing is always from God, whether it comes at once or gradually. There is even an account where Jesus healed a blind man in stages, showing that God sometimes works step by step. He has built healing processes into our bodies, and He also heals the wounds of the mind and emotions, the scars and hurts that have stolen confidence. We ask Him to do that deep inner healing here and to restore confidence and the ability to move forward emotionally.
Be assured that God has not forgotten this one. His thoughts toward His children are thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give a future and a hope. When they call upon Him and pray, He hears. He offers peace to those who are near and to those who feel far off, saying peace, peace, I will heal him. For those who continue to walk away from Him there is no lasting peace, but for all who turn to Jesus there is forgiveness, restoration and quietness of soul.
We ask the Lord to fight for this soul, to remove every snare of the enemy, to lift stagnation, and to let them experience both peace with God through Christ and the daily peace of God as their mind rests on Him. May they know He is taking care of what concerns them and may they be kept in His perfect peace.
We pray with you that God would give beauty for ashes as He promises in Isaiah 61 verse 3, and that He would lift the weight of worry, anxiety and fear and bring peace to their soul. Scripture speaks of two kinds of peace that belong together. First there is peace with God, which only comes through the blood of Jesus Christ who made peace for us on the cross. When a person trusts in Him, the war is over and they are no longer running from God. Then there is the peace of God that keeps the heart and mind steady day by day.
That daily peace is described as perfect peace for the one whose mind is stayed on the Lord because he trusts in Him, and as a peace that passes all human understanding. Jesus said, Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you, not as the world gives. The world cannot understand how a believer can be calm in turmoil, but that peace comes as the mind is turned toward Christ in trust.
For the anxiety and stagnation you mentioned, God gives a clear invitation. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Worry does nothing to solve a problem, but prayer places the burden in the hands of the Lord. The promise is that the peace of God will then guard hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. We pray that this dear one will learn to bring every care to Him with thanksgiving, and that God will keep their heart and mind in that guarding peace.
We also pray for healing in the full sense Scripture shows. Healing is always from God, whether it comes at once or gradually. There is even an account where Jesus healed a blind man in stages, showing that God sometimes works step by step. He has built healing processes into our bodies, and He also heals the wounds of the mind and emotions, the scars and hurts that have stolen confidence. We ask Him to do that deep inner healing here and to restore confidence and the ability to move forward emotionally.
Be assured that God has not forgotten this one. His thoughts toward His children are thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give a future and a hope. When they call upon Him and pray, He hears. He offers peace to those who are near and to those who feel far off, saying peace, peace, I will heal him. For those who continue to walk away from Him there is no lasting peace, but for all who turn to Jesus there is forgiveness, restoration and quietness of soul.
We ask the Lord to fight for this soul, to remove every snare of the enemy, to lift stagnation, and to let them experience both peace with God through Christ and the daily peace of God as their mind rests on Him. May they know He is taking care of what concerns them and may they be kept in His perfect peace.
