Pride, mental issues

[Kensem]

Heavenly Father, we come to you in the name of Jesus.
We lift up the team of the ex-rented apartment, including the owner, the legal representative, and lawyers.
You know their hearts, and you know who are the chosen ones among them.
We submit ourselves to you and continue to pray and press on as long as you provide us strength.
Lord, we come to you with full compassion and lift up the Christians, the unsaved that struggle with pride and mental issues.
If you give us patience to deal with their foolishness and lies, we are very grateful to you.
Lord, your love is patient and kind. And we want to be like you. Above all, let your goals be fulfilled in this process.
Let their character change and be refined as they learn to know you and your power.
We ask that you pour out your grace and mercy and fight the sin in their hearts that enslaved them to harm us, tenants.
Lord, we pray they repent as soon as possible.
In Jesus' name,

 

[Articles]

We come before the throne of grace with hearts heavy for the spiritual battle unfolding in this situation. Heavenly Father, we acknowledge that You alone know the depths of every heart involved, the owner, the legal representatives, and the lawyers. We lift them before You, asking that Your light would pierce the darkness of pride, deception, and mental strongholds that may be blinding them. The Bible warns us in Proverbs 16:18 that "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." Lord, we pray that any arrogance or self-reliance in their hearts would be broken, that they would see their need for You and humble themselves before Your mighty hand.

We also recognize the weight of mental struggles, for we know the enemy seeks to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10). But You, Lord, are the Great Physician, the One who binds up the brokenhearted and sets the captives free (Isaiah 61:1). We ask that You would minister healing to any who are wrestling with mental anguish, that they would find peace in Your presence and clarity through Your truth. Your Word declares in 2 Timothy 1:7 that "God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control." Let this truth take root in their lives.

Father, we confess that dealing with foolishness and lies can be exhausting, but we choose to trust in Your strength rather than our own. We are grateful for the patience You have shown us, and we ask that You would fill us with that same patience as we navigate this situation. Help us to respond with grace, even when faced with ungodliness, remembering that "a gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger" (Proverbs 15:1). Let our conduct be a testimony of Your love, that others may see Christ in us.

We rebuke the spirit of oppression and injustice that seeks to harm Your children. The Bible is clear in James 4:7: "Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you." We stand firm in this truth, declaring that no weapon formed against us shall prosper (Isaiah 54:17). We pray that the sin enslaving their hearts, whether it be greed, bitterness, or malice, would be exposed and uprooted. Bring them to a place of repentance, Lord, that they may turn from their ways and seek Your face. Your Word promises in 1 John 1:9 that "if we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

For those among them who do not yet know You, we pray for salvation. There is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved but the name of Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12). Open their eyes to the truth of the Gospel, that they may confess with their mouths that Jesus is Lord and believe in their hearts that God raised Him from the dead (Romans 10:9). Let this situation be a catalyst for their transformation, that they may come to know You as their Savior and Redeemer.

We commit this entire process into Your hands, trusting that Your will shall be done. Refine the character of all involved, that they may reflect the fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23). May Your purposes be fulfilled, and may Your name be glorified in every outcome.

Heavenly Father, we thank You for hearing our prayer. Strengthen us to press on, even when the battle is fierce, for we know that greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4). We rest in Your promises, trusting that You will work all things together for good for those who love You and are called according to Your purpose (Romans 8:28). In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

Thank you for bringing this burden and your honest prayer before us. Carrying the weight of being wronged by others, especially when their actions are tangled up with pride, untruth, and struggles of the mind, can wear deeply on your own soul. Yet instead of lashing out, you are lifting those same people to the Father and asking for patience to endure with a love like His. That is no small thing.

In moments like these, we find our own hearts tested, and we are grateful for the Spirit who keeps us praying. The prayer you’ve already prayed for their repentance is a wise one. True repentance is more than a fleeting pang of regret; it’s a change of direction that reorders a life from the inside out. That kind of turnaround is God’s work, and we wait on His timing with hope, not trying to force what only He can produce. Meanwhile, we can guard our own hearts against bitterness by staying close to the Shepherd who was patient with us while we were still far off.

It may help to anchor yourself in a small circle of trusted believers who can uphold you in private, steady prayer as the legal process unfolds. They can be a safe place to vent and be reminded that the Lord sees every hidden thing. You don’t have to carry the offense alone.

Let’s continue to pray:

Father, thank You for these tenants and their desire to honor You in the middle of conflict. In Your mercy, grant them daily patience and a quiet confidence that rests in Your justice. We pray for the owner and the legal team, that the grip of pride and deception would be broken, and that their minds would be freed and made whole. Draw them to genuine repentance and a true knowledge of Christ. Guard the tenants from discouragement, and let Your own purposes for this whole situation unfold. In Jesus’ name.

 

[usha rani]

Praying for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

You have been sailing in choppy waters, and the wind has blown hard against you. I can hear in your prayer the weariness that comes when you are dealing with people whose pride seems like a wall of flint, whose words twist and turn, and whose minds are clouded by things they cannot see clearly yet. You have asked for patience, and that asking itself is a flower growing in a crevice of the rock, put there by the hand of the Lord. He does not plant such longings in us only to mock them.

Let me tell you something that may steady you. You are not the watchman set over the walls of their souls. You cannot change a proud heart any more than you can push back the tide with a broom. But the Lord whose name you have lifted up, He knows how to visit a man in the sun-scorched places of his self-confidence. The proudest of sinners are not beyond the reach of His arrows. There is no lock on any human heart that His grace cannot pick; no tower of self-righteousness so high that He cannot scale it. The God who found a runaway prophet in the belly of a great fish knows exactly how to find the heart you are praying for. You may rest your head on that pillow.

You wrote of their “foolishness and lies,” and I do not pretend those things are light. But look for a moment not at them, but at your own place in this. The patience you are so grateful for, that patience is a cup the Lord Himself has put into your hand, and it is filled with something of His own nature. Do you see that? When you ask to be made like Jesus, patient and kind, you are asking to go the way of the Cross. The Cross is the place where weakness triumphs over strength, where enduring wrong overcomes wrong itself. Our Lord did not shout down His accusers from the pavement; He let them do what they would, and in that lowly silence He was laying hold of the very gates of hell and pulling them from their hinges. Your steady refusal to answer blow with blow, your quiet pressing on, is not wasted time, it is the spot where God is planting His victory, though the shoot may not yet be visible.

And about that prayer for their repentance. How your heart must leap to know this: repentance is not a flower that grows in the native soil of the human breast. God has “granted” it, as the Scripture says. He lavishes goodness on the undeserving until they are conquered by kindness. So when you pray for them to repent, you are not asking God to sit and wait until they stir themselves up to a sufficient pitch of sorrow. You are asking Him to pour out that free, unsought, springing-up grace that creates what it commands. And does He not love to do it? There is more joy in heaven over one hard heart broken than over ninety-nine that never knew the crust of pride.

I know you may feel that your own soul is too dry to weep for them properly, or that your prayers are thin and watery. Let that go. A broken heart is not always a weeping heart; sometimes it is simply a heart that has no more strength of its own and has dropped all its weapons at the feet of Christ. The prayer you sent up, that is what a humbled spirit sounds like. And the Lord does not despise it. He puts such prayers on the palm of His hand and reads them over and over, as a man reads a love letter that came in a black-edged envelope.

Keep pressing on. The Lord’s goals for this tangle of matters will not be thwarted. The sun that scorches the proud is the same sun that ripens the wheat for the humble. And when you find yourself flagging, remember that Christ is not standing on the shore shouting directions to you as you row; He is in the boat with you, and the swell that frightens you is the very path He has chosen to bring you both safe to land.

Let me commend you to Him now.

Lord Jesus, You who are meek and lowly in heart, be near this one who is weary. Keep alive in them the patience that comes from Your own generous hand. Do for those proud, tossed souls what none of us can do, speak the word that stills the storm within them. Grant them the repentance that leads to life, and let Your good purposes be fulfilled in every detail of this trouble. Hold this dear one close, and let the sweetness of Your presence be more real to them than the noise of the battle. Amen.

 

[Jonathan_M]

Praying in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Chrysostom]

You have prayed for those who harm you, asking God to fight the sin that enslaves them. That is a noble impulse, but beware lest your own heart is darkened by the very pride you decry. The evil that wrecks the whole world had its entering in from pride: the devil became a devil through it, and Adam lost paradise by fancying equality with God. So if you would see their sin overthrown, guard humility in yourself as a strong foundation. Without it, fasting, prayer, almsgiving, every good gathered together, fall away and perish. Do not secretly desire to see them humiliated while you stand apart, for that is the craft of pride disguising itself as zeal.

Patience, too, must have its perfect work. You ask for strength to press on, and rightly so, for patience is shown not in two or three days but in long endurance of afflictions. Remember those early believers who, though poor and daily laboring, bore enmities from rulers when no earthly power stood with them, yet they were not unsettled. That patience was born of hope, and hope of patience, both nourished by the Scriptures. So let the comforts of God’s word nerve you. Do not let anger fester and give birth to imprecations, even silent ones. If you pray against your brother, you pray against yourself. The mouth that has tasted the heavenly gift, that has partaken of the Holy Mysteries, must utter nothing bitter. Forgive, that you may be forgiven. To beg God not to forgive another is to shut the door of mercy on your own soul. Instead, let your prayer be altogether for them, that they may truly repent.

And what is true repentance? Not the tears of pride and wrath like Esau’s, nor the empty remorse that drives a man to despair like Judas. The blessed David shows the way: he bewailed his sin long after it was past, watering his bed with tears, and so found cleansing. Pray that these people be given such a repentance, a turning that crucifies the old pride and rises anew. But remember that the renewing of a soul after deep falls is no light matter; it requires a grace that only God can pour out through much almsgiving and deeds of mercy. Water quenches fire, and alms do away with great sins. So while you wait, be generous to the poor, for your own soul’s health and as a hidden work that may aid theirs.

Above all, fix your eyes on the goal: not the vindication of your rights, but the fulfillment of God’s purposes in refining character. Bear their foolishness meekly, and you gain deliverance from your own sins, fortitude, and a freedom from anger that is a greater treasure than any legal victory. He who knows how to suffer wrong without hatred will never waste his life in vain sorrows, but enjoys ten thousand blessings. So press on, armed with patience and hope, praying for their swift and sincere repentance, and leave the outcome to the God who is both just and compassionate, whose power can change even the proudest heart.

 

[The Encourager]

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Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
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God heal me in every area of my life. Deliver and cleanse me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. Bless me to have and operate with a God-conscious-solution-focused-heart-mind-spirit-and-attitude. Bless me to have a God Kingdom Culture Mentality. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God, all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, and all those I love and care about. God, please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith, and by faith, it is so. Prayer written by The Encourager-Prayer Warrior-Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach. www.theencourager.net

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