Silas
Beloved of All
Your prayer comes from a weary and honest heart, and God hears it. Thank you for laying the whole matter before Him so plainly. He knows the truth of what you are facing, even the parts you chose not to detail, and He sees your desire to do no harm while asking Him to stop the harm being done to you and your child.
The Lord understands how tired you are. Fear and discouragement are tools the enemy often uses against God's people, and they grow strongest when our eyes are fixed on the threats around us. The cure for fear is to remember the Lord. He is your light and your salvation, whom shall you fear. He is the strength of your life, of whom shall you be afraid. As David prayed, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil for you are with me. When you remember that He is watching over you, keeping you as His own, fear loses its hold because greater is He who is with you than those who are against you.
You prayed as David did for protection from enemies, and Scripture gives you language for that prayer. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God, defend me from those who rise up against me. David learned that vain is the help of man, but through God we shall do valiantly, for it is He who will tread down our enemies. God is your refuge and fortress, your shield. He is the one who avenges and lifts you up above those who rise against you and delivers you from the violent. You can ask Him, as David did, not out of vengeance but out of trust, to scatter the plans of those who seek to tear your family apart and to bring down their power over you, so that you may be kept safe. He has promised that being delivered from the hand of our enemies, we may serve Him without fear in holiness and righteousness all our days.
Jesus has a special care for children. The child in the womb is known by Him from the earliest weeks, with sleeping and waking, sensitive even to a mother's voice. How much more does He know and love the child He has entrusted to you now. Jesus said He loves little children and warned of woe to anyone who would lead a child away from Him. You are right to pray that your child would be raised to know Him, in His places and among His people, for His glory. God calls parents to train up a child in the way he should go, and He honors that faithful sowing even when the path is hard. His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation, He shows strength with His arm, He scatters the proud, He puts down the mighty and lifts up those of low degree.
Your prayer is heard, even when the answer feels long in coming. Zacharias and his wife prayed for years for a child, and the angel told him your prayer is heard. God had not forgotten. In the same way, He has not forgotten you in this long season. Hardships are for a season and for a reason, and they are not without end, for He is with you throughout and at the end.
May the Lord be near to you now as your strength and hasten to help you. May He deliver your soul and guard your little one from every power that would seek to harm or divide. May He deal justly with those who oppose you, restraining their hands and turning back their plans, not to harm them but to stop the harm. May He grant you help that no person could give, quiet your anger and fear with His presence, and let His will prevail in your home. Pray that this year would end in His peace, and that you and your child would know the joy of serving Him together without fear, in the rightness of holiness and righteousness before Him.
The Lord understands how tired you are. Fear and discouragement are tools the enemy often uses against God's people, and they grow strongest when our eyes are fixed on the threats around us. The cure for fear is to remember the Lord. He is your light and your salvation, whom shall you fear. He is the strength of your life, of whom shall you be afraid. As David prayed, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil for you are with me. When you remember that He is watching over you, keeping you as His own, fear loses its hold because greater is He who is with you than those who are against you.
You prayed as David did for protection from enemies, and Scripture gives you language for that prayer. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God, defend me from those who rise up against me. David learned that vain is the help of man, but through God we shall do valiantly, for it is He who will tread down our enemies. God is your refuge and fortress, your shield. He is the one who avenges and lifts you up above those who rise against you and delivers you from the violent. You can ask Him, as David did, not out of vengeance but out of trust, to scatter the plans of those who seek to tear your family apart and to bring down their power over you, so that you may be kept safe. He has promised that being delivered from the hand of our enemies, we may serve Him without fear in holiness and righteousness all our days.
Jesus has a special care for children. The child in the womb is known by Him from the earliest weeks, with sleeping and waking, sensitive even to a mother's voice. How much more does He know and love the child He has entrusted to you now. Jesus said He loves little children and warned of woe to anyone who would lead a child away from Him. You are right to pray that your child would be raised to know Him, in His places and among His people, for His glory. God calls parents to train up a child in the way he should go, and He honors that faithful sowing even when the path is hard. His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation, He shows strength with His arm, He scatters the proud, He puts down the mighty and lifts up those of low degree.
Your prayer is heard, even when the answer feels long in coming. Zacharias and his wife prayed for years for a child, and the angel told him your prayer is heard. God had not forgotten. In the same way, He has not forgotten you in this long season. Hardships are for a season and for a reason, and they are not without end, for He is with you throughout and at the end.
May the Lord be near to you now as your strength and hasten to help you. May He deliver your soul and guard your little one from every power that would seek to harm or divide. May He deal justly with those who oppose you, restraining their hands and turning back their plans, not to harm them but to stop the harm. May He grant you help that no person could give, quiet your anger and fear with His presence, and let His will prevail in your home. Pray that this year would end in His peace, and that you and your child would know the joy of serving Him together without fear, in the rightness of holiness and righteousness before Him.
