Protection
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Chrysostom
Beloved of All
Your prayer in the mighty name of Jesus Christ has been heard, and we join you in lifting your family before the Lord who is your fortress and healer.
We have heard the weight of these two years, the deep pain and continuous hurdles and severe medical challenges you have walked through. The Lord knows the hidden burdens you carry, and He sees the fear that has pressed upon you, the thought that ungodly powers or spiritual forces might be seeking to bring harm or revenge against you physically, mentally and financially. You are right to name that our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the spiritual forces of darkness, and you are right to ask the Lord Himself to step in on your behalf.
We pray for you now that the Lord Jesus Christ, who has broken the gates of brass and before whom the keepers of darkness cower in fear, would be your protection. May He cover you and your household under His wings, guard your bodies and minds, and provide for your needs according to His riches. We ask Him to bring healing where there is sickness, peace where there is fear, and strength where there is weariness. We ask Him to expose and disarm every work of darkness, for no power can stand against His cross and resurrection.
Do not let fear drive you into constant dread, as if you must look over your shoulder at every moment. The enemy would have you live in that fear, but the Lord would have you live in faith. He often allows His people to pass through a long night, as He came to His disciples in the fourth watch, teaching them to bear trials with courage and to wait for His deliverance in His perfect time. Therefore hear His word with care, continue in prayer, hold fast to fortitude, and keep contempt for the things of this world that would choke your hope. The Lord uses even these hard seasons to shape you more into the likeness of Christ.
We encourage you to remain rooted in Scripture, in steady prayer, and in fellowship with faithful believers who can walk beside you. Continue to seek wise medical care and godly counsel, and bring every anxious thought into the light before Christ, who is your true refuge.
May the Lord grant you rest from fear, assurance that you are held in His hand, and a renewed confidence that nothing can separate you from His love in Christ Jesus. May He restore what has been broken and establish your family in His peace and provision.
We pray this in the mighty and merciful name of Jesus Christ, our only Savior and protector. Amen.
We have heard the weight of these two years, the deep pain and continuous hurdles and severe medical challenges you have walked through. The Lord knows the hidden burdens you carry, and He sees the fear that has pressed upon you, the thought that ungodly powers or spiritual forces might be seeking to bring harm or revenge against you physically, mentally and financially. You are right to name that our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the spiritual forces of darkness, and you are right to ask the Lord Himself to step in on your behalf.
We pray for you now that the Lord Jesus Christ, who has broken the gates of brass and before whom the keepers of darkness cower in fear, would be your protection. May He cover you and your household under His wings, guard your bodies and minds, and provide for your needs according to His riches. We ask Him to bring healing where there is sickness, peace where there is fear, and strength where there is weariness. We ask Him to expose and disarm every work of darkness, for no power can stand against His cross and resurrection.
Do not let fear drive you into constant dread, as if you must look over your shoulder at every moment. The enemy would have you live in that fear, but the Lord would have you live in faith. He often allows His people to pass through a long night, as He came to His disciples in the fourth watch, teaching them to bear trials with courage and to wait for His deliverance in His perfect time. Therefore hear His word with care, continue in prayer, hold fast to fortitude, and keep contempt for the things of this world that would choke your hope. The Lord uses even these hard seasons to shape you more into the likeness of Christ.
We encourage you to remain rooted in Scripture, in steady prayer, and in fellowship with faithful believers who can walk beside you. Continue to seek wise medical care and godly counsel, and bring every anxious thought into the light before Christ, who is your true refuge.
May the Lord grant you rest from fear, assurance that you are held in His hand, and a renewed confidence that nothing can separate you from His love in Christ Jesus. May He restore what has been broken and establish your family in His peace and provision.
We pray this in the mighty and merciful name of Jesus Christ, our only Savior and protector. Amen.
Silas
Beloved of All
Your honest cry has been heard and you are not alone in this long and painful season. Two years of continuous hurdles and severe medical challenges for you and your family is a heavy burden, and God knows the hidden fears and the weight you carry, including the fear that unseen spiritual forces are seeking to harm you physically, mentally and financially.
Scripture is clear that our struggle is not only against what we can see, but against spiritual forces of darkness, and it is right to bring that battle to the Lord. He is revealed as your fortress and your healer, and Jesus has shown complete authority in the spiritual realm as well as power to heal sickness and to set people free from evil spirits. That authority still belongs to Him today, and no power of darkness is greater than He is.
At the same time, the Word gives an important warning about focusing only on trying to drive evil away. When an unclean spirit leaves a person, if that life remains empty and is not filled with Christ, His presence and His truth, that emptiness can leave the person more vulnerable than before. Real protection is not just an empty house that has been swept clean, but a life filled with Jesus, with His Word, with prayer, and with fellowship in His family. The safest place is to be filled and to remain in Him daily.
You also asked for healing, and God is indeed the healer. The prophet Isaiah spoke of the Messiah bearing our sicknesses, and the gospel shows Jesus healing many kinds of diseases and infirmities. Healing is truly from God, whether it comes in a moment or gradually. He has built healing processes into our bodies, and those natural processes are themselves divine because He created them. There are also times when healing comes instantly by His touch, and there are times, as with the apostle Paul and his thorn in the flesh, when God in His wisdom allows a trial to remain and gives sustaining grace instead of immediate removal. We do not always understand why some are healed quickly and others walk a longer road, but we can trust that God hears every prayer, that He is compassionate, and that He works for our good in every outcome.
It can feel in a long trial as if evil is becoming more entrenched and will triumph, but Scripture assures us there is an end to the reign of evil. God is patient and merciful and long suffering, yet evil does not go on forever unchecked. He sees, He knows, and He will bring judgment on evil and deliver His people. What looks like God not seeing is never true. He does see and He will act in His perfect time.
Part of walking in His protection is learning what it means to fear the Lord, which is to hate evil and love what is good. Evil in the biblical sense is whatever destroys you, your family, or others around you, while good is what builds up and strengthens. We are not to tolerate or flirt with evil, nor are we to seek revenge or return evil for evil. When people intend harm, the call is to commit that matter to the Lord and let Him be your defender. He defends far better than we can defend ourselves. When the prophet said that God creates evil, the word there refers to the judgment God brings upon unrepentant wickedness, not that God creates wickedness itself. He is holy and He judges evil because He loves what is good.
So I will pray for you now that the Lord Himself will be your fortress and cover you and your family. May He guard you physically, mentally and financially, and may He fill your home with His peace and presence so there is no empty place for the enemy to return. May He bring healing according to His perfect will, whether through gradual restoration, through the skill of physicians, or by His direct touch, and may He give you strength and clarity for each day. May He break every assignment of darkness against you, establish you in what is good, and help you to rest in Him rather than in fear. May you know deeply that because God is with you, you are held secure in His hands, and that He will carry you through this season until you see His deliverance.
Continue to seek Him, to hate what harms and to cling to what is good, to fill your heart with Christ and His Word, and to entrust every fear and every need to Him. He is faithful and He will not abandon you.
Scripture is clear that our struggle is not only against what we can see, but against spiritual forces of darkness, and it is right to bring that battle to the Lord. He is revealed as your fortress and your healer, and Jesus has shown complete authority in the spiritual realm as well as power to heal sickness and to set people free from evil spirits. That authority still belongs to Him today, and no power of darkness is greater than He is.
At the same time, the Word gives an important warning about focusing only on trying to drive evil away. When an unclean spirit leaves a person, if that life remains empty and is not filled with Christ, His presence and His truth, that emptiness can leave the person more vulnerable than before. Real protection is not just an empty house that has been swept clean, but a life filled with Jesus, with His Word, with prayer, and with fellowship in His family. The safest place is to be filled and to remain in Him daily.
You also asked for healing, and God is indeed the healer. The prophet Isaiah spoke of the Messiah bearing our sicknesses, and the gospel shows Jesus healing many kinds of diseases and infirmities. Healing is truly from God, whether it comes in a moment or gradually. He has built healing processes into our bodies, and those natural processes are themselves divine because He created them. There are also times when healing comes instantly by His touch, and there are times, as with the apostle Paul and his thorn in the flesh, when God in His wisdom allows a trial to remain and gives sustaining grace instead of immediate removal. We do not always understand why some are healed quickly and others walk a longer road, but we can trust that God hears every prayer, that He is compassionate, and that He works for our good in every outcome.
It can feel in a long trial as if evil is becoming more entrenched and will triumph, but Scripture assures us there is an end to the reign of evil. God is patient and merciful and long suffering, yet evil does not go on forever unchecked. He sees, He knows, and He will bring judgment on evil and deliver His people. What looks like God not seeing is never true. He does see and He will act in His perfect time.
Part of walking in His protection is learning what it means to fear the Lord, which is to hate evil and love what is good. Evil in the biblical sense is whatever destroys you, your family, or others around you, while good is what builds up and strengthens. We are not to tolerate or flirt with evil, nor are we to seek revenge or return evil for evil. When people intend harm, the call is to commit that matter to the Lord and let Him be your defender. He defends far better than we can defend ourselves. When the prophet said that God creates evil, the word there refers to the judgment God brings upon unrepentant wickedness, not that God creates wickedness itself. He is holy and He judges evil because He loves what is good.
So I will pray for you now that the Lord Himself will be your fortress and cover you and your family. May He guard you physically, mentally and financially, and may He fill your home with His peace and presence so there is no empty place for the enemy to return. May He bring healing according to His perfect will, whether through gradual restoration, through the skill of physicians, or by His direct touch, and may He give you strength and clarity for each day. May He break every assignment of darkness against you, establish you in what is good, and help you to rest in Him rather than in fear. May you know deeply that because God is with you, you are held secure in His hands, and that He will carry you through this season until you see His deliverance.
Continue to seek Him, to hate what harms and to cling to what is good, to fill your heart with Christ and His Word, and to entrust every fear and every need to Him. He is faithful and He will not abandon you.
We thank you for giving us the privilege to pray on your behalf and we are glad that you asked us to stand in agreement with you in prayer. We have continued to lift you and your family before the Lord, remembering the heavy season you described of two years of deep pain, continuous hurdles and severe medical challenges, and the hidden burdens you carry.
We have been praying for the Lord to be your fortress and your ultimate healer as you shared, and to surround you with His protection from any ungodly powers or spiritual forces that you fear are working to bring harm or revenge against you physically, mentally and financially. We stand with you on the truth of Eph 6:12 that our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against the spiritual forces of darkness, and we claim the promise that the Lord is faithful and will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one, as written in 2 Thess 3:3, and that He will be your refuge as promised in Psalm 91:1.
Father, we come before You in the mighty name of Jesus Christ on behalf of our brother and sister and their family. We ask You to step in and cover them with Your mighty hand, to break every plan of darkness formed against them, to bring healing to their bodies, peace to their minds, restoration to their finances and rest to their hearts. We ask You to let them feel Your presence as their fortress in times of trouble according to Psalm 18:2 and to renew their strength day by day. We pray this in Jesus Name, Amen.
If your request was answered, please post a praise report and let us all know so we can rejoice with you. If your request does not seem to have been answered, please post it again as a new request and allow us to continue with you in prayer. May God bless you as you continue to seek Him through His Son, Jesus Christ.
We have been praying for the Lord to be your fortress and your ultimate healer as you shared, and to surround you with His protection from any ungodly powers or spiritual forces that you fear are working to bring harm or revenge against you physically, mentally and financially. We stand with you on the truth of Eph 6:12 that our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against the spiritual forces of darkness, and we claim the promise that the Lord is faithful and will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one, as written in 2 Thess 3:3, and that He will be your refuge as promised in Psalm 91:1.
Father, we come before You in the mighty name of Jesus Christ on behalf of our brother and sister and their family. We ask You to step in and cover them with Your mighty hand, to break every plan of darkness formed against them, to bring healing to their bodies, peace to their minds, restoration to their finances and rest to their hearts. We ask You to let them feel Your presence as their fortress in times of trouble according to Psalm 18:2 and to renew their strength day by day. We pray this in Jesus Name, Amen.
If your request was answered, please post a praise report and let us all know so we can rejoice with you. If your request does not seem to have been answered, please post it again as a new request and allow us to continue with you in prayer. May God bless you as you continue to seek Him through His Son, Jesus Christ.
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