Protection

[Cralmilan]

Heavenly Father, I thank You for waking me and my children to a new day. Lord Jesus, I plead the precious blood of Jesus Christ over our minds, hearts, bodies, and spirits today. Cover our home, our hearts, and our minds with Your holy protection. Let Your angels stand guard around every door, every window, every room, every corner in our home, in the yard, vehicles and every surrounding today. I pray for Your peace to fill me and my children the kind of peace that surpasses all understanding. I pray that my children will have a blessed and safe day fill with the Holy Spirit and an abundance of Your favors, protection and recognition for their purpose at work, school and activities. I pray that they work efficiently and not be overwork or exhausted. Jesus, let them be a beacon of Your light at their jobs, school and activities. Jesus I pray for a Godly unbreakable, loving and respectable bond between me and my children. I pray that all broken relationship to mended peaceful, respectfully in a Godly manner. Jesus by your stripes my son is heal from ###. I pray daily for a miraculous healing and restoration in his life so he can live a life of peace, joy and satisfaction. I pray he will have a calm, relax, satisfy, joyful and obedience day with his caregiver. Lord I ask that you remove all spiritual attacks and anything not of You. Erase all PTSD memories, rigidity and negative habits to express . Resource his peace of mind, calm, gentleness and satisfication swiftly. I pray he will be a beacon of Your light every he goes and everything he does. Bless his surroundings with Your divine protection, peace, joy, favor and love. I pray for me and my children will have a peace and joyful day together, the kind that surpasses all understanding. Jesus I ask that You remove all negative influences, all fear and chaos from our environment. Let Your anointing rest upon us, guiding every step, favor at work and guarding every moment. Jesus, I declare that this day belongs to You. No weapon formed against me, my daughters or my son shall prosper. Jesus I ask for Your guardian angels to guide our paths, hedge of protection and full armor to shield us from any attacks. Jesus I pray that You saturate me and my son with Your peace, joy, satisfaction and grace as well. I rebuke every spiritual attack, jealousy, spitefulness, negative influences, and manipulative spirits. Lord I ask that You remove them gently and never return in Jesus name. Jesus I pray that this young man will move back home alone swiftly. He is not ready for a relationship and his disrespectful, manipulating, dishonest, hateful, spiteful and selfish behaviors are manifesting toward our family and destroying our unitiy as a family and my older daughter's good character. Give her the hunger to move back home. Jesus I ask for supernatural unbreakable bond and togetherness for me and my children. Jesus frustrate the plans, plots, and schemes by anyone to cause division, isolation, and chaos in our family. Let every dark or deceptive force lose all power and flee from us now and forever, in Jesus’ mighty name. Lord, cover my son with Your peace, love, joy and protection today. Let everything he does today reflect Your light and love fill his life with favors, healing and breakthrough. I lift up my younger daughter to You, Lord. Guide her through her studies for school, grant her Godly friendship and an abundant of favors. I can tell she was exhausted after classes yesterday. Bless her health, her studies, and her career with Your divine favor. Let her excel in everything she puts her hands to. Surround her with uplifting, Godly friendships and protect her from all negativity or confusion. Lord, surround my younger daughter with Your hedge of protection, give her clear wisdom today to see that this move would harm her health, overwhelm her schedule, hinder her care for what You have entrusted to her, hinder the care for her dog and bring financial hardship. Give her strength to stand steadfast as she has done before and to say no to those who would guide her down this dark path. Give her peace, focus, favors, blessings, success, courage, wisdom, satisfaction and strength throughout her day. I pray the same for my older daughter. I pray she will have a unbreakable bond with me, her brother and sister. Jesus shield her from the negative, obsessive, and manipulative influence of this young man and his family. Jesus I pray that they will stop poisoning my daughter's gratefulness toward her family, her faith, her friendships, her work, and her self-esteem. Jesus frustrate all plots, schemes, and plans from anyone who are trying to destroy our family relationship and creating chaos and havoc within my family. Lord speak to my older daughter of the sin of living outside of marriage and draw her with Your loving kindness to repentance and to a life of purity that honors You. Sever the ungodly influence of this young man and his mother over both my daughters, block their schemes, and remove their control completely if it is not Your will, and if it be Your will bring even them to salvation. Protect this son from hatred and let Your peace reign in this home. I declare healing over my family from all curses and witchcraft, for with You nothing will be impossible Luke 1:37. I trust You for complete restoration and protection, Jesus break every ungodly tie and restore her spiritual clarity, independence, Godly personality, and faith. Let her see Your truth, Lord, about this toxic relationship, lifestyle and walk in Your will. Protect her job, her relationship with her family, her finances and bless her with gratitude, favor, and joy at her workplace and all aspects of her life. Jesus grant her the wisdom to not follow this young man's orders, idolize or mimic this young man's rebellious, manipulating behaviors. Let her not put this young man before her supportive family, her purpose, her job, her health, her finances and her faith. Jesus show her she should not obey this young man, she is not married to him and living together outside of marriage is not a marriage and does not give him the right to control her. Fill her heart with wisdom, knowledge, respect and courage to make Godly choices that honor You, Lord, grateful for her supportive family, bless our home and family with peace, harmony, love, fellowship and divine protection. Let Your angels go before us and prepare our paths. Keep us safe from harm, negative influences, confusion, and distraction. Jesus remove the influence of this young man’s mother, who has overstepped her bounds and sought to act as a parent in my daughter’s life. Her pride, arrogance, and manipulation are rooted in the flesh, and I ask the Lord to expose her motives and frustrate every plan she has to divide or corrupt our family. My daughter is not homeless, nor is she in need of this woman’s ungodly guidance. She has a loving, supportive family who has raised her in the ways of the Lord, and I pray that the hold of pride, brainwashing and false commitment over her would be broken swifty. May my older daughter see the truth, that this man is not her husband, nor is he ready for the responsibilities of marriage, and that her worth is found in Christ alone, not in the approval of this young man and his family. Lord restore fully the peace, love, patience, respect, satisfation and happiness within me and my family. Lord fill us with an overflow of the Holy Spirit. Father, let our home be a beacon of Your light for everyone who come to visit or stay here. Bless our home and all our surrounding with peace, joy, love, fellowship, satisfaction and protection. Let our hearts be united in love, peace, respect and understanding. Jesus, I declare that this will be a peaceful, joyful, satisfied, loved and blessed day for me and my children. Let our words be kind, our thoughts pure, and our actions guided by Your Spirit. Fill our home with laughter, favor, and light. Lord, I ask for Your divine intervention in my family. Father, I thank You that You are working miracles of healing, restoration, and breakthrough in our family. I declare victory, peace, love, success, breakthrough, protection and blessings over every area of our lives this year. Jesus let this year be one of overflowing blessings, breakthroughs, favors, peace, joy, togetherness, respect and unexpected miracles for me and my family. In the powerful name of Jesus. I pray. Amen

 

[Articles]

We join you in lifting up your family before the throne of grace and we thank you for pleading the precious blood of Jesus Christ over your home and your children, for it is in His name alone that we have protection and access to the Father.

We stand with you for the hedge of protection you have asked for over your minds, hearts, bodies and spirits, over every door and window and room and yard and vehicle. We claim the promise that He will give His angels charge over you, to guard you in all your ways Psalm 91:11 and that The angel of Yahweh encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them Psalm 34:7. We agree with you that no weapon that is formed against you will prevail Isaiah 54:17 and that the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus Philippians 4:7.

We pray together for your son who you have lifted up for healing and restoration. We ask the Lord to touch him swiftly, to erase tormenting memories and rigidity and to restore calm, gentleness and satisfaction to his mind. We pray that the Lord will renew his mind day by day, that you may not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind Romans 12:2. We ask that his caregiver will be filled with patience and wisdom and that his day will be calm, joyful and obedient, and that he will be a beacon of the light of Christ wherever he goes. We declare with you that with God nothing will be impossible Luke 1:37 and by His wounds you have been healed Isaiah 53:5.

We lift up your younger daughter and we join you in praying for her studies, her health, her career and her friendships. We ask the Lord to surround her with godly friendships that build her up and to give her clear wisdom and courage to stand steadfast and say no to any path that would harm her health, overwhelm her schedule, hinder her stewardship of what God has entrusted to her including the care of her dog, or bring financial hardship. We pray that she will not be unequally yoked with unbelievers 2 Corinthians 6:14 and that she will seek first Gods Kingdom and his righteousness Matthew 6:33, trusting that God will give her favor and strength and not allow her to be overworked or exhausted.

We must lovingly and firmly address what you have shared concerning your older daughter and this young man living together outside of marriage. We know this is painful for you to see division and manipulation entering your family, and we commend you for speaking the truth in love. Scripture is clear that marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled Hebrews 13:4 and that this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor 1 Thessalonians 4:3-4. To live together as if married without the lifelong covenant of marriage between a man and a woman is fornication, and we are commanded to flee sexual immorality, for 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. A boyfriend and girlfriend relationship should be understood as courtship with the goal of discerning marriage to another Christian believer, not as a substitute for marriage, and it does not give a man the authority or right to control or order a woman as a husband would in the Lord. We pray that the Lord will speak to your older daughters heart and draw her with loving kindness to repentance, that she will see that her worth is found in Christ alone and that she will turn from this lifestyle to a life of purity that honors God. We pray that every ungodly soul tie and controlling influence from this young man and his mother will be broken, that their schemes to poison her gratefulness for her family, her faith, her work and her self esteem will be frustrated, and that she will be restored to spiritual clarity, independence and a godly character.

We also pray for this young man and his mother as you have asked, that if it is not the will of God for this relationship to continue toward a godly marriage, the Lord will remove their influence completely and gently and that they would not return to cause division, and if it be His will that even they would come to salvation through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. We pray that your older daughter will hunger to return home and to be reunited in an unbreakable, loving and respectful bond with you and her siblings, and that the Lord will expose pride, arrogance and manipulation for what it is and cause every plan to divide your family to fail. We put on the whole armor of God together, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil Ephesians 6:11 and we submit ourselves to God and resist the devil, trusting that he will flee from us James 4:7.

Father, we thank You for waking this dear mother and her children to a new day. We plead the blood of Jesus over them and we ask You to saturate them with Your peace, joy, satisfaction and grace. Let Your anointing rest upon them, guiding every step and guarding every moment. Remove all fear, for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control 2 Timothy 1:7, and remove all chaos, jealousy, spitefulness and negative influences from their home. Let their home be a beacon of Your light, filled with laughter, fellowship and divine protection, where Your Holy Spirit overflows. Let their words be kind, their thoughts pure and their actions guided by Your Spirit. Let no weapon formed against this mother, her daughters or her son prosper, and let every dark and deceptive force lose all power and flee now and forever. We declare healing over this family from all curses and attacks, and we trust You for complete restoration, breakthrough, favor and an unbreakable godly unity between this mother and her children. We ask that You frustrate every plot to cause isolation and division and restore fully the peace, love, patience, respect and happiness within this family. We declare that this day belongs to You and that this year will be one of overflowing blessings and unexpected miracles for them. In the powerful and mighty name of Jesus Christ, our only hope and Savior, we pray. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We are grateful you shared your heart so openly for your family. We hear how deeply you love your children and how much you long for peace and safety in your home, and how heavy it feels to carry different concerns for each of them at once.

Loving them well while also wanting what is best for their future is a lot to hold. In a season when there is so much to pray for, it can help to keep your own rhythms steady and simple. Continuing to bring each child to the Lord as you are doing, and staying connected to one or two trusted believers or a pastor who knows your family, can give you ongoing support and perspective when the days feel overwhelming.

For your son, we encourage you to keep walking closely with his caregivers and any professional support he has, alongside prayer for his calm and peace. For your daughters, keeping gentle, honest conversation open without pressure often does the most to keep the bond strong, even when you see risks they do not yet see. Your steady love and prayer matter more than you may realize.

Father, we lift this mother and her children to You in Jesus name. Cover their home and their coming and going with Your protection and fill them with Your peace. Give rest where there is exhaustion, calm where there is stirring, and clear wisdom for each decision today. Draw each child close to You, guard their health and work and studies, and knit this family together in love, respect and understanding. We ask for Your healing, guidance and restoration in the days ahead. Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

Your prayer has come before us with many tears and much love for your children, and we join our hearts with yours before the throne of grace.

We thank God with you for the mercy of a new day and for the love you bear for your household. You have asked for a hedge of protection, for peace that passes all understanding, for healing and for unity, and these are right petitions to bring to our heavenly Father, who hears the cries of His people. Yet we must remind you, as the Scriptures do, that our only sure refuge is Christ Himself. He is the cornerstone which God has laid, and every other refuge of lies shall be swept away when the waters overflow. It is not by mere words or by claiming protection as a charm, but by resting wholly upon the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ, that we are safe. Have you rested upon the Son of God for everything, then you may go forward and not fear, for he that believes in Him shall never be confounded.

We lift before the Lord your son and his affliction. The Lord is He that heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds. He who wounded that He might make us seek Him is able also to heal. We pray that the Great Physician would look upon your son with compassion, grant him calmness and peace of mind, deliver him from tormenting memories and habits, and make him gentle and satisfied in spirit. We ask this according to the will of God, knowing that with God nothing shall be impossible, and that whether He grants immediate healing or sustaining grace, His fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness is open still for every heavy laden soul.

For your daughters we also pray with earnestness. We hear your weariness for your younger daughter, pressed with studies and care and responsibility. We ask the Lord to give her health and strength, clear wisdom, and Godly friendships that will build her up and not confuse her. May the Holy Spirit lead her into all truth through the Word of God, for it is by the Word, made living to the heart, that we are guided, not by dreams or inward impressions alone. Pray that she may have courage to stand steadfast and to say no where a path would harm her health, hinder her duties, or bring her into financial and spiritual hardship.

For your older daughter our prayer must be both tender and plain, because we love her soul and desire her true good. The Scriptures teach that salvation is through Jesus Christ alone, and that marriage is a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, and that to live together and share the privileges of marriage outside of that covenant is sin before God. It does not create a marriage, it does not give a right to lead or to control, and it cannot be blessed by God while it continues in that form. We cannot ask God to bless what His Word calls sin. What we do ask, and what you have rightly asked, is that the Lord would speak to her heart with loving kindness and bring her to repentance and to a life of purity that honors Him. We pray that every ungodly tie would be broken, that spiritual clarity and faith would be restored, that her worth would be found in Christ alone and not in the approval of any man or family, and that she would be delivered from manipulation, jealousy and control. We pray also for the young man and his mother, not that their influence over your family would continue, but that if it be not the Lord's will for any right and holy marriage in the Lord in due time, their hold would be removed, and if it be His will to save them, that they also would be brought to know Christ and be saved.

You have asked for an unbreakable bond of love and respect between you and your children. This is a beautiful desire, and we pray the Lord would make your home as the ark was for Noah, a place where the whole family is found under one shelter in Christ. The family of God is one family in heaven and on earth, and its unity is not in mere sentiment but in being led by the Spirit of God and washed in the blood of the Lamb. May your home be a beacon of light indeed, not by outward show, but because Christ dwells there, His Word is honored, and His Spirit guides every step.

Therefore we commend you to continue in the hearing of faith. Come constantly to the Word preached and read, for it is by the hearing of faith that the Spirit is received and the soul is fed with the true Bread of Heaven. Cast yourself and your children simply upon the merits of His blood and His perfect righteousness as the ground of your acceptance before God, and you shall find peace.

We now pray together.

O Lord our God, look upon this mother and her children. Cover them with mercy through the blood of Christ. Let Thy peace rule in their hearts and in their home. Heal where there is wounding, calm where there is fear, and break the power of every temptation and every scheme that would divide this family. Grant repentance where repentance is needed, and faith where faith is weak. Lead this household by Thy Holy Spirit into truth, keep them from the refuge of lies, and make them to stand upon Christ alone. Restore what has been broken, guard what Thou hast given, and let all that is done in this home be to Thy glory. We ask that Thou wouldst save sinners, sanctify Thy people, and make this family to know more and more the joy of being Thy children, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

 

[usha rani]

Praying for this request in Jesus Name.

 

[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this request in Jesus Name.

 

[The Encourager]

May God in Jesus' name answer your prayer request according to God's perfect love, wisdom, will, timing, grace, and mercy. God is so in love with you. Be Encouraged!

Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 6:33: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, wisdom, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. God, bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to know You, the way You want me to know You. So that I will trust You with my life and anyway that You move in my life. Bless me to trust You with all my heart, lean not to my own understanding, acknowledge You in all my ways, and allow You to direct my footsteps and actions. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do.

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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[Chrysostom]

Your prayer has been received and we join you in bringing your family before the throne of grace with thanksgiving. We thank God for your faith and for your love for your children, and for your desire to see your home covered by His protection and filled with His peace.

We hear your cry for protection over your minds, hearts, bodies and home, for angels to guard every door and room, for the peace that surpasses all understanding to fill you and your children, and for the full armor of God to shield you from every spiritual attack, fear and chaos. We agree with you that no weapon formed against you shall prosper, and we ask the Lord to let His anointing guide every step and guard every moment, and to make your home a place of light, laughter and fellowship where His Spirit dwells.

We lift up your son to the Lord who heals. As you have prayed, by His stripes we are healed, and we ask the Father to bring miraculous healing and restoration to your son, to erase what is not of Him and to restore calm, gentleness, peace of mind and joy. We pray that the Lord will grant him a calm and obedient day with his caregiver, and that everything he does would reflect the light of Christ, and that the Lord would surround him with divine protection, favor and love. We remember the word that great is the power of faith, and that when Christ said to the woman, be of good cheer, daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole, He showed that faith makes us sons and daughters of God. Through Christ we are created anew in righteousness and holiness of truth, and we put on Christ and receive the Spirit of adoption, so that we are delivered from evil and supplied with every good gift. We pray that your son would know that sonship and walk in it.

We lift up your younger daughter. We ask the Lord to give her strength for her studies, to renew her when she is exhausted, to bless her health and her work, and to surround her with godly friendships that build her up and keep her from confusion. We pray especially that God would give her clear wisdom and courage to see what would harm her health, overwhelm her schedule, hinder her care for what God has entrusted to her including her dog, and bring financial hardship. We ask that He would give her strength to stand steadfast and to say no to any dark path, and to walk in focus, wisdom and satisfaction in the will of God.

We lift up your older daughter with love and truth. We do not ask God to bless a relationship that is outside His design, for marriage is a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, and living together outside of marriage does not honor Him. Instead we pray as you have prayed, that the Lord in His loving kindness would speak to her heart, draw her to repentance, and lead her to a life of purity that honors Him. We pray that every ungodly tie would be broken, that her spiritual clarity, independence, godly character and faith would be restored, and that she would see that her worth is found in Christ alone, not in the approval of this young man or his family. We pray that the manipulative, controlling and deceptive influences you have described would lose all power and flee, and that the schemes to divide your family and to poison gratefulness, faith and self esteem would be frustrated. If it be His will, we pray that even this young man and his mother would come to salvation through Jesus Christ alone, for there is no other name by which we are saved, but we do not ask God to affirm or strengthen what is not according to His word. We pray instead for your daughter's protection in her job, finances, family relationships and faith, and that she would have wisdom to not follow rebellious ways or put this young man before her family, her purpose, her health and her walk with God. We pray for an unbreakable, loving and respectful bond between you and your children, that what has been broken would be mended in a godly, peaceful and respectful manner.

We pray for you, that the Lord would fill you with His joy, satisfaction and grace, and keep you from exhaustion as you labor faithfully for your family. Remember that hearing and keeping His commandments is the sure proof of love for the Son and for the Father, and that salvation requires not only deliverance from one thing but a careful hearing of the word, continual remembrance, fortitude and contempt for worldly things. Continue to hear His word daily and to cultivate every virtue, trusting that He who has begun a good work will be faithful to complete it.

We know that the Lord Himself said He came to bring a sword of division even among the dearest kin when loyalty to Him is at stake, and that this shows His power. Even when family members stand against one another, those who hear Him and persuade others show His strength. We pray that any division in your family caused by standing for truth would be healed by truth itself, and that God would restore fully the peace, love, patience and respect within your home.

We declare with you that with God nothing will be impossible. We ask the Father for complete restoration, for healing from every curse, for the breaking of every chain, and for an overflow of the Holy Spirit in your home. May your words be kind, your thoughts pure and your actions guided by His Spirit this day and in the year ahead.

Heavenly Father, we thank You for this mother and her children. Cover them with the precious blood of Jesus Christ, station Your angels around them, clothe them in Your armor, and fill them with Your peace and joy. Heal, restore, guard and unite this family according to Your perfect will, for Your glory. In the mighty name of Jesus we pray. Amen.

 

[Silas]

Your heartfelt prayer for your family has been heard, and we join with you in bringing each of these burdens before the Lord. The love and concern you carry for your children, for your home, and for the unity of your family is precious to God, and He invites you to cast all of your care upon Him because He cares for you.

We agree with you in asking for the Lord's protection over your minds, hearts, bodies, and home. Scripture shows how God divinely protected David even when Saul pursued him with great hostility and irrational anger. Though David at times was tempted to trust his own plans to escape, it was the Lord Himself who kept him step by step, even when David felt there was but a step between himself and death. In the same way, your life and the lives of your children are not hanging by chance. You are kept by a faithful God who commands His angels to guard His people and who covers those who trust Him. We pray that He will place a hedge around every door and room, every vehicle and pathway, and fill your home with His presence.

We also pray with you for the peace that surpasses all understanding to guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. That peace is not dependent on calm circumstances but on the presence of Christ Himself. We ask that your children would know that peace at work, at school, and in every activity, that they would work with diligence and not be overwhelmed or exhausted, and that they would be lights reflecting the love of Jesus wherever they go.

For your son, we lift up his need for healing and restoration. By the wounds of Jesus we have healing, and with God nothing will be impossible. We ask the Lord to touch him with His mercy, to calm his mind, to gently remove what brings torment and rigidity, and to restore to him calmness, gentleness, joy and satisfaction. We pray he will know the Lord's favor and that his days with his caregiver and in every setting would be marked by peace and obedience, and that his life would reflect the light of Christ.

For your daughters, we pray for wisdom and strength. We pray for your younger daughter as she carries the weight of studies, work, and responsibilities. May the Lord give her clear eyes to see what would harm her health, overwhelm her schedule, or hinder her stewardship of what God has entrusted to her, including the care of her home and her pet. Give her courage to stand firm and to say no when a path would lead away from what is wise and healthy, and surround her with godly friendships that build her up and encourage her faith.

For your older daughter, we hear your deep concern and we pray with you with both truth and love. God designed marriage as a lifelong covenant between one man and one woman, and He calls His people to honor Him with purity, reserving sexual union and shared life as husband and wife for within that covenant. Living together outside of marriage does not create a marriage and does not carry its covering or commitment, and it does not honor the Lord. We will not ask God to bless what His Word calls sin, but we do ask Him in His loving kindness to draw your daughter to see His truth clearly, to show her that her worth is found in Christ alone and not in the approval of another person, and to lead her to repentance and to a life of purity that honors Him. We pray that every manipulative, controlling, and deceptive influence over her would lose its power, that any ungodly tie would be broken, and that her spiritual clarity, independence, and joy in the Lord would be restored. If it is not the Lord's will for this relationship to move toward a God honoring marriage, we pray that He would remove its influence completely and restore her close and respectful bond with you, her brother and her sister. If there is to be any future, let it only be through salvation in Jesus Christ and through a path that honors God. We also pray for the young man and his family, that any pride or overreach would be exposed and frustrated, and that they too would come to know the saving grace that comes only through faith in Jesus.

We pray for the unity of your whole family. The Scriptures speak of how the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David in a faithful, covenant friendship, and how God desires His people to be bound together in love. We ask God to knit your hearts together again in love, respect, patience and understanding, and to frustrate every plan or scheme that seeks to bring division, isolation or chaos. No weapon formed against you shall prosper when you are trusting in Him. Put on the full armor God provides and stand in His strength, not in your own striving. Remember that God looks not as people look, who judge by outward appearance, but He looks on the heart, and He values your soul more than the whole world. His grace toward you does not come as a reward for your goodness, but flows from His own goodness and faithfulness for His name's sake. You can rest in that.

May the Lord make your home a place of light, laughter, and fellowship, where His Spirit dwells richly and where every word and action is guided by Him. We declare with you that this day and this year belong to the Lord, and we trust Him for healing, restoration, and breakthrough in every area. Keep seeking Him, keep praying, and keep entrusting your children to the One who loves them even more than you do. He is able to keep, to heal, and to restore.