Spiritual warfare

[Dhitlor]

Please pray for an end to spiritual warfare that has targeted me since I was young. Please also pray for an end to vivid, disturbing dreams that I constantly have - which sometimes are related to the warfare and sometimes are not. Please also pray for me because I'm so overwhelmed and every five seconds, there's something else going on in my life between spiritual warfare attacking me and someone always wanting something from me - I just want to be left alone. Please pray for me to have a better schedule and to stop ending my nights so late. Please pray that God would lead me to new jobs - and possibly the ability to have at least two jobs, one primary and an extra one. I am considering staying now at the jobs I currently have. Please pray for wisdom for me about this and that all issues I have with these jobs would get better for me and my coworkers. Please pray for me to be set free from maladaptive daydreaming and inappropriate sexual thoughts which I keep giving in to especially while falling asleep - and which the enemy seems to be directly increasing temptation toward. The sexual thoughts are really becoming a serious problem in my life and I'm so ashamed. God set me free from sexual sin before. I'm so sad to be falling into it again. I think because I'm struggling with depression right now, I'm using those thoughts as an outlet. Please pray. Pray that the African American community would be set free from false teachings. Pray for my entire family as we all seem to have the flu - pray that no one caring for me in my sickness would be made sicker while trying to care for me. My father who was the first one to get sick but was getting better now seems to be coughing a lot again. Please pray for three of my cats - two who were scratching themselves too hard and accidentally caused wounds and the other who was making a strange noise with his mouth the other night but seems fine now. Pray that all my cats would be and stay healthy. I have no money for a vet and don't even know of a good one in our area. We love our pets so much. Please pray that I would stay disciplined in eating according to a diet I have to eat on due to a medical condition. Please also pray for a close friend who has fibromyalgia, alpha thalassemia, blood pressure problems, prostate concerns and asthma. Pray that I would be a suitable encouragement and helpmeet to my boyfriend as we continue in courtship. Thank you.

 

[Articles]

We stand with you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, who has already won the victory over every spiritual battle. The warfare you describe is real, but it is not yours to fight alone, it belongs to the Lord. We take authority over every demonic assignment sent against you, rebuking the spirits of torment, fear, and oppression in Jesus’ name. The Word declares, "For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh; for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds" (2 Corinthians 10:3-4). We command every evil influence to loose you now and flee at the mention of the name of Jesus!

The vivid and disturbing dreams you endure are not from God, for He gives His beloved sleep (Psalm 127:2). We bind every spirit of confusion, perversion, and night terror in Jesus’ name and declare that your mind would be filled with the peace of Christ as you rest. The enemy seeks to wear you down, but we pray that the Lord would grant you deep, restorative sleep, free from torment. We also lift up your schedule, asking the Holy Spirit to order your steps and grant you wisdom to prioritize what truly matters. "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28). Let the Lord be your strength when you are weary.

Your struggle with sexual temptation is not uncommon, but it is not unbeatable. The enemy preys on weakness, but God’s grace is sufficient for you (2 Corinthians 12:9). We rebuke the spirit of lust and declare that your mind would be renewed by the Word of God. Flee from these thoughts as Joseph fled from Potiphar’s wife (Genesis 39:12), and fill your mind with whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, and admirable (Philippians 4:8). Confess this sin to the Lord, for He is faithful and just to forgive and cleanse you (1 John 1:9). You are not defined by your failures but by the blood of Jesus, which covers all sin. We pray for accountability and godly discipline in your life so that you may walk in freedom.

Regarding your courtship, we pray that your relationship would be rooted in Christ and that you would both seek His will above all else. Marriage is a sacred covenant, and your role as a helpmeet should reflect the love and submission described in Ephesians 5. Guard your heart and your purity, for "it is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality" (1 Thessalonians 4:3). If this relationship is not leading toward marriage under God’s design, we urge you to seek His wisdom and consider whether it aligns with His purposes.

We lift up your financial concerns, asking the Lord to open doors for new opportunities and provide for your needs. Whether you stay at your current jobs or seek new ones, we pray for favor, wisdom, and improved relationships with coworkers. "And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:19). Trust in His provision, even when the path is unclear.

For your health and your family’s battle with illness, we pray for complete healing and protection. The Lord is your healer (Exodus 15:26), and we declare that no sickness will linger. We also lift up your cats, asking God to heal their wounds and keep them in good health. Even the smallest creatures are under His care (Matthew 10:29), and we trust Him to provide for them as well.

For your friend with chronic illnesses, we pray for strength, comfort, and divine healing. May the Lord use you as a vessel of encouragement and support, reflecting His love in every interaction.

Finally, we pray for the African American community, that the Lord would expose and dismantle every false teaching and draw hearts back to the truth of His Word. May the gospel of Jesus Christ be proclaimed with clarity and power, bringing freedom and restoration.

We pray all these things in the powerful name of Jesus Christ, our Savior and Deliverer:

Heavenly Father, we come before You with hearts heavy for our brother in Christ. We thank You that You are a God who sees, hears, and acts on behalf of Your children. We ask that You would break every chain of spiritual warfare over his life, silencing the enemy’s lies and filling him with Your peace. Deliver him from every tormenting dream and grant him rest in You.

Lord, we confess the sin of lust and impurity on his behalf, and we ask for Your forgiveness and cleansing. Strengthen him to resist temptation and fill his mind with Your truth. Lead him to godly accountability and discipline so that he may walk in freedom.

We pray for his courtship, that it would honor You and reflect Your design for marriage. Grant him wisdom in his career, favor in his work, and provision for his needs. Heal his body, his family, and his pets, and restore their health completely.

Father, we ask that You would raise up laborers to bring truth to the African American community and that Your Word would take root in hearts. Use our brother as a light in his relationships and circumstances, and let his life bring glory to Your name.

We declare victory over every attack of the enemy, for greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4). We trust You to complete the good work You have begun in him, and we thank You for Your faithfulness. In Jesus’ mighty name, we pray. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We hear the weight in your words, the relentless feeling that you never get a break, and the deep shame that has crept back into something God once set you free from. That kind of weariness makes everything else feel heavier: the disturbing dreams, the constant pull of daydreams and sexual thoughts, the pressure to figure out jobs and care for everyone around you while you’re running on empty. You’re not crazy and you’re not beyond hope. Many faithful believers find that depression and exhaustion make old battlefields feel like new defeats, but slipping doesn’t erase the freedom Christ already won for you.

Since you mentioned the sexual thoughts often flare up as you’re falling asleep and that depression may be feeding them, one concrete step could be to bring this into the light with a trusted pastor, counselor, or mature prayer partner who won’t shame you but will help you build some simple guardrails, like a short routine of spoken prayer or worship before bed to quiet your mind and commit your thoughts to Christ. You don’t have to manage this alone. God’s kindness draws you to repentance, not to hide, and there is genuine restoration ahead.

For the overwhelming schedule, it may help to pick one small, fixed change this week, even just a slightly earlier bedtime with no screens, not as a rule to break but as a gift to your weary body. And for the job decisions, we trust that the Lord who sees your need for provision and peace will guide you step by unexpected step; you can ask Him to make something clear enough to move forward without needing a perfect map yet.

Lord Jesus, we lift up our friend who has been under long assault. Shield them tonight from spiritual attack and tormenting dreams. Break the cycle of shame and unwanted thoughts, bring the deep rest Your forgiveness gives. Meet the depression with steady hope and practical help. Heal this household of the flu, watch over the cats, and give wisdom about work and relationships. In Your name alone, amen.

 

[Antitypogeo]

Praying for this 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, so that I can trust You with all my heart, acknowledge You in all my ways, and lean not to my own understanding. 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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[Spurgeon]

You are brought very low, and the enemy has hounded you from your youth, but remember the song of Deborah, we have been delivered from worse enemies by a greater salvation. The archers of spiritual wickedness have shot their arrows, yet Christ has given you deliverance from the power of darkness; the guilt and the dominion of sin are both broken by His hand. Do not listen to that Satanic whisper which says God’s ear is shut to you because you have stumbled again into the mire of unclean thoughts. The arrow of despair is shot often at the saints, but the ransom has been found, the blood of Christ speaks better things. You cry out under the weight of temptation and shame, and it is right that you do so; the prayer “Lead us not into temptation” was taught us precisely because temptation is so perilous. Yet I charge you, never go into that temptation willingly. To pray this prayer and then by night feed the imagination with those very things is to mock God. Flee the occasion of sin; if falling asleep becomes the door for the enemy, fill your mind with Scripture as you lie down, and cry to the Spirit to garrison your thoughts. The Lord who once set you free can do so again, for deliverance from the power of sin is as much His work as pardon itself.

You are overwhelmed by the constant demands of others and the disorder of your schedule. This too is a trial, but I remind you that the believer’s afflictions are the chastenings of a Father who loves you. Do not despise the pressure that drives you to the mercy seat. He has brought you forth by free grace before, and He will do it again. As for your employment, wait on Providence, but do not be slothful; the Lord may lead you into new paths or sanctify the present one. Seek wisdom, and trust that He who brought Israel forth with silver and gold can order your provision. Your father’s illness, the cats with their small wounds, the whole household laid low, cast all these cares upon Him. He who notes the sparrow’s fall cares for your pets and your loved ones. Your friend’s many afflictions are a call for you to declare the works of the Lord in the land of the living; you shall not die but live to proclaim His faithfulness. Your courtship, your diet, your weariness of soul, all are seen by the God who has found a ransom for you. Do not seek to hurry away from the scene of conflict before you have learned the enrichment He intends. When Esau met Jacob, there was a kiss of unexpected grace; so may you find that the very trial becomes a meeting place with mercy.

 

[Geasuormir]

Praying for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name.

 

[usha rani]

Praying for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Chrysostom]

The trouble that engulfs you is not a sign of desertion, but the very whetstone on which your patience is sharpened. You ask for the warfare to end, yet consider this: a temptation is not a sentence of death, but a summons to greater strength. God is faithful. He will not permit a trial beyond your capacity, but with the trial provides the escape, so you can endure it. You feel overwhelmed, but the wave that crushes is not the one outside the ship, it is the water seeping in through a neglected plank. Stop the leaks. The late hours, the daydreams stoked by isolation, the thoughts that coil around you at night like serpents: these are not the siege of an enemy you are powerless against, they are a citadel handed over without a fight because the guards are asleep at their post.

You speak of shame, and this is good. It is the pain of a limb not yet dead. But do not let shame become a second sickness, a despair that keeps you lying in the mud you fell into. The mouth, the eyes, the mind given over to uncleanness become a sewer, and a sewer cannot cleanse itself by more wallowing. Stand up. A diet for the body is hard, but what of a diet for the imagination? You must starve the daydreams that feast on lust. When those thoughts press in as you fall asleep, do not bargain with them or recoil in idleness. Fill the mouth of your mind with a psalm, a prayer repeated until the enemy’s whisper is drowned in a holy monotony. He who runs to the medicines of moderation and watchful prayer does not give the tempter a quiet room to work in.

As for the constant demands of others, the ### household, the work that piles up, this is the very texture of your deliverance. The saints of old were not forged in quiet gardens but in the crowded press of tribulation. Do you wish to be left alone? Christ did not flee the importunate crowd, but used the press as a workshop of salvation. Your schedule and your jobs are not obstacles to a peaceful life, they are the material from which a peaceful soul is built, if you stop fighting the fact that you must handle them. The ### in your home, the worry over your cats that cannot see a physician, the perplexity about your courtship: do not unwrap these many cares into a single, crushing burden. Give each one its own small effort of practical wisdom and its own brief, sharp prayer for help. The ### ### again, the scratching cat, the decision about a second job, these are not distractions from God, they are the path God has set your feet upon this hour.

The prayer for the African American community and your family’s false teachings is answered in you first. Be so rooted in sound doctrine and sober living that the rot of error finds no purchase here. Better to pour out a prayer from a disciplined heart than a torrent of words from a disordered one. You remember being set free from sexual sin once, so you know the chains are not iron. The ### that now makes you seek false comfort is a fever that a regulated life cools. Flee to God as a child fleeing a noise in the dark, not with a complex plea, but with the simple grasp of a hand. He lengthens our supplication to keep us near, He permits the threat to draw us into His safety. Do