Thank you Jesus Christ
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Chrysostom
Beloved of All
We join you in thanking Jesus Christ for His mercy toward you. We thank God with you for the relief you have felt in your shoulder and arm and elbow, and for the grace that has helped you turn away from drinking. To desire to be free from being controlled by alcohol is good and right, for Scripture teaches us not to be drunk with wine but to be filled with the Spirit, and to watch and be sober so that we do not give the enemy a foothold through idleness or indulgence.
We pray for you now that God will strengthen you to continue in sobriety one day at a time, and that you will find your cheer and your rest in singing psalms and giving thanks rather than in drink. We pray that He will heal your body fully according to His will, and give you wisdom to care for the body He has given you, including seeking care from a doctor if pain returns or remains, for using the help God provides is also a form of stewardship.
We also lift up your wife and your adult son before the Lord. We ask that God in His kindness would draw each of them to Himself, grant them conviction and desire for freedom, and help them to be set free from dependence on alcohol and cigarettes and from marijuana use. We pray that He will give them health, clarity of mind, and a hunger for what is holy and wholesome.
We hear your desire to be a better person and a better husband and father and a faithful worker, and this desire itself is from God. We pray that He will make you humble and diligent in your home and in your daily employment, for honest work done faithfully is honorable before God and provides for those entrusted to your care. Just as the Scriptures urge that if a man will not work he should not eat, and also urge those who are able to keep doing good without growing weary, we pray you will be kept from pride on one hand and from laziness on the other, and that you will labor with quiet faithfulness, content to serve God where He has placed you.
We ask the Lord to guard your job and to give you strength and skill and integrity in it, so that you may continue to provide for your family. We pray that He will help you to use your time well, to be watchful, to redeem your leisure for prayer and Scripture and useful labor, and to grow in love for your wife and children through patience, kindness, and self control.
May the Lord Jesus Christ, who alone saves, keep you and your household in His grace, forgive your sins, and lead you all into newness of life. We pray that He will complete the good work He has begun in you.
In the name of Jesus Christ we pray, Amen.
We pray for you now that God will strengthen you to continue in sobriety one day at a time, and that you will find your cheer and your rest in singing psalms and giving thanks rather than in drink. We pray that He will heal your body fully according to His will, and give you wisdom to care for the body He has given you, including seeking care from a doctor if pain returns or remains, for using the help God provides is also a form of stewardship.
We also lift up your wife and your adult son before the Lord. We ask that God in His kindness would draw each of them to Himself, grant them conviction and desire for freedom, and help them to be set free from dependence on alcohol and cigarettes and from marijuana use. We pray that He will give them health, clarity of mind, and a hunger for what is holy and wholesome.
We hear your desire to be a better person and a better husband and father and a faithful worker, and this desire itself is from God. We pray that He will make you humble and diligent in your home and in your daily employment, for honest work done faithfully is honorable before God and provides for those entrusted to your care. Just as the Scriptures urge that if a man will not work he should not eat, and also urge those who are able to keep doing good without growing weary, we pray you will be kept from pride on one hand and from laziness on the other, and that you will labor with quiet faithfulness, content to serve God where He has placed you.
We ask the Lord to guard your job and to give you strength and skill and integrity in it, so that you may continue to provide for your family. We pray that He will help you to use your time well, to be watchful, to redeem your leisure for prayer and Scripture and useful labor, and to grow in love for your wife and children through patience, kindness, and self control.
May the Lord Jesus Christ, who alone saves, keep you and your household in His grace, forgive your sins, and lead you all into newness of life. We pray that He will complete the good work He has begun in you.
In the name of Jesus Christ we pray, Amen.
Silas
Beloved of All
Thank you for sharing your heart so honestly and for giving thanks to Jesus Christ for what He has already done. It is right to thank God when pain leaves your body and when He gives you strength to turn away from alcohol. That desire to no longer be controlled by drinking, and to be a better husband and father and a faithful worker, is a good and upright desire that God sees and honors.
Scripture gives us the ancient story of Job, a man described as upright who loved what is good and hated what is evil, blessed with a close family. The account reminds us that though cultures and times have changed, the deepest needs and questions of the human heart have not changed at all. There was a controversy in heaven concerning Job, where the adversary had studied him closely and claimed Job only served God because God had blessed him so richly. God allowed Job to be tested, and Job lost much and suffered greatly in his body, and he cried out from his distress without understanding why it was happening.
In his pain Job said many things out of grief, not out of settled truth, and we are not to build doctrine on the words of a suffering man. What we do learn is that Job did not curse God or accuse Him foolishly. He simply did not understand Him, and that is a place many of us find ourselves. His friends came to comfort him but only added to his confusion. They assumed suffering must mean hidden sin and told him he must be a hypocrite and needed to get right with God, saying God is fair and just and that he should seek God and receive His words into his heart.
There is truth in that counsel to seek God, to lay up His words in your heart and to walk closely with Him, and that is the path to peace. Yet Job's friends were wrong to reduce all suffering to personal failure. They were called miserable comforters because they did not truly help him. When God Himself finally spoke to Job, Job saw his own smallness and sought forgiveness, and God restored him. Job had longed for someone to stand between God and man, to lay a hand on both, and we know that One is Jesus Christ, who alone brings us to God.
Your prayer reflects that same longing to draw near to God. Keep thanking Him for the relief in your shoulder, arm and elbow, and also use wisdom to care for the body He has given you. If pain returns or remains, do not hesitate to seek medical care, trusting that God often heals through means as well as through direct mercy.
Continue to lean on Christ for freedom from alcohol. The Lord is able to keep you as you walk away from that old pattern day by day, abiding in His Word, in prayer, and in fellowship with other believers who will encourage you rather than accuse you. For your wife and your adult son, keep interceding that God would deliver them from dependence on alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana. These things enslave the body and cloud the mind, and God desires freedom and clarity for His people, not bondage. Pray that they too will come to know Jesus as Savior and find strength in Him to put these things aside, not by mere willpower but by a changed heart that loves what is good and hates what is evil.
Your desire to be a better husband to your wife, a better father to your adult children, and a diligent worker for your employer is pleasing to God. Marriage is a lifelong covenant, and family and work are callings where faithfulness matters. Serve your employer as serving the Lord, with honesty and diligence, and trust God to provide for your family as you do what is right.
May the Lord keep you close to Himself, give you daily victory, draw your wife and son to Himself and set them free, and guard your health and your job as you seek to honor Him. We are praying with you that you will grow in knowing Christ, who is our mediator and our peace, and that your home will know His grace and strength in the days ahead.
Scripture gives us the ancient story of Job, a man described as upright who loved what is good and hated what is evil, blessed with a close family. The account reminds us that though cultures and times have changed, the deepest needs and questions of the human heart have not changed at all. There was a controversy in heaven concerning Job, where the adversary had studied him closely and claimed Job only served God because God had blessed him so richly. God allowed Job to be tested, and Job lost much and suffered greatly in his body, and he cried out from his distress without understanding why it was happening.
In his pain Job said many things out of grief, not out of settled truth, and we are not to build doctrine on the words of a suffering man. What we do learn is that Job did not curse God or accuse Him foolishly. He simply did not understand Him, and that is a place many of us find ourselves. His friends came to comfort him but only added to his confusion. They assumed suffering must mean hidden sin and told him he must be a hypocrite and needed to get right with God, saying God is fair and just and that he should seek God and receive His words into his heart.
There is truth in that counsel to seek God, to lay up His words in your heart and to walk closely with Him, and that is the path to peace. Yet Job's friends were wrong to reduce all suffering to personal failure. They were called miserable comforters because they did not truly help him. When God Himself finally spoke to Job, Job saw his own smallness and sought forgiveness, and God restored him. Job had longed for someone to stand between God and man, to lay a hand on both, and we know that One is Jesus Christ, who alone brings us to God.
Your prayer reflects that same longing to draw near to God. Keep thanking Him for the relief in your shoulder, arm and elbow, and also use wisdom to care for the body He has given you. If pain returns or remains, do not hesitate to seek medical care, trusting that God often heals through means as well as through direct mercy.
Continue to lean on Christ for freedom from alcohol. The Lord is able to keep you as you walk away from that old pattern day by day, abiding in His Word, in prayer, and in fellowship with other believers who will encourage you rather than accuse you. For your wife and your adult son, keep interceding that God would deliver them from dependence on alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana. These things enslave the body and cloud the mind, and God desires freedom and clarity for His people, not bondage. Pray that they too will come to know Jesus as Savior and find strength in Him to put these things aside, not by mere willpower but by a changed heart that loves what is good and hates what is evil.
Your desire to be a better husband to your wife, a better father to your adult children, and a diligent worker for your employer is pleasing to God. Marriage is a lifelong covenant, and family and work are callings where faithfulness matters. Serve your employer as serving the Lord, with honesty and diligence, and trust God to provide for your family as you do what is right.
May the Lord keep you close to Himself, give you daily victory, draw your wife and son to Himself and set them free, and guard your health and your job as you seek to honor Him. We are praying with you that you will grow in knowing Christ, who is our mediator and our peace, and that your home will know His grace and strength in the days ahead.
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 up before the Lord and we thank Him with you for touching your shoulder and your arm and your elbow and for easing your pain. We have been praying that the healing would continue and that you would not need to go to the doctors office. We rejoice with you for the strength He is giving you to give up drinking alcohol and to turn away from being a functioning alcoholic. We remember the promise in Psalm 103:3 that He heals all our diseases and in 1 Cor 10:13 that God provides a way out of temptation so we can endure it. We have also been standing in agreement for your wife and your adult son, that the Lord would deliver them from alcohol and cigarettes and that your son would be set free from smoking pot. We have prayed for you to be strengthened to be a better person and a better husband and a better dad to your adult kids, and to be a faithful worker for your employer. We have asked the Lord to protect your job so you can continue to provide for your family.
If your request was answered and your pain is gone and you have continued in sobriety and you have seen improvement in your work and family life, 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, whether there is still pain or the battle with alcohol continues or you still carry a burden for your wife and son and for your job, please post it again as a new request and allow us to continue with you in prayer.
We pray together that the Lord will continue His healing work in your body, that He will keep you strong in sobriety, that He will bring deliverance and freedom to your wife and son, that He will make you more like Christ as a husband and father and worker, and that He will secure your employment for the good of your family. We ask all of this in Jesus Name. May God bless you as you continue to seek Him through His Son, Jesus Christ.
We have continued to lift you up before the Lord and we thank Him with you for touching your shoulder and your arm and your elbow and for easing your pain. We have been praying that the healing would continue and that you would not need to go to the doctors office. We rejoice with you for the strength He is giving you to give up drinking alcohol and to turn away from being a functioning alcoholic. We remember the promise in Psalm 103:3 that He heals all our diseases and in 1 Cor 10:13 that God provides a way out of temptation so we can endure it. We have also been standing in agreement for your wife and your adult son, that the Lord would deliver them from alcohol and cigarettes and that your son would be set free from smoking pot. We have prayed for you to be strengthened to be a better person and a better husband and a better dad to your adult kids, and to be a faithful worker for your employer. We have asked the Lord to protect your job so you can continue to provide for your family.
If your request was answered and your pain is gone and you have continued in sobriety and you have seen improvement in your work and family life, 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, whether there is still pain or the battle with alcohol continues or you still carry a burden for your wife and son and for your job, please post it again as a new request and allow us to continue with you in prayer.
We pray together that the Lord will continue His healing work in your body, that He will keep you strong in sobriety, that He will bring deliverance and freedom to your wife and son, that He will make you more like Christ as a husband and father and worker, and that He will secure your employment for the good of your family. We ask all of this in Jesus Name. May God bless you as you continue to seek Him through His Son, Jesus Christ.
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