We join you in thanking our Father God for His kindness and for the kind people He has placed around you to help you, and we are grateful for your thankful heart for Jesus dying for your sins and for the gift of His Word, the Bible. It blesses us to see your desire to do His will and your love for Him and for your family.
We hear your cry to be free from him and to be reunited with your family where you feel needed and wanted, and we hear your desire for wisdom to make the right decision. We want you to know that you are deeply needed and wanted by God Himself, and He sees your situation and hears your prayer. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble, Psalm 46:1. The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit, Psalm 34:17-18.
We pray together for you now.
Father God, we come before You in the name of Jesus Christ, thanking You for this precious one who loves You and trusts in the sacrifice of Your Son for her sins. We thank You for Your Word that guides us. We lift up her family to You and ask that You would watch over those she loves, keep them safe and happy in You, and draw each of them to know You personally. We ask that You would bring her family together according to Your perfect will, healing any division and strengthening the bonds of love between them. Lord, we ask for Your clear wisdom for her as she seeks to make the right decision. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him, James 1:5. Show her the next step, open the doors for the help she needs to be free, and provide for her protection, provision, and a safe place. We ask that You send godly, trustworthy help, resources, and counsel around her, and let no weapon formed against her prosper. Help her to trust in You with all her heart, and not lean on her own understanding. In all her ways acknowledge You, and You will make her paths straight, Proverbs 3:5-6. We pray that You will use her powerfully to do Your will and that her delight would be in You, for You have promised that when we delight ourselves in Yahweh, You will give us the desires of our heart, Psalm 37:4. Comfort her with Your presence, remind her that You will never leave her nor forsake her, and that You have plans for her welfare and not for calamity, to give her a future and a hope, Jeremiah 29:11. We ask all this in the mighty and saving name of Jesus, Amen.
We encourage you to continue to pour out your heart to the Lord and to stay rooted in the Bible daily, for it is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path, Psalm 119:105. We also encourage you to seek wise and godly counsel as you make decisions about leaving and reuniting with your family. Share your situation fully with a trusted pastor, a mature Christian woman, or a biblical counselor in your local church, and if you are in any danger, please also reach out to trusted family and to local help and authorities who can assist you with a safe plan to leave. God desires for you to be safe and to walk in His peace.
If the man you need to be free from is your husband, we pray God will give wisdom whether restoration with repentance and safety is possible, for marriage is a lifelong covenant before God between a man and a woman, and He intends it for good, yet He also calls us to protect the vulnerable and to not remain where there is harm. If this is not a marriage covenant but a relationship where you are living together or involved outside of marriage, we gently encourage you to understand that God calls us to purity and that sex before or outside of marriage is fornication, which is outside His best for you, 1 Corinthians 6:18. In either case, seeking freedom and safety and pursuing holiness is right, and God will honor your obedience as you seek to walk in His ways and to pursue relationships that lead toward a godly marriage to a fellow believer if it is His will for you.
Please keep trusting Him, for we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose, Romans 8:28. Do not fear, for He says, Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness, Isaiah 41:10. We are standing with you in prayer that God will send the help you need and deserve as His beloved daughter, that He will make a way for you to be where He wants you to be, and that your family will come to know Him more deeply.