We hear your urgent cry for your youngest daughter and we stand with you together before the throne of grace in Jesus' name, lifting her up for safety and deliverance right now.
We are deeply concerned for her as she is driving with no sleep to nursing school. We pray for the Lord to keep her and guard her on the road today and every day, and we also encourage godly wisdom and stewardship of the body God has given her. Sleep is a gift from God and driving without it puts her and others in danger. The Lord wants her to be safe and to care for herself as His temple. If she is exhausted we urge her to pull over to a safe place, to rest, to call for help, to let someone know where she is, and not to press on in her own strength. We pray God will make a way for her to get the rest she needs and to complete her calling to nursing without harm. For He gives sleep to His beloved as Psalm 127:2 reminds us, and we pray He will grant her deep, peaceful, restorative sleep. We claim Psalm 121:7-8 over her, that Yahweh will keep her from all evil and will keep her going out and her coming in, and Psalm 91:11 that He will give His angels charge over her to guard her in all her ways.
We also hear your burden about attachments from evil that she feels and does not know how to break, that seems to feed off her exhaustion and confusion. We want you to know that this is real spiritual warfare, but Jesus Christ has already won the victory. The enemy seeks to feed on fear, weariness, and isolation, for your adversary the devil walks around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour as 1 Peter 5:8 says. But we do not have to fear, for greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world as 1 John 4:4 declares, and God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control as 2 Timothy 1:7 says.
We rebuke every evil attachment and every work of darkness over your daughter in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. We declare that she belongs to the Lord and no weapon formed against her shall prosper. Scripture tells us to be subject therefore to God, but resist the devil, and he will flee from you in James 4:7, and to put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil in Ephesians 6:11. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds in 2 Corinthians 10:4. We speak the truth that the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one in 2 Thessalonians 3:3, and that He has given us authority to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy as Luke 10:19 says.
We rejoice that you called upon the name of Jesus, for there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved and by which we have access to the Father as Acts 4:12 and John 14:6 teach us. It is only through Jesus that these chains are broken, and we encourage your daughter to call upon Him herself, to confess with her mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in her heart that God raised Him from the dead as Romans 10:9 says. We encourage her to renounce any opening to darkness, to turn fully to Christ, to fill her mind and heart with Scripture and worship, and to walk in the light, for if we walk in the light as He is in the light we have fellowship and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin as 1 John 1:7 says.
We pray together now.
Father in heaven, we come before You in the precious and powerful name of Jesus Christ, Your Son, on behalf of this precious daughter. Lord, we ask You to place Your hand of protection over her 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, especially as she drives. Keep her eyes open, keep her alert, keep her vehicle safe, and bring her to her destination and home again without harm. Forgive us for the times we lean on our own strength and neglect the rest You provide, and grant her the ability to sleep deeply and be renewed. Break, Lord, every evil attachment, every oppression, every chain that has tried to cling to her. In Jesus' name we command every unclean influence to leave her and to go where You send it, never to return. Fill every place it tried to occupy with Your Holy Spirit, with Your peace, with Your light. Help her to know how to resist, to submit herself to You, to speak Your Word aloud, to put on Your armor, and to rest in Your love. Let her know that You are near, that You have not left her, that You love her and have called her for good. Give her wisdom for nursing school, strength for each day, and a community of believing friends and pastors who can pray with her face to face and support her. Guard her mind from confusion and feed her spirit with Your truth. We claim Isaiah 41:10 over her, that she should not fear for You are with her, and Philippians 4:7 that Your peace which surpasses all understanding will guard her heart and mind in Christ Jesus. We thank You that You hear us and that You are faithful to deliver. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
We encourage you to continue to cover her in prayer without ceasing, to teach her to pray aloud in Jesus' name when she feels that heaviness, to read Scripture daily especially the Psalms and Ephesians 6:10-18, to stay connected to a Bible believing church where she can receive prayer and counsel, and to seek help for healthy sleep habits and safe travel. We also encourage fasting and prayer as the Lord leads, and to speak truth over her that she is a child of God, bought with the blood of Jesus, and that no darkness can remain where Jesus is Lord. We are standing with you and trusting God for her complete safety, freedom, and restoration.
