Silas
Beloved of All
Thank you for sharing so openly and honestly. Your requests are heard with care, and there is much to bring before the Lord on your behalf.
We pray for your cat and for all of your pets. The Lord cares for His creation, and He sees the discomfort your cat endures with these seasonal allergies and the harm that comes from scratching. We ask God to bring healing and comfort, to ease that irritation and protect him from hurting himself, and to keep all of your pets safe, happy and healthy under your loving care. One day God will make all things new and restore creation itself, which has suffered because of sin. Even now we can ask Him for mercy and relief for these small creatures He has entrusted to you.
We also pray for your human loved ones, that those who do not yet know Jesus would come to salvation through Him alone, and that those who do know Him would grow into a deeper relationship with Him. Eternal life is not only about how long it lasts, but about its quality, the kind of life we see in Jesus Himself, full and glorious and distinct from any other way of living. That is what we want for everyone you love, to know Christ and to share in that new, abundant life.
Your honesty about the lingering thoughts from your time in the New Age is important. What you left behind was a counterfeit. There is a true new age coming, but it is not the one that counterfeit offers. It is the kingdom God Himself will bring when He creates new heavens and a new earth out of nothing, and when He makes all things new. In Christ you have already become part of that new work. If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, washed and cleansed from sin and being transformed by the renewing of the Holy Spirit. That renewing is a process, and God is still at work completing what He has begun in you.
Those divination thoughts that feel so loud, intrusive and ingrained, and the painful cycle of thoughts about your ex moving on or coming back, are a real attack. It is understandable that they create chaos and even false hope, especially when at times they seem to be accurate. God says His thoughts are not our thoughts and His ways are not our ways. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so His ways are higher than ours. He knows the end from the beginning, so when He leads, He knows it is right. Our own thoughts and impressions, especially those shaped by old patterns of divination, are not reliable guides. God invites the unrighteous to forsake their old thoughts and return to Him, and He will have mercy and abundantly pardon. Continue in the steps you mentioned of walking in true forgiveness and obedience to Christ. Bring every intrusive thought captive to Him in prayer, reject divination as a way of knowing, and ask Him to renew your mind and quiet what is so loud. He is able to transform you just as He is able to change a caterpillar into a butterfly and give it a body suited for a completely new environment. In the same way He will give us new bodies suited for His new creation, and even now He can give you a renewed mind suited for life in Him.
Regarding your ex, your decision to end the relationship because you are unequally yoked and he is not a Christian was obedient and right. Scripture is clear that marriage is a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, and that intimacy and life together belong within that covenant, and that a believer is not to be bound together with an unbeliever. We will not ask God to bless a reunion apart from salvation. Even if he misses you, you cannot be together unless he comes to genuine faith in Christ. We pray for him not for the sake of the relationship, but for his own soul, that God would open his eyes to the truth, draw him to repentance and faith in Jesus alone, and bear fruit from the witness you tried to give. We pray also for his loved ones, that they too would come to know Christ. We encourage you to release the hope that is fed by those painful thoughts about him returning. Place that hope fully in the Lord and trust His higher wisdom for your future, rather than holding on to a hope that keeps wounding you.
We also pray for your business and the financial pressure you feel this month. You have many needs and this work seems to be your only provision right now. God knows your needs and He invites all who thirst to come to Him. He does not exploit or overlook His children. We ask Him to provide for you, to grant wisdom in your work, to make your labor profitable as He sees fit, and to sustain you so that you do not lose what you need. Above all we ask that you would know His provision and peace as you trust Him day by day.
We thank the Lord for the hope He has given us of a new world and a new age where righteousness dwells, where Jesus reigns, and where the former things will not be remembered or come to mind. Until then, may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you, and may He keep you sound in faith, in love and in patience as He continues His transforming work in you.
We pray for your cat and for all of your pets. The Lord cares for His creation, and He sees the discomfort your cat endures with these seasonal allergies and the harm that comes from scratching. We ask God to bring healing and comfort, to ease that irritation and protect him from hurting himself, and to keep all of your pets safe, happy and healthy under your loving care. One day God will make all things new and restore creation itself, which has suffered because of sin. Even now we can ask Him for mercy and relief for these small creatures He has entrusted to you.
We also pray for your human loved ones, that those who do not yet know Jesus would come to salvation through Him alone, and that those who do know Him would grow into a deeper relationship with Him. Eternal life is not only about how long it lasts, but about its quality, the kind of life we see in Jesus Himself, full and glorious and distinct from any other way of living. That is what we want for everyone you love, to know Christ and to share in that new, abundant life.
Your honesty about the lingering thoughts from your time in the New Age is important. What you left behind was a counterfeit. There is a true new age coming, but it is not the one that counterfeit offers. It is the kingdom God Himself will bring when He creates new heavens and a new earth out of nothing, and when He makes all things new. In Christ you have already become part of that new work. If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, washed and cleansed from sin and being transformed by the renewing of the Holy Spirit. That renewing is a process, and God is still at work completing what He has begun in you.
Those divination thoughts that feel so loud, intrusive and ingrained, and the painful cycle of thoughts about your ex moving on or coming back, are a real attack. It is understandable that they create chaos and even false hope, especially when at times they seem to be accurate. God says His thoughts are not our thoughts and His ways are not our ways. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so His ways are higher than ours. He knows the end from the beginning, so when He leads, He knows it is right. Our own thoughts and impressions, especially those shaped by old patterns of divination, are not reliable guides. God invites the unrighteous to forsake their old thoughts and return to Him, and He will have mercy and abundantly pardon. Continue in the steps you mentioned of walking in true forgiveness and obedience to Christ. Bring every intrusive thought captive to Him in prayer, reject divination as a way of knowing, and ask Him to renew your mind and quiet what is so loud. He is able to transform you just as He is able to change a caterpillar into a butterfly and give it a body suited for a completely new environment. In the same way He will give us new bodies suited for His new creation, and even now He can give you a renewed mind suited for life in Him.
Regarding your ex, your decision to end the relationship because you are unequally yoked and he is not a Christian was obedient and right. Scripture is clear that marriage is a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, and that intimacy and life together belong within that covenant, and that a believer is not to be bound together with an unbeliever. We will not ask God to bless a reunion apart from salvation. Even if he misses you, you cannot be together unless he comes to genuine faith in Christ. We pray for him not for the sake of the relationship, but for his own soul, that God would open his eyes to the truth, draw him to repentance and faith in Jesus alone, and bear fruit from the witness you tried to give. We pray also for his loved ones, that they too would come to know Christ. We encourage you to release the hope that is fed by those painful thoughts about him returning. Place that hope fully in the Lord and trust His higher wisdom for your future, rather than holding on to a hope that keeps wounding you.
We also pray for your business and the financial pressure you feel this month. You have many needs and this work seems to be your only provision right now. God knows your needs and He invites all who thirst to come to Him. He does not exploit or overlook His children. We ask Him to provide for you, to grant wisdom in your work, to make your labor profitable as He sees fit, and to sustain you so that you do not lose what you need. Above all we ask that you would know His provision and peace as you trust Him day by day.
We thank the Lord for the hope He has given us of a new world and a new age where righteousness dwells, where Jesus reigns, and where the former things will not be remembered or come to mind. Until then, may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you, and may He keep you sound in faith, in love and in patience as He continues His transforming work in you.
