I received another call yesterday from the same young lady who called me last week, prompting me to write Getting Serious About Spiritual Warfare. Just as before, she revealed almost nothing about her own situation, but I’m able to discern through my spirit that she is a very troubled young woman who I suspect suffers beyond what most of us could even imagine. Yet, the only thing her words reflect is the love, faith and trust she has in the Lord. The Lord has put a great burden on my heart for her, and one of the things she asked me for yesterday was for prayers for the women standing for marriage restoration. So, G, as I suggested, I’ve rewritten my prayer for all visitors to the site, and I am going to write some new prayers as we discussed. That’s something the Lord has been prompting me to do anyway, so your request was a reminder that I need to be obedient and do so. And thank you so much for your encouraging words of appreciation. Knowing the Lord uses me to help someone else, blesses me beyond belief, because that means HIS purpose for my life is being fulfilled through this ministry.

First, before sharing the rewritten prayer, I’d like to offer a prayer for you, G, which I hope brings you comfort and peace as I feel the Lord has led me.

Dear Lord, You know how this young woman touches my heart, so I pray for your comfort, love, protection and blessings to flow through her and in her life and heart today, and every day, with supernatural power. Lord, I know you love her with abundant love and joy, so please, Dearest Father, meet her in her place of need, especially since her love and devotion to You are so apparent. You know the burden of her heart; the concerns leading her to so fervently seek your face; and the deliverance she needs at this time of trouble. So I thank You for hearing her cry and call to You, and that just as your word promises in Jeremiah 33:3, You will show her great and mighty things she does not know. And as your word tells us in Ephesians 3:19-20, may she know your love that surpasses knowledge—that she may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of You, her God. And we give all glory to You, who are able to do immeasurably more than all she asks or imagines, according to your power that is at work within her. I thank You now for giving her everlasting joy and peace that passes all understanding. I thank You for deliverance and protection, as I pray a shield of protection around her and her two precious babies. In your precious name, Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Here’s the rewritten prayer, which I will post in the prayer section of our site. And I will devote the time needed to writing additional prayers, as I know they mean so much to the women visiting the site.

Dear Lord, You know my heart is broken, that I have a troubled spirit, and a longing for your comfort and the answers I seek during this time of despair. So I thank You for your word assuring me that from the very beginning You created my marriage as a one flesh covenant relationship, saying that what You joined together, no man or woman should separate, and that You hate divorce. And thank You for your promise to heal my broken heart, and bind up my wounds, that You will comfort me as I mourn, and that You will bestow on me a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. Thank You, Lord, that instead of shame or disgrace, I will rejoice in my inheritance, that I will inherit a double portion in my life, and that everlasting joy will be mine, as You restore my marriage, which I know Satan came to destroy. I thank You that in accordance with your word, I can approach your throne of grace with confidence, and receive mercy and grace to help me in my time of need.

Thank You for your promise that all things are possible with You Lord Jesus, and that You, and You alone, will give me peace that transcends all understanding. Thank You for the assurance that no wisdom, no insight and no plan can succeed against You. And thank You for having ________’s heart in your hand, and for directing his heart like a watercourse wherever You please. Thank You for assuring me that he can not plan or understand his own way, because You are the one who determines and directs his steps.

Please teach me how to express my faith in love, because your word tells us that unfailing love is what every man desires. And I ask You, Lord, to work in me to will and act according to your good purpose, to make me the wife You want me to be. I believe You and I am your disciple. I want to understand and live according to your teachings, because then I will know the truth and the truth will set me free. Thank You for your word, because it is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path. You are my refuge and my shield, so I put my hope in your word.

Since faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen, please show me how to live by faith and not shrink back so You will be pleased with me, because I know it’s impossible to please You without faith. And thank You for Your promise that whatever I ask for in prayer, and believe, I will receive. Please teach me to walk by faith and not by sight, because Jesus said that according to my faith it would be done to me. So, Lord, I ask You to please give me the faith and patience necessary to inherit what You have promised.

Father, always remind me that I’m not to live by the standards of this world. And even though I live in the world, I can’t wage war as the world does. The weapons You give me to fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. They are mighty weapons that demolish the arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of You, my God, and the covenant of my marriage, so please help me take captive every thought and make it obedient to You, Christ Jesus. I will not be afraid, for You are with me. I will not be dismayed, for You are my God. Thank You for strengthening me. Thank You for helping me. Thank You for upholding me and the covenant of my marriage with your righteous right hand. Thank You for making anyone who is incensed against me and the sanctity of my marriage as nothing; that they will be ashamed and disgraced. Thank You that anyone who contends with me or wars with me and comes to destroy or put asunder my marriage, is as nothing, as a nonexistent thing, for You, the Lord my God, hold my right hand, telling me to “Fear not, I will help you.”

Teach me to ALWAYS rest in the confidence I have in You, because your word tells me that it will be richly rewarded. Help me persevere so that when I have done your will, God, I will receive what You have promised. And help me keep your commandments and do the things that are pleasing in Your sight, so I’ll receive whatever I ask from You, including the restoration or reconciliation of my marriage.

I boldly ask for faith enabling me to speak to mountains and make them move, and the confidence and assurance that nothing is impossible for me. Thank You, Lord, that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, and That with You, nothing is impossible, including living my life full of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control, even during this time of trouble. Thank You that Your Spirit intercedes for me, your saint, in accordance with your will, and that You are working all things together for my good, because I love You, and am called according to your purpose. I thank You and praise You, Lord, that your thoughts and plans for me and my family are thoughts and plans for our welfare and peace and not for evil, that give me hope in our final outcome. And I thank You, Lord, that when I am still, I know that You are God and that You will be exalted in all the earth, and in heaven, and in the restoration of my marriage.
All this I ask and believe in the most precious, Holy name of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.

Click here to read the Bible Verses used for the above prayer.

And here’s “A Prayer For Every Day”:

Dear Lord, You know better than anyone else that this is a difficult day for me, and for many others who are experiencing challenging times in their marriages, so I pray that I will feel Your love in a very special way. May I be rooted in your love today, Lord, May I experience and feel the wonder and power of your amazing grace and love. May this not be a day of sadness, but a day of rejoicing, because I KNOW You LOVE me, and YOU have ALL things that concern me and my family in the control of Your Almighty, loving hand.

Lord, I pray that on this day which might otherwise tend to be discouraging, that You will bring some special incident of hope and encouragement to me and every other woman or man standing for the restoration of their marriage. I know You care about me in every detail of my life, and I’ve often experienced that down to even the smallest of details, so bless me and my family with Your presence and encouragement today. Fill me with an extra measure of faith this day, Lord. Help me to keep my eyes on you and not on my circumstances. Help me enjoy the many things You bless me with every day of my life instead of dwelling on that one thing I don’t have or enjoy today. Show me how to express Your love by loving others, especially those who are not acting in love with me. Teach me to be more focused on the love I demonstrate and give to others today rather than concerning myself with how others may or may not love me. Show me how to walk in your love this day that You might be glorified.

And Lord, please touch ________’s heart, who is not walking in right relationship with You today. It is the greatest desire of my heart that ________ will come to know You as his Lord and Savior, so I thank You for sending the power of Your Holy spirit to move in his life today in a most powerful and supernatural way and for bringing him to the saving knowledge of You, Lord Jesus. You came to set the captives free, but my husband now lives in bondage, so I come against all manner of sin, bondage, strongholds, deception, adultery, disobedience and disbelief in the name of Jesus Christ, from which I know Satan must flee. I cover my husband, ________, with the blood of the Lamb today and it is the word of my testimony that he WILL be saved and delivered, and that he WILL walk in right relationship with You, Lord. Please give me the strength, wisdom and grace to live in such a way that he will se You in me, Lord. I thank You that all of my interaction with him will glorify You and ask You to always remind me that every encounter I have with him will either lead him toward You or away from you.

Be Thou glorified in this day that You have made Lord, Let me rejoice and be glad in it! And let Your love shine in and through me today! Amen.

Posted Thursday, June 29th, 2006 at 12:00 pm in Seeds Of Faith.