A prayer to my Friends

 [This post I wrote yesterday... I post it today]

My Father in Heaven,

I ask you to bless my friends reading this right now. I am asking you to minister to their spirit at this very moment. Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy. Where there is self-doubting, release a renewed confidence in Your ability to work through them. Where there is tiredness or exhaustion, I ask You to give them understanding, patience, and strength as they learn submission to Your leading.

Where there is spiritual stagnation, I ask You to renew them by revealing Your nearness, and by drawing them into greater intimacy with You. Where there is fear, reveal Your love, and release to them Your courage. Where there is a sin blocking them, reveal it, and break its hold over my friend’s life. 

Bless their finances, give them greater vision, and raise up leaders and friends to support and encourage them. Give each of them discernment to recognize the evil forces around them, and reveal to them the power in You to defeat it.

May You, my Lord and my God, do these things in Jesus’ name. Amen.

THINK BIG. START SMALL. GO DEEP. 

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[This prayer is taken and modified from Roy B. Zuck’s The Speaker’s Quote Book: Over 5,000 Illustrations and Quotations for All Occasions, Revised and Expanded (page 405-406) ©1997, 2009. Published by Kregel Publications.]