Jesus, pour your healing ointment on SIL’s eyes and pour the balm of Your Spirit into her heart. Show her as she sleeps her state with and in You. Show her how to get out from where she is. Pull her out of the pit she has allowed to form due to complacency and neglect. Open her eyes to the fact that she is even in a pit. Or that she is in a cage in which she is trying to make herself comfortable rather than to seek freedom.

Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies. He makes a pit, digging it out and falls into the hole that he has made. His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends. Psalm 7:14-16

Lord, at first glance this scripture doesn’t seem to be about SIL. It’s too violent. Too evil. But as I consider it, I’m seeing it differently. And so I pray…

Behold, SIL, a woman of lawlessness, who lives for herself and follows the rules she wants. She conceives self-centeredness and is pregnant with the world’s standards in some areas which gives birth to lies that she believes and that she tells herself. Her years of spiritual, emotional, physical, and cognitive neglect have dug out a pit for her into which she has fallen. All that she has scoffed at, ridiculed, dismissed, or ignored, all the gaslighting that she has done has returned to her, weighing down her head and mind. But instead of rejecting, repenting and crying out to you, she is blaming everyone else.

If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword, he has bent and readied his bow, he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts. Psalm 7:12

Lord, I pray Your weapons will be of mercy and salvation. May SIL cry out to You for deliverance.

In Your Merciful Name,

Amen.