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A Prayer for SIL, Day 119

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Lord, SIL used to be so smart, considering all options before making a decision. Now she seems to be guided by impulse, a lack of impulse control – and that ends up with decisions/actions that cost those around her. When I ask about them or point them out, she’s defensive. If she won’t discuss them with someone before she acts, then I ask that you guide her thinking and that you protect her loved ones from her actions.

The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps. Proverbs 14:15

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice. Proverbs 12:15

An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge. Proverbs 18:15

Lord , I pray that SIL moves away from believing everything she hears and towards giving more thought to her steps. She defends herself, thinks she knows better than everyone around her. I pray that You show her the wisdom in listening to those who would be most affected by her decisions. Lord, she once sought knowledge, and I pray that, with Your help, she will once again seek it.

In Your Wise Name,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 118

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Thank You, Lord, for the work You are doing in SIL. I get glimpses of it from time to time so I know You are working on the inside of her, and I trust eventually the changes will be increasingly seen on the outside. In the meantime, open her eyes to see how her words and behavior are affecting those around her.

His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity. Psalm 10:7

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. Proverbs 18:21

Jesus, SIL’s mouth may not be full of curses most of the time, but she does use it to attempt to deceive and to force others to agree with her so she can have things her way no matter how it affects them. I pray that she uses her mouth, her words, to bring life and joy to others so that it does not result in the death of relationships – and that the fruit will be sweet interactions – not bitter regret.

In Your Wonder Working Name,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 117

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Lord Jesus, You healed so many people who came looking for it. You freed many people who asked for Your mercy and power to intervene in their lives. I pray tonight that SIL comes looking for healing so that You may heal her. And that she asks for Your mercy and power to break through strongholds. She doesn’t need to know all the details; she just needs to acknowledge her need for you.

But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word. Isaiah 66:2b

You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. James 4:2b-3

Do you suppose it is to no purpose that the scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit he has made to dwell in us? But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” James 4:5-6

Jesus I ask that You bring SIL to the place where she can see herself in this. I pray that she humbles herself, puts down her desires to serve herself and to do things her way, and seeks to serve You in Your ways. I pray that she asks for Your healing and grace to be healed and set free in order to walk as the woman of God You made her to be – a woman after Your own heart.

In Your Merciful Name,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 116

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Lord, heal SIL’s body as You work in her heart. I don’t know what those sounds she’s making are, but they are not normal. If she’s in pain, soothe her with Your healing touch. If it’s just a self-soothing habit, reveal that to her and help her to get to the place where she doesn’t need them anymore. Hold her gently in Your arms Whisper words of love, encouragement, and correction – and open her ears to hear them. Lord, she still believes she can’t hear You. Can You speak louder until she recognizes Your voice?

He goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. John 10:4b

You said Your sheep know Your voice. So I believe SIL does know Your voice – she just doesn’t know that she knows it. Speak to her clearly and often until she can’t help but hear it and recognize that it is Your voice. May she get excited when she makes this connection.

In Your Soothing Name,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 115

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Thank You, Lord, for these instances where I can see SIL step up and take responsibility. They may not last but they seem to be happening more frequently which I attribute to the work You are doing in her, and in her cooperation with the Spirit.

Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. Psalm 143:8

Father, open SIL’s ears so that she can hear in the morning of Your steadfast love for her. May she lift up her soul to You every day and as she puts her trust in You more and more, make her know the way she should go.

In Your Loving Name,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 114

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Lord, what a complex mixture of problems SIL has, as do we all. I pray that You clarify them, and that she responds to the ones you choose to work on first.

In the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with His blood: may grace and peace be multiplied to you. 1 Peter 1:2b

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. Galatians 5:16

Jesus, I pray that as the Spirit sanctifies SIL, that she walks in obedience to you. Sprinkle her with Your blood as often as she needs it. Increase the grace You give to her so that she will be able to walk by the Spirit – focusing on the spiritual and not on her flesh. As she submits to you, multiply the peace she feels. Let it be a rewarding and motivating factor to keep walking with You.

In Your Sanctifying Name,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 113

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Lord, take SIL’s hands. Help her to rise, then to stand, and then to walk.

But taking her by the hand, he called, saying, “Child, arise.” Luke 8:54

My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me. Psalm 63:8

Even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. Psalm 139:10

I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. Psalm 116:9

Jesus, just like how You took that little girl’s hand, take SIL’s hand. In some ways she is as “dead” as the girl and needs You to speak life into her. Tell SIL to arise and call her soul to cling to You as Your right hand upholds her. Continue to hold her wherever You lead her. I pray that, with Your help, she will set her mind and heart in walking before You in the land of the living – alert, passionate, and obedient to Your Word. I pray that she chooses daily to follow Your ways as You guide her to the place You want her.

In Your Upholding Name,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 112

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Lord, I don’t get SIL. She says she wants things to get better, yet won’t take even the baby steps to get there. There has to be something blocking her, holding her back, keeping her blind to the truth. Jesus, please break through all that.

Then shall your light break forth, like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. Isaiah 58:8

Father, the surrounding verses talk about true fasting. I pray that You lead SIL to do that so this verse becomes a description of her. As SIL begins to serve others as You direct in the other verses, may Your light break forth like the dawn, and Your healing spring up speedily in her body, mind, and spirit. May her righteousness (though not hers but Christ’s) go before her, and Your glory be her rear guard. Let her know that You have her back as she walks forward into new areas. Protect her from enemy attacks and keep her from turning around.

In Your Faithful Name,

Amen

“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail. And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to dwell in. “If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly, then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” Isaiah 58:6-14

A Prayer for SIL, Day 111

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Father God, You are a good Father. Jesus, You are the good Shepherd. In both roles, You take care of Your own. You feed them, comfort them, guide them, and love them. But You also discipline them and provide medical care when needed. Sometimes the discipline and medical care is unpleasant but the healing makes it worthwhile.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Hebrews 12:11

God as You work in SIL, as You love her and communicate with her, I pray that You also discipline her. And I pray that just as she readily receives Your love and provision, she will also receive Your discipline. May she be aware of and receive the goal of that discipline – the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

In Your Caring Name,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 110

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Jesus, Lord of all creation, You made everything.

For by him all things were created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities – all things were created through him and for him. Colossians 1:16

Everything was made through and for You. That includes SIL. The parts that we see as well as the parts that are invisible. The parts that bow down and submit to You and the parts that have become a dominion where she maintains control. All is made for You so I pray that all of SIL will glorify You, that You do as You want in her – heal her, lead her, teach her, inspire her, bring her to Yourself and shine Your light through her to the world around her. And to the world within her.

In Your Masterful Name,

Amen