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A Prayer for SIL, Day 100

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Lord God, here we go again. SIL is back into herself, reinterpreting whatever is said to her in ways that make sense to her but is not the truth, arguing with people, spending most of her time on herself. She is not responding to me when I try to initiate an important conversation. She is still self-defensive and keeps deflecting blame onto everyone but herself. After all these prayers, why is nothing changing for more than a day or two? Maybe I should just give up.

Fear not Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard… the prince of Persia withstood me 21 days but Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me… Daniel 10:12-13a

Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. Colossians 4:2

(watchful: awareness of spiritual realities and challenges that believers face, including the schemes of the enemy)

I will continue praying. I will trust that You have heard me and that Your answer is on its way. I will watch with thanksgiving for Your work in SIL to be revealed.

In Your Steadfast Name,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 99

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Father, pour out Your Spirit on SIL again as she sleeps. Give her dreams of You. She has not told me of any dreams that she’s had recently so I ask You to manifest Yourself so clearly in her dreams tonight, that You show her what she needs to see/know so powerfully that when she awakes all she can think and talk about is You – Your message, Your presence, and Your love.

If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name”, there is in my heart as if it were burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot. Jeremiah 20:9

For we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard. Acts 4:20

For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. Luke 6:45b

Lord, I pray that You fill SIL so full of Your Spirit that she cannot help but share what she is learning with those around her.

In Your Revealing Name,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 98

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Jesus, You are the Good Shepherd. A shepherd not only watches over his flock but also monitors the health of the sheep. If one is injured or sick, the shepherd does what he must to restore the sheep to good health. That’s what I pray tonight for SIL. I pray that You, as her Shepherd, do what You need to do in order to restore her to good health both physically and spiritually.

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul. 3 John 1:2

Jesus, I pray that all may go well with SIL and the she may be in good health physically as she is in good health spiritually. If there is any area that is not good or well, I pray that You take care of that. No, not if. There are definitely areas that need Your attention. Restore her, Lord, that she may be at peace with You, with herself, and with others. Real peace. Not the peace that comes from ignoring issues but the peace that comes with healing them.

In Your Good Name,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 97

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Lord, God, she did it again. And she had no idea why it hurt me. “It’s just a joke. I didn’t know it offended you,” she had retorted and then dismissed the whole thing. Jesus, how did You live here without being offended by people? You got angry and frustrated at times – but at people’s lack of faith and their hypocrisy – not for personal reasons. Teach me how to do it so I can be more what I need to be with SIL instead of self-protecting and being too busy dealing with offenses.

Hated stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. Proverbs 10:12

Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. Proverbs 17:9

Lord, I pray that I will learn to cover offenses, sharing them only with You and those You direct me to. And that that will be enough.

I will cleanse them from all the guilt of their sin against me, and I will forgive all the guilt of their sin and rebellion against me.  Jeremiah 33:8

Father God, just as You forgave the Israelites time and time again, I pray You forgive us yet again. I pray that You cleanse us from all the guilt of our sin against You – for that is who we ultimately sin against – and that You forgive all the guilt of our sin and rebellion against You. When we don’t care if we offend someone, or if we withdraw from those who offend us, we are not obeying Your command to love others as ourselves. We are choosing not to obey. That’s rebellion. Jesus, I can’t repent for SIL, but I can pray that You forgive her just like You prayed that the Father forgive those who crucified You.

In Your Merciful Name,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 96

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Father God, You created SIL. You know her completely. There’s not a place in herself that she can hide from You.

O LORD, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up, you discern my thoughts from afar. Psalm 139:1-2

If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, the darkness is as light to you. Psalm 139:11-12

Meet SIL in those places she is trying to hide. She seems to believe that if she doesn’t think about something, it doesn’t exist. Show her how her past and her present are related and show her the unresolved areas in her heart that her mind doesn’t want to think about. With You there, holding her hand and leading her, she will be healed and set free.

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

In You Light,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 95

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Lord, I want to give up, to accept things as they are, to dismiss any hope that things will get better. But those are my feelings talking. Your Spirit and my spirit both say to always hope. Your Spirit and my spirit both say to trust You. And so I will. Regardless of what SIL does or does not do. Regardless of what my flesh things should be happening right now. Regardless of what my mind understands or doesn’t understand. I will look to You. You have not given up hope.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Cor 13:7

You have not stopped loving SIL, neither have you stopped working in her. So I will continue praying.

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 2 Corinthians 12:9

For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. Your restoration is what we pray for. 2 Cor 13:9

Lord, I know that Paul wasn’t talking to You but to the Corinthians in 2 Corinthians  13:9, and that the power Paul spoke about in 2 Corinthians 12:9 was for testifying and teaching. But with Your permission, I would like to use as the basis of my prayer tonight.

Thank You, Lord, that Your grace is sufficient for me, and that Your power is made perfect in my weakness. I will be glad when I am weak in my faith and desire to pray for SIL like I feel tonight. I know that You are strong all the time and that SIL’s restoration is what we both want. Knowing my weakness, I know it will not be me when SIL is restored, but Your power resting on me. All the glory will be Yours!

In Your Powerful Name,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 94

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Jesus, hold SIL tonight as she sleeps. Rock her in Your arms and sing love songs over her.

The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exalt over you with loud singing. Zephaniah 3:17

Lord, God, make SIL aware that You are with her, that You are a mighty One who saves. Let her feel Your gladness as You rejoice over her. Quiet the war within her by Your love. And enable her spirit to hear You as You sing over her with loud singing.

In Your Loving Name,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 93

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Thank You, Father, for loving us and calling us to You. I saw the baby step SIL took today. She would not have taken it if it weren’t for You. I don’t know if she will take another baby step or if she will backslide like she’s done so many times, but for this moment, it’s enough.

For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Philippians 2:13

For it is You, Father, who works in SIL, both to give her the will to follow You and the ability to work for Your good pleasure, for Your plans, Your purposes, which may not always align with ours. Help me to align myself to You, to accept Your way as You work in SIL.

In Your Patient Hands,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 92

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Lord, I raise up SIL to You with all her warts and struggles and sinful behavior/attitudes. Forgive her, cleanse her, heal her as she starts to consider something/someone outside herself. As she emerges, protect her from the enemy. Take her hand and help her to stand and to take these first steps. Lord, she may not know what’s going on, but You do. And I pray that she cooperates with you.

Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie. Psalm 40:4

Jesus, bless SIL. May she make You her trust. Keep her from being deceived or controlled or enticed by pride or lies. Help her to remain steadfastly looking to You.

In Your Firm Hand,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 91

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Jesus, fill SIL with Your Spirit as she sleeps. I know the Holy Spirit dwells in her, but I’m praying for a fresh outpouring, a renewing of the zeal she once had.

Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 1 Cor 3:16

And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel… and they came and worked on the house of the LORD of hosts, their God… Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes?,,,The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the LORD of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the LORD of hosts. Haggai 1:14; 2:3; 2:9

Lord, just as You stirred the people to restore Your temple in the Old Testament, I pray You stir SIL’s heart to restore Your temple, herself, to hold even greater zeal than her former years. And may You give her peace.

In Your Inviting Name,

Amen