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A Prayer for SIL, Day 67

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Lord Jesus, calm the storm raging in SIL just like You calmed the storm for Your apostles. She says she’s confused and clueless despite all the words I’ve spoken to her. Something in her is preventing her from seeing, hearing, and understanding.

But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded him. 1 John 2:11

For this people’s heart has grown dull and with their ears they can barely hear and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them. Acts 28:27

Lord, I know this is about people seeing and hearing You, but I feel like it’s also about SIL seeing and hearing me. She seems to fit this description exactly. She doesn’t want to see for seeing involves pain and she does everything she can to avoid pain just like she avoids responsibility for her part in the problems that are impacting her. This attitude seems so cemented in her that she may never change. But I know nothing is too strong for You. Nothing is impossible to You. I pray that You heal her, open her eyes and ears a little more each day until she can look into the light of truth and own what she’s done, so that she can repent and be freed and healed and restored.

In Your Brilliant Name,

Amen.

A Prayer for SIL, Day 66

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Jesus, I lift up SIL to You again, for Your continued work in her. It feels like it’s been so long, but You see what I can’t. You know what she needs. You know where she resists You and why. And You know how to fix her.

Looking to Jesus, to founder and perfecter of our faith. Hebrews 12:2a

Jesus, You are the founder of her faith, the faith that once guided all her thoughts and behavior, the faith that filled her with overwhelming love for You, the faith that now seems to be just glowing embers in a dying fire. You are also the perfecter of her faith. Only You can restore the fire and rekindle her love for You, and fill her with faith that rules her heart and mind. Continue to work in her as Your Word says You do. I know that You love her and won’t give up on her.

In Your Perfecting Hands,

Amen.

A Prayer for SIL, Day 65

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If your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house, Then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.  2 Chronicles 6:24, 39

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.  2 Chronicles 7:14

Jesus, if SIL is defeated before the enemy because she has sinned against You, if the problems she is having is the result of sin, I pray that she turns and acknowledges Your name like she did once before. As she prays and pleads with You, hear her prayer and forgive her. I pray that she humbles herself and seeks Your face, and that she turns from her self-centered ways and centers her heart and mind on You so that You will hear her and forgive her and heal her in every way – physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

In Your Waiting Arms,

Amen.

A Prayer for SIL, Day 63

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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.

A Prayer for SIL, Day 60

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Jesus, I hold up SIL to You this morning. Heal her physically, emotionally, and spiritually. She says she knows that You call us to holy lives, yet she doesn’t think twice about doing things her way even when they contradict Your Word. Show her where she strays from the life You want her to live. Show her when her light is tainted by selfish desires.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellences of him who call you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 1 Peter 2:9

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. Matthew 5:16

Lord, help her to remember she is here to exalt You in what she says and does. I pray that You call her out of the darkness she has lived in for so long, that You heal the pain and scars that bind her, so that she will be free to live the life You made her for and so that her life will reflect Your light to those around her.

In Your Marvelous Name,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 58

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Lord, I lift up SIL to You. Heal her body as You heal her heart. Just like a cough can disturb the ability to sleep, I pray that You remove the cough in her life. Remove the infection that is causing the cough which is also causing so many other problems. Maker her to understand that she can’t live the way she wants to live but will have to adjust her position before You to protect her heart and her relationship with You.

In peace I will both lie down and sleep, for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety. Psalm 4:8

For he gives to his beloved sleep. Psalm 127:2b

Give her restful sleep tonight. As she sleeps, fill her mind with dreams and visions of You and her place in You. Raise her up to be a mighty woman of God.

In Your Restful Embrace,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 56

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Lord, heal SIL’s body as You work in her heart. Use this time to speak to her, to call her to renew her friendship with You – to be someone who loves and obeys You. Create in her a thirst to live a holy life centered around You. Help her to release her grip on what she feels she can’t let go of – so that You can replace it with what You want to give her. Wake her up, open her eyes, and show her what time it is.

Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. Romans 13:11

Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame. 1 Corinthians 15:34

Jesus, may SIL wake from her self-centered complacency. She is undisciplined and full of excuses for what she does. Speak to her about her condition so that she will not go on sinning. Some people have no knowledge of You, but SIL does. She not only knows about You, but she knows You. And she loves You. She recognizes that she is full of shame but doesn’t understand why. Show her what You see. Show her what she needs to do. You are waiting with outstretched arms – may she run into them and be healed.

In Your Cleansing Embrace,

Amen.

A Prayer for SIL, Day 55

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Lord, I lift SIL up to You again. She needs You. She needs You to call her to Yourself. She needs You to open her eyes to Your holiness and her sin. She needs You to convict her when she sins so she can change the habits she has built for herself. She needs You to reveal when she compromises with the world and when she chooses herself over You. She needs You to fill her with the strength of Your Spirit to overcome inertia and resistance. She needs you to protect her from Satan. She needs You to heal her inside and out. She needs You to enlighten her mind and to give her understanding. She needs You.

But I am poor and needy, hasten to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer; O Lord, do not delay! Psalm 70:5 

SIL is poor and needy, hasten to her, O God! You are her help and her deliverer, O Lord, do not delay!

In Your Powerful Name,

Amen.

A Prayer for SIL, Day 51

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Lord, I lift up SIL to You this night for Your blessing.

Blessed by the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. Ephesians 1:3-4

Blessed are You, Father and God of Lord Jesus Christ. You have blessed SIL with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. I pray that she acknowledges and accepts these gifts. May she walk in them so that she will be holy and blameless before You.

In Your Blessed Name,

Amen.

A Prayer for SIL, Day 49

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Lord, help me to let go and let you work in SIL at the pace and the way You choose. She is not changing the way I think she should, or as fast as I think she should. But she’s not mine to fix. She belongs to You. She answers to You. I release her, again, to You. Heal her. Teach her. Guide her. Convict her. Love her. I pray that she responds to You, cooperates with You, and seeks You above all else.

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, (that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work) 2 Timothy 3:16 (17)

Jesus, I pray that You draw SIL to Your Word, that she craves it and feeds upon it every day. And while she does so, that You use it to teach, correct, and train her in righteousness.

In Your Hands,

Amen.