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A Prayer for SIL, Day 84

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Jesus, walk closely with SIL on this hard path. Open her heart little by little each day. Give her courage to confront the truth – and the lies – that dwell in her. Convict her when she lies or deflects so she will quit doing it. Focus her eyes on Your Word; speak to her as she ponders Your ways.

But the path of righteousness is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. Proverbs 4:18

I pray that her understanding of You and your ways will grow brighter and clearer each moment, and that the path of righteousness will be illuminated to her brighter and brighter until she has full knowledge of it. I pray that she then forsakes the path she has made for herself and chooses to walk the path of righteousness which You have set out for us.

In Your Enlightening Name,

Amen.

A Prayer for SIL, Day 81

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Jesus, hold SIL close to You this night. Heal the wounds created long ago that impact her current behavior. As You open her heart, spread Your balm over the sore areas to soothe them and so that they will be truly healed.

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of the daughter of my people? Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in SIL’s heart or mind? Is she unaware of You as her Great Physician? Or unaware of her need for You in this area? Is that why it seems her healing is coming so slowly? Jesus, in the Old Testament days, balm was a sticky sap-like residue from plants. To the prophets it represented healing, restoration, spiritual health, and divine intervention. In the New Testament days, I think this healing ointment would be Your Holy Spirit but I’m not sure.

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. Revelation 3:18

SIL appears to be as lukewarm as the church in Laodicea so this verse may apply to her as well as to the Laodiceans. I don’t know what You meant by buying the gold, white garments, and salve (which I assume is like balm) because You bought these for us, but I pray that You show SIL how to do so.  I pray that she would ask for and apply this spiritual balm to every part in her that hurts. Guide her to find those places.

In Your Care,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 77

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Lord Jesus, prepare SIL’s heart to hear from You today. I pray that she is open to what You want to say to her.

The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul. Acts 16:14b

Lord, open SIL’s heart to pay attention to what You say today through the people she encounters. Prepare her now to face whatever truth You want to show her. Strip from her whatever will get in the way – excuses, deflection, deceptions, lies, or denial. Let today be a time of healing for her. I pray that whatever You want revealed will be received, accepted, and dealt with so that she may be healed and set free.

In Your Gentle Hands,

Amen.

A Prayer for SIL, Day 73

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Lord, there is just something deceptive and aggressive in SIL that comes out in some of her behavior towards others. In the way she acts and reacts, what she says and doesn’t say, and the way she just looks at people with an odd expression on her face at times. I can’t put my finger on what it is, but You know exactly what’s going on. I pray that You reveal it to those who need to know so that it can be dealt with.

“Do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath for all these things I hate.” declares the Lord. Zeph 8:17

But Jesus, knowing their thoughts said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? Matthew 9:4

So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. Matthew 10:26

Lord, I don’t think she knows that the evil is there. It controls her, but she has no clue. She just obeys it, acts on it in subtle but damaging ways. I want to recoil, to be sick, when her face leaks hostility. It’s so different than other times when her face is gentle and caring. When she sincerely seems to care about those around her and she speaks with respect. If she avoids identifying her feelings because of this, I ask that You take her by the hand and stand with her in front of the mirror of Your Word so she will have the strength and support to see what’s there and to cast it out with You.

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, or joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Hebrews 4:12

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseverance, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, will be blessed in his doing. James 1:22-25

Lord, walk with her, holding her hand, and teach her to be a doer.

In Your Revealing Name,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 72

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Lord, open her eyes when she’s clueless of what’s happening outside her self-focused world. Show her what You are doing, and what others are doing.

Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God which he obtained with his own blood. I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock, and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things to draw away the disciples after them. Therefore, be alert… Acts 20:28-31a

Jesus, I pray that SIL pays careful attention to what goes on both in herself and to those she impacts. The enemy will come speaking lies, drawing her away from You and trying to destroy her progress in improving her relationships with those You have put into her life. I pray that SIL becomes alert to what is happening around her so she can recognize the enemy before any more damage is done.

In Your Watchful Name,

Amen.

A Prayer for SIL, Day 70

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Lord, I lift up SIL to You again this night as she sleeps. Fill her dreams with wisdom, guidance, and truth. And may what she learns in her sleep impact her when she’s awake.

Behold, you delight truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. Psalm 51:6

Jesus, reveal the truth to SIL, strengthen her to face the truth that is in her inward being, that she sees what’s there – both the good and the bad. I pray that You teach her wisdom in the areas inside herself that she’s reluctant to go to. Show her Your delight each time she is truthful so that she will seek more truth. Show her that Your delight in her is worth more than any suffering she has to go through as You walk this healing path with her.

In Your Delighted Name,

Amen.

A Prayer for SIL, Day 69

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Lord, she confuses me. But I know she doesn’t confuse you. Speak to her. Show her what You see when You look at her. Show her Your love and the places she holds back from You. Renew her spirit with a fresh outpouring of Your Spirit into her heart and mind.

Again Joel 2:38 comes to mind – I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh…

She is flesh and lives in the flesh – and so greatly needs Your Spirit with all His healing, instruction, and comfort. May SIL respond to Your call the way the disciples did – giving up their old lives for new lives with You. And may she fall in love with You again – may she return to her first love.

In Your Wise Name,

Amen.

A Prayer for SIL, Day 68

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Jesus, You love SIL so much You died for her. You are patient and long-suffering as You call her to Yourself. Help me to be patient also, to love her with Your love.

With all humility, and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to mainatain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Eph 4:23

Bearing with one another, and if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other, as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must also forgive. Colossians 3:13

From the beginning we have had You as the center of our relationship. The Holy Spirit has been the One who has kept us connected. Forgive me for the times I have been responsible for breaking that unity. And help me to forgive SIL for the times she has broken it. May we center our relationship once again on You, to make You our focus, as we learn to bear with each other.

In Your Patient Name,

Amen.

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.