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A Prayer for SIL, Day 76

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Lord, tonight I pray again for honesty and truth in SIL’s heart and mind.

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

It’s so confusing when her behavior changes, when the look on her face and in her eyes change from kindness and gentleness to aggression and ridicule. Teach us the wisdom we need to discern what is going on and how to deal with it. Give us the grace to be open with each other so that real lasting healing can occur. As long as she can hide behind her aggression, she will be stuck there. If she’s built a wall, reveal it to us – to her – so it can be dealt with. It’s like she built a wall to hide her aggressive self from other people, but from time to time it peeks out from behind the wall with all its anger and hatred.

For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light. Luke 8:17

You will know the truth and the truth will set you free. John 8:32

Lord, bring everything out in the open so the truth can set her free.

In Your Revealing Light,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 75

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Jesus, thank You for showing me the kindness that still exists in SIL. I pray that the good in her will outweigh and displace the violence in her. Lord, use some positive reinforcement with her since she apparently can’t hear You yet. When she does right, fill her with your peace and presence; when she does bad remove that sense of peace and presence from her. I know Your Spirit won’t actually leave her, but I ask that SIL feels as if He did so she can seek why and start making connections between what pleases and what grieves the Holy Spirit. You did it with the Israelites and You did it with me when I disobeyed You about praying for other drivers.

For your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear. Isaiah 59:2

Blessed is the man… in whose spirit is not deceit. But when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long; day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Psalm 32:2-4

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Ephesians 4:30

I pray that SIL’s concern about grieving the Holy Spirit grows to outweigh her desire for self-gratification. May her love for You continue to grow each day.

In Your Guiding Presence,

Amen

A Prayer for SIL, Day 74

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Jesus, SIL confuses me. How can she be so attentive, sympathetic, and supportive one minute and hard, deceptive, and aggressive the next? What war rages in her? What force controls her so much that she yields to it most of the time? Wake her up, Lord. Open her eyes to what’s happening. Strengthen her so she can resist the evil and choose the good.

Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel. 1 Chronicles 21:1

Lord, is this what’s going on? Is Satan standing against her healing and restoration and thus incites her to feel, think, and do what she’s doing? Then, I pray that You strengthen SIL’s desire to follow You so that she can resist the urgings of the demons. I pray James 4:7 for her: Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

In Your Strong 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 71

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Lord Jesus, Bright Morning Star, rise in SIL’s heart.

And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. 2 Peter 1:19

Just as Peter told believers that their (the disciples’) experience on the mountain when You were transfigured confirmed for them the Old Testament prophecies concerning You, I pray You give to SIL an experience with You that will confirm what You’ve been telling her and will jumpstart her heart to be fully yours again. Show her Your glory and Your power and Your holiness so she will humble herself before You and then be able to reflect Your clear, untainted light to others.

In Your Glorious 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 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 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 64

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Lord, walk close beside SIL today, and whisper in her ear each time her foot strays from the straight and narrow path that leads to eternal life with You.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Proverbs 3:6

Do not swerve to the right or to the left, turn your foot away from evil. Proverbs 4:27

And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. Isaiah 30:21

Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. Matthew 7:13-14

Lord, I pray SIL is one of the few who finds the narrow gate. Direct her steps and open her eyes to the spiritual world, to the battle waging over and for her. I pray she abandons the fence she is straddling with one foot in Your kingdom and one foot in the world. I pray that she chooses to stand with both feet firmly in Your kingdom and begins walking the narrow path You have designed for us.

In Your Guiding Name,

Amen.