Tag: light and darkness

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 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 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 53

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Lord, what I have seen in the last week is upsetting to me. You, on the other hand, know her heart and You have the master plan of how to restore her. I can’t see that plan. I can only pray about what I see. So I pray that You show SIL how far she has fallen from her first love for You, how many compromises she has accepted from the enemy. Reignite the passion that once filled her heart and mind. Jesus, win her heart again like You did years ago.

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?… be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you and I will be a father to you… 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 (select parts)

Lord, I pray that SIL will refuse to be yoked with unbelievers and unbelief. I pray she differentiates between righteousness and lawlessness and knows when she is fellowshipping with darkness even when it’s only within herself. Ignite her willingness and desire to separate herself from darkness and to detest touching anything that You have disapproved of and forbidden to us. Welcome her and be the Father she needs and loves and craves.

In Your Light,

Amen