I'm praying for the right words to type for encouragement for you who are suffering, but lately I've realized that maybe this may not be my strength. Still...God's grace is sufficient in my weakness so I write on. And maybe that's what I'm supposed to say; that his strength is perfected in our weakness.
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Blessed Father in heaven, you know the hearts of your children. Even as each of us admittedly fail in our articulation, your word says your Spirit intercedes for us even when all we can do is groan. We are not perfect. We are broken. Some of us have recurring sicknesses, some of us have past pains & abuses to overcome, and even present pains & abuses to suffer through; wounds still fresh. We've loved ones who are suffering with this evil or that, evils we ourselves may be dealing with...
We have debts against you and others, and hold unforgiveness in our hearts for those who've wronged us. But please forgive us for our lack of faithfulness. Please forgive us for not quite being where we need to be spiritually. Wipe our debts clean. Don't hold our offenses against us as we make our requests to you, as we forgive the offenses of others against us.
You know the words we've spoken to you in secret about these your children...but for their edification and encouragement I post this publicly. And if I have the smallest bit of credit with you my God, any credit at all, please count it towards them...especially during this dark time. But it's when we're in darkness that your light shines most brilliantly, as your word says...
"The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned."
May your angels shield the minds and bodies of so many of your people who are suffering. Guard them from the works of evil others may subject them to or that we may unwittingly subject ourselves to. Keep us hidden in you. And heal us. And fill us with your powerful Spirit. You said that whatever we ask in prayer, believe that we have received it and it'll be ours so I ask you all of these things standing in full assurance that what you've said is true.
Grow us and teach us to walk daily in the footsteps of your Son, our king and captain...until the day when we walk side by side with him in you, in Paradise.
As it is written, so let it be done.
I ask all of this in the name of your Son,
Amen.