Prayers for Different States of Life
Christians are called to pray always. Sometimes this is not an easy thing to do, especially when we are busy with work, chores, children, etc. This section makes use of different state of people's lives.
This area can include prayers for ministers, fathers, mothers, law enforcers, doctors. When children start the school year, pray for them and their year ahead, pray for the unemployed, travelers, the elderly.
It is also a area to pray if you are in a bad mood or frame of mind, are moving or praying before a trip, praying when in doubt of something or for discernment.
Thank you so very much.
Dear Maria,
I shall pray for you in these words as well. Thank you. May God bless you as you move forward. Thank you, very much.
It isn't so much that Mike refuses to go to church as it seems his heart can be so hard, righteous vanity and arrogance rule him, and humility before the Lord our God seems like a weakness to his ego/mind.
Lungs are all about grief in the heart. I, too, crashed with lung sickness. Flu that would not heal, heart electrolytes so out of whack that at 35 yrs old (2003) I was hospitalized with potential of a heart attack as the diagnosis. I was in such deep emotional/mental/spiritual pain that it affected the physical dramatically, forcing me to take myself closer to God in complete surrender. Amen to that!
Then, in the hospital I contracted pneumonia and pleurisy. I was there for 10 days, on oxygen and medicated so heavily as to be mostly unconscious. When they released me, my legs actually could not walk forward. I slid sideways, or I literally crawled. I had such a resistance to "moving forward" (the legs carry us forward in life, eh?), in a life of utter despair. I spent the next 4 years basically in bed. I did only exactly what I felt had to be done and nothing else. And this with two young boys and a mule!
You may like to look at the book "You Can Heal Your Life" by Louise Hay. Quite frankly, I believe that she was one of God's answers to my prayers to heal. To become actually willing to live, as apparently I was not. It had become so painful. I thank God in this work for saving my life, and for giving me the will to live.
I was diagnosed also at that time with COPD, and now, at 41, I am completely healed of the so-called incurable disease. Apparently, those doctors don't know our God! I pray for your healing journey. Salvation leterally translates from the Aramaic: "to become whole".
It is possible that the letting go of the marriage may be part of the healing miracle, eh? I am still unclear as to God's will for me. Every day I pray for clarity, for Him to make His will known to me. Christianity is the path of Love and Forgiveness Christ gave us. It may require moving away from ungodliness, keeping holy company, and giving ourselves a chance to really forgive.
I have been a rather private 'prayer warrior" for many years. I pray with you in the Holy Spirit..wherever two or more are gathered in His name. Amen.
Your beautiful prayer brought me to tears. Thank you again so much. To the glory of the Holy Trinity.
With Love and Peace
Angelena