March 30, 2011

• prayer for a friend

  Dear God, the God who was always healing everywhere You went when You visited Earth two thousand years ago,

  Please heal her.

  Please help her with her various problems: workplace stresses, health problems, relationship problems.

  But far more importantly, please heal her soul.  Please use her various problems to bring her closer to You.  Please overwhelm her with Your beauty and goodness.  Please heal the missing father's affirmation and love, filling the void with Your love and warm approval.  Please show her that no human romance will make her truly/permanently happy.  Please dissolve all her worries and replace them with settled trust in You.  Please fill her with contentment in You.

  Please heal him.

  Please help him with his various problems: workplace stresses, health problems, relationship problems.

  But far more importantly, please heal his soul.  Please show him sooner rather than later that the things he is seeking will not satisfy him.  Money, prestige, successful career, the respect of his peers, successful family, a woman that respects him; all of the above: ultimately empty.  Please show Him Your power and Your glory.  Please show him how much Your approval is worth.  Please dissolve all his worries and replace them with settled trust in You.  Please fill him with contentment in You.

  (the above prayers apply to many of my friends... somewhat de-specified for anonymity... but hopefully still worth pondering and perhaps reiterating...  please feel free to pray the same way for me, those of you who know our great God)

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