Please pray with me:
Reverence:
Father, You are holy. Holy, Holy, Holy. Holy is the Lord.
You are pure. Yes, You are Holy, and You are unchanging.
You are patient with us when we don't hear You. You keep loving us when we turn from You. You remain steadfast when we rebel against the commandments that You gave to protect us!
Yet, You know us and You judge us. You do so for our good that we may live.
Father, You have called us to purity. You have called us to be holy in thought, word, and deed and You have provided a pathway and a process meet Your calling.
Your Word:
1 Corinthians 6:19Response:
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Father, pornography is now celebrated. It has become an intentional act of rebellion in our nation. How can we, as a nation, give up our addiction to inappropriate sexual pleasure? You know. How many times did Israel's sexual indiscretion lead to captivity? Are we not captive now? If so, we don't know it.
Speak, Lord. Open our hearts to desire to hear You.
Open our minds and touch us that we might think clearly.
Open our ears, that we might say, "Speak Lord, for your servant hears."
Help us to spend time before You, listening.
Did You, in Your mercy, allow Israel to go into captivity? So they would have time to think? ...and listen?
Requests:
Father, we cannot do this by ourselves. We cannot even approach the mammoth sin that is destroying our nation. We need Your help. Truly, Your Body...the Body of Christ, does not escape this addiction. So we all suffer under the grip that this pleasure-based sin brings.
Please bring us to the point that we want to hear You.
Show us the path to listen that we may return to You.
Father, it seems we have also lost the sound of Your voice. We don't know when You are speaking. Yet, Your Word is sure. You have given us Your Word. Open our eyes to see our pitiful condition and drive us to Your Word. Your Word is sure and You are faithful.
Hebrews 4:12For those who suffer with pornography addiction.
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Father, this addiction destroys every relationship...even with ourselves. Help Lord, in Your mercy. You are there when addicts look at porn. You know what is going through their minds and bodies. Father YOU made our minds and bodies. You know how they work and You know how to help us. I'm asking for Your help.
Father, may Your church rise up and stand in the gap for these people: especially those within their fellowship that struggle with this. Help us to realize that we, Your Church, The Body of Christ, suffers with this sin.
Show us how to rise up and realize that the whole body suffers...lead us into prayer for those who are gripped mercilessly by the devil who has come to steal, kill and destroy them. He seeks to destroy every relationship in their lives. Jesus, are these Your words:
John 16:33Show us the path to be overcomers. Bring us to the end of ourselves that we may diligently seek You. Father, may we not judge those who are in the grips of this addiction. Your Word tells us that we are all suffering when one suffers.
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
1 Corinthians 12:26We all suffer under the addiction of pornography, but You are able. Open our eyes to see Your pathway to freedom.
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Readiness:
Your Word will make us ready. Make us hungry! Make us thirsty!
Glue our eyes to Your Word, which promises to set us free. Work in our hearts that we want to be free, crave to be free and yet, know our weakness. Father, bring to our knowledge that no one escapes the consequences of this sin....so that we all rise up against it.
Forbid Your church, the Body of Christ, to leave these people in this situation. Humble us, convict us all that we have a part to help them.
Ready us by giving us a willingness to let go of judgement and arrogance. Help us ALL to know that this is OUR problem, that YOU have the answer. You are our Hope and YOU are ABLE.
Rejoicing:
Bring us to rejoicing. May it start in the Body of Christ. Show us the way, help us to walk in it and then rejoice in bring others along. Unify us Father, that we may cleanse this nation and
...that we may be found faithful in the day of His coming.
In the Name of Jesus Christ,
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