Gabbylittleangel
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I am sometimes at a loss as to how to pray for my enemies. Daily prayers sometimes seem redundant. I sometimes get to a place where I simply tell God that I do not know what to pray. I have been in one of those impasse prayers, and I was lead to these verses.
Mat 15:30-31 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them [those that were] lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.
The word maimed just leaped off of the page at me. This is sort of people that I have been around my whole life.
Many of these people were born with birth defects, left in institutions, where they were taken in by this group who raised them for their own. They often turn on one another, and do terrible things to each other in their attempts to teach each other a lesson. Many are missing body parts (arms, legs, unmentionable parts, fingers, toes, internal injuries) as a result of the abuse that they have inflicted on one another. This also results in their need for medications, pain killers, and such.
I know that the Lord is able. I have wondered if He is willing. I believe that He knows who would turn to Him if they were healed, and witnessed miracles in their own lives.
So...I am asking you to stand in prayer with me for healing and restoration for any, or all of these people that God sees fit to heal and restore, as well as protection for those who turn to Him. Also pray that God would take all of the animosity and hatred from them.
Also, please continue to pray for God to give me wisdom to know how to pray for these individuals.
May they glorify God.
Mat 15:30-31 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them [those that were] lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.
The word maimed just leaped off of the page at me. This is sort of people that I have been around my whole life.
Many of these people were born with birth defects, left in institutions, where they were taken in by this group who raised them for their own. They often turn on one another, and do terrible things to each other in their attempts to teach each other a lesson. Many are missing body parts (arms, legs, unmentionable parts, fingers, toes, internal injuries) as a result of the abuse that they have inflicted on one another. This also results in their need for medications, pain killers, and such.
I know that the Lord is able. I have wondered if He is willing. I believe that He knows who would turn to Him if they were healed, and witnessed miracles in their own lives.
So...I am asking you to stand in prayer with me for healing and restoration for any, or all of these people that God sees fit to heal and restore, as well as protection for those who turn to Him. Also pray that God would take all of the animosity and hatred from them.
Also, please continue to pray for God to give me wisdom to know how to pray for these individuals.
May they glorify God.