Prayer #23 --For a Sister in Christ and in a Crisis -- Beth Moore's Prayer

 It was the holiday season.  It was 2009.  I had been in a very hard year in 2008 and 2009 was not looking much better.  In September of 2009 the movie Fire Proof came out.   The  plot, the characters,  and the script HIT me straight in the face.  There was a crisis within my marriage.  I didn't exactly know what, but it was time to face it and I could not ignore it.

Life went on.  At that time, I was following a woman's blog.  She was new to blogging and she posted about every 3-4 days.  It was a Life Line to God.  God used it.  This prayer - this is her written prayer that was posted just before the holidays of 2009.  It became a prayer I prayed and shared.

Within weeks after she posted this, she blogged a  surgery,  as her doctors thought she had cancer. She is cancer free and there is a whole other aspect to those blogs - probably even to this prayer, but on the day she posted it -- it HIT me.  It was written for me. 


 - God reminded me of that  prayer and so I am sharing today.

There is a lady whose husband came to her and wanted  forgiveness....she is experiencing a new "season" in this marriage.  She has been married over 30 years  -- I am thrilled, as my hubs and I have been interceding for some time now but she is still prayerfully cautious.  There is MUCH work to be done. 

I believe she is leaving one season and beginning a new one -- and Beth Moore wrote this prayer in the end of 2009.  You can tell she is moving from one year to the next --

I will still keep writing these prayer posts, as if you have been following them, they are for one that needs a miracle and change of heart in her man.  But these prayers, I believe, are hitting others as well.

But today -- this one is for the precious women of God that heard from last night -- I am believing that indeed she will allow Abba Father to lead her into this new season where true restoration will be realized!   In Jesus name.  Amen.  



My Dearest Abba Father,
I’ve lived long enough to know that any 12-month period of time on Planet Earth winds a pathway through thicket and thorns. It’s just too long a period of time not to get hurt or offended. I also know that You have tucked many joys in the oncoming year and I don’t want to miss them because I can’t quit obsessing over what’s hard. 

You’ve gone to measurable lengths in the last year to show me how the enemy of my soul operates in one specific area: he can’t block You from blessing Your children so he tries to block Your children from enjoying it. I do not want him to cheat me of reaping from anything rich You send my way this year. Even the treasures hidden in darkness. As this year ends and a new one begins, I am so thankful that I have Your Spirit without limit in my life and that, with You, change in a long pattern really is possible. You’ve done it before in my life. Come do it again. 

I am asking You in particular, Abba Father, to run to my aid in that first moment when an opportunity for offense happens and urge me by Your Holy Spirit to head into a thought-loop that spirals upward rather than downward. Simply put, help me to get over things fast. Honestly, Lord, sometimes I just make life harder than it has to be. Some things that wound me aren’t even about me. Help me to see where I’m jumping into somebody else’s loop and to quit getting hung by my own. 

I choose joy in resting this petition at Your feet, Lord, and I refuse self-condemnation or fruitless regret. You never would have brought this to the forefront and called for it in prayer if You didn’t have something good in mind. You began this work. Now come and take it to the next level. I’m excited about it, Lord, and see a glimpse of liberty on the horizon. 

Thank You, Father.