THE BODY
Sin has to be confessed and dealt with.
Matthew 5:29
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Matthew 10:28
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Romans 6:12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Romans 8:9-11
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: ...
Prayer:
Lord, I do not want my loved one's whole body to be cast into hell because of offense in the body members. Sever wrong relationships from my loved one's soul that have given entrance to the devil to come kill, steal, and destroy. I pray my loved one will no longer allow sin to reign and receive the wages sin which is death.
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This little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine. God's Word is that light.
Luke 11:36
If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.
Prayer:
Lord, shine Your light in my loved one's body. Your Word is a lamp to the feet, and light into the path of righteousness. I pray for Your Name's sake.
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What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Romans 7:24
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Romans 6:6
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Prayer:
Lord, by Your grace, You are more than able to deliver my loved one from the captivity of sin which reigns in the carnal man. Your spiritual law in Christ Jesus is greater than the law of sin.
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Flee temptation (Recall the story of Joseph and Pottifer's wife.)
1 Corinthians 6:13
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 6:15-17
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 Corinthians 6:16
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians 6:17-19
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?
1 Corinthians 6:18-20
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Husband and wife
1 Corinthians 7:4
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
Prayer:
Lord may Your Holy Spirit will convict my loved one to flee fornication and adultery.
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The body does as says the mouth.
James 3:2
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Prayer:
Lord, I want to speak to my loved one Your words that are spirit and life that will edify and not destroy. Deliver my loved one from a fiery tongue that speaks words that defiles the whole body. Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world.
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The responsibility of a Christian
1 Corinthians 9:27
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Phillippians 1:20
According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Prayer:
Lord, I want to lift up Jesus in my life that my loved one may look up at Him and be healed, like the children of Israel that were bitten by snakes in the wilderness, when they saw the brazen serpent Moses made and put on a pole, they were healed.
As Your child, you give power to bring the body in subjection to You. Be magnified in my body as I take up my cross daily to follow You. Prince of Peace, I pray for my loved one and I that You sanctify us wholly, and that our whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameles unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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THE MIND
A person is as he thinks.
Proverbs 23:7
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
Prayer:
My loved one acts this way because of wrong thinking in the heart. There has to be a renewing of the mind according to Your truth, and I pray this heart will be given to you.
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The mind without God, is an enemy to God.
Colossians 1:21
And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
James 4:4
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Romans 8:6-8
6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Prayer:
My loved one mind is alienated from You, which explains the wrong behavior. This carnal mind does not obey You nor please You. I pray there will be a reconciliation through Jesus Christ who came to save sinners.
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The mind of the lost is blinded.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
3But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Titus 1:15
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Prayer:
My loved one is lost because of blindness to the gospel of Christ. The devil has blinded the mind which has resulted in unbelief. Therefore, nothing is pure, and this mind and conscience is defiled. I pray the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God shines unto my loved one.
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The natural man vs. the spirit filled man
Jeremiah 13:23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Prayer:
My loved one does not know You, and that's why the behavior is not good and is used to living like this. I pray my loved one will receive spiritual understanding.
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The highminded person loves the pleasures of this world, rather than love God.
2 Timothy 3:4
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Prayer:
My faith in You is foolishness to my loved one who is not humble to believe and obey You, and rather rubs shoulders with the world. But by the foolishness of the preaching of the cross You chose to save sinners. I pray Your powerful gospel will save my loved one and faith will arise.
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To change on the outside, the transformation happens in the inside first.
Hebrews 8:10
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Philippians 2:5
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Prayer:
Lord, I pray that You will put Your laws in my loved one's mind, and write them in a heart of flesh, that You be the God of my loved one. Give my loved one the mind of Christ and that there be a transformation by the renewing of the mind. Only then, can my loved one be in subjection to Your will.
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Either a person is in or out and cannot have it both ways.
James 1:8
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Romans 1:28
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Prayer:
I pray my loved one will believe in You with a single mind for stability in the path of righteousness. May my loved one retain the faith according to Your truth which makes a person free, rather than in bondage to sin.
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A doubtful, anxious mind, is a worldly mind. The mind that clings to God is a peaceful one.
Luke 12:29-31
29And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
30For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
31But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Philippians 4:8
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Isaiah 26:3
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Prayer:
As for me, Lord, I will not be of a doubtful mind. I'm seeking your kingdom and your righteousness and these things that I ask of you, because I know it is your will that no one perishes but repents, shall be added unto me.
I will not dwell on thoughts the devil wants to plant on my mind, but rather I will trust You to save my loved one. My mind is stayed on Jesus the author and finisher of my faith.
Though I am going through tribulation right now, I will be of good cheer, as the Lord Jesus wants me to be, and I will be in peace, because I have laid all my care upon the One who really cares for me and my loved one, and the only One who is also mighty to save.
I trust in Your tender mercies which endure forever, and I praise You for Your wonderful works in the children of men. I will trust in the name above all names, the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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THE HEART OF THE MATTER
MAN AND THE HEART
A man may know between good and evil, yet he may not know the condition of his own heart.
THE HEART IS MULTI-TASK
The heart thinks; it is the seat of thoughts and intentions. It has imaginations and conceives ideas. The heart reasons and receives understanding.
THE HEART HAS EMOTIONS
The heart is emotional. It rejoices or grieves. It is troubled or in peace. It has a conscience.
THE SINNER AND THE HEART
The heart is desperately wicked and deceitful. Foolishness is bound in the heart since childhood. This heart has the plague of indwelling evil and is set to do evil. From it proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies
THE DEVIL AND THE HEART
The devil seizes The Word that falls on the wayside.
He puts ill intentions into the heart, as he did with Judas.
He fills hearts to lie to the Holy Ghost.
PRAY!
KNOW THAT NOTHING IS HID FROM GOD
Lord, you look on the heart, and you search it.
You ponder it and know it.
WHAT GOD DOES WHEN SOUGHT
LORD, Take away the heart of stone from (---my lost loved one---) and give (him, her, them) a heart of flesh. Create in (him, her, them) a clean heart. Yes, Lord, give (---my lost loved ones) a new heart, and turn (his, her, their) heart to You.
I pray Your love be shed abroad in (---my lost loved ones---)heart by Your Holy Ghost. Shine in (his, her, their) heart to give light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
PRAY YOUR LOST LOVED ONES DO THEIR PART
Lord I pray (---my lost loved ones---) give You (his, her, their) heart. May (he, she, they) guard (his, her, their) heart and hide Your Word in it.
Help (---my lost loved ones--) to detect and refuse evil imaginations and thoughts that are contrary to Your Word and to believe in You with all (his, her, their) heart.
I pray (---my lost loved ones---) not be double-minded nor have idols before You.
May (---my lost loved ones---) keep (his, her, their) heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.
LEST YE FALL
Lord, David, a man after Your own heart fell into sin, but Joseph fled temptation. I pray (---my lost loved ones---) don’t tempt you.
It is best to prevent than to lament.
RIGHTEOUS MAN
LORD, when You save (---my lost loved ones---), out of the good treasure in (his, her, their) heart will proceed that which is good.
Thank You, Lord. In Jesus Name.
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