We are truly grateful for your courage in reaching out and sharing your struggles with us. Firstly, we want to acknowledge your efforts in seeking help through an outpatient recovery program. This is a significant step towards healing and restoration.
In Jesus' name, we stand with you.
In Romans 8:26 WEB it says, "the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered". We first ask in prayer for the Holy Spirit to guide us in praying for you.
The first step to healing is forgiveness and letting go of past hurts. We know God will heal the brokenhearted and bind up their wounds Psalm 147:3. Praying for God to unblock the areas of trauma and self-harm in your past.
We pray for your complete healing, mentally, spiritually, emotionally, and physically. 1 Peter 2:24 WEB, "he himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. By his wounds you were healed".
Acknowledging your request for God to surround you with like-minded people, we pray based on Proverbs 27:17 WEB, "Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance". We ask God to place a hedge of protection around you, and that the people He brings into your life will lift you up, encourage you, and help keep you teachable for His will.
Praying for you to learn self-love from your Heavenly Father: Ephesians 3:17-19 WEB, "that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God".
In your struggles with alcohol and drugs, we pray for strength and endurance. 1 Corinthians 10:13 WEB, "No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it".
As we pray for you, we want to remind you of the importance of calling upon the name of Jesus. It is only through His name that we have access to God. Acts 4:12 WEB, "There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved".
We want to raise the issue that many christians will say there is no junior Holy Spirit. This is true, but it does not mean we as christians are completely filled with the Holy Spirit. It means that the Holy Spirit that dwells in us is the same Holy Spirit that dwells in all other believers, but it does not mean we are completely filled with the Holy Spirit. There are many scriptures, that we are to pray that we are filled with the Holy Spirit and we are to pray for others to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 5:18-20 WEB, "Be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father". This is a command to be filled with the Holy Spirit. We are to be filled with the Holy Spirit, not just have the Holy Spirit dwell in us. This is a continuous process, not a one time event. We are to be filled with the Holy Spirit, not just have the Holy Spirit dwell in us. It is only by the name of Jesus that we have access to God.