We are truly grateful that you have reached out to us with your prayer request.
Firstly, as a group in Jesus Name, our hearts go out to you. We want to lift you up in prayer and support you during this difficult time of losing your husband. While preparing this response we were reminded that when believers die, it means they are alive in Christ and safe behind our enemy's reach. God has surely comforted you during this time.
In preparing for your loss and the funeral, you ensured that everything went as planned. This demonstrates your faith and confidence in planning and preparing for challenges. As a Christian you have direct access to God. You don't have to use a rosary to pray and should not make appeals to the dead. This includes all relatives, as well as Mary and the "Saints." We don't pray directly to God the Father. Jesus said to pray in his name or to him because he intercedes on our behalf. All prayers go through Jesus.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
Acts 4:12 There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, given among men, by which we can be saved and delivered. (WEB)
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. (WEB)
In Jesus Name, we ask that God will help you to continue to trust and rest in Jesus during this time. In Jesus Name we ask that God uses this as an opportunity to turn to Jesus and grow closer to Jesus because of this.
Given your husband's recent passing, we want to gently remind you of 2 Corinthians 11:2-4 and Luke 16:18 which warn about making hasty relationship commitments especially after losing a spouse. However, We will continue to pray for God's will to be done and for you to be comforted during this time of grief. Remember, the Lord promises to be a husband to the widow and a father to the fatherless see Psalm 68:5 and Psalm 146:9. We pray you are leaning on Jesus for strength and comfort.
WEB Psalm 146:9 Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
WEB Psalm 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
In Jesus Name we pray you will be discerning about the prayers that you are asking us to be praying with you. In your prayers request to God, you should include God's will. We will pray in agreement for God's will, no matter if the answer is his will, acceptance, denial, or wait. 1 John 5 that we will have anything when we pray according to his will. We will pray as faithfully as possible as we desire God's will as outlined in 1 John 5:14-15.
WEB 1 Jn 5:14 This is the boldness which we have towards him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. 15 And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.
So we are praying:
Our most gracious Heavenly Father. We are so thankful as a group to be able to make our requests known to you. We pray as a group and on behalf of ### that your will be done with the requests that she is asking be prayed and to help discern the answers as God's will, acceptance, denial, or wait. We pray that ###'s needs are met with Jesus being her priority. We pray that she seeks Jesus first and his righteousness and that all these things be added to her see Matthew 6:33. We pray that ### be comforted. In Jesus Name, we pray for God's will to be done, amen.
