Let's pray together for anything

[Neogaia777]

Here are some prayers I did for some guys in jail while I was in jail with them, they remind me a lot of @Daniel Hoseini prayers and how they worded, so I thought I'd link and share them here...

Please pray for me that I do not have to go back to jail (again)...

Thank You very much for these prayer @Daniel Hoseini, I think they are just simply "brilliant", etc...

God Bless!

 

[Daniel Hoseini]

This life is a vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears. (James 4:14)

Dear Heavenly Father! We thank You for the gift of life and also that we are born as humans and thus can appreciate our lives, as well as the lives of animals and plants, which have no self-consciousness. We know and realize that we live after and in the great catastrophe of our fall and exile from Eden, and therefore our life span is so limited that it can be compared to the vapor that appears briefly and disappears quickly. So help us always be sober and have no illusions of a long and happy life. Help us awaken to the reality of eternal life that you wish to bestow upon us as an everlasting, ecstatic, and selfless spiritual relationship of love with You. Help us to direct all our energy, strength, and intentions in this life toward seeking You, understanding of Your wisdom and fulfilling Your holy will, so that we make it possible for You to grant us Your true, eternal happiness through the work of salvation, death and resurrection of Your Son and our Redeemer Jesus Christ. Save us from self-assurance in our work and relationships with others. Quench the flame of our fleshly passions, or rather change it to the ardent love of You, the true God, Lover of men and our Redeemer. Protect us from friendship with the world, for it is enmity against You. For Your love for your chosen and called ones is great and jealous. And we thank You for that, we thank You that You let us hear from You through the pleasant and unpleasant events and moments in our lives, as well as through the conscience with which You show us the way. Thank you for everything, to you be praise, glory and majesty - to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit - in time and in eternity. In Jesus' name, amen.

 

[Jeffwhosoever]

Praying for our nation during this time of turmoil and political divisiveness which seems to be at an all time high. I pray all protests remain peaceful, and no violence results. I also pray protection for all people from mass shootings, especially for securing our children in schools, and especially from racist motivated shootings. I pray for protection against forces of evil upon our society, and I pray for the people of Ukraine (and Russia, many of which are not killing by their own wills). I pray for our churches and for people in these dark times to call upon the name of the Lord and be saved, while light still remains in this world, before the church is taken out or you return Lord and there is no chance for the Great Commission to continue.

I ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ

 

[Leaf473]

May God bring his kingdom to this world, to our nation, and to our individual lives, through Jesus Christ.

 

[Daniel Hoseini]

You must also be patient and strengthen your heart, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. (James 5:8)

Dear Heavenly Father! We thank You for Your great patience, love and compassion for us. You are the Giver of all good. We thank You for the tasty food with which we strengthen ourselves, for the money we receive to buy everything we need, for the shelter from the rain, for the warmth in our houses during the winter, for protection from the car accidents, evil people and demons, for the silence at home and peaceful sleep... Innumerable are all the examples of Your goodness towards us. Remembering it, we are aware that we owe You our love all our life long. Grant us power, strength and wisdom to love You in word and in deed, with our mouth and with all our heart. Teach us to heed Your commandments and to do Your will. Above all, we thank you for your Son and our Redeemer and God Jesus Christ, who, through his incarnation and work of salvation, has given us the hope of eternal life in communion with you. Help us to open our hearts to You and Your grace. Free us from the attachment to this earthly life with all its material riches and fleshly lusts. Grant us patience, honesty and integrity of Jesus and all Your saints, especially we remember the example of Job and the prophets, who spoke in Your name to the people and had to endure suffering from them. Have mercy, Lord, on the sick, the afflicted, and the lonely. Bring to repentance those who have sinned and gone astray. For thou art a good and loving God, and thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory—of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost—to the ages of ages. In Jesus' name, amen.

 

[Daniel Hoseini]

"For the righteousness of God is revealed therein from faith to faith, as it is written, But the just shall live by faith." (Romans 1:17)

Dear Heavenly Father! We thank You for all creation, its beauty and logic in composition, for all the work of Your hands, in which we see the imprints of Your eternal power and Divinity. Lord God, All-Mighty, we recognize and worship You as the purpose and meaning of all our life and therefore we renounce our passions and attachments to the material things You have created. All earthly riches and fullness, enjoyment of good food, of glory and good reputation among men, and even feminine love and happy life with a beautiful young woman, - are fleeting things and temporary happiness. You, however, remain forever and Your love for men will never perish. We thank you for the gospel of your Son Jesus Christ, as the glad tidings of your grace and love for mankind, which you promised beforehand through the prophets. Give us wisdom and insight to understand it and creatively fulfill Your will on Earth. Grant us existential, empirical knowledge of You, in intimate relationship with You. For when we are separated from our bodies, we will deeply regret that we have not served You all our lives, but chased after our illusions and dreams of earthly happiness. Heavenly Father, teach us and help us to repent and free our subconscious mind from all our false and worldly beliefsets and thought patterns that hinder us from fully serving You and surrendering ourselves completely to You in love. May Your Holy Spirit do to us what You will. For You - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - are our perfect happiness and bliss and You we want to praise and glorify for all eternity. In Jesus name, amen.

 

[Leaf473]

"For the righteousness of God is revealed therein from faith to faith, as it is written, But the just shall live by faith." (Romans 1:17)

Dear Heavenly Father! We thank You for all creation, its beauty and logic in composition, for all the work of Your hands, in which we see the imprints of Your eternal power and Divinity. Lord God, All-Mighty, we recognize and worship You as the purpose and meaning of all our life and therefore we renounce our passions and attachments to the material things You have created. All earthly riches and fullness, enjoyment of good food, of glory and good reputation among men, and even feminine love and happy life with a beautiful young woman, - are fleeting things and temporary happiness. You, however, remain forever and Your love for men will never perish. We thank you for the gospel of your Son Jesus Christ, as the glad tidings of your grace and love for mankind, which you promised beforehand through the prophets. Give us wisdom and insight to understand it and creatively fulfill Your will on Earth. Grant us existential, empirical knowledge of You, in intimate relationship with You. For when we are separated from our bodies, we will deeply regret that we have not served You all our lives, but chased after our illusions and dreams of earthly happiness. Heavenly Father, teach us and help us to repent and free our subconscious mind from all our false and worldly beliefsets and thought patterns that hinder us from fully serving You and surrendering ourselves completely to You in love. May Your Holy Spirit do to us what You will. For You - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - are our perfect happiness and bliss and You we want to praise and glorify for all eternity. In Jesus name, amen.

How great are Thy works, O Lord, Thou hast made all things with wisdom!

Amen!

 

[Daniel Hoseini]

"He is a Jew who is in secret, and that is circumcision, which is of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter. His praise is not of men, but of God." (Romans 2:29)

Dear Heavenly Father! We thank You for Your kindness, forbearance and patience that leads us to repentance. Help us to make good use of that, knowing that one day we will be judged by You according to Your truth and our deeds, on the day when You will judge the hidden intentions of men through Jesus Christ. Confirm us in the knowledge of You and Your righteousness, that we may diligently follow Your Holy Word in word and deed and make it known among men. Deliver us from all hypocrisy, so that we do not boast of our good works and talents, as though we have earned something by our effort or have something good which we did not receive from You, the source of all good things. But help us in our efforts to cooperate with Your grace to transfigure our nature more and more in the likeness of Jesus. Help us to give all the glory to You by awe-inspiring constant awareness of Your Presence and unceasing attention upon us. Grant us courage and fearless honesty to confess all our sins and hidden thoughts to You and each other and thus obtain the healing, despite all the shame and damage to our false reputation. For we are not justified because we think we are better and more moral than other people, but on the basis of Your grace through the sincere and active faith in Your gospel and a living, honest relationship with You. May Your name - of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit - be loved, sanctified and praised on earth and in every human heart now and forever. In Jesus name, amen.

 

[Leaf473]

"He is a Jew who is in secret, and that is circumcision, which is of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter. His praise is not of men, but of God." (Romans 2:29)

Dear Heavenly Father! We thank You for Your kindness, forbearance and patience that leads us to repentance. Help us to make good use of that, knowing that one day we will be judged by You according to Your truth and our deeds, on the day when You will judge the hidden intentions of men through Jesus Christ. Confirm us in the knowledge of You and Your righteousness, that we may diligently follow Your Holy Word in word and deed and make it known among men. Deliver us from all hypocrisy, so that we do not boast of our good works and talents, as though we have earned something by our effort or have something good which we did not receive from You, the source of all good things. But help us in our efforts to cooperate with Your grace to transfigure our nature more and more in the likeness of Jesus. Help us to give all the glory to You by awe-inspiring constant awareness of Your Presence and unceasing attention upon us. Grant us courage and fearless honesty to confess all our sins and hidden thoughts to You and each other and thus obtain the healing, despite all the shame and damage to our false reputation. For we are not justified because we think we are better and more moral than other people, but on the basis of Your grace through the sincere and active faith in Your gospel and a living, honest relationship with You. May Your name - of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit - be loved, sanctified and praised on earth and in every human heart now and forever. In Jesus name, amen.

That reminded me of this, from Philippians 3

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

 

[Daniel Hoseini]

Prayers, hymns and praise to the Holy Spirit. AKATHISTOS HYMN TO THE HOLY AND LIFE-GIVING SPIRIT

I wanted to translate this text from Slavonic into English, but it is already translated and is available for free on internet. Thank God.

 

[Daniel Hoseini]

"But now righteousness from God apart from the law hath been manifested... through faith in Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe, for there is no distinction." (Romans 3:21-22)

Dear Heavenly Father! We thank You for Your economy of salvation and all that You have done for our redemption. From the beginning You have implanted natural moral law in the heart of man to guide him on the Path of loving and selfless harmony with You, as well as his fellow human beings and all creation. But our ancestors had chosen evil by betraying and scorning You humble, tender and perfect love for them. Our unheard of ingratitude and lack of genuine repentance have made us slaves to sin, the demons, as inventors and inspirers of sin. To help us in our warfare against the law of sin, You gave the law to Your chosen generation among us through Your servant Moses. Through this universal law of righteousness, you revealed the difference between good and evil, exposed sin, made it clear that the whole world is doomed before You, and thus prepared mankind for the coming of the Redeemer Christ, who is the Way of return out of the human fall. We thank You for Your solution of our catastrophe, we thank You that we may know Him from His written gospel and that some of us have the privilege of speaking with Him directly. Through His redeeming Passion, Death, Resurrection from the dead, and glorious Ascension You have bestowed the Holy Spirit on Your Church. He is Your amazing grace to us. By the law of the Spirit, His life and power, You deliver from the tyranny of sin those who are faithful to Your holy will through active faith in Christ and His gospel. Lord our God and Holy Father, teach and help us to be Your faithful servants by following the law of faith so as to cooperate with Your grace for our salvation, bring us to repentance whenever we stray from Your commandments and follow the demonic hunches without realizing it. We do not come to terms with You by the law of works, having no intimate relationship with You. Our works are powerless to justify us, for every man is a liar. But we believe in Your Holy Word and put all our trust in Your Mercy. After all, You are our Creator and Savior and may our hearts and lips be full of Your praise. Blessed be Thy name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, now and to the ages of ages. In Jesus' name, amen.

 

[Daniel Hoseini]

Akathist of Thanksgiving: "Glory to God for All Things!" | Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese

 

[Daniel Hoseini]

"For the promise was not made to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world by law, but by the righteousness of faith." (Romans 4:13)

Dear Heavenly Father! Great is Your grace to the fallen offspring of Adam, we thank You for the justification which You bestow upon us by faith. For you have counted the active faith of our spiritual forefather Abraham as righteousness. You have made him the father of all who are circumcised in heart and who walk in the footsteps of his faith. Holy God, heal our corrupt nature that is too weak to walk blameless in all Your commandments, and never sin in word, deed, or thought. And grant us the faith and obedience of Abraham that we too may be heirs of the world as Abraham's posterity. But above all, we thank You that we may be offspring of Second Adam, our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ. Seal us by His holy blood and assist us in our arduous pilgrimage through the shadow of death, through this fallen human world that has turned away from You. Help us to cherish and keep without spot the seal of the grace of the Holy Spirit. Save us from the temptations and attraction of bad examples of our poor fellows who are headed for hell by their way of life. Also, at the hour of our death, protect us from the demons who are ever seeking to capture our souls as their prey, and make our passage through the air to Your Kingdom trouble free from evil demonic principalities. Help us here on earth and in this life to give an account for all our sinful and questionable deeds so as not to be tormented by our conscience and shame on the Day of Judgment. For you are a good and loving God, and to you are due all praise, thanksgiving and adoration - to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit - now and always and to the ages of ages. In Jesus' name, amen.

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[Daniel Hoseini]

Akathist Hymn to Jesus Christ, Lover of Mankind (and many others as well)

 

[rturner76]

I would like to pray for those lost in the sin of addiction. A physical as well as a spiritual disease. May God take away the cravings of those who earnestly seek him.

Amen

 

[Daniel Hoseini]

"For if by the transgression of the one death reigned through the one, much more shall they that receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the One, even Jesus Christ." (Romans 5:17)

Dear Heavenly Father! We thank you that we have been reconciled to you through the death of your holy Son Jesus Christ. Thank You for Your grace in which we stand, and for the sure hope of Your glory, as the Apostle Paul instructs us. Grant us Thy support, strength and inspiration to glory also in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance, and perseverance produces experience, and experience hope, which does not disappoint, because Thy love has been poured out in our hearts by Thy Holy Spirit. Help us to cling to Your love, to detach ourselves from the fallen world, to crucify our old rebellious man every day by falling humbly before You and submitting to Your will, by openly confessing our secret thoughts, in spite of all discomfort and shame. Save us by the life and blood of Your Son from the just wrath that awaits mankind. Help us, Lord, to avoid unnecessary entertainment and lavish enjoyments - of delicious food, idle travels, nightlife, alcoholic drinks, unnecessary chatter, needless shopping and consumption - and exert ourselves in prayer and moderate abstinence from all distracting things and activities. Help us not to listen to the demon who says that "we must try out all pleasures as long as we live here, for you don't know what awaits you after death." For we have a firm hope in Your salvation. Therefore, give us patience to wait for Your Kingdom, in which we will have the true rest and happiness that You want to give us if we remain in communion with You. Blessed be Your holy name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in the ages of ages. In Your holy name, amen.

 

[Daniel Hoseini]

"For sin shall not have dominion over you. For you are not under the law, but under the grace." (Romans 6:14)

Dear Heavenly Father! We praise and thank You for Your economy of salvation and for the holy baptism we have received or will receive. You sent Your only begotten Son Jesus into the world to become through His death and resurrection a ransom for our debt of sin, which we could not pay with our efforts. You instituted baptism to identify us with the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. We are well aware that all who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death and have, as it were, clothed themselves in Him. Help us, therefore, to love you, holy strong and immortal God, not only in word and in the heart, but much more in deed and through all our life. Bless our efforts to do so: fasting, night vigils of prayer and praise singing, scripture reading, confession of sins, and witness to Your gospel through our repentance each day. Cause us to bring forth to You the fruits of the Spirit, that our works should not be in vain. For unless you build the house, the builders toil in vain. Therefore deliver us from all bondage to sin, our lustful flesh, the worldly way of thinking and living, and make us free from the demonic influences upon us, and from some power of the prince of darkness over us, which we have forsaken in our baptism. Grant us self-control, gift of watchfulness and unceasing prayer of the heart, more conscious love for you and for neighbor for your sake, concord, peace and make us worthy of complete reconciliation and peace with you. Give us eternal life that we may sing, honor and worship You in hymns--You, the unoriginate Father with Thy only begotten Son and Thy all-holy, good, and life-giving Spirit, ever now and ever and unto the ages of ages. In Jesus' name, amen.

 

[Daniel Hoseini]

Dear Heavenly Father! Forgive me, God, that I behaved on the forum and other platforms of communication not always according to Your commandments. I allowed myself to quarrel with others, to play smart with them, to condemn, to talk idly, to get irritated, wanting to save my reputation from disgrace. Forgive me that I used to write for my own glory, and not Yours. Help me now, whenever I write a new message, to ask myself: will I serve You with this? Do You need and want me to write like this for Your glory or my benefit, or did I plan to do it for my own pleasure? Yes, I will never write and answer in order to save myself from slander, humiliation and shame. Let me rather endure all this, if only I do not commit the slightest sin in Your sight and do not harm myself with enmity, quarrels, verbiage and idle talk with others. Give us experience and wisdom to see in the condemnations and slander of others evil demons that are in these people and inspire them what and how to write. Give us the strength not to answer them, and not to forget to call on You to forbid demons from doing evil, and to bless and forgive the people themselves, for people are Your creations, bearing Your image. It is not in our interest to curse them, therefore. For this life is a period of grace, help us to be kind to our enemies as well until Thy judgment comes. Help us to learn from our sorrowful experience and become humbler, so that we can do everything for Your glory, and not our own, and never repeat the mistakes and sins of the past. Give us the wisdom to avoid new sins. From now on, I dedicate this activity on the Internet only to You. I renounce myself even more for You alone. In the name of Jesus Christ, hear me and fulfill my prayer for the fulfillment of Your holy will, Your glory and thanksgiving. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

 

[Daniel Hoseini]

"So, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, [even] to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God." (Romans 7:4)

Dear Heavenly Father! We thank You that we are released from the law by Your grace. With Christ and through His death, we died to what our Old Covenantal predecessors were tied to 2,000 years ago. Teach us also to serve You in the newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of letter. Because of our lazy, passionate flesh and its lusts, we are unable to keep Your written law with its hundreds of commandments. And so, we are found guilty by the law. But You took pity on us and gave us the opportunity to be reconciled to You through the spiritual rebirth, through the participation in the New Covenant based of the saving sacrifice of Jesus Christ. By Your grace You accept our sincere repentance and grant us forgiveness and a chance to start over. We also thank You for the example of our great predecessors in the New Covenant: martyrs, confessors, ascetics and all the righteous who have come to the Truth and are sanctified. By their courage and steadfastness Christ hath disgraced Lucifer through them, humbled the pride of the Roman empire, just as the faith of the three youths in the fiery furnace of Babylon hath disgraced the pride of the city of Nimrod. Free us from the total control that awaits the world and towards which it is already moving. Keep and protect us so that the fire of faith and of the Holy Spirit may not be quenched in our hearts and wombs. May Thy name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit be praised to the ages of ages. In Jesus' name. Amen.

 

[Daniel Hoseini]

If we are children, we are also heirs: heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; if only we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified with Him. (Romans 8:17)

Dear Heavenly Father! We thank You that You sent Your own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to condemn sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who strive not to walk after the flesh but according to the Spirit. Teach us, dear Lord, and bring to our consciousness that the thinking and working of the flesh is death, while thinking in harmony with Your Holy Spirit is life and peace. Instill in us Your fear, help us to deny ourselves every day for Your sake. Help us bear our cross without complaining. We thank You for Your chastisement, sorrows and afflictions that we encounter on our life path. We don't always manage to rejoice in You when we are tested, the trials seem unbearable, but when we think back, we thank You because we realize that You are thereby trying to wake us up to the reality of the fallen world, demonic struggle for our souls and for the need to be watchful, pray and cooperate in the salvation of our souls. Help us never to rely with certainty on the richness of our experience, opinions and worldview, but always be willing to part with them if we do not know what Your position is and whether You share our views. On the contrary, help us to always seek Your truth, Your reality and Your point of view in all matters and problems, so that we may be saved and not lost. Praise be to the name of the Holy Trinity - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - now and to the ages of ages. In Jesus' name. Amen.