Wise Quotes - POWER OF A PRAYING WOMAN 16

DAY 16 - LORD,  GUIDE ME IN ALL MY RELATIONSHIPS.

We all desperately need a sense of family, of relationship, of belonging. If you don't realise that about yourself, it's probably because you have always had it. God created us to be in families. We have a natural hunger to be part of something that gives us a sense of acceptance, affirmation, and being needed and appreciated. But even if we have never received that from our own biological families, there is good news. God sets us in spiritual families. In many ways these can be just as important.*

Being God's children means all believers wherever they may be are all part of our family and having this spiritual family is crucial to our well being. It's important to be yoked with people who walk closely with God. We all have blind spots. We need people who will help us see the truth about ourselves and our lives. And we need to have the kind of relationships that don't break down when truth is spoken in love.

God doesn't want us to be unequally yoked with unbelievers, but that doesn't mean we should have nothing to do with anyone who doesn't know the Lord. Far from it. We are God's too to reach others for His Kingdom. But our closest relationships, the ones that influence us the most, need to be with people who love and fear God. If you don't have close friends who are believers, pray for godly and desirable friends to come into your life. here are seven good signs to look out for in a desirable friend;

1. A desirable friend tells you the truth in love - (Read Proverbs 27:6)
2. A desirable friend gives you sound advice - (Read Proverbs 27:9)
3. A desirable friend refines you - (Read Proverbs 27:17)
4. A desirable friend helps you grow - (Read Proverbs 13:20)
5. A desirable friend stays close to you - (read Proverbs 18:24)
6. A desirable friend loves you and stands by you - (Read Proverbs 17:17)
7. A desirable friend help you in time of trouble - (Read Ecclesiastes 4:9-10)

If you have fiends with these qualities, protect those friendships with prayer. If you have friends who have less than desirable qualities, you need to pray about those as well.....here are seven signs to also look out for in an undesirable friend;

1. An undesirable friend is immoral and has no regard for others - (Read I Corinthians 5:11)
2. An undesirable friend is changeable and unstable - (Read Proverbs 24:21-22)
3. An undesirable friend is frequently angry - (Read Proverbs 22:24-25)
4. An undesirable friend gives ungodly counsel - (Read Psalm 1:1)
5. An undesirable friend is lawless unbeliever - (Read II Corinthians 6:14-15)
6. An undesirable friend is a fool - (Read Proverbs 13:20)
7. An undesirable is irreverent toward God and His laws - (Read Psalm 119:63)

If you have friends with such characteristics as these, ask god to send you new fiends while you pray for the old ones to be transformed.........Don't leave your relationships to chance. Pray for godly people to come into your life with whom you can connect. Don't force relationships to happen, pray for them to happen. then when they do, nurture them with prayer. This doesn't mean you have to have a large numbers of friends. There is great strength in small numbers when the people involved are strong in the Lord. The quality of your relationships is more important than the quantity. The quality of your relationships will determine the quality of your life. And this is something worth praying for.




                                                              PRAYER
Lord,  I lift up every one of my relationships to You and ask You to bless them. I pray hat each one would be glorifying to You. Help me to choose my friends wisely so I won't be led astray. Give me discernment and strength to separate myself from anyone who is not a good influence. I release all my relationships to You and pray that Your will be done in each one of them.

With my most difficult relationships, I ask that Your peace would reign in them. Specifically I lift up to You my relationship with  (name a difficult friend). I know two can't walk together unless they agree (Amos 3:3), so help us to find a place of agreement, unity and like mindedness. Where either of us needs to change, I pray that You would change us. Break down any "wall of separation"  (Ephesians  2:13-15) other misunderstanding.  I release this person into Your hands and ask that You would make our relationship what You want it to be so that it will glorify You.

I pray for my relationship with each of my family members. Specifically, I pray for my relationship with  (name the family member with whom you are most concerned ). I pray You would bring healing,  reconciliation and restoration where it is needed. Bless our relationship and make it strong.

I pray for any relationships I have wig people who don't know You, Lord. Give me words to say that will turn heir hearts toward You. Help me to be Your light to them. Specifically I pray for (name and unbeliever or someone who has walked away from God.). Soften his person's heart to open her (his) research to receive You and follow You faithfully.

I pray for godly friends, role models, and mentors to come into my life. Send people who will speak the truth not live. I pray especially that there will be women in my life who are trustworthy, kind, loving and faithful. Most of all I pray that they be women of strong faith who will add to my life and I to theirs. May we mutually raise the standards to which we aspire. May forgiveness and love flow freely between us. Make me to be Your light I  all my relationships.

Scripture for Meditation

Ephesians 2:19-22

Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

Psalm 68:6

God sets the solitary in families;

He brings out those who are bound into prosperity;

But the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Ephesians 4:31-32

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

Ephesians 4:14-16

that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

This post is dedicated to all my  friends who have helped me in this life journey. Especially to my ladies on Marriage Bliss, thanks for all the Love, Support, Prayers, The Corrections, The Testimonies, Godly Counsel, The Jokes, The Godly Arguments, The Funny Videos & Pics😉,  The Good, The Bad and the Happy Moments......We've been through it all and we still stand strong. Here's to many more years of godly relationships. God bless you all.

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*Stomie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Woman(2006)