Hi, prayer warrior!
Whether it’s an easy relationship, where the conversation flows honest and filter-free, warmth abounds, and conflicts are few…
or whether it’s a hard relationship, where personalities clash, common ground is minimal, and hurt feelings are plentiful…
relationships are gifts.
The relationships that challenge us refine us. They’re tools in the hand of our loving God, who uses them to stretch us and shape us and mold us into the image of His Son.
The relationships that come easy…
well, those are the icing on the cake.
So take a moment and thank God for your relationship with your friend, and then lift to Him these prayers for the other relationships in your friend’s life.
Prayers for Your Friend’s Relationships
- Ask the Lord to help your friend put all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander away from them, along with all malice. Pray that He would give them a kind and tender heart that is willing to forgive in the same way they have been forgiven by God (Ephesians 4:31-32).
- Acknowledge to God that good sense will make your friend slow to anger, and it is a person’s glory to overlook an offense (Proverbs 19:11). Pray that God would help your friend not be easily offended by the words, actions, or attitudes of others.
- Pray that God would help them handle conflicts biblically, having the courage to approach the other person one-on-one before seeking the intervention of others (Matthew 18:15-17).
- Ask that God’s grace would equip your friend to do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but to humbly count others more significant than themself. Pray that He would help them look out for the interests of others and not just their own. Beg Him to grant your friend the humility that Christ exemplified when He emptied Himself of all rights and privileges, and took on the form of a servant (Philippians 2:3-7). Ask Him to show your friend specific ways to serve in the midst of a hard relationship.
- Affirm the truth that one who does not love others cannot love God. Pray that God would help your friend love others the way He loves them, and the way He has loved your friend even when they are unlovable (I John 4:20-21).
- Pray that your friend wouldn’t repay evil for evil, but would instead do what is honorable in the sight of all. Pray that as far as it depends on your friend, he or she would live peaceably with all. Ask God to help her trust your friend to take care of any vengeance that is due (Romans 12:17-19).
- Pray that your friend would be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, understanding that the anger of people does not produce the righteousness of God (James 1:19-20). Acknowledge the truth that a soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger (Proverbs 15:1). Pray that God would give your friend a gentle spirit evidenced by soft replies.
- Pray that God would help your friend to honor their father and mother all the days of their life (Exodus 20:12). Ask that He would guide your friend in treating their parents with respect, not rebuking them but encouraging them with a pure heart (I Timothy 5:1-2).
- Ask that God would help your friend to be careful to keep their soul diligently, so that they do not forget the things which their eyes have seen and they do not depart from their heart all the days of their life; but that they would be faithful to make them known to their children and grandchildren (Deuteronomy 4:9).
- When it comes to your friend’s Christian brothers and sisters, pray that he or she would follow God’s instructions given through Paul: “Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.” (2 Corinthians 13:11)
Dear Heavenly Father, I ask for Your blessing over my friend’s relationships. Use my friend as a conduit of Your grace in the lives of others. And use my friend’s relationships to continue molding them into Your image. It’s in the name of my Savior, Jesus Christ, that I pray. Amen.
How are you doing with the challenge? Are you hanging in there? We’re almost halfway there! Tomorrow we’ll be praying for your friend’s health, so come prepared for more intercession made powerful by the Word of God.
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