Daddy,
I LOVE YOU!!!
Thank you for a chance to celebrate your power to resurrect
dead lives, dead hopes, dead dreams, dead hearts, and dead souls.
Thank you for a day given to celebrate your love that would rathe
die for us than see us die.
Thank you for the limitless power Jesus released when He
hung on that cross and took our sins upon Himself so we could stand before you
in His righteousness.
Thank you for....oh, my heart...I lose words....
Daddy, today there are people who need to hear your power,
near to hear your hope, near to hear your love. There are people thinking their
hopes, their dreams, their marriages, their kids, their careers, their
callings, THEY THEMSELVES are dead or are too dead. There are people today
GASPING FOR AIR thinking any moment it will be the last breath. Daddy, DADDY!
Hear them. Respond to them. Pour yourself out on them. I pray the power that
defeated eternal death on that cross would pour into these lives right now.
RIGHT NOW! I bind these hopes and dreams to you. I bind these lives,
relationships, purposes to you. Daddy, breathe life where it is needed. Make
your presence known. Make it obvoius to these precious people that Resurrection
wasn't something that just happened 2,000 years ago. It is something that
happens EVERY SINGLE DAY IN YOU. Jesus is the resurrection every single day,
and in Him there is resurrection for whatever seems dead. In Him there is life
right now for THEIR LIVES.
Daddy, this day is not about Easter eggs or even awesome
family dinners—although you are ALL about family. Today is a day of
resurrection, and there is so much you want to resurrect. I pray you would give
the hope, faith, and courage to each person waiting for the resurrection that
they might believe in what you want to resurrect in their lives.
Thank you, Daddy. I love you.
I see a husband who has made mistakes, not understood true
manhood, not understood what a strong husband truly is, and he is wondering if
he has blown it without possibility of redemption. The Lord says, “A broken
spirit and contrite heart I will not refuse. Humble yourself before me. I will
teach you to love her.”
I see a woman crying over her family. I think it is her
kids. She is sitting at a dining table, crying out. Oh, Lord, she is crying
out. I hear Him saying, “Trust in me. Simply trust in me.” I believe He wants
to teach you how to stop parenting in fear and start parenting in faith. You’ve
created a chasm because you’ve been trying to control because you are scared
for your kids. Your afraid of their going down the road you did or worse. He
doesn’t want you to live in fear. Fear only kills. Faith heals and gives life.
Pour yourself into Him and let Him pour into you. Let your prayer be for your
trust in him to be increased, and as you give them to Him, you will see their
hearts turn back to you and to home. More than that, you will see their hearts
turn to Him, and He says not to panic over missteps or sidesteps. He has not
abandoned them. Fathers don’t abandon their kids.
I also see someone sitting by either a large lake or an
ocean. Young woman. You’re heart is broken. I feel like you keep muttering to
yourself that you’ve made such a mess of things and you are specifically
referring to things you’ve done, the life you are now living, and you feel
bound to this life, like you don’t know how to get out, like you’ve created
this prison with friendships and choices. The Lord wants you to know there is
no prison He can’t get you out of, and yes, the exodus can be challenging, but
He can get you out and wants to get you out. He adores you. Did you hear that?
He adores you, and if you put your hand out, He is all in. He’s ready to save
you. Just set your face like flint and be prepared for a lot of changes. He’s going
to get you out of that environment, away from those people, and He is going to
give you a new place with new relationships. I also feel like He is saying, “Don’t
believe the lie you are unworthy. Only I get to determine your worth, and you
are worth this to Me.”
I also feel like there is a drug addict and also someone who
has had an abortion, and you cannot believe you’ve gotten where you are. You
disgust yourself. The Lord says He knows the road that got you here. He knows
the pain that led to your decisions, and not only does He want to heal you of
the pain of those decisions, He wants to heal you of the pain that led you here
in the first place.
I see a sexual abuse victim. Young person, and He wants you
to know your cries have not gone unheard. He has heard you. Daddy, this is hard
for me because you know my heart about this. I am asking you to do what has to
be done to reveal this abomination. I pray for you to remove this abuser from
this person’s life. I pray for safe refuge. I pray for a safe place to heal. I
pray the lies that this person is the cause of the abuse would be silenced. I
ask you to slap down the person inflicting this pain. I ask you to heal
everything that has been harmed in this victim’s mind, heart, and spirit. I
pray for physical healing. I pray for complete restoration of identity and joy
in who you made this person to me. I pray for the young man that you would
restore his manhood, that he would not fear being a man, that he would not
loathe being a man, that he would not see his manhood as dirty or evil but that
he would rejoice in the gift of being a godly man with integrity and honor. I
break the ties Satan has placed on him in Jesus’ name, and I ask you to restore
him to the fullness of who you made him to be.
And for this young woman who wants to mutilate her body or
hide her womanness either in manliness or with obesity so no man will ever find
her attractive and hurt her again, I ask you to heal her I ask you to restore
to her the beauty of her womanhood. I ask you to heal her from fear, heal her
from shame. I pray that you would free her from the nightmares. Restore her to
the woman you created her to be. There is gentleness and softness in her that
is so needed, and I pray you would give this back to her.
Daddy, I bring before you this person who is being bullied.
I ask for a steel canister to be placed around this person so that the verbal
assault will fall on deaf ears and there would be no heart or mind damage. I
know evil exists, and there is no perfect world, so I am asking for physical
protection, that no contact would be made, and I ask that you would put a
silencer in the ears of this victim so that the voices would not penetrate. I
pray that the only voices this person hears would be voices speaking life and
identifying this person as the gift YOU declare him/her to be, and I pray those
voices would saturate the mind, heart, and spirit of this person.
I feel like there are so many who need a word from God, who
need hope, who need to know God sees you and hears you. I’ve posted what I’ve
heard specifically, but I feel like the Lord wants me to offer specific prayer
to anyone who would like it. If you would like specific prayer, you can comment
here or message me through my profile. I will pray and share with you what I
feel the Lord says. If you would like the exchange to remain private, I will
need an email where I can send my reply. I give you my word, I will share
nothing with anyone else, not your name, not your need, not your email.
I pray today is a resurrection day for you. I pray you know more
than ever that this day is about Jesus’ death for you because of His love for
you.
Blessings,
Jerri
