Prodigals – Annamarie Strawhand – Faith Lane Ministries

Prayer to Command The Gates of Your Heart (or a loved one’s heart) To Open Up To God

By Annamarie Strawhand | March 11, 2024

I discerned that we have to open any gates that we have closed in our hearts to God because of past hurts, rejections, and betrayals. Yes, we guard our hearts, but we must not close them to God. If you are praying and praying but don’t hear or see anything and just seem stuck, that does not mean that God is not communicating with you. It could be that you have closed yourself off from hearing Him without realizing it. Jeanette Strauss and I did a prayer on a broadcast where I prayed to command the gates of your heart to open to God.

Pray Out Loud Over Yourself Or A Loved One

“Dear Heavenly Father, I come before You today as an ambassador of reconciliation on behalf of myself and/or my loved one, _______, and my/their life. I come into Your Courts of Heaven, Father God, and stand before You in repentance. I repent on behalf of any sin that I have committed against You in any way or anything that I received into myself or my loved one has received that has closed gates within ourselves, including things that we’ve even said out of our mouth gates, things we’ve seen out of our eye gates, or any single gate that’s in our body, heart, mind, soul, and spirit, Father — those gates in me or my loved one that things enter and exit from.

“Father God, I repent right now if there is any sin involved with any of those gateways, particularly any offense or unforgiveness. I ask You to forgive me. I ask You to wash away all these sins in and on my gates or the gates of my loved one with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. Father God, Lord Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, today I request that when YOU stand at that door or gate and knock and call to me or my loved one, I/they will hear your knock. I/they will hear Your voice! I/they am/are not sleepy, weary, stuck, or closed off! I/they can hear You knocking on my/their gates and doors in the natural and in the spiritual!

“Father God, I open every gate and door to YOU! Father God, Lord Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit, I desire to be fully awakened spiritually and physically in every area and to be alert right now to receive Your voice, Your signs, and Your correction and love, not just for my personal life and family but also as a watchman on the wall to be a gatekeeper for You, Lord Jesus Christ, as a part of Your Church in this realm on earth, Father God, as it is in Heaven!

“I ask for fresh anointing of the Holy Spirit to do this faithfully. Thank You, Father God, that I will see Your truth and embrace Your truth and walk in Your truth in boldness and faith! I ask this all before Your Heavenly Courts, Father God, in the name of Jesus Christ.

“I declare, by the authority of Jesus Christ, that any unclean, demonic spirit that has taken a position at my gates, both in the spiritual and the natural, must be uprooted and cast from and evicted now by my prayers that I just prayed in the Courts of Heaven. I apply the blood of Jesus to all my gates, both in the spiritual and the natural, and give Jesus Christ all dominion and authority at my gates.

“As I have petitioned Father God before His Heavenly Courts today, my petition has been heard, and I know by faith and by the power of the blood of Jesus Christ speaking for me in the Courts of Heaven that my petition is being carried out right now. All my gates have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ, and the King of Glory is now coming in, according to Palm 24. I receive the King of Glory! I praise and worship Father God as I decree through my prayers of repentance that I am forgiven, and the gates are open wide within me to hear clearly from my Father God and His word spoken and shown to me!

“I receive divine revelation and confirmation right now from the Holy Spirit a sign of ______*. When this sign is shown to me in the natural, I will know that this prayer and decree has been activated in the Heavens, in the earth, and in my life, all for your kingdom and glory, Father God. This decree shall not return void and shall prosper for what it is sent right now according to Isaiah 55:11. Come in, King of Glory. My gates are open and ready to receive You, in the name of Jesus Christ!”

*Click here for my teaching on how to ask for a sign of confirmation from God.

Note: If you do not feel comfortable asking the Holy Spirit for a sign of confirmation, just go forth in faith that it is done for you.

Declare Out Loud Over The Gates Of The Hearts Of Your Children

For any gates that our children have slammed shut on us (parents), Jesus, the word of God, truth, righteousness, Holy Spirit, and Father God:

We repent for our children slamming those gates shut and for them not honoring us (parents), Jesus, the word of God, truth, righteousness, Holy Spirit, and Father God
Then we command those gates they slammed shut to us (parents), Jesus, the word of God, truth, righteousness, Holy Spirit, and Father God to open up now and receive the King of Glory and us (parents), Jesus’ Salvation, the word of God, truth, righteousness, Holy Spirit, and Father God!!!
We command the gates of any veils over their eyes of understanding to be lifted up and for the truth to come marching in!
Name the gates, take your Seat of Authority there, enforce the blood of Jesus, and say what is allowed and what is not
Renounce the spirit of slumber off the sleepers! Awaken their gates!

Psalm 24:7-9 (The Message)

7 Wake up, you sleepyhead city!

Wake up, you sleepyhead people!

King-Glory is ready to enter.

8 Who is this King-Glory?

God, armed

and battle-ready.

9 Wake up, you sleepyhead city!

Wake up, you sleepyhead people!

King-Glory is ready to enter.

Prayer To REMOVE Evil Seeds Out Of Your Loved Ones! Prayer Over Children’s Social Media Influences!

By Annamarie Strawhand | December 16, 2022

ANYTHING THAT GOD DID NOT PLANT IN YOUR CHILDREN AND LOVED ONES WILL BE PLUCKED OUT!

This is a new prayer to remove any unholy, ungodly social media or other areas of influence from our children and loved ones.

As my assistant, Jennifer Klinger, and I were interceding on behalf of the children the other day, the Lord gave us a new prayer that is based on Matthew 15:13 and is meant to be a follow-up to the Ax of God’s Judgment Prayer (see link below).

Matthew 15:13 – “But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.”

The Lord said to me to pray the Ax of Judgment to chop down the unholy, ungodly influences to get them off of and away from them, and then pray according to Matthew 15:13 for a thorough clean up to uproot and pluck out all unholy, ungodly seeds that have been planted in them.

Watch this excerpt from the broadcast on December 16, 2022, and then follow up with the prayers below.

First Pray The Ax Of Judgment Prayer:

Remove Ungodly Relationships And Influences – Ax Of God’s Judgment Prayer HERE

Follow up with this new prayer: Prayer To Remove Evil Seeds

Biblical Prayer To Remove Evil Influences and Remove Evil Seeds Off Your Children and Loved Ones

Note: Feel free to insert the names of your own children and children in your family as you pray over the children of our nation and the world.

Pray Out Loud:

“Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for our children. We lift them up to you, Father God, and we place all of our children in the blood of Jesus over all the world. We say our children are anyone under the age of 30 years old and even include the children who are in the womb right now. We ask you, King Jesus, to release the power of Your blood over every person under the age of 30, even the children in the womb.

Your blood breaks all curses and demonic assignments off of our children. Your blood sanctifies and makes our children holy back to God. We proclaim that every child under the age of 30 years old, including those in the womb, has been redeemed by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ right now out of the hands of the devil and into the hands of God and set aside for the plans and purposes of God all for the glory of God by the blood of Jesus.

Father, release Your anointing and pour out Your Spirit on all flesh — man, woman, and child, including the children in the womb — that Your sons and daughters shall prophesy and our old men shall dream dreams. You promised to do this, Father God, and we ask for it right now. Let every veil that is on every man, woman, and child be lifted now so that every man, woman, and child in this nation of America and all the nations shall have eyes of understanding right now. They shall see the truth, know the truth, receive the truth, walk in the truth, and understand the truth right now, in the name of Jesus. Every lie shall be cast down right now under the feet of Jesus Christ, canceled, dismantled, and crushed by the blood of Jesus. All witchcraft and sorcery that is being used against our children through the media propaganda and big tech companies is canceled and dismantled right now by the blood of Jesus. Thank You, Lord. We enforce the blood of Jesus right now.

Father, we place all of our children’s phones, computers, devices, games, anything that is connected to the internet or by digital means, and anywhere they go on any technology platform or social media platform in the blood of Jesus Christ.

Lord Jesus, release the power of Your blood over every phone, computer, laptop, and digital device that is in the hands of our children and even in our hands and cancel and dismantle any witchcraft, sorcery, propaganda, and lies of the enemy off of them all right now, in the name of Jesus, and replace it with Your truth. All of a sudden, Your truth, King Jesus, will start popping up on their phones. Scripture, prophetic messages, messages of the word of God will start supernaturally popping up on their devices right now, in the name of Jesus! Thank You, Lord.”

Prayer For Divine Mentors To Disciple Your Loved Ones

By Annamarie Strawhand | October 10, 2022

If you have a child or family member who, after they received Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, went prodigal or backslid – or even is under a demonic attack, you need to pray for divine mentors, sent by God to come into their lives to equip and disciple them for their calling for the Kingdom of God.

Invite the Holy Spirit, the presence of the living God into your home, into your family, into your household, and then you will start to see things come into the divine order of Father God. It’s the Holy Spirit that brings everything into God’s divine order, and He must be invited.

If you aren’t baptized in the Holy Spirit, and if you haven’t invited the Holy Spirit into your home, pray my prayer for Salvation to recommit your life to Christ and to invite the Holy Spirit to come and baptize you. (See that prayer HERE) You can also anoint your home and invite the presence of the Lord to come and dwell in your home. (Learn how HERE)

Do not be afraid if you have family members who don’t agree with you. Just keep doing what you need to do for the Lord. Keep being obedient to the Lord, and keep inviting the Holy Spirit to work on them. Keep inviting the Holy Spirit to come and do a work in your home, and then watch what God does with them. Watch what God does in your home. It’s only the Holy Spirit that can wake up your family members and loved ones. He will come and bring a shift in your home and bring it into God’s divine alignment.

Prophetic Act of Faith
Open up the front door of your house and say, “Holy Spirit, I invite you. Presence of the living God, come in and tabernacle with us. Come in and dwell with us King Jesus. Bring my home and my household into the divine order of the Kingdom of God. In my household as it is in Heaven! I call everything in my home, my family and my household into the Ministry of Jesus Christ of Nazareth in Jesus name! These are the members of my household: (speak their names).

Pray Out Loud
“Father, I ask you to bring a divine laborer into _______’s path right now who will be their Holy Spirit-filled mentor and who will equip them and disciple them for the will and the word of God for their lives! Give them encounters with Jesus Christ in their dreams and visions! Show them their identity in Christ! I proclaim now by faith my loved one ________ shall be discipled back and fully into their calling for Jesus Christ! I proclaim my loved one shall disciple others for Jesus Christ! Thank you Father God for bringing the perfect divine laborers and Holy Spirit filled mentors and teachers into ____________life! I am in expectation of seeing your Glory at work in them! In Jesus name!”

More Prayers:

Prayer To Send the Holy Spirit to Help with Loved Ones

Prayer For Prodigals

Prayers and Decrees for Children

By Annamarie Strawhand | July 30, 2022

Prayers and Declarations for Children:

Speak and declare Psalm 139:14-16 over your children into the atmosphere and over them – if you can lay hands on them and decree:

“Almighty God, My children will praise thee; for they are fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and the souls of my children knoweth right well.

My children’s substance was not hid from thee, when my children were made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

Thine eyes did see their substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my children’s members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

How precious also are thy thoughts unto my children, O God! how great is the sum of them!

If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when my children awake, they are still with thee.”

Prayer for Children to be Divinely Restored:

“Father God, your word says in Matthew 15:13 Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Therefore, Father God, anything that YOU have not planted into the bodies or minds of our children shall be rooted up and removed from them right now in the name of Jesus! Anything in their mind, body, soul and spirit and lives that were not put there by You Father God be plucked out of them supernaturally and even any bad cells and toxins removed and flushed out of their bodies now in the name of Jesus! All bad thoughts and lies in their minds be plucked out and removed now in the name of Jesus and replaced with the Mind Of Christ and thoughts that bear the fruit of the Holy Spirit! I ask the Holy Spirit to go now into my child’s body, mind, soul and spirit and fully restore it to its divine order in Jesus name! Thank You Father God I am in expectation of seeing your Glory in my Children! Amen and so be it!”

Prophesy:

“Father God, according to Your Word in Jeremiah 24:7 You have given my child _______ a heart to know YOU! In Jesus name!”

“Father God, according to Your Word in Acts 13:22, You said that You have found David the son of Jesse, a man after Your own heart, which shall fulfil all Your will. Therefore by faith, I declare today that my child __________ is also a woman / man of Your own heart, Father God and shall fulfill all of Your will! In Jesus name!”

“Father God, according to Your word in 1 Samuel 2:26 that Samuel grew in stature and favor with the Lord and men, and again in Your word in Luke 2:40 that Jesus grew and became strong in spirit, was filled with wisdom and the grace of God – Your Grace Father was upon Him. Therefore, by faith I proclaim my child __________ is growing in stature, strength in spirit, and growing abundantly in health, wealth, wisdom, prosperity, love, faith, truth, understanding, beauty in and out, excellence, righteousness, wholeness, peace and shalem! I proclaim Your grace Father God is always upon and filling my child ____________ and they have the favor of God, Your Favor Father God – and the Favor of people, good and Holy Spirit filled people always around them to bless them! Let Your hand be with them Father in all areas of their lives forever, and their lives be testimony of YOUR goodness and glory in Jesus name!”

Thank You Father God for my child – I dedicate them to You Father God in the Name of Your Son Jesus Christ! AMEN

Prayer To Send The Holy Spirit To Help With Loved Ones

By Annamarie Strawhand | May 19, 2021

Did you know you can “send” the Holy Spirit to someone or to help with something? Yes! He is your helper and He knows exactly how to reveal the truth to them! So you may have a loved one who is away from God, or not talking to you, dealing with an issue, maybe they are in deception or even a dangerous lifestyle. Jesus promised us the Helper!

John 14:16 – (Amplified Bible) The Role of the Spirit: And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor-Counselor, Strengthener, Standby), to be with you forever.

According to the scriptures in John 14:12-13, Jesus said that those who believe in Him, the works He did we shall do also and greater works than those we shall do, and whatever we shall ask in His name that will He do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If we ask anything in His name He will do it. Since, Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to his disciples, we also can send the Holy Spirit. In John 15:26 and John 16:7, Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit to his disciples. In these verses, the Holy Spirit is referred to as the Comforter, Advocate, Helper, or Counselor depending on the Bible translation you are reading. Understand we do not command the Holy Spirit, we ask Him to help us in Jesus name as our “Helper”. However we can command the angelic from our seat of authority as a king through Christ Jesus, our King.

“When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.” John 15:26 NIV

“Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.” John 16:7 KJV

You can pray this:

“Holy Spirit, my Helper, in the name of Jesus I send you to hover over ___________ to do creative miracles in ____________, open _________ eyes, mind, heart, soul, spirit to understanding and receiving truth and God’s word and will for their life. Holy Spirit I ask you to give ___________ an encounter with Jesus Christ and reveal to _______their true identity in Christ Jesus! Holy Spirit show _______ what You have shown me right now in Jesus name. Amen”

You can ask Him to go and ‘convict’ (meaning give them a truth check in their spirit) that person if they are doing wrong, you can ask Him to bring a loving family memory to mind of that person if they are hurting or prodigal. The Holy Spirit can help you point that person to Christ and bring that person out of darkness, or even find and reveal something that has been hidden to them. That’s His job and He loves it when you ask Him to help! Holy Spirit does the heavy lifting with your loved ones! The Holy Spirit can do in one day what would take you weeks and months to do! A person’s heart, mind and spirit can only be changed by the work of the Holy Spirit! Understand that the more you try sometimes to tell people something – even though you know it to be true and the will of God – they may just ignore you or pull further away from you. But they cannot ignore or run from the Holy Spirit! Keep sending the Holy Spirit every day to that person until you see breakthrough!

I have learned this from experience, I have sent the Holy Spirit many times to help me with my loved ones with huge breakthroughs (especially with my Husband)! Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God on the earth, He can go anywhere and immediately and He is your best friend, eager to help us! He can help you in all things and remember Jesus asked the Father special for us to have Him! Thank You Jesus! Thank You Father God and Thank You Holy Spirit!

NOTE: So what do you do in the mean time while you are waiting for the Holy Spirit to work on that person? Just love them and be an example in your own life’s walk for Jesus Christ.

I LOVE THIS Quote from Evangelist Todd White:

How do you share Jesus with someone who is argumentative and confrontational?

Love them the best you can.

Pray for them if they will let you.

Share your personal testimony.

Pray that the eyes of their understanding be opened.

Pray for more laborers to cross their path.

Just remember that any seeds that were planted, will not return void. – Todd White

What if your loved one is in sin and is unsaved? See my prayer for Unsaved Loved Ones Below.

Decree Out Loud:

I put my faith in God and enter His rest!

Pray This Prayer To See A Loved One Saved Or To Return To Jesus Christ:

“Father, I come to You, in Jesus’ name, praying for _______. I ask You, Father, to bring the perfect divine laborer of Your choosing into _______’s path. Let this laborer speak just the right word to _______ at the right moment, divinely orchestrated by Your Holy Spirit. As I cover _______ with prayer and the blood of Jesus Christ, I thank You, Father, that sin is going to become exceedingly sinful and repungent to them, and _______ will no longer find pleasure in the sinful things that they have enjoyed in the past! _______ will see that they can only enjoy life when they are in a relationship with you, Father God, and in the Lord Jesus Christ!! I thank You, Father God, that Your Holy Spirit is dealing with _______ right now! Your Holy Spirit is dealing with _______ and dealing with _______ and dealing with ________ until _______ gives in and lets You, Father God, in their life and they are brought to repentance, a free gift from the Lord Jesus Christ! I thank You, Father, for the salvation of _______. I ask You now to fill them with Your Holy Spirit and let the veils be lifted off of them suddenly so that they shall see the truth, accept the truth, know the truth, speak the truth, and walk in the truth and light of Jesus Christ all the days of their life, fulfilling their divine destiny for Your kingdom and glory, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

“I am in faithful expectation to see the new positive changes in _______ as they give more of their life to Jesus Christ! _______’s heart belongs to You, Father God, their Abba Father!”

Be in faithful expectation to see the Glory of God at work in the life of your loved ones!

Love,

Coach Annamarie

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