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Removing Spiritual Foxes

Removing Spiritual Foxes

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Jesus called Herod a “fox.” That was not a nice or cute name. Foxes were considered pests that came into the vineyards and orchards and ate the early fruit before it could be harvested. 

Foxes are small animals, about the size of a house cat or a small dog, yet a fox is capable of doing terrible damage. They burrow and chew in a vineyard until the vines wither and become unproductive. They also eat the tender shoots of the vines. They are sly and sneak around day and at night, and the farmers don’t always see them doing this to catch them. They can ruin an entire crop even before it starts to bloom! Many fruit farmers to this day hire falconers to come and bring their falcons to fly over the fruit groves to find the foxes with their keen eyes and fast moves to hunt down the foxes and destroy them. 

What did Jesus mean then to curse Herod with calling him a “fox,” Herod’s father was the one who ordered to kill all the baby boys under the age of 2 when Jesus was born. Herod, the son, wanted to disrupt Jesus’ ministry and killed John the Baptist, thus coming against the move and fruit of the Holy Spirit. 

Spiritual foxes work through people and influences and usually are around us and our children when the enemy wants to devour the fruits of the Holy Spirit that are just beginning in us. This is an important understanding we must have, and we have to be vigilant.  

If I see a fox in nature or in a dream I know it’s a sign to pray this prayer. 

After you’ve been in the Courts of Heaven for your family and done land assignments in your city/state/region repenting for the sins and pouring the blood of Jesus in the land, there is no cause for a curse. It cannot operate anymore, but you have to stay vigilant. You have to be a watchman on the wall for everything in your life. You have to watch for those sneaky foxes, and then ask God to render judgment so that your city, your state, and your family and children can bear good fruit.

It’s the sneaky spiritual foxes – evil spirits – that can work through influences around them  – that want to come after the early fruit of the Holy Spirit in your life, in your children, in your family and marriage, in your schools, and in your city and state. 

Pray Out Loud

  • “Father God, I’m asking you, according to Your Word in Matthew 3:10 and also Song of Solomon 2:15, to go and judge the bad fruit in this situation _______. Take Your ax of judgment and chop at the root every evil influence at  _______. Chop out, root out, pull up at the roots, leaving neither root nor branch nor any of the bad seeds nor any of the bad fruit, not even a leaf! Root out their unholy, ungodly influence, and cast it into the fire. They will never have any influence over _______ ever again! Judge it, Lord, according to Your Word, in Jesus’ name!

 

  • “Father God, in its place, I ask you to plant Holy Spirit-filled influences in those areas in _______. Let revival for Jesus Christ arise. Raise up Your prophets, teachers, and evangelists in _______, in Jesus’ name!”   

If you see sneaky foxes coming in and influencing your spouse, children, or other loved ones, continue on with the prayer below:

Prayer For God To Release Hunter and Trapper Angels To “Hunt and Trap The Foxes”

Pray Out Loud

  • “Father, thank You for Your word that teaches and guides us how to pray for our children and marriages. By faith, we know that You want us to bloom and prosper and produce the fruit of the Holy Spirit from walking in our divine purpose and having a close relationship with You, Lord.

 

  • “Father, I am coming to You today decreeing and standing upon Your word in Song of Solomon 2:15, ‘Catch for us the foxes — the little foxes that ruin the vineyards — for our vineyards are in bloom.’

 

  • “Father, I can clearly see that there are sneaky little foxes in the spirit realm that are stealing the fruits of the Holy Spirit that my loved one, _______, is meant to produce in their life. My loved one, _______, is gifted and anointed by You, Father, to fulfill their calling in life and to come into a full relationship with Jesus Christ. My loved one, _______, is being hindered by those foxes that are trying to spoil their fruit and the branches that connect them to Christ, who is the vine.

 

  • “According to Your word in John 15:5, Jesus said, ‘I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.’

 

  • “In the name of Jesus, I ask that Your Hunter and Trapper Angels be released on behalf of my loved one, _______, to hunt and trap those foxes that are coming against Your will and Your plans for their life. I ask that these Hunter and Trapper Angels go now to catch every single sneaky fox that is operating in and around my loved one, _______, and send those foxes far, far away from my loved one, _______, forever!

 

  • “I decree that those sneaky foxes will never come near my loved one again and will never be allowed to touch their fruits of the Holy Spirit ever again, in Jesus’ mighty name! Amen.”

Note: If your loved one is prodigal, you may want to pray my prodigal prayer over them as well. See link below in the resources section.

Recently, the Lord also brought me to Judges Chapter 15 and revealed yet another prayer strategy to get rid of the foxes in our prodigals lives by burning them up! 

“Samson, angry at the father of the Philistine woman he married who gave her to someone else (Judges 15:1-2), decides to get revenge. He catches 300 foxes, and then in pairs, ties their tails, along with a small torch, together with a cord. Then he lets them loose among the Philistine farmland. This causes, not only the recently harvested crops, but also that which was yet to be harvested to be consumed by fire (Judges 15:5).” https://www.biblestudy.org/bibleref/meaning-of-numbers-in-bible/300.html 

He’s saying to set those foxes on fire and destroy their wicked fruit. God will bring His holy fire and catch the spiritual, demonic foxes in the lives of the prodigals on fire, and those foxes will flee and destroy the wicked fruit.

So we can ask Father God to take revenge on the enemy and the enemy’s agenda against our children that has caused them to go prodigal – to destroy the enemy’s fields and their foxes with fire. 

Pray Out Loud

  • Father God, in Jesus’ name, I ask You now to send Your holy fire to burn up the foxes that are coming against the fruit of the Holy Spirit in my loved one, _______, and to destroy the fields of the enemy. My loved one, _______, will never be in the fields of the enemy again! I ask you to reconcile _______ back to Jesus so he/she will walk with God for the rest of his/her life. Thank You, Father God, for hearing and answering my prayer!

Scripture References

Proverbs 26:2 (NKJV)
“Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow, So a curse without cause shall not alight.”

Song of Solomon 2:15 (KJV)
“Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.”

Matthew 3:10 (KJV)
“And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.”

Judges 15:1-5 (NLT)
“Later on, during the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat as a present to his wife. He said, ‘I’m going into my wife’s room to sleep with her,’ but her father wouldn’t let him in. 2 ‘I truly thought you must hate her,’ her father explained, ‘so I gave her in marriage to your best man. But look, her younger sister is even more beautiful than she is. Marry her instead.’ 3 Samson said, ‘This time I cannot be blamed for everything I am going to do to you Philistines.’ 4 Then he went out and caught 300 foxes. He tied their tails together in pairs, and he fastened a torch to each pair of tails. 5 Then he lit the torches and let the foxes run through the grain fields of the Philistines. He burned all their grain to the ground, including the sheaves and the uncut grain. He also destroyed their vineyards and olive groves.”

Resources

Daily Suit-Up Prayers 

How To Appear In The Courts Of Heaven – Remove Generational Curses 

Five Strategies For Praying Your Prodigals Home (And Back To God)

Prayer To Remove Un-Godly Relationships And Influences – Ax Of God’s Judgment

Land Prayer Assignments Guide And Index

Prayers For Schools & Education System – Courts Of Heaven – Repentance And Land Assignment

​US Judicial System Prayer Assignment – Repentance In The Courts Of Heaven 

Prayers For Post Office  

What Gives A Cause For A Curse and How To Remove It Forever!

What Gives A Cause For A Curse and How To Remove It Forever!

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God is merciful, but it’s the enemy that brings debt and brings attacks against your blessings, health, family and finances. It’s the enemy that brings delay in your blessings, health, family and finances. What gives him a legal right to do that? Your sin! Your un-repented sin. It’s not God that’s delaying your blessings and breakthroughs. It’s not God that’s holding back. 

It’s your un-repented sin that causes it – bottom line! And the enemy (the accuser in Revelation 12:10) uses it as a legal right (our sins)  against believers, and then he goes and starts assigning demons to it. 

This is why repentance is the greatest gift we have. We get to repent. Repent, repent, repent, repent! Even if you’re not sure, repent.  I love to repent! I see breakthroughs every time! Repentance and the blood of Jesus is a free gift for each of us! Thank You Jesus!

Proverbs 26:2 – “Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.” 

Meaning, the little sparrow that is flitting around alights or lands on something, so curses cannot land on anything that is causeless. A curse must have a cause to land on something. What gives a cause for a curse? Unrepented sin. 

Once we repent to Father God for these specific sins, and we ask Jesus to put His Blood on these specific sins, the Blood of Jesus makes the sin null and void, therefore any curse attached to that sin becomes null and void, causeless!  No place to land, that curse and it’s demons must flee!

If we have repented and there seems to still be attacks or no breakthroughs, we have to keep enforcing the blood of Jesus Christ and reminding the devil (the accuser) that his curses cannot touch us because of the blood of Jesus Christ that covers us, he has lost his cause and legal rights and must cease and desist.  Or we have to go again to Father God and Holy Spirit and ask if there are any sins that we have not repented from or sins in our family bloodlines that are still giving a cause for a curse.  I call that “targeted repentance”.   I do that as the Holy Spirit reveals. But here is a prayer to get you started removing the causes for curses. 

Pray Out Loud In Sincere Faith and Humility:

  • “Father God, any sins that I, my spouse, or anyone in either of our family bloodlines have knowingly or unknowingly committed that are giving any cause for a curse, I confess them and repent for them right now. I ask for the blood of Jesus Christ to cover all of my sins that would give a cause for a curse. Any sins that I don’t even know about that would give a cause for a curse in my lifetime, in my spouse’s lifetime, in my children’s lifetime, and in the lifetimes of our ancestors going all the way back to Adam and Eve – any sin that they did unknowingly that would give a cause for a curse today, I repent for these sins right now, and I ask Jesus to put His blood on them and mark that curse null and void and any demons that are assigned to it null and void. Father, I ask You for grace, mercy, and forgiveness right now. I ask, Father God, that you will now bring a blessing in its place, in Jesus’ name. Amen!”

 

Note: I also highly recommend to go into the Courts of Heaven to fully remove any generational sins that may be strongholds, such as addictions, and other repeated negative patterns you see happening in your family.  You can do the Courts of Heaven Prayer Here. 

Also make sure you and your spouse have renounced any unholy – ungodly covenants with Freemasonry and any other secret societies or organizations.  These can also hold curses generationally.   Do this prayer here Renouncing and Removing Unholy Covenants

 

Prayer Of Repentance For Robbing God And Breaking Promises To God

Prayer Of Repentance For Robbing God And Breaking Promises To God

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On a recent broadcast of Life in the Faith Lane, a viewer asked the following question: “How do I pray for freedom of debt? I take two steps and then something happens, and now it’s more debt. I do tithe and serve at the church.”

Below is the Holy Spirit-led answer and prayer strategy from Coach Annamarie. If you are struggling in this area too, take this for yourself and your situation!

Annamarie: Are you tithing where God wants you to tithe? Is it a good storehouse? Sometimes it’s where you’re tithing. We are to tithe where we are fed – bottom line. Is your church really feeding you? Are you growing there? You see, people say they tithe. Are you really being fed there? You have to tithe where God tells you to tithe, and it has to be a place that you’re being fed, where you’re seeing growth. That’s the big thing. It’s where you’re tithing, number one, and two, have you repented for you and your family bloodline and your husband’s family and family bloodline of all your financial sins? 

You see, there’s two parts to Malachi Chapter 3 when you read it. My husband, Michael, and I were still in debt after 20 years of marriage. We were giving to our church. We weren’t giving our faithful tithe, but we were giving. I have the story about how God brought Mike and I to ground zero. 

You can watch that here: HOW GOD MADE MY HUSBAND AND I  DEBT FREE AFTER 20 YEARS OF MARRIAGE.

The Lord said to me, “You and Mike are in disobedience, and you’re robbing me.” Robbing Him?! Robbing Him?! What?! He said, “Malachi Chapter 3. Read the whole thing!” It starts out talking about the fact that  the people in our bloodline, our ancestors, and us robbed God. We weren’t faithful with our tithes, and even money that was set aside that was meant for God was not given to God. 

So what is that? Financial sin against God. What does that mean? If you’re reading the whole chapter of Malachi Chapter 3, it says God will rebuke the devourer, meaning you’ll be debt free. Anything that’s devouring your finances will be debt free. You’ll come out of debt. Your finances will increase. 

So it could be that you think you and your husband are being good and tithing, but what about the people in your family bloodline? Is there somebody that robbed God and the enemy’s still using that to devour your finances, has a legal right? I’m not talking about somebody going in a church and robbing the collection plate; although, that has happened. What I’m telling you is there are people in your family bloodline that did not tithe, that were not faithful with their tithe that called themselves Christians, or people that robbed God – held back their tithe on purpose or promised God that they would give money to something and didn’t do it. That all has to be repented for all the way down your family bloodline and you and your husband because you are one flesh. 

So Mike and I had to hold hands right there and repent for ourselves and our lifetime and everybody in our family bloodline going all the way back to Adam and Eve for financial sins against God and anybody who robbed God, didn’t faithfully tithe, or said they were going to give to God but didn’t. We had to repent for all of that and get it under the blood of Jesus Christ. 

And every once in a while I have to go before the Lord and repent again and say, “Father God, is there something I promised I would do for you? Is there something I promised that I would sow into? Did I say I was going to give to Israel and didn’t? Did I say I was going to give to a ministry and didn’t? Did you tell me to give somewhere, and I didn’t do it? I repent for that, and I ask for grace, mercy, and forgiveness. I ask for a reprieve. I ask for the blood of Jesus Christ to go on it.”

I’m getting a prophetic word right now. This is for somebody. It could even be for me right now. It could be for you, (name of person who asked the question). Did God tell you to give somewhere, and you didn’t do it? Maybe you even said you were going to do it, sat down with your husband or told somebody you were going to give to a certain thing, and God said, “Do it,” whether it be Israel or a certain charity or a certain church or ministry, and you had intentions of doing it, but you didn’t do it? The enemy can hold that against you. It’s literally giving God a false promise. It’s like robbing God. Did you put the money somewhere else? Just simply repent right now!

Pray Out Loud

  • “Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, I come before you humbly, and I repent for any time I promised to give, any time I said I was going to give financially – sow a seed, give a tithe or a donation – when I said I was going to do it and I didn’t do it. I repent for any time You told me to give and I didn’t do it. I repent for any time I was meant to give and I didn’t do it and used the money for something else. I repent for robbing You, God. I repent for lying to You, God. I repent for bearing false witness against You, Father God. I repent for sinning against Your word in Malachi Chapter 3. 


  • “Father God, I ask You to receive my heartfelt repentance today, and I ask for You to have grace and mercy upon me and upon my finances. Father God, I ask right now for Jesus to put His blood on all these sins that I’m confessing and any sins that I’ve forgotten about that would cause the legal right of the demonic to come against my finances – that would cause me to be in debt and continue to have financial strife. Any sins that are against You, God, and against Your word – the ones that I did knowingly and unknowingly, I repent right now for them, Father. I ask for Your grace and mercy and for the blood of Jesus Christ to speak a better word for me and my finances right now because my money is not my own. It belongs to You, God. 


  • “Father, I ask You to release me from the consequences of these sins right now because of the blood of Jesus Christ that is covering them – all of my financial sins and my poor financial stewardship. Father God, I ask You to give me another chance to get it right – a second chance. I ask You also to rebuke the devourer, that it would silence the accuser against me and strip him of his legal right to come against my finances. 


  • “Father, I ask for the blood of Jesus to go anywhere where the enemy is trying to cause delays in my finances or cause me to have debt, and to go on the sins that are causing that. I am not meant to have debt. Jesus paid my debt already. 


  • “I thank You, Lord Jesus Christ, that You paid all of my debts. I am debt free because of Jesus Christ, and I have the receipts – the blood of Jesus. And it is written, “A curse causeless cannot alight,” and because of the blood of Jesus Christ, there is no curse. The devil can no longer bring curses against my finances. I am debt free because of Jesus Christ. Jesus became a curse for me. 


  • “Father, I thank You for this opportunity to repent, and for the blood of Jesus Christ to be speaking over all my financial sins. All of my financial sins are now wiped clean in the heavens and the earth by the blood of Jesus. I have a second chance from God, and I have grace and mercy.


  • “Father, I ask You to reveal to me anywhere that I have been disobedient with my finances and give me a second chance to come into obedience. If I’m not tithing where You want me to tithe, then show me where You want me to tithe. I ask You, Father, to rebuke the devourer off of everything in my life right now, according to Your word in Malachi Chapter 3, because of the blood of Jesus Christ that is now covering all of my sins with finances and tithing and my ancestors’ too. Thank You, Jesus Christ.


  • “Father God, I want to be blessed to be a blessing because You’re blessed to be a blessing. I want increase so my tithe gets greater and greater and greater for You and Your kingdom – for Your plans and purposes in the earth, for Your storehouse to be filled, where there will be food in Your house, Father, and food in my house and in the house of my family. 


  • “I thank You for this opportunity to repent. We get to repent, a free gift for all of us. I ask You to do this for me and my family because of the precious blood of Jesus that has interceded on our behalf and covered our sin, and we are now clean, made new again, and Your grace and mercy is upon us and Your blessing also, Father.

 

  • “Let the windows of Heaven open up for us right now and pour out a blessing so great we can hardly contain it. I ask You to rebuke the devourer off of us right now, off of our finances, off of our harvests, off of our families, and off of our bank accounts. You are our treasure, Father God. In Jesus’ name, You are the source of our supply. You run our supply routes, Father God. Assign Your angels to our supply routes to protect it, Father God, and redeem it from all evil, by the blood of Jesus, covering our supply routes and accelerating our finances and our harvests to us, in Jesus’ mighty name, amen and amen! So be it!”

Resource

Also see my short teaching and prayer, “What Gives A Cause For The Curse And How To Remove It Forever.”

Prayer To Restore Marriage To The Divine Order Of God

Prayer To Restore Marriage To The Divine Order Of God

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Pray Out Loud

  • “Heavenly Father, Father God, thank You for who You are, all that You’ve done, all that You’re doing right now, and all that You’re going to do. Heavenly Father, I thank You for my life. I thank You for my marriage, Your masterpiece, Father. I thank You for my children. Heavenly Father, I come before You, in Jesus’ name, and I repent for my sins. I repent for my sins against You, Father God. I repent for any sins against my marriage. I repent for any sins against my children. I repent for sins against myself. I repent for my sins of bitterness, rejection, unforgiveness, offense, and any other sin, and I ask for grace, mercy, and forgiveness right now. In Jesus’ name, I ask You, Lord Jesus, to apply Your blood to all of my sins. 


  • “I believe I am cleansed of my sins. Father God, I ask that You would release me and my family and my marriage and my children of all consequences of my sin. By the blood of Jesus, I am redeemed, my marriage is redeemed, and my children are redeemed out of the hand of the devil back into the hand of God, and we are set aside for the plans and purposes of God, all for the glory of God, in Jesus’ name. Father God, I believe, by faith, my marriage is healed, whole, complete, shalem, shalom, nothing missing, nothing lacking, and nothing broken. 


  • “I believe, by faith, I am not rejected. I am accepted by my Father God and by my first husband, Jesus Christ, and by my earthly husband/wife, _______. I believe, by faith, my marriage has been ordained by You, Father God. For it is written, ‘What God has put together, no man can take apart.’


  • “In the name of Jesus, I place my marriage covenant in the blood of Jesus Christ. Lord Jesus, I ask right now that anything trying to come against my marriage covenant will be destroyed. Any curse, any demonic assignment, any witchcraft that’s coming against my marriage, those evil things will be destroyed now by the power of Your blood. Your blood, King Jesus, right now, confirms my marriage covenant, seals my marriage covenant, heals my marriage covenant, and  redeems and restores my marriage covenant holy back to God. 


  • “No weapon formed against my marriage shall prosper. Any tongue or finger that comes against my marriage will be condemned, and I condemn any curse or negative word that has ever been spoken against my marriage. I cancel every curse and negative word ever spoken or written against my marriage. I repent, Father God, for any negative words that I have ever said about my marriage and my husband/wife. I ask Jesus to put His blood on those words and cancel every negative, cursing, opinionated, judgmental word I ever said against my marriage. I put it all under the blood of Jesus Christ. Let all those negative words be washed clean away from my marriage, by the blood of Jesus. 


  • “I speak blessing over my marriage. My marriage is blessed. My marriage is joyful. I am rich in experiences with my husband/wife, _______. The glory of God is the covering of my marriage, and the favor of God surrounds my marriage as a shield. My soul is healed of all rejection. My soul is healed of all wounds. 


  • “I forgive my past. I forgive my husband/wife. I forgive my earthly father/mother. I forgive everyone who’s hurt me, and I forgive myself. I take this burden of rejection, and I lift it off my shoulders and put it at the foot of the cross. 


  • “I am not rejected. I am rescued by Jesus Christ, and I have all the blessings that come with it, including a blessed marriage. Father, I thank You for my husband/wife, _______. My husband/wife is a mighty man/woman of God. My husband/wife is a man/woman after God’s own heart. My husband/wife is a man/woman of valor, virtue, and honor. We are a Proverbs 31:10-31 family. My husband/wife and I are shoulder-to-shoulder in all things, and we walk in the will and the word of God. Our marriage is covered in the blood of Jesus Christ now and forever. My husband/wife has the fear of the Lord. My husband/wife does what is right by his wife/her husband, his/her children, and his/her marriage. 


  • “Right now, let the correction and the conviction of the Holy Ghost fall upon me and my husband/wife, _______. We invite You, Holy Spirit, in agreement, to come upon me and my husband/wife and my children right now and bring conviction and correction and bring us into our full and complete will of God. Bring us to our knees in repentance, a free gift. 


  • “Father God, in the name of Jesus Christ, I ask You to assign divine laborers to go into the path of my husband/wife, _______, to speak the right word to him/her at the right moment. I invite You, King Jesus, to step into this moment of time with me and my husband/wife and my children and redeem everything in our lives, and bring us into the perfect will and word of God. By faith, I know this is done, and I give You all the glory, in Jesus’ mighty name, amen and amen.” 
Asking King Jesus To Be A Filter In Your Day or In a Moment

Asking King Jesus To Be A Filter In Your Day or In a Moment

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I learned this from my dear friend and mentor, Jeanette Strauss.  She said she was at a conference and was in a prayer line, and the person going down the prayer line started speaking things that gave her a check in her spirit. She did not want to agree with that person’s words and did not want him touching her, but she was stuck in the line and could not step back.  She asked the Lord Jesus for help, and He said to her, “Ask ME to be a filter!” So she did! Since then, I have used this strategy many times, for my day and also for any impromptu situation. 

Below is the long version of the prayer. The short version is at the end.

Pray Out Loud

  • “King Jesus, I invite You to be a filter between me and everything today, and specifically in this moment of time when I am doing this ______________. I place everything in my life, my body, my soul, my spirit, and everything I do today in Your precious blood. I have on my whole armor of God! I am sealed in Your righteousness, and I have on my whole armor of light. I am clothed in Your peace. The glory of God is my covering, and the favor of God surrounds me as a shield. 


  • “I receive good reports today because You are with me. Lord Jesus, You have redeemed everything in my past, present, and in my future! You, Lord, are manifest, present, and in authority over all things in my life, moment by moment! I have absolutely no fear, only faith!  Lord, You come when I ask, and You will not leave me. I am inviting YOU, King Jesus, to stand between me and everything today and particularly this situation ______________. I believe You are here right now, Lord, and I feel Your presence. Thank You, Lord Jesus Christ! I love YOU and ask this Faithfully, in Your name, and I know YOU are here for me right now, Lord Jesus. I am not alone! You are standing between me and everything!  


  • “The devil must bow the knee and nothing by all means shall harm me nor any evil touch me! The demons tremble in fear and cannot go through You, Lord Jesus, to get to me! You, Lord, are my shield and my filter with every person, place, or thing that I encounter today! So be it. Amen.”

Short Version: Pray Out Loud

  • “Lord Jesus, I invite You to step into this moment of time and be a filter between me and _______. In Your name, Lord Jesus, I ask. Amen.”

Note: Yes, it is permissible and even encouraged to pray directly to Jesus in Christianity. Jesus is both God and man, and the New Testament provides examples of people praying to him directly. The belief that prayer is primarily directed to God the Father, through Jesus as the mediator, doesn’t preclude direct prayer to Jesus.

Here’s why:

Scriptural Examples:The Bible contains examples of individuals praying directly to Jesus, such as Stephen who prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit” (Acts 7:59).

Jesus as Mediator: Jesus is described as the mediator between God and humankind (1 Timothy 2:5-6), and he acts as our high priest, representing us to God.

Praying in Jesus’ Name: While we are encouraged to pray in Jesus’ name, this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t also pray directly to Jesus.

Jesus’ Authority: Jesus has the authority to hear and answer prayers (John 14:14).

Direct Communication: The Way, the Truth, and the Life – John 13:13-15
…13 And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask Me for anything in My name, I will do it. 15 If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Cross References

John 15:7
“If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.”

Jesus is the Son of God, and we can communicate directly with him as a friend and guide.

In summary, praying to Jesus is a valid and encouraged practice within Christian faith, supported by scripture and theological understanding.

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