Targeted Prayers

Abuse

Father, you have delivered me from the dominion of darkness and have brought me into Your loving arms. Once I was darkness, but now I am light in You; I am a child deeply loved by her Father. The abuse I suffered is visible and clear; and where everything is visible and clear, there is light. You are light shining in my darkest moments. I experienced abusive behavior at the hand of another. The painful memory of past abuse (verbal, emotional, physical, mental, and/or sexual) has caused me to shut down a piece of my heart and has put me at distance with those around me because I do not want to feel pain again. I even have put you at distance because I am afraid. I am tired of reliving the past in my present life, perpetuating fear, anger, resentment, unforgiveness, solitude, and hopelessness towards you, towards myself, and towards others. Help me to forgive those who hurt me. I don't want to be trapped anymore. I thank You that the evil power of abuse is broken, overthrown, and cast down. 

 

 

I submit myself to You and tell the enemy he may not hold what happened to me as a weapon over my heart. I chose to live as a victor and not a victim as I am not defined by what happened to me but refined by it. I accept your tangible healing in my heart, my mind, my emotions and my body. I am free! 

 

In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Addiction

 

Father, my addiction is a terrible burden and a shame to me and yet I find myself constantly returning to behaviors that I hate and long to be able to shed. I am so ashamed Lord and yet I know that You were the one who said that You came to set the captives free – and Lord I am captive. I am a captive and slave of this terrible addiction and yet long to be freed to live a normal life.  Free me Father I pray from this compulsion for it is stifling my life and has cost me dearly – but I long to be free to live without the chains of addiction holding me down and holding me back.

 

I know Jesus died for all my sins, including my addiction and I believe He broke the power of death in my life. Father, set me free. I want to be free so that I may do what you are asking of me. I stand on the promise on Galatians 5:1 Let me be clear, the Anointed One has set us free—not partially, but completely and wonderfully free! We must always cherish this truth and stubbornly refuse to go back into the bondage of our past. (TPT) I declare I am free and I am not going back. No more chains for me!

 

In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Breakthrough

 

Father, I cast all my cares, my troubles, my doubts, my fears and my weaknesses on You. These trials and temptations that strike me when I am most vulnerable must vanish, for my dawn is approaching and my breakthrough is near as they are all transformed into lessons that will only make me stronger. No man can ever convince me that my breakthrough will never come, for who God blesses no man curse. I see my victory ahead, it is so clear to me that doubt and fear flee at the thought of it, at the thought of You bringing it to pass, I speak favor into my life as the overflow of Your abundant blessings pour down upon me. Remove all negativity. Wipe out any signs of oppression, depression, sickness, negative thoughts or suggestions from those around me. Grace me with eternal love, joy, peace and happiness until my last breath. Show me how to dance in the rain and smile at the storm knowing that You are with me. I declare a complete breakthrough in my life. 

 

 

 

I declare Proverbs 4:25-27 I set my gaze on the path before you. With fixed purpose, looking straight ahead, ignore life’s distractions. I watch where I am going! I stick to the path of truth, and the road will be safe and smooth before me. I don’t allow myself to be sidetracked for even a moment or take the detour that leads to darkness. (TPT, enhanced) 

 

In Jesus’ Name,  Amen.

Children/Family

 

Father, I stand for my family like never before. I know there is a war to divide and destroy. I ask you make things right in the lives of my children and my family. Make it right. Make it right, Father. I see how things are on the surface. I ask for the suddenlies you orchestrate to pierce the surface and go right to the root. I am standing right in front of you pleading for things to change. I have prayed and prayed for my children and family, and now in this moment as I am standing in front of You I lay each of them at your feet. As I step back having let loose of my family, I look you in the eye and I tell you with everything that is inside of me, “I trust you. I trust you that you will cause a change to happen in the hearts of my family and children who are ready to surrender their will to you. And those who are not ready, I plead with you to bring situations and appointments into their lives that will cause a shift that will break their will. I declare those things I have been pleading for I will see manifestations. I will not back off on your promises. I know there is a fight between hell and myself over my children and my family, those I hold most dear. But I fight with my hands off as I have laid them at your feet. I declare truth into their lives and the blinders of their gods be removed. I declare their hearts and poised and positioned and ready. Prepare the way. I bind the forces of hell and I loose your heavenly armies. 

 

My family and children are under attack and war has been declared on my family. I use my full authority to speak to the warriors waging war again me and my family to back off. Take your hands off. My family and my children are your property Father. 

 

Move, Father, move! 

 

In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Death

 

Father, thank You for the emotional healing you provide when our loved one has gone on to be with You. Thank you for the impact that they had on my life. Thank You for the gift of their life and that I got to experience that gift for the brief time they we on earth. You are my merciful Father and the source of all comfort. I decree emotional healing over myself. I am still grieving and missing my loved one so dearly. 

 

You are with me; my hope is planted in you. Your word says that You strengthen and help me. You are my strong fortress; I run to You and am safe. I decree that when the bereavement finally passes however long that may take, overwhelming joy shall come into full blossom.

 

I release the grief I am still holding inside. Healing and strength come from you; and in Jesus Name I am on the path to wholeness and freedom. 

 

Also for the rest of us, Father, help us to become more sensitive to the needs of those around us who are in mourning and show us how we can be an encouragement to them. Father, fill us with compassionate love for those who have lost. Remind us to care for the physical needs of those who are in mourning, and to be patient and sensitive to their pain. 

 

Gracious Father, when others are grieving, forgive us for being impatient as time goes on after a death. 

 

In Jesus’ Name, Amen

Dreams

 

Dear Father,

 

Please continue to help me dream big and see those dreams come to pass. I need your strength and power to keep the father that they will come to pass, and I need your words to speak into your dreams right now. 

 

I know you have given me incredible dreams—please don't let them die! Increase my faith and patience to wait for them to come true. You have divinely positioned, gifted, anointed, and favored me to fulfill every dream You birthed in me. 

 

Say yes to my plan and settle for nothing less than your highest and best. 

 

In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Father Wounds

 

Father I invite you into the wounds created by my birth father, step-father, or other male authority figure. I take you to specific memories and understand the words I accepted at the time were not truth, I ask you to reveal truth and I receive your truth. I choose to forgive my father, not because he desires it but because I need it for my life to move on. 

 

All the hurtful words, hurtful actions, not loving me, not blessing me, and for affecting my image of God the Father I release. I chose to hold on to them no longer. I accept that you are my loving Daddy. I receive that knowledge and take it to my heart and believe it with my head that I am accepted, chosen, loved, Your creation, precious, forgiven, redeemed, never left behind, and nothing can separate your love from me. Nothing. 

 

Because I feel your truth washing over me, I am free to let go of the pain and forgive my father. This new perspective created in me will now enable me to see my father through different eyes, and allow me to live in freedom. The effects of the father wound I suffered affected my self-esteem, caused deep emotional pain inside, and put me on the track to performance orientation. The lies I believed that I was unworthy, stupid, incompetent, and unlovable stop here. I am none of those lies. I feel your love, Daddy, and I know you love me so dearly. 

 

I invite you into the wounds created by my father and I ask for a new heart. Fill the empty spaces. 

 

In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Fear

 

Father, I will resist fear in every form. Your peace inside me steadies me in the midst of adversity in the world. You, Father keep me safe, secure and set on high. Your perfect love for me casts out all fear. Love abounds, so no fear can stay. Anything that confuses and confounds must get out of the way. Sprit of fear be bound and be gone. Death, the master of fear, be gone. This battle has already been fought and won by My Father. I have authority over fear all the time, every time, in every season and for every reason. 

 

I will not allow you to enter my life and what I do not allow and refuse to yield to must go. The peace of God rules in my heart and mind and fear has no place. Fear I am not your slave anymore.

 

In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Forgiveness

 

Father, I chose of my own free will to forgive and release the hurts and offenses I have carried towards others, myself, and You. I refuse to carry the disappointments, failings, and shortcomings of anyone. I turn every offense over to you and walk forward by faith, forgiven and free. I pause for a moment and name the names of those who I need to forgive so I can move one. 

 

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I thank you Father that as you have forgiven me, I also have forgiven those who have hurt me. I am free. 

 

In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Healing

 

Jesus, I thank you that you took my infirmities and bore my diseases and your wounds made provision for my healing. I receive You as my Healer, and I receive Your healing touch now. Let there be no more sickness in my body. Thank You Lord for Your healing power at work in my life now. Sickness and disease, leave me now in Jesus’ name. 

 

Father, I believe that Jesus took my diseases and my sicknesses on the cross. I believe that with His stripes He took in His body, I am healed. 

 

Satan, I speak to you, in the name of Jesus and say that your principalities, powers, your spirits who rule in the heavenly are bound from operating against me, in any way. 

 

We are the property of Jehovah Rapha, the Lord God our healer, and we give no place here. We dwell in the secret place of the Great Healer. We abide, remain stable, and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty. I have been bought with a price; I will therefore glorify God in my body. Sickness is an unholy enemy trying to stand on holy ground, a trespasser on private sacred property and a thief in my temple. God has sent His Word and healed and delivered me from all of my sickness. 

 

His promises are medicine and healing to all my flesh. The anointing of the Holy Spirit has also been sent to heal every part of my being, emotional and physical. The same Holy Spirit Who raised Jesus from the dead quickens my mortal body. No plague can come near my dwelling, because I abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Sickness, leave my body now. I declare that I walk in divine health, for Jesus has conquered sickness in my life. 

 

I walk in divine health and divine life, because I have the divine nature. Divine health pulsates through every cell of my body every day. Sickness and disease cannot, and will not attach itself to me. 

 

In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Hearing God’s Voice

 

Father, I want to hear from You. Help me recognize when You were speaking to me. Let me not compare myself to others or look for You to speak the same way You do to others because You have made me unique. Your word promises that because I am one of Your children, I will hear Your voice and follow after You. Open my spiritual eyes and ears to hear and see Your heart for me and for others help me find the ways You communicate with me so that I may encourage others.  

 

In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Job

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Father, I believe for a career breakthrough. You are my provider who is able to do exceedingly and abundantly above that which I ask, think or even imagine. Thank you for what awaits me on the horizon. I declare that I will receive the “suddenlies” of God upon my life. No plan of the enemy can hinder, delay or extinguish the dreams God has given me and they will come to pass . . . suddenly. Give me Father, you know how much I need a new job – both for financial income, and the opportunities it provides to use the talents You’ve given me. 

 

You also know God, how hard my vocation has been lately. I’m frustrated, my confidence has been shaken and I’m concerned about my future. I ask for a miraculous breakthrough. I need to get a new job soon. Guide me to opportunities to network with the right people, learn about the right job openings to apply for, and figure out how best to develop my skills so I’ll be prepared for my next job. I believe that there are no limits to what you will do for me. 

 

 

Give me vision for a new vocation if you want me on a different path. Remind me I owe allegiances to no one else but You. I want to do the work You have placed me on this earth to do. 

 

In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Loss of a Child

 

Father, we live in a society unaccustomed to having things taken away. When it’s our children who are taken too soon, the shock and sadness can seem unending. Give me strength in these times to know that You love my children more than I do, for they are Yours first. My heart may be broken, but it is honest and real. I do not understand but know You work all things together for good for those who love You. I experienced You in my darkest hour when my baby in my womb, my newborn, my infant, my toddler, or my child not matter the age was taken from this earth. 

 

No matter the circumstances my child left this planet, I know You were there. In that moment they breathed their last breath on earth You were holding them a second later. They were never alone. Their last breath here was their first breath with You. Thank You for taking care of my precious child. For loving them, caring for them until I am reunited one day for all eternity. Thank You for filling my life with your overwhelming love because that is the only thing that will suffice to fill the void I have suffered. Father. In time, as healing comes, help me bring hope to the hurting because I know the pain so well. 

 

In Jesus' Name, Amen.

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Mother’s Wounds

 

Father, I invite into my mother wound knowing that Jesus wants to heal my broken-heart. I ask you to enter into the place of my brokenness – in the womb, at birth, early in life, wherever it happens to be. I release now my painful memories, those horrible things that were done to me, those physical, emotional, and mental scars I carry. I lay at your feet every painful memory. I chose to forgive my mother. This is an act of my free will, to forgive my mother and let go of all the resentment, bitterness and anger. Your transforming love right now will change the perspective of the trauma and free me to accept the circumstances with grace and mercy. 

 

I ask you strengthen my sense of identity and knowledge of my true self. Tell me who I am Father and affirm my sense of being, provide an assurance of worth and help me metabolize the truth of my creation. We all come into the world needing the tender presence of a mother’s touch, nurture, care and love. In fact, the mother’s influence begins when we are in the womb. The absence of this mother love is a wound that is deep. 

 

When this most important attachment was traumatically interrupted, the emotional pain caused feelings of abandonment and dread of aloneness, loss of self and sense of being, powerful hunger for feminine touch that can be eroticized, emotional dependencies, and possible gender confusion, fear, and insecurity. I ask for healing from all of these side effects. I want healthy friendship and a healthy marriage. I am mad that I have feel emotionally detached because of what I suffered, but I say today I am letting my mother off the hook so I can move forward in your plan for my life. I will achieve everything you have for me not because of what I suffered but in spite of it. 

 

I rise above the ashes of these painful memories and I accept the love and healing you bring to my heart. 

 

In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Negativity

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Father, give me strength to withstand the works of the enemy, as he tries to seep into my mind. I rebuke his negativity from affecting my life. Cover me under the precious blood, infiltrate my mind, my body, and my soul. Guard my mind, so that the negative thoughts that arises would be blocked by my unbreakable faith. 

 

I pray Philippians 4:8 over my mind “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.” Change my thinking. Shield me so that the enemy has no way to enter in. 

 

I request the Holy Spirit’s presence tangible in my life, as He guides my thoughts in the direction of positivity. Change my thought patterns to be focused on You and Your promises. Restore my mind. Embrace me with Your tranquility and love so that my mind can be at ease. 

 

Break every chain of negative thoughts as I speak prosperity and positivity into my life, for life and death are in the power of the tongue. I decree that every stronghold in my life, produced by negative thought patterns, is broken. I will uproot all thoughts that do not breed life. My words are a powerful, creative force that sets God’s will in motion on the earth and in my life. I do not underestimate the power of my words. 

 

The words of my mouth release faith and grace and please the Father. 

 

In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Perfection

 

Father help me relax into the beauty of my creation and cease striving to attain a level of smooth perfection that looks wonderful but is not attainable in the living, breathing realm of humanity. You never told me the goal was perfection. Perfection in any vital area of my life is not going to happen. There, I said it. Now, I can improve. I can grow. I can become more loving, more grace filled, more merciful. I am no longer bound. My hope doesn’t rest on my finally getting it together. My hope rests in my Jesus. I won’t be perfect on this side of heaven. But Jesus is perfect. Always. 

 

Perfection isn’t the goal. Jesus is. I say over myself right now in Jesus Name. Break off the spirit for perfection. I know it can never be obtained, so refuse to try. I will not allow perfection to hold me back from anything you have for me. I will not use perfection to control my environment. I lay the need to be perfect at your feet, Father, and love myself the way You see me perfectly imperfect! 

 

In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Poverty Mentality

 

Father, victory represents the triumph over challenges that obstruct my pursuit of success. It symbolizes the ability to overcome adversities that threaten my progress. I claim victory over the poverty mindset that has disrupted God's perfect will and caused instability within me. Any atmosphere of lack surrounding my life or influence is now infused with the blessings and glory from heaven above. I release myself from every ancestral and inherited stronghold of poverty. I sever ties with any idols or associations that have kept me bound. I break free from any attacks against my life's purpose, even those that come in my dreams. I will not waste the divine opportunities presented to me. I will dismantle any forces that counter my efficiency. I refuse to shut the door on blessings meant for me. I refuse to be a drifting star, and I refuse to fade into obscurity.

 

Father, smash the yoke of poverty that has clung to me for far too long. Annihilate any deceitful force that seeks to swallow my success. Let every dark design against my prosperity be buried once and for all. 

 

Father, I place my financial matters in Your hands. I trust You completely with my resources. I renounce my poverty mindset, knowing that a brighter, prosperous future awaits. 

 

In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Protection

 

Daughter, you have divine protection. Angels come to your aide and maneuver you into places of safety. Take hold of My Word by faith for you and your family. I am ever watching over you and you are now in the secret, impenetrable place of refuge where you will dwell in safety. Regardless of what is raging around you, you will confidently remain stable and fixed on Me. You are hidden away from harm, danger, destruction, and the fear they bring. You send Your angelic assistance and divinely cover me in peace and supernatural provision. In this place of refuge, no weapon can touch you and the things that bring you harm, cannot enter. 

 

You are protected under My watchful eye. Nothing can touch you or your family.  Nothing! 

 

Your Heavenly Father

Stuck

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Father, can I be honest? I am tired of waiting. Waiting is hard, painful, exhausting. But I know that learning to wait well is a beautiful, sanctifying, hope-giving thing. So, help me wait well. Help me cling to you as I wait. Please Father, let your peace rule in my heart. Help me live by your grace each day of this waiting. And help me bring you glory as I wait expectantly. 

 

In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Transformed Mind

 

Father, I humbly request your assistance in overcoming negative thinking and embracing peace, joy, and optimism. I earnestly seek your guidance to transform my thought patterns and empower me to recognize, reject, and replace thoughts that are contrary to Your will.

 

I wholeheartedly surrender all obstacles that may hinder me from fully receiving all that You have in store for me.

 

I am profoundly grateful for Your unconditional love and for choosing me.

 

In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Wisdom

 

Father, I humbly request Your wisdom to comprehend the cyclical nature of life and the choices that lie ahead. Grant me the discernment to discern when to speak or remain silent, when to act or when to rest.

 

I place my trust in Your boundless goodness to guide me through life’s challenges and lead me to victory. May Your creative wisdom illuminate my path always.

 

In Jesus’ Name, Amen

Women Wounds

 

Father, I have chosen to forgive all the women who have hurt me in the past, including those who belittled me, were jealous, controlling, unkind, stole from me, lied to me, and made me hate other women. 

 

Although my view of women is not positive, I will not let the wounds inflicted by broken women ruin my relationships with those who are meant to be in my circle of influence. 

 

I will remain faithful and true to those my tribe, listen to their correction, and receive wisdom from them. 

 

I aim to be an example of a woman who loves unconditionally and gives grace to every woman who crosses my path. 

 

In Jesus' Name, Amen.