RE: A Merry Heart
I'll be brutally honoust with you, ZephThree. I need prayer
for this one. It's difiicult so far for me to have a merry heart when
devastating things happen like divorce, betrayal, rejection, back stabbing, loss of a child or a major figure in your life. GOD KNOWS I have not mastered the "merry" heart. Will you pray that I will be able to have a "merry" even in the midst of betrayal and loss of a family member or friend? Thank you. Christian737
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Begin by praying this Christian737,
"Satan get thee behind me! You do not have in mind the things of GOD, but only the things of man!"

ALMIGHTY GOD, I Refuse To Receive The Curse Of An Angry Spirit! It Doesn't Belong To Me! I Refuse To Receive It! Or send it toward another. Hallelujah! Amen and Amen LORD of Hosts! Hallelujah!

Instead I lay this curse of anger at the foot of Your cross, And Leave It There, LORD Jesus Christ. I am set free, now, from this curse of anger, In the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ! Hallelujah!

Prayer of Encouragement:

LORD, I thank You for Your encouragement in my life. Help me always to share it with others. Like David, I Want To Encourage Myself In You, My GOD. (1 Samuel 30:6)
Only Then, I Realize, Will I Be Able To Encourage Others.

Teach Me How To Build Others Up, To Encourage Them In The Precious Faith You've Imparted To Us. It Is Your Will, Father, For Those Of Us Who Are Strong In You To Bear The Infirmities Of The Weak And Not To Please Ourselves. Let Me Encourage My Neighbor In This Way, For His Good, To Build Him Up. (Romans 15:1-2)

As You Fill Me With Your Spirit, I Will Speak Encouragement, Edification And Comfort To Others. (1 Corinthians 14:3)

Help Me Always To Remember That The Gifts And Power You Have Imparted To Me, LORD, Are To Be Used To Help And Encourage and Edify others. May I never use them selfishly or destructively. I know it is Your love alone that makes this possaible; Your love always edifies and strengthens. (1 Corinthians 14:26)

Let me show others how to be of good cheer, LORD, for YOU Have Overcome The World. Even though we have tribulation in the world; IN YOU, LORD, We Have Peace.
(John 16:33)
Help me share Your peace with others.

It is my goal LORD, to follow after the things that make for peace, and things wherewith I will be able to edify and encourage others. (Romans 14:19)
May Your people always be encouraged by what I say and do. Let my words always edify and minister grace, and let my life be an encouragement at all times. (Ephesians 4:29)

When a fellow-believer is discouraged, prompt me, LORD, and enable me to speak a word in season to him. (Proverbs 15:23)
Help me to comfort others with the same comfort I've received from You.
(2 Corinthians 1:4)

Other Scriptures:
1 Corn. 8:1
Ephes. 4:12-16
1 Thess. 5:11

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