RE: depression
Father God, cause this one to focus on YOU and YOUR GLORY. I pray every time they begin to focus on the other, they will force themselves to focus on YOU. This has been my help and my hope whenever I dwell on things I should not. I start to pray and think about You...and my thoughts are deflected. Help this one to find a deeper relationship with You, one where they are taken, by Your Spirit, deep into Your Presence...and begin to live the reality of the Scripture which says "At Your right hand our pleasures forevermore." Let the pleasures of earth fade and the pleasures the Lord's Presence give them something so much more satifying and fulfilling. They know that there is no peace with what they are doing...but when we come into Your Presence there is peace, joy, love and all manner of wonderful blessings. Teach them how to come into Your Presence with rejoicing...and not need the things of the world.
This lust is not of You. You did not create this lust. You created us be in loving relationship and "know" our mate. This was created for us to bring pleasure to another...not ourselves. Please show Your child the truths in Your Word in regards to this, so they gain a different persepctive. Father, show them that until they treat this area differently, they would not treat their Eve with the love and respect she would be deserving of...and they would not be able to be intimate in the sense of "knowing" that Adam knew his Eve with.
It is hard to be older and single (I know, for I am), so give them peace in regards to this. Show them that lonliness comes, not from not having a mate, but from not having an intimate relationship with their God. You alone, Lord, can make us WHOLE. No person can complete us. Unless we are complete and whole in You, we never will be. There is no human that can be our "soulmate," for Jesus, You must be our soul mate. Lead this one, by the wooing of Your Spirit, into the kind of relationship with You that brings them satisfaction, fulfillment, joy and peace. Lead them into deep, loving intimacy with You.
These things, I ask and pray, in Your Name, amen.
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