Healing from Abuse
Introduction
This prayer can be applied to any form of abuse — physical, mental, emotional, or sexual. I wrote it after reading T. D. Jakes’ book, Woman, Thou Art Loosed.1 By praying it, I personally have experienced victory and freedom — I am no longer a victim but an overcomer.
Prayer
Lord, You are my High Priest, and I ask You to loose me from this “infirmity.” The abuse I suffered pronounced me guilty and condemned. I was bound — in an emotional prison — crippled and could in no wise lift up myself. You have called me to Yourself, and I have come.
The anointing that is upon You is present to bind up and heal the brokenness and emotional wounds of the past. You are the Truth that makes me free.
Thank You, Lord, for guiding me through the steps to emotional wholeness. You have begun a good work in me, and You will perform it until the day of Christ Jesus.
1 (Shippensburg, PA: Treasure House, 1993).
Father, I desire to live according to the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. This Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing me from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of abuse.
Since I am now free, it is my desire to forget those things that lie behind and strain forward to what lies ahead. I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which You in Christ Jesus are calling me upward. The past will no longer control my thinking patterns or my behavior.
Praise be to You! I am a new creature in Christ Jesus. Old things have passed away; and, behold, all things have become new. I declare and decree that henceforth I will walk in newness of life.
Forgive me, Father, for self-hatred and self-condemnation. I am Your child. You sent Jesus that I might have life and have it more abundantly. Thank You for the blood of Jesus that makes me whole.
It is my desire to throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, I let my Gardener, You Lord, landscape me with the Word, making a salvation-garden of my life.
Father, by Your grace, I forgive my abuser/abusers and ask You to bring him/her/them to repentance.
In the name of Jesus I pray, amen.
Scripture References:
Luke 13:11,12 Romans 6:4
John 14:6 1 John 3:1,2
John 8:32 John 10:10
Philippians 1:6 1 John 1:7
Romans 8:2 MESSAGE James 1:21 MESSAGE
Philippians 3:13,14 AMP Matthew 5:44
2 Corinthians 5:17 2 Peter 3:9
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