prayer for perseverance

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I’m pretty sure I’ve posted here before with very similar requests. :o

I’m struggling to continue praying in the face of no evidence, ever of results. In short, alcoholic family of origin, cheating lying husband, dear friends full of hate for all things Christian, dear friend living a very hedonistic life which his behavior and words suggest he’s not as confident of and comfortable in as he suggests; children’s health issues. General world issues, morality or should I say immorality totally run amok.

Years of praying, fasting, daily rosaries, adoration, even a pilgrimage across an ocean, and I see nothing but these situations getting worse. I would, of course, like to see any sign, any small sign in even one of these situations, that God is listening. But please pray for me that I would have perseverance and faith regardless of whether I see any evidence.
 
Eternal God, when my spirit has burned to ashes, ground to dust with a boulder of mute and heavy sorrow, please give me trust in Your personal love for me and for my loved ones.

When mine, or others’ mistakes or uncaring have wounded and savaged my heart, where are You to restore what is injured even when I plead for Your intervention and strive to heal the damage? And yet, though You seem absent, I still humbly cry out for Your mercy and healing.

When my efforts leave me helpless with no path left to try, please comfort me and show me a new path.

When others undermine with repeated assaults and short-circuit my resolve, send wise friends to comfort and support me. For no sooner has one problem and heartache eased or resolved than another, equally painful, arises for another or myself.

When I seek You but sometimes feel You are steeled against me and my life becomes a flat salt desert. Please help me to trust in You even then, when trust no longer seems possible.

When my heart cries out repeatedly, groping in the helplessness of fears, disappointments and grief that words cannot convey; screaming in the silence of my brain. Is my only comfort, some day, death?

Yet still I call on You and place my tatters of faith in You.
 
Trust

Eternal Father, in our difficulties, in our disappointments, in our illnesses, in our intellectual deliberations, we cannot endure prolonged or severe spiritual desolation without Your support. Please comfort us, and increase our faith.

You know that Jesus, though sinless, chose to suffer with us, drinking the cup of our unloving choices to the full. Jesus suffered doubt as we do when He cried out,* “My God, My God, why have You abandoned Me*?” We unite our doubt with His, for You look with silent pity and unspeakable love on Your Son.

Jesus, You say to me, “Take up your cross and follow Me!” “If you love me, keep my commandments.” I fix my eyes upon the bright scars of Your ransom for me. Why did You suffer so terribly for me who even now remain unconverted? Yet Your wounds, Your hands, Your heart and Your word are filled with promises that You desire to fulfill in me and in others.

Give us strength to bear doubt when it comes, dear Jesus, so that with You we can say, “Father, into Your hands I commend my spirit”, thus joining with You to death of unbelief and sin—into freedom of rising with You into the glory of the redeemed spirit.

I offer You my only coin—trust against all appearances, hope despite my heartache, and faith despite my sins and flaws. Mercifully accept this meager offering and open Your treasure house of love to me and my loved ones, and to those whom You wish to serve through me.
 
Our God, we pray to You for others and ourselves, and sometimes it seems, if only for a time, a time of awful pain and loneliness, that no one is listening, that You are not there.

Many have turned away, disappointed and bitter, that You have not answered their urgent prayer, their painful need for self and for others. There is no satisfactory human answer to their challenge, whatever one might say of Your ways, Your time, because their anguish or their anger is the reality they experience. Embrace all who have lost or faltered in their hope in God and prayer.

Dear God, You need no reminder, but my desperation leads me to remind You that we are human in our minds and hearts and bodies. We have little or no actual sense or knowledge of ourselves as spirit. If You do not touch us as human beings living in a physical world that we acutely experience, then faith struggles, and sometimes dies…but I pray for those I love with all my heart and life.

O silent God let us hear Your voice in the words of others, and let us be Your love spoken to others in our lives. Yet may I ask that You also speak directly to the hearts and minds with unmistakeable Love even where we cannot detect the action of Your Spirit in ourselves or in others. Speak to them in their last moments, if not before.

Please be mindful of our needs, and nurture us as we pray and seek Your healing and care.
 
O God

O God, I humbly implore…
In my lack of trust, let me live faith.
In my disappointment, let me live hope.
In my bleakness, let me live joy.
In the emptiness of my heart, let me live love.
In my deprivations, let me value what is precious before You.
In my weakness and illness, grant me spiritual health.

In my anger and resentment, let me live generosity and forgiveness.
In my detachment, let me live community.
In the difficulties of commitment, let me be dedicated.
In my failures, let Your Spirit bless and heal.
In my successes, let Your will be served.

In human reality, let me live spiritual wisdom.
In maturity, let me become true child of the Father.
In my individuality, let me live in Eucharistic communion.
In the kind and warm things that I try to do, let Your grace flow.

In the confusion of my life, in my striving and good intentions
—regardless of my doubts, mistakes and infirmities,
let me fully live Your will in vibrant, humble trust.
 
Isaiah says, **“I was thinking: ‘I have toiled in vain,
I have exhausted myself for nothing.’
And all the while my cause was with God, my reward with my God.” [Isaiah 49:3-4]

For “the Lord is not being slow to carry out His promises…but He is being patient with you all, wanting nobody to be lost and everybody to be brought to change his ways.**” [2Peter 3:9]

"My thoughts are not your thoughts, my ways are not your ways…Yes, and the heavens are as high above the earth as my ways are above your ways, my thoughts above your thoughts.” [Isaiah 55:8-9]

My dear friend, I wrote all the stuff in the above prayers because I was going through the long night myself and so were my loved ones.
The first prayer I posted on your prayer request is named, “Faith under Siege”
It was many years before some prayers suddenly began to be answered, but I understand your exhaustion and sorrow. With love, Trishie

Trust and Joy

Our God I believe that You watch over all that You create. Please grant that I trust You completely, regardless of any circumstance in my life or in others’ lives.

Please give me wisdom and grace not rely on my good works, prayers, or penance, yet to continue to strive in prayer and effort, the best I can manage. Please help me not to be discouraged by my frailties, temptations or infidelities, or by misfortune and worry, but to trust only in Your merciful love, as I labour wisely for the best outcomes.

You desire that we live in joy and peace. However, joy and peace cannot survive without trust, hope and gratitude. Ingratitude begets sin now, just as surely as in the Garden of Eden. Grant us hope, trust and gratitude in both joy and sorrow.

I humbly and trustingly ask You to heal my loved ones and me, and to grant all that we need for our welfare, our service of God and others, and our happiness and peace.
 
Forgive my unbelief

Our God, we humans feel need for practical alleviation in times of grief, difficulty and anxiety. When I am embroiled in grief, clasp me to Your heart.

When I am sad or unwell, when troubles beset my family or friends, when I make mistakes, and when the pain or sin of the world assails me, please lift my spirit with God’s love, and with the kindness of those whom God sends.

If in my sorrow I doubt Your mercy, please accept my heartache and tears as prayer for others. Forgive me if I feel anger or dismay, in my frustrated yearning for real help for loved ones in their genuine needs, difficulty and pain!

Please allow no one to suffer for my doubt, but give me faith to become a better vehicle of intercession and blessing for others. Give me remembrance always that I need not plead desperately for Your mercy but will open my heart to the flood of mercy that awaits my welcome. October 1999

Saint Padre Pio wrote, “Pray, hope and do not worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.”

May God hear your prayers.
Jesus knows what it feels like to give all, pray all, and to be tortured by the lack of faith, the opposition, the uncaring, the betrayal of others.
Lord have mercy
 
Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen

St. Michael, the Archangel! Glorious Prince, chief and champion of the heavenly hosts; guardian of the souls of men; conqueror of the rebel angels! How beautiful art thou, in thy heaven-made armor. We love thee, dear Prince of Heaven!

We, thy happy clients, yearn to enjoy thy special protection. Obtain for us from God a share of thy sturdy courage; pray that we may have a strong and tender love for our Redeemer and, in every danger or temptation, be invincible against the enemy of our souls. O standard-bearer of our salvation! Be with us in our last moments and when our souls quit this earthly exile, carry them safely to the judgement seat of Christ, and may Our Lord and Master bid thee bear us speedily to the kingdom of eternal bliss. Teach us ever to repeat the sublime cry: “Who is like unto God?” Amen.
 
PATER NOSTER,
qui es in caelis,
sanctificetur nomen tuum.
Adveniat regnum tuum.
Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra.
Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie,
et dimitte nobis debita nostra
sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris.
Et ne nos inducas in tentationem,
sed libera nos a malo. Amen.
 
“Confidence” in Jesus, is the key, after having placed your trust in Jesus first then you will be shown Jesus, God and The Holy Spirit’s most beautiful ‘Holy Signs’ and ‘Holy Messages’ either visually or in Sound!

During my prayer with Jesus and Our Lady Mary Mother of Jesus for the past two years during The Holy Rosary I picture Jesus and Mother Mary “up there”. I never need signs as I “know” Jesus and Mother Mary are there for us all.

Over the past month Jesus changed His Holy Cloak/attire from all White to White with a Maroon Sash; other times in a Coat of many colours I have viewed and other times in the attire that is printed on one of the many Sister Faustina Holy Cards (Blue, Red, White).

However, after God, The Holy Spirit and Jesus saved my Children and self from dying on a few occasions, I never needed the proof in visuality to ‘see’ that God, The Holy Spirit, Jesus and Mother Mary are ‘there’ and ‘indeed listening’ at all times and through Their Holy Helpers ranging from the Angels and Saints to other specially appointed Souls.

Reflect back to your Childhood and through your life, recalling all of His Blessings He gave you ranging from your ‘Daily Bread’ that allowed you to live through to the opportunities He gave you to assist your Family and others (in which you have) - Miracles that we take for granted.

Trust, pray and ask Mother Mary for your full ‘confidence’ in God, The Holy Spirit and Jesus; Our Lady Mary will indeed guide you in Her Love, Mercy and Wisdom. This ‘confidence’ I have now has all been through praying The Holy Rosary daily and twice daily over the past couple of years. Before that, I believed and trusted, however I now have confidence being developed in God, The Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ our Saviour and Mother Mary.

P.S. I do not possess a mental illness of any kind.

Love and best wishes for Easter.

Praise and Thanks be to Thee, Dear God our Heavenly Father, The Holy Spirit, Dear Jesus Christ our Saviour and Dear our Lady Mary Mother of Jesus, from all sinners and myself, now and for Eternity, Amen.
 
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