Prayers for strength and courage

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I feel awkward asking for a prayer request, but here goes.
Back in March of this year I was confronted by a Presbyterian friend of mine about my faith. We talked for two weeks over text and face-to-face meetings at school. Finally we hit a wall and haven’t talked about it since.
However, it has been a growing fear of mine that I’ll be confronted again and I might despair. I discovered this site only a month or so ago and have been reading up, asking questions and preparing myself for anything. But I still feel this fear that I might not be strong enough in my faith to defend it.

Please, keep me in your prayers that the Almighty Father will give me the strength, knowledge and courage to defend my faith when attacked and to also plant the seeds of curiosity for the Truth as I do so.
And also, for my friends. They are all a lot of fun to hang with but I can’t quite open up all the way to them so I still feel awkward around them/him. Keep them/him in your prayers that they may indeed question me…but not to try and prove me wrong; to discover the Truth.

Thank you and God bless!
~Katie :knight1:
 
May the Lord help you to defend the faith courageously and zealously. May you not feel anxiety when you haven’t an answer to the questions presented to you … may you merely respond that you don’t know the answer but will find out. May your friends be open to the truth and want to know the Lord and his Church, and love him. May you be yourself with your friends and let yourself open up with them. May the Lord grant you all the graces you need to be faithful and to keep in a state of grace. Amen.
 
Haily Mary Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee
Blessed art thou amongst women
And blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus
Holy Mary Mother of God
Pray for us sinners
Now and at the hour of our death
AMEN

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

Saint Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the
wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host,
by the divine power of God,
cast into hell, Satan and all the evil spirits,
who roam throughout the world,
seeking the ruin of souls.
AMEN

In the name of The Father, and The Son and The Holy Spirit, AMEN
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I pray that the Holy Spirit will give you a sense of peace and an unshakeable confidence in God’s love so that you may fearlessly and without reservation share your experience of Jesus in your Catholic faith. I ask Mary, our Mother, to intercede on your behalf so that you and all those with whom you share your faith would be drawn closer to her Son.
Amen

God Bless!
marialucia
 
Prayers for you Katie dear. I can’t remember the verse but it tells us in the bible that we need not worry what we should say because HE will give us the words. Of course that doesn’t mean we should slack and not study because another verse tells us to be ready to answer for our faith, to study. But…in the end if we trust Him and have done all we can we simply ask for HIS wisdom to handle ourselves in a way that pleases Him. Wisdom helps us know when NOT to say things as well as TO say things.

Praying,
mlz
 
My prayer for you Katie:

“This…is what I pray before the Father from whom every family, whether spiritual or natural, takes its name: Out of His infinite glory, may He give you the power through His Spirit for your hidden self to grow strong, so that Christ may live in your hearts through faith, and then, planted in love and built on love, you will with all the saints have strength to grasp the breadth and the length, the height and the depth; until, knowing the love of Christ, which is beyond all knowledge, you are filled with the utter fullness of God.”

“Glory be to Him whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine; glory be to Him from generation to generation in the Church and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. Amen.” [Ephesians 3: 14-21]

“I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.” Luke 21:15

"for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say."Luke 12:12

“Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.” Exodus 4:12
 
Thank you so very much everyone! This really and truly means a lot to me!
God bless and watch over all of you!
~Katie :knight1:
 
Come Holy Spirit:

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love.
V. Send forth your Spirit, and they shall be created.
R. And You shall renew the face of the earth.

Let us pray.

O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
 
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