What Happened When I Prayed for My Enemies

Hello, tender friends!

Let’s be honest: it’s hard to ask for a blessing for someone who’s wounded you. It requires dying to self, which is probably why Jesus lays its importance out so clearly in The Sermon on the Mount. He knew we wouldn’t want to do it.

On really bad days I tell God that I know I’m not supposed to ask him to smite people, but that that’s what I really want instead of praying for them to be blessed.

Then I get a grip on myself.

I sometimes pray that God would give me the courage and the right words to resolve my issue with whoever I’m struggling with. Sometimes I pray that the Holy Spirit would guide our interactions. I often ask God to lead me because I don’t really know what he wants me to pray for them.

That’s how my prayer went last week. I said, “Ok, Lord, you saw what happened. I’m hurt by what happened. What do you want me to do?”

The Lord casually replied, “Well, Stacey, you know they’re trying to break generational curses too.”

These are the three lessons I got from this word:

1. God is so good at staying calm and casual when I’m not. That’s the kind of parent I want to be.
2. When we feel friction with people, it’s often because of dysfunction and ways of interacting that they’ve inherited from their parents, grandparents, etc. In this light, it’s a lot easier to understand why God says to bless those that curse us, as it’s not really their fault.
3. God said “too” to remind me that the person that annoyed me and I are alike. We’re all trying to break generational curses. My reaction to the insult reveals the work I need to do on myself.

I’ve heard stories about people who have received instant deliverance from generational curses. But a lot more of my journey with breaking generational curses has been God telling me what to do on a daily basis.

I would LOVE for God to just do it for me so I could be over and done with it. It would be easier. Modifying my behavior as God instructs is uncomfortable at times. But my job is to obey no matter how uncomfortable I feel.

So we keep on keeping on, one awkward day after another, until further notice.

That’s all for today, tender friends! Thank you for stopping by, and thank you for sharing!

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