A Mom’s Prayer for Loyal Friends

Father,

Praise You for the way You purposefully place people in our lives. As mothers, we long for loyal friends we can count on to empathize, support, and laugh with us, Lord. Help us to see the people in our lives as You see them, Father. Please help us to hold them close but loose. Let us always look to You first for all our needs, and never place that burden on a human being no matter how loyal and loving of a friend they are. Teach us, Father, to be the kind of friend Jesus is to us. Let us be outward facing, God, and self-aware, so we can be the kind of friend we pray for. Loyalty is often used as a tool to control others in our lives. Father, we want to be people who free our friends, not make them feel less than or suffocated. Help us pour our hearts to You before we lean on our friends. Remind us to prayerfully lift our friends each day, Father. Motherhood is busy and bold, full of decisions and reactions …questions and celebrations. It truly flies by, Father.

Today, we pray for loyal friends who will become as close as a brother to us. Whether different friends in different seasons or lifelong stand-bys, we pray for friends. Surround us with Your love in the form of loyal friends and teach us to be loyal and loving friends to the people in our lives, Father. Foster in our hearts to be quick to forgive, honest, kind, Christ-centered, humble, and encouraging. Convict us when we have wronged a friend, and miraculously reconcile what we don’t have the power or wisdom too. Father, when we are lonely, missing a friend who has left our lives, we ask for Your comfort and care as we hesitantly open our hearts up to friendship again. Heal our hearts from the hurt of betrayal, dishonesty, and lack of loyalty. Let us follow Your wisdom above our feelings, God. Bless our lives with loyal friends. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

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