I am in a serious spiritual battle with my husband, whom I believe is an actual narcissistic psychopath. He doesn't want to be diagnosed, which I am not surprised at all; but I don't know what other term I would use. I am in constant concern for the safety and wellbeing for my kids and myself. I'm already in a battle of my own with depression. My pastors aren't really taking the situation seriously at all.
I have been praying for him, but it's very hard to know what to pray. I am at the point where I realise I am in a spiritual battle with his condition, but I don't know how to pray.
Are there any bible verses that anyone can reference that I can stand on in effective prayer for my husband? Or specific things to pray? Please let me know. Thank you!
Dear one,
You are right in considering as a serious spiritual battle with your husband. I understand your love for your husband. And much more, I believe your husband would consider it right to prioritize the safety and well being of your children and yourself.
I do understand that it can be challenging when you yourself are struggling with depression and also in need to care for your children and husband.
Dear one, consider what the Lord Himself said :
I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but
for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. -John 17:9
So just Jesus can pray on our behalf, so we can also pray on behalf of our children, husband/wife, and others.
First, we need right standing before God, for God to hear our prayers. This is what we have heard:
Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; -Isaiah 59:1
but your
iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your
sins have hidden His face from you so that
He does not hear. -Isaiah 59:2
Sure, we would like God to save our families and that He heard our prayers and help us but we didn’t know whether we may have offended God and others by what we may have said and done. May be there are sins or iniquities, that we are not aware of, and that hinder God from hearing our prayers. For we heard:
Who can discern unintentional sins?
Cleanse me from hidden faults.-Psalms 19:12 CJB
What should we do then? This is what we have heard:
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. -Psalms 32:8
Didn’t our Holy Spirit instruct us and teach us in the way we should go ? Yes, He did; He has said that in Psalms 32.
This is the instructions that we heard:
I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD," and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah -Psalms 32:5 ESV
So when we confessed our offenses and believe that God forgave us like David, we are forgiven and we can rejoice like David, that said:
Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. -Psalms 32:1
Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. -Psalms 32:2
So dear one,
Like David, how he made an appeal to God:
Remember Your mercy, O LORD, and Your steadfast love, for they have been from of old. -Psalms 25:6 ESV
Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to Your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of Your goodness, O LORD! -Psalms 25:7 ESV
Dear one, our Lord have said:
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer,
believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. -Mark 11:24
And
whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses." -Mark 11:25
So dear one, in keeping with God’s words,
release forgiveness to those who offended or sinned against you every day. And believe that your Heavenly Father forgives the guilt of your sins. As we have heard:
For if you forgive others their trespasses,
your heavenly Father will also forgive you, -Matthew 6:14
but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. -Matthew 6:15
So dear believe on what our Lord have said and let us walk in obedience to His words. For we heard:
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all.
The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. -John 6:63
Dear one, when we regard the words that our Lord have spoken to us, the Spirit of His words give us life. The Spirit of His words gives life to our family.
I understand the challenge when depressed, had to face the evil spirit of narcissistic psychopath and concern with children. This is what I pray :
Lord Jesus Christ, my Shepherd.
I bless the circumstances that bring grief and sorrow into my heart. I bless it. I receive the peace of Jesus Christ and the inheritance blessings— that is coming to me; from blessing it.
Amen.
Lord my God,
I bless the person who accused me, hurt me, disappoint me, upset me, mistreated me, resented me, rejected me, and abandoned me
I may have been accused, hurt, disappointed, upset, mistreated,hated, and rejected, abandoned
but now I release forgiveness to those who hurt me, disappoint me, upset me, mistreat me, resent me,reject me and abandoned.
I bless the persons who accuse, hurt, disappointed, upset, mistreated,hated, rejected me, abandoned me.
I thank you Father in Heaven.
When I bless them, I got blessings coming my way.
I am inheriting blessings today or tonight.
In Jesus Name I pray. Amen.
Dear one, when we have released forgiveness to those who offended us, now we can pray on behalf of others— for we have removed the plank in our own eyes, first.
This is the Bible verses, that you can pray over your husband and marriage:
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.-Ephesians 2:13-16 NKJV
This is how I pray over my marriage:
Lord Jesus Christ,
My wife and I who were far off in marriage, You, O Lord have brought near by Your precious blood.
For You Yourself, O Lord is our peace who has made both my wife and I —one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in Your flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Yourself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that You might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity in our marriage. To God be the glory. Amen
Dear one, keep on trusting on the Lord’s steadfast love. May God’s grace and peace be with you, your husband and children. God bless you all in Christ Jesus. To God be the glory. Amen.