Healing From Abuse

Healing From Abuse

I N T RO D U C T I O N  

This prayer can be applied to any form of abuse — physical,

mental, emotional, or sexual. I wrote it after reading T. D.

Jakes’ book, Woman, Thou Art Loosed.1 By praying it, I personally

have experienced victory and freedom — I am no longer a victim

but an overcomer.

P RAY ER

Lord, You are my High Priest, and I ask You to loose me

from this “infirmity.” The abuse I suffered pronounced me guilty

and condemned. I was bound — in an emotional prison —

crippled and could in no wise lift up myself. You have called me to

Yourself, and I have come.

The anointing that is upon You is present to bind up and heal

the brokenness and emotional wounds of the past. You are the

Truth that makes me free.

Thank You, Lord, for guiding me through the steps to

emotional wholeness. You have begun a good work in me, and You

will perform it until the day of Christ Jesus.

1 (Shippensburg, PA: Treasure House, 1993).

Father, I desire to live according to the Spirit of life in Christ

Jesus. This Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has

magnificently cleared the air, freeing me from a fated lifetime of

brutal tyranny at the hands of abuse.

Since I am now free, it is my desire to forget those things that

lie behind and strain forward to what lies ahead. I press on toward

the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which You in

Christ Jesus are calling me upward. The past will no longer control

my thinking patterns or my behavior.

Praise be to You! I am a new creature in Christ Jesus. Old

things have passed away; and, behold, all things have become new.

I declare and decree that henceforth I will walk in newness of life.

Forgive me, Father, for self-hatred and self-con d e m n a t i on . I

am Your ch i l d . You sent Jesus that I might have life and have it

more abundantly. Thank You for the blood of Jesus that makes

me whole.

It is my desire to throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous

evil in the garbage. In simple humility, I let my Gardener, You

Lord, landscape me with the Word, making a salvation- garden

of my life.

Father, by Your grace, I forgive my abuser/abusers and ask

You to bring him/her/them to repentance.

In the name of Jesus I pray, amen.

Scripture References

Luke 13:11,12 Romans 6:4

John 14:6 1 John 3:1,2

John 8:3 2John 10:10

Philippians 1:6 1 John 1:7

Romans 8:2 MESSAGE James 1:21 MESSAGE

Philippians 3:13,14 AMP Matthew 5:44

2 Corinthians 5:17 2 Peter 3:9