Stormie Omartian - Prayers for Emotional Wholeness: 365 Prayers for Living in Freedom

365 PRAYERS for
LIVING in FREEDOM

STORMIE
OMARTIAN

HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS

EUGENE, OREGON

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PRAYERS FOR EMOTIONAL WHOLENESS

Copyright 2007 by Stormie Omartian

Published by Harvest House Publishers

Eugene, Oregon 97402

www.harvesthousepublishers.com

ISBN 978-0-7369-2828-1

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Omartian, Stormie.

Prayers for emotional wholeness / Stormie Omartian.

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-0-7369-1977-7 (hardcover)

ISBN-10: 0-7369-1977-5 (hardcover)

1. Prayers. I. Title.

BV245.O43 2007

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2006025788

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Gods purpose for our lives is to make us wholewhich is the way He created us to beand then to work through us for His glory as we surrender our lives to Him. Emotional wholeness means living without negative emotions and having peace about who you are and where your life is headed.

When I was trying to find emotional wholeness for myself, prayer was a big part of that process. Thats because when we pray to God, we are spending time in His presence. And in His presence is where we find healing from the pain of our past. Its where we learn to think clearly and maintain a right attitude. Its where we learn to speak words that bring life and not death into our situations and relationships. In His presence is where we learn to make good choices and decisions so we can become productive and fruitful.

Whenever we pray to God, we find His comfort, guidance, peace, love, joy, contentment, forgiveness, hope, and deliverance. We get rid of negative emotions, such as anger, anxiety, depression, doubt, loneliness, fear, and guilt. By praying, we can find help in times of trouble, temptation, weakness, and enemy attack. Prayer is important not only for our own wholeness, but for the healing and wholeness of our relationships as well. Prayer draws us closer to God, where we can get a vision for our future and better understand our purpose.

Who doesnt need all that? I know I do. Even though I have come out of a past of brokenness and feel like a whole person, I still need to pray every day. I know I continue to be a work in progress. Perhaps you feel like a work in progress too. That means you know God has more for you and you want to get rid of anything in your life that keeps you from experiencing it. If so, you will find the prayers and Scriptures in this book to be very helpful. They can be used in your daily prayer walk with God and, I hope, be a starting point from which you share your heart and your specific concerns with Him. My prayer is that they will help you pray in greater detail about the important issues of your life. You can pray these prayers in orderone a day for 365 daysor you can go to specific areas of prayer focus that you know you need to pray about right away.

Every one of us needs more of the wholeness God has for us, because He has far more than we can imagine.

Lord, I thank You for Your Word because it is good and it gives me life. It puts joy in my heart every time I read it. I pray that Your Word in me will fill my heart with Your love and peace and cause all anxiety, depression, and other dark clouds to blow away from me like ashes in the wind. I ask that You would take away any sadness in my heart and set me completely free from all negative emotions.

Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, but a good word makes it glad.

P ROVERBS 12:25