Prayer For Trials

Shalom Mishpacha (family)

I woke in the week with this prayer impressed on my heart for the body – we are all faced with our own personal trials and as Father showed me a while ago, times are not going to get easier as we are going through a time of testing, so this prayer is one I want you to keep and read especially when times get tough. These are three questions to ask yourself, in preparation:

Are you going to be able to praise YHVH in the midst of a Fire, even the refiner’s fire?
Are you going to, in the midst of tyranny be able to stand strong in your faith even if it means death?
Are you going to despite losing family and friends be able to still stand firm in your faith?

Here is the prayer – which was in the 1611 KTV of the Bible but was later removed –

Malachi 3:2-3

The Prayer of Azariah (Abednego) in the Furnace

1 They walked around in the midst of the flames, singing hymns to Elohim and blessing YHVH.

2 Then Azariah stood still in the fire and prayed aloud:

3 “Blessed are you, O YHVH, Elohim of our ancestors, and worthy of praise; and glorious is Your name forever!

4 For You are just in all You have done; all Your works are true and Your ways right, and all Your judgments are true.

5 You have executed true judgments in all You have brought upon us and upon Jerusalem, the holy city of our ancestors; by a true judgment You have brought all this upon us because of our sins.

6 For we have sinned and broken Your law in turning away from You; in all matters, we have sinned grievously.

7 We have not obeyed Your commandments, we have not kept them or done what You have commanded us for our own good.

8 So all that You have brought upon us, and all that You have done to us, You have done by a true judgment.

9 You have handed us over to our enemies, lawless and hateful rebels, and to an unjust king, the most wicked in all the world.

10 And now we cannot open our mouths; we, Your servants who worship You, have become a shame and a reproach.

11 For your name’s sake do not give us up forever and do not annul your covenant.

12 Do not withdraw Your mercy from us, for the sake of Abraham Your beloved and for the sake of Your servant Isaac and Israel Your holy one, 13 to whom You promised to multiply their descendants like the stars of heaven and like the sand on the shore of the sea.

14 For we, O YHVH, have become fewer than any other nation, and are brought low this day in all the world because of our sins.

15 In our day we have no ruler, or prophet, or leader, no burnt offering, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, no place to make an offering before You and to find mercy.

16 Yet with a contrite heart and a humble spirit may we be accepted, 17 as though it were with burnt offerings of rams and bulls, or with tens of thousands of fat lambs; such may our sacrifice be in Your sight today, and may we unreservedly follow You, for no shame will come to those who trust in You.

18 And now with all our heart, we follow You; we fear You and seek Your presence.

19 Do not put us to shame but deal with us in Your patience and in Your abundant mercy.

20 Deliver us in accordance with Your marvellous works and bring glory to Your name, O YHVH.

21 Let all who do harm to Your servants be put to shame; let them be disgraced and deprived of all power, and let their strength be broken.

22 Let them know that You alone are YHVH Elohim, glorious over the whole world.”

23 Now the king’s servants who threw them in kept stoking the furnace with naphtha, pitch, tow, and brushwood. 24 And the flames poured out above the furnace forty-nine cubits, 25 and spread out and burned those Chaldeans who were caught near the furnace. 26 But the Angel of YHVH came down into the furnace to be with Azariah and his companions, and drove the fiery flame out of the furnace, 27 and made the inside of the furnace as though a moist wind were whistling through it. The fire did not touch them at all and caused them no pain or distress.

28 Then the three with one voice praised and glorified and blessed YHVH in the furnace:

29 “Blessed are you, O YHVH, Elohim of our ancestors,

and to be praised and highly exalted forever;

30 And blessed is your glorious, holy name,

and to be highly praised and highly exalted forever.

31 Blessed are you in the temple of your holy glory,

and to be extolled and highly glorified forever.

32 Blessed are you who look into the depths from your throne on the cherubim,

and to be praised and highly exalted forever.

33 Blessed are you on the throne of your kingdom,

and to be extolled and highly exalted forever.

34 Blessed are you in the firmament of heaven,

and to be sung and glorified forever.

35 “Bless YHVH, all you works of YHVH;