This Arrow Prayer

Kristine Cucinotta Murphy

God,

I lift up my heart and the hurt that has struck it by this arrow. I ask you to remove the arrow and heal the wound I have suffered.1 Peter 2:24 by his stripes I am healed. Remind me, you are my comfort and healer and even though the weapons may form against me they will not prosper over me and my life. That even though I may suffer pain and loss it is for your name sake and in my loss there shall be gain, in my trouble there will be blessings of double. Strengthen me by your Holy Spirit to endure, in your promise those who endure to the end shall be saved. Fill me with your unfailing love to be a blessing to those who hurt me and speak to me as I go to your holy living active word to lay down in the green pasture and still water to rest in you in Jesus name it is done.

Psalm 7
O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

3 O Lord my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)

5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

6 Arise, O Lord, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.

7 So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.

8 The Lord shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

10 My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.

11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

17 I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high.