(I offer these prayers up in warfare against fornicators)
O God of Hosts, Who healest every illness and every infirmity among the
people, be gracious unto Thy servants, and do not allow the communion of
mankind with the demon. Cast out the unclean spirits; crush Satan under
the feet of thy servants; renew them by the Holy Spirit; unite them unto
Thy holy Church, and having redeemed them from every activity of the
adversary, present them before Thy holy Altar, and account them worthy
of Thy heavenly and life-giving Mysteries. For Thou art our God, the God
of the penitent, and unto Thee do we send up glory, to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto the ages of
ages. Amen.
O Lord, the God of righteousness, my strength and my helper and my
refuge in the evil day; Thou art He Who saveth in the time of
tribulation. Save me, for the floodwaters have entered in, even unto my
soul. I am stuck fast in the depths of slime, and I have no power before
the face of the enemy which oppresseth me; for he hath pursued my soul,
and he hath ground my life down into the earth. He hath troubled me by
warring against me all the night. Let it be Thy good pleasure, O Lord,
to snatch me from the hand of the iniquitous and unjust one, that I
might not sin against Thee; for the fear of death hath fallen upon me,
and darkness hath covered me. Unto whom shall I cry out, O Lord, and he
shall not hear me? Being unjustly treated, O Lord, shall I cry out to
Thee and wilt Thou ignore me? Look down from Heaven, O Lord, and behold
from Thy holy house and from Thy glory. Where is the multitude of Thy
compassions, according to Thy mercy wherewith Thou hast borne us? O
Lord, judge those who are unjust to me; be not as a man who slumbereth
and as a man who is unable to save. For Thou art a merciful and
man-befriending God, and unto Thee do we send up glory, to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto the ages
of ages. Amen.
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