Prayer – Letting People Go

Guided By The Holy Spirit

How are you when it comes to letting people go? I am the kind of person that tries to believe the best in everyone. It’s probably very naive of me, but I also think it’s a very good quality, once it’s guided by God’s wisdom. And so, I try not to judge people by other people’s experiences.

I haven’t always let the Holy Spirit guide me in choosing my friends and the people I have become close to in the past. I will always remember this particular co-worker.

She was so easy-going, and always ‘willing’ to assist in just about everything – not just work, your whole life. Wouldn’t you think that was a great co-worker and friend to have?

Well, a part of being friends is that you end up telling people your business. I am by no means a proud person, but I do hold my head up high when I walk.

One of my favorite managers told me once she loved the way I carry myself – she termed it ‘tall’, as in I walk tall.

You Are The Light Of The World

Well, while I was busy ‘walking tall’ people were snickering behind my back and the general universe knew about a particular situation I was speaking to this person about.

I was the talk of the town – I wonder how all of a sudden (and I didn’t talk about my personal life much) everyone seemed to know about the difficulty I was in.

I can’t tell you how crushed I was, I really wanted the ground to open up and swallow me, right there and then.

Blaming God

Actually, I had the audacity to blame God. You see, I felt that if I served Him that He should have warned me about this so that I would have known the personality I was dealing with and know that I couldn’t trust this person!!!

Thank God, He really is merciful and kind that He didn’t strike me down for it, He really is a wonderful and kind God.

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I’m glad that even in situations you put yourself in, God in His merciful goodness comes to your rescue.

I don’t even remember how at this point, but God let me ‘drop’ this unhealthy, unholy and unsound relationship. And it was done so easily that I can’t remember much of it.

Today the only reason I speak to that person is about work. God even physically moved me away from the person, so we don’t work in the same environment. What a really wonderful God we serve.

Letting People Go

In Genesis 12: 1-5 God asked Abraham (Abram then) to separate from his family and go to a foreign country. The Amplified version says ‘for your own advantage’ (verse 1).

God separates us, for our own good, not because He doesn’t like family or friendships, but some of our relationships are keeping us back from fulfilling God’s purpose in our lives.

The Word says in 1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people. That you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

You Are The Influencer

When people don’t add to your life, don’t set yourself so closely with them that you are influenced by them. You are the salt. You are the influencer, not the other way around.

If you’re in any situation today like that, and you can’t seem to find the strength to let go, ask God. He will find a way out for you.

Letting people go (the negative influencers) allows God to then bring the right people into your ‘world’ for your advantage. May God’s grace and strength overwhelm your life today, Amen.

Prayer To Let People Go

Heaven Father, thank you for your love for me. Thank you for watching over me. Your guidance and strength fulfill me. Lord, my heart is both heavy and hopeful. There are people in my life whom I’ve held onto tightly, sometimes out of love, loyalty, or fear of being alone.

Yet, I sense Your gentle prompting to let them go, to release them into Your care and trust Your plan for their lives as well as mine. This act of letting go is challenging, Lord, but I acknowledge that Your ways are higher than mine, and Your plans are always for our good.

Grant me the strength and courage to release these individuals, knowing that in doing so, I am not abandoning them but entrusting them to Your infinitely capable hands.

Help me to understand that sometimes love means letting go, allowing You to work in their lives in ways I cannot.

Lord, continue to purge my life of those who should not be here. Give me the strength to release them and to trust your word. Remind me that your will for my life is all I need. In Jesus’ name, I pray, Amen!

James 4:14-15 – Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”