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Father in Heaven pull back the blanket of noise and fake news that dazzles us and distracts us from reality. Turn down the sound of the world until we can finally hear your voice. Help us find our way quickly through the confusing fog continually rising around us on all sides.

Bless us with discontent whenever we follow the wrong paths, or listen to the wrong people. Help us distinguish your voice from the mob, the wrong teachers, the false preachers.

Give us the courage to follow your voice through whiteout conditions swiftly and with confidence so that we can find you now, and stay beside you through the Storm.

Your Majesty, I humbly ask you to forgive our sins, the way we lead our lives for ourselves, the way we forget that you created us. Please forgive the countless times we refuse to trust you, and all the time we spend dwelling on our worries, wants, fears and plans as though we are writing the script for our lives instead of asking what you would have us do. Give us the strength to turn to you, to call your name, to push aside our pride and fear so that we claim the completeness of your love and forgiveness instead.

Thank you for granting us life and all that we have, for writing the love letter some call the Bible to us to help us through, for sending the Holy Spirit to comfort and advocate for us while we struggle, and for using all the pain in our lives for our own good. Thank you for hearing our frustration and accusations when we don't understand and yet, loving us still. Thank you for loving us enough to die on the cross for us even though you knew we usually would not understand, and would instead rage at you for our choices and the outcomes of a world broken with our own free will.

Nothing is hidden from you, everything is bright as day. Father, please shed your light on our path, be our beacon so that we can find our way through, even in the darkest times, when the Storm seems overwhelming, knowing that you are with us, will never forsake us, and will be there to catch us whenever we stumble, and that you will meet us with joy at the close of our lives, to begin our life anew, at last whole and complete, with you forever.

Help our unbelief. Help give us the words of encouragement to share with one another. Lead us to take up the Full Armor of God so that when the day comes, we can stand. Help us endure in faith and peace until the day we can see you face to face. I ask all these things in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Amen.

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My prayer is the result of pensive reflection on world events and a review of the text I sought out from https://www.gotquestions.org/restrainer.html excerpted below.

Excerpt:

Supporting the idea that the Holy Spirit within the church is the restrainer is the fact that the restrainer is referenced both as a thing (neuter gender, verse 6) and as a person (masculine gender, verse 7). Also, the power delaying Satan’s masterplan to unveil his false messiah must be of God. It makes much more sense to say that the Holy Spirit is curbing the devil than a political entity or even an angel. The Holy Spirit of God is the only Person with sufficient (supernatural) power to do this restraining.

Of course, the Spirit works through believers to accomplish this. The church, indwelt by the Spirit of God, has always been part of what holds society back from the swelling tide of lawless living. At some point, Paul says, the Spirit will “step aside” from His restraining work, allowing sin to have dominion over mankind. Second Thessalonians 2:7 can be literally rendered, “The secret of lawlessness is already working, only it cannot be revealed until he who now withholds disappears from the midst.” We believe this “disappearing from the midst” will happen at the time the church leaves the earth at the rapture. The Holy Spirit will still be present in the earth, of course, but He will be taken out of the way in the sense that His unique sin-restraining ministry—through God’s people—will be removed (see Genesis 6:3).

Second Thessalonians 2 is clear that the removal of the restrainer’s influence precedes the revealing of the Antichrist. Given free rein during the tribulation, the lawless one will “use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders” to deceive the people of the earth (verses 9–10). After the Antichrist’s time is up, the Lord Jesus will return and overthrow the man of sin by “the breath of his mouth and destroy [him] by the splendor of his coming” (verse 8). Evil is restrained right now; once the Church Age ends, the hindrance to evil will be removed, and the rebellion will seem to be winning; however, the ultimate doom of evil is sure.