Prayer is something that has exponentially helped me throughout my life endeavors. And regardless of your or I’s spiritual state, we could all use a little help once in a while. The Bible tells us in 2 Corinthians 12:10 “10 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, ” and it’s through this verse that I can confidently say my life has been saved.
A wicked person is one who is characterized by being extremely evil, malicious and mean hearted. Their behaviour has caused lots of hurt and pain to others who are close to them. Such individuals have lost track of what the good life is all about. They don’t care about the harm they’ve caused to other people and the way their actions have affected those who love them. It’s very hard for someone to have a change of heart when motivation, encouragement, prayer and love is all lacking. But if you see a wicked person being encouraged or motivated by god or anything else to do good, then it could truly be one of God’s miracles and you should not stand in its way as this is an opportunity for that individual to change for good.
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Prayer For A Wicked Person
Father God, thank You that I can cry out to You even when you seem distant from my troubles. Please save the wicked from their sins, causing them to see Christ in His glory and repent of their wickedness. And if they don’t turn to You, bring justice on them in a way that will cause many to see and fear You.
Dear God,
I am writing this prayer to ask for your help in bringing about a change in the life of [name].
[Name] is a wicked person. He/she has done many evil things and hurt many people. I want to ask you to help me pray for him/her so that he/she can repent and change his/her ways.
Please help me to pray for him/her so that he/she will be able to stop doing evil things and start doing good things instead. I know that you are able pray on behalf of all people, so please help me pray for [name].
In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen
Dear God,
I pray for the soul of the wicked person who is trying to ruin me.
Please help them to see their mistakes and realize how their actions have hurt so many people. Please help them to repent and ask for forgiveness from those they have wronged. Please give them the strength to change their ways and become a better person. Please heal their spirit, body and mind so that they can live a life of peace and happiness.
I pray this in Jesus’ name, amen!
Oh Lord, we pray for this wicked person.
We pray that you will deliver them from their sin, and bring them to repentance.
As they are now, they are a stumbling block to your people and an obstacle in the way of others’ salvation.
Please help us to forgive them as we would want to be forgiven ourselves.
Please give us the strength to love them despite what they have done against us.
Prayer For The Removal Of The Wicked
Andrew and Peter were among John the Baptist’s first disciples. While they were in the wilderness with John, Andrew was the one who initially introduced his older brother Peter to Jesus. (John 1:40–42) It is said that at this point, they turned to Jesus as their spiritual leader. Following Peter’s introduction to Jesus, they abandoned John and embraced Christ.
Lord, we pray for the soul of this wicked person.
We know that they are dead in their sins, but we pray that you will give them a second chance to repent and believe in your Son, Jesus Christ.
We ask that you forgive them of their wrongdoings and grant them eternal life in Heaven.
In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen
Dear Lord,
Please help this person change their ways.
They are so wicked, and they need to be brought to justice.
Please give them the strength and courage to confess their crimes and repent for their sins.
Let them no longer be tempted by evil forces, but have instead the ability to see clearly what is right and what is wrong.
Grant them a heart that is pure and kind, so they can become a force for good in this world.
Dear God,
We come before You today in a time of great need. We are hoping You will hear our prayers and send us guidance. We are from a small town in the middle of nowhere, and we have encountered a wicked person. This person has done many terrible things to us, and we have never been able to understand why. Please help us, Lord! They’ve taken away our joy, our peace, and even our hope for the future.
Show us how to deal with this person’s actions so that we can move forward in life without being haunted by their presence. Give us strength to endure these difficult times and show them mercy when they are ready to repent for their sins.
Help me to love my enemies more than myself so that I can be more like You—for it is in Your nature that I find true happiness and peace within myself.”
Lord,
We come before you today to ask for your guidance and protection in the life of [name], who has done some things that we think are pretty wicked. We know that you have a plan for each of us, but sometimes we get confused. We don’t understand why some people do the things they do.
Please help us to forgive ourselves for our own shortcomings, and to know that no matter how much we may mess up, you will always be there for us. Please help us to forgive others and learn from their mistakes so that we can become better people ourselves.
Grant [name] wisdom and understanding as he tries to make sense of the world around him. We pray for his safety; please keep him safe from harm and protect him from those who would do him harm. Reveal yourself to him in ways he may not even realize are real; let him see your love in everything around him so that he might know what it is like to live as one of your children—a child who knows nothing but love!
We ask these things in Jesus’ name, amen!
How to Pray to God to Punish Someone
It is evident that more than just pride and retaliation are at stake in each and every imprecatory prayer found in the Bible. The author’s personal representation of a whole nation is the reason behind the offense’s personal aspect.
Have you ever wished for the total ruin of another person? that God would eradicate them from the face of the planet.
It does not appear to be very Christian.
However, the Bible has accounts of these prayers, particularly in the Book of Psalms.
Imprecatory prayers are those that ask for the demise and ruin of other people. You might not have previously given this type of prayer much thought, and I hope you never need to.
I notice the following concepts in the imprecatory prayers, which can help you choose whether or not you should pray for your enemies to be destroyed.
Personal retaliation shouldn’t be the focus.
It is evident that more than just pride and retaliation are at stake in each and every imprecatory prayer found in the Bible. The author’s personal representation of a whole nation is the reason behind the offense’s personal aspect. Israel’s God is you, LORD God of hosts. Raise your hands and punish every nation, leaving no one unpunished who plots evil with malice. Never mind. (Psalm 59:5).
Prayer For The Wicked In The Bible
A very difficult text from Judges 19 which I preached several years ago describes the gruesome account of the attempted homosexual rape of a Levite, the brutal rape of his concubine, and the dismembering of her body into twelve pieces, which were sent to the twelve tribes of Israel by her husband. Several who were asked to read this scripture passage in our teaching hour declined. The one who did consent asked to pray before the text was read rather than afterward as was our custom!
Psalm 109 is a similarly unpleasant passage for many. If classified as movies are today, it would hardly receive a “G” rating. Some psalms are soothing, such as Psalm 23. Others like Psalm 91 are comforting. There are soul-stirring psalms which inspire us to worship and praise such as Psalm 103. Psalm 109 is very troubling to most because it is perhaps the strongest imprecatory183 psalm in the psalter. David, the author of the psalm as indicated in the superscription, calls upon God to destroy his enemies in the most horrible ways. According to Perowne, there are no less than 30 anathemas pronounced upon David’s enemies in this one psalm.184 David not only seeks the punishment of his enemy but also the painful consequences brought on his family: “Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children wander about and beg; and let them seek sustenance far from their ruined homes” (vv. 9-10).
The problem we face in Psalm 109 is not restricted to this psalm, however. Other Psalms contain similar prayers for the punishment of evildoers: “Do Thou add iniquity to their iniquity, and may they not come into Thy righteousness. May they be blotted out of the book of life, and may they not be recorded with the righteous” (Ps. 69:27-28).
To some the beauty of Psalm 139 is shattered by these words:
O that Thou wouldst slay the wicked, O God; depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed. For they speak against Thee wickedly, and Thine enemies take Thy name in vain. Do I not hate those who hate Thee, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against Thee? I hate them with the utmost hatred; they have become my enemies (Ps. 139:19-22).
In Psalm 137 we find a cry of vengeance against the Babylonians:
Remember, O Lord, against the sons of Edom the day of Jerusalem, who said, “Raze it, raze it, to its very foundation.” O daughter of Babylon, you devastated one, how blessed will be the one who repays you with the recompense with which you have repaid us. How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones against the rock (Ps. 137:7-9).
The problem we face in Psalm 109 is one that is far broader than just one passage, or even one book of the Bible. Prayers of imprecation for the destruction of the wicked are to be found throughout the entire Word of God. Moses (the “meekest man on the face of the earth,” Num. 12:3) prayed, “Rise up, O Lord! And let Thine enemies be scattered, and let those who hate Thee flee before Thee” (Num. 10:35).
The prophet Jeremiah spoke stinging words of imprecation which parallel the prayers of David and others in the psalms:
Do give heed to me, O Lord, and listen to what my opponents are saying! Should good be repaid with evil? For they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before Thee to speak good on their behalf, so as to turn away Thy wrath from them. Therefore, give their children over to famine, and deliver them up to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be smitten to death, their young men struck down by the sword in battle. May an outcry be heard from their houses, when Thou suddenly bringest raiders upon them; for they have dug a pit to capture me and hidden snares for my feet. Yet Thou, O Lord, knowest all their deadly designs against me; do not forgive their iniquity or blot out their sin from Thy sight. But may they be overthrown before Thee; deal with them in the time of Thine anger! (Jer. 18:19-23; cf. also 11:18ff.; 15:15ff.; 20:11ff.).
There are numerous imprecations in the New Testament also, such as that of the saints who were slain for their righteousness:
And when He broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained; and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, wilt Thou refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” (Rev. 6:9-10).
Imprecations such as those found in Psalm 109 have caused some Christians to question the value of the imprecatory prayers of the Bible for New Testament believers:
It is surely a debatable question as to whether the church should retain the whole Psalter in its worship, including these troublesome passages, or whether the Psalter should be censored at those points which seem to be inconsistent with God’s revelation in Jesus Christ. It would be interesting to check the responsive readings included in modern hymnals or books of worship, to see the degree to which the Psalms have been edited for Christian worship.185
No matter how perplexing the problem of imprecatory psalms may be, we cannot easily dismiss them. Imprecations, as we shall later point out, are also to be found in the New Testament. We know also that “all Scripture is profitable …” (2 Tim. 3:16) and therefore these prayers have a lesson for us to learn. In addition we must remember that all the psalms were recorded and preserved for public worship. The imprecatory psalms were not merely the passionate pleas of one man (spiritually or carnally motivated), but were rather a pattern for the worship of Israel. Can you imagine coming together to worship and singing a psalm like Psalm 109? Because ancient Israel did so, we must look very carefully at this passage to learn its message to us.
This lesson is intended to accomplish two purposes. We will seek to understand the message of Psalm 109, both as it related to the saints of old and as it applies to men today. In addition this psalm will be used to address the broader subject of imprecatory prayers. We will strive to understand the purpose of such prayers, and the principles which underly them, that apply equally to the saints today. Because of this two-fold purpose, our exposition of Psalm 109 will be more general to allow space for addressing the broader issues involved. Let us look first to the God to whom these prayers were addressed and His Spirit who inspired them, and then to the text itself for His message to us. May we not quickly disregard the stern warning of this psalm.
David’s Indictment of His Enemies:
His Innocence and Their Iniquity
(109: 1-5)
1 For the choir director. A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, Do not be silent! 2 For they have opened the wicked and deceitful mouth against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue. 3 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without cause. 4 In return for my love they act as my accusers; But I am in prayer. 5 Thus they have repaid me evil for good, And hatred for my love. (NASB)
Verses 1-5 are crucial, not only to this psalm, but to our understanding of imprecation. In this introductory section David makes two claims: (1) his innocence and (2) the iniquity of his enemies. The God who is the object of his praise (v. 1; cf. also Deut. 10:21; Jer. 17:14) is also the One who receives his petitions. David’s plea that God not remain silent in verse 1b is a cry for help, as elsewhere (cf. Ps. 28:1; 35:22; 83:1). The basis for David’s petition is then given in verses 2-5. David is accused by his enemies but is innocent of their charges. He has done good to his enemies, which they have repaid with evil.
I believe that verses 1-5 are crucial to a correct understanding of imprecatory prayers because they inform us about the prerequisites for imprecation. The requirements are rigorous for those who would thus pray. Likewise, those who are worthy of divine wrath are carefully defined. Only the innocent dare pray as David does, and only the wicked need fear the fate which David petitions God to execute.
Let us first consider the innocence of David, which qualifies him to pray as he does. David is, first and foremost, a worshipper of God. He dares not petition his God apart from being a man given to the praise of God (v. 1). While the accusations against David by his enemies are many, they are without basis (cf. Ps. 69:4). He not only has refrained from evil toward the wicked, he has done them nothing but good (v. 5; cf. Ps. 35:12). They hate, but he loves (v. 5). They accuse him, but he prays (for them, it would seem, v. 4).186 The underlying assumption is that David is suffering, not for his sin, but “for righteousness sake”:
Because for Thy sake I have borne reproach; dishonor has covered my face. I have become estranged from my brothers, and an alien to my mother’s sons. For zeal for Thy house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach Thee have fallen on me (Ps. 69:7-9).
David does not claim to be sinless here, but he is a worshipper whose heart is right before God.187 Often in the psalms David confesses his own sins: “For I confess my iniquity; I am full of anxiety because of my sin” (Ps. 38:18). “O God, it is Thou who dost know my folly, and my wrongs are not hidden from Thee” (Ps. 69:5; cf. 32:5; 51:5). If he has sinned, David asks God to deal with him accordingly:
O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is injustice in my hands, if I have rewarded evil to my friend, or have plundered him who without cause was my adversary, let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it; and let him trample my life down to the ground, and lay my glory in the dust (Ps. 7:3-5).
In Psalm 139 while David prayed that God would “slay the wicked” (v. 19), he immediately opens his own heart to God, so that he may have his sins exposed and cleansed: “Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my anxious thoughts; and see if there be any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way” (Ps. 139:23-24).
David makes his petition to God as one who is dependent on Him for righteousness (cf. Ps. 130:3-8; 143:2). While he is not entirely free from sin, he is right with God by His grace, and he is righteous with regard to the charges of his opponents.
No one dare implore God to act as David does in Psalm 109 unless he himself is innocent in the sense that David was: innocent of the charges of the wicked, and in right standing before God. Let those who would pray for the destruction of their enemies be as quick as David to have God search their own hearts and to deal with them in justice, just as they would have Him judge their enemies. Imprecatory prayers must only be made by the righteous.
Second, let us give due consideration to the wickedness of David’s enemies, which made them worthy of God’s wrath. In Psalm 109 the sin of David’s enemies is expressed almost entirely in terms of the wrongs they have committed against him.188 Elsewhere, however, it is shown that how the wicked treat the righteous is symptomatic of their rebellion against God (cf. Ps. 37:12; 139:19-20).
The nature of the sin of the wicked against David is especially informative. The primary instrument of evil is the tongue of the wicked. They have “opened the wicked and deceitful mouth” and spoken with “a lying tongue” (v. 2). They have surrounded the psalmist with “words” (v. 3) and have “accused” him of wrongdoing (v. 4). I believe that Derek Kidner has best captured the essence of this evil by the title, “The Character-Assassin.”189
In most churches there is some kind of written or understood list of sins which its members are forbidden to commit. For some it may be smoking, drinking, dancing, going to movies, cursing, or perhaps (though less frequently) immorality. I am not trying to challenge here any of the items which may be on your particular list (though they made need challenging!). What I want to stress is how seldom the sin of backbiting is included in those lists. In fact, we have developed very subtle and spiritual-sounding means of committing the sin of character assassination. We “share” the problems of others as prayer requests. This sounds so pious, but frequently it is simply gossip by another label. Let us learn from this psalm that the most severe judgment is called down (and rightly so) upon the sin of character-assassination.
Two lessons should be learned from verses 1-5 concerning those against whom imprecations are made: (1) The imprecations which God hears are those which are made by those who have clean hands and a clean heart. Imprecations are effective only when we see sin as God does and when we ask Him to deal with sin as He has promised to deal with it in His Word. (2) Those against whom imprecations are effective are those who are truly wicked, those who are not just our enemies, but God’s enemies. Psalm 109 is vastly different from a “voodoo” curse. Imprecations are prayers for the punishment of the wicked. While the psalmist is innocent, his enemies are not. This is the basis for his petition for the punishment of the wicked. We are taught in Proverbs that a curse without basis has no effect: “Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, so a curse without cause does not alight” (Prov. 26:2).
Let us not leave these introductory verses without learning that those who would pray a prayer similar to David’s must be like David—they must be those who praise God (not just petition Him), and those who are right before God and men. Those who seek God’s wrath on the guilty should be innocent. Imprecations are only effective against the guilty. In this context and many others, their guilt is the offense of the tongue. God takes our words seriously, and so should we.
A brief word should be said about the identity of the wicked. They apparently were closely associated with David. According to verse 5, they had been the recipients of David’s love, which they had spurned and showed him hatred instead. Examples of David’s enemies include Doeg the Edomite (Ps. 52:1; 1 Sam. 21:7), Shimei (2 Sam. 16:5-8), and Saul (1 Sam. 18–31).190 While it is tempting to try to identify the name of the culprit, it seems obvious that the psalmist did not intend for us to know the individual’s identity. There are good reasons for this. First, the psalmist is committing the wicked to God’s judgment, not man’s. Why should he name the individual when God knew who it was? David, unlike his enemies, was not willing to engage in character-assassination. Secondly, David may have wanted his readers to give more thought to the one behind all accusation, Satan.191 Since the Hebrew word rendered “accuser” is translated satan, Satan’s role may well be indicated. We will return to this subject below.
Third, since the psalms were intended for general use, David did not identify his enemies so that the righteous could supply the names of their adversaries, so to speak.192
powerful prayer for vindication
Prayer Points:
- Lord God, I than you for another beautiful grace to see a great moment like this. I thank you for you mercy over my life, I than you for your grace and favour that is sufficient over me, let your name be exalted in the name of Jesus.
- Father Lord, the scripture says many are the afflictions of the righteous, but God is faithful to rescue him from all. I ask that your mercy, you will vindicate me in the name of Jesus. Lord, as I’m suffering for what I know not, being punished for a crime I never committed, I pray that by your mercy, you will save me in the name of Jesus.
- Lord Jesus, as I have been disgraced and put down for a crime I didn’t commit, I ask that you will cause me to celebrated in the name of Jesus. Lord, in every places that I have been rejected due to false accusations against me, I pray that I shall be celebrated in the name of Jesus. You that made Joseph victorious over his master’s wife, I pray that you will grant me victory in the name of Jesus.
- Lord Jesus, even as I will be heading to court for hearing. The world is against me, everyone believed that I committed the crime, but you are the omniscience God, the one that sees all and know all. You know I have not done this crime, I pray that by your mercy, you will vindicate me in the name of Jesus.
- Your word said that you will save me from every afflictions. I pray that by your mercy, this case will be dissolved in the name of Jesus. I pray that by your mercy, you will fish out the culprit yourself. That I may be justified, I ask that you will bring the culprit to justice in the name of Jesus.
- Lord Jesus, I come against every tongue of an accuser in my life. I decree by the authority of heaven, that such tongues catch fire in the name of Jesus. For it has been written that you will bless those that bless me and you will curse those that curse me, I decree by the authority, any tongue that rise against me shall be condemned in the name of Jesus.
- Lord, I decree by your mercy, you will not allow my life to be ruined by the utterance of an accuser in the name of Jesus. I come against the agenda of an accuser over my life by the power in the name of Jesus.
- Lord, every plans that has been orchestrated in the kingdom of darkness to humiliate me, I pray that it shall not work in the name of Jesus. I cancel every form of humiliation over my life, every form of disgrace is cancelled by the power of the Holy Ghost.
- Lord Jesus, I claim my victory over every wrong accusations in the name of Jesus. I pray that the hands of God Almighty will forth and vindicate me in the name of Jesus.
- Lord, I pray that you will bless every man and woman that are working for my freedom with divine wisdom to argue their case in the name of Jesus. And I pray that you will cause the judge to see the truth in my defense in the name of Jesus.
- Lord Jesus, your word says if the way of a man pleases God, He will cause him to find favour in the sight of men. I pray that you will let me find favour in the sight of men in the name of Jesus. For. It has been written that the heart of man and king is in the hands of God and He directs it like the flow of water. I pray that you will touch the heart of those that needs to be touched in the name of Jesus.