10 Prayers for Cutters

Self-injury among teens is more common than thought, a new study suggests. Some 46 percent of high school students surveyed said they had purposely injured themselves more than once in the past year. Among those who said they had injured themselves, more than half said they had cut or burned their skin or given themselves a tattoo or engaged in other acts the researchers labeled as serious. Others engaged in comparatively minor acts such as pulling out hair, biting themselves or picking at areas of the body until they bled. (http://www.livescience.com/1719-study-46-percent-teens-hurt-purpose.html) Many parents are unaware that teens engage in "cutting" and other forms of self-injury. Jesus Christ can heal the brokenhearted and your hurts. I hope that you will take the time to read all the scriptures below, because the Word of God (the Bible) teaches the only 100% cure for self hate, cutting, suicide thoughts and insecurities. He can get rid of all the negative thoughts in your mind so you can live a normal life. I will be praying for you. Click here for printable file: 10 Prayers for Cutters or click on image for jpg file: 1. Lord, help me to realize that I am Your creation. For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them. Psalms 139:13-16 (NKJV)

2. Lord, help me to forgive anyone who has hurt me, including myself.

For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. “But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matt 6:14-15 (NKJV)

Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, “leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Matt 5:23-24 (NKJV)

3. Lord, forgive me for abusing my beautiful body You created.

You are the children of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves. Deut 14:1 (NKJV)

Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. 1 Cor 6:19-20 (NKJV)

4. Lord, send loving Christians into my life who can help me.

You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Matt 19:19 (NKJV)

For I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; ‘I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’ “Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? ‘When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? ‘Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ “And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me. Matt 25:35-40 (NKJV)

5. Lord, help me to love myself and other people.

As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you…You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. John 15:9-14 (NKJV)

Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. 1 Peter 5:6-7 (NKJV)

6. Lord, forgive me for all my sins (including hate, cutting and negative thoughts).

But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, Matt 5:44 (NKJV)

Bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 2 Cor 10:5 (NKJV)

7. Lord, heal my hurts.

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose (Jesus’) stripes ye were healed. 1 Peter 2:24 (KJV)

He is despised and rejected by men,

A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.

And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;

He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

Surely He has borne our griefs

And carried our sorrows;

Yet we esteemed Him stricken,

Smitten by God, and afflicted.

But He was wounded for our transgressions (sins),

He was bruised for our iniquities (sins);

The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,

And by His stripes we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray;

We have turned, every one, to his own way;

And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 53:3-6 (NKJV)

He heals the brokenhearted

And binds up their wounds. Psalms 147:3 (NKJV)

Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. 1 Peter 5:6-7 (NKJV)

8. Lord, help me to believe that Jesus died on the cross for all my sins.

Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, 1 Cor 15:3-4 (NKJV)

Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness–by whose stripes you were healed. 1 Peter 2:24 (NKJV)

He was delivered over to death for our sins and then was raised to life to put us right with God. By faith in this, then, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand.

Romans 4:25-5:2

If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. ” Romans 10:9-12 (NKJV)

9. Lord, help me to put my faith in Jesus as my Lord and Savior and repent of my sins.

You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. Matt 22:37-38 (NKJV)

For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved. Romans 10:13

I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish. Luke 13:3 (NKJV)

Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:38 (NKJV)

Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, Acts 3:19 (NKJV)

10. Satan and all demons, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ, to quit putting evil thoughts of suicide and cutting in my head. Leave and do not return.*

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. 1 Peter 5:8-9 (NKJV)

But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out that very hour. Acts 16:18 (NKJV)

When Jesus saw that the people came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come out of him and enter him no more!” 26 Then the spirit cried out, convulsed him greatly, and came out of him. Mark 9:25-26 (NKJV)

* This may not work if you have not accepted Christ as your Lord and Saviour. It requires the Holy Spirit living inside of you to have authority over demons and unclean spirits. You need to seek out a Christian who has experience with spiritual warfare.

Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20 “Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.Luke 10:19-20 (NKJV)