Prayer for Housing

This article shares bible verses which are then adapted to serve as prayer for housing or for feeling at home in your self or in your world.

I've been using them for a while in a prayer group and they turn out to have a surprising number of applications. See 'Situations' below for suggestions.

Contents for Prayer for housing

• The housing situation for those unable to work due to chronic illness
  
• My two housing miracles
• Multiple situations in which to pray for a safe home
  
• Bible verses and prayer
• We let ourselves be a home for God
• A spiritual poem about housing God
• Feeling homeless is a stage in the spiritual journey
• Prayer for housing refugees - our hearts are with Ukranians refugees at the time of writing
  
• A Course in Miracles housing quote - we affirm the location of our real home

The housing situation for those unable to work due to chronic illness

I write this article at a time when in the UK, the housing situation situation is bleak for those who are in the benefits system due to illness.
* Council houses were sold off without being replaced.
* Landlords often refuse to take those on benefits.
* Housing benefit rarely covers the rent.
When I was on housing benefit the council included a letter telling us to reach out to friends and family for help with rent.
And yet, in the UK, friends and family do not expect to help in any consistent financial way. They are led to believe that the State is providing sufficiently.

If you are living with chronic illness such as ME/CFS and do not have a secure or suitable home, my heart goes out to you.
(Well for whatever reason, even if not chronic illness!)

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My two housing miracles

I write this article as someone who developed a chronic illness at a young age (ME/CFS) and was without secure accommodation for the next 24 years.  I have been moved on three times when landlords wished to live once more in their own property.

On a brighter note, I have also had two major housing miracles.

One housing miracle led me, when I was bedbound, to move from London to live near Swindon in the beautiful Wiltshire countryside.
I am continually grateful.

The second was that I received the words "I have a house".
I was sitting in the back of someone's car at the time and called out, 'ooh, I have a house'.
Six months later I had a house!

Speaking bible verses into my life and claiming their reality for me, was part of both those miracles.

The following three bible verses were particularly important for me.
I repeated them over and over!
All the more so at the times when finding a suitable home felt SO unlikely.

I dwell in a peaceful place, a sure habitation, Isaiah 32

I enlarge the place of my tent, Isaiah 54

You set my feet in a spacious place, Psalm 31

The complete bible verses of the above are included below.

THIS ARTICLE IS CURRENTLY DEDICATED TO THE 
UKRANIAN REFUGEES.
WE SEE THEM FINDING SAFE PLACES TO STAY.
WE SEE MIRACLES OF SAFETY FOR THOSE STILL IN UKRAINE.

Situations in which to pray a prayer for housing

In any of the following situations these are powerful prayers.

• Do you feel called to pray and claim safety and a home for the Ukranian refugees or other refugees?
• Are you homeless or facing homelessness?
• Do you feel 'not at home' in your own body - frightened of your own thoughts and feelings?
• Do you feel 'not at home' in your own body due to allergies or sensitivities restricting where you can go or who you can spend time with? Say this prayer for housing to claim a safer body.
  
• Are you sharing accommodation with someone with whom you don't feel safe, so that you feel restricted and 'not at home'?
• Are you in accommodation that isn't suitable for your level of health. Perhaps you need one floor accommodation or to be somewhere quieter, or to get away from chemical fumes?
  
• A prayer for housing can be a prayer for successful building work. 

Bible verses and prayer for housing

“You have not given me into the hands of the enemy
but have set my feet in a spacious place.”
(Psalm 31, NIV Bible prayer for housing)

“They confronted me in the day of my disaster,
but the Lord was my support.
He brought me out into a spacious place;
he rescued me because he delighted in me.”
(Psalm 18, NIV Bible housing verse)

“Enlarge the place of thy tent,
and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations:
spare not,
lengthen thy cords,
and strengthen thy stakes;

For thou shalt break forth on the right hand
and on the left;
and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles,
and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.”

(Isaiah 54:2-4, KJV Bible prayer for housing)

“my people shall dwell
in a peaceable habitation,
and in sure dwellings,
and in quiet resting places”
(Isaiah 32:18, KJV Bible prayer for housing)

"Splendour and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his dwelling place."
(1 Chronicles 16:27 NIV)

"this only do I seek:

that I may dwell in the house of the Lord

all the days of my life,

to gaze on the beauty of the Lord

and to seek him in his temple." (Psalm 27:4)

“How beautiful are your tents, O Jacob,
your dwelling-places, O Israel!
“Like valleys they spread out,
like gardens beside a river,
like aloes planted by the Lord,
like cedars beside the waters.
Water will flow from their buckets;
their seed will have abundant water.”
(Numbers 24:5-7, NIV)

I do love the way the Bible associates God with nature.

“Lord, you have assigned me my portion and my cup;
you have made my lot secure.
The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
surely I have a delightful inheritance.”
(Psalm 16, NIV bible prayer for housing)

“The name of the Lord is a strong tower;
the righteous run into it and are safe.”
(Proverbs 18:10, bible verse)

“Yahweh Sabaoth says this:…
I will provide a place for my people Israel;
I will plant them there
and they shall dwell in that place and never be disturbed again;”
(2 Samuel 7:8-10, Jerusalem)

We let ourselves be a home for God

“… the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands.
As the prophet says:
“‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house will you build for me? says the Lord.
Or where will my resting place be?
Has not my hand made all these things?’
(Acts 7:48-50, quotes from Isaiah 66:1,2 NIV Bible )

We house God.
We let ourselves be a home for God.
We invite in Love.

We recognise that God is in this world to the extent that He/She/It is made welcome in each of us.

As we let ourselves be a home for God, we take God with us wherever we go and so we feel at home.

"Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?
You are not your own" (1 Corinthians 6:19, NIV)

“The LORD is my strength and song,
and he is become my salvation:
he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation;”
(Exodus 15:2, KJV bible prayer for housing God)

A spiritual poem about housing God

And a beautiful poem about spiritual housing of God by the mystic Catholic Christian, Julian of Norwich

Feeling Homeless is a stage in the spiritual journey

Events that take place in our lives often have a counterpart in the spiritual journey.

A feeling of loneliness can be part of the spiritual journey.
So can the experience of homelessness or insecure accommodation.

It's OK to be homeless. (An example of releasing judgment - free ebook available)

When we cling to finding a home in the world, it can elude us.
When we accept this life as one in which we find our home in God, the world may shift and change so that here too we find a home.

We move to being in the world but not of the world.

“If they had been thinking of the country they had left,
they would have had opportunity to return.
Instead, they were longing for a better country—
a heavenly one.
Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God,
for he has prepared a city for them.”
(Hebrews 11:15-16, NIV Bible verse on finding a spiritual home)

“By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went,
even though he did not know where he was going.
By faith he made his home in the promised land
like a stranger in a foreign country;
he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob,
who were heirs with him of the same promise.
For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.”
(Hebrews 11:8-10, NIV Bible verse prayer for housing)

“When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he gave orders to cross to the other side of the lake.
Then a teacher of the law came to him and said,
“Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
Jesus replied, "Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."

(Matthew 8:18-20, NIV Bible verse on a sense of homelessness)

Prayer for housing refugees

The israelites were refugees.
They fled from the land of Egypt which held them as slaves.

“They will build houses and dwell in them;
they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
No longer will they build houses and others live in them,
or plant and others eat....
for they will be a people blessed by the Lord,
they and their descendants with them.”
(Isaiah 65:21-23, KJV)

“Some wandered in desert wastelands,
finding no way to a city where they could settle.
They were hungry and thirsty,
and their lives ebbed away.
Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
and he delivered them from their distress.
He led them by a straight way
to a city where they could settle.
Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love
and his wonderful deeds for mankind,
for he satisfies the thirsty
and fills the hungry with good things.
He turned the desert into pools of water
and the parched ground into flowing springs;
there he brought the hungry to live,
and they founded a city where they could settle.
They sowed fields and planted vineyards
that yielded a fruitful harvest;
he blessed them, and their numbers greatly increased,
and he did not let their herds diminish.
(Psalm 107, NIV Bible prayer for housing refugees)

A Course in Miracles housing quote

““I am not a body. I am free.”

… The mind can be made free when it no longer sees itself as in a body, firmly tied to it and sheltered by its presence.
… It is essential for your progress in this course that you accept today's idea, and hold it very dear.
Be not concerned that to the ego it is quite insane. The ego holds the body dear because it dwells in it, and lives united with the home that it has made.
It is a part of the illusion that has sheltered [the ego] from being found illusory itself.”  (W-199)

“Could you try to make God homeless and know that you are at home? 
Can the Son deny the Father without believing that the Father has denied him?” (T-11.IV.2)

“The ego has built a shabby and unsheltering home for you, because it cannot build otherwise.
Do not try to make this impoverished house stand.
Its weakness is your strength….

[God’s] home will stand forever, and is ready for you when you choose to enter it. Of this you can be wholly certain.
God is as incapable of creating the perishable as the ego is of making the eternal.” (T-4.I.11)

“... the perfection of creation is my home...

Let me remember the power of my decision,
and recognize where I really abide.” (W-53)

Spiritual articles related
to prayer for housing

You could say that much of the Bible shares the wonderful message and invitation that we are at home in God.
Here are a few other examples featured on this spiritual website.

• We are rooted in God.
• We dwell in the secret place of the most high. Psalm 91.
• You prepare a table for me.
  I dwell in the house of the LORD forever. Psalm 23.

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