I woke up this morning wanting to fight my daughter's boyfriend because he put his hands on my daughter. My disease tells me to handle that business like I used to,but I know it's not the right thing to do so I'm working on praying for him and asking God to help me to forgive him. But to be honest I don't want to pray for him I want to kick his a**, so I'm going to sit really still today and go to a meeting and share.
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Ik the feeling. I've had the same situation..it's really hard to not do what we used to do. But that will just have u in jail most likely. I would definitely have words for him, a warning and see if he listens. I had to do that..with a knife to his throat..coming from a short lil woman, I probably came off a lil crazy but it worked and she smarted up and he didn't touch her again. I'm sorry but I couldn't pray for him. I'm not sure if that's great advice but hope maybe a lil understanding helped..
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I've been praying for him but not from the heart but I'm working on it
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Well hopefully karma will work as well right?
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Well I don't wish anything bad on him. But my daughter did put him out
I had a former caretaker that was caught physically abusing my 91 year old grandfather, and for a while, it took everything in me not to take her out to the desert and end her. Then I started praying, but my prayers looked more like, “God, she totally needs some stage 4 blood cancer”, and in time, my prayers reflected more of the heart of someone that’s far from God: “She’s hurting in the depths of her soul because she doesn’t know You, and I just pray that she moves into a place where you know her and build something with her before it’s too late”.
A heart for prayer of those who’ve offended you builds over time with maturity in the Spirit, and then you realize Christ died for your right to be offended; John Bevere wrote a great book, the Bait of Satan, and it’s helped me tremendously in not grieving those who try to hurt me (I’m also a black belt in several styles, a combat vet, and have a machete at my front door for any poor soul who dares enter looking for trouble).
Ultimately, the heart of prayer will come in time, brother; until then, spend time in the Word daily, and train your family to be proactive with defending themselves however your personal belief dictates. 
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Sounds weird but praying for that guy, like this, " God please give that guy what he needs". Maybe he needs a snowboarding accident. The lord works in Mysterious ways....
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That's good. Smart girl!
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She's doing good, and I'm getting better and praying for him but it's still hard sometimes
I really don't want to wish bad on anybody so I won't my higher power teaches me love everybody as he loves me that's hard but I will work on it
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