What you do before the session directly affects what God can do during it.

Father, I come to you tonight without answers. I've carried this long enough to know I can't resolve it on my own. I stop trying to manage it and I hand it to you — the situation, the outcome, the timeline. I don't need to understand everything that's happened. I only need to trust that you are able to do what I cannot. I surrender this to you. Whatever you need to do, I am willing. Have your way. Amen.

Father, I choose to forgive (name the people — say them aloud, one by one). I don't forgive because what happened was acceptable. I forgive because I refuse to let what they did continue to have a hold on me. I release them from my judgment. I release the debt. I also ask you to forgive me — for the ways I've held onto bitterness, for the things I've done that opened doors I didn't mean to open. Wash me clean tonight. Amen.

Father, I renounce anything I've invited in that didn't come from you — knowingly or unknowingly. Any agreement I made with fear, with hopelessness, with shame. Any doors opened through things done to me or things I chose. I renounce every vow, every curse I've spoken over myself, every word I've agreed with that wasn't yours. I break agreement with those things now, in the name of Jesus. They have no claim on me. I belong to him. Amen.

Father, I ask for your protection tonight — over me, over everyone in my home, over everyone who will be in that room with me. Post your angels. Let nothing that has operated in me reach out to harm the people I love or the people who are coming to serve me. I cover this household with the blood of Jesus. Nothing moves against us. We are yours and we are covered. Amen.

Father, I come tonight with expectation. You are the same God who set people free in Scripture. You haven't changed. What you did then you are able to do now. I expect you to move. I expect freedom. I expect that what happens in that room will be real and will hold. I am not coming hoping — I am coming expecting. Thank you in advance. Amen.

Father, I declare tonight that I am yours. Not defined by what I've experienced, not defined by what has operated in me, not defined by what others have said over me. I am a child of God. I have been bought and I belong to you. What is in me that is not from you does not define me — it is a trespasser and it is subject to the authority of Jesus. I walk into that room as your child, covered by his blood, with full right to everything he purchased. Amen.

Father, tonight I welcome you. Not just freedom from what's been there — but you. Fill what is emptied. Bring what you want to bring. I don't want the session to produce a clean house that stays empty — I want you to come in and stay. Holy Spirit, you are welcome here. I make room. Whatever you want to do in me, I receive it. Come and stay. Amen.