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prayer Board"Pray without ceasing..." - 1 Thess 5:17
What Do You Need Prayer For?
Sabine I feel that ever since I found Jesus, my life has become a battle against the Devil. He has been working in my husband who is unsaved, my friends ( old ones unsaved) all new ones have turned out to be Christians, my family (all unsaved). Rejection, isolation, slander and terrible acts have come against me non stop. It seems the more I walk with Jesus the more it comes against me. I had no friends for a few years after I had children but I prayed about it and God has sent me wonderful people in my life. Despite this my ex best friend of many years has been trying to destroy all my work connections in my modeling. I am starting the path of learning how to act for the past two years now - she already knows all the casting directors in the city and is trying to sabotage my chances wherever I go. I know when she has influenced others because they are so different with me. She tells people that "I think I am so holy". Its easy for her to do this since all the people we know are either gay and or non Christian. I ask for someone to pray that she will cease trying to destroy me in my line of work and to people. I dont have her ability to win friends and influence people (her favorite book.) which I told her is very evil. I honestly think that something in her hates me and Jesus in me. My Christianity bothered her soooo much. But when she couldnt snare me with deliberate acts of trying to offend me while we were friends, she just one day started avoiding any contact with me. The next time I saw her I was left with a horrible sick feeling in my stomach for days. Then she told me that I have changed and that I am crazy (she was so full of hatred). All of this took place over two years ago and is still affecting my work because she does not stop .Please pray for her that she will come to know Jesus and that any evil working in her will be bound through the name Jesus. Please pray that my husband will come to know Christ and be baptized. The same goes for the rest of my family and in-laws. Pray for me that God will use me for his purpose wherever and whatever I am doing, and that he will turn all my curses into blessings, in Jesus name.
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Sonya I am in the middle of probably the most trying time of my life, It is Christmas time which adds to the sadness. Recently I had invited a sister to move in with me until she got back on her feet. Big problem, she was not trying, and I felt taken advantage of at the end. My daughter also moved in with me for a month without asking but I took her in without a word. Yesterday at work my faith was for lack of a better word attacked. I was called to HR for giving out Jesus is the reason for the season buttons, and told I talk about faith all the time. Not true, I only tell about faith when asked. I know the boundaries and rules of my work place. I was and am so hurt. I cried all the way Home driving in a blizzard while praying for guidance from Him. I get home and think things are calm. But I get two phone calls one from my daughter chewing me out about Christmas, I said whoa what a minute this is the first I had heard of what you are talking about. My door is open to your aunt and I have made that clear. The second was from my other sister. Not chewing me out but telling me she was not coming to moms for christmas and neither were her kids. My world is an ultimate mess, I cannot fix this alone. I am also in the middle of a nasty divorce after 23 years of marriage. It looks like i may well be spending the holiday alone. Please pray for me. I feel so weak and heavy laden right now.
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christopher I NEED PRAYER FOR A JOB THAT I WILL FIND A NEW ONE SOON
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Naomi Dear God, If what I desire is in alignment to your will and it is what my friend desires as well. Please intervene between my friend and myself and give us wisdom to take this chance, give us courage to start this relationship and grant us discernment in the decisions we make. If this union pleases you, I pray that you remove all obstacles in the way and make it be. For there is nothing impossible with you and unless You build the house, those who build it labour in vain. Be this what you want for me, please make it happen Oh Lord.
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Barbara Pray that my family overcomes some rough times we are heading into and that we come back to Christ.Let us all pray for the school tragedy! Things like this make my obstacles much smaller but please pray for us anyway...
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GB Please pray for my two nephews who have fallen for Satans trickery and one has proclaimed to be a nonbeliever and the other some new age universal God belief. They are good boys who were raised Christian but have let the evils of this world take hold of them. They are both in their early 20s and their mothers are both torn apart by these admissions. Please pray God removes the blinders from their eyes and shows them the truth. This is not an easy case for us (you and my family) as they are very set in these false beliefs. We need lots of round the clock prayer, as relentless as Satan is with them now. Please pray with me brothers and sisters in our flock and thank you so very much for this wonderful and selfless act of Gods service. Amen
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Regina I need prayer for my whole family. we are all going thru a rough time right now and i know GOD will see us thru
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Shoshanna I need prayer for provision mainly jobs for my husband and I.
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Jacob I am an ex drug user, I used Pills, Marijuana, bathsalts, ext... Well I have no more craving for anything since I gave my life to christ. People (Or Demons) are still asking if I want to buy these drugs, Random people on the street and such. Please help me stay strong.
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rikki For my children to give their lives to God. I have 3 teenagers who are not saved. Please pray that God does what He has to to bring them to Himself Thank you and God bless
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Rosemarie i know we are all having problems in this lifee but god is with us and he will handle situation that comes in our lives we just have to reallllyyy get on our knees and sheild to god becuz he knows what were going through and will take us out of it
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Rosemarie please pray for the MAJOR FAMILY n sacramento cali for god to protect us wherever we go and keep us in his hands amen
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Rosemarie Pleasse pray for me and my christain friend jack hes a missionary for jesus he travels for god nad does great things for god we met almost 2 years ago on augaust 9thh and we remained very tightt as friends we pray for eachother and hes been married in the past hes ten years older then me but i think age is nothin but a number im 24 umm but i think he could mayb b the one that god has for me i just pray that god keeps us connected and remain close good friends like we are and in gods time mayb we will become something more thanks and god blesss and pray for these schools around the world and bring JESUS back into these schools amen have a blessed dayy brothers n sisters n CHRIST JESUS
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Esther Please pray for peace and love in my home and my marriage
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Eileen For the victims, the families, the first responders of the Sandy Hook Elementary tragedy.
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LeeAnn MY Dad is in the hospital with pneumonia and some pretty serious breathing issues. HE isnt responding the way we thought he would. Please pray for his healing,and that are able to fight off the adversary.
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Cathy Please pray for God to put a hedge of protection around me and my family. To send his legions of angels to guard and guide each step we take. No weapon formed against us shall prosper, in the name of JESUS! Thank you.
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Andrea I am a single mother who has been in a relationship with a guy for about 3 years now. Well until recently. Everything was going great we had plans to get married and move in with each other in about 7 months.He already had a house in Alabama and he was painting rooms for my boys. We were deciding what to keep of mine and what to sell. I was applying for jobs out there. We were also supposed to spend the holidays together. We had had our disagreements, but never a huge fight and then out of no where he became withdrawn and angry all the time. Started hiding things like talking to people and what he had been up to that day. At first he was under alot of stress posssibly going to lose his career, but he found out that everything is fine now. Now he says that he just has some issues he has to work out on his own and its not fair to drag me through them, but that he still loves me and my boys and wants to fix this. But I dont know if I should trust him or if there is a reason this is going on and I should move on? It just came on so quickly! This seems like such a small problem considering what is going on with the world today, but this is my life and future and my boys lives and future. I just need help to know what I am supposed to do? Please pray for us. Thankyou!
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Lana We are in need of moving into a home and want to buy one. We are on a limited budget, but we need to have my Mother come and live with us. We want it to be the Lords Will and in His time not in ours. We have looked at 2 houses just online and are praying, too. I also have health issues (asthma, COPD, diabetes, obesity, ulcerative colitis, Crohns disease, diverticulitis, menstrual issues, etc.) that have kept me from working since 1998 and I have been on SSD since. There are so many people in more desperate need of prayer than I/us so it seems odd to be asking for prayer over a THING. My health is at stake due to a possible surgery to remove or resection the bowel and being overweight. I am in the process of dieting and have lost 15 lbs. but I have lost some momentum and need prayer for this as well. Thank you in advance! Oh, how HE LOVES you and me!
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Patricia My name is Patricia Stoddard, I live in Spokane WA, and am a member of North Addison Baptist Church. On Nov.26th I had surgery on my neck to have disks C4 and C5 replaced also to fuse disks C6 and C7 . I will be in a neck brace for about eight weeks (Dec.-Jan.) Im asking for prayer that the bones will knit well and that the titanium plate and screws that fuse the disks will take hold. The pain during recovery has been pretty intense too. When healed it would be wonderful if there would finally be some relief of my chronic pain Iissues.
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Nicole For the people of Conneciticut and the children. For those families who lost their child.Please also pray for my evangelism team going out to share the gospel tonight at the Mission Inn. That God would bring about divine opportunities and that many would hear and respond. Thank you.
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simone I need pray for my job sitution i currently work woth so very curd people. i find it emotional draining. ,i work late hours and saturdays which leave little time to spend with my husband.i pray i find a job that i can help people and be in a loving christian environment
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Rebecca My friend Michelle has blood disease that is affecting her liver and could turn into cancer if treatment does not work. Please pray for her as she is getting worse each day. Thank you so much.
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Sue I ask for prayer as tomorrow (12/13) my family will be going to court to see if a trial date will be set or a plea bargain offered for the man charged in my sons death. My 18 year old son died in a car crash Jan 14, 2012. Ever since that day, life has been a struggle with my now incomplete family. The entire ordeal has been a tortuous one and I hope a just plea bargain is offered so we dont have to endure the ugliness of a trial. (As it is, we have been subjected to the under handedness of the defense). So I ask for the gift of prayer that whatever decision is made that the Lord will give us strength to accept it as His will.
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Shell'a S First off I want to thank you for taking the time out to look at my prayer request. I would like to thank God first and formost for all the amazing blessings he has given me. I am thankful for everything I have, for because of God it is all possible. My prayer request is.. I would love for you guys to pray that I continue to recieve my blessing, pray for my family, and friends, that they get directed in the right direction, in Gods direction. I pray that God watches over my brothers and sisters, my parents, my siblings, my family of God. I pray that God rebukes the negative words, actions, people, and thoughts out of my life. And keeps me involves with and surrounded with annointed people of God. Friends that keep me on the right track and keep me involved with the Lord. I pray that God keeps all jelous and anger away from me. I remember reading in my prayer book that "Anger is dangerous, but jelousy is even worse." I tend to find myself being very jelous and insecure about very little things. Thats something that changes my mood and my personality on a daily basis. And I asking for prayer about that. I thank you all so very much for taking time out to pray for me. God Bless you all, and thank you so much.Sincerely, The Kings Daughter.xoxoxo
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salina Dear Heavenly Father, Please bless Brian and I for a happy relationship filled with love. Let our love grow and flourish for days to come. Please bless his heart and open it and let your heavenly light shine in and calm his weary and restless soul. I thank you God for bringing him into my life and me into his life. This I pray to you with all of my might heart and soul. Please continue to enrich us with your glory and love and walk with Brian and I through these difficult times in our relationship and help him Lord to open up and talk about things with me and not hide things from me. Thank you Lord. Amen.
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catherine My mother has COPD and has been in the hospital for the last week and a half. She is scared and just wants to come home. She has had COPD for 10 years and this is her second copd flare up that has put her in the hospital. She is on oxygen 24/7 and can barely do anything anymore. She fights on for her family. Her husband, her daughter (myself), her son and my daughter, ( her 4 year old granddaughter) Please pray for her recovery and long life. I pray every night and hope she will get more strength to come home.
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catherine My mother has COPD and has been in the hospital for the last week and a half. She is scared and just wants to come home. She has had COPD for 10 years and this is her second copd flare up that has put her in the hospital. She is on oxygen 24/7 and can barely do anything anymore. She fights on for her family. Her husband, her daughter (myself), her son and my daughter, ( her 4 year old granddaughter) Please pray for her recovery and long life. I pray every night and hope she will get more strength to come home.
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Nichol My daughter has been battling low self-esteem, depression, worry, nightmares, trouble sleeping, and fear. Please lift her up in prayer. Also, please pray favor over her that she gets into the school she chooses for next year. Weve experienced a few obstacles already.
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Nichol I have been unemployed for a number of months now. Please lift up in prayer: my finances, me finding a good paying job (in a closer proximity to where I reside) with benefits, particularly medical, dental, vision, and tuition reimbursement. Im trying to get a particular scholarship and ask that you stand in agreement that I have favor with that as well.
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With Love On Your Arms Dear Lord, I pray for Nichol and that she will learn to depend on You as her comforter and provider. I thank You for the people who have jobs and are living in a house with food, water and electricity. I pray that You will support those who are unemployed and give them not only career-related opportunities, but a chance to prolong their education and receive job-training. I thank You and pray in Jesus name. Amen.
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Michael My pray was answered!!! :) Thank you all who prayed for me. We talked a couple times during spring break and the third and final time we got to talked I asked her if she wanted to be my girl again and she said Yes! I thank God so much everyday for allowing me to get her back and that I can be the Spiritual leader God needs me to be. Thanks again all who prayed for me. :) You guys Rock and God Bless!!!
answered 2 Years Ago |
Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
Me and My girlfriend Alyson just broke up last night cause I guess im not being a spiritual leader. So, please pray for us so that I can become that spiritual leader and if were not to get back together then thats fine. But I pray we can, cause I still love her so much and will do anything for her. Vincent Yes! Praise the Lord! Thank you each and everyone for your much needed prayers! You all dont know just how much I deeply appreciate yall taking the time to pray for me. Thank you ever so much!
answered 2 Years Ago |
Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
I was first exposed to pornography when I was 14 spending the night at a friends house and I struggled with it until I was 22. Now at the age of 23 less than a year after I thought I had victory over it, I gave into temptation. I ask for prayer please. 8 years I was a slave to this life-consuming disease. 13 Commented |
Rachel Spoon I committed to pray!
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Rachel Spoon Hi Vincent! Ive heard good things about a site called xxxchurch.com. I think it also helps to consider what your future wife would feel towards this habit. God bless!
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christian Thanks everyone that prayed for me. I had a great meeting with my mentor and though I have a long tough journey ahead of me, I feel a renewed strength to march forward with our Lord. God Bless you all......
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Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
I have a very important meeting with my spiritual mentor this morning, Please pray that I am able to express myself correctly; give me the courage to admit these sins that I carry around with me, so that I am able to move forward and closer to Christ. I also ask for the strength and ability to heed his advice. Thank you and God bless.. 4 Commented |
LiveLifeToTheFullest I committed to pray!
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Angela I committed to pray!
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The Macks god gave us an amazing wedding! i am so thankful to all of you for all your prayers! may god bless you all !
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Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
Please pray for my fiance and i as we are getting married in one week , on march 14th. Please pray for us to be strong and continually be supportive of each other everyday till the wedding as well as the day of our marriage and the new life we will start after. Please pray that our love for one another will only continually grow in every way, with the lord and with each other through all the stress that we are facing right now. we both have worries and fears but we know the lord is in control, but we still need some prayer because we are struggling. so please pray god will bless this marriage and really help us through this things we face as well as after we say i do . thank you so much and god bless you . David Praise the Lord he is so freaking good! I can finally sleep in peace, theres no pain on my mark, hitting on the walls, footsteps in my attic or growling and hissing outside... Its finally peaceful!!!! :) they finally left and by the power of God wont come back! Just pray please its never been this peaceful here =)
answered 2 Years Ago |
Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
Hey guys, tonight i found that i have a bite mark on my hip, ive never been bitten there ever. Its in the shape of a mouth and teeth marks showing around it. There is only 1 thing that couldve done this to me and its a demon. Please pray for me that this never happens again cause it burns and it sucks :( Rachel Spoon I still really encourage people to keep praying for all these people who struggle with sexual sins. Its such an easy sin to fall to. God bless!
answered 2 Years Ago |
Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
Hello everyone! Id like to pray for all the young men here who are struggling with pornography. I pray for their strength to stay away from this temptation, and that they would strive to stay sexually pure for their future wives. I have friends who indulge in this sin, and they dont even attempt to hide it. They trade sites, and even refer porn to ME (and Im a 16 yr old Christian girl!). I constantly worry that my younger brother or my boyfriend will fall into this sin. So please pray with me for not only my friends and family, but for all who struggle with this. (whether they are young, old, married, single, male, or female!) God Bless you all! Lets try to reclaim our purity from this sinful society! Rachel Spoon My brother has been acting nicer lately, but I still hope hell grow closer to God. Thanks for all your prayers! God bless!
answered 2 Years Ago |
Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
Hey everyone. My younger brother has been giving my family a very hard time lately. He has such a bitter attitude toward everything we do, and hes getting very hard to deal with. My mom and I are worried hes walking away from God, so please pray for his attitude and for him to come back to the Lord. We used to be close, but he seems to be pushing me (and the rest of our family) away. Thanks, God Bless. 8 Commented |
Cheyenne Skye I committed to pray!
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jUaNitA I committed to pray!
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Rachel Spoon Woo! Well, the video has been taken down, but I still pray for her and everyone who saw the video. Such a terrible thing to say, and theres so much damage that was done because of that.
answered 2 Years Ago |
Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
I guess my prayer got cut off. I asked that people pray for that girl because her views are so swayed, so wrong. I also want to pray for the viewers of the video, that their opinion on God and Christians isnt damaged. And for me that Ill stop thinking so badly of her. I want to scream, and throw things, and cry, because this video is so disgusting and repulsive to me. Please pray for Japan, NOT FOR THEIR FURTHER DESTRUCTION, but for their salvation and for aid to all their troubles. 6 Commented |
Dana I watched that video, and i will pray that she will see that the video she posted is wrong, and that God be with the people in Japan and the people effected by the video. Amen. I too had the same feelings you have, it is sad to see a person say such mean things about asians, we are unique in are own way god made us that way and We should treat no one different..... God Bless
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Joshua I committed to pray!
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Rachel Spoon The video has been taken down! =]
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Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UmotTE-VlY Alyssa Faith Mark. Rep I was able to change my major today! Its fixed! I HOPE this never happens again!
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Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
Okay..as you all know I have been working on all my college stuff. Well I saw a counselor at my college and I told her I wanted to major in Journalism and receive my AA Degree. But she put me down as a social science major, (a very general major) to just transfer to a university which is not what I want. So PLEASE pray that I get all this MESS sorted out! 4 Commented |
Gabriella I committed to pray!
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Rachel Spoon I committed to pray!
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Gabriella God was really good in India! thanks again for your thankingprayers for God! His Glory reigns forever!
answered 2 Years Ago |
Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
this is a prayer praising for God! thank God all for the care He took at my journey in India! it was so really great! thank God, blessed be His Name!God bless you Maria Thank you all for the prayers. I now know that as long as I walk in Truth, as long as I walk in Light, I will not be a stumbling block to those around me, lest I cause someone in darkness to stumble into light. "Those who claim to abide in Him must walk as Jesus did." (1 John 2:6) That verse says so much.
answered 2 Years Ago |
Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
I ask that you may pray with me, and strengthen my prayer:Lord, I know there are times where Ive disappointed You. I know to choose to repent, pray, and get it dealt with right away instead of dwelling on my mistakes letting my sin grab hold. Even though Ive disappointed You and itd be easier to let Your disappointment drive me away from You, I know that You are the only One that can purge me of my sin and drive me closer to You, and that You are willing because You love me. "For we all stumble in many things, for if anyone does not stumble, he is a perfect man. . " (James 3:2) But Father I know that its one thing for me to stumble, and yet another thing to cause someone else to stumble; itd be better for a brick to be hung around my neck and for me to be thrown into the sea than to make another stumble. So Father, I pray that I may not be a stumbling block to ANYONE who is a brother or sister in Christ; that Im not one to cause another to struggle. Amen. 12 Commented |
Rachel Spoon I committed to pray!
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Courtney I committed to pray!
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zack alas he still was all his digits, but i havent noticed anything of late on their computer.
answered 2 Years Ago |
Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
hey yall, so my brother, Ben who is 13, has a serious porn addiction and has no problem telling people about it. he post things on facebook all the time, talking about how great it is and such. i feel like i need to do one of 2 things: 1 beat him over the head with a brick then cut off his fingers so he cant use a computer. 2 talk with my parents and him and whoever else needs to get in on it to resolve it. please pray for him and for me to make the right choice.thanks. cheers 14 Commented |
Linda I committed to pray!
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LiveLifeToTheFullest I committed to pray!
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zack the world will continue to surprise me with the acts of God. the same situations will come up again and i will put down the same thing then
answered 2 Years Ago |
Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
ok so not so much a prayer request, more of a testimony. yesterday(tuesday...yeah tuesday i think) my english class was really having a rough time. everyone was angry(and probably still is at each other) so my teacher assigned a paper. the thing was meant to be a rant about what was wrong. i couldnt think of anything and was bambuzled by it. i turned in a blank paper and told my teach that there is nothing wrong at the moment. then it hit me...nothing was wrong and nothing had been for awhile now. i thought to myself long and hard on it until i realized that it started happening right when i got more active in the church. almost like someone was helping me out and making life simplier(wink wink). Cheers zack i have decided to take everything in stride, ya know. Gods calling for me still is like looking though a thinning fog and soon will be clear
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Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
so i have been more or less thrust into a leadership position at church(NHCC). being 17 this is kinda tough for me and i want to be fired up for it but having so much in life to take care of ( i make a great verbal and emotional punching bag) but i digress. i really need some prayer to manage all the things going on. if anyone has some background, send me an email so we can stay in touch. everyone else please pray for guidance and a safe travel so to speaksneakarama1@msn.comCheers zack its awesome, isnt it? everyone helping each other. i am amazed at the amount of love in the world even with all the anger. all i can say is keep up Gods work.
answered 2 Years Ago |
Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
ok so looking over the entire page of prayer request, i noticed something(well two actually)1st it is amazing who many people come here to ask for help and how many people care enough to pray for em. i love it2nd there is a staggering(yeah i said staggering amount of marriage and porn problem as of late. i think that it would be amazing if everyone who looks at this site A)pass it on to others and B) to pray for the emotional issues and trials that come with marriage and porn so everyone who is struggling can find even ground and live life the way God intended us to. Cheers Rachel Spoon Eh, I didnt do as well as I had hoped, but Ive gotten over it a little. Thanks for your prayers. God bless
answered 2 Years Ago |
Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
Hi, I have a big piano test today and tomorrow. Please pray that all goes well! Im so nervous. Thanks! God bless! Luis Saldarriaga Thank you for your prayers brothers and sisters. I have been employed for 3 weeks now in a job that has so much room for promotions and great pay!! My father helped me get this job. The only thing is that its a temporary position while the previous employee is on 3 months leave. My fathers boss is trying his best to get me in permanently and I have faith that God wont let me down because I really need this permanent job. So long story short, please pray that God supplies me with a permanent spot after my 3 months is up. Me and my soon to be wife are counting on it big time!!! We are getting married in November this year so if I dont get this permanent spot right away we are going to have to push it back. please pray for my permanent spot please!!
answered 2 Years Ago |
Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
I need prayers my brothers and sisters. Please believe and pray with me about finding a job. I live in Brooklyn New York and it is so hard to find even the simplest of jobs. I will do anything that God brings to me. I am so anxious about finding a job because I am engaged to be married in November of this year. We will if we have to but we would rather not push the date back. Its all in Gods timing though. Also, please pray that God speaks to us about where he wants me and my fiancee to go because we both want to move to Pennsylvania when we get married, so we are seeking Gods direction in that. We dont want to move without his instruction. Thank you my brothers and sisters. I stand on Joshua 1:9 . I dont doubt God I just need your prayers. Jordan Dean I just love when God goes above and beyond what you ask for and answers your pray and throws in a bonus blessing. My family is moving by the end of the month to a beautiful house on the coast where everyone will have their own bedroom. It is an extremely nice neighborhood and the schools there are great. Thank you all for your prayers, God NEVER lets us down. =]
answered 2 Years Ago |
Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
My mother and 3 younger siblings that live in California have been struggling financially for a long time now and my young sister Allie (14) has been exposed to drugs and sexual threats in her current area. My two brother Gabe(12) and Isaiah(10) have also had horrible things happen to them there. My mother has recently found a house she can afford so I just ask for prayer that everything goes smoothly and that Gods will is done in their lives. Thank you all so much and God bless O.0 Oh my gosh I cant even tell you how much I am praising the Lord right now!!!!!!!! Thank you for praying, we still need prayer, but AHH!! GUESS WHAT?!??!! My Grandmother, who started off with a flu and then got the worst case pneumonia you can get (I mean, the kind that young people die from, and shes 90) and the doctors said she probably wasnt going to survive, is DOING BETTER!!
They had given her the antibiotics, and usually what happens in this situation is the patient will get better but then right afterwards plummet and do really bad. Thats what they figured was going to happen with my Grandmom. So anyway, well first... the first night she was in the hospital and they said she probably isnt going to live, I was praying to God not only for her healing and salvation (and she might be saved by the way, I really dunno yet) and other stuff, but also that she would have a restful night sleep. Well the next day we heard that that particular night she had a wonderful rest. I was like THANK YOU GOD!!!
The second night I was still praying but I was crying all night cause everyone was so gloomy about her situation we all sort of expected her to die unless there was a miracle, everyone has been planning out the funeral arrangements. Well my dad calls this morning with a little ray of light, he was like, theyre sending her home because shes actually doing better!!!!!!!!!! Shes actually coughing up the junk in her which they said was a good thing. They sent her home with antibiotics. So what is going to happen now is, either shes going to recover and live, or if she gets worst, shell go back into the hospital and I dont know what will happen after that.
I just want to say what Ive learned through all this, so that you may learn and benefit too! One, I still dont know if my grandmother is going to survive this, Im just so thankful shes doing better right now in this particular moment. I was praying the pneumonia just get out of her, and to hear about her now coughing the stuff up am like ha!! :D :D :D But I just wanted to say that through this whole thing that has happened so far.... One I learned more than I knew before how I have no control over anything. I am but Gods creation in Gods plan living my life God has ordained and whatever happens with my grandmother is also in Gods hands. Two, I learned that praying repeated prayers, at least with the mentality of "if I pray this one prayer constantly God might hear" is pointless, and totally misses the point of prayer. I knew that before, but through this whole thing, Ive noticed it better then I knew before. God never said repeat your prayers to me so that I may be persuaded by them. No, He said praying all sorts of prayers all the time. I have never prayed so much in my life, I mean, seriously, and Im not boasting, this is just something Ive never done before that God has been teaching me stuff through.. UH GOD IS JUST AMAZING!! But I was praying periodically throughout the day and at night and it was so neat to learn that God has heard my first prayer, my second, my third, none of my prayers need repeating, I can pray all sorts of prayers. Sometimes I felt like, how do I pray in this, what do I say Lord? But it all just kinda came together. Third thing I learned was how Jesus prayed. I felt weird asking for God to take the pneumonia away sometimes cause I was like, well, if its not Gods will that she live then why I am I praying for it to go away, what should I be praying for, etc. etc. And then I remembered Jesus, and He prayed, before being crucified, that this cup be lifted from Him but not His will the Fathers will. Jesus actually prayed the cup be lifted from Him, just as I CAN pray for my grandmothers pneumonia to go away. And I was like, I know Jesus already knew what was going to happen and why, but I dont know what is going to happen with my grandmother, but I realized that I can pray for things, like my Grandmothers pneumonia to go away, but I must give it to God. Not that it was EVER mine to control, however, my trust in Him is all I have to give. So either I dont trust Him, or I do. So, despite being totally distraught and crying my head off cause I didnt want to see my grandmother hurt or die or anything (she still might die, I know) but I was like, after all my prayers, "Not my will, but Yours" and it was frustrating in a way because I was like, I just dont get it. I dont know what is happening I cant see what God sees this is so frustrating!!! But God has been teaching me more and more about His sovereignty (what number are we on? Four? Three? lol Lost count) and what that looks like, and its like I am but MATTER, a mere Creation, there is NOTHING about me or for me, except to fall down and praise God. Think about that for a moment. On the flip side of this, I may be mere matter, but God made this mere matter and has called it special. To a mere human like myself, that seems incredible that a God who created me should love me. But look at it from Gods perspective! Of COURSE He loves what He has made. I will never fully understand Gods love for me or how He works with His children, all I know is that in this present situation, at this very moment of this situation, all I can do is trust God, praise God, pray all sorts of prayers and honestly tell Him not my will but Yours Lord. Though I never had, or owned, the situation..though the situation was never in my hands to begin with, I never ever had it, I was never ever in the position to give supposedly my power over the situation to God to let God deal with it, because I never had such power to begin withNo, Ive come to realize that giving things up to God is not giving up something, its doing the thing that only we can do, realizing and acknowledging God as what He is, the Sovereign Lord who is the Only One who has EVER been in control of anything and everything! I may question many things, and I shouldnt really because I should just trust, but its so easy to forget in our little earthly lives, and especially since weve never seen God face to face, its so easy to forget, what Sovereign means. In fact, there is nothing else to compare, so we have no earthly example of what Sovereign means, so its hard for us to even grasp it. To learn it, however, is what God will teach us. And i think God has been teaching me that during this whole thing, and I just wanted to share that with you!
Anyway, thank you for praying, all sorts of prayers, to our God, for my Grandmother. Even though my grandmother seems to be getting better now, and that is rather tempting to make me want to pray like, "GOD!!! FINISH THE JOB HEAL HER COMPLETELY!!!" Im not, Im going to continue to pray the way I have been, to give up "my will" for the only will ever in existence, Gods will. God does hear prayers and He answers them all, according to His Sovereign plan, because He does only good! My grandmother still needs prayer, shes not fully recovered, I still dont know about her salvation, I dunno WHAT is going to happen but I CAN pray for what is going on WITH acknowledging not our will (again, not that our will ever had control over anything) but Gods will. His good, pleasing and perfect will. And by the way, my none stop prayers which I had mentioned before, Ive never really prayed this much before, wasnt because I wanted something so bad, I mean, I wanted a lot of things, but all these prayers really came out of me because I desperately love my grandmother and I dont want to see anything bad happen to her. And that made me think of how in 1 John 4, verse 20, it says how those who dont love those whom they HAVE seen, could not love God, who they have NOT seen. And also in verse 10, how God sent His Son for us because He loved us. All of this made me think of how, the love I have for my grandmother, and I mean, I was SO sad about this by the way, she literally is the most special person in my life, EVER, I cant even tell you. I mean, I love everyone in my life, and I never have favorites but I wont deny, she is something VERY special to me more than others, for some reason. Hate saying I have favorites and I wouldnt say I do, I love everyone in my life, but again, she is just really special to me. But I remember feeling horrible about not knowing if she is saved or not, I actually was like, man, if I had some kind of control over this (again, "my will" never was, its always "Gods will") but I thought, if I did have some kind of control over it, if she was going to hell, Id give up my life for hers and let her go to Heaven and Id go to hell in her place. I mean, I knew I shouldnt have said that and I WASN"T telling that to God like, make it so! I know I shouldnt dabble in things like that and I wasnt by the way, thats just how I felt and I really meant it, though I wasnt saying "make it so" because I knew thats not how things work and I should not dabble in that..again, thats just how I felt. Anyway, that made me think about, my love for my grandmother, is like the love God has for His Son, and for us.. God sent His Son, for us. I will never fully grasp the depth of that love, but like in 1 John, I realized, how can I understand the love I have for God if I didnt know what it was like to love those whom Ive seen, like my grandmother, and I have never seen God, yet I love Him. No, I dont need people to see to know what love means. But I will tell you, it does put a different perspective on it, a more "real" perspective.
ANYWAY! Enough of me rambling.. and by the way, I wasnt boasting about my prayers or anything, just so you know, I just wanted you guys to know what has happened!! I never usually tell people what "Ive done" because I dont want them to think I was trying to boast, Im a sincere person who would never say something to boast, I hate boasting. Again, I have never had any control over anything, I CAN"T boast. I just wanted to let you know what has been happening :) Also want to say that, NO, my saying Id give my life up for my Grandmas was NOT going to make God be like "oh, my holy and faithful child, I will give you whatever you want" haha. no no no please dont misunderstand!! That merely showed me what love meant, more than I had realized before :) Thats all that ever was, just so you know.
Anyway :) Keep praying all sorts of prayers all the time, in HIS WIll, give up what control you thought you had that you never had, because you never had it, but acknowledge His Sovereignty.. not so your prayers may be answered in the way you like, but so that you may see what a prayer truly means and see what good God is doing, because in all things, God is good and does good He can only do good! It hurts me to see my grandmother might die, and if she died, I might be like, this wasnt good! But know that I understand to some degree what it means to say God is Sovereign now, and I hope that if you dont understand that to some degree, God will show you, because knowing even to a small degree what that really means, one can only praise Himyou realize when you learn what it means to say God is Sovereign, that that is the position God has been trying to get us into because that is the position we are suppose to be in BECAUSE that is the only position we are in or could ever be in. Any control we assume we have is our own deception. The keyword here is good. Gods Sovereignty is GOOD. I use to sometimes feel like, God, not all of this is good, how can I revere your Sovereignty? How can I acknowledge it properly, when I dont understand? But I have learned that, indeed, Gods Sovereignty is not just some all powerful control. It is all powerful control that is GOOD. What I mean is, we dont have a bad God. We, thankfully, have a GOOD GOD!! So if you cant see the future, fear not! Pray all sorts of prayers, acknowledging Gods will, because there is nothing but that that we can do. Everything is in His hands, and God can only do good! Do you even realize what blessing it is to have a GOOD GOD!!! (Just imagine what it would be like to have a cruel God who enjoyed making the worst for His creation, imagine us as Gods toys..lol) GOD IS GOOD! "Praise the LORD. Praise God in His sanctuary; praise Him in His might heavens. Praise Him for His acts of power; praise Him for His surpassing greatness. Praise Him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise Him with the harp and lyre, praise Him with timbrel and dancing, praise Him with the strings and pipe, praise Him with the clash of cymbals, praise Him with resounding cymbals. Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD"!!! (Psalm 150).
answered 2 Years Ago |
Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
Hey guys, I already posted a prayer for my grandmothers flu to go away, well she needs further prayer. She is now in the hospital with pneumonia. Im very sad. Please pray for her and her healing. Also her salvation, I am unsure if she is saved or not. I hope she gets better, unless this is her time to die. Im so sad about her dying though, shes so special to me its hard to let go. Hopefully this will all just pass and shell be ok. Thank you for your prayers :) 6 Commented |
Courtney You are still in my prayers hunn. Just have faith and give all of your worries to our Father. I know it hurts so badly, but no matter what happens, you know it was never to do anything to you... He is ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS there for you even in your darkest times like these.. May God Bless hunn.
2 Years Ago
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O.0 Oh my gosh I cant even tell you how much I am praising the Lord right now!!!!!!!! Thank you for praying, we still need prayer, but AHH!! GUESS WHAT?!??!! My Grandmother, who started off with a flu and then got the worst case pneumonia you can get (I mean, the kind that young people die from, and shes 90) and the doctors said she probably wasnt going to survive, is DOING BETTER!!
They had given her the antibiotics, and usually what happens in this situation is the patient will get better but then right afterwards plummet and do really bad. Thats what they figured was going to happen with my Grandmom. So anyway, well first... the first night she was in the hospital and they said she probably isnt going to live, I was praying to God not only for her healing and salvation (and she might be saved by the way, I really dunno yet) and other stuff, but also that she would have a restful night sleep. Well the next day we heard that that particular night she had a wonderful rest. I was like THANK YOU GOD!!!
The second night I was still praying but I was crying all night cause everyone was so gloomy about her situation we all sort of expected her to die unless there was a miracle, everyone has been planning out the funeral arrangements. Well my dad calls this morning with a little ray of light, he was like, theyre sending her home because shes actually doing better!!!!!!!!!! Shes actually coughing up the junk in her which they said was a good thing. They sent her home with antibiotics. So what is going to happen now is, either shes going to recover and live, or if she gets worst, shell go back into the hospital and I dont know what will happen after that.
I just want to say what Ive learned through all this, so that you may learn and benefit too! One, I still dont know if my grandmother is going to survive this, Im just so thankful shes doing better right now in this particular moment. I was praying the pneumonia just get out of her, and to hear about her now coughing the stuff up am like ha!! :D :D :D But I just wanted to say that through this whole thing that has happened so far.... One I learned more than I knew before how I have no control over anything. I am but Gods creation in Gods plan living my life God has ordained and whatever happens with my grandmother is also in Gods hands. Two, I learned that praying repeated prayers, at least with the mentality of "if I pray this one prayer constantly God might hear" is pointless, and totally misses the point of prayer. I knew that before, but through this whole thing, Ive noticed it better then I knew before. God never said repeat your prayers to me so that I may be persuaded by them. No, He said praying all sorts of prayers all the time. I have never prayed so much in my life, I mean, seriously, and Im not boasting, this is just something Ive never done before that God has been teaching me stuff through.. UH GOD IS JUST AMAZING!! But I was praying periodically throughout the day and at night and it was so neat to learn that God has heard my first prayer, my second, my third, none of my prayers need repeating, I can pray all sorts of prayers. Sometimes I felt like, how do I pray in this, what do I say Lord? But it all just kinda came together. Third thing I learned was how Jesus prayed. I felt weird asking for God to take the pneumonia away sometimes cause I was like, well, if its not Gods will that she live then why I am I praying for it to go away, what should I be praying for, etc. etc. And then I remembered Jesus, and He prayed, before being crucified, that this cup be lifted from Him but not His will the Fathers will. Jesus actually prayed the cup be lifted from Him, just as I CAN pray for my grandmothers pneumonia to go away. And I was like, I know Jesus already knew what was going to happen and why, but I dont know what is going to happen with my grandmother, but I realized that I can pray for things, like my Grandmothers pneumonia to go away, but I must give it to God. Not that it was EVER mine to control, however, my trust in Him is all I have to give. So either I dont trust Him, or I do. So, despite being totally distraught and crying my head off cause I didnt want to see my grandmother hurt or die or anything (she still might die, I know) but I was like, after all my prayers, "Not my will, but Yours" and it was frustrating in a way because I was like, I just dont get it. I dont know what is happening I cant see what God sees this is so frustrating!!! But God has been teaching me more and more about His sovereignty (what number are we on? Four? Three? lol Lost count) and what that looks like, and its like I am but MATTER, a mere Creation, there is NOTHING about me or for me, except to fall down and praise God. Think about that for a moment. On the flip side of this, I may be mere matter, but God made this mere matter and has called it special. To a mere human like myself, that seems incredible that a God who created me should love me. But look at it from Gods perspective! Of COURSE He loves what He has made. I will never fully understand Gods love for me or how He works with His children, all I know is that in this present situation, at this very moment of this situation, all I can do is trust God, praise God, pray all sorts of prayers and honestly tell Him not my will but Yours Lord. Though I never had, or owned, the situation..though the situation was never in my hands to begin with, I never ever had it, I was never ever in the position to give supposedly my power over the situation to God to let God deal with it, because I never had such power to begin withNo, Ive come to realize that giving things up to God is not giving up something, its doing the thing that only we can do, realizing and acknowledging God as what He is, the Sovereign Lord who is the Only One who has EVER been in control of anything and everything! I may question many things, and I shouldnt really because I should just trust, but its so easy to forget in our little earthly lives, and especially since weve never seen God face to face, its so easy to forget, what Sovereign means. In fact, there is nothing else to compare, so we have no earthly example of what Sovereign means, so its hard for us to even grasp it. To learn it, however, is what God will teach us. And i think God has been teaching me that during this whole thing, and I just wanted to share that with you!
Anyway, thank you for praying, all sorts of prayers, to our God, for my Grandmother. Even though my grandmother seems to be getting better now, and that is rather tempting to make me want to pray like, "GOD!!! FINISH THE JOB HEAL HER COMPLETELY!!!" Im not, Im going to continue to pray the way I have been, to give up "my will" for the only will ever in existence, Gods will. God does hear prayers and He answers them all, according to His Sovereign plan, because He does only good! My grandmother still needs prayer, shes not fully recovered, I still dont know about her salvation, I dunno WHAT is going to happen but I CAN pray for what is going on WITH acknowledging not our will (again, not that our will ever had control over anything) but Gods will. His good, pleasing and perfect will. And by the way, my none stop prayers which I had mentioned before, Ive never really prayed this much before, wasnt because I wanted something so bad, I mean, I wanted a lot of things, but all these prayers really came out of me because I desperately love my grandmother and I dont want to see anything bad happen to her. And that made me think of how in 1 John 4, verse 20, it says how those who dont love those whom they HAVE seen, could not love God, who they have NOT seen. And also in verse 10, how God sent His Son for us because He loved us. All of this made me think of how, the love I have for my grandmother, and I mean, I was SO sad about this by the way, she literally is the most special person in my life, EVER, I cant even tell you. I mean, I love everyone in my life, and I never have favorites but I wont deny, she is something VERY special to me more than others, for some reason. Hate saying I have favorites and I wouldnt say I do, I love everyone in my life, but again, she is just really special to me. But I remember feeling horrible about not knowing if she is saved or not, I actually was like, man, if I had some kind of control over this (again, "my will" never was, its always "Gods will") but I thought, if I did have some kind of control over it, if she was going to hell, Id give up my life for hers and let her go to Heaven and Id go to hell in her place. I mean, I knew I shouldnt have said that and I WASN"T telling that to God like, make it so! I know I shouldnt dabble in things like that and I wasnt by the way, thats just how I felt and I really meant it, though I wasnt saying "make it so" because I knew thats not how things work and I should not dabble in that..again, thats just how I felt. Anyway, that made me think about, my love for my grandmother, is like the love God has for His Son, and for us.. God sent His Son, for us. I will never fully grasp the depth of that love, but like in 1 John, I realized, how can I understand the love I have for God if I didnt know what it was like to love those whom Ive seen, like my grandmother, and I have never seen God, yet I love Him. No, I dont need people to see to know what love means. But I will tell you, it does put a different perspective on it, a more "real" perspective.
ANYWAY! Enough of me rambling.. and by the way, I wasnt boasting about my prayers or anything, just so you know, I just wanted you guys to know what has happened!! I never usually tell people what "Ive done" because I dont want them to think I was trying to boast, Im a sincere person who would never say something to boast, I hate boasting. Again, I have never had any control over anything, I CAN"T boast. I just wanted to let you know what has been happening :) Also want to say that, NO, my saying Id give my life up for my Grandmas was NOT going to make God be like "oh, my holy and faithful child, I will give you whatever you want" haha. no no no please dont misunderstand!! That merely showed me what love meant, more than I had realized before :) Thats all that ever was, just so you know.
Anyway :) Keep praying all sorts of prayers all the time, in HIS WIll, give up what control you thought you had that you never had, because you never had it, but acknowledge His Sovereignty.. not so your prayers may be answered in the way you like, but so that you may see what a prayer truly means and see what good God is doing, because in all things, God is good and does good He can only do good! It hurts me to see my grandmother might die, and if she died, I might be like, this wasnt good! But know that I understand to some degree what it means to say God is Sovereign now, and I hope that if you dont understand that to some degree, God will show you, because knowing even to a small degree what that really means, one can only praise Himyou realize when you learn what it means to say God is Sovereign, that that is the position God has been trying to get us into because that is the position we are suppose to be in BECAUSE that is the only position we are in or could ever be in. Any control we assume we have is our own deception. The keyword here is good. Gods Sovereignty is GOOD. I use to sometimes feel like, God, not all of this is good, how can I revere your Sovereignty? How can I acknowledge it properly, when I dont understand? But I have learned that, indeed, Gods Sovereignty is not just some all powerful control. It is all powerful control that is GOOD. What I mean is, we dont have a bad God. We, thankfully, have a GOOD GOD!! So if you cant see the future, fear not! Pray all sorts of prayers, acknowledging Gods will, because there is nothing but that that we can do. Everything is in His hands, and God can only do good! Do you even realize what blessing it is to have a GOOD GOD!!! (Just imagine what it would be like to have a cruel God who enjoyed making the worst for His creation, imagine us as Gods toys..lol) GOD IS GOOD! "Praise the LORD. Praise God in His sanctuary; praise Him in His might heavens. Praise Him for His acts of power; praise Him for His surpassing greatness. Praise Him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise Him with the harp and lyre, praise Him with timbrel and dancing, praise Him with the strings and pipe, praise Him with the clash of cymbals, praise Him with resounding cymbals. Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD"!!! (Psalm 150).
answered 2 Years Ago |
Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
Hey everyone, could you please pray for my 90 year old grandmother, shes caught the flu :( Please pray this flu passes without harm, that shell be ok :) I love her so much I dont want to see anything happen to her like this. Thanks! O.0 Oh my gosh I cant even tell you how much I am praising the Lord right now!!!!!!!! Thank you for praying, we still need prayer, but AHH!! GUESS WHAT?!??!! My Grandmother, who started off with a flu and then got the worst case pneumonia you can get (I mean, the kind that young people die from, and shes 90) and the doctors said she probably wasnt going to survive, is DOING BETTER!!
They had given her the antibiotics, and usually what happens in this situation is the patient will get better but then right afterwards plummet and do really bad. Thats what they figured was going to happen with my Grandmom. So anyway, well first... the first night she was in the hospital and they said she probably isnt going to live, I was praying to God not only for her healing and salvation (and she might be saved by the way, I really dunno yet) and other stuff, but also that she would have a restful night sleep. Well the next day we heard that that particular night she had a wonderful rest. I was like THANK YOU GOD!!!
The second night I was still praying but I was crying all night cause everyone was so gloomy about her situation we all sort of expected her to die unless there was a miracle, everyone has been planning out the funeral arrangements. Well my dad calls this morning with a little ray of light, he was like, theyre sending her home because shes actually doing better!!!!!!!!!! Shes actually coughing up the junk in her which they said was a good thing. They sent her home with antibiotics. So what is going to happen now is, either shes going to recover and live, or if she gets worst, shell go back into the hospital and I dont know what will happen after that.
I just want to say what Ive learned through all this, so that you may learn and benefit too! One, I still dont know if my grandmother is going to survive this, Im just so thankful shes doing better right now in this particular moment. I was praying the pneumonia just get out of her, and to hear about her now coughing the stuff up am like ha!! :D :D :D But I just wanted to say that through this whole thing that has happened so far.... One I learned more than I knew before how I have no control over anything. I am but Gods creation in Gods plan living my life God has ordained and whatever happens with my grandmother is also in Gods hands. Two, I learned that praying repeated prayers, at least with the mentality of "if I pray this one prayer constantly God might hear" is pointless, and totally misses the point of prayer. I knew that before, but through this whole thing, Ive noticed it better then I knew before. God never said repeat your prayers to me so that I may be persuaded by them. No, He said praying all sorts of prayers all the time. I have never prayed so much in my life, I mean, seriously, and Im not boasting, this is just something Ive never done before that God has been teaching me stuff through.. UH GOD IS JUST AMAZING!! But I was praying periodically throughout the day and at night and it was so neat to learn that God has heard my first prayer, my second, my third, none of my prayers need repeating, I can pray all sorts of prayers. Sometimes I felt like, how do I pray in this, what do I say Lord? But it all just kinda came together. Third thing I learned was how Jesus prayed. I felt weird asking for God to take the pneumonia away sometimes cause I was like, well, if its not Gods will that she live then why I am I praying for it to go away, what should I be praying for, etc. etc. And then I remembered Jesus, and He prayed, before being crucified, that this cup be lifted from Him but not His will the Fathers will. Jesus actually prayed the cup be lifted from Him, just as I CAN pray for my grandmothers pneumonia to go away. And I was like, I know Jesus already knew what was going to happen and why, but I dont know what is going to happen with my grandmother, but I realized that I can pray for things, like my Grandmothers pneumonia to go away, but I must give it to God. Not that it was EVER mine to control, however, my trust in Him is all I have to give. So either I dont trust Him, or I do. So, despite being totally distraught and crying my head off cause I didnt want to see my grandmother hurt or die or anything (she still might die, I know) but I was like, after all my prayers, "Not my will, but Yours" and it was frustrating in a way because I was like, I just dont get it. I dont know what is happening I cant see what God sees this is so frustrating!!! But God has been teaching me more and more about His sovereignty (what number are we on? Four? Three? lol Lost count) and what that looks like, and its like I am but MATTER, a mere Creation, there is NOTHING about me or for me, except to fall down and praise God. Think about that for a moment. On the flip side of this, I may be mere matter, but God made this mere matter and has called it special. To a mere human like myself, that seems incredible that a God who created me should love me. But look at it from Gods perspective! Of COURSE He loves what He has made. I will never fully understand Gods love for me or how He works with His children, all I know is that in this present situation, at this very moment of this situation, all I can do is trust God, praise God, pray all sorts of prayers and honestly tell Him not my will but Yours Lord. Though I never had, or owned, the situation..though the situation was never in my hands to begin with, I never ever had it, I was never ever in the position to give supposedly my power over the situation to God to let God deal with it, because I never had such power to begin withNo, Ive come to realize that giving things up to God is not giving up something, its doing the thing that only we can do, realizing and acknowledging God as what He is, the Sovereign Lord who is the Only One who has EVER been in control of anything and everything! I may question many things, and I shouldnt really because I should just trust, but its so easy to forget in our little earthly lives, and especially since weve never seen God face to face, its so easy to forget, what Sovereign means. In fact, there is nothing else to compare, so we have no earthly example of what Sovereign means, so its hard for us to even grasp it. To learn it, however, is what God will teach us. And i think God has been teaching me that during this whole thing, and I just wanted to share that with you!
Anyway, thank you for praying, all sorts of prayers, to our God, for my Grandmother. Even though my grandmother seems to be getting better now, and that is rather tempting to make me want to pray like, "GOD!!! FINISH THE JOB HEAL HER COMPLETELY!!!" Im not, Im going to continue to pray the way I have been, to give up "my will" for the only will ever in existence, Gods will. God does hear prayers and He answers them all, according to His Sovereign plan, because He does only good! My grandmother still needs prayer, shes not fully recovered, I still dont know about her salvation, I dunno WHAT is going to happen but I CAN pray for what is going on WITH acknowledging not our will (again, not that our will ever had control over anything) but Gods will. His good, pleasing and perfect will. And by the way, my none stop prayers which I had mentioned before, Ive never really prayed this much before, wasnt because I wanted something so bad, I mean, I wanted a lot of things, but all these prayers really came out of me because I desperately love my grandmother and I dont want to see anything bad happen to her. And that made me think of how in 1 John 4, verse 20, it says how those who dont love those whom they HAVE seen, could not love God, who they have NOT seen. And also in verse 10, how God sent His Son for us because He loved us. All of this made me think of how, the love I have for my grandmother, and I mean, I was SO sad about this by the way, she literally is the most special person in my life, EVER, I cant even tell you. I mean, I love everyone in my life, and I never have favorites but I wont deny, she is something VERY special to me more than others, for some reason. Hate saying I have favorites and I wouldnt say I do, I love everyone in my life, but again, she is just really special to me. But I remember feeling horrible about not knowing if she is saved or not, I actually was like, man, if I had some kind of control over this (again, "my will" never was, its always "Gods will") but I thought, if I did have some kind of control over it, if she was going to hell, Id give up my life for hers and let her go to Heaven and Id go to hell in her place. I mean, I knew I shouldnt have said that and I WASN"T telling that to God like, make it so! I know I shouldnt dabble in things like that and I wasnt by the way, thats just how I felt and I really meant it, though I wasnt saying "make it so" because I knew thats not how things work and I should not dabble in that..again, thats just how I felt. Anyway, that made me think about, my love for my grandmother, is like the love God has for His Son, and for us.. God sent His Son, for us. I will never fully grasp the depth of that love, but like in 1 John, I realized, how can I understand the love I have for God if I didnt know what it was like to love those whom Ive seen, like my grandmother, and I have never seen God, yet I love Him. No, I dont need people to see to know what love means. But I will tell you, it does put a different perspective on it, a more "real" perspective.
ANYWAY! Enough of me rambling.. and by the way, I wasnt boasting about my prayers or anything, just so you know, I just wanted you guys to know what has happened!! I never usually tell people what "Ive done" because I dont want them to think I was trying to boast, Im a sincere person who would never say something to boast, I hate boasting. Again, I have never had any control over anything, I CAN"T boast. I just wanted to let you know what has been happening :) Also want to say that, NO, my saying Id give my life up for my Grandmas was NOT going to make God be like "oh, my holy and faithful child, I will give you whatever you want" haha. no no no please dont misunderstand!! That merely showed me what love meant, more than I had realized before :) Thats all that ever was, just so you know.
Anyway :) Keep praying all sorts of prayers all the time, in HIS WIll, give up what control you thought you had that you never had, because you never had it, but acknowledge His Sovereignty.. not so your prayers may be answered in the way you like, but so that you may see what a prayer truly means and see what good God is doing, because in all things, God is good and does good He can only do good! It hurts me to see my grandmother might die, and if she died, I might be like, this wasnt good! But know that I understand to some degree what it means to say God is Sovereign now, and I hope that if you dont understand that to some degree, God will show you, because knowing even to a small degree what that really means, one can only praise Himyou realize when you learn what it means to say God is Sovereign, that that is the position God has been trying to get us into because that is the position we are suppose to be in BECAUSE that is the only position we are in or could ever be in. Any control we assume we have is our own deception. The keyword here is good. Gods Sovereignty is GOOD. I use to sometimes feel like, God, not all of this is good, how can I revere your Sovereignty? How can I acknowledge it properly, when I dont understand? But I have learned that, indeed, Gods Sovereignty is not just some all powerful control. It is all powerful control that is GOOD. What I mean is, we dont have a bad God. We, thankfully, have a GOOD GOD!! So if you cant see the future, fear not! Pray all sorts of prayers, acknowledging Gods will, because there is nothing but that that we can do. Everything is in His hands, and God can only do good! Do you even realize what blessing it is to have a GOOD GOD!!! (Just imagine what it would be like to have a cruel God who enjoyed making the worst for His creation, imagine us as Gods toys..lol) GOD IS GOOD! "Praise the LORD. Praise God in His sanctuary; praise Him in His might heavens. Praise Him for His acts of power; praise Him for His surpassing greatness. Praise Him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise Him with the harp and lyre, praise Him with timbrel and dancing, praise Him with the strings and pipe, praise Him with the clash of cymbals, praise Him with resounding cymbals. Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD"!!! (Psalm 150).
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Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
Well, we just got some further news about my Grandmother (Ive been posting about her already). Please pray for her, she is in the hospital with the worst case pneumonia you can get they said and they dont think she is going to live... I dont know if she is saved. Please pray for her and us, I am so distraught. She is so special to me. If I only knew she was saved itd make her passing easier but nonetheless I dont want her to go. Please pray I get to talk with her one last time. Or else her healing. But especially her salvation if she is not saved. If I could talk with her one last time if she is going to die, I would ask her if she wants to receive God into her life if she hasnt already. Thanks. jessica Well today is day #8 of my husbands sobriety. As usual things are going pretty well. We have committed to praying together in the morning before i leave for work and at night before we go to bed. Weve also been talking alot more. Things always go great in the begining though. My fear is what might happen as day 90 gets closer. Weve also been watching teachings br Joyce Meyer which seen to be opening his eyes quite a bit to what is going on in his life and changes he needs to make. I thank you so much for your continued prayer for us. I will keep you updated =) God Bless!
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Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
Hi,My husband is an alcoholic. He is in recovery but only makes it to about 90 days before he relapses again. Each time he relapses he doesnt come home at night wont answer his phone or return my text messages be cause he is ashamed of what he is doing. A few times he has ended up in jail for drunk driving. He says the guilt he feels cause of what he knows its doing to our family is what keeps him aways from it for 90 days but then the urges start coming and he feels the only way to make them go away is to give in and get drunk. I am to the point where i dread when that day draws near cause i know how much pain is coming. I believe he is sincere when he says he doesnt want to do it, but i dont know how to help him get past days 90. he has been drinking since he was about 10 yrs old so its been a really long time. Hes never really had anyone in his life who encouraged a relationship with Christ until meeting me and my family. He has given his life over to Christ and mostly follows his ways but then gets into a funk and starts reverting back to the old him and thats when he gives in to the temptation to drink. Im afraid if this keeps happening one day he may take a life id he gets behind the wheel. Also i worry about the example he is setting for our 4 children. If you wouldnt mind praying for his recovery i would greatly appreciate that. Thank you so much for your time in reading this. God Bless 6 Commented |
Courtney ...its taking me some time to try and figure out what to say about this one.. Because Ive seen what alcoholics do, and they have scarred me most of my life with my sisters.. I hope to GOD that this will pass and that none of this affects any of you in the long run. Esp. your children because Ive seen what it could do. This prayer bothers me because I know its hurting your whole family.. Your husband is deeply burdened by this horrible addiction.. And I pray to God that with his wonderful family, he can make this through and see what kind of person he can be without the drinking... You and your family are in my every thought and prayers. Take care hunn and keep us updated, and if you have anymore troubles, just post a prayer request and we will be here for you. May God Bless hunn.
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David Good news! My co-worker is hanging in there and doing better through the power of God. Please keep up the prayers and thank you all so much for everything. I love you guys!
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Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
Hey brothers and sisters in Chrsit... I need prayer for 2 things. First, my coworkers son was taken off life support the other day and now she has to burry him. he was her only son the situation is really bad right now. She needs alot of prayer. Second, my really close friend is moving in to a house where ive heard demons are in teh house across the street and possibly in her house. They want me to go over there and bless the house and rid it of demons which means Spiritual warfare, i really need prayer to do this cause last time i was hurt doing it. Please please please pray everyone. Thank you guys and God bless you all! :) YoVad We need help for Tomorrow, but God will help us!
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Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
Please pray for my little sister. She has a problem. And I cant help her anymore. Pray that she will go to my other brother. He can help her verry wel!Pray either for my essay, i must do so much, I cant handle it! But I also want to say thanks to the Lord, Who give me my familie, Asante, you give me life! Gabriella well, we got some things which are not nice, but it also went better.. please stay praying!
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Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
pray for me and my friend! i made so much mistakes! and im in India and hes in Holland so our communication is bad! please pray! KingsKid Thank you so much for your prayers everyone! Last week my aunt came to church. I also think that she is out of the relationship now. Please continue to say a prayer for her, that she will totally commit to God`s call in her life. Thank you.
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Original Prayer Request (posted 3 Years Ago):
Please pray for one of my aunts. She has been in multiple relationships, but they always end up broken. She just got into another relationship. She was raised in a Christian home, so she knows the truth. But she wont submit herself to the Lord and surrender her life to Him. Pray that she would answer Gods call to come home, and that she would be healed from the hurts in her life. shelbster92 Ive been prayin for a while over what to do about this relationship. I had alot of support and advice on what to do. After a few months i have learned that i really wasnt happy with him because i dont agree with his lifestyle and he only wants one thing. After him wantin me back for a while i decided to end it for good. Lookin at how my friends bf treats her, as in he treats her like a queen, i realized that i was missin out on what its supposed to be like to feel special. my ex never did anything for me, and only told half truths and i got tired of it. i now know what NOT to go for and how i should be treated.
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Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
I just got out of a rough relationship. Never really had a bf before till recently and it turns out all he wanted was sex. He didnt get it, so he broke up with me because he said he felt like he was goin to cheat on me. I lost him as a friend too because he wanted to just use me as a backup. We dont talk anymore. I hope and pray I can get over this and hope to find a real man. 11 Commented |
Rachel Spoon Ill pray for you, and Im really proud that you didnt give in to what he wanted. Dont let him bring you down. You obeyed Gods word in this situation, and I really admire that about you. God Bless!
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Christalla Thank you all for praying. Since the weather is approving, our pipes didnt burst. God is GOOD. Thank you all again. :-)
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Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
Please pray that our water pipes wont bust. The weather in NM has been soooo COLD and a lot of water lines are freezing and then busting. It happened to our neighbors downstairs. Thank you! Tory Thank you all so much for your prayers! It was an infection which led to extreme swelling in my gland, but thankfully it is gone down lots and I am much better! Thanks again for your prayers all, be blessed.
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Original Prayer Request (posted 2 Years Ago):
This may sound silly, but i have been having pain off and on behind my right ear all day and just found a hard lump there. I have no insurance, so prayer would be appreciated for the pain to stop and that God heal me of this...especially this panic and worry that I feel! Thank You 10 Commented |
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