Pray that God will lead me to a beautiful, fit, Christ-loving woman in 2012. Pray that I will make the adjustments needed to be a man worthy of such a woman.
I need inspiration and courage to start a new phase in life. Quit the job I hate and move on to what I love… I need to be financially able! Exciting times! How about you?
So I found out the day after Christmas that my office was not reopening after the new year- thus I’m unemployed. Ironically, I was faced with this just a year ago. However, I’ve been doing a study of Psalm 23 and another of Trusting God… He has been preparing me! The Lord is my shepard- I shall not want. In just one day, I’ve scheduled 3 interviews for this week! Praise God! He is faithful! I guess, long story to a short answer, pray that I don’t screw up the interviews!
A foosball table fell on a family friend’s daughter last night – she is two-years-old. It landed on her head & face. She is undergoing reconstructive surgery on her face today here in Des Moines. This family has 5 kids, and Mom is pregnant with twins – so this is stress the family doesn’t need. Her name is Isabel. I know their family would appreciate any prayers. Thanks.
Wow, prayer coming your way Maryanne. Lord, lift up this family in their time of need. You are the great physician and I pray that your hands be the hands of the surgeons taking care of this little girl.
My husband’s discouraged in his musical endeavor. I just want to help encourage but it feels so futile. This is 5 years coming…I wish I could just say, “quit,” but the Lord keeps giving him songs. Direction…help me pray for direction for him. Thank you!!
In desperate need of peace & strength as my 17 year marriage comes to end and I am packing up all my belongings to move to a new state. First time living out of my home state and first time living alone.
I am praying about being used by God to bring grace and authenticity to small town Iowa. Most churches here seem to be stuck on rules and not a relationship. There are a lot of hurting people who will never go looking for that.
I moved my family here because we felt God was saying, “Go, they need to know my love.” I’d appreciate it if you could pray with me about what my/our role is.
Pray for a job for my husband that will financially support us. We are living with my parents (have been for 4 months now) and can’t stay here forever. Thanks!
My sister-in-law gave birth to their second son last night! Thank God for His hand in the life of this healthy child, John-Paul Athanasius Elwer! Pray that my sis gets plenty of rest and time with her new gift.
My husband & I moved to a new city 6 months ago to follow God’s call to take on a new ministry position. Life is great, but I’m slowly sinking back into my depressive tendencies. I know people would kill to have the job, home, etc. that I have, but some days it takes all that I have to not stay in bed all day.
I’m not excited about my job/calling anymore. I need some clear direction/guidance from God. I feel like he may be calling me to take a step of faith but I don’t know what it is yet. I desperately need guidance/direction.
I have been diagnosed termenal with 3 different issues & I have no pro lem with that I am so ready to go home! But I am trying my best to give all that care about me plenty of time & attion so hopefully it wont it them as hard & my energy has been about nil as of late & many times not sure I am going to make it the next hour but I have a trip to see a few fronds I don’t see often at all in February & if you could pray I would have the stringth & abiltu to make that trip I would be very apreative! Thanks!
My husband desperately needs healing and I need strength and grace to face this again and to hear God’s voice for wisdom and direction. So much pain, and we need so much hope. I’m trying to trust God’s promise of restoration, but it feels like this dark before the promised dawn is oh so dark.
It feels like I’m so far away from God. I can’t seem to find hunger to build a relationship with him (eg. pray, read the word, etc) I’m quite frustrated by this and seeing I’m in a ‘leader’ and in the worship team so it makes me really quite hypocritical. I can act really well but inside I just want to abort all and disappear. And its a season where I really need some clarity and direction with big life decisions (job, future…), I know that if I just go to God, I’ll get the answer, but the problem is that I don’t and not even sure if i want to. Shrugs. Please pray.
I’m 15 weeks into a very high risk pregnancy. We have 4 kids already, but we lost our last son at 18 weeks. I know God is here in the midst of my fear, holding me… but I’m still afraid! I just want prayer that God prepares our hearts for whatever lies ahead, and prayer that He protects this little life. And for peace and trust. Thanks for asking!
I’m packing up my car and moving from California to Nashville next week. Hoping to get plugged into a church and find a job, stat Prayers for God’s financial provision and leading, as well as safe travels would be greatly appreciated!!
I need pray for provision. I am in a ministry school and need God’s hand to move upon my situation. I’m believing in faith that He will provide! And also for strength for this new year, new season in my life with school and everything
I need prayer for provision. I am in a ministry school and need God’s hand to move upon my situation. I’m believing in faith that He will provide! And also for strength for this new year, new season in my life with school and everything
I really want to be married – I have been healed of so much and God has been so faithful but I’m 36 and there just don’t seem to be any prospects! Also I’m self-employed and that’s hard sometimes to feel secure.
Please pray for the family of Aliahna Lemmon and the entire city of Fort Wayne, Indiana. This precious girl’s murder days before Christmas has rocked the entire city. This was a horrible grizzly crime. Please pray for peace and that the love of God is more evident than ever.
My wife and I are expecting our 7th in June. We just moved into our dream home a few months back. We had just paid off some big medical bills that were taking about 25% of our pay when I was laid off, the first week of December. We have had some amazing support from family and the local church. Our kids have been able to still have a Christmas. I’ve been hired on with a raise and great benefits, but I won’t see my first check for another three weeks. By then our gas and electric will be cut off and rent almost a month late. Just pray for peace through the stress and for God to provide and guide us over the next weeks and beyond.
I graduate with a youth ministry degree at the end of April and that is totally exciting and terrifying at the same time. I would like peace in the midst and clarity as to what’s next.
God is telling us to move, possibly to Europe. We know zero people there and we have no idea how this is going to happen but we know that God will provide. Pray that we would be obedient and go and that we will follow God’s direction. Also pray for our kids that will be leaving the only home they’ve ever known.
I’m sick.
For the new church plant. That the broken, lost, hurting disconnected, unloved, hopeless in the Rogue Valley will be loved by Jesus thru us. That they will be transformed by him and so will we.
That as a leader I will be courageous, creative, risk taking and follow Jesus!
My marriage is dying. Wife is a recovering drug addict, left me from rehab, started an affair with a much older man and is taking my daughter for me. The legal system is slow. I am trying to stay strong and fight, but it is hard when your heart is broken. Pray that a) my daughter is given to me b) my wife wakes up and runs back to God and c) God works in our marriage.
Completely understand bro. My wife divorced me and is now with a guy nearly 20 years older. Like sleeping with her dad (GROSS). 6yo daughter/18yo son in her care. She is a good mom but is just completely selfish right now and pushing them away too. It’s frustrating, depressing, and just stabs you in the heart.
Remember this. God has control. He will redeem this time. Follow what He is asking you to do, be obedient and let Him do what He needs to with them. It’s not easy. You may look like an ass for doing or saying things. As long as it’s part of His plan do them faithfully. Stand your ground with a solid foundation. You will be blessed by seeing there hearts change to follow Him.
Please pray that God will move in the souls of my friends who have denied Him. I long for the day to see these guys understand the peace that a relationship with Jesus can bring.
I have a job interview on January 3. If I don’t get that job, I’ll need something soon. It would be great to move out of my parents’ house and get my own life going. I have a masters degree so I’m not lacking in skills… just need to find the right place for me!
A friend and I are planning to attend a concert in March.. it’s a famous Christian band’s tour… we’ve gotten to talking to the drummer on a different level than most and have a new respect for all of the guys in the band.. another friend is planning to come to that show.. her heart is very wrong in regards to the guys (all but 1 is married with children.. she talks about how cute they are, what it’s like to get hugs from them,etc).. my friend and I are desperately trying to get her to change her ways and help her understand that the show date is an evangelical one and she needs to be appropriate while we are there.. and that when we get to see the guys, our conversations with them are very different than hers and don’t plan on changing it because of her.. she doesn’t like to talk about things of God- what he’s doing in her life, what she’s struggling with, won’t even ask for prayer- but calls herself a Christian.. I don’t know her very well, but my other friend does and she is very worried about her.. please pray that God will work on her heart and let her open up to us and change her mindset about the guys..
Having trouble conceiving. I know it’s not true but I feel like God is preventing pregnancy because of past sin. Pray I’ll get away from that mindset and trust God knows best…baby or not.
my friends’ mom Lorna Bulgerin has been fighting breast cancer for several years. Today she is having difficulty breathing. Please pray for peace and for God to heal her body!
We are losing our house & filing bankruptcy. As if things weren’t bad enough already my husband’s position (his part-time 2nd job) was terminated right before Christmas. However, we have our health and the support of our family and a few good friends. Thank God for that.
My brother was deployed to Qatar just this morning. He’ll be there for at least a year. He’s not spiritually mature but God is definitely working in his life!! Prayer for his and others safety would be appreciated. Also that this would be a “wake up call” for him in his life and that he would realize his utter need for Jesus.
And I have a close friend who’s struggling with homosexuality. He means so much to me but pray that I wouldn’t get in the way. He needs an encounter with Christ, not me. Pray that would be a good and true friend, one who loves hard and always points to truth – no matter how hard or awkward it may be.
My husband is in jail and my father has cancer – and I’m a minister. Please pray that God gives me the strength to survive, forgive, have peace and live a life that is emblematic of God’s unconditional covenant love.
My family basically hasn’t had an income since the beginning of October, so we pretty much need a miracle in the next couple of weeks to pay the personal bills and the stuff for our businesses.
So, keep us in your prayers…and if anyone needs design, printing, video, or anything else media, I can hook you up…and it will help me out, too. (www.RoundCreatives.com)
To have the ability (and make the choice) to be thankful in all circumstances.
To invest myself fully in the place that God has me right now and not be looking for the next best thing or waiting to do what I need to be doing until “that thing” happens.
To trust that his provision is perfect even when he is providing for me by allowing my lack of finances to drive me to my knees knowing that growing trust is more valuable than growing wealth.
To obey… even when it is hard.
To speak what/how God would have me speak and keep my mouth shut otherwise.
After 8 years of being in ministry, I am back in school, and have stepped down from position in the church. I am now trying to get plugged back into a church I went a while ago. I go to a public college where all I see is brokenness and despair, where most of the students are at least 5 years younger than me and I feel VERY alone. Most of the time I tend to be a social person, willing to talk to anyone, but being that half the time whenever I hear the conversations on campus about getting wasted or high or sleeping around, I don’t want to hear it. I’ve been down that road, don’t want to go back, and I don’t think they want to me get on the soap box and start telling them not to do what they are doing. So I tend to keep to myself. But I really wish that there would be other Christians like myself that would see the brokenness and want to get together and at least pray for the campus. We don’t have a club like Campus Crusade or anything. I just don’t want to feel alone anymore.
I am almost 7 months sober and I have just gotten two sponcees. One that is willing to do the work and seems ready to quit playing God and the other one is having a hard time being willing not to drink. Pray that she becomes willing to live rather than die from alcoholism.
My husband and I have struggled through infertility for almost 4 years now. In 2009 we suffered a tubal pregnancy and that was a traumatic experience…i ended up having emergency surgery to remove the pregnancy. We were told by our doctor last month that this was the last dose of fertility meds he was comfortable giving us. I took a pregnancy test this morning and it was positive! Please pray for us…this is the only other positive test I have had. I am praying that this time its in the uterus where it should be and that we have a healthy happy pregnancy. No complications. Shhh…we haven’t told anyone yet.
- to find an authentic community
- for a friend who is blowing up her life (affair, divorce, leaving kids, leaving ministry, moving to be with the guy = mess)
For clarity on making a big decision in the next 6 weeks involving leaving an executive position to spend more time with my family while seeking the next opportunity God may have for me.
Looking for new employment in 2012 ASAP! I am working PT for our church right now but need a FT option, even if it is somewhere else. I praise God for bringing me to this point though because I have seriously been dragging my feet and just putting on a smile like everything is OK. Not good. Excited to see what God provides. Hoping I don’t have to start taking my anxiety meds again during the process though.
My husband and I just graduated from seminary and now we are just waiting for jobs. We are going to find him something first hopefully in youth and young adult ministry and then I will find a job in Counseling in the town we move to if possible. Pray that we find something and finances we have are enough to sustain us until he does find a job.
Also, our baby girl turns 1 on Jan 17th!
I’m struggling to come to a place of being content with who I am, rather than hating myself. I’m trying to be content with what I have, rather than grumbling about the things I don’t. I’m trying to trust that God will take care of me instead of worrying about my car breaking down in winter on the highway. I’m trying to really believe that God cares about me, my life, how I feel, what I need. I’m trying to be OK with being single, even though I want to be married and have kids more than anything.
I was beaten severly by a drunk boyfriend of 15 years for no reason. It was bad . He is in a 5 star prison, had to cut up my bamk card in nov. and order a new one today ,it is lost. I feel like this apt complex they put me in is some kind of satanist colony movie of some sort. weird really. I am trying to read my Bible every day, draw close to got. Especially liked psalms 32:8. I am here in Fla. alone,family is in Indiana. I am in chronic pain, metal in spine. Want so much to do what God wants me to do, just not sure what that is yet. Only been alone and here since April 4th, 11. Wish I could find a church I like. I love guitars and praises,not piano and hands down please. lol For no reason at all last time I went to church in morn, I blacked out and woke up driving on grass on right side of road. never before or since, never going to store, just church. I need a break from satan and his demons for a while ,while I learn to grow. Christian friend says it will get a lot worse and I don’t think I can handle it. Please ask God for some divine help. He knows how much I love him and how hard I am trying to be consistant. You get the idea, so yeah, pretty please put me on a prayer list. Thank you, God bless you. Diana
My daughter had a play date yesterday and when the mom picked the playmate up she was drunk. Only I didn’t realize it, was confused by her behavior, until they left and all the pieces fell into place. I am overwhelmed with guilt that I let a child get into a car with a drunk driver. That I didn’t realize what was going on sooner. That I don’t know what I would have done HAD I realized it.
I am out of work
(or extremely under employed – I have an extremely part time merchandising job in which I am working a whopping 2 hours a week) again. My unemployment benefits ran out back in August and despite all the jobs I have been applying for, I have only found temp work.The latest temp job ended December 21st (which was a good thing because i was able to speed clean your place before that family was supposed to arrive – so God had work for me that was able to be a help to others!!). I still have not found work and don’t know how I am paying my weekly rent on January 6th. But on the bright side, my former student/friend Sarah and I have April as a target date for the release of my first book (she is illustrating it) and you and Riggins and Jeffrey East are going to be in book number 3
And pray I figure out how to get the cover off your kitchen light without breaking it (the light bulb burnt out – was gonna try and change it for y’all). Otherwise things great at the Whittaker compound, mail pile is growing, and Riggins and I are buds!!
I was laid off 2 weeks before Christmas. It is only supposed to be temporary, but the unemployment just doesn’t cover the bills, gas for the car, and food. So please pray for a possible job to supplement during this down time, for me to go back to work soon, and for peace for me and to just trust that God has my back and will take care of everything. I know he will, but I am a natural worrier and some habits are hard to break. Oh, and a decent night’s sleep without waking 3 or 4 times to worry about money. Thanks.
You can pray for my husband. He is grieving for his Dad who died a few months ago. He is in a deep depression and suffering anxiety and there are some serious ramifications. Pray that he will be courageous enough to pick himself up. Pray that he will find his way back to God. Pray that he will be the dynamic, brilliant, creative man that he is meant to be. Pray that he will be a good husband and a good father.
RAIN IT DOWN
Need peace- like really really do
Thanks
Carlos,
How can I pray for you?
For me to find Génesis 2:18
I am hoping to branch out in some creative ways and feel overwhelmed by what all that means.
Pray that I’m a better leader in all situations.
Submitting resumes this week. Need guidance and wisdom. Making sure not to settle, but to do what God has gifted me to do!! Woot!
Pray that God will lead me to a beautiful, fit, Christ-loving woman in 2012. Pray that I will make the adjustments needed to be a man worthy of such a woman.
I need inspiration and courage to start a new phase in life. Quit the job I hate and move on to what I love… I need to be financially able! Exciting times! How about you?
um, ditto that.
I’m praying for a new job in 2012…for more financial provision and more intellectual challenge.
Strength and courage to follow Jesus into a community of believers (aka church) where I can do life and serve together. I’m in LA.
So I found out the day after Christmas that my office was not reopening after the new year- thus I’m unemployed. Ironically, I was faced with this just a year ago. However, I’ve been doing a study of Psalm 23 and another of Trusting God… He has been preparing me! The Lord is my shepard- I shall not want. In just one day, I’ve scheduled 3 interviews for this week! Praise God! He is faithful! I guess, long story to a short answer, pray that I don’t screw up the interviews!
How can I pray for you Carlos?
Clear direction for an upcoming opportunity
A foosball table fell on a family friend’s daughter last night – she is two-years-old. It landed on her head & face. She is undergoing reconstructive surgery on her face today here in Des Moines. This family has 5 kids, and Mom is pregnant with twins – so this is stress the family doesn’t need. Her name is Isabel. I know their family would appreciate any prayers. Thanks.
Praying!!
Wow, prayer coming your way Maryanne. Lord, lift up this family in their time of need. You are the great physician and I pray that your hands be the hands of the surgeons taking care of this little girl.
My husband’s discouraged in his musical endeavor. I just want to help encourage but it feels so futile. This is 5 years coming…I wish I could just say, “quit,” but the Lord keeps giving him songs. Direction…help me pray for direction for him. Thank you!!
In desperate need of peace & strength as my 17 year marriage comes to end and I am packing up all my belongings to move to a new state. First time living out of my home state and first time living alone.
I am praying about being used by God to bring grace and authenticity to small town Iowa. Most churches here seem to be stuck on rules and not a relationship. There are a lot of hurting people who will never go looking for that.
I moved my family here because we felt God was saying, “Go, they need to know my love.” I’d appreciate it if you could pray with me about what my/our role is.
Pray for a job for my husband that will financially support us. We are living with my parents (have been for 4 months now) and can’t stay here forever. Thanks!
My sister-in-law gave birth to their second son last night! Thank God for His hand in the life of this healthy child, John-Paul Athanasius Elwer! Pray that my sis gets plenty of rest and time with her new gift.
I’m falling in love, and I don’t know how to not reck this.
Just enjoy it and appreciate it.
My husband & I moved to a new city 6 months ago to follow God’s call to take on a new ministry position. Life is great, but I’m slowly sinking back into my depressive tendencies. I know people would kill to have the job, home, etc. that I have, but some days it takes all that I have to not stay in bed all day.
Pray for some peace. Feeling betrayed and without value these days, really hoping to find God in my dark place.
I’m not excited about my job/calling anymore. I need some clear direction/guidance from God. I feel like he may be calling me to take a step of faith but I don’t know what it is yet. I desperately need guidance/direction.
I have been diagnosed termenal with 3 different issues & I have no pro lem with that I am so ready to go home! But I am trying my best to give all that care about me plenty of time & attion so hopefully it wont it them as hard & my energy has been about nil as of late & many times not sure I am going to make it the next hour but I have a trip to see a few fronds I don’t see often at all in February & if you could pray I would have the stringth & abiltu to make that trip I would be very apreative! Thanks!
My grandpa had a heart attack on Saturday and is in surgery for a quadruple bypass right now
My husband desperately needs healing and I need strength and grace to face this again and to hear God’s voice for wisdom and direction. So much pain, and we need so much hope. I’m trying to trust God’s promise of restoration, but it feels like this dark before the promised dawn is oh so dark.
It feels like I’m so far away from God. I can’t seem to find hunger to build a relationship with him (eg. pray, read the word, etc) I’m quite frustrated by this and seeing I’m in a ‘leader’ and in the worship team so it makes me really quite hypocritical. I can act really well but inside I just want to abort all and disappear. And its a season where I really need some clarity and direction with big life decisions (job, future…), I know that if I just go to God, I’ll get the answer, but the problem is that I don’t and not even sure if i want to. Shrugs. Please pray.
I’m 15 weeks into a very high risk pregnancy. We have 4 kids already, but we lost our last son at 18 weeks. I know God is here in the midst of my fear, holding me… but I’m still afraid! I just want prayer that God prepares our hearts for whatever lies ahead, and prayer that He protects this little life. And for peace and trust. Thanks for asking!
I’m packing up my car and moving from California to Nashville next week. Hoping to get plugged into a church and find a job, stat
Prayers for God’s financial provision and leading, as well as safe travels would be greatly appreciated!!
I’m doing the same but from Florida to the Nash area in two days. I wish you the best!
I need pray for provision. I am in a ministry school and need God’s hand to move upon my situation. I’m believing in faith that He will provide! And also for strength for this new year, new season in my life with school and everything
Anxiety eating me up. Need resolution and peace. My family needs me to get it too.
I need prayer for provision. I am in a ministry school and need God’s hand to move upon my situation. I’m believing in faith that He will provide! And also for strength for this new year, new season in my life with school and everything
I really want to be married – I have been healed of so much and God has been so faithful but I’m 36 and there just don’t seem to be any prospects! Also I’m self-employed and that’s hard sometimes to feel secure.
I’m pastoring a new church, launching new 501c3, opening a new coffee shop… I need Jesus to lead every step!
Moving in May and need a job & place to live. Also taking a short term mission trip to India this summer – provisions for funding =)
Thank you Carlos!
Some scary things coming up. Quit my job and Started a business last year and January will be a defining time for it, and for my family.
Please pray for the family of Aliahna Lemmon and the entire city of Fort Wayne, Indiana. This precious girl’s murder days before Christmas has rocked the entire city. This was a horrible grizzly crime. Please pray for peace and that the love of God is more evident than ever.
http://www.wane.com/dpp/news/crime/graphic-details-released-in-murder-case
That 2012 will be as incredible as 2011!
My wife and I are expecting our 7th in June. We just moved into our dream home a few months back. We had just paid off some big medical bills that were taking about 25% of our pay when I was laid off, the first week of December. We have had some amazing support from family and the local church. Our kids have been able to still have a Christmas. I’ve been hired on with a raise and great benefits, but I won’t see my first check for another three weeks. By then our gas and electric will be cut off and rent almost a month late. Just pray for peace through the stress and for God to provide and guide us over the next weeks and beyond.
praying for you guys!
praying for you guys!
I graduate with a youth ministry degree at the end of April and that is totally exciting and terrifying at the same time. I would like peace in the midst and clarity as to what’s next.
Direction! My wife and I are brand new worship leaders in a unique context!
Pray that I can “Be still and know…”
God is telling us to move, possibly to Europe. We know zero people there and we have no idea how this is going to happen but we know that God will provide. Pray that we would be obedient and go and that we will follow God’s direction. Also pray for our kids that will be leaving the only home they’ve ever known.
I need prayer to be the man that God created me to be. To be spiritually strong and lead my family. I have been very weak lately.
I’m sick.
For the new church plant. That the broken, lost, hurting disconnected, unloved, hopeless in the Rogue Valley will be loved by Jesus thru us. That they will be transformed by him and so will we.
That as a leader I will be courageous, creative, risk taking and follow Jesus!
I would like to receive prayer for anxiety.
My marriage is dying. Wife is a recovering drug addict, left me from rehab, started an affair with a much older man and is taking my daughter for me. The legal system is slow. I am trying to stay strong and fight, but it is hard when your heart is broken. Pray that a) my daughter is given to me b) my wife wakes up and runs back to God and c) God works in our marriage.
Completely understand bro. My wife divorced me and is now with a guy nearly 20 years older. Like sleeping with her dad (GROSS). 6yo daughter/18yo son in her care. She is a good mom but is just completely selfish right now and pushing them away too. It’s frustrating, depressing, and just stabs you in the heart.
Remember this. God has control. He will redeem this time. Follow what He is asking you to do, be obedient and let Him do what He needs to with them. It’s not easy. You may look like an ass for doing or saying things. As long as it’s part of His plan do them faithfully. Stand your ground with a solid foundation. You will be blessed by seeing there hearts change to follow Him.
Never quit trusting!!!
Healing.
Please pray that God will move in the souls of my friends who have denied Him. I long for the day to see these guys understand the peace that a relationship with Jesus can bring.
For God’s wisdom in my life. I know He’ll provide all my needs but there’s some issues coming up where I need His wisdom.
I have a job interview on January 3. If I don’t get that job, I’ll need something soon. It would be great to move out of my parents’ house and get my own life going. I have a masters degree so I’m not lacking in skills… just need to find the right place for me!
A friend and I are planning to attend a concert in March.. it’s a famous Christian band’s tour… we’ve gotten to talking to the drummer on a different level than most and have a new respect for all of the guys in the band.. another friend is planning to come to that show.. her heart is very wrong in regards to the guys (all but 1 is married with children.. she talks about how cute they are, what it’s like to get hugs from them,etc).. my friend and I are desperately trying to get her to change her ways and help her understand that the show date is an evangelical one and she needs to be appropriate while we are there.. and that when we get to see the guys, our conversations with them are very different than hers and don’t plan on changing it because of her.. she doesn’t like to talk about things of God- what he’s doing in her life, what she’s struggling with, won’t even ask for prayer- but calls herself a Christian.. I don’t know her very well, but my other friend does and she is very worried about her.. please pray that God will work on her heart and let her open up to us and change her mindset about the guys..
Direction.
Having trouble conceiving. I know it’s not true but I feel like God is preventing pregnancy because of past sin. Pray I’ll get away from that mindset and trust God knows best…baby or not.
my friends’ mom Lorna Bulgerin has been fighting breast cancer for several years. Today she is having difficulty breathing. Please pray for peace and for God to heal her body!
We are losing our house & filing bankruptcy. As if things weren’t bad enough already my husband’s position (his part-time 2nd job) was terminated right before Christmas. However, we have our health and the support of our family and a few good friends. Thank God for that.
My brother was deployed to Qatar just this morning. He’ll be there for at least a year. He’s not spiritually mature but God is definitely working in his life!! Prayer for his and others safety would be appreciated. Also that this would be a “wake up call” for him in his life and that he would realize his utter need for Jesus.
And I have a close friend who’s struggling with homosexuality. He means so much to me but pray that I wouldn’t get in the way. He needs an encounter with Christ, not me. Pray that would be a good and true friend, one who loves hard and always points to truth – no matter how hard or awkward it may be.
Thanks so much for this!!!
My husband is in jail and my father has cancer – and I’m a minister. Please pray that God gives me the strength to survive, forgive, have peace and live a life that is emblematic of God’s unconditional covenant love.
Comfort and strength as a relationship comes to an end and guidance and opportunity for a new career.
My family basically hasn’t had an income since the beginning of October, so we pretty much need a miracle in the next couple of weeks to pay the personal bills and the stuff for our businesses.
So, keep us in your prayers…and if anyone needs design, printing, video, or anything else media, I can hook you up…and it will help me out, too.
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For true, peace-filled contentment.
To have the ability (and make the choice) to be thankful in all circumstances.
To invest myself fully in the place that God has me right now and not be looking for the next best thing or waiting to do what I need to be doing until “that thing” happens.
To trust that his provision is perfect even when he is providing for me by allowing my lack of finances to drive me to my knees knowing that growing trust is more valuable than growing wealth.
To obey… even when it is hard.
To speak what/how God would have me speak and keep my mouth shut otherwise.
How can I pray for you?
Endurance to finish the race set before me.
After 8 years of being in ministry, I am back in school, and have stepped down from position in the church. I am now trying to get plugged back into a church I went a while ago. I go to a public college where all I see is brokenness and despair, where most of the students are at least 5 years younger than me and I feel VERY alone. Most of the time I tend to be a social person, willing to talk to anyone, but being that half the time whenever I hear the conversations on campus about getting wasted or high or sleeping around, I don’t want to hear it. I’ve been down that road, don’t want to go back, and I don’t think they want to me get on the soap box and start telling them not to do what they are doing. So I tend to keep to myself. But I really wish that there would be other Christians like myself that would see the brokenness and want to get together and at least pray for the campus. We don’t have a club like Campus Crusade or anything. I just don’t want to feel alone anymore.
I am almost 7 months sober and I have just gotten two sponcees. One that is willing to do the work and seems ready to quit playing God and the other one is having a hard time being willing not to drink. Pray that she becomes willing to live rather than die from alcoholism.
That is awesome Brittany! Father God, please bless Brittany as she helps others. May she feel your peace and strength!
Congrats on your sobriety. It is hard, but i’m super proud of you.
Praying for your sponcees to have a turn around.
My husband and I have struggled through infertility for almost 4 years now. In 2009 we suffered a tubal pregnancy and that was a traumatic experience…i ended up having emergency surgery to remove the pregnancy. We were told by our doctor last month that this was the last dose of fertility meds he was comfortable giving us. I took a pregnancy test this morning and it was positive! Please pray for us…this is the only other positive test I have had. I am praying that this time its in the uterus where it should be and that we have a healthy happy pregnancy. No complications. Shhh…we haven’t told anyone yet.
Shannon,
Congratulations and I’m praying for you, your husband and your little one.
- to find an authentic community
- for a friend who is blowing up her life (affair, divorce, leaving kids, leaving ministry, moving to be with the guy = mess)
Thinking about adopting one or two more children to add to our 2 biological. Need direction and guidance. So many questions and worries.
For clarity on making a big decision in the next 6 weeks involving leaving an executive position to spend more time with my family while seeking the next opportunity God may have for me.
Pray as I work on losing 100 lbs. I want to run in a 5K and 10K in 2012. I have lost 26 lbs so far.
Looking for new employment in 2012 ASAP! I am working PT for our church right now but need a FT option, even if it is somewhere else. I praise God for bringing me to this point though because I have seriously been dragging my feet and just putting on a smile like everything is OK. Not good. Excited to see what God provides. Hoping I don’t have to start taking my anxiety meds again during the process though.
My husband and I just graduated from seminary and now we are just waiting for jobs. We are going to find him something first hopefully in youth and young adult ministry and then I will find a job in Counseling in the town we move to if possible. Pray that we find something and finances we have are enough to sustain us until he does find a job.
Also, our baby girl turns 1 on Jan 17th!
I’m struggling to come to a place of being content with who I am, rather than hating myself. I’m trying to be content with what I have, rather than grumbling about the things I don’t. I’m trying to trust that God will take care of me instead of worrying about my car breaking down in winter on the highway. I’m trying to really believe that God cares about me, my life, how I feel, what I need. I’m trying to be OK with being single, even though I want to be married and have kids more than anything.
I was beaten severly by a drunk boyfriend of 15 years for no reason. It was bad . He is in a 5 star prison, had to cut up my bamk card in nov. and order a new one today ,it is lost. I feel like this apt complex they put me in is some kind of satanist colony movie of some sort. weird really. I am trying to read my Bible every day, draw close to got. Especially liked psalms 32:8. I am here in Fla. alone,family is in Indiana. I am in chronic pain, metal in spine. Want so much to do what God wants me to do, just not sure what that is yet. Only been alone and here since April 4th, 11. Wish I could find a church I like. I love guitars and praises,not piano and hands down please. lol For no reason at all last time I went to church in morn, I blacked out and woke up driving on grass on right side of road. never before or since, never going to store, just church. I need a break from satan and his demons for a while ,while I learn to grow. Christian friend says it will get a lot worse and I don’t think I can handle it. Please ask God for some divine help. He knows how much I love him and how hard I am trying to be consistant. You get the idea, so yeah, pretty please put me on a prayer list. Thank you, God bless you. Diana
are you honestly gonna pray for us? I have a feeling if you do so things will change for me, so please do. thank you
My daughter had a play date yesterday and when the mom picked the playmate up she was drunk. Only I didn’t realize it, was confused by her behavior, until they left and all the pieces fell into place. I am overwhelmed with guilt that I let a child get into a car with a drunk driver. That I didn’t realize what was going on sooner. That I don’t know what I would have done HAD I realized it.
I am out of work
(or extremely under employed – I have an extremely part time merchandising job in which I am working a whopping 2 hours a week) again. My unemployment benefits ran out back in August and despite all the jobs I have been applying for, I have only found temp work.The latest temp job ended December 21st (which was a good thing because i was able to speed clean your place before that family was supposed to arrive – so God had work for me that was able to be a help to others!!). I still have not found work and don’t know how I am paying my weekly rent on January 6th. But on the bright side, my former student/friend Sarah and I have April as a target date for the release of my first book (she is illustrating it) and you and Riggins and Jeffrey East are going to be in book number 3
And pray I figure out how to get the cover off your kitchen light without breaking it (the light bulb burnt out – was gonna try and change it for y’all). Otherwise things great at the Whittaker compound, mail pile is growing, and Riggins and I are buds!!
Los,
I was laid off 2 weeks before Christmas. It is only supposed to be temporary, but the unemployment just doesn’t cover the bills, gas for the car, and food. So please pray for a possible job to supplement during this down time, for me to go back to work soon, and for peace for me and to just trust that God has my back and will take care of everything. I know he will, but I am a natural worrier and some habits are hard to break. Oh, and a decent night’s sleep without waking 3 or 4 times to worry about money. Thanks.
Andrea
I read this a day late, but I am on staff at our church, and everything is so stupid. All the time. Maddening. And God has called us to stay.
I’m also late, but if you can pray fo G-d to soften my heart so that it represents His better, that would be great…
You can pray for my husband. He is grieving for his Dad who died a few months ago. He is in a deep depression and suffering anxiety and there are some serious ramifications. Pray that he will be courageous enough to pick himself up. Pray that he will find his way back to God. Pray that he will be the dynamic, brilliant, creative man that he is meant to be. Pray that he will be a good husband and a good father.