39 thoughts on “Prayer Requests Week of 9-17-12”

  1. I’d like to ask for prayer for a little girl named Brooklyn who traveled with her family to Sierra Leone to help victims of sex-trafficking. After being in Africa for about a week, she developed Typhoid and a severe urinary tract infection. She is in the hospital in Ghana where she has had blood transfusions and dialysis. They need to transport her to London for further treatment, but she is not stable enough currently. Please pray for her and her parents and for wisdom for the doctors treating her.

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  3. I have a prayer request for a missionary in Japan. Her name is Barbara Dunbar. Her mother is deathly ill and has had some mini-strokes. Barbara cannot come back to the United States to be with her mother. Please join me in prayer for Barbara and her mother.

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  4. Prayers for Brooklyn and for Barbara and her mom. Glad to know prayers from the USA can effect things, through God’s power, in faraway locations.

    Prayers for all to go smoothly in the planning and preparations for Kim’s wedding.

    Prayers for NJL and for Cheryl who we haven’t heard from lately.

    Prayers for Kbells wanting a better living community for the sake of her son’s influences.

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  6. I posted this on Saturday, but as no one posted after me, I want to make this request again:

    I keep a notebook of prayer concerns (not only from WV), so I think it would be a good idea if those who request prayer would post updates, especially for short term issues.

    Thanks, Kay

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  7. That is a good idea, Kay. I like your avatar. You have a very kind smile.

    Kay, I am thinking of doing another prayer list. Do you have your notebook set up by category or some other method of organization?

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  8. Some of you already pray for Emily & Forrest (& hopefully, Chrissy, too), & I am very appreciative.

    To let you know a bit more about Forrest’s situation — Emily claims to be a “naturalistic pantheist” or some similar name, meaning she pretty much reveres nature. Ryan is pretty much an agnostic-leaning-towards-atheism, & his parents are avowed atheists.

    Add into this that Ryan is mentally/emotionally unstable & an alcoholic, with the attendant narcissistic & arrogant attitudes.

    I have read & heard often of how children, boys in particular, tend to follow after their fathers spiritually & in attitude. Without God’s divine intervention, I can imagine my precious Forrest growing up to become like his father, the thought of which breaks my heart.

    BUT I do know that my God is greater than any attitude or stronghold! One of my constant prayers for my little guy is that God would give him a heart that beats for Him, & a spirit of discernment & wisdom.

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  9. Karen O, keep your faith strong in what God can do! In our children’s Sunday School class, just a few weeks ago, we were discussing King Josiah who lived right in the Lord’s sight but who had a wicked father, King Amon. You may want to read about them in 2 Kings 21:19-22:3. All things are possible with God. We do not know how King Josiah had the influence upon his life that transcended what his father set up as an example. I do pray for Forrest and Emily and all of you. It has been a joyful time and a sad time to hear about the preciousness of Forrest and your dilemma in trying to do the right and safe thing as much as is in your power for the benefit of their family.

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  10. Karen, it seems Emily’s reverance toward nature could lead into a belief or revived belief in our God the Creator of all things in nature. I think His use of patterns in nature, His beautiful designs, point to Him. The vibrant colors of nature are like a visual crying out of praise to Him the Creator from the objects, the natural items He created. In the prayer retreat I just returned from mention was made that if we don’t praise Him even the rocks and stones will cry out. The leader said something like, “I don’t know about y’all, but I would rather not have to hear the stones cry out.” 🙂

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  11. The Gambia is in my prayers, too. I like the avatar of the missionary to The Gambia (another pleasant face radiating God’s love). I want to make a world map to include all the missionary’s names on it perhaps as a page in my prayer notebook I hope to put together.

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  12. Please pray for strength and provision as I prepare to go away for a year. The Lord has already provided so much, but there are few little things that I need still.
    Thank you, and praying for your requests.

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  13. Praying for roscuro that she will always be a light in the darkness wherever she is upon this earth. Please, Lord, provide for all the details needed to complete her provision. Lord, You know what she needs even before she does! Please never cease in showing Your overflowing abundance of provision. Sometimes You give even more than we can think or imagine. Thanks for what You will be working into the life of this one who brings Your light into darkness.

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  14. Janice: I just have an 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 loose-leaf notebook. It’s small enough to carry around & big enough to list a lot of prayer concerns. I simply list them by date, except for those that are obviously long-term and/or on-going needs [like my 2 friends with breast cancer, The Gambia, Emily & Forrest, V.O.M., etc]. I do leave blank lines between requests so I can go back & add further info if needed. I don’t add the requests I get on my church’s email prayer chain, if they’re for someone’s third cousin’s neighbor’s uncle . I pray for them when I receive them only.

    I made a separate section, just using one of those Post-It Flags, for the long-term concerns. I separated them because I wanted to give each of them more page room and because I thought they might get overlooked as I removed those requests that were short term and no longer needed prayer [like safe travel, for instance]. I use a highlighter to indicate those, rather than cross them out, because I like to remember them and the person who made the request.

    After I used the notebook for a week or two, I realize that I was going through my list and finishing my quiet time without praying for my family and friends, so I just put a page at the front with their names listed, just as a little memory flogger 🙂

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  16. Thank you, Kay, for your ideas. They are helpful as I consider putting this new notebook together.

    Over the summer one of our children’s Sunday School crafts was to make a prayer folder. We covered the outside with bits of tissue paper either randomly placed or in a design and then washed over that with some Elmer’s glue mixed with water. It gave a nice affect for the cover. For the inside it was suggested to have different sections such as family and friends, school, church, etc. I had never catagorized my prayer list like that but thought there could be value in it.

    I have my cover made and may add a Bible verse to it, and now I need to work on those sections. Maybe I can find a picture of the world on the web to use for the missionary page. A page taken from an atlas might be nice and colorful, too.

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  18. I heard from Barbara Dunbar. Her mother is doing better but they are keeping her at the hospital until all the bleeding stops. The good news is she will be able to do her mini stroke therapy as an out patient.

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  19. Thank you for your faithful prayers everyone. Please pray for my almost 21-year-old son. He’s been through rehab for drug addiction a year ago and he was doing fairly well in recent months although he was still working through serious legal troubles. Just the other night, after doing so well for quite a while, he got drunk and drove and got a DUI. Not only will he lose his license and complicate his legal troubles, but he also feels like a complete failure. He calls himself an atheist, but he needs the Lord. Please, please pray for him.

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  20. Ree, I am glad I came on here one more time tonight so I could see your request. I will pray tonight for your son. I prayed just the other Wed. night at church for the prodigals in our nation. Several people at my table mentioned their heartaches over their prodigals. Their actions hurt not only themselves but those who love them so much feel great pain over them. I hope his current sinking low feeling will cause him to look up and see the light of Jesus drawing him. I am glad to hear that your son was doing so well so he now sees the contrast between what happens when he does things the right way and when he chooses not to. I hope he will want to get back to what he had. He is young and he has time to get his life straightened out. May he soon feel the nudge of the Holy Spirit pushing him closer and closer to Jesus. And may he respond with surrender. I pray he will be touched by the love of Jesus tonight, Ree.

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  22. I love to pray and uplift people and their needs to the Lord. I know He listens and hears our prayers but sometimes the waiting is difficult as He is busy coming up with His best solutions.

    When I was at the prayer retreat over the weekend I got signed up to receive e-mails from a prayer website. For those who pray for missionaries, I am posting this blog message so you can see the list of ways to pray for missionaries. I found this to be a very good and thorough list.
    http://oneinprayer.net/september-prayer-and-ministry/#comment-338

    I hope this is the right link.

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  25. Ree,

    I’ve been where your son is, minus the DUI’s. I did it plenty, I just was not caught. But keep your chin up, there is hope. When you find yourself in such a dark place it’s often hard to see a way out. Self loathing helps blind you at times to what is necessary for it to stop. But when you’re in the darkness, the light seems so much brighter when you finally see it. Keep being a light for him. Keep showing him there’s a way out of this by showing him the path he should follow. That is really all you can do for him. Show him an example and above all else, show him Christ. It may not seem to matter to him, but trust me, he sees it, and that can be a powerful force working in his mind. It was for me.

    I pray he will see the light that is Jesus. Jesus is the light that can lead him out of this. I pray God will make Himself visible to your son, and that he would follow that light out of the darkness. I will pray for the rest of your family as well.

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  26. Please pray for newborn, Liam, he was home only one day and then taken back to the NICU – today is the fourth attempt to get fluid from his spine to test for meningitis. Liam is the second ‘miracle’ baby for friends of ours.

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  29. An update on the girl with the brain injury. They did an MRI and the brain damage is much worse than they thought. They tried taking her off the ventilator and she was drowning in her own fluids so put her back on. The mom is unable to let her go but fears what the future will be. Tough decisions. They told her if the child was given a trach, the decision making was over and they would proceed to keep her alive. Then they corrected themselves. Mom is really torn of course. Please continue to pray for mother and father (they are not together and father has custody and will be taking her home in about a month if she is kept alive) and pray for daughter and the doctors.

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  31. Thanks all of you, and I’ll be lifting up the others in prayer too. I don’t think I read about the girl with the brain injury before, but it sounds really tragic. And I can’t imagine what the parents of tiny Liam are going through either! Life can be so hard!

    Thanks for the personal note, AJ. The sad thing is that he was doing so well in many areas in his life. Alcohol hasn’t been his real problem–harder drugs have been. This was just a weird and totally unnecessary thing that he did. The sad thing is that he just doesn’t understand why he did this. He can’t believe he did it. But I’ve noticed that he’s always struggled to maintain the consistency he needs for success in life and I’ve come to realize that his pattern has always been to do well for a while in whatever he’s trying to do well in and then to just do something totally stupid to just undermine whatever progress and success he was seeing. It’s really quite remarkable and incredibly sad and frustrating. He just sabotages his own success all the time for some strange and inexplicable reason. As if he wants to prove to himself that he really is a failure or something. I don’t know how bad the consequences will be in addition to past legal problems that he’s gotten into, but I pray it’s not too overwhelmingly awful.

    I do continue to share the truth with him even though he’s decided in the past few years that he’s an atheist. His thinking is very much like mine was before the Holy Spirit broke in an converted me, so I know there’s hope. But it’s so difficult to watch how he lives and to just wait for the change. I go through ups and downs in regard to trusting God with him, but He sustains me.

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  32. Ree, this just came into my mind. I saw recently that Josh McDowell has a new book out or about to be released. I don’t remember the name of it. I do think he has been one with special skill to reach young people. Perhaps if a book like that could cross the path of your son it might make a difference. I think sometimes a son likes to have the Good News coming from a man rather than from their mother. Of course, your example is profoundly important in his life.

    Mumsee, that is such a difficult situation for that family and it is compounded by the parents not being together. I am praying that the presence of Jesus will be felt as God works His will because only He knows best. This is indeed one of those situations where one does not really know what to pray. Thank goodness the Holy Spirit can groan for us in that language only He and the Father understand.

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  33. Ree, we run into a lot of people who do that self sabotaging thing. They have to prove to themselves and to the world that they are not any good. Very sad. The best cure is for him to come to the knowledge of who he is to Christ, of course. So we join you in prayer.

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  34. On a different front, I mentioned the lady the girls are staying with, to help out. The lady has two broken arms. She further damaged one of them when doing some rehab. She was in a lot of pain. Pray for her continued healing, that the girls would be a blessing to her and to others who stop by, and that the adventure will be a blessing to the girls. May God be glorified.

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  35. Mumsee, you have great insight.

    Liam’s test was successful yesterday and all results so far are normal. They are still waiting for a few results to come in, but his momma said he was having a good day today. Praising the Lord for this.

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  37. Tychicus, I read that passage and my prayer is that as the Father was in Jesus as He spoke, that the Spirit will be in you, and as verse 30 says, “As he was saying these things, many believed in him (Jesus).” May many believe based upon your teaching in accordance with God’s will.

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  39. Little Liam’s tests ALL came back as normal – his MRI indicates that he will be able to walk and talk as he gets older!
    Thank you all for praying.
    I have prayed for the requests on here this week.

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