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Prayer Requests 1-2-13

Who can we pray for today?

And it’s Wednesday, so please remember Gambia and the workers there.

Psalm 23

1 The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

2He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters,

3he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake.

4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

10 thoughts on “Prayer Requests 1-2-13”

  2. Will do, Kim.

    Pray for my attitude at work — and for my continued resolve in daily Bible reading & prayer, which I also hope to focus on this year.

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  3. Heavenly Father,

    Thank You that I have praying friends here at this site. That is a wonderful gift You have made possible through the efforts of many who worked diligently in the past, fought for freedoms that we take for granted, were innovative to come up with this medium and finally for AJ who takes the time daily to keep it running. Lord, there are so many needs all around us. Keep us open to seeing those needs that You want us to pray about. May our prayers be a link in the chain to better lives for those people we lift up in this manner You have provided.

    Today I ask that You would put a special blessing upon Kim and her daughter BG. Help them along their path to meeting the challenges of BG’s health issues. Give them endurance for the long run effort that must be made for BG to have the best life possible. Please keep her attitude lifted up through these conflicted teenage years. I pray for Kim’s husband as he tries to be a help and support to them in their times of struggle.

    Lord, I also lift up Donna to You for You have seen the state of turmoil her office has been in due to pressures of a financial nature. I pray for her superiors in the office to have a thick skin and project a more positive attitude toward the workers. Help Donna as she is responsible for more in less time. Make it seem like You have increased the time in the minutes as they roll forward. I pray You will show her any new ways to be more efficient in her work. And Lord, help her to always find time daily to focus on Your word and receive her daily spiritual bread that sustains her energy to ward off the hungers that strike when the world is not so easily digested.

    Please, Lord, continue to help my leg toward healing so I can get back to being more active. I pray for safe travels for my son’s friends and may they have a wonderful time at our vacation site. Help me to be energized to make their time here filled with good food.

    I ask that You would keep AJ and Chas on the road to wellness. Lessen the symptoms they feel from their illnesses. May their other family members stay well and able to help them in their needs.

    Please, Lord, bless those who are doing missionary work in The Gambia. Help Ajisuun as she feels behind already due to the change in her schedule. I pray for a very effective meeting for her and others next week. May she increase in wisdom and favor with the people she serves. And may Phos, too, increase in wisdom, favor and knowledge of the language daily.

    In Jesus’ name, Amen

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  6. I Just heard from his sister that my cousin (the Elvis impersonator) has an enlarged heart. This groups of cousins were very close to us. This cousin and his brothers worked for my Dad for many years. He and my brother were best friends.

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  7. Update on Phillip Yancy & wife’s experience in Newtown (copy and paste from CWG/JJ):

    Continue Praying for Newtown

    CWG friend and author Philip Yancey leaves for Kazakhstan this week but quickly summarized his recent experience in Newtown:

    Janet and I returned from Newtown CT Sunday night after a weekend that was at once poignant, meaningful, and very full. I hope to post a full report after I’ve had time to process all that happened. Let me simply mention some lasting impressions:

    Newtown is worthy of a Currier and Ives print: a classic New England town of Victorian frame houses set among rolling hills blanketed in snow.
    The memorials–sputtering candles, teddy bears, and stuffed animals (more than 60,000!) soggy from snow, flowers now brown and drooping–are being removed, TV satellite trucks have disappeared from the streets, and life will soon find its “new normal” in Newtown. Nothing will ever be the same.
    We will never forget a session with two sets of parents. Each lost a daughter, and the daughters happened to be best friends. They were amazingly articulate about their emotions through the grief process. They choose not to watch news or fixate on any details of what happened. Rather, they want their last memory to be kissing their daughters goodbye and putting them on the school bus. Every day brings new, stabbing reminders: They reach out to hold hands around the dinner table and one is missing…they gear up to send their surviving sons (who heard everything in a nearby classroom) back to school and try to answer the haunting question, “Will I be safe?”
    We talked with a nurse who waited in the trauma unit with dozens of beds prepared for the injured, only to find they were unneeded; to a fellow teacher who followed the principal out of a meeting as they heard a commotion, then heard the principal yell, “Go back–it’s a shooter!” just before she lunged toward the gunman and got shot; to counselors who waited for four hours with anxious parents in a fire house just across from the school until the state’s governor finally announced, “There are no survivors” and wails of grief swept through the hall; to first responders who burst in while the shooter still lived, probably saving scores of lives, but are left with horrific visual images that can never be erased.
    At least among those we talked to, there was no spirit of revenge. Anger flares up, of course: one little girl draws pictures of the shooter and stabs them with her pencil. Mostly, though, we sensed bewilderment and deep sadness. No one has a clue to the “Why us?” questions, and evidently the shooter left none.
    Despite bad weather, 600 people showed up in the community meeting on Friday night and several hundred more braved a snowstorm on Saturday. Bowl games and normal festivities around New Year’s weekend didn’t have the same appeal in Newtown this year. The questions they submitted showed their concern with more serious matters: Why doesn’t God intervene? Where can I find comfort? Why do such things happen?
    Janet and I both felt good about the time we spent in Newtown and very good about leaving follow-up in the hands of the church that hosted us. They certainly did not ask for this calling, yet they know they are strategically placed to provide healing and comfort over the months and years to come. On Sunday I spoke directly to the challenge of that church, in two services.
    We are so grateful for your prayers and emotional support, shown by the many notes and emails. We felt like the emissaries of many others. “A healthy body feels the pain of the weakest part,” Dr. Paul Brand once told me, and indeed we sense health in your outpouring of concern for Newtown. So many want to help, and we sensed that in such gestures as my publishers providing free books and United Airlines offering us free tickets. We’re deeply grateful, and felt honored to be invited into a bereaved community at such a time. Even the local liquor store displayed a sign that can be a reminder for all of us: “Pray for Newtown.”

    Jerry B. Jenkins Christian Writers Guild
    5525 N. Union Blvd. Ste. 101
    Colorado Springs, CO 80918
    Tel: 866.495.5177
    Email: ContactUs@ChristianWritersGuild.com

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  9. A long-distance friend of mine, Marilee, needs prayer. In addition to other serious health issues (including debilitating pain), she has pulmonary fibrosis, which she recently learned is worsening. Marilee is in her mid-70s, has no children to help her, & her sister can only come to visit & help for a little while.

    She writes,

    “The whole thing has been, and IS, scary. I haven’t got my strength back yet, or my function level. Not knowing whether I will get it back, is hard. I wouldn’t be able to live alone without more help. I don’t really have a support system. (Or the money to hire a lot of help.) My sister is here to help me for a few days. We hope the doctor will be able to give some answers but are aware she may simply say there’s no predictable pattern.

    “I would be glad of your prayers. I’ve been very apprehensive and edgy, some of which appears to be side effects from the meds. I haven’t been able to ‘trust’ God very much in the sense of being at perfect peace in the midst of the storms.”

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