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Prayer Requests 2-8-13

Who can we pray for today?

Psalm 86:1-7

1 Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

2 Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.

3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.

4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

6 Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.

7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.

15 thoughts on “Prayer Requests 2-8-13”

  1. PLease keep praying for my family. I finally smacked the elephant in my mother’s living room yesterday and spoke to my mother about her memory problems. I told ther that I think she should get herself checked out. She seemed to take it well, but then my brother told my sister that as soon as she hung up the phone she had a screaming fit about it. She thinks my sister and I want to put her in a home. We don’t. Meanwhile, while Mother and her significant other were out having breakfast, my brother went through the house and gathered up all her meds (she has so many drugs prescribed by several docs that brother thinks she may be dealing with some drug interactions. He and his wife called mother’s primary care doc and started asking a few questions about what she was and wasn’t supposed to be taking (she is still in charger of her own meds, but she forgets to take things and takes too many of this or that. She has no clue. And she had a fit about that too. A forgetful episode and “can’t find my medicine” and “can’t remember if I took it” precipitated my brother’s action. My sister and BIL have been trying to purchase a trailer in the same trailer park as mother as a wedding gift for my brother and his wife (to get them out form under Mother’s roof, but still nearby), and since the trailer park is a co-op, they were turned down to live in their own trailer there. So these 2 homeless people will have to remain under mother’s roof until we can figure something else out. And they live in the park anyway in a situation that is growing more and more untenable by the day. Significant other and my brother and his wife don’t get along, and they both have hot tempers. The nuclear option is calling social services. I’m not there yet. We need all the prayer we can get.

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  2. Thanks for your prayers. My daughter and her roommate are doing well, though stressed to the max. Please pray my daughter drops volleyball for the quarter . . .

    I left them a roast in the oven with easy fixings for a good meal. They were pathetically happy. “And just think! I can make Shepherd’s Pie with the leftovers!”

    I should have bought a bigger roast!

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  4. Good to hear, Michelle. The roast sounds wonderful, they’ll enjoy that. 🙂 You’re a good mom.

    Klasko, so sorry, that does sound like a rather overwhelming situation right now. Prayers.

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  5. I could use some prayer support. It’s been a hard week, and I’ve been in tears I think every day this week. Part of the problem probably stems from having gotten only 2 hours of sleep Sunday night (it wasn’t even night time that I slept, as I didn’t fall asleep until about 6:30 Monday morning, and was up by 8:30). Poor sleep like that usually affects me for several days afterward.

    I think the main thing, besides my husband’s awful work hours, which is probably only temporary, is that our family has been dealing with three rather long-standing and more deep-seated issues that I haven’t really shared much about here, except in the very broadest of terms. I’ve come to a lot of new realizations lately about these issues, and they’ve been weighing heavily on my mind. I don’t want to go into much detail at this time, but I could really use your prayers. It’s very comforting and encouraging to me knowing that so many of you pray, and it really does a lot to help ease my burden. Thank you, all.

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  6. 6 Arrows – My heart goes out to you. You are not alone, dear sister.

    Just remember, when you cry, cry to God. I was feeling completely overwhelmed & discouraged the other night, crying my heart out to God. At some point, I felt a calm suddenly come upon me, as if God were telling me everything was going to be okay. Not easy, but okay.

    You are His; He loves you; He will not leave you nor forsake you.

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  7. Heavenly Father,

    You created families for our benefit and as a way to bring glory to Yourself. Thank You for the love found within families that are functioning in tune with Your design for each of the individuals who inhabit the families. Yet, Abba, our Father of all earthly fathers and Your Son, Jesus, we know because of the fall and also because some of the children of Your creation choose to not walk with You through life, that all is not well for a large majority of the families we know. You know all the intricacies that cause friction in the families. You know the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual diseases that afflict family members. You see every angry outburst and all the feelings turned inward that stress the body and cause disease. O Lord, I call on You this evening to enter into each situation mentioned here and within those situations that have not been mentioned today that need healing. A true, everlasting healing can only come through You. Please make that kind of difference in the families lifted up to You today, this evening and tomorrow. Bring peace where there is strife. Bring comfort where there is pain. Bring respect where there is mockery. Bring love where there is hate. You know the needs in each family. Please help! The needs are so desparate and are bringing some to feel despair for they have hit a brick wall with their loved ones. There is no other place to turn except to You. You are so needed to intervene. Please make a way through the muddle for each of these dear brothers and sisters in Christ. I pray in the name of Jesus, Amen

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  9. Everyone, thank you so much for your prayers.

    Janice, thank you. I am so humbled by your prayer.

    6 Arrows, lifting you up in your time of need too.

    I’m so overwhelmed.

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  10. Klasko – My heart goes out to you, too. My situation with my mother-in-law (whom we took care of in our home after she’d been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s) was not as hard as what you describe, but it was hard. One feels so helpless when our loved one is forgetful, confused, & stubborn on top of it all.

    All I can say is that God paved the way for us & got us through some sticky, potentially disastrous situations.

    Janice – Thank you for that prayer. It hit on some personal matters for me, as well as for these other dear sisters of ours.

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  11. Thank you, Karen, Janice, Michelle and Klasko, and anyone else who prayed. It means a lot to me.

    Klasko, I’m so sorry about your family situation. Please know that I, too, am praying for you, as you are for me.

    Karen, the last line of your post to me was so beautiful: You are His; He loves you; He will not leave you nor forsake you. Thank you for that reminder. It brought me a lot of peace reading it.

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  12. 6 arrows, praying.

    I’m also feeling overwhelmed lately — work is so stressful, I’m imagining myself living out my older years in the car with dogs! Yikes.

    Life can be so scary sometimes … But we somehow make it through. God is there for us. Always.

    But we (at least I) forget that sometimes. 😦

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  13. Thank you, Donna. I think of you often and pray for you with your work situation, with all the closed-door meetings and the “What’s going to happen next” feelings, and so on, similar to what’s been happening at my husband’s workplace in recent months. But I’m so thankful for God’s abiding presence (when I remember it — I need reminding too).

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  14. Heavenly Father,

    You are our source for perfect peace. I lift up Donna this evening to You for Your blessing and reassurance that You have good plans for her future. You have gifted her with wonderful skills as a news writer. Our world needs more who can write from the Christian perspective. I pray You will open up doors to her in the future because she honors You and will glorify You through her writing. I pray that others in her office will be witness to how her Christian values help her to deal with the office stress in a fresh way. I pray You will keep her ever mindful of Your continuing presence with her even when she is in the company of those who would put her down because of her Christian faith. Please bless her with Christian friendships within her church community. I pray You will bless her with wisdom to know what she is to do if transition should become necessary. May she never feel defeated by the circumstances surrounding her, but may she keep her eyes straight on You in full trust that You will take care of her. Help her to feel Your power that allowed Peter to walk on water when he did not look down. Thank You, Abba, for calming Donna and helping her to keep her eyes fixed on You. I pray in the awesome name of Jesus, Amen

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