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Prayer Requests 3-5-13

Who has a request, praise, or update to share?

Psalm 18:1-2

1  I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.

2  The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

26 thoughts on “Prayer Requests 3-5-13”

  5. The adjustment in medications seems to be helping, but I’m not real keen on one of them. I have been calmer I guess, but I also feel tired alot. Hopefully once my system gets used to everything, the Doc said a week or so, that’ll pass. Continued prayer would be most appreciated.

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  6. Heavenly Father,

    Thank You for all the blessings we feel showering out upon us from Your hands (Fount of every blessing) on a daily basis. We would spend our days recording them if we tried to list them all. You are so good to us.

    I lift up Kbells and her concerns to You. Please help ease the discomforts brought on by the migraines. Remove the internal pressing feelings that make her head hurt and not feel right. May she be feeling the way You designed her to feel so she can go about her normal business and not be afflicted. I pray for her son to have a good day with constantly improving behavior that will astound those with whom he interacts. May all he has gone through be considered a passing stage. Help him to jump to do right and flee from doing wrong. Please give him good choices for friends. I ask that You would increase his sphere to include more Christian influences in his life—more peers who would make good influencers. Praise You, Lord, for the differences You are working on in his life.

    I continue in prayer for the marriage of Troy and Jodi. The issues are great, but You are greater. You can turn around a situation in only a moment if it is Your desire. Please help their marriage to improve today, Lord. We look to You to make their marriage to be pleasing in Your sight and an example of what a marriage can look like when You are included in the mix. May You receive glory for the way You act within the hearts of Troy and Jodi and the way You entwine them as committed to marriage Your way.

    I pray for Pastor Roy and family and The Nest. I am not sure what the needs are since I have been away, Lord, but You know the needs. Please help in each situation that needs to feel a tangible touch from You. May they realize solutions that could only come from Your divine effort to make things better for them. You are the great provider of peace and healing. I praise You for how You do just the right thing at just the right moment.

    I lift up the needs of all on this website. Please bless abundantly all who frequent here so we can do our parts to be blessings to others. I pray in the name of Jesus, Amen

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  8. Amen to Janice’s prayer.

    Praise & thanks to God that during these stressful, difficult times I’ve been having (including adjusting to not being on the antidepressant anymore) my husband has been encouraging, loving, & supportive, & our marriage is stronger & closer than ever. (Not too long ago, he wouldn’t have been so understanding.)

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  12. The Kid needs help multiplying fractions. I don’t remember how to multiple fractions. I am having to relearn how to multiple fractions before he gets discouraged and upset. 🙂 😦

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  14. KBells, one way is to multiply the numerator by the numerator (the top number of each fraction), then multiply the denominator by the denominator (the bottom numbers). Put the numerator answer over the denominator answer. For example, 1/2 x 1/4 = 1/8 because 1×1=1 and 2×4=8.

    It’s also helpful to think of the “x” as being the word “of”. In the example above, you could ask, “What is 1/2 of 1/4?” Imagine a pie cut into 4 equal pieces. Each piece is a quarter of the pie. If you would take any piece and cut it in half, one of those pieces would be 1/8 of the pie. In other words, half of one-fourth is one-eighth.

    More to come… 😉

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  17. Many times, the answer is not in lowest terms, and I’m guessing your son, if not already, will soon be expected to reduce his answers to lowest terms!

    Example: 3/8 x 4/5. Multiplying the numerators (3×4) equals 12. Multiplying the denominators (8×5) equals 40. The answer is 12/40, but that is not in lowest terms because you can divide the top and bottom numbers by 4 and end up with this fraction reduced to its lowest terms. 12 divided by 4 equals 3, and 40 divided by 4 equals 10. So the final answer, in its lowest terms, is 3/10. (It’s in lowest terms because there is no number that you can divide both the 3 and the 10 by to get the numerator and denominator any lower.)

    There’s another method to reduce to lowest terms that is easier because you start dividing before the numbers have gotten so large. But it’s more confusing to explain, I think. Does your son’s math book talk about cross products in this section? I can go on to an explanation of how that works if you’d like, or if I’m making your head swim with unclear explanations, I can quit right here if you like. 😉

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  18. Oops, “cross products” may not have been the correct term for what I’m thinking of. Anyway, I’ll just plow ahead here anyway and show you another way of reducing the fractions above, whether you want an explanation or not. 😉 Feel free to ignore me if you want. 🙂

    To reduce to lowest terms before you’ve gotten the answer (with its big numbers in the numerator and denominator, you can do this with the above problem 3/8 x 4/5:

    If the numerator of one fraction and the denominator of the other fraction can both be divided by a certain number, you can reduce that way. In the above example, the denominator of the first fraction (the 8 in 3/8) and the numerator in the second fraction (the 4 in 4/5) can both be divided by 4. So 8 divided by 4 equals 2 for the bottom number of the first fraction. So now our first fraction is 3/2. The 4 in the second fraction, when divided by 4, equals 1. So now our second fraction is 1/5.

    Our new problem then becomes 3/2 x 1/5. Answer: 3/10!

    So you never get to the big numbers 12/40 and have to reduce them, but you still end up with the same answer I got in the previous post, without ever having to divide a number larger than 8.

    Hope that helps. 🙂

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  19. 6 Arrows, I never learned that second one (as far as I remember, anyway). Cool. I always do little tricks in my head. If I need to multiply buy 125, for example, I just add two zeroes to the end and then add one fourth of that number. (18 x 125 = 1800 + 450 = 2250) Or backward if I need to multiply by 75. There are all sorts of ways one can figure out the answer if one isn’t near a pen and paper, or at least figure out an approximate answer (if you’re figuring out 7.75% tax to know the total on a bill, 8% is close enough, or 10% probably is too).

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  21. Great examples, Cheryl. I like trying to do mental math, too.

    Another thing I like about multiplying fractions is when you can reduce both sets of opposing numerator/denominator pairs, for example with this problem: 3/8 x 4/9.

    Not only can the 8 and the 4 be divided by 4, but also the 3 and the 9 can be divided by 3. So instead of multiplying the original fraction and getting 12/72, and then having to divide by 12 to fully reduce it to 1/6, you get 1/2 x 1/3 and end up with 1/6 without having to divide any number bigger than 9.

    I never particularly cared for math in school, but I do rather like it now (well, some of it). 🙂

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  22. KBells, not your problem. Yours is only to give him the opportunity to do the math. It is the teacher’s job to teach it and his job to pay attention in class and get all the help he is going to need from the teacher before going home. You do not need to relearn it all. But you can if you want to.

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