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Prayer Requests 3-19-13

How has a prayer request or praise for us today?

Psalm 84

1 How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.

4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.

5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.

10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

12 O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

37 thoughts on “Prayer Requests 3-19-13”

  2. Please pray for my friend Kelly and her family. They lost their home in the Alabama tornadoes in April 2011. They rebuilt and moved back in about a year ago, and now yesterday there were high winds in her area, and the back doors of their basement got sucked off the hinges, and they lost their front porch and a good portion of their roof. Their house is still standing, though, and they are all safe.

    Praise God for His protection as Kelly and her nine children (with a tenth on the way) were safe in their basement, and her husband Aaron was kept safe on his way home from work. Kelly is also requesting prayers for wisdom and emotional peace and calm for their family in the coming days.

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  3. Kim, I’ll be praying for you today. I don’t have any words of wisdom for you, but will be praying for the Lord to grant wisdom and grace to you in your situation with BG.

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  4. Continued prayers for BG today Kim….a painful path to walk upon…
    My first and second thoughts were to send her to Mumsee for a while 🙂
    It was at that age we began experiencing the trials with Abi….and the next five years were difficult to say the least. But, hold on….”He will sit like a refiner of silver, burning away the dross, … refining them like gold and silver…” Malachi 3:3
    While Abi is not in a relationship with the Lord that we pray for….we are hopeful He is drawing her to himself….she is 27 , alive and well…and learning..and we are watching….and trusting

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  6. Kim, Take away the free ride. And go to Radio Shack, buy yourself a couple of alarms and put them on her door and window at night. Let her know that if you are awakened by one of her alarms, she will have consequences. Give her a bucket if needed.

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  7. She is what? Fifteen? No computer, tv, cell phone, Ipod, etc. None in her room either. Her bedtime should be eight o clock if she is getting up at seven, earlier if she gets up earlier. She should have nothing in her room but a bed and blankets. The bed ought to be a mattress on the floor. You should provide her with what she is going to wear each day, on a daily basis. Her tears are tools, not expressions. Paul is wise, he should not be alone with her in the house. Do not put him in that situation. She should have no friends in her room or outside of your sight. She will be getting her “fixes” at school and there is nothing you can do about that but take her out. Welcome to mumsee’s world.

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  8. Kim, we are on the upside with the Kid right now. I would tell you what we did to get there but I know that there is a big difference between a teenage girl and a 9 year old boy and I have a feeling that things with us will eventually swing back the other way and we’ll have to reset.

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  9. Kim, Mumsee has given you excellent advice. I especially agree on Paul not being alone with her for the reasons he stated.

    I would get rid of all of your activities (other than work if you can’t afford to quit your job). Church activities, what have you. There’s no one who needs you more than Baby Girl does right now. Outside ministry can wait until she is grown. Serving people outside the home will do you no good if things are imploding at home.

    If leaving your job and taking BG out of school are not options, is there a way you can cut back on your hours so they coincide with her school hours?

    Please know that I ask and tell you these things with love, Kim. You have my heartfelt prayers, sister.

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  11. Exactly. The child is worth giving up a great deal for, to get her on the right track. Her relationship with God is between her and Him, but you can deal with the rest, to keep her out of the really hard stuff. She may still have to go there but you can do a lot to postpone it until she is out of her more emotional less thinking time.

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  14. Another vote for Mumsee’s solution. We have had to do something similar several times with the Kid. Dr. Leman calls it “bread and water”. And don’t make my mistake and waste time threatening her with it hoping that will do the trick. Just do it.
    Also another thing we have started doing is we pray over him every night before bed and again in the morning before he leaves for school.

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  15. My prayers, too, for you Kim and this family undergoing the trauma caused by the weather.

    I agree with the others. It is sad your ex can’t do what is best for his daughter, but it is what it is. Paul cannot do anything, but what he is doing. Therefore, you have to be the strong one and the one who loves enough to do whatever it takes. Mostly, right now, that is to let yourself be the one who is hated.

    That is a hard place to be. We so much want our children to know how much we love them. In that, I think we are much like that to God. We simply don’t trust He is wise enough and/or loving enough to do what is best for us. Small surprise that our children can believe the same about us, when sometimes they are right. God is always faithful; we can only do our best.

    I had a friend who would literally sleep in a chair outside her son’s room to make sure he did not go out. Whatever it takes to get through these years, you will not regret. I pray you will both be able to look back on this time and laugh about it at some point. I pray she will some day have the wisdom to see how deep your love is for her.

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  16. Kim: I will be praying for you and BG. I can offer no words of wisdom as my oldest is only 13 and has, thus far, been rather easy. I worry about what adolescence will bring with my more strong-willed youngest child. I do know that I was a very rebellious teen-ager and don’t recommend what my parents did, which was to yell a lot and be really inconsistent and conditional in their love for me. I’m sure you’re not doing that with BG. I do believe it is imperative for kids to know they are loved unconditionally by their parents. That is a wonderful gift to give to an acting-out child. I’m sorry you’re having to shoulder so much of the burden alone. I can’t imagine how hard it must be. Prayers for strength, patience and discernment.

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  18. Husband has spent many nights sitting in his chair, with an eye down the hall to keep children safe from each other and themselves. He tells the boys and girls that he does not care if they like him now, he is interested in what they think in ten years. A huge way of showing your child that you love her is to give her the structure she and most other child needs. You do it without any yelling or throwing or sign of anger. It is just what is going to happen. Because you love her so much. She is not something to be bought, she is something to be treasured.

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  19. Kim, I am and have been praying for you. I have walked a few miles in those same shoes. Mumsee has given you some sound advice. My middle girl went to live with her father for 2 years as she could do pretty much whatever she wanted, as long as she did not inconvenience him. She did come back. And the rules that she hated so much still had not changed. She just decided to obey them. She will tell you now, that she appreciates that I stood firm.

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  22. Kim – My heart hurts for you!

    What I am going to say, which was kind of mentioned above, is very hard. I know you’ve been loving your new job, but I know you love Chloe much, much more. Being gone for almost 11 hours a day is not good. Chloe needs your presence, a lot of your presence. My advice would be to either reduce your hours greatly, or even quit your job.

    Years ago, a very dear & wise friend said that teenagers need a parent’s presence at home just as much as the little ones do, especially when they come home after school.

    I can’t tell Michelle’s story for her, but she has mentioned to us how she sensed God telling her to put her writing career on hold until her last child, her daughter, was grown, which she did. And look at her now! She’s a published author!

    May God comfort you & keep you calm, & give you the wisdom, insight, strength, & courage to do what you need to do.

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  23. I would have loved to have been a stay at home mother all of BG’s life but that was not my lot in life. I got to stay home three years with her father asking me when I was going back to work. I got to work from home for 4 years where I was available to pick her up from school but we were living at poverty level and I was getting further and further behind.

    NancyJill, believe me, last night I wondered if Mumsee would take her.I would gladly send the child support with her to cover expenses. 😉

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  24. I hope I don’t sound nosy or snarky asking this, Kim, but why can’t you ask Paul to support you all? Isn’t that a part of “the two shall become one” — finances and all? Or is there something I’m missing?

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  25. Just what I was going to ask, Kim. Did you ask Paul for his thoughts on that?

    And, of course, you and Chloe and Paul or just you or just Chloe are welcome here. Paul is welcome if he wants to sheetrock.

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  28. The Kim not working didn’t get far but Paul was very open to a trip to Idaho and helping out around the farmlette. He said he could tape and mud. I told him if he couldn’t do that he would have to cook. Everyone contributed.

    I read all of your suggestions to him and he agreed with almost all of them. Now I will have to share them with George. I need to talk to Cal tomorrow and see what I could do about work. He is a good man and had to take time away from the business when his stepson was in treatment for addiction.

    I have played with this idea for a long time. It might be just what she needs. Prayers?

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  31. Kim, BG was mentioned in my prayer journal this morning along with Ree’s son, Karen O’s daughters and more. It is s-o-o-o hard to go through what you are going through right now. I was asking my son recently why at a particular age he did not want to get older as in he did not want to go into the teenage years. He said he thought being a teenager meant he would be stealing cars! He thought teenagers were always doing really bad and terrible things. I hope that puts a little perspective on it. Somehow it seems our culture sets the young up to think they have to experience certain things to be a bonafide teenager. I remember my father had to give me a talking to because I did not want to make the grades I was capable of making because I would not fit in with the friends I wanted to be with. Also, if I did well on tests, people wanted to cheat off of my tests and that was an uncomfortable place to be. I wonder if there might be another family who would be a good influence that she could stay with later in the day, someone with a mom at home who enforces doing homework, etc., if you feel you have to work at this time? Maybe there is a Mumsee type person in your area who would appreciate receiving a bit of income for doing that for you? Or maybe BG could be a Mother’s Helper to earn some income and learn to be responsible? Just realize that you have not exhausted all of your options. I will pray for God to open doors and shut doors for the benefit of all in your family. I want good things for all the families on this blog.

    Please keep my son in your prayers. He had a telephone interview with Baylor today. They are suppose to be back in touch on Friday. I pray for his acceptance into their program, but if God has another plan then may His will be done.

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  33. Hubby’s in a lot of pain tonight — sore stomach muscles from all the coughing, and pain in his ears, throat, and chest from the bug he’s got. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him this sick, and the elderberry syrup that’s a good flu preventative burns his throat. Prayers appreciated for good rest tonight and tomorrow for him, and a rapid return to good health. Thanks.

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  34. Sounds like a nasty one, 6arrows. Was it you who said it might be pneumonia or was that someone else’s husband? Maybe a doctor visit is in order if he’s not better tomorrow. But I’ll pray that there will be some significant relief overnight with lots of rest and sleep.

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  36. Thanks, Donna. I’ve got insomnia right now, but at least hubby is sleeping. 😉

    We did talk about the possibility of going to see the doctor, and may still do it if things don’t get better. And yes, I was the one who said I think it may be pneumonia. I’m hoping not, but he works for a beverage company, and is in and out of large coolers frequently through the night while he’s working, so the frequent temperature changes from cooler to warehouse doesn’t help any. Also, since their parent company bought out another company, there is now a much larger fleet of trucks, and my husband has to frequently be going outside to plug in and unplug trucks, move around trucks that are in the way, or just got loaded, and so on, and all that going from indoors to outdoors (especially with the much cooler than average temperatures we’ve been having this winter) has also contributed to the problem.

    Once he’s done with the overnights (hopefully by this coming Monday), he won’t have the indoor/outdoor responsibility anymore, so that will help some. First we’ve got to get him through this virus or whatever it is, though. 😦

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