Who can we pray for today?
And it’s Wednesday, so don’t forget Gambia and the workers ministering there. 🙂
Psalm 86:1-12
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.
8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.
9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.
11 Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.
Wandering Views 
Heavenly Father,
Thank You for the beauty of this new spring day. Thank You for the possibilities a new day presents for opportunities to be engaged with Your word and with other Christians here on the website and at church this evening since it is a Wednesday. Thank You for those who do Your work in The Gambia. May they be blessed today with some sign indicating the good difference they are making where they are planted and blooming. Please give them the words and ways that You would most approve of as they meet the needs of the people in their midst.
I lift up 6 Arrows husband to You now for he has been suffering mightily with some terrible virus or infection. Lord, You know what it is that is causing him such distress. Please make a way for him to start on the road to recovery from it. And please protect the rest of the household from coming down with it, too. Thank You that his job duties will be changing so he will not be stressing his body with the constant changes of weather inflicted by his job. And also he will have better hours. Thank You for that provision. But now, Lord, I ask again for You to set him on the road to a quick recovery. Things happen if only You say the word. Please. Bring back his strength and renew his stamina. Also, I ask for Your help with their daughter who is at the age to be wishing things were different in life. I know I went through a stage like that at about that age. Please comfort her through her age of dissatisfaction. Help her to see the light at the end of the tunnel and know that if she travels the train with her family she will end up at a good destination. Her peers may lead her astray but her family will guide her according to Your word. Please give harmony between 6 Arrows and her husband in matters about how to best deal with their daughter. May this issue no longer cause stress within the family. Please.
Lord, I lift up Donna to You for blessing and comfort as she goes through this day. Her work has been a burden for so long. Thank You for blessing her with great talent to get the stories searched out and thoroughly and accurately reported on. Thank You that she enjoys that aspect of her work. That means so much, Lord. But it is the stress of personalities who work beside her and above her that are draining her of energy and love for her job. I ask that You would make a way of relief for her. Take away her anxiety about the financial difficulties of her industry. Please open up doors that she may not have considered going through before. She is Your child, fully dependent upon You to provide as are we all here on this blog with our one known exception (who we lift to You also for future saving despite the long road walked without You). Thank You for giving Donna the adorable companionship of her Cowboy and others of four feet who are always glad to see her and don’t get grouchy because of stress from their work. Please be a strong force in her work world today and for the coming days. May she feel Your presence lifting her above the fray. Keep her steady in knowing Your constant love and care for her.
Lord, I have heard the concerns, all valid and serious, that Kim has with BG and her ex, while still adjusting to being married to a wonderful man. You are in the mix with them and I call on You to lead the way to decision making. Please reveal all the angles that only You can see. There is the best solution and only You know it. When we feel trapped by circumstances and can see no way forward that is when You shine brightest in our lives. Kim feels herself to be in one of those places right now. Please shine Your light upon Your solution that will be good for all the family members. You will receive glory because Kim will tell everyone how You worked things out as only You can brilliantly do. I pray Kim’s employer will see the benefit in giving her some time away from her work responsibilities to get things going better at home with BG. Lord, You are the Way Maker. You made the greatest Way for us to come to You. Thank You for Your plan. Please now make a way for BG to settle into being a responsible young person who will go forward in life on a strong background of being loved through the difficult times. Please settle her soul and help her to be compliant to working through the plan to help her. I pray this in the name of Jesus, Amen
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Thank you so much, Janice.
I am taking hubby in to the doctor this morning. He doesn’t think his workplace will let him have another day off without a doctor’s saying he needs one.
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Janice, as usual, a beautiful prayer. All I can add is, “Amen!”.
Prayers requested for self today. I’m still dealing with difficult emotions surrounding my recent trip home. I spoke briefly with my mom on the telephone yesterday and realized I’m still angry with her. No harsh words were spoken, but the anger I felt during the conversation was palpable.
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Amen.
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annms, a number of years back when I dealt with something similar the only thing that seemed to help me was to pray the words of Jesus, “Forgive them for they know not what they do.” I was able to use His words and that thought helped to bring me peace because it was out of my hands and into His. I no longer owned it and no longer had reason to continue the angry feelings. The reasons for the feelings continued but I was over and beyond it. I hope this might be a help to you.
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Good article about answers to long-awaited prayers:
http://blog.justbetweenus.org/2013/03/gods-clocks-keep-perfect-time.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JbuBlog+%28JBU+Blog%29
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Please pray for my son to hear a positive answer from Baylor for the teaching assistanceship for which he applied. Of course, if it is God’s will. Thanks.
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Will do JaniceG, and amen and thank you.
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Annms,
What Janice said. I was going to suggest to you today, what I tell my children. Many of them come from drunk/drugging/abusive parents. They tend to blame themselves or be very angry at their bio parents or both. The parents are not hurt by their anger, only the child is hurt. The parent just moves along through life. The child is burdened. Let it go. Her troubles are not your business. She is not going to change unless God does the changing. Love her, visit with her, but don’t carry her garbage.
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Mumsee: Thank you for the needed reminder to let go and let God. It is so hard to do sometimes. I am strong sometimes and weak others. This has been a weak season. I can maintain some objectivity when there are 300 miles between us, but when I’m in their home, I become 14 all over again. I get sucked back in to the drama.
JaniceG: Wise advice. Thank you for sharing with me what helped you. I plan on praying that prayer today. I don’t want to have anger towards her, but it is so hard not to. I desperately want a type of relationship with her that I will never have, nor will my children. I wanted her to delight in my children, but she doesn’t. It’s all very sad. Thank you for praying for me. I’ll be praying for your son.
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Hubby has ear and sinus infection. He’s starting antibiotics for those, and got some sort of inhaler to address the chest congestion. The doctor says he should take at least today and tomorrow off. If he returns to work Friday, it won’t be an overnight, as they are generally done by midnight on Fridays, and if all goes according to plan, Monday is the start of his new shift (2nd shift). So there may be NO MORE OVERNIGHTS!! 🙂
Thank you all for your prayers.
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Thank you, all, for praying for my son and his possible acceptance into Baylor’s program. Sometimes things, personal in nature, just seem too big for me to pray about. In my prayer journal this morning I asked for Jesus and the Holy Spirit to pray as they know more than I what to pray. I just need to praise God that our son is graduating from his four year undergrad school. I was not sure if we would have enough $ to get him through that so it is a significant praise for what He has done.
Thanks for praying!
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Prayer for our fifteen year old gangsta wannabe who still teeters on the edge but continues to cling to unbelief. He sees it, he knows it is right, he knows that people are being healed through it, but he continues to believe the lie that he is too bad to be saved. May God continue to work in his life and in his heart to bring him home and into healing.
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