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Prayer Requests 5-16-13

Who can we pray for today?

Psalm 51:1-15

1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

14 thoughts on “Prayer Requests 5-16-13”

  2. Kim, you need to pray about it and forget it as much as possible.
    Stewing about a bad attitude only makes it worse.
    I know what you’re going through, but believe me, it only makes it worse.
    If it’s something you can deal with. Do so quickly.
    If not, chalk it up to experience and try to forget it.
    That’s easy for you to say, Chas!
    I know, but like I said, I’ve been there.
    Just don’t nurse a grievance, It never pays.
    It makes things seem worse than they really are.

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  3. Kim – I can’t tell you how many times God has brought Proverbs 3:5-6 to my mind in the night hours while worrying about something. Here it is in the Amplified Version…

    “Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.

    “In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.”

    As difficult as it is, I release the person & situation – or myself – to God, & trust that He is working even when I can’t see it.

    Remember, I have one daughter who is pretty much an atheist, & the other one is severely doubting. When I dwell on this, it scares the you-know-what out of me. I sob my heart out to God, & then leave my daughters in His hands.

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  4. The time has come for our beloved American Bulldog, Kane, to be put to sleep. (He has bone cancer.) In the past few days his degree of suffering has noticeably increased, & he doesn’t always make it outside to “go potty”. Emily has an appointment tomorrow morning to have him put to sleep. We are all very sad about this. Kane has been such a good, sweet dog, & we will miss him tremendously.

    Please pray that God will use this situation to point my daughters’ hearts back to Him.

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  5. I forgot to mention…Tomorrow is also Emily’s 24th birthday. She was born at 10:51am; her appointment to put Kane down is at 10:45am. What a sad
    juxtaposition.

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  6. Already prayed and I’m very sorry. My only regret, sort of, is I wished I’d taken Suzie’s collar home with me.

    I was up from 2:22 to after 4. I told God if he wanted me to go to Zumba, he’s have to wake me up himself.

    It was too late to get there when He woke me up, so I prayed instead. I’m about to take a walk with a friend, so this isn’t a total cheat.

    House hunting is bringing out all the worst in me. It’s very stressful not because of the houses but because of all the insecurities it’s bringing out in me. If I don’t like a house, I chide myself about “thinking more highly of myself than I ought.”

    If I make a list of what’s important to me: a view (up or down, I don’t care), quiet and beauty, I tell myself I’m awful to have such wants and desires.

    If I’m shown a fine house in a part of town I don’t care for (last night), I feel guilty for not wanting to live so close to down town.

    If the realtor schedules a meeting during his family time, I feel guilty for disrupting his life (teenager went with us last night and was gracious).

    I’m so tempted to just take something so the anguish will go away.

    But I’m listening–over and over– to a talk given by theologian Ken Boa on the important themes found in My Utmost for His Highest. The one that lodged in my brain yesterday is, “don’t accept the good in place of the best.” That was helpful when I rejected a beautiful house last night.

    When I was up in the middle of the night, I echoes Samuel’s prayer, “Speak, Lord, and I will listen.”

    I think He told me to settle down and go to sleep . . . 🙂

    If you think of us, thanks for praying. My son sold his house yesterday with a 30 day escrow; they’re all moving in next month. 🙂

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  8. Serious stuff going on for everyone. Prayers for you all.

    I’ve asked the vet to just hang on to the dog collars for me for a while — sometimes it’s just too emotional and bittersweet to walk out of there with just their collar that’s left. 😦 But a few weeks later I’m ready to collect it, take the tags off and put them with the others in a little box that I keep for all the dogs I’ve had and lost — a little remembrance of each one.

    OK, now I’m crying.

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  9. Michelle, you may or may not find this helpful. Years ago, I found that house hunting and me were not friends. Kind of like car shopping. Now, husband does it all. He has the added onus of looking for things that please me as well. He has never failed on it. He has found three different homes for us and several vehicles. And I don’t have the stress.

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  11. Michelle, I just spent 2 days in training for Recruit/Select. Granted this was mostly about hiring and firing the right people but I think I can apply it to buying a house.

    If you are worried about paying (an employee or for a house) $6K more then you really don’t want that person or house.
    Don’t accept “good enough” and miss out on magnificent. The goal here is not to hire someone or buy a house because you are desperate. You will regret it.

    Don’t “fall in love” with a job candidate or a house that razzle dazzles you. Stick to the list of MUST HAVES.

    I would think someone at your stage in life deserves to have a home that makes her happy and should not beat herself up too much because she wants a little something more. It’s not like the Navy is moving you and you have to have a house next week. What is wrong with renting a POD, taking what you absolutely have to have with you and renting a cottage somewhere for the summer and buying a house later. I happen to have a Navy Wife friend who has a cottage on Mobile Bay. I am sure I could talk her into giving you the “family” discount????

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  13. This isn’t really a prayer request. Maybe it fits in the topic of house-hunting and maybe it doesn’t. But when I was single, sometimes I told people that God had given me almost everything I’ve ever wanted, and maybe marriage and kids would just be an unfair amount of good to give to one person. I also only had one “luxury” that I wanted in a house eventually, if possible. I didn’t care about some things that some people consider basics, a garage or a fireplace, for example. But a library seemed like a real treat.

    This house I live in now is modest by American standards, something like 1,500 square feet with four people and a large dog in it. But it has a huge backyard, 25 trees in all on the property (I counted them yesterday), and it keeps us warm and dry. But most important, it houses the husband I’ve wanted for years (and a better one than I ever imagined), the daughters I’ve wanted all my life, the collie I’ve wanted since I was about ten, and the home library I’ve dreamed of as a beautiful luxury my entire adult life. And the home is debt-free.

    By current American standards, we have a below-average household income, a smaller house than many, an eat-in kitchen that’s barely adequate for our family and isn’t big enough for guests . . . but through eyes of wonder and gratitude (which I try to have, don’t always succeed), God actually gave me the last couple items on my list without taking away any of the ones He’d already given me, and He put me in a beautiful home. I have better relations with my in-laws than almost anybody does, better relationships with my stepdaughters than many moms have with their flesh-and-blood young adult kids, and beauty beyond compare all around me.

    I don’t know what tomorrow brings. It could be great sorrow or pain or loss. God will not cease to be good if that is the case. But for today I thank Him, and I trust Him. Obviously my life isn’t perfect; my husband is currently sick with bronchitis, not a rarity in this home. Our younger daughter is job-hunting and maybe a bit discouraged. We’ve lost the last several of Greg’s aunts and uncles in fairly quick order, and the girls could potentially lose three of their four grandparents in the next couple years–in fact, that is rather likely.

    But the most visible things are the good things, and it is clear that God is a personal God and a good God, sometimes meeting our needs and desires so abundantly we can hardly hold it all.

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