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Prayer Requests 10-30-17

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Psalm 83

1 O God, do not remain silent;
    do not turn a deaf ear,
    do not stand aloof, O God.
2 See how your enemies growl,
    how your foes rear their heads.
3 With cunning they conspire against your people;
    they plot against those you cherish.
4 “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation,
    so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”

5 With one mind they plot together;
    they form an alliance against you—
6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
    of Moab and the Hagrites,
7 Byblos, Ammon and Amalek,
    Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
8 Even Assyria has joined them
    to reinforce Lot’s descendants.

9 Do to them as you did to Midian,
    as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
10 who perished at Endor
    and became like dung on the ground.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
    all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 who said, “Let us take possession
    of the pasturelands of God.”

13 Make them like tumbleweed, my God,
    like chaff before the wind.
14 As fire consumes the forest
    or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15 so pursue them with your tempest
    and terrify them with your storm.
16 Cover their faces with shame, Lord,
    so that they will seek your name.

17 May they ever be ashamed and dismayed;
    may they perish in disgrace.
18 Let them know that you, whose name is the Lord—
    that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.

15 thoughts on “Prayer Requests 10-30-17”

  1. Pray for a family in my church who want desperately to have a 3rd child but keep miscarrying — this latest time was looking good but she posted early this morning that they went to ER and there was, again, no heartbeat detected. She’s miscarried several times in the past couple of years. She’s 39 and they have 2 adorable boys in elementary school. But they seem almost driven to expand their family while there’s still time left. Not sure I understand the impulse to the extent that they’ve gone with so many losses to endure; and I sometimes wonder if our Christian ‘culture’ has now so over-stressed large families that it’s created this kind of drive (maybe that’s not it at all, however — they’re a faithful couple who are prominent in our church — she handles the prayer email lists that go out and he’s an elder — and they accept all of this as God’s will for whatever his purposes may be, as best anyone can; I know her parents well as they’re also members).

    But pray for their comfort during this time, they’ve been this so often now and things really were looking hopeful for them this time, so it’s quite a blow. Her mom told me yesterday after church that they were cautious but optimistic this time, this pregnancy had made it beyond the others and all the tests were looking so good; she would have delivered in April.

    They must be feeling so sad. 😦

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  5. Husband is driving south about 6 hours tonight after work to help daughter load up stuff for her move. They will be coming back tomorrow. Weather will not be very cooperative. Please pray for safety.

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  7. Please pray for our relationship with Chickadee. Nightingale is not very happy with her lately, & I have to admit that I’m not, either.

    We were childsitting The Boy on both Friday & Saturday nights, & she was picked up early both evenings for plans with friends. On Friday, it was after we had him ready for bed, but not going to sleep yet, which wasn’t too bad, but on Saturday she was picked up at 6:00, so I was on my own the rest of the evening. (The Boy was actually being good for me, but it is the principle of the thing that bothers me. Nightingale accused her of “ditching” me.)

    Last evening, we realized The Boy would be home from school because of his fever, so Nightingale texted Chickadee, asking if she could be dropped off or picked up, but she said she had plans. Any plans she has would most probably be doing something with the McK sisters, not something we would think of as “important”. (Yes, I know they are important to her, but helping me childsit is her “job”, & in the real world, one often needs to change plans due to work.)

    It isn’t even dealing with The Boy that I need help with today, as he is subdued from not feeling well, & is really being quite sweet. But it would be great if she could be in charge of Puppy Janie for me.

    As Nightingale & I have drawn closer, & have become partners in dealing with our new life, I feel as if Chickadee is even more distant from us, relationally speaking. From a merely practical point of view, we could really use her help in various ways around here.

    It would be counter-productive to try to urge her to move back home, as I know she has to come back of her own volition. But I have decided to talk to her about our needing a little help, & that I will be asking her to help out with some extra stuff while she is here. Not too much, as I don’t want to overwhelm her or make her feel like Cinderella, but some little things here & there that will take a bit off our shoulders.

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  8. DJ, I hope they are talking to their physician about this. When youngest sibling miscarried twice after the birth of her first child, she was counselled to wait until her cycle had returned to normal for a few months, as she needed to reestablish her hormone baseline before her body could handle a new pregnancy.

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  9. I’m sure they are and have waited appropriate times in between pregnancies. This has been going on for a few years (I haven’t actually tracked and can’t say for sure how long). But I just hate to see them repeatedly going through the emotional trauma of loss after loss. It seems at some point it might be wise to accept the pattern which, for whatever reason, only seems to be repeating itself.

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  10. Praying on all situations above.

    Thank you for your prayers as I contemplated the last-minute temporary job prospect that came up. It’s a go! I drop off paperwork today, and work Wednesday through Saturday, then the gig is done. Prayers as I balance work and home this week. Thank you.

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  11. Dear, dear Kizzie, I am at a loss of what to say about the above situation. I have some of that with my own daughter so I am not one to give you advice.
    I did want to clarify my comment yesterday and your response. I agree with everyone that you shouldn’t do anything for the first year. You have to adjust to the new “normal”.
    Check around. Here we had a couple of groups who raise money to make repairs to homes so that homeowners who have faced some difficulty can stay in their home rather than “have it fall down around them” due to inability to make those repairs. Perhaps there is something like that in your area?

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  14. Kizzie, is Chickadee being reimbursed for her babysitting time? She may be feeling some resentment at being expected to put her life on hold (in her view) to take care of her older sister’s stuff. You can’t make somebody not feel that way. They have to outgrow it or God has to specially intervene. Some never do and with friends telling her she is being taken advantage of (maybe) she will listen to friends because friends always know so much better than parents. If she is being paid, perhaps you could use that money to hire somebody else to come in and help out.

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  15. Mumsee – She is being paid, but it wouldn’t be considered enough for someone from the outside. She knows that she can quit & look for a “real” job if she wants to (she was even reminded of that not too long ago), but she also knows that she is not currently capable of doing that. Nightingale often also pays her an extra $20 to do a little housework for her, & she is glad for that.

    I would like to be able to ask her to do something here & there to help me or Nightingale, as her part of helping out her family.

    To give credit where credit is due, Chickadee does indeed already do some things for me when she is here, like walking Janie (which she has taken on as her duty while we are childsitting), or making dinner (easy ones) now & then. When Hubby would come home from work & would have stopped at the store, or picked up a pizza, she would go out to help him bring things in. If he wanted a salad with dinner, we’d often ask her to put one together.

    Now I would just like to be able to ask for a little extra help sometimes. I will tread carefully in how I approach this.

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