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Prayer Requests 1-16-18

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Psalm 130

1 Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord;
2  Lord, hear my voice.
   Let your ears be attentive
    to my cry for mercy.

3 If you, Lord, kept a record of sins,
    Lord, who could stand?
4 But with you there is forgiveness,
    so that we can, with reverence, serve you.

5 I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits,
    and in his word I put my hope.
6 I wait for the Lord
    more than watchmen wait for the morning,
    more than watchmen wait for the morning.

7 Israel, put your hope in the Lord,
    for with the Lord is unfailing love
    and with him is full redemption.
8 He himself will redeem Israel
    from all their sins.

23 thoughts on “Prayer Requests 1-16-18”

  1. Please pray for me. I am in Ecuador right now. Tomorrow we will travel and I will be testifying in court. Please pray for safety and for me to think and communicate clearly. This is my first time testifying in court in Spanish. I tend to get hard to understand when extremely stressed. There will be a lot of pressure both positive and negative.

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  2. Nightingale informed me that she is going to start dating again. There’s a guy on the dating website she’s on who looks promising, but they haven’t gone out yet. (She is very careful and picky about who she connects with on that site. She learned a lot about what red flags to look for from her time with Mr X, and has done a lot of reading on the subject since then.)

    My prayer is always that God will protect her heart from falling for an unbeliever, and that He would bring a good, godly Christian man into her life.

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  6. Cheryl – I realize that a Christian man should not date an unbeliever, but they can start out as friends. I think of “TDH” (Tall, Dark, and Handsome) in Carolyn Weber’s Surprised By Oxford. They were friends first, and he helped lead her to Christ. Then they married.

    Or another thought included in that prayer is to keep her from getting entangled with an unbeliever, giving her time to come to Christ, and then bring that godly man to her.

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  8. When I met my Mr, I knew not our Saviour….it was at a revival at his church where I first learned of HIS love for me…I did not go forward…but I did pray…and my future in laws were praying as well (and my MIL did not particularly care for me at the time…once she got to know me…well let’s just say I was her favorite 😊) The Lord does indeed hear and it has been His grace that has brought me to Himself……

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  9. When Hubby and I met, started dating, and then became engaged, I was an unbeliever, and he was a “backslidden” Christian. Something about my unbelief stirred him up to be serious about his faith again, and God used him to bring me to Himself.

    I don’t recommend this method, though. But God moves as He will, and I need to remember that when I am perplexed by what is going on in the lives of my daughters and grandson.

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  12. OK, good, just checking.

    (And this is strange, but I googled what you typed, wondering if it was code for something, and on the first page that came up, I saw there is a website wwwDOTnb88888DOTcom. I didn’t click on it because it was in Chinese or something. There was also a clickable “Translate this page.”)

    I didn’t really want to know what that might be! Safer to get the scoop from you. 🙂

    You did get prayer for, though, Kevin. And this would be a good opportunity to ask how your heart and general health are at this time?

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  14. I was going to post something with my phone, then decided to wait until I got home and could do it at a real keyboard. I guess I left the comment screen open on the phone.

    Kizzie, one of my best friends says almost exactly what you said about not recommending this method. He went home for the summer after his freshman year in college as an enthusiastic new Christian, but dated and fell head over heels for a girl who was not a Christian and was dabbling in TM. He won her over to Christ that summer and they have been following him together ever since. He says God was very gracious to override his foolishness and he would never recommend “evangelistic dating”.

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  15. Thanks for asking, 6. I’m feeling okay. The improvement after the valve replacement hasn’t been as dramatic as I hoped, but it’s an improvement. I go back to Cleveland for follow-up testing next week so will know more after that.

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  16. I’ve known some unequally-yoked couples who dated and got married and the unbelieving spouse converted, but it doesn’t always happen that way, and the results can be heart-breaking.

    My now-widowed sister had married a man who it appeared no longer (or maybe never) walked with the Lord. (He’d grown up Catholic, but did not attend any church during the time my sister knew him.) When he died about a year after they’d married, she had a hard time finding a church that would conduct the funeral.

    My sister told me she was angry at God for taking her husband at such a young age, and so soon after he’d become a father (only four months). I know anger is one of the stages of grief, but she stopped going to church after his death, and vowed she would never marry again.

    And she hasn’t. Though it hasn’t stopped her from dating and traveling all over, including out of the country, with her boyfriends. And when they propose, she dumps them.

    She’s not had a boyfriend for several years now, and sometime last year she told me she would pray for me when I mentioned a situation that could use prayer, so I am hoping she’s turning back to the Lord.

    But I can’t imagine the pain of loving a husband so deeply and seeing no fruit that would give a surviving spouse hope that her beloved was spending eternity with Jesus, rather than eternally separated from Him.

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  21. Mormons are into evangelistic marriage. My cousin, an avowed nonbeliever, married a Mormon and assured me he would never become one. A couple of years ago, he joined the Mormon church after forty years of marriage. He does not believe, I don’t think.

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