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Prayer Requests 8-3-19

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Psalm 2

1 Why do the nations conspire
    and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth rise up
    and the rulers band together
    against the Lord and against his anointed, saying,
3 “Let us break their chains
    and throw off their shackles.”

4 The One enthroned in heaven laughs;
    the Lord scoffs at them.
5 He rebukes them in his anger
    and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,
6 “I have installed my king
    on Zion, my holy mountain.”

7 I will proclaim the Lord’s decree:

   He said to me, “You are my son;
    today I have become your father.
8 Ask me,
    and I will make the nations your inheritance,
    the ends of the earth your possession.
9 You will break them with a rod of iron;
    you will dash them to pieces like pottery.”

10 Therefore, you kings, be wise;
    be warned, you rulers of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear
    and celebrate his rule with trembling.
12 Kiss his son, or he will be angry
    and your way will lead to your destruction,
   for his wrath can flare up in a moment.
    Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

16 thoughts on “Prayer Requests 8-3-19”

  1. I’m feeling a little overwhelmed right now by some circumstances outside my control (in God’s hands, but not very comfortable) and the expectations being placed on me. Some of it is financial.

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  4. Please pray for YA. You all know that she needs the Holy Spirit to move in her heart in a general way, but this is for something more specific. A discussion she and I had yesterday on Facebook reminded me that she has a lot of bitterness towards Christians and churches. She claims that every church she has attended has rejected her in some way. I remember something she wrote a few years ago about Christians in the churches she’d attended making a show of putting their money in the offering plate, or singing loudly to prove what a great Christian they are.

    At the time, I could see that she was imagining those things because of her own insecurities and bitterness. Apparently, she was very aware of how little money her family had, even as a child, and then there was her own social awkwardness. (They weren’t as “poor” as her mom made it seem, but were not frugal with their money, which made their situation worse than it should have been.)

    In her reply to me, she wrote as if she was a regular churchgoer growing up. But I remember that they were not regular churchgoers much of the time. For the many years that Mrs. McK took care of her mother on Sundays, Mr. McK did not take the girls to church. (That was at least five years.) And even before then, being friends with Mrs. McK, I knew that their attendance was spotty. When I said that I was sorry that “some people” had hurt her in the churches she attended, she claimed that it was the whole church community in each one.

    So I think a large part of her feeling like she was not accepted or didn’t fit in is because she didn’t really attend a church long enough to become a part of it. And her social anxieties/awkwardness probably made her feel like her feelings were coming from how she was treated rather than how she already felt. Know what I mean?

    Her bitterness and anger at this has caused her to write things or share things on Facebook that are anti-Christian in many ways. I’m sure she has had an influence on my Chickadee in how she looks at the church and Christians, too.

    Of course, I cannot tell her what I suspect the problem really is/was.

    This morning I saw a post by my pastor on the church’s FB page that his sermon tomorrow is going to be about dealing with hurts from other people. How apropos to YA’s words. I want to invite her, and I will casually do so, leaving it (and her) in God’s hands. It would be wonderful if she came with her sister and Chickadee, and God moved in each of their hearts.

    So please pray God’s will be done about that invitation, and that if He wants her there, she will feel compelled to come. And please pray that either way, whether she comes or not, the Holy Spirit will work on her heart and open her eyes to whatever it is she needs to see, especially in regards to her feelings about church and Christians.

    Thank you and God bless. (Sorry this is so long.)

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  5. Kizzie, it does sound like her perspective is skewed. Seriously, though, my recommendation is that you get off Facebook and quit letting her and others you don’t know mess with your head. You can pray for her without interacting, knowing interactions have not seemed to be helpful either to you or to her.

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  7. Cheryl – This is not about Facebook. Although yesterday’s discussion started there, it reminded me of the emails she and I had exchanged years ago, and added new information to them. What I wrote above, and on the daily thread, was written with compassion (not complaining about her) for a young woman with very skewed perspectives about Jesus, the Bible, and church, but who thinks she is a believer. (And who knows? Maybe she really is. Although I doubt it, I cannot bring myself to make that judgment.) What she wrote concerned me, and gave me a more informed way to pray for her. Whether anyone actually did anything to hurt her or not, she feels the hurt nonetheless.

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  9. YA replied graciously to my invitation to church. She said she is recovering from an injury that makes walking difficult, but appreciates my invitation. She said she might take me up on it someday in the future. I don’t know if that was serious or just being polite, but it was nice.

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  11. Amen.

    And prayers for daughter as she just told me she put a rope around her neck in her room last night, cut herself with another knife she stole, and wanted me to clean her room again but this time completely. We left a change of underclothes and a toothbrush, toothpaste, shampoo, deodorant. Take her to the hospital you say? They sent her home with this mindset though she told them she wanted to be dead, several times told them.

    Right now she is laughing at the video Beethoven 2.

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  12. Our pastor announced in church today that he has received a call to a church in Boise. He has four weeks to pray his way to an answer.

    His wife is my prayer partner, choir director, musical director, church organist, walking pal for 18 years and my closest friend.

    Another close friend is moving to Oregon next week and sang with the praise team for the last time today. I didn’t sing the last song with her, sat down and cried as I listened to her glorious voice one last time.

    These are one hard loss and one possibly devastating loss to me personally.

    I don’t need to be reminded of what God could be doing.

    I’m grieving. Please pray I can love these dear ones through the next couple weeks, come what may, and be an affirming positive as they pray their way to God’s will.

    Thank you.

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  16. Michelle, some big potential losses there, and I’m sorry. In my life I’ve mostly been the one moving (which isn’t my favorite thing to do) and I’ve lost most friends to death, not moving. But loss is hard and one never gets used to it.

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