Please say a prayer for us... we lost a dear family member tonight... he was a great man that was loved by many and will truly be missed by all who knew him... I hate so badly losing a loved ...
Please say a prayer for us... we lost a dear family member tonight... he was a great man that was loved by many and will truly be missed by all who knew him... I hate so badly losing a loved one at any time, but right here at Christmas just seems to make it a little more heart breaking... thank you all for your continued support and prayers... I love you all ... you area wonderful group of christian people that I have come to rely on very much... your care and compassion means more than you will ever know... thanks again for the prayers...
Hi all this is save-man i am asking for everyone's prayer for dimples and her family especially her Daughter who is 16 and is really struggling with the devil right now and does not even know it. Satan is really ...
Posted by: Savedman1963, November 30, 2011, 12:30:26 PM
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Hi all this is save-man i am asking for everyone's prayer for dimples and her family especially her Daughter who is 16 and is really struggling with the devil right now and does not even know it. Satan is really trying to divide this family separate them. As many of you know me and Dimples have been dating a while now and i love her and her kids very much and they have become family to and i will always want to protect them and keep them safe and fight for them. so i ask everyone to join me in prayer for her and her kids that they are protected for these attacks and that they can get the peace we know the lord has for them. Heavenly father i pray over dimples who you have blessed me with and i love her very much and over her Daughter who does not understand she is under attack and her son who needs to be show that he is always love by his mom , Father i ask for your protection during this time lift them up and love them as only you can do and help me have the words and courage to help and show me how i can serve them for you ,i love them father very much please help me to help them thank you for i know you will do in your loving sons name Jesus amen amen !!!!
I want to apologize in advance for this being a rather lengthy post but I want to make sure if I am going to ask for intercession that the people who are going to earnestly pray for me and my ...
I want to apologize in advance for this being a rather lengthy post but I want to make sure if I am going to ask for intercession that the people who are going to earnestly pray for me and my family know my story...
I feel so consumed by stress lately that I have no peace whatsoever... no joy.. nothing to look forward to.. I know other people have felt hopeless before and probably in worse shape than I am right now but this is what has happened in my life ... let me start by saying I was raised in a good christian home, church and christian school all my life... I know the Bible inside and out but that isn't even a comfort for me anymore... I have allowed satan to enter into my life and destroy what hope and peace and joy I once had. 4 years ago there was a MAJOR family issue that arose and started me on this path to destructive behaviour... I began taking pain medication to cope with the stress. Now I know this is not the way to handle these situations but I did it anyway and now here I am 4 years later asking for help with this issue. No one in my family knows about the problem except my husband. I have let him down, my children and myself but most importantly my God. I used to tackle these problems head on with prayer but this time I gave in to a substance instead. Since that situation 4 years ago, there have been many other added stressors in my family and my husband's family. Major sicknesses and surgeries, stage 4 cancer of a loved one, losing our church family, and most recently my husband taking a major loss in his job. I know these are every day things for most people, but they are things I have had to deal with all at once it feels like and satan just keeps telling me the pills are my friends and will always make me feel better and never let me down even when everyone and everything else around me does let me down. I know this is a lie but fell right into his trap anyway. I am now searching to get back to where God wants me to be in my life. I have not taken any pills for 4 days and although I know this is a short period of time, it is a beginning. Please pray for me and my family as I learn to deal with things the right way instead of depending on a substance for happiness. My husband also needs prayer as he has fallen into the same trap but doesn't yet see it. He has legitimate pain stemming from a back surgery but I know he takes the pills for other reasons and not just for pain. I am asking for prayer for him for healing and for God to open his eyes to see that he doesn't need to depend on these addictive substances to make it through life. Thank you to anyone who reads this and prays for our family...
In 2003 I married the man of my dreams. Devoted to my children, me and our success as a family. In 2004 my ex-husband was shot and killed in a police raid. The police came to our home and ...
In 2003 I married the man of my dreams. Devoted to my children, me and our success as a family. In 2004 my ex-husband was shot and killed in a police raid. The police came to our home and broke the news that he had been gun running and dealing drugs. Three very long years later -after 3 attorneys- countless tears we won a settlement in court for wrongful death. There was no gun other than that planted by police officers, there were no drugs and he took a missed kill shot to the face. He was left on his kitchen floor for 20 minutes to bleed out and die while the ambulance was held in the police road block. Why you may ask? Because he had an arrest 10 yrs prior and was a good candidate to set up so Pottawatomie County Iowa could show need for a huge Federal grant to build a multi million dollar training facility. He was not the only one...4 other people within 6 months of his death were also shot and or killed in similar circumstances by the same special forces police unit. Not one of those families had the courage to fight their case. He was secretly cremated, it took over a year to see the autopsy and the Iowa Grand Jury that was convened broke more than one law to bury this case. No one was ever charged, the State of Iowa swooped right in, circled their wagons and we fought long and hard to win the case in civil court. Needless to say this took a toll on our marriage and our family. During this time I was building a business that would grow over 10 years to become rated as one of the best in the nation. So between the court case and the training hours required to build the business my children were left alone with my husband who cruelly abused them over the next 3 years. Fearful of further abuse, neither my son nor daughter told anyone. Theron was 10, Samantha 6. When Theron was 14 he began using illegal drugs to medicate his pain and anguish. I got help for Theron, he went to an inpt facility and graduated successfully. However in order to get him the help he needed I had to get the services of DHS (Dept of Human Services) which is common. Theron's story came out in treatment and the judge presiding over the case would not allow Theron to return home to me and my husband due to the abuse. I moved out with my daughter forced to leave our 4 and 5 year old with him and subsequently divorced. This was devastating to Randy, fearful that his actions would become public knowledge and his otherwise stellar reputation in a small community would be smeared he began stalking and terrorizing me and my family. I hid in my house for two years, Theron and Samantha feared to walk to school. Lost my friends and family support. Samantha caved under the pressure and also began using drugs at 14 she was pregnant by a 26 yr old sex offender, her best friends mother taught her to shoot methamphetamine and she was running away, cutting herself and attempted suicide 3 times. My ex-husband was relentless and continued his campaign of stalking and abuse at every opportunity. He had turned me into DHS 6 times over the last year alleging that I have been using drugs and supplying them to my teens. On August 10 of this year the sheriffs dept came to my home with a warrant looking for a meth lab. What they found was a marijuana pipe and bong in the craw space of the attic above my daughter's bedroom ( my daughter had been in rehab 250 miles away since January) and charged me with possession of paraphernalia. DHS closed my business. Yesterday DHS removed my teens from my care and gave our two children to their father, Randy, and placed me on the child abuse registry nation wide for 10 years. In short, two months ago I had a very successful business, a 17 year old son who was looking forward to his senior year and all the possibilities life had to offer, a 15 year old daughter working a program to over come her addiction and a 7 and 8 year old who were just trying to sort out why daddy hated mommy. I have never, not one time, ever said a cruel or unkind word about Randy to my youngest children. So they were naturally confused, frightened, and unable to sort it out. But Randy has none the less convinced them that I am to be feared for a multitude of reasons. Today I have no job, no children, and no hope for either any time soon. I am court ordered to rehab, psychiatric services and have to give random UA's till "further notice". The judge also ordered that "anyone who visits my home with any frequency must submit to random UA's". This included my parents, brothers and their family, friends, clergy, my brothers and sisters in Christ....anyone and everyone. Today is my birthday, I'm 48. God still loves me and still reigns. I will continue to hold Randy up in prayer and all who have wronged me and my family. I will continue to bind the powers and principalities who would attempt to destroy my witness for Christ. I will continue to rest in HIM who is and was and will always be. Join me in prayer for my enemies, my children, my family, and strength to endure to the end that God's will be done for His Glory. Though he slay me, yet will I praise HIM. In Jesus holy name, amen.
As ships meet at sea--a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep--so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he ...
As ships meet at sea--a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep--so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs, giving him supplies. ~Henry Ward Beecher.
Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind, and two minds conscious of the same thought, but as long as it remains unspoken their familiar talk flows quietly over the hidden idea. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne.
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? ~Matthew 5. 47
Heavenly Father, I pray that thou wilt give me a generous heart. May I not lose sight of the truth, that thou hast made others to have the same needs and wants that I may have. May I not through pride or egoism fail to help, and neglecting to speak, miss an opportunity to assist. May I be self-forgetful in friendly service. Amen.
I am copying and pasting the email my sister sent this afternoon. Not sure if the pictures will show, but I copied and pasted them with email. Karin PS THANKYOU for all your prayers...
I am copying and pasting the email my sister sent this afternoon. Not sure if the pictures will show, but I copied and pasted them with email. Karin PS THANKYOU for all your prayers...
Amazing … It’s over … what medical advancements …
Total time, start to finish, about 90 minutes … total transplant time no more than 30 minutes. 3 bags = 9M stem cells. Can someone say SPICY BLOODY MARY time? Just give me a stalk of celery …
Drugs are wearing off – he’s up, walking around the room. He looks much better than he did this morning. As for what does it feel like? The stem cells arrive in a cooler on dry ice. Each bag is defrosted no sooner than 3 minutes before it’s needed – something to do with the preservatives …
As transfusion was occurring Jeff said yes he could FEEL the stem cells – very cold! He could also “taste” it – now that’s just strange. Talk about stories … wow.
Can you believe it … whew …perhaps I can sleep tonite …
Thanks for all the messages today, thoughts and prayers and most of all STRENGTH …
Many of you have very graciously and kindly offered prayer for my friend Layne. We are pretty close altho a few hours away from each other, and this is hard on me as well as on him.
Posted by: pryrwaryr, August 18, 2011, 12:39:43 PM
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Many of you have very graciously and kindly offered prayer for my friend Layne. We are pretty close altho a few hours away from each other, and this is hard on me as well as on him.
He has a terminal brain condition that causes bleeding in the brain. Right now it is stable thank goodness, but he is having complications that cause severe pain in his head, and some loss of thought and motor skills. It is normal but also very discouraging to him. In his words, "at some point living is worse than death." I want to give him the grace and dignity to go when it is his time but I also want to encourage him during this illness.
I wanted to start a thread to keep you updated on his progress and things I ask you to pray with me over him. Because we all know there is stregnth in numbers.
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Jesus is our center! He is the hub around which we turn. Rather than trying to add on to the truth of Jesus, we must learn to accept it and trust it in child-like faith. But that child-like faith must be nourished and grown. As Jesus remains our central focus and our hearts remain thankful to God for his grace, we will that our faith is strengthened and that Jesus is more real than ever.
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Holy and Righteous God, please give me eyes to see evil and avoid it. Please give me wisdom to know deceptive and false teaching when it is placed before me. Empower me to live a thankful life of holiness so that I can live in Jesus to your honor and glory. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
20 years in the making! I finally retired in 2008 and am a sent missionary (moving here from Michigan) to the Eastern Band Cherokee Nation and volunteering three days a week at the Tribal Nursing Home. I'm invited to move ...
Posted by: JeannieBird, February 04, 2012, 10:35:49 AM
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20 years in the making! I finally retired in 2008 and am a sent missionary (moving here from Michigan) to the Eastern Band Cherokee Nation and volunteering three days a week at the Tribal Nursing Home. I'm invited to move to the Cherokee Nation. Not many realize that this is a sovereign, separate nation and therefore have their own laws and are not under USA law and that you want to know those laws if you visit. I just have to find a landlord that agrees that I can keep a house clean with 4 dogs and 3 parrots.
Be Still Scott Hamilton - Senior Pastor, Harvest Glasgow, Scotland
1God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 2Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the ...
Be Still Scott Hamilton - Senior Pastor, Harvest Glasgow, Scotland
1God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 2Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,3though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. 4There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. 5God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns . . . 10“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” - Psalm 46:1-5, 10
Here in the United Kingdom we regularly have news features of people whose homes are threatened with falling into the sea from coastal erosion. They bought it with a sea view, but now the view is getting a bit close for comfort. Psalm 46 envisages something of similar magnitude. It is the journey of someone from fearing the end, to trusting the One who is faithful to the end.
Most of us know that life often feels like a storm. And just like most Scottish storms, there is seldom only one element—wind and rain for sure, with hail and sometimes sun thrown in for good measure. It often feels like more than we can cope with. The big lesson of Psalm 46 is to trust in God as your shelter. He is powerful when things seem precarious. It reminds us that He is no absent or distant God. He is very present. “Very” here means abundantly, exceedingly, more than one can imagine. He is ready, not reluctant, to shelter you in your storm—right now.
Psalm 46 really paints an awesome and awful picture, a world falling apart. It describes a tomorrow where things will never be the same again. But verse 5 offers us hope: “God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns.” Wow.
See, the closer you are to God, the more conspicuous His grace becomes to you—EVERY DAY! His grace is more immoveable than mountains. Knowing God produces trust in the midst of trial, turbulence, and trembling. It is an encouragement to pursue faith in God that looks at present problems through the lens of His promises, presence, and provision.
So what is our response? “Be still and know that I am God.” Refrain from activity, quiet your heart, just stop and be still.
And do what? Consider God—know Him . . . understand Him. The answer is not in solving this problem, but in stopping. Stop crowding out grace with getting it done. God’s grace operates in precise conditions, where humans cannot do what needs to be done. Be still before God—He is who He says He is, He will do all that He says He will.
i agree we should always show love and caring as Christ has taught us and be totally honest to those closest to us . so that we can build the lasting love love that Christ has meant for us. So ...
Posted by: Savedman1963, January 24, 2012, 10:39:43 PM
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i agree we should always show love and caring as Christ has taught us and be totally honest to those closest to us . so that we can build the lasting love love that Christ has meant for us. So yes lineman amen
It is not possible to over emphasize the importance of prayer, if we accept what the Word of God teaches on this subject. We state a true fact when we say that all the great men of God in the ...
It is not possible to over emphasize the importance of prayer, if we accept what the Word of God teaches on this subject. We state a true fact when we say that all the great men of God in the Scriptures and since have been men of prayer. A prayerless life is an unfruitful life. Yet all believers at times have felt the poverty of their prayer life. This was true even of the Apostles, for, realising their inadequacy, they asked the Lord Jesus to teach them to pray (Luke 11:1), and we remember that the Son of God frequently withdrew to a quiet place to commune with the Father. If He felt the need of prayer, what about ourselves?
The Apostle Paul stated, "we know not what we should pray for as we ought" (Rom.8:26), yet from the Scriptures it is evident that his life was soaked in prayer. Can it be that our poor prayers ever give God delight? The answer is "Yes". The Psalmist connects his praying with the symbolism of incense, which in the Old Testament was specially fragrant. "Then the Lord said to Moses, `Take fragrant spices ... and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of the perfumer'" (Exod.30:34,35 N.I.V.), and this fragrance covered the work of Aaron, the high priest, in the Tabernacle. The words of the Psalmist were "Let my prayer be directed (see margin) before Thee as incense" (Psa.141:2). We find the same association in Revelation 8:3,4, "another angel came and stood at the altar ... and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar". The incense was a symbol of the fragrance of Christ, and if our prayers are covered with His fragrance, they are a delight to the Lord. God loves to hear His people pray and He is far more ready to listen than we are to pray to Him. However, some may say, "I never seem to get any answers to my prayers". This is wrong, because all prayer is answered when we realise that when God says "no", it is just as much an answer as when He says "yes". Too often we only pray when we are experiencing some great problem or danger, or when we badly want something. We can be sure of one thing, that our heavenly Father loves us too much to give us any thing that will be to our lasting hurt. The baby sees the light glistening on a sharp razor blade and wants to handle it, but who would be so unkind as to give it to the infant?
If we want the answer "yes" to our prayers we must take heed to the guidance of Holy Scripture. The Apostle John gives us the key when he writes, "And this is the confidence that we have in Him (Christ), that, if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us" (1 John 5:14). Prayer is not the means of trying to force God to give us something that we want. Some seem to think that if they worry the Lord by constantly praying for something, they will finally get it. But He is too wise and too kind to give us anything that is contrary to His will. The children of Israel in the Old Testament became tired of the heavenly food (the manna) that God gave them every day. They longed for flesh food, and they kept demanding it from their leader, Moses. The Psalmist tells us what the result was, "In the desert they gave in to their cravings; in the wasteland they put God to the test. So He gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease upon them" (Psa.106:14,15 N.I.V.). This was a terrible answer to their continued prayer and they had to learn the hard way as we sometimes have to do, if we constantly press God to give us things just because we want them very much. If we subject all our praying to His will, we cannot go wrong. We shall be greatly helped in our prayer life if we continually make thanksgiving for all the Lord's goodness and love that we experience day by day. Surely we shall not have to think very long before we remember how indebted we are to Him. Prayer is not only asking for certain things, it is praise and thanksgiving, and if we constantly maintain a thankful spirit, we shall not go far wrong. Forgetfulness so often leads to spiritual declension. Perhaps the highest form of prayer is intercession for others. Here self is left out and we are remembering someone else's needs. If we carefully study Paul's prayer life, we shall be impressed by how frequently he was bearing up others in prayer. At the same time he greatly valued prayer for himself and the great responsibility he had with the tremendous truth that Christ had entrusted him with, which he was faithfully passing on to others. He wrote "I know that through your prayers and the help given by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, what has happened to me (he was a prisoner at Rome) will turn out for my deliverance" (Phil.1:19 N.I.V.). And to Philemon he wrote, "Prepare a guest room for me, because I hope to be restored to you in answer to your prayers" (Philemon 22). Can we say that prayer for others is realised? The answer is "yes" if it is all subject to the Lord's will.
There is much more that we could say on this supremely important subject of prayer, but it is not possible in this leaflet. We cannot finish without stressing the need of prayer for the revelation of the Holy Spirit to give understanding of the Word of God. This does not come through cleverness or special education. The writing of the Word itself was the result of the Holy Spirit inspiring faithful men to write it (2 Pet.1:19-21), and He alone can explain it. The Lord Jesus, referring to the future work of the Holy Spirit declared, "He will guide you into all truth", and "He shall glorify Me" (John 16:13,14).
The Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 2, declared that the things God had prepared for His redeemed are not known by any human being, but "God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit" (1 Cor.2:9-11), and further on "the things of the Spirit ... are spiritually discerned" (1 Cor.2:13,14). The work of the Holy Spirit is absolutely necessary for the revelation and understanding of truth, and that is why in Ephesians 1, the Apostle states that the Father had given the Ephesian believers "the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him" which led to the "enlightening of the eyes of their understanding". This certainly refers to the work of the Holy Spirit (see the N.I.V. here). He is the great revealer of truth, and it is to Him that we must look if we want a real knowledge of the Scriptures with all their wealth of revelation concerning God's great redemptive purpose, which will involve a new heaven and earth in which Christ will be supreme.
One is sometimes asked how often should one pray, and the answer is in 1 Thessalonians 5:17, "Pray without ceasing". The Apostle Paul declared again and again that he never ceased praying, specially for others (Rom.1:9; 1 Thess.1:3; 5:17; Eph.1:16; Col.1:19; and 2 Tim.1:3). So we should constantly pray and give thanks (Eph.5:20), and "Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving" (Col.4:2).
If we want to discover the spiritual treasures that are found in God's Word, we must look to the Holy Spirit, the Revealer of truth, to do for us what was expressed by the Psalmist when he asked for his eyes to be opened in order that he might know "the wondrous things in God's law", which of course means His Word (Psa.119:18).