Will They Hear You?

He said to them,

"Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.
Mark 16:15

Heavenly Father,

I am so thankful that I know you, that I have made a decision to follow you. Thank you for not giving up on me. I wondered around, trying to do things my way. I didn't want to give things up. What I know now is that the things were not worth holding onto. I was seeking pleasure and finding pain. I was seeking security and finding constant fear. I was seeking love and finding out that people do not have it to give. I was holding on to what seemed safe to me. At the same time, I was sacrificing the very peace, joy and security I was looking for.

Sometimes when I am in a church service where people are really worshipping and you are really moving, I think of people who have not come to know you in a relationship. It makes me all the more grateful that I have, because as D.L. Moody once said as he stared at a man lying in a gutter..."But for the grace of God...there lies D.L. Moody." If you had not guided my every step to bring me where I am... if you had not been patient with me...if you had not loved me and died for me...there lies L.M. Nivens.

For those who surround me who have not found what they are looking for...I pray that you would reveal yourself to them. Show them how you not only can but want to meet their every need. Help them to run to you like a rabbit running to it's hole for safety, like a baby taking his first steps and falling into his mother's arms, firmly believing that she will catch him.

I know that you will catch them. I know that they will find everything they need and much more. I know that you love them and desire a relationship with them. I know that I know that I know...how do I tell them? Please teach me for you have commanded us to "Go".

In Jesus Name,
Amen

From the Heart

Heavenly Father,

How Great is our God! I know that you are amazing. I know that you are able. I know that your love is a constant for me. I know that you will never leave or forsake me. I know that I will see you face to face some day. I pray that you would continue to reveal yourself to me until that day.

My aunt lays right now in a bed unable to move her right side, unable to speak words. She has at least five tumors in her brain. Her loss of mobility and speech happened over a period of about two weeks. They are not treating her, only making her comfortable. They have given her days or maybe weeks. I am thankful that we have been able to communicate with her enough to know that she has made things right with you. Thankyou for giving us the opportunity and the boldness to ask the questions. Forgive us for waiting until now to ask.

We are not promised tomorrow. Help us, Lord, to make sure that we tell our friends and loved ones about your great
salvation. Go before us and prepare their hearts to hear the good news. Help us to be persuasive with love - your love. Help them to see that we bring the message because we love them - not because we are trying to change them or take away their fun or show them that we are better. Help us, Lord to have your heart of compassion at all times but especially when we approach someone with the powerful and wonderful saving blood of Jesus.

"He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
and as a lamb before the shearer is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
In his humiliation he was deprived of justice.
Who can speak of his descendants?
For his life was taken from the earth."
Isaiah 53:7-8

Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:7-8

I pray for healing for my aunt. I know you are able to bring her up out of that bed and restore her completely. You created her in her mother's womb - every detail that we can see and not see.

For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
Psalm 139:13-14

It is nothing for you. If you just say the words then cancer has to go. Adiction has to go. Chains have to fall off. Jesus shed his blood for our healing.

"He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
Isaiah 53:3-5

Give her a chance, Lord, to serve you. Touch her this day. Give her a chance to be tell her son about you. Give her a chance to tell Michael and Hobert about you. Heal her body, Lord. Only you can, and you are able!

I love you and praise you no matter what you choose to do, because I know that you are sovereign. I have made my will known to you, but I submit my will to you. Thankyou for your thoughts toward me.

In Jesus Name, Jesus Jesus Jesus
Amen

He is the Source!

Heavenly Father,

I thank you for your presence in our service on Sunday. I pray that the work you began in so many people would be continued until completion. Don't allow the devil to take away what took place in the hearts and lives of each person who reached out to you that morning. I pray that the doubts that might have entered their minds would be flushed out with the truth of your word. I pray that the promises, healing, forgiveness, freedom from bondage or whatever was received would stay firmly in their minds and hearts. I pray it would be something they can hold onto when day to day comes along.

Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For, "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever." And this is the word that was preached to you. I Peter 1:22-25

Lord, don't let us forget the obedience part. Help us to seek to know your word, so that we will know how to obey the truth - so we will not miss out on the blessings and promises.

I pray for David Freeman who put a request on the prayer board. I pray for healing in his body. I also pray that as he takes the chemo treatments that he would not experience the usual side effects such as nausea. I pray that you would encourage him in this time. Give him peace to know that you are with him. Give him direction to know what you would have him to do right now, so he will feel purpose in his life.

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. Romans 5

I pray for our Sunday School class. I thank you for the bonding that has taken place. I thank you for the freedom in class to share needs, thoughts and tears. I pray that you would continue to pour out your presence in that classroom and on each person as we grow and seek you.

Ten minutes in your presence Lord is better than anything this world has to offer and accomplishes so much more!

I thank you for hearing me. I pray that you would prepare our hearts for tomorrow's services. Help us to receive whatever you want us to learn and help us to be aware of how we can help someone else around us that may be in need.

I pray all these things in Jesus Name,
Amen

He Is Able!

Now to him who is able to do

immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine,

according to his power that is at work within us,

to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus

throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen

Ephesians 3:20-21

Heavenly Father,

A lot has happened since I last posted a prayer. I am thankful that I don't have to depend on a computer to talk to you. I thank you for the sale of my house. I pray a continued blessing on the new occupants. It was a good house for me and my little girl (who is no longer a little girl). I pray that they would have a good relationship with the neighbors like we did. I pray they would feel at home right away.

I thank you for helping my brother and his family moved safely. I pray that you would help his house to sell quickly. I ask that you be with his girls as they have had to start a new school and are having to meet new friends. I pray your anointing would be on my brother as he leads the congregation into your presence each service to worship you. I pray the church would grow in spiritual depth and be a solid source of strength and learning for all who attend - as well as a place where those can come in the first day and find exactly what they came there for.

I pray for the kids starting school tomorrow. I pray that the year would start off on the right foot for kids and teachers alike. I pray for those who are attending a new school (my daughter included). I pray that you would help them to meet good friends quickly. Be with Alden - she is looking forward to going, but she is nervous too. I pray you would surround her with your angels. If she is alone, send her a friend. If she is lost, send someone to help her find her way. If she doesn't know what to do, send her wisdom to guide her. Help her in her studies to form good study habits and listening skills. I pray she would connect quickly with all her teachers to promote a good atmosphere for learning and growing. I thank you already for being with her always - especially when I can't be.

There are several names with medical and physical needs. I ask that you would be with Al Asbury as he recovers from surgery and makes decisions based on the results. I pray for my aunt Helen. She will go back to the doctor next week to find results of some tests that were done. I pray you would speak to her. Call the word to her memory as she looks for peace in an unknown situation. Draw her back to a close walk with you. I also want to pray for Ashley who was in a bad car accident. I learned the other day that she is believing you for healing. Right now she is in therapy learning to live in a wheelchair, but I will agree with her and believe for healing in her spinal cord. She is 22 and has 2 small children. I pray that as she seeks you and believes you that you would hear her cry out to you - a father listening to his child - and would have compassion on her. I pray you would touch her spinal cord that you yourself created and make it better than it was before the accident. I thank you that you are able and willing to do more than we could ask or imagine.

I pray all these things in Jesus Name and for His sake,
Amen

Worship The Lord!

Heavenly Father,

I am learning the importance of worship.

Worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness;

tremble before him, all the earth. Psalm 96:9

I only wish that I could worship you in a manner that you deserve. I can worship you for what you have done. I can worship you (in faith) for what you will do. I can worship you for who you are - in my limited knowledge of who you are. I want to see you. I want to know more. I want to have the awe that I know I should have because of who you are.

Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name;

worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness. Psalm 29:2

I have awe because of what you have done in my life. I am thankful that you have revealed yourself to me and brought me out of so many things. I am thankful for the joy only you have put in my heart - the joy that stays with me even in hard times.

I pray for Travis that you would release something in him. I pray he would be able to surrender to you the praise he knows is in him. He has confessed with his mouth that he wants to praise with all he has, but he cannot let go. I pray that you would speak to him through your holy spirit the words he need to hear to let go of what is holding him back.

David, wearing a linen ephod,

danced before the LORD with all his might,

while he and the entire house of Israel

brought up the ark of the LORD

with shouts and the sound of trumpets. 2 Samuel 6:14-15

I pray for Ms. Jeralds. I pray that you would help her to trust you in her finances. I pray you would provide her with a job. I pray you would help her physically and emotionally with the sadness and crying she is experiencing. I pray that if it is a physical problem that it would be identified and quickly treated, but if it is the enemy coming against her, that she would reach out to you and you would drive the enemy far away. You have promised that:

no weapon forged against you will prevail,

and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. Isaiah 54:17

I pray for Jim’s aunt June as she is preparing to leave this world. I pray for his mother that she would be able to let her go when the time comes. I pray you would be comfort for both of them during this time of their lives.I pray for Barb’s kids and the things they are going through. I pray for the safety of Emma in that situation. I pray you would intervene there and give wisdom to those who need to make decisions where the little girl is involved. I pray that there would be liberty where there is bondage.

I pray for Tom and Scott as they council this man, Jeff. I pray you would give them the words they need to encourage this man and point him towards peace and joy in your salvation. Reveal yourself to him, so he is able to see past his circumstances and get through this time in his life.
I pray you would help Darla in the situation with the blended family. Bless her for standing up for what is right.

I thank you for hearing me and for desiring to help even the smallest details of my life.
I pray this all in Jesus Name and for his sake.
Amen

Trust in the Name!

We will shout for joy when you are victorious

and will lift up our banners in the name of our God.

May the LORD grant all your requests.

Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed;

he answers him from his holy heaven

with the saving power of his right hand.

Some trust in chariots and some in horses,

but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

Psalm 20:5-7

Heavenly Father,

My Lord and my God! How great it is to be able to come to you and put my cares into your hands. You are so able and willing to hear and answer me. I can rest, knowing you are in control.

I pray for Bruce, who is in the hospital with broken and crushed bones in his leg and ankle. I know you have created those bones from nothing, and you can if you choose recreate them from the splinters that remain. You can cause them to come back together the way they are meant to be. Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. I ask that you glorify yourself in the eyes of the unbelievers - when the doctor goes back in for surgery today, that he finds improvement if not a complete healing of his leg and ankle. If this is not your will, then I pray you give Bruce the grace to endure what is ahead.

I pray for Faye, who is in the hospital with pancreas problems. I thank you that the doctors were able to determine the cause of her sickness. I pray you would be with her today as they do tests and decide a course of treatment for her. I pray that you would speak to her during this time. Remind her of who you are. I pray that she would experience something special with you as a result of this illness.

I pray that you would continue to comfort the boys in the loss of their father. there is no way for us to comprehend or understand something like that let alone try to explain to a 10 and 6 year old. Only you can get them through.

I pray for Scott as he travels. I pray that you would give him the words to say when he talks to his friend. I pray that you would reveal yourself to that man. I pray the things he thinks he already knows would not cloud the truth about who you are and the kind of relationship you want to have with him.

I thank you for hearing me, and I know that you are able!
I pray in Jesus Name!
Amen

Comfort and Compassion

May your unfailing love be my comfort,

according to your promise to your servant.

Let your compassion come to me that I may live,

for your law is my delight.

Psalm 119:76-77

Heavenly Father,

You are the comforter. Your compassion pours out on your children. I pray that you would pour out your comfort and compassion on the Eaton family as they grieve the loss of a loved one. I pray especially for the kids. How hard it must be for them to understand. There is no way to comprehend why something like this would happen. We live in a fallen and imperfect world. It’s not what you had planned for us, but our free will and free choice led us down this path. In spite of our sin and disobedience, we are your children. You have made a way through your own Son for us to be called sons. Let your compassion fall on your children in this time of need. Help us all to always look to you for answers and comfort and whatever we need.

I continue to pray for my brother. I pray the vision you have put in him would collide with his career. I pray that monetary support would come from somewhere for him to be able to carry out that vision. I pray you would make things very clear to him what he should do.

I pray for the kids at camp. I pray for the speaker that he would be anointed. I pray you would put the message in him that so many kids need. I pray that you would break bonds that are forming. The age is so tender. It is such a hard time to be so tender an age. Help them find you this week and build a solid foundation that they can start a new life on. Give them new hope for their future. Give them strength and vision for their future. Give them purpose for their life besides the usual things 13 and 14 year olds do. Empower them with your presence. Let them know there is more out there than video games and dating.

I pray for those in my Sunday School class. Be with Travis at work. Help him to show love to those he works with. Be with Taz and his wife and their health issues. Touch their bodies. I pray for April as she will be at camp next week. I pray for Scott’s uncle who hasn’t been feeling well. I pray for his friend that he is going to talk to in a few weeks. I pray that you would prepare him to hear the truth. Give courage and wisdom to Scott as he talks to this man. I pray for Barb’s son as he is trying to make a new path for his life. Encourage him and surround him with support in friendships. I pray for Kelly as she steps out of her old life. I pray you would protect her from old patterns and relationships. Begin to heal those wounds that led her into that lifestyle.I thank you for hearing these requests. I thank you that you care about even the littlest detail of our lives and you hear our cries, and you see our tears.

It’s in Jesus name I pray,

Amen