Power of Prayer

prayer request

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:54:38 GMT

I'd appreciate prayers from this community.. here is the post and situation.
Thank you and blessings:

Well here I sit, the day before I am meeting with my boss. Some of my journal friends have followed the sad events of recent... yet too they date back a few years. I have not only had my mail breached, yet too my office and there have been other sad acts, and previous attempts to discuss this with her. I have hard evidence of some acts, soft of others, and she is merely suspected but the only one with motive for the other acts. . .. I admit, this has caused me much stress as traditionally I get along so well with others, including supervisors, yet clearly there is a sense of competition (from her) that has brought much stress.

So tomorrow I meet with her for goal setting. It is ironic as she is only my supervisor in "name" as we hold the same class of professor, I have a higher degree, and I actually chaired the committee that originally selected her. I think highly of much of her work, yet cannot deny there is a true tension there and she has had recent sad and hurtful acts for which she doesn't know that I do know she is the one. ... So my prayer requests are for wisdom. On the one hand I feel as though I should talk with her in stern firmness in hopes this all goes away, on the other hand, if I do so, others become involved and this could temporarily cause stress and sadness beyond the two of us. ... So my dilemma is in the response. My emotions aren't at the high stress level they were two weeks ago, yet too, I admit, I know not what to do. This morning I am taking the rare and unusual step of attending a church I regularly visit (not the one we are members of). I plan to go up for prayer in hopes of hearing kernels of wisdom from the Good Lord and from others in the Christian community. .... Its funny how life brings hills and valleys, ... sometimes both at the same time!

I pray these sad and hurtful acts end
and I pray I may have a kernel of wisdom
and that the Good Lord will guide me
and hold me in His arms
tomorrow
and always...

and may God hold any journal friend who stops to visit
and surround you with peace...

"Each morning is a fresh beginning. We are, as it were, just beginning life. We have it entirely in our own hands. And when the morning with its fresh beginning comes, all yesterdays should be yesterdays, with which we have nothing to do." (quoted and photo from the conscious living foundation)

prayers for peace

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:52:02 GMT

Amidst the waves of the past month and my internal strength and optimism, I admit, the breaches to my mail and office and subsequent actions and needs to report have left me at times feeling very stressed, sad and hurt. I hold to faith, hope and love, yet sometimes we face our humanity in ways we least expect. Today though I had no intention of sharing with anyone, I actually told a colleague what was on my mind. I feel a bit vulnerable and perhaps shared too much; I pray not. I too have been struggling with whether to confront my boss. I have held this in prayer for some time and when visiting a chuch, actually went up for prayer. Amidst prayer the woman told me she thought I should be patient in this; something I have struggled with. No one likes to feel harrassed and having formerly worked in the psychiatric forensic system I am all too familiar with concerning behaviors that develop patterns of response. So today I bow and prayer, and perhaps ask for continued prayers as I just wish for peace in my heart, for peace and healing with my boss or that perhaps if she is indeed guilty (I know she is guilty of some behaviors as I have hard evidence) that it be addressed. I too pray for a friendship most dear and special to me and that the joy I so often have in my heart blanket the unrest, stress and hurt from all of this.

Today I too think of the Anniversary of 9/11. ... Perhaps we can all (at least here in America) remember where we were when we got the news. I was teaching a psychosocial assessment and intervention class. I felt shocked as the tragedy hit. ... Perhaps now is the time for prayer...

Oh dear Lord, I come to the journal knowing that you hear every prayer that is laid upon our heart and cries out to you. .... You know my joys, my cries, my recent stress and sadness over events, and my cries to you for wisdom, peace, resolution and healing. Sometimes it is hard to be patient Lord, sometimes we wish for resolution to come in our time, not yours. Lord, I too pray that today I have not made things worse by sharing with a colleague. I pray that this be resolved as well and that she is given the strength to preserve confidentiality. Lord, amidst the strife in the world, and all the unrest, I too pray for peace in all the war torn areas, for peace in places of oppression, and that as a nation and global community we can focus on reconciliation and permit healing rather than hurt. .... Lord, amidst the unrest in my soul, I pray for peace, and that I may be a lasting, loving beautiful part of the world.
Humbly
amen

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:44:04 GMT

I know not who may stop by, but amidst the busy onset of the academic year, I could really use prayers just now. Sending my little one off to college was a big step... and both sad and exciting. Yet she is where I teach and therefore thankfully we get to see one another. Sadly though, I had mentioned my mail had been stolen twice, well the harrassment continues yet indirect and inadvertant. It is a long story that I won't go into but I am in such a dilemma as it is directed via my supervisor (so to speak) and brings deep concern. I can't file a direct report for a number of reasons, one is that I want to protect my dear daughter and do not want to cause problems just now... especially since my supervisor doesn't know that I know some of these actions are from her. ..

I hold to such faith, hope, optimism and energy in life
yet this is so sad and difficult
and indirectly also involves a dear friend external to the college
with whom both she and I are colleagues
Please if you would
pray for peace in my heart
for wisdom
and that even as early today
I may feel some resolution
in a way that breeds love
not anger, sadness and hurt

Thank you
Thank you

I need your energy

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:56:12 GMT

Merry meet,

We're in a situation that money is very tight because of a lack of employment and lack of child support.

We've been doing everything we can to legally get money, including borrow from my son's Dad (who does pay child support- the other Dad in the picture doesn't). But it's not enough.

We've decided to move to a nearby city so that my FH and I can go back to college so we can get better jobs, but we'll have to have money for that as well as for the bills we currently have. (We only have 3 bills- rent, power, and phone/internet. We don't subscribe to cable, the newspaper, eat out- nothing that costs extra money. We don't even rent movies.)

And on top of everything else, my son turns 7 this Thursday and we can't get him anything because we just don't have the money.

So here's what I need help with. I'm an artist, and I've listed some of my works on CraigsList, but so far I've only had one person show any interest and he hasn't emailed me back yet to let me know if he's definitely going to buy the painting. I really need him to decide to buy it and to PayPal me the money as soon as possible so I can direct it to my bank account and have access to it.

Please direct your energy toward this sale. Or any sale.

Thank you so much in advance.

Blessed be.

Prayer Request

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:48:19 GMT

Good Morning Friends,

I admit, I do use this journal prayer site on occasion, and am heartened to see others here as well. I could use prayers for peace, healing, and a relationship so dear to me. This past week my personal mail was breached at work. This has been so stressful that i got sick. ... Yet I am scheduled to travel to visit one most dearly loved in my life this week. So I humbly request prayers for peace, for healing physically-emotionally-spiritually, and for beautiful healing and growing time with one most dearly loved.

He means a great deal to me
and I pray all is well
all will be well
and life can move on in beautiful ways
Humbly and prayerfully
Journal Friend

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:58:24 GMT

Please pray for my uncle George. He's dying of terminal lung cancer and he's finally become so weak that he can't get up. My parents are with him now. The pain he's in isn't even existance for him anymore. He's skin and bones. Please pray that he will pass quickly and without any more suffering. Please.

I also humbly ask that you pass this around as much as you can to areas where it is deemed appropriate. Thank you so much. God Bless.

prayer request

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:07:12 GMT

Can you please pray for my brother Marc. He was in a very bad relationship and this person beat him, broken his foot and cut him very badly. My Mom went to AR to get him and take him home. So please pray for safe travel too. Thanks so much.

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:55:52 GMT

My sister's father-in-law (or my brother-in-law's father, whichever you prefer) has had a heart attack and has to have a quadruple bypass.

Pray for him? His name is Ricky.

(plz read) Prayer Request for Cathy Riley of West Virginia.

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:11:38 GMT

I post this entry asking all of you who reads this to please pray for Cathy Riley, of West Virginia. She is in Raleigh General Hospital on life support. Her family has already lost her 3 times. This tragedy has caused large amounts of pain on her family and friends, especially her husband David.
I ask that everyone prays that she revives with a miraculous recovery, and comes back to her dear loved ones. I ask that everyone prays that she learns from mistakes she has made in the past, and learns to better herself for not only her own well being, but for her families.
I believe that God can and will bring her back to her family and friends. God can do wonders for all of us, and with our prayers we can help bring Cathy back to her family. In the morning September 19th, 2007 the doctors want to take her off the life support to see how she will do without the life support.
I pray that she will be fine. She and her family need all of your prayers. I'm sure all of her family and friends would be very appreciative of the prayers you send to our lord. Please send your prayers to God for Cathy and her family.
Thank you.

--...Update...--

I just heard from my boyfriends mother that Cathy's husband told her that Cathy is now awake. She has been taken off of the life support. She has even began to speak. She told her husband that she was hit by a truck. But the thing is, she was in the living room of her house when she was found dead. She had no bruises, broken bones, or anything which would make someone think she had been hit by a truck. I will follow up with more details as I have them. But I ask that you still continue to pray for her and her family.

Prayers for......

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:38:08 GMT

Tony Snow & Elizabeth Edwards

Also prayers for:

Chase Keener

He is a 15 year old Model High School student. He has just recently found out that the chemo is no longer working.

The only surgical option is to go in and remove all of his bowels and most of his lung, so this is not really an option. He told his mother that He is not going to fight anymore but give his pain to God. I want you all To know that he is asking for a miracle and I need to enlist your help. If each of you could add him to your prayer lists and forward this to any one else that could help pray, maybe we could give this fighting, young man some peace.

Prayer can heal so much and so many.

I do not know Chase Keener but was sent an e-mail from someone else who does, asking for prayers for him.

Thank you.

Please pray for me- things are desprerate

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:51:27 GMT

I lost my job earlier this week. I had only started it a couple of weeks ago. It was a telemarketing job. I wasn't very good at it and was not able to make any sales. I had worked at this place several years ago and quit after about 1/2 a year. I didn't really won't to work there again but thought I would give it a try because I needed a job. Well it didn't work out.

I am very scared right now. I can't seem to find a job and the few I have had through temp. services don't usually pan out either. I have bills that I don't know if I am going to be able to pay and rent coming up next month. If I can't pay it, I am going to be evicted, along with my grown son. He tries to help me out as much as he can but he only works part-time at the library and he's also autistic. Long story. Oh, I have a dog too.

I gotta be honest. I am considering suicide. I am not happy with my life and I haven't been for quite some time. I can't seem to get ahead. I feel like I am in a pit that I keep falling back into or whatever. I am so tired of struggling and struggling and getting nowhere.

So anyway- I really need your prayers. I don't know what else to do anymore.

Please pray for Beulah Massey!

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:45:44 GMT

The docs decided that my boyfriends mother Beulah Massey needs to have open heart surgery. They are sending her to Charleston in the morning to have the surgery.

Please continue to keep her in your prayers. She really needs gods blessing right now. She really needs your prayers.

Please Pray

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:25:01 GMT

I was wondering if you guys could keep my boyfriend Carlos in your prayers. He's going to court this tuesday, the 16th over something that he didn't do. Just please pray that justice is served right - for Jesus to be by his side and to comfort him b/c I know he's scared out of his mind that things might not turn out right - there's always that possibility. So please pray for him - and us. I'd appreciate it greatly. Thanks in advance. ♥

X-posted to many communities

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:41:51 GMT

Please, I need your help!
I want to stay with my husband (we are 7 years together), I love him and can not live with out.
Please, help me to be with him! Please, let he resolve to be with me to merry me and have a happy family!
Please, my strength is out, I'm full of tears and I don't know who can help and how can help to my situation.

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:13:20 GMT

Please pray for my father, Mitchell. Please pray that his heart is healed. He sees the doctor tomorrow to get his test results. Please pray for my father.

hello, i'm new

Wed, 03 May 2006 06:20:36 GMT

i want to ask for prayer...i am very spiritual, my husband is not. but i always pray. i wanted to ask for prayer for us, for him to find a better job(cant make it on his current one),and ways to meet our rent and bills. i am disabled by an immune system disease and mental illness. my husband is the only one outside the home working. we just lost one of our sources of income and cannot pay rent or other things due now. please pray for God to show us what to do, or lead us int he direction of ways to take care of things. thank you so much. i will pray for you too.xx

prayers

Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:11:48 GMT

Please pray for my father. He has given his permission for this. My dad's kidneys failed and his blood is being poisoned with calcium and stuff that can't even be removed by dialasis. There's a chance he could pass on in the next three days. We're preparing for the worst but hoping for the best. Thank you.

Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:15:55 GMT

Please pray that I do well on my job interview tomorrow and that I get the job.

Thank you.

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:52:50 GMT

Please pray for my father, Mitch, that his body is healed.

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:52:30 GMT

Please pray for Jack and Sandy Hunter. Jack was diagnosed with what they thought was an inoperable brain tumor. Through prayer, he has since been moved from Louisiana to a hospital in Texas where a surgery was successfully performed on him.

Jack still needs prayers for recovery.

Jack and Sandy have young children.

Thank you for your prayers.

Prayers for those hit by Hurricane Katrina

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:05:35 GMT

We all need to keep the folks hit by Hurricane Katrina in our prayers. Pray they get the help they need. Pray that families will be reunited and people will recieve word of how their loved ones are doing. Just pray the Good Lord will be with them and comfort them.

hopefully buying a home

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:39:50 GMT

My Fiance and I just met with our realtor and made an official offer on the home we want to buy. Our offer expires tomorrow at 9am Pacific. Please pray that the outcome of this offer is successful for us! Send any kind energies to help this process along. Thank you for your time and effort! Cross-posted to ljprayerteam, paganprayer, post_a_prayer, prayer_circle and pray_together.

Heavy Duty Prayers Needed- Thanks

Fri, 08 Jul 2005 03:38:53 GMT

As the days go by I am getting very worried that I won't be able to pay my rent and other bills. I still owe for some bills this month and am scared I won't have the money when the bills come due next month. I may be starting a telemarketing job next week but I am still worried. I don't like doing telemarketing so I hope I find something else before then. My aunt has helped me out a lot but she's getting ready to move several miles away. Besides I can't keep running to her for help.
I'm starting to get depressed.
Seems like I've been trying so hard and can't seem to get anywhere. It's a long story.
My name is Bertha and I'm a widow. My husband died in 1999 just 2 days before his 48th birthday.
I'm also a cancer survivor (breast and uterine).
I won't bore you with anymore of my troubles.
I just ask that you pray that things improve for me. I appreciate it. Thanks

Prayer Requests

Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:33:56 GMT

Hey you guys! I was wondering if y'all could pray for me. It's a couple of things actually, as silly as some may sound but...

Today in the morning, I have a driving exam that I have an ill amount of pressure put on me to pass. I promise, it seems like all eyes are on me. Everyone [including people that I don't want them to know] knows that I'm taking it today and they know I failed the first time so there are people rooting for me to fail. I have this pressure that I need to pass it. If I don't, I don't get my license, I don't get my car [which I need to help my parents out and to go to and from school/work] and then....on top of all that, I get people making fun of my failure again. I get nervous on tests, especially with my Dad watching me so I tend to mess up so please, please pray that I pass it this time around and that God will just help me get through this.

Also, lately, I feel like I've been rebelling a lot lately. I need prayers for myself, as selfish as that may sound. But I want to feel closer to God again. I feel so far away right now and it just seems like I can't go back. It's too hard to. And also, my Dad and Mom have been both sick lately. My Dad has heart problems that he doesn't like going to the doctor for. They both get really bad headaches, etc. and I was just wondering if y'all could pray for them as well.

I'd really appreciate any prayers. Thanks in advance! ♥

A request

Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:11:06 GMT

My best friend’s mother is currently in the hospital. She has been undergoing chemotherapy for cancer and had a treatment done that “eradicated” her bone marrow in hopes that when it regenerates it will remove the cancer.

I am not a doctor or medical expert so much of the details are lost on me.

She had been at home after the treatment but her immune system was mostly non-existent. What they did not want to happen happened and she developed an infection that caused a high fever and put her in the hospital.

As of yesterday she was improving but not out of danger yet. When asked if we could send her something, flowers, balloons, a card, or something I was asked to “Just send prayers” this is not my “cup of tea”, but it is an important part of her life, she is a very religious woman and one of the kindest people I know. She has taken me in as a part of her family for every holiday; she deserves whatever I can do for her.

Therefore, my request is that anyone who reads this would please pray for Katherine, and her son Todd, and pass this request on to whomever they can.