We're shifting the format for the BSM blog...

...With our newly updated website (broadstreetministry.org) comes an opportunity to host the Psalms of the Street on one main site instead of a site and a blog.
So from here on out to read the Psalms of the Street, please bookmark this url: http://broadstreetministry.org/worship-faith/psalms-of-the-street/

Check that link often, as prayers from the community of Broad Street Ministry are lifted up weekly.

week of 8/25/13

Pray for those who diminish their own humanity by diminishing that of others.

Please hold me in your prayers this coming Friday when I return to the doctor for a pregnancy test. I am so hoping and praying for a positive result.  Thank you.

God, that I may open my hand and let go of what I’ve been holding onto so that you may refill my hands with blessings.

Gratitude for the love and grace of my partner when I get scared and push him away.

Lord, I give you my anxiety. Help me to trust the joy—the good—that you have given me. Thank you. Amen.

To try not to keep it all in my control. To remember that God is at work even when it looks like it’s falling apart.

Oh Father, Please continue to point the way to Your Peace. Thank You!!!

Dear G-D, I still have not heard from my family, please watch over them, help me get through this week. I need you with me. Thank you, ME.

Pray for me Broad Street. Pray for me hard this week. Keep me from sinking. Give me something strong to lean on this week. Thank you Lord God for being my strength.

I pray for your wisdom as I make choices in the coming weeks. I pray for *****, that his cancer be treatable. I pray for ****** that she be returned to her parents, who adopted her at birth.

May we grow in strength and in ease, in clarity, and in peace, in joy, and in love.

For a healthy pregnancy

I pray for a miracle in the life of *. May God reveal him/herself in *’s life and show the miracle of love and trust.

I pray for all those who struggle with negativity. Please let the light shine in their life.

Prayers for continued healing of the people of New Orleans and of the Gulf.

Prayers for our community to grow our love for each other.

Prayers for universal equality.

Today the sunlight comes through the big window in a particular way that makes the paper birds look like pieces of stained-glass color that have come loose to fly overhead. 

Today is a day of unexpected joy.

Today I feel like I fit.

Amen.

Thanks for the gentle reminders that so much journey is left and for the eyes to see it.

May I be safe, peaceful and happy, and extend safety peace and happiness to the people I encounter.

Please be with *****—she needs strength, courage and compassion.

Please be with ****** and her family as they try and move forward in sobriety.

Prayers for my friend **** who is going through a tough break-up and needs strength to move forward.

I have a big opportunity. Pray that I do well.

Thank you Lord. Your grace and generosity is given abundantly, it is our right to reach out and grab it—but we don’t?  I don’t know why. I wonder…but probably will never truly understand but that is ok we don’t have to. We think we don’t deserve it…there’s a catch but we do, and there isn’t. So thank you Lord for all of your love. Each and every single day of our life.

Give me the strength to combine creativity and success with humility.

I need help with anxiety, loneliness and trying to figure out life. Thank you. 

Please join me as I give God thanks for answered prayer….my new job!!

Freedom from the oppressive nature of my last job. Hope for a future and success in the new job. Please pray that God will use my gifts and work thru me in my new position.

Please pray for God’s grace and favor as my daughter seeks employment in NYC. Amen.

Dear God—

Help my authenticity to shine through while finding the discipline to do my professional work. Keep me safe and bring me home quickly.   

God may I have a fish  

I am persecuted as a white devil by a couple of black guys where I live (a group home). Yesterday I was attacked offsite by *****. I was bleeding from 2 sites. And I walk with a cane. Earlier in the day, he threw bleach on me challenging me all of the time.

p.s. I am 63 years old!

week of 8/18/13

I please request a prayer for homelessness and be Christ centered and God’s centered persons.

I pray for grace and peace in broken relationships, that what once caused doubt and anxiety would bring joy and life to the people in the relationship and all those they encounter.

Prayers for police officer ***** reserved good health

Prayers for hope, healing, & new life.

I pray that my faith can help me get through a period of depression I’ve been stuck in.  I also pray for all those suffering from mental illness.

I hope that you can pray for me that I may find companionship and love.  Also, I just want to ask you to join your prayer of thanksgiving with mine and just say “thank you” to God.  Finally, please pray for me to become an excellent clinician, caregiver, healer as I continue to train as a medical resident.

Gloves

Teach me Oh God, fill me will your wisdom this week so that I may teach others.

This pray for my Dad and my framiy my Grandpa passed away so keep us in you pray

May God continue to guide me and keep me financially sound.  May God fill me with His grace and peace and help me to let go and move on.

Oh Father, Watch over ****.  Please place someone in his life to lead him closer to You.

Thank you.  Everything is changed.  I will not go back – forward, nearer always to you.  It’s turning around for me.

Know this, if you’re reading this you are beautiful and fully loved by God. (A reverse prayer, a prayer for you who is praying for us.)

Dear G-d, Thank you for all your help in the past, keep an eye out for my family, I can’t seem to keep in touch with them.  Thank you, Me

Finally able to contribute I pray for souls saved with my church programs

Lord in Your mercy I ask for your anointing for those who preach here. Grant me traveling mercies prepare my path to meet you along the way.

I pray to know how to help my teenage son.  He is experiencing bumps, in his life and dibliabilities.  Please pray for him too.

Praise be to God For being good to me

Dear God ~ Thank you for all of the Healing that I see around me + in myself.  Sometimes it’s painful, messy, and gross – but I delight in it – Amen – ****

Job Interview Monday @ 1 pm.  I need a job.

Today instead of a prayer request I want to tell a story.  A few days ago, a person who’s becoming very important to me told me that when we first met I reminded her of an obelisk.  Today I read that the Washington Monument (the tallest obelisk in the world) took two decades (or so) to finish & had to stop construction a third of the way up and finish building with a different plan.  A parallel to my life?  I think so.  I hope so.  I want to believe that I’m not finished because I had to stop and rethink my plan.  I want to rebuild my foundation so I don’t sink into the ground.  I want to be the obelisk I remind others of.  Amen.

Grateful

God help me to have gratitude & also to have the strength to persevere and ouegh adversity!  TY!

Please pray for my friend *****.  Pray for her to have peace in her heart, strength, and to know & love God.  Praise be 2 God.  Amen.

Dear God.  Help me know how to show up in your world. Thanks be to God.

Thank you for the lesson your timing is impeccable I’m not formed, I’m forming Please continue to guide me your sublime clarity AMEN

for a healthy pregnancy

I’m struggling to trust God both in the micro + macro.  Please pray that I can see God working in my small glimpse of His universe.  And that god’s will would superceed the greed and corruption of our nation’s policy/decision makers.

Providing shelter and safety for all your children every day.

I want to be less selfish with my time – I’m in transition and feel like I’m hoarding my time.  I would like prayer for peace courage and the passion to share of self

I see you Lord.  I see you at work in my life & I can only imagine what you are doing w/ the others around me & the people of this world.  It’s is amazing You are amazing.  Ever living merciful & comforting to us all although we may not recognize you – you are always there.  Thank you.  I love you.

I had an iui procedure on Friday and I go back on Aug 30^th to find out if it worked… if I will be blessed with a baby!  Please pray for my hopes of being a parent.  Thank you

Would you God be our God who suffers and cries with us, would you put you Spirit into the hearts of those affected by the school reforms and those fighting for public education?  And would you be with me as I search for you and as I strive to live generously in your image?  And would you be with a friend of mine who is wrestling with your Truth?

week of 8/11/13

Dear Lord, 

Help me to be a blessing to your children. Help me find companionship that allows me to fully be the woman that you intended and created me to be. Thanks be to God.  

It's me Lord. I need you. I want you. Shut off these thoughts, these doubts, these fears so that I can truly follow you with my whole heart. Lord I beg of you. I see you, but I can not hear of feel you. I know you are there and will never leave. I love you. 

My good friend —— was recently diagnosed with a very rare autoimmune disease. She is 22. I pray for healing, encouragement, and strength. 

I have a Lot of trouble with anxiety. Please pray for me to be able to get through these next few months and to be able to keep my head above water during school. That I won't fall back into my old patterns and that I reach out for help when I feel these old ways surfacing. 

*and I know this is a strange request but can you email me where you get or how you make your bread :)

Dear God - 

Please inspire me to see beyond the chatter and contradictions, and injustice I see around me - Please help me be at peace as I move through it all - 

Amen - ——

Please help me release my demons. Thank You BSM & God

Please pray that God will lead "angels" in the form of concerned, connected, and thoughtful people across my daughter's path who will think of her and remember her in job search. Also that she may find a place to live in NYC. 

I am grateful that all aspects of my divorce and child custody process are completed. 

I am also thankful for this church community, for sustaining me during this difficult time. 

Thank You

Russia

Patagonia

relief for all grasping straws and barely hanging on

for the school district of Philadelphia...the students, parents, staff

Mr. ——

Thanks God

    for a knot to 

  unravel. I will be

      diligent, and

  hopefully learn what 

        You

       intend. 

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    men

I pray for the well being of ——  —— - she needs your protection. 

Dear G-D, 

You were there with me last week, i could not have made it without you. 

Thank you,

Me

May my thoughts, words and actions be guided by the highest potential and God's will. 

God, please stay with me and my family. Guide me. 

Thank you for friends and family who love me well. For what's next, may you be apart of it. 

Pray for those without food, both in the way of bread and hope. Pray that they would be fed by physical bread and the bread of life. 

Pray for those full of anxiety and fear, that they will find freedom and life. 

Oh Father, 

Please stand with —— as he begins his service in your house. 

Please pray for my family to be centered on God and led by God's grace. Praise be to God.

Prayers for my family, particularly ——. Prayers for my parent's peace. 

Lord God Almighty

   give us understanding

   protect the weak and grant 

     wisdom and courage to the strong. 

Prayers for my Aunt —

   who lost her dear husband —. Traveling mercies as I travel next week for the memorial. 

prayers for my dad

prayers for me and prayers for whatever's next for each of us

I need a sign. 

week of 8/4/13

Prayer is great but work help... both are needed.  (Also from the same person was a longer note on a piece of paper)

To Broad Street Ministry Church, my name is ------------ I don't get high off drugs or drink.  I need help to not live on the street I have diabetes type two my legs go out some time I have nerve damage to my legs, hands and feet please all I need a place to lay my head and stay wash up every day.  This church helps everybody out all people homeless and anybody to help me please my name ------- my number is -------------.  Let God help  mercy I would like to help the church.  I been to your church 7 times.  

Dear Merciful God,

There have been times this week when I have been less than loving towards those around me - thank you for helping me see this  - Please watch over my Father as he recovers from his surgery.  Amen--------,

This pray for me. 

Prayers for stress and management for it. 

I would like to give thanks to God!! Family & friends.

I pray that one day everyone will be excepted for who they are. 

Prayers for me to develop a stronger relationship with Christ even in moments of doubt and sin.  I also ask for prayers for ----------- a sister in Christ who just lost her husband.  

I pray for everybody elses prayers to come true :)

Please heal the broken hearts and spirits.  Special blessings for ---------, ----------, -----------, -----------, ----------.

God's presence and peace on my block.  Thanks!

Prayers for my father, struggling with depression, diabetes, hunger, and an impending surgery to amputate part of his foot, continuing unemployment, and potential return to homelessness.  Prayers also for my brother and sister in law and myself as we struggle to accept that we cannot provide what he is seeking.  

Help me to love the shit out of people this week. 

I pray for the health and well being of close family and friends.

This week I pray for help getting my life together, but first for the strength to ask for help.  

pray for me.  and God bless ----------------.

For all people who are in a relationship, with a woman, with a m an... as a friend, as a sister, a brother, a mother, a father, an aunt, an uncle, a grandmom or grandpop - that all our relationships will be  unified and that all our love will glorify our Lord.  

Dear God, be my savior on this day. Send me boucoup love and riches.  Love

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----------- and --------- as they go to seminary

I pray that all the people I love and come in contact with are never hurt by my behavior or inadvertent carelessness.

God Let me use this cherished blessing of peace to the best of my ability for as long as I can.  Amen.  

Jesus on the mainline, tell Him what you want.  I want to know, what's the right next step?  And will you fill me with the love to love others even when I'm burnt out?

Prayers for the building of community at BSM and elsewhere.  

Prayers for peace in my family.  

Dear G-D, get me through this week, last week was tough for me, please be with me as you always are.  I love you, me.  

I believe God when I pray.

Oh Father, Mighty Lord, I have seen your hand at work.  thank you for this Grace.