week of 12/6 and Isaiah 35

God of mercy, God of grace. As we enter this holiday season, we are reminded of the power of hope you bring into this world. As we deal with the struggles of life, remind us that you are stronger than anything we deal with and love and support us no matter what. As you spoke to your people in captivity through your servant Isaiah, speak to us in our time and place to give us assurance of your grace:

Please pray that we may have hope, peace, and love

Pray with my family
Exspecially with my daughter
She goinin threw a lot of emothinal pomble.
Family Friend. God Bless Everyone. J

There are big ship
There are little ship
But the greatest ship
Is friendship
Smile

Mommy, Grandmother, Friends, Etc…Dad. -____ age 6

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1-2 Wilderness and desert will sing joyously, the badlands will celebrate and flower—
Like the crocus in spring, bursting into blossom,
a symphony of song and color.
Mountain glories of Lebanon—a gift.
Awesome Carmel, stunning Sharon—gifts.
God's resplendent glory, fully on display.
God awesome, God majestic.

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Watch over the angel who is lost, for though I love her, she does not love herself

Please pray for my family. Friends, love one’s and for the world. Please pray with me in God’s Power of Healing. For my Health, also that I may find a job. Thank you

Please pray for continued growth and realization for my friend and I

I need healing for an illness I am going through. So much has already occurred but there is still a long way to go b/c the medication can only do so much. I also need a place to be on Christmas day. I will not and can not afford to go home for Christmas.

Peace of joy in the world. No war – Amen
Happy healthy holiday season in world

Please Lord keep me strong and bless me with things I want to give this holiday season. I will always know the season’s real meaning and the GIFT that was given to us all and what a GIFT CHRIST is!!!

Please pray for my friend returning to work this week, for college students who are losing jobs, for mothers who do not know how to love their children. Pray for healing for _____

I pray that my stepfather has the strength to get through a surgery that he is going thru tomorrow, and that my mother would have the emotional strength to quit creating fights and inventing slights between us when there were none I should be home.

Dear Lord, Please help me ----- ---- by my relationship and please help me express my ---- ----- in my relationship. Thank you for bringing ____ and I together. Continue to guide us and let us grow together stronger in our relationship.

Please help me to find relationships that are nourishing to me, where I can feel at home and feel loved. Help me to let go of what does not let me be open to what does. To be changed, to move on.

Give me the grace and boldness to continue walking into who you made me to be. What should be risked, let go of, and embraced? Give me assurance that there is love I can do nothing to earn. That love is just there for me.

Lord, Help me not to desire or wish for something I can’t have. Please help bring my best friend and I closer. Help him make a difficult decision that may change our friendship.

Pray that our life moves in the right direction. That I might find the work I am meant to do.

Lord, please continue to mold and sustain me this week. Let me feel your presence as a defense against anxiety and doubt. Help me to remember that I can bring to you any struggle and come to you in any state – that I will be forgiven and loved. Help me to surrender to you in remembrance of how awesome, powerful you are.

Praises be to you o Lord! I am confident of your faithfulness to me even amidst the storm. Amen.

Pray that a business venture will be successful. That I will get the proper authorization and licenses to start the business and off course the funding.

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3-4Energize the limp hands,
strengthen the rubbery knees.
Tell fearful souls,
"Courage! Take heart!
God is here, right here,
on his way to put things right
And redress all wrongs.
He's on his way! He'll save you!"

***

I pray for the strength to make it through the coming week: mental, physical, and emotional. I also pray for many people to be touched by the holiday show on dec. 12th

Please pray that I am not drowned in stress and expectations

Pease: with my BEST friend ____. From ____ age 6

Help me to hold onto peace

Peace in the war. Peace Peace. Stop the war…

Forgive me Lord Jesus for my SIN – Bless my family. Joy, peace, love, hope, finance, reconciliation. IN Jesus health name Amen.

I am grateful Lord for the guideposts you have given me recently – please make your presence known in my life – please provide markers to keep me on your path, or to show me the way back to it.

Pray for holiday season and happy new year 2010 to be safe – and happy healthy holiday season – amen

A prayer for all suffering from a cold!

God, I still can’t quite believe it…and I know you know this but I finally got a job that’s full time and live-able (if I’m frugal). Forgive me the moments when I doubted. Give me the courage and strength to move from survival – mode to abundant life. And for as hard as it is, thank you , sweet Jesus, for my work here. Amen and Amen.

I ask for prayer for a transition that is going to happen in my life very soon. I ask that I can be able to allow God to show me how I may be able to continue to be part of the change that God wants to see.

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5-7Blind eyes will be opened,
deaf ears unstopped,
Lame men and women will leap like deer,
the voiceless break into song.
Springs of water will burst out in the wilderness,
streams flow in the desert.
Hot sands will become a cool oasis,
thirsty ground a splashing fountain.
Even lowly jackals will have water to drink,
and barren grasslands flourish richly.

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Please pray for: For the success of the Christmas concert “studio 315”…that hearts may be blessed. ____. A young woman who just gave her life to Christ. That she may grow in Christ’s love.

O Lord. Thank you for your gift of love to me. Please watch over _____ until he sees your love like I do.

Please pray for him to find authenticity as he leaves his place of refuge.

Lord Jesus, I too ask for something to be anxious for I pray that I can truly HOPE for something to happen at school. For a change to come. For a collaboration. For a unification. For joy and beauty and peace and LOVE, amen

Praise God that intention and faith constitute salvation for the unbaptised. God saw in this way our belief in Christ and sanctified us even though we have not experienced the sacrament of baptism. God is so merciful that the Holy Spirit pours into our hearts even though certain doctrines claim the unbaptised are cut off from the Holy Spirit. Praise God that the power of Christ is activated by faith and is not contained in doctrine. Amen!

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8-10There will be a highway
called the Holy Road.
No one rude or rebellious
is permitted on this road.
It's for God's people exclusively—
impossible to get lost on this road.
Not even fools can get lost on it.
No lions on this road,
no dangerous wild animals—
Nothing and no one dangerous or threatening.
Only the redeemed will walk on it.
The people God has ransomed
will come back on this road.
They'll sing as they make their way home to Zion,
unfading halos of joy encircling their heads,
Welcomed home with gifts of joy and gladness
as all sorrows and sighs scurry into the night.

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God of love, God of grace. As we engage in dialogue with your Scripture, speak to us and open our hearts to hear a new word of assurance and hope for our lives. We praise you for loving us and hope for the day when all divisions and strife will break down. May we always live in eager anticipation of the coming of the Lord. Amen.

week of 11/29

O Come Emmanuel,
Who is the fullest realization of all our hopes,
Break into our dreary reality of darkness with great light. In a season of fulfillment, be present with us in the dark places of absence reassuring us of a time when there will be no more tears, no more pain, no more sorrow. Be with us in this time and place as we begin the season of waiting in a posture of prayer. Join us as we pray:

Attitude
Commit less sins

I need a job! Please Lord hear me now! My back againts the wall

My uncle having operation Dec. 3. My family n friends n the people all around the world. Amen :)

I wish it was more profound but today I pray simply that God will carry me, shelter me, protect me, support me, through the next 2 weeks. Let me feel his presence & love & mercy & compassion & forgiveness & blessing through every moment of. Let my faith, humility and openness be strong enough for this.

Pray for my friend ------. He is in a very dark place and need to see the light of God. Please pray he takes my instructions and becomes illumination. full of faith. thank you

I have a lot of tests & finals. I need to study, or at least develop better study habits.

subject-loop quantum magnetism
three asteroids are refreshing the planets magnetic grid-Apphis, DD44, FU165. The human is the only species not doing its style of grid refreshing. We once had it perfected enough to stand on 2feet, instead of four, that animals do it. Everything I teach is the oposite direction of the Supreme Primate (the Dali Lama). He doesnt do human style it. (hmm) stye was crash. Pay my work is recognized. Faith is magnetism.

Help me to learn the role or purpose of prayer

Please pray for my sister ---, who is going through serious depression and struggling with addiction. Please pray for me & my family that we may best know how to love & support her. Please pray that she may know that the light of God within her.

I need peace of mind & sheltearom or and apartment

Dear Lord—Thank-You! Thank you for your wisdom, your protection. Thank you for protecting me from my sin and sins of others. A prayer for --- who is in such emotional pain and probably a suffered much physical and emotionally!

Guidance for my career. Finding a new job where I can glorify God in my work.
Physical healing-stomach.
Come out of isolation-find a community and friends

Please pray for my health a well being
Contracted Aids/HIV in 1998
Thanks, ---

Please pray for my sobriety and the chance of my getting a job tomorrow. Thank you. Also pray for my family.

My Father
Thank You for this place, where I can let others know the me no one sees.

Jesus help me find a job I can live on please but thank you for the gifts that you’ve given that are so beautiful

Pray for -------. Her struggle with alchahol

Prayer for understanding, reconciliation, clarity, and love.

FOR THE SPIRIT TO BLOW IN THIS PLACE TO BRING ABOUT BIRTH & REBIRTH. FOR THE COURAGE TO SING

For all the sick, the sorrowful, the sinners . . . & me.

Vistor: --------- (lack of Humility) . . . There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end leads to death. Pray for ----------- and -------- (Pornography).
Thank you.
P.S. ---------------- (Adultery)

Prayer that I will know & realize the presence of God in my life & be thankful

Heavenly Father, I pray for HOPE-I feel like I won’t ever be loved again and I’ve lost hope that God has that in my future. I pray for forgiveness and a loving heart. I pray for my nephew.

God, Please help me to focus my thoughts & teach others optimism to sustain Your Hope. Faith all around us to achieve the most important task on earth-Your Love for all. Amen.

A prayer for the Director and Residents of the Sheila Dennis House (A Shelter for Women of many experiences in life). A prayer that they may receive a release from any-abuse, any separation and breaking down of family ties. A prayer that they may receive stable and safe housing! A prayer for us in ministry, a stronger direction and pupose in the Lord and a greater understanding of those we serve. Thank You

Please pray for my boyfriend who has just begun recovery from drug addiction.

Pray for more money-Amen. Money not everything but it helps.

Prayer for parents, domestic violence issues . . . and their healing

Lord-Help me accept that which I cannot have, or give me the courage to fight for it. Let either path lead me to happiness.

A prayer for a beautiful talented lady who wants a complete and fulfilling life. A life that will allow her to mother her family in a healthy way—A home full of grace, togetherness, love and good health-this I ask for myself as well.—Thank You

For me and my childen

Prayers for my first 12-step meeting

Happy Thanksgiving Rev. Golderer & Family! God Bless You for all you do! Love Always, ----- & ------ (from NYC)

I hate advent It reminds me everything “I’m not!”

Please Pray for everyone in B.S.M., who comes and works here. Many Blessing for my Family. Thank you for your prayers so I will pass my skills and Road test in school on Wednesday and to heal my Back. Thank You

I’m nervous about the possibility of a new opportunity-qualifications & disappointing others. Peace & Hope in the midst of it all. –------.

Please reunite my cousin’s family and repair his marriage.

I NEED PRAYER TO OBEY MY LORD & Not backslide this time. Also PRAY that --- is Kept by MY LORD’S HANDS GRACE & MERCY PlEASE God

Joy, Love Hope Love, Finance, Family, mother, Brother, sister, wife, Peace Health (In Jesus Name amen)

To help me have that that my body will heal & not hurt one day soon.

Prayer 4 family, Friends Health, money, Jobs, Axid Prayers 4 the Café

I pray to always remember how important communication is—with you, God, and with all the people in my life.

FAITH & HOPE

Prayers of Joy & thanks for the new baby --------
Prayers for friends and counselors like --- who come when called-Lord grant them wisdom and strength
Lord help this city-show us how to bring justice and mercy to all.


Continued prayers for my success on the job
Prayer for my financial challenges and my faith that things will all work out.
Prayer for my sister’s strength @ work
Deliverance for my mom & grandmom from deception of the world

Lord expand my heart and help me to obey

Pray for me to listen.

Praise God for he raises me from the near-death of sleep to serve Him. He raises me to be of service to other alcoholics/addicts with mental health disorders and by this work I obey the commandments of Christ. Amen.

Our needs and suffering escalate out of control as the weather grows colder and the days shorter. While we cry for relief, help us to remember the suffering endured by your only Son from his birth in a manger and his death on a cross. While we catch glimpses of hope, help us to seek your promises of your enduring and everlasting hope to come. We ask all these things in your Son’s good and holy name. Amen

week of 11/22

God, as we think about the Thanksgiving holiday that just passed, we remember that not everyone was welcomed into a warm home with open arms yesterday. And we also acknowledge with joy and thankfulness all the families that did meet together and break bread together. Life, it seems, always includes sorrow alongside joy, and brokenness alongside beauty. But You speak beyond our circumstances into the heart of who we are—and You welcome us home with open arms. You hear these prayers, and are willing to move mountains to bring Your kingdom into this world. Hear us now, Your family, as we pray:

Pray for my family my son, my friend and my Gifts of God Amen

I hope that my aunt get well
Please Lord let my aunt get well
and my mom

Lord please bless my family

Help me in the decisions I have to make in the coming weeks. Let me act in mindfulness, wisdom, Godliness & Faith.

A guy keeps following me and I'm almost to flipping out.
God please help me with this issue.

I really want my ex boyfriend matt back in my life cause I miss him please help me.
I'm trying to get through a lot of things that happened in my life
Please help me get through them
cause I really want a good life

My request for prayer is that the LORD Grant us a financial blessing and my husband and our family grow closer to the Lord, have more faith in God, pray more and harder from our hearts, because we know what we, as the sheep of his pasture can have if we keep the faith in God that can move a mountain. So please pray for our blessing to come.

Please, Lord help me find a job an find somwere to live an start my life over. Hurrican Katrina has ruiend my life an left me homeless.

God Bless
Thank You
I <3 Jesus with all my <3

I want to pray for my Grandmom, my Dad, ------------, --------------, --------------, -------------, and everyone in the world. I hope people have a safe a happy Thanksgiving

Please pray for me & my family. Please help us Lord
Thank You Jesus

To help me & wife with heat and kerosene
JC Better

Please pray I get a Bed & Couch need a firm hard Bed. Bed church gave got Bed Bugs (sad) from my Building. Pray exterminators come quickly
I killed most of them But they still bite me at night I sleep on a cot I'm all bit up

Please pray for ------------ ----------. who is homeless & depressed.
Pray for health & work for -------------.
Thank You

Please pray for ---------- -----------.
RE: matters of spiritual un-godliness (possibilites of witch-craft)

For my nephew ----------
that he will know You more,
seek You always--
and be filled with
Your light
Lord, my God

Please Abba, bring me my beshert, or take away this longing in my heart

I pray that Jesus forgives me my sins
Amen

Sometimes I feel like my prayers are being honored & at other times I do not understand why I have had to suffer so much pain.
I could use a lot of prayer at this point in terms of healing in many of its forms. I also could use a lot of support from new friends made her at BSM.
Thank you for your prayers.

Let those who make decisions regarding the well being of others find their way to the right path. God, have grace & mercy on all of us, for we are lost in our efforts without you.

thank you
lord for
new beginnings
keep me
focused on
what is important

God please give wisdom and creative thinking to our city leaders

I’m afraid we are failing our more vulnerable citizens of Philadelphia. We must see the truth. I’m afraid for those who need the cafes and fear for those who do not care. God help us find a way. What do I do?

Jesus,
We are getting married on Saturday! Thank you! Please keep us in good health, good weather, and help us have good plane rides afterwards. Amen.



father god,
please inspire the minds of those here tonight, to imagine and enact a viable solution the broad street cafes current problem; and for all those affected by its closure.
amen



Strength:
To face my fears.
To be myself.
To not be afraid (of my neighbor)
And Grace.

Please pray for my family & friends during this holiday season

God, love is simple
Why don’t you make me as free and simple as it needs to share love?

Jesus,
One more week! So excited
Prepare us, care for us, and bless us.

Lord thank you for being faithful even as I am not.

Prayer for the lonely, the broken hearted…
and everybody else.

O Father,
thank You. For all of the things You give me. Help me stay focused on You and not others for You are suficient

Lord—
Help me find inner peace, be content c what I have & be truly happy. with or without the man I love

Thankful for the miricles of the stars & the November sky
Breathe in m y lungs & the compassion of my brothers & sisters across the globe
Some glimer of hope & inspiration to help me into the calling or destiny that is law school
God grant me & ---------- in our minor dispute foresight for him Divine spirit or grace to see him throg it ALL

G-D,
Let me live another few years
Me

Please pray for my grandfather. He is 89 years old. He has lived a long life with a wife who adored him and three children who love him.
I would like to pray that he has the grace and the bravery to die knowing that God loves him.
I would like to pray that he knows that his family loves him when he leaves this world.

Help me to know how to answer the conceited control-freaks who violate my freedom.

God, help me to come closer, to feel more deeply, to forgive, to have faith in others & in myself.

Thank you God for new beginnings and for your peace that lives in all our hearts!
Lord, please protect and shine light into the hearts of all those who’ve been victims of physical, sexual, & emotional abuse!

Tired of Being a Sunday Christian want increased desire to pray and read and walk w/the Lord
Also need financial prayers that things in and with my business will improve and I can learn how to be a Christian & earn a living.

Thank you for putting this book The Year of Living Biblically in front of me and for giving me a few moments of “It Is Well With My Soul” on a radio show. Thank you for a gentle reminder that I needed to get a bit of spirituality back in my life. I hadn’t noticed the absence but there was an absence.

Praise God, from who all power flows.
Praise God, who made my broken, psychotic brain.
Praise God, who chose the way chemicals flow through my neurons.
Praise God, who teaches me to be an example of Christ’s love.
Praise God, who has shown me that I can live without taking anti-psychotic medications.
May God bless all schizophrenics.
Amen.

Family, Joy, Peace, Love, Health, Prosprity, Home, mother, Church happiness, Financial Blessing Breakthrough
In Jesus Name
Amen

Dear Lord,
thank you for giving me hope to continue my journey in my life

Dear Lord,
Thank you for showing my friend “-------------“ the door to happiness. Continue to give him the strength & courage to find his happiness

Jesus, help us find a solution to the café’s closing. Help us.
Bring Your healing to these dear hearts:
-------------, -------------, -------------, my Mom, -------------, -------------, and those whose hearts are bruised.
Thank You for Your faithful healing that I’ve already seen…don’t let up, keep healing, please

God, I confess my feebleness of faith. what if I am doing this all wrong? what if this is not where You want me to be? deep down I know that You are calling me to do Your work here—but that knowledge, that faith, is hard, so hard to sustain. Grant me the strength and courage to keep pressing on.
Thank You for glimmers of hope, and moments of Joy
Amen

Father, I want to offer praise for the blessings of peace that have flowed like a river beneath the currents of hardship and pain and chaos that have tried to take me over. Jesus truly does bring the miracles…Amen

Thank you for all Your blessings,
I am so grateful you have smiled on me.

my mind is on the brink of breaking. I want to cry, scream, break, cut, jump, anything to silence the madness.

Jesus, these prayers are our realities—they are our deeply felt wounds, they are our intensely felt gratitudes—and You are present alongside each of us as we experience these things. This world is aching for Your transformation, for the Kingdom to be made real. Lord, use us to bring this Kingdom forth—speak against the chaos, against the madness and inhabit our songs of joy and communion. Help us to be family for each other, not just on holidays like Thanksgiving, but all the time. Help us. Amen.

week of 11/15

Lord our hearts, whether heavy laden or overflowing with joy, are Yours. Yet to share these innermost things that are Yours and ours with others takes courage and faith. God, we lift our endings and beginnings, our pains and failures, our worries and hopes, before you and the community of your saints. We know that you are a God that breathes life into dry bones. God we ask you to hear these our deepest hurts, our joyous triumphs, our wearying concerns, and our love for others as we share those here with you and with others

pray for
forgiveness for my father and his mistress
the healing of my mom and dad spiritually, physically and mentally
my father to do work he's proud of
---------- to find his way
---------- to find true love"

I pray for the no barriers dinner this wednesday hosted by my company. God bless it
I pray for my ability to 'let go and let God

pray that I become the woman God is calling me to be

Help me to walk in God's way and with his peace. Free me from doubt and anxiety

help with a late tution payment so my girl can stay in college
excellence in my profession daily

please get in touch. I would love to volunteer my time
please pray for my mother, ----------- ------------. pray that God will give her strength to change the things she can. please pray for my brother ---------- ---------- that God gives him direction

great is the Lord and we want to praise his name more and better. we pray that the Lord will keep us in perfect peace. We ask that God grant us the basic things that we need at home and make our house into a beautiful home. take away all bad habits from us and keep our marriage solid as it has been for 3 years

The Lord is our helper and we need to get a better life. may the Lord be gracious unto us. may he have mercy on us. may he cause his face to smile down upon us. That God may grant us our real marriage as far as living conditions are concerned

I pray for wisdom as I counsel others, esp. ----------& -----------.

I long for an overwhelming sense of peace. I want joy to return to my life. I want to feel and know God’s presence

Rebirth at Penn Wynne Presbyterian Church

One might think God/Christ?The Source/The Force as an omni-present, universal Wi-Fi network, which our species has been disconnected from for some 13,000 years. “how did all the animals escape the tsunami?” Wi-Fi updates perhaps? I think it’s time to switch ours back on It’s in your pineal gland. PS: if you think 2012 is the end, you are moving backwards. It’s only the beginning.

Please pray for my grandparents: ----- who is in a nursing home, and --------- who is taking care of her and my aunt. ------- who suffers with down syndrome and is also in a home. My grandparents on my fathers side: ------- and -----, may they keep up their health. Also my brother, may he finish school as best he can and finish his college running career strongly. Also, please pray to help me control myself and my drinking and spending so that I can be a more balanced individual. and please pray for my parents and my girlfriend, ----- help her to achieve balance in her life.

Please bless this beautiful church and the wonderful people inside of it. I do not live in Philadelphia anymore, but whenever I come back I make sure I’m here for the 6pm mass. I get greeted and welcomed everytime I come here, no matter how long it’s been. Please bless all of those who have passed on and remain in our hearts. Please bless all of those struggling with disease and addiction, medical or physical.

help me find the strength/desire to make time for prayer and reading. There is a need for increased business and I need prayers to help me earn a living

dear God,
today would have been my mom’s 71st birthday- though she’s been gone 13 years. thank you for her life and the life she gave me. amen

help me to heal from the ending that has been so painful. help me to be changed by it. help me to go on. show me the new beginning. Give me the grace to be changed by it

I screwed something up for someone else, and I’m really afraid of the consequences. please pray that jesus will come near me in this.

13 days til we get married! God, I’m excited, scared , and nervous. Help us to remember that what matters is that we’re getting married-not much else.

Dear Lord,
Pleas give me the wisdom to complete my portfolio

Please lift up -------- who struggles with alcoholism, she is separated from her children -------, ---------, and ------. Please pray for healing, peace and unity.

Dear Lord,
Please help my friend ------- w/ his addiction. Help him be strong and courageous and give him the strength to confront the real reasons he is not happy.

Please protect me from what could happen.

Lord I ask for your steady hand of assurance upon -----. Grant him joy, love and peace.

God, I keep avoiding cause I am afraid I am not good enough and destined to fail. take away my fear and thank you for love!

God, I was reminded this week-twice- the depth and intensity of the true gift that is my working in this place. By your grace, I am doing what I am meant to do-what YOU created me to do- I am sure of this. What a gift! God, I PRAISE you. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
so many things are so hard- I still need a job that pays enough to live on- I do Need that. But in the midst of that hardship, I am so grateful. so grateful


thank you G-D, or what you have given me
thank you, me

I’m tired of being frustrated, full of fear as to what cant seem to come fast enough. I want a career. I can’t keep living in a constant state of repair. How do I know it it’s a true ending?

Please help me to find true happiness and peace

Spirit, bring your healing to:
-------,
-----,
-------,
------,
my Mom
-----------,
-----------.
Thank you for his love- may my love be a blessing to him.

O Father,
Please take away these concerns of self and put someone my path to bring closer to you

Lord give me clarity

a prayer for the benefit of those who feel without support or love

Praise God that ---- -------- was inspired to write a bible through the holy spirit just for alcoholics. The “big book” has been bringing alcoholics back to God for 75 years and decreasing suffering for all those who work the steps. amen

I need prayer for continued good health and the wisdom to not forget the past

I pray for my heart. I pray that I can be productive again. I pray for my friend ----- and my friend ----- and my sister. let her know that I miss her so much.

patience and understanding
your eyes

Prayers for my family…
my grandmother had a stroke this week…
pray for healing in her body
prayer for my grandfather who is now dressing her and helping her walk and cooking for her.
prayers for my mom as she grieves over no longer being able to rely on her mother
and praise…
I received my first grant for a community connectedness project

Christ walk with us, cry with us, laugh with us, speak to us, hold us as we falter, encourage us as we grow, lead us in new directions, teach us new ways, and show us unseen joys, be present in all of our pain and our suffering and our worry as we know you are present in our joy and peace. bring healing where these seems only to be death and suffering, When the world takes from us, discourages us, lies to us, batters us, You lift us up. Please continue to walk behind us, healing that which we have broken, with us to hold us as the winds buffet and blow, and before us leading us in the ways we should walk. In the name of the one who brings life out of endings, Jesus Christ, amen.

week of 11/8

Father God, be with our community. These are the voices of your children crying out and we lift them up to you. Hold these prayers in your hands, breathe your life into them, let your presence in the lives of these your children become more visible day by day:

Lord, help me to not interfere in the plans you have for my life. Lead and guide me father to do your will and not mine. Amen.

I want to be generous yet debt still consumes and I am still a consumer. I don’t know how to be financially free and free from my finances. I pray for all too many people without jobs, who feel bored, lazy, hopeless, worthless, and worry about their health, their kids, their bread and butter. Change our economics.

Please pray for my friend ----- newly diagnosed with cancer. I pray God sends me the right words to say to her.

Lord help me to express to ------ who you are, the light that you bring into a dark room. Help e to show her that each of us in our own small way can turn on a light. Amen.

Father God, give me an unmistakable sense of our presence with me this week: love, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, and joy. Amen.

You have been here, calling us to yourself from all time you knew us by name. We have not trusted. In Jesus you show us how much you love us. Offer ourselves. Holy spirit work in us now & trust and all in.

Prayer for the process of grieving – that I will be ok with bad days, and thankful for good days, willing to let the tears flow when they need to, and to laugh when I need to, for a feeling of peace.

Dear God, help me with my struggles in this life. Let me get through it somehow. Thank you, me.

My friend -----------, that he may experience God’s peace and comfort in his life. For my mom and grandson, that they may return to life in the Father.

For those who cannot come in from the cold this season…I ask for a respite from the elements. I pray that, with your guidance, we find an end to homelessness in our city. Lead my heart in the ways of patience, truth, and love.

Prayer for me to find faith. Real faith. I often fall so short. Prayer for my family and for those who are experiencing brokenness in their family, life or heart.

Lord, it is hard to know how to be faithful when all I have is this debt, no healthcare, little money, and sense of calling in I know not what direction. Help me and keep me faithful.

Spirit, bring healing to ----, ----, ----, ----, ----, ----, -----, -----, -----. Lord, I praise you for the healing I’ve already seen.

Jesus, I had hope in that job…that didn’t come through. You know I am longing to do what you call me to do – why then is this all so hard? I am just trying to eat and pay my measly rent. Forgive me if I whine. I am just so weary. This is a wilderness…. Lord make a way --- lead me through it.

Heavenly father, please, if I am supposed to get over ------- help me to do that. I still love and miss him. I have faith in you.

Use me Lord. Wipe the false view from my eyes and erase and delete the false beliefs about myself and who I am. Replace it all with dear eyes and a peace-filled heart.

Pray for --------. That he stays in good health and finds direction in his life.

God, open all of our eyes so we can see you each day and feel your presence to allow us to act your children. To be spiritual bread for others.

Please pray for me to understand others’ intentions. Why am I abandoned? Am I holding myself from others? Help me to understand and do better.
To live into the hope that you are there.

Praise God that the holy spirit is available to even the ones who are unbaptized. Praise God that grace is experienced even without adulation and idolizing the sacraments. Praise God that the gospels can be printed cheaply and anyone who can read can experience the message of God’s kingdom in the name of Christ. Praise God for the wisdom arising out of intuition so that grace can be understood. Amen.

God, help me to not get tied up in the busy-ness and the tasks. Help me to remember.
Thank you for abundant shelter. Let us offer shelter to others. I want to live as your disciple at work. Help me with that.

Thank you Lord God for this moment. For allowing me to be in your presence in your space Lord God. I pray that you continue to be with me in this journey, please help me be strong and make the right decisions for my life. Lord father, I love you and thank you for the love you’ve bestowed upon me, my family, and my loved ones. I pray that you forgive me and help me let go of behaviors that aren’t pleasing to you. Merci Bon Bien!!! Merci!!! Please continue to bless me and be with me. Amen and Ashe.

I pray that I may receive forgiveness for my sins threw Jesus Crist my Lord and Savor. I also pray that some one can help me get I.D. so I can get a job and stop being homeless. I pray this in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Jesus, in giving up these requests to you we do not abdicate our responsibility to our brothers and sisters, your children. Mobilize the church to put to put our loving arms around one another in our times of joy and in our times of struggle and sorrow. Let us draw near to those who are suffering, let us use our gifts and talents to your purposes in each other’s lives. Let us be your body, your hands, your feet, your agent of justice, mercy, love, compassion, goodness, and truth in this world. Amen.

week of 11/1

God, we thank you that we can gather through prayer around those who are celebrating, who are mourning, who are searching, and who are longing for your presence. Be present with us, and remind us that you are with us through all of our times of neediness and doubt. Help us to be filled by these prayers, and faithful to you, who hears and answers our prayers.

Help me, please, pray our Jesus to hold my mothers spirit close to His bosom always. She loves him dearly. _________ passed away 10-21-09

I would like prayer to guide me into another job. Sat the 31st I was layed off from a parttime Breakfast Cooks job that I held snice Aug. New Management/New Changes, I was the last to be hired the first to be fired.

Pray that I find one soon, this left ME Homeless!!! Help needed (Thank You)

Please pray for my possible return to Brazil on December! And for my English learnt. Thank you and God bless you!

Please pray for me
to better support my co-teachers as we journey toward a more unified body of learners
to shine like Jesus for my kids

Please bless this ministry—The Broad street Ministry-Homeless. For college students looking toward the future with hope and little experience—take care of our children.

I don’t know how to deal with my mother’s alcoholism. I don’t know how to be there for her. Help me, Lord.
I have a sense that all will be well re:job stuff but Lord I am so weary. Lift my spirits, please.
Thank you for his love—he is such a blessing to me. May my love be a blessing to him.
Lord, bring healing to _______, _______, _______, my mom, ______, those who are lonely.

I pray that I can hold onto those I love, that they welcome me in their lives lovingly, that I will feel I belong.

Thank you for using us in your world to bless, love, and save

For ________—a sense of love and strength and for his relationship with his dad

Pray for everything and future ____ amen

Thank you for your unrelenting and foolish grace.

I’m never going to get it right yet you keep asking me to serve and lead and you keep giving me grace. It doesn’t make me better but it makes me yours.

Help me not to neglect what’s most important.

Lord,
I need community, fellowship, friendship.

Bring me peace.

Pray for sick and world peace

Prayers for guidance; for your loving ways. I have not always lived to your standards, but you still love me. Give me the strength to continue to follow your leading ways and to serve you with my all.

I pray that God will help me learn to be happy alone—and that I will learn to trust him/her more.

I pray for patience.

Pray for ______’s health

God, you know the prayers of my heart. I’ve been waiting a long time. How long? Today I ask that you would come quickly!

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God, I need you to be here to center me, feed me, and encourage me.
Thank you for your blessing and your willingness to never let go.

Oh God, may I trust in you completely, so that I may listen and act on your word, I pray.

I’m lost! & I need to feel God’s presence in a real way.

Please pray for my friend ________ and her family, as they grieve the loss of their daughter and sister.

Please pray for _________, born on 10-31, to be blessed everyday!

We thank Go for his safe arrival! Thank you!

Prayer for my sick cats, please.

This poem is my prayer, now and forever. I love you Lord
“I stand at your empty table, O Holy One, and ask to be fed.
But there is no bread, no wine, no priest.
Is there no one to minister to me?
Is there no place at the table for damaged hearts and scarred souls?
Do you not invite everyone who believes?
I believe.
O God, I believe.
In spite of an empty table, I believe.
In spite of those who laugh at me as I wait for you, I believe.
In spite of the evidence to the contrary that they scream in my face,
I will stand at your empty table
And wait until you come,
Your arms full of bread,
The wine splashing as you walk.
Come, O Holy One, and feed me.”
--Ann Weems

My friend is struggling w/ addiction. Please help him

Help me be good, just, and kind.

Help everyone love more.

_______’s health, _______’s future, my grace.

Prayers 4-health, family friend, money

Please God,
Let things go better for me. Things haven’t been working out
Thank you
Me

I pray that the saints would show the way for me as I figure out what it is I have been called to and seek to answer the call faithfully.

For my husband and I, that we would seek the good together. That we could keep falling in love and never get out.

Please pray for my friend—that he may be healed from the past, so he can fully live into the future.

Lord, we seek your guidance and your wisdom in all of these things. Our lives are in your hands, and we pray for a sense of peace that will wash over all who are lost or struggling. Bless this community of people who long for your grace, and draw us near to you in times of joy and in times of struggle. Remind us that we are yours, and let that be a comfort in times of pain. Remind us that we are yours.

Coming Home, Coming Here

by Edd Conboy, head of BSM's Counseling Center

Much has changed since the days when the Viet Nam era “shopping cart soldiers” patrolled our streets and camped on our sidewalks in the ‘70s and early ‘80s. The military learned some hard lessons about the impact of the draft on society in a war of choice. The medical community learned harder lessons about the impact of trauma on the human psyche. Even the Veterans Administration – usually slow to change and slower yet to learn – began to see disturbing patterns and irrefutable similarities as soldiers returned from Bosnia and The Gulf War.

Those of us in the rest of society? Well, it seems our memories are short and our learning curve seems steep. We go to work to make a living, pay our taxes that equip these men and women to fight our wars. Some of us even wave a flag now and then as veterans pass by in a 4th of July or Veterans Day parade. Mostly, though, we’d just as soon not be reminded about what we send those young men and women to do in our name. We’d rather they just return home, put away their uniforms, go back to work and make a living. Return to normal. Most of the time that is exactly what happens - some three out of four returning veterans come home not too worse for wear.

And then there is the other quarter. What do we expect from these returning soldiers, the ones broken by what they have seen, and what we have sent them to do? In a sense we’d just as soon they disappear. We are not very good at the arduous tasks of healing those whose wounds are deeper than we can see on the surface. Wounds that reveal themselves late in the night when the terrors come. Or the wound that surface early in the morning as these walking wounded search out whatever is available to ease their pain.

Unspoken, we expect their spouses and families to do the yeoman’s work of caring for these men and women. And for a time most of them take on that work, making every effort to offer these loved ones the solace they crave. Much of the time they fail. They do not have the skills, or the temperament, or the resources to offer what is needed. Eventually then, these new shopping cart soldiers begin the slow, inevitable, predictable migration from small towns across America to our cities.

No parades greet them. None of us are waving flags welcoming them to our fair city. Now and again we may walk by one of these shrines to our failings as a society, drop a few coins in the paper cup situated like some sacred vessel on a concrete altar, and continue on our way. Most of the time, though, we look away, or even worse, pretend we are not looking away because we act as if is nothing to look away from. These homeless veterans become invisible, and so in that moment do we.

Over the course of the next few months, the next year or so, the experts tell us, they are coming. Five to seven years, they say, is when the migration begins to swell. The trauma that they have managed to manage through sheer determination or self-medication begins to have its way. And so they come to our cities where they can begin to disappear, where their numbers can dilute their shame, and where their camouflage can hide ours.

So what can we do? First of all perhaps we can see them. We can speak to them. We can tell them that on Wednesday evenings and Thursday afternoons there is a hot meal and welcoming people waiting to greet them here at BSM. We can tell them that there are warm clothes, some skilled folks who can listen, and other vital services available to them. We can tell them that there is hope. And in this city so named, we can tell them that there are people who will hold them in high regard, perhaps even love them.