week of 3/11/12

Dear God Thank you for your Grace and Mercy. Thank you for giving us life health and strength. Lord you know my heart. Things that I can't express with words. I thank you also. In Jesus name Amen. 

I am prayer for myself, family, and friends. Having me to be closer with God. 

community loneliness. 

Please pray that my siblings give their lives to Christ. 

To get off the street and to get my how pleace

 [picture of a flower]

The Devil is still in m y life please help me I need more help to caste them out, God Bless. 

I dread the moment when people ask me “What’s new?” I feel lost. I feel purposeless. I know God that you can make extraordinary things out of the ordinary. God help me please to find my way. Help me to be extraordinary.

Lord we lift our prayers our concern—in love for the healing of ---------- following his car accident. We pray for the young people in Philly this week for a time of service and discipleship. Bring us all to your peace keep us courageous, hopeful and ambassadors of your love.

Please pray for -------- a 16 year old who ran away from home last month from Stanton Island, whose parents think he might be in Philly. Pray for protection for -------- peace for his family and reconciliation and new beginnings for everyone involved. 

Please pray for me that I be released from my drug addition.

Please may pray for ---------- for his ministry abundance life international and the spiritual protection and guidance, Thanks in Christ name- brother in Christ.

I want it all to make sense and to feel comfortable and inspired. I need to pick a direction and go full speed.

Thanks be to God for rest, and for the Spring that is here! I am so thankful for the Compassion work of this community. I pray that we all find hope and healing and peace, in ourselves and in the world. I thank you for the safe return of a dear friend, and for the work that is to be done. Give us courage and grace and patience.

Jesus, I love you. I’m both ready and scared sh*tless. But here I am. Send me. Amen.

I’m grateful for your presence in my life. That’s it and everything all at the same time.

Lord, please help me to see the majesty of your creation, of your being. Lord help me to be a patient. Loving parent and a caring, loving partner. Help me to show my children that they are good and that they are loved by you.

Lord Let me not become a hypocrite. Lord I ask you for forgiveness for my sins. Give me the strength to carry the cross (burdens). Let me not unforgiving of those who I think are unjust. In Jesus name I pray.

God, thank you for the opportunity help me to believe in my gifts and talents, to actualize my opportunities. Help me to inhabit the glory that is mine.

Prayers for good friends. Prayers for healing between my husband and my best friends husband. Prayers of hope that we might one day have children. Could that start this month? Or ever?

Oh father. Today you have shown your boundless love for your children. Please watch over --- as she welcomes your children and brings them closer to you.

For --- and --- impending adoption. Be with them as they await his birth – that he may be healthy. Calm their anxieties and prepare them to be parents again.

I have some family and friends who are starting up a youth ministry. Pray for success in this ministry.

For patience and wisdom to know what step to take next. For grace and resiliency through mistakes bond to be made. For hope and courage for relationships to heal.

week of 2/26/12

Still recovering from police brutality on 1/2/12. Still trying to get apartment furnished.

That the holy Spirit surprise my friend --- with his goodness, closeness and love.

For --- guidance, purpose, acceptance into Fuller seminary!

Please pray for our legislator in PA that they might restore funding for mental health services and remember and serve the “least”

End all War

Prayer request --- Thanks so much. God Bless.

A prayer of gratitude for --- and who she will become. Thank God for her.

Please pray for guidance and clarity as I strive to see God’s plan for my life.

For ---restored health after recent stroke.

Please pray for my mother that she may have strength raising teenage girls is not always easy but she does it with grace.

Please pray that I become more available to God and the church. Pray for ---,---,---,---,---,---,---,---,---, and---.

Please Lord, grant me…grant us all… strength for the journey. Providence. Amen.

Dear God, Your aware of what’s on my mind, show me the way out of this, You’re the only one who can. My family as always is in your hands. Thank you.

Help me to feel even more mindful and present everyday.

Lord Thank you for all your grace. I ask forgiveness for my sins I ask you help me to be more giving of my time to help those less fortunate than me. Please watch over those I love and help me find someone to share my life with. I ask all these things in Jesus name. amen.

Prayers for families of blood, faith and heart.

For those suffering in Syria and else where.

Thank you for showing me I should just trust you from the beginning.

My brother is sick. Pray for healing.

good health care and to our good health. For our safe haven around our country the USA

To our good health and good health care

week of 3/4/12

Thank you for this community and the love and healing I have found here

my heart is so full

but I feel strong 

        & I am grateful

Thank you,

      Amen.

Please pray for _______. Pray that my broken heart is healed once and for all. Pray that I stop suffering over my lost love. Pray that I can accept myself. Pray that I can find love again. Pray that I feel whole and complete, even on my own. Pray that my self-esteem  be restored . Pray that I feel good enough once again. Pray that this heartbreak is over forever. Save me from this pain. Pray for justice. that I feel that justice has been served and I can find peace again.

Please pray that I might find the right words to say.

Please pray for my sister ______ as she struggles to move into substance abuse recovery. Please ask God to give her grace and my family strength and peace to guide and love her always.

Thank you.

pray for me 

    as 

I slide back 

    into 

the darkness 

For help with my own flaws, even those I know not

For us to be compassionate in the face of the chaos and confusion that makes up our world 

Oh father, while i do not know what tomorrow holds for me I do have love for you that takes away all fear.

Lord, please give comfort to those experiencing loss, especially _______.

Lord, please forgive my ingratitude, please help me to be grateful.

Lord, please give me patience as a parent 

   help me be a better partner.

Sorry about the bad writing

Please pray for me to get the devil out of my life. I am beginning to see a bright light, but he keeps trying to take me back to his darkness. I have been fighting but it has been hard

Dear G-D

Again I come to you, thank you for watching out over my family, well i made it through my problem. Thank you, me.

Lord please keep your healing hand on ________. Bring him communion with you and the Holy Spirit. For those in pain, known and unknown to me - draw close.

                                                Amen.

God, please pray for me to believe to trust that it is my time. Help me to know  and trust how I am loved. Thank you for all xr grace.

Volunteering at Beacon

Beacon is a collaboration of Broad Street Ministry and the Philadelphia Presbytery, lead by a staff raised by BSM, but located in the Kensington/Fishtown section of Philadelphia. As a faith and arts ministry, Beacon hosts a therapeutic art studio where participants are invited and enabled to discover and express their innate creativity. Staff and volunteers facilitate this discovery-work and creative expression in order to bring about personal and community transformation.

Because of its unique location, Beacon welcomes a diverse group of neighborhood folks to the art table every Tuesday from 3:30-5:30pm and beginning in mid-March Wednesday evenings 6:00-8:00pm. Children and adults from diverse backgrounds and life experiences come together to stretch some creative muscles, get to know their neighbors, and in so doing, create a community of flourishing and positive change.

How to participate:
Consider joining us at the art table at a frequency that works for you: once a month, every other week, or once a week. You’ll help us:

• sort new donations
• create, learn, and instruct others on how to create the art project of the day
• build relationships and cultivate conversation around the table
• be flexible! Help with homework, help with clean up, play a game

week of 2/19/12

To prioritize God 1st.  To pursue the things of God above all else And to live fully as He intended.
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Dear God & BSM~
Been awhile – thanks for welcoming me back & reminding me of the questions & giving a few of the answers ~ as always
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I pray for friends, family, nations & the earth.  I pray for prosperity for all, including finance, emotion, health, love, wellness and spiritually.  I pray specifically for all the difficult trials my family & friends are currently experiencing.  I fervently pray for true love & true romantic companionship, financial stability, wealth, emotional wellness & mental astuteness.  I pray that God reveal my path to greatness & I have the discernment & courage to follow him.  

God Please help me to know you better, to hold you tighter and to learn to love myself as you love your children.
Please please bless ------- & -------’s beautiful unborn baby to be healthy & w/o additional challenge.
Please guide -------- & ------ through they’re tough decisions.  Thanks be to God.  

I pray for guidance as I prepare to be married.  

It is good for us to be here <3

Where do I go and what do I do? You have given so much, now send me where you would have!

God bless Broad St. Ministry! For Real…  For Real!!! I was homeless for 2 full years doing what the city tells you, then I lived in the “Clark Park” till it got too cold and heard about BSM.  And then!!!!!, --------- hooked me! Up after a month to St. Columba (Project Home).  I have been there for about 6 months, AND. I. L.O.V.E. I.T. Thank you!!!
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Help me, God, to move forward, to trust love & to be enfolded in the love of others.  Help me to believe in my gifts & actualize them.  

My life is in your hands I place it in your hands My life, each breath, is not my own.  I have been redeemed for this.  Thank you Lord.  

My life is not my own, to You I belong, I give myself, I give myself to You.  Thank you for all good things, for the way You love me & us so well. Amen

This has been a rough week and I am grateful that you have helped get me through it.  I’ve been hurt, disappointed and betrayed.  I’ve felt unwanted, undesirable and unappreciated.  I don’t understand it all and I’ve given up trying to.  At this point I’m choosing stand on my faith and my belief in your promises and the desires you’ve placed in my heart.  Though hope is frail, it’s hard to kill and I keep my hope in you.  I am grateful in the miracle you are working in me.

Dear G-D,
Thank you for being there for me, giving me the courage to do what I did, keep watching over my family, let them be well
Thank you
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I thank you for your prayers, because I go this Thursday to look at an Apartment, I also have a choice where I live keep praying for me you all continue to be Blessed
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For  ------– she loves the Lord so much but cannot see Him at work in her life right now – Depressed

OH Father, Hidden from me is Your Purpose for me.  I will go with joy on Your Path

That God will always touch my child.

I am considering going into seminary.  It is a scary thought.  Pray for discernment.
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week of 2/12/12

Please pray for peace and less tension in my family. Pray for my mother as she undergoes chemo/radiation for Breast Cancer. Please pray for homeless people with AIDS.

_______, ______, _________ and many people who find themselves sick this season.

Pray for

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and

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Please pray for good results for _____ blood test.

Please pray for ______ in all his revert complexity.

I give thanks for ______.

And finally I pray to be a good mother and wife.

For my friend's parents as they hear and react to the news of her divorce.

For her hurt and lonesomeness also.

Dear G-D,

Help me and my family, I fear whats coming up

    Thank you

     Me

I pray for our young people that their faith will increase as well as their attachment to the truth.

God, help me to be healed of my illness. Help me to believe in my gifts and talents to have faith.

So grateful.

Strength for the journey

creativity for solution-dreaming

providence for me, our ministry here & in Kengsington,

our community, our

city, our world.

all these things, I ask you Oh, Lord of life, love and grace.

Please give thanks to God for the Lord's bounty. Please thank God for my sister's recovery, and ask God to contine to give her strength and peace

thanks and gratitude for another week - me of ___  and ____ side by side as ever. Prayers be with my ___ as she takes a trio this week for her safety and connection with a _______.

I pray that God & this community can bring me back to him. I want so badly to believe but for the right reasons. I pray for the sick, the poor, the sad, the hungary, the oppressed.

I pray for _____/

God please help me to continue studying your teachings, however much they scare me. Please reveal yourself to me.

_________ who passed away, Lord may he rest in your peace now and forever.

Lord, healing and courage for my friend ______

dealing with cancer.

week of 2/5/12

Please pray that the news blitz on the corruption in city services to the homeless leads to a new level of public engagement that ends homelessness in Philadelphia. 

Please help me to get to know you better. Thank you for showing up in my life so strongly

Dear God
Watch out for my family, I can’t be with them right now, help me through this week, I’ll need you thank you

Dear God, help me to be whole, to be known and to rest in love that is offered to me. Help me to allow in my life beauty and prosperity and security.

Lord, I feel unable to help your children, so much sadness and pain. Lord show me what to do, how to stay faithful and hopeful. You are the Light.

Lord find --- I know he is alright with you

I pray to be used as an instrument or vessel of God—radiating mercy, love, happiness and all the good of the world. I pray to be used for God by God.

I pray for wisdom to chose to live in God’s world – again and again, day by day. I pray for the soul of --- who dies recently.

For a renewal of my spirit, for the people I work with. For energy for creativity and empathy for more meaningful work.

Lord please help me to listen more often, more carefully to your word. Please help me to live in a way that shows you love in word and deed. Please help me to find the creative, chaotic, joyful, scary, place in the mind when you are. Amen.

Thank you

For the --- family who just lost their mother.

Oh Father, Please lift this uncertainty from me and present to me a chance to chow someone else your love.

(1) I am praying for my friend who is trying to get pregnant – she feels defeated, sad, and hopeless…
(2) I am praying for all of the homeless people and that they have a place to sleep tonight
(3) I am praying for the words to get through my interview

What do I do when I don’t even know what to write on this card? How do I start to heal? When do I stop distracting myself?

Lord be with --- bring her healing and help her make wise choices. I praise you for some personal victories. I ask you to be with me. revitalize my faith.

Color. Comfort. Love. Animals. Fortification. Trust in God’s timing. Restoration. Peace. Purity in breath. Courage. Perspective. Patience. Inspiration. Children. Direction. Water. Affection.

week of 1/28/12

Please pray for my friend -------- who lost her mother a week ago.

1. A prayer for my fiancée & myself (our future marriage, next month and for all eternally.
2. For all of the people, in their active addiction (chronically homeless)
3. For Old St. Josephs’ church (my parish) & Broad Street Ministries.

1. ------- for healing, emotionally & physically, after his diagnosis of prostate cancer.
2. ------– for healing of her foot and ankle after her recent fracture

On 1/2/12 I was beaten by a Phila. Policeman  It was mistake Identity.  It was a wight male.  It happened at IHOP on 13th and Walnut in Center City.  
(Will Volunteer)

I would very much like to join the “Caring for Others” prayer warriors.

1/29/12
A prayer for my baby (23) years old today! And so I pray for my brother – success, self assurance and wisdom.  Direction

Thank you for the peace in my heart.  Thank for my community that loves me & shows me.  Thank you for entering my life when I need you most.  

pray for my healing of illness to heal

1 Mom – high blood pressure & health problems
2 Transitions in life – moving & new job – staying healthy, grounded & stable.

Please pray for someone that I know named ---------, who is having a bit of a tough time spiritually and emotionally.  It’s a very urgent prayer.  Thanks

Prayer for increased participation in church events

I’m afraid of letting go.  To let it be.  I’m afraid of losing hope & the possibility of love.  

A prayer for all the people in all their problems.

Lots of thoughts & old doubts swirling in my mind.  I don’t even know who to pray for.  
Peace? Comfort? Something like that.
Please also pray for a respite from physical pain.  It’s distracting.  Thank you.

Thank You
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I am so grateful for the opportunities I have this year so for healing and recovery.  Thank you for the friendships and partnership I have in my life.  Please help me to cease worrying about that which is out of my control and cannot be known.  Help me to simplify my time and step in a deeper reality.  Help me keep space to give.  

Dear G-d, Help me do the right thing, with whats coming up, I don’t know what to do,  Thank you

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Give me ears to hear, and a heart to face what I hear

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I pray that the hobos in the streets will one day have a home.

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Thank God for Your Prayer, I in the process of finding housing Please keep me in prayer

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Dear God,

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Help me to move from ceding to seeding.  To have faith, to believe & to manifest the resources greed to make my deadline for my project.

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Clarity.  Please.

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Please pray for my sibblings --------, --------- and ------ that surrender to Jesus

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God, I pray for ---------, a strong and faithful servant battling colon cancer.  In his last few months.  Grant him your peace and joy, May he see the fruits of his labor.  Love him and his family

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I pray that hobos have food and an education so they can get a job and a house.  And that they enjoy hamburgers.

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I know not what I an to learn from this trial.  Still my mind so I can find your Peace.  

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Tonight Lord I pray for my friend—--------, struggling with a new life in a new place.  For --------- and ------ – Lord they need courage and healing for ----------, a pastor, and your whole church O God –we are trying to hear You.  

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For -------battling Leukemia

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For -------looking for employment

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For our Military and their families

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For -----, --------, ------, & ------.

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A prayer of strength to a friend struggling with breast cancer please.  

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Please thank God for the gift of family.  Please thank God for -----‘s recovery and ask that she be given strength, guidance, and wisdom on her journey.   I thank you for your prayers.

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