God, we are challenged this week to meditate on the peace that You give, the peace that we need to rely on so much more than we do. We were asked to identify what disturbs our peace—what makes our hearts uneasy, what prevents us from living the life You call us to. Hold these things for us, for sometimes they are too much to bear. Hear us now as we pray:
What disturbs peace & desire is the challenges of health issues and concern that death will take me away from raising my grandchildren, as God is ordaining. Life's issue (not having proper, stable housing)
Things that deprive me from Peace:
Hurry, Crowds, noise
Being part of a failing school system that leave our youth uneducated disrupts my peace.
Last week on Thursday I heard that -------------, a good friend, died in hospice. Prayers for him & all of us all over the world who love him.
Prayers of thanksgiving for the Southern Society BBQ that was my wake for -----------, staying up til sunrise, praying & singing & sharing fellowship.
For random kayak trips
for the beauty of the stained glass windows
for the amazing friends who surround me, the great cloud of witnesses, here & far away & for there being love in my life freely given.
What disturbs my peace: Going back home to a mother I love, with a father who is an alcoholic & who I wish was there & not hurting her. It disturbs me that I don't know how to love him & have spent so much of my life trying to figure out how to make him love me, to learn how to earn love.
The brokenness of one who let me have a chance at being whole.
I ask that you keep me and my family in prayer. Prayerfully I ask that you pray for my wife, that all things in her life that do not give God glory honor or praise be removed from her life. Pray that we may be reunited as a husband and wife, that we may serve God to the best of our ability. That we may raise our children ------------ (23 months) and ------------ (9 months) in the house of the Lord. Most of all let these things be done according to his will. That this family become a family obediently serving him. Turning away from sin, forgiving one another for the others transgressions, and rebuking forms of satan's attacks. Thank you, in Jesus name. Amen.
My peace has been disturbed but more importantly it has offered me opportunity to change or believe. The pains I've felt are always present in my life but I try not to view my Lord's involvement in my life as disturbing but rather like fate and love ever present. My life is not sad for I am alive in our Lord's world.
What disturbs my peace?
The image & reality of poverty & suffering.
The feeling of hopelessness & powerlessness to effect any kind of change.
What disturbs my peace:
Struggles between pleasurable temptations and grounded moral guidelines
Frustrations with societal messages of beauty, fame, and success
Painful realities of broken systems, poverty, and cycles of abuse
The limits of my own time, energy, and optimism
HOWEVER:
In these times of frustration and confusion, it’s the little things, (the smile, hugs, and unexpected bits of laughter) that keep me grounded and marching forward to share my peace with others. And for that Lord, I’m forever thankful.
Trying to live in the present when all I want is to be in the future.
Acting out and not being sober.
Fears that God is not calling me to what I want God to call me to.
Joy for having survived time at home for Mother’s Day.
A prayer for the financial success of all
My peace is disturbed when I have a strong sense of my failure, my inabilities, any hurt I’ve put on other people.
Lord cover my disturbance with your peace.
Disturbs my peace: relationships/love & money
I pray for healing for my mind body & spirit
I also pray for my mother’s surgery
Please pray for me in transition—that God would make Himself present and I might serve Him in the way He wishes…
Spirit, I am so tired.
Help me change
Help me
Bring healing to those that need it.
Sustain us in Your work for all people, Your people.
My peace is disrupted by fear that I will loose someone else too soon, wondering if I’ve choose the life I want, feeling that I can do more when I’m not wanting what I cannot have
My peace is knowing that those that I love are safe and that I will be able to love them for another day.
I lose peace when I place my value in other people and not in God.
God, help me to move forward on your peaceful path instead of remaining inert
What disturbs my peace?
Depression
Loneliness
Envy & jealousy
Fear
Vanity
Dear Lord,
Please help me to share my time. Spend it with you. Give myself peace in my day. Take some minutes just to be with you and learn from you. I love you and thank you for all you’ve done in my life.
Dear G-D,
With everything that is wrong with me, all I worry about is money please help me cler my head
Thank you’s
Me
Lord God I”d like to thank you for my life & the blessings that you’ve bestowed upon me. I thank you for allowing me to find peace in your presence and joy in your love. Peace to me is stability in my life…in my relationships in my job in my activities. What disrupts my peace is fear that my life will be turned upside down with one act or action. Sometimes that thought is enough to throw my peace off kilter. I thank God though for providing me with staples in my life that keep me grounded & focused. May peace be with You! Amen
A panic that shouts and whispers and jeers “it won’t be okay” over and over again.
A defeated & listless feeling/fear that I will never change…that my life will never change…that I will always be stressed, never at peace.
These are the things that disturb my peace.
Please pray for me.
Oh great and forgiving god I want to thank you all the mothers in the world and ask that you look after my mum and my sister and ---------- for all my aunts & cousins across the pond. I hope they can forgive my absence. Lord I ask help me confront my illnesses and give me patience with friends who are less than tactful or thoughtfull when they speak or write things about me! In Jesus name I ask this amen.
I pray for peace in my house, where I love. Sustaining peace, quiet & calm. And let my place be filled with love.
What disturbs my peace is having my boundaries violated
Praise God; my faith is at a low point but your presence through Christ is still with me. Help me, Oh Lord, to stay away from the seductive shot of booze and the bar scene.
Amen!
Jesus, we bring all these things to You, knowing that You can hold them all. Bring Your peace into our lives, and help us learn to let You in, to let You do Your work in us. Thank you for Your faithfulness to us, now and always. Amen.
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