week of 7/31

Lord, hear these prayers from Your people:

I want my mom breast cancer to away. ------ -------.

I lift up my mom and her back pain. I also lift up my uncle ---- and the ------ family as he struggles to heal from his broken hip. Peace and Blessings for ---- as she interviews.

My grandma is sick.

Thinking about my cousin ------ in Afghanistan. I hope he comes home safely.

I pray for world peace and a cure for aids and all infectious disease.

This week, I was diagnosed with a stomach ulcer, so my prayer is that I will do better in handling stress and worries. Thank you.

Please pray for my grandpa, who needs skilled care in a medicade hospital and congress cut the amt- he has nowhere to go for uninsured care. My godmother- she is getting a kidney stone removed this week.

That those in power learn to care more for the little person than for themselves.

Lord Jesus, How we suffer! Please lord save us from our pain. I pray for the woman tonight in tears, in pain, unable to speak. Can you heal her?

More of you, less of me. I give myself away so that you can use me. I’m so tired of trying to do things my way and feeling like I’m fighting alone. I trust you and let go and will consistently let go (at least I’ll try). Thank you for your blessings. Just say the word and I shall be healed.

Jesus, be with -------, a friend of a friend who experienced a great trauma last week. He doesn’t have a supportive family… and may be stubborn about accepting the love of his friends. Please show him your love… and I pray his heart will be opened to receive it. Also, Lord, I thank you for the brave souls who read over these cards every week, at Bible Study and on the Blog. I am so grateful for them. Amen.

Jesus, thank you for seeing me through. A year ago, I never though I’d be here, happy, “okay”, not in crisis. And yet here I am. By your grace, so much grace. “Thank you” doesn’t cover it. Hallelujah. Amen.

Dear God,
Please help my friend --------. He struggles and battles with an addiction. Please give him a portion of your holy spirit, help him, and be with him always.

Oh Father, Your grace is without limit. I know that your plan is for my salvation. At this time I ask for some direction in where I can find some work.

Thank God for -----'s arrival. He is here; he is safe; he is well. Thank God.

Please help me to appreciate what I have. Return me to the world of the living. Cure me of the need to be judged.

Praises for God’s abundance, for a reason to get up every morning, for reconciliations, for a feeling of wholeness.

Prayers for my family.

My God Almighty,
We come before you asking for mercy and to fight our battles. Help us to keep fighting. We ask in Jesus’ name. Amen. We thank you. Please, God, be with me on August 11 while I get dusty.

Bad things keep happening and I never know what to say or do. Not only is my sister-in-law’s father battling late stage cancer, her mother now has a rare form of mono and has to be in isolation. A sweet friend and neighbor was run over by an unmanned car and now suffers brain damage among other injuries. And a dear friend and my confirmation mentor had brain surgery this week after an “unsettling” MRI. I don’t know what to do to help. Help me be present and keep me from avoiding my feelings. Thank you for your countless blessings. I am truly grateful.

For --------. So much, for him and anyone else who suffers as he does. For me, for strength.

Please give thanks to God for the Lord’s endless bounty. Please pray for --------, that she may know the love of God within her. Please pray for --------, that he many know he is blessed. Please pray for the peoples of Somalia and Syria.

God: I pray with gratitude for friends and the safety they provide. I pray for courage to discern that you are not in one place but everywhere, somewhere. And I thank you for the outstanding music at Broad Street tonight. Amen.

I called 911 for a passed-out man w/ a medical bracelet yesterday. When the medics came, they said they pick him up three times a day. What should I do? Call every time? Start to assume it’s not my problem or he is a waste? I don’t know. Help me to know what is right.

My spine is weird and I’ve been worrying about my debts a lot lately.

Dear God- Please take care of my young teenage son- his soul. Thank you

Please pray for my father who is very sick with cancer. Thank you

God I pray for -------. Hold him in your mercy and grace. Let him be in your holy being and light. Let him be free from his addictions and his struggles. Let your will be done and hold him tightly God. Amen.

I’m tired, I’m confused, I’m frustrated, I’m scared, I don’t know where God wants me, but I know I’m in this thing for the long hall. I need direction and wisdom.

Gracious and Mysterious God,
May we dwell in your love and just-ness, and not toil in false constructions of your presence and girth. God I seek you in all things: human, animal, earth alike. You are all one, we are all one. May the understanding of our interconnectedness and interdependence (and the beauty of this reality) not be ignored, but nourished. And may we seek joy, peace, and beauty in all things. Reveal a posture of nahmaste in our hearts and minds,
Amen.

Thanks for dust.

I’m tired of feeling screwed over, and tired of not believing that I deserve happiness.

Mother and Father God, my heart is full and heavy this evening. I am witness to a multitude of suffering this day- HIV, addiction, death, and sorrow. I life up the burdens and sadness and shocking hope and resilience, and pray that I may hold space here for those who are hunting and fighting and wrestling. I pray for all of the changes that are happening in my life and the lives of those I love.

I’m really grateful to God. I need help with relationship stuff and with humility.

Thank you as always for blessing me continuously. Thank you for your love and abundance. Please bless my friends and family especially -----, -------, and ---------. Help them to remember their worth.

The body of Christ. Those inside and outside the church.

Amen.