Prayers

IIpapaII, I will keep your Mom and your family in my prayers.  Not everyone can stay home and live with aging parents and it is sad she was alone, but understandable with the hoarding problem.  She wouldn't be the first person in the mental health care field who had an addiction/compulsion problem; in fact, it isn't unusual.  Denial is a powerful thing.  Prayers for you as well; you are facing quite a challenge in helping her through this.  The Lord will see to her heart and mind and to her healing; listen carefully to what He says to you about resolving this challenge.  We are never without hope.

For everyone who has prayed for my friend Tony M.'s mother, she went home to be with the Lord at 6:30 a.m. today (Wednesday).  Tony is seeing to the arrangements.  Please continue to hold him and his family up in prayer for strength, comfort, and healing the hurt of the loss.

My love to all my brothers and sisters here,
Sissy

Good morning and God bless.  All prayers and posters lifted up.

llpapall, your mom, you and family are in my prayers.

Sis, Tony M and family are in my prayers as well as you and your mom

I am looking forward to Ressurection Sunday

Have a great and bleesed day

Jack

Thank you KeepItReal & Wvujax!

God Bless you and have a wonderful day! 

Hey Guys,

I have never posted here but stop by occasionally to check up and really appreciate the spirit of the thread.  My purpose in finally posting is to post a praise.  My wife went to the dermatologist to get a spot checked out and it did come back cancereous.  However it rated a zero which is extremely early and can be surgically removed with 100% recovery rate without radiation or chemo.

We turned 40 this year and it is starting to register that we are not invulnerable anymore but praise our heavenly father our lesson was taught very lightly.  I encourage everyone to go get themselves checked and have physicals if you haven't had one in a while so that you can lead a healthy life.

I am so thankful to God for my family and our health he has blessed us more than we deserve!

Hey Pops,

Great to see you back, brother!  I'm very sorry to hear about what is going on with your mother.  I'm praying for her full & speedy recovery that our God alone can bring.  Also praying that He uses this to deal with the hoarding.  We know He can!  You, your mom, sister and niece and all family are lifted up.  The greatest thing is that He is in control!

Sis,

I'm so sorry about your friend Tony M.'s mother.  Praise the Lord that she is whole now.  Tony and his family are in my prayers during the horrible process of grieving.  Thank you for letting us know, sweet sister.

Turkey,

Welcome, brother!  It's awesome to see you here, and that's awesome news in your post!  Shows the grace and mercy our Father is full of, and the way He loves to pour it out.  I'm very happy to know that this will be a complete success.  God is good!  Thank you for posting it here, too.  God obviously had a plan besides healing your wife, to let that testimony show how important it is to look after ourselves.  That is definitely important, since our bodies are His temple!

May God bless y'all and everyone else here. 

I will add my praise to Wild Turkey1's praise!  Mom was released from treatment today; the ulcers on her leg have all healed and she is free to resume activity.  I took Mommy out for her first driving lesson--we drove 7 miles to town and shopped for food (yes, the roles do reverse when you get over 60 years of age! lol).  She did fine and is praising God for being able to be active after 14 months.  I also agree with Wild Turkey1 to get check ups.  Mom still has some spots of skin cancer that she will have to decide whether to go through more surgery on, as well as needing to talk to the vascular surgeon about the bypass surgery on her legs.  I wanted her to get some "doctor time off."  Then we will take up the next steps.  Pray for guidance for us to arrive at God's best plan for her.  At 85, she may not want to go through more surgery.

My biopsies came back showing only infammation of the GI tract.  Had I NOT gotten the endoscopy done when the pain became intense, I would have had more bleeding ulcers develop; praise God that I can be treated with medicine and not another surgery (and a soft diet again).  In two months, the doctor will decide if he wants a CT scan of my abdomen since liver and pancreatic cancer were found in my grandmother, father, his brothers, and his sisters.  Once again, keeping our bodies (God's 'temple' as Hogfan rightly calls it) as healthy as we can is a blessing from God.

May your all be blessed abundantly this marvelous Easter season!  Much love to you all and a warm greeting to Wild Turkey1, it's great to see you here!

Be God's!

Sis

Everyone have a wonderful Good Friday tomorrow (won't be on-line tomorrow) and a meaningful Easter.  Having a wife and two young daughters in my house Easter can lose its true meaning pretty quickly once they start to get dressed (Devil works his hardest on Sunday's)!  I have said for years that we should all take the money we would spend on new Easter clothes and give it to the poor and wear sack cloth on Easter but I just can't get anyone to buy in on that one.

Anyway I will remember this group and the requests on this thread and keep them in my prayers.

WT

Glad to hear you were blessed WT. Have a great Easter.

Welcome to the thread WT and Kommencense


WT, PTL


Sis and Mom, PTL, been waiting for some real good news for a long time now


God is Great



All Prayers and posters lifted up


Good night and God bless


Jack 

WT, glad to hear your wifes ok. I 'll be praying for all on this thread. I will also be away from the boards for the next 3 days. Tomorrow marks the day that brought salvation to us all.

Praise:  My Daughter got accepted to UCLA!





I went to USC but... 

Hop, congrats on your daughter.

All prayers and posters are lifted up

Have a great and blessed day

Jack

Great news Hop! Blessing to all! praying for this thread and all who come here!

Gary

Praise:  Through the power of prayer the father of a lady in our Sunday school class was healed of cancer through chemo and radiation and was saved from extensive surgery.  I praise this development and pray that his health continues.

Prayer:  Health amd happiness to all those that are close to us and espeically the health needs that have been brought up in this thread, Sis's mom, Paula and others.  I am still praying for wisdom and hoping that one day some of it sticks.  I am thankful for this tread and for the inspiration it produces.

Amen

Here is a little bonus post I ran into this weekend and thought it was a great way to view things:

Law of the Garbage Truck

 One day a man hopped into a taxi and it took off for the airport.  They were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of them.  The taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded and missed the other car by inches!  The taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy very warm and friendly. 

The passenger asked:  “Why did you just do that?  This guy almost wrecked your car and sent us to the hospital!”  This is when the taxi driver explained “The Law of the Garbage Truck”. 

Many people are like garbage trucks they run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger and full of disappointment.  As the garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they’ll dump it on you.  Don’t take it personally.  Just smile, wave, wish them well and move on.  Don’t take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home or on the streets. 

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day.  Life’s too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so…Love the people who treat you right and pray for the ones that don’t.

Excellent post, WT, thanks for sharing, brother!

I haven't posted in the past couple weeks, but it's great reading the praises, and thank you to everyone for posting your prayer requests - we know that God answers them!

Praying for each of you and your requests, and for this thread.

May God continue to richly bless us!

WT, what if your garbage truck is your boss? :P

"Finally, brothers, pray for us that the message of the Lord may spread rapidly and be honored." 
2 Thessalonians 3:1

Prayer is vital for the success of the preaching of the word of God.  It creates an atmosphere favorable for the word to accomplish its purpose.  God's word will not return void but will accomplish that purpose for which it was sent out.  We participate in that process by praying for those with whom we will share the gospel and connecting with people whose paths we cross in a positive way so that sharing our good news can be done with people who see God's love in us.

Dear Lord God, help us to prepare the ground with our prayers so Your word will take root in people's hearts and produce a great harvest. In Jesus Name, Amen.


Please remember that the National Day of Prayer is May 3.  Make plans to fit prayer time into that day as well as praying up to that day.

Be God's!
Sis

Great story, WT, and how true it is.

Hey everyone, I have a prayer request.  Someone I love very much who is very dear to me is battling a number of health issues.  I'm not close enough to her (in distance) right now to be able to talk to her daily, but as often as possible.  She's only 28 years old, and part of the problem is her having dealt with diabetes since she was a baby.  That is making the rest even harder on her body.  She is dealing with liver trouble and receiving treatments for that, while having to take a lot of medication.  She is in and out of the hospital constantly.  The doctors say it's wearing on her kidneys (with the help of the diabetes) and could end up needing transplants if the medicine and treatments don't work.  She is very weak, and her body is tired.  Depression is getting to her, but she does manage some light-heartedness.  She "crashes" often, when her blood sugar bottoms out, and that too puts her in the hospital, on top of the liver trouble. 

My main concern (on top of her health even) is that I can't know for sure, but I am pretty sure that she isn't saved.  Since I talked to her this morning and found out how much worse things have gotten for her, that is weighing heavily on my heart.  I don't want to imagine something happening to her and her being lost.  We've talked about God.  At one point (probably 2 years ago) she did mention that she wanted to go to church, because she felt like something was missing in her life.  That was a good sign.  However, nothing has come of that (especially with her health.)  I mention that I'm praying for her, and that I can't imagine dealing with anything that's gone on in my life without knowing Jesus.  I try not to get preachy (or say too much) because she gets uncomfortable. 

Along with her health, please pray that she realizes she needs God and accepts Jesus Christ into her heart.  I thank you more than you know for doing so.

Have a blessed night and day tomorrow.  You are all in my prayers.

Hogfan, sorry to here this. I will be praying for her and all on this thread.

Thank you, Hawg.  God bless!

JT, praying for your friends healing and salvation.

Hawg, welcome to the thread, your prayers are greatly appreciated.

All prayers and posters are lifted up.

Have a great and blessed day.

Jack

Thank you, Jack!  I hope/pray all is well with you and everyone else here, and on the boards.

I echo Jack's welcome to Hawg... glad you are here, my brother & friend!

Praise:  That I have salvation and what a wonderful gift from the heavenly father that is.

Prayer:  I pray for all those on this thread and lift their requests up to God.  Please be with those that are ill, those that are unsaved and give wisdom and guidence to those of us who serve you.  Thank you for all your wonderful gifts to us and for being an awesome God who loves and cares for us.

Amen

In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God.  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.  Philippians 4:6-7

Bottom Line:  Don't worry about anything, pray about everything and God will bring you peace.

Wow, WT.  Thank you for that post, brother.  I know it wasn't by chance that I came here right now.  The friend I mentioned doesn't always feel well enough to talk on the phone, so we email when that's the case, and I just sent her one about what accepting Christ does for a person, and what happens when they don't (in a more caring/loving way than that of course, that was the main part of most of the email though.)  Anyway, I've been worrying, and seeing that I just sent it before I came here, that Scripture is EXACTLY what I needed!  Thanks again, brother! 

GOD IS GOOD!!!

Hogfan,

Sometimes we aren't in charge of the post only a tool in the typing and answered prayers are truly awesome!  Praying for you and your friend.

Amen to that, WT!  Thank you very much.

First time here guys, just found it.  But hey, some praise for some wonderful things happening in the family's life now, after a few years of some tough times.  Patience, prayer and continue to do the right things , and you will be taken care of by the man!  On his time not yours.