PRAYING FOR UNSPOKEN REQUESTS, TODAY

Quote of the day from Ann Voscamp: “No matter what they’re saying, everyone’s asking ‘Can you love me?’”

We pray on Friday, for the unspoken prayer requests among us. The deep longings, the things we only speak to God, because we know, He alone, understands and can help us.

From the book, Prayers for Prodigals by James Banks, are some beautiful quotes: “God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed in death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God’s heart is set on them. Prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.” E.M. Bounds

“Your prayers, dear child of God…shall be answered---some of them perhaps, during your lifetime on earth, all of them, certainly, during your lifetime in heaven.” Samuel Prime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37wV6D49iEY&list=RDyYHT-TF4KO4&index=15

 “‘In that day,’ declares the LORD Almighty,

    ‘I will break the yoke off their necks

and will tear off their bonds;

    no longer will foreigners enslave them.

 Instead, they will serve the LORD their God…

“‘So do not be afraid, … my servant;

    do not be dismayed, Israel,’

declares the LORD.

‘I will surely save you out of a distant place,

    your descendants from the land of their exile.

Your children (Jacob) will again have peace and security,

    and no one will make them (him) afraid.

I am with you and will save you,’

    declares the LORD.”

Look up! I’ll save you out of faraway places,

    I’ll bring your children back from exile. (The Message)

Praying for those who grieve

 

Lord, we thank you for Your many blessings to us and the healing that comes as we pray for each other. We thank You that You are all we need, that You are our all, our everything. If I had no voice to sing my spirit would call out to You because You are the hope we are needing.

   “You can be too broken to be.” Ann Voscamp also talks about grief here:

 “There is no fear in letting tears come. Sadness is a gift to avoid the nothingness of numbness, and all hard places need water. Grief is a gift, and after a rain of tears, there is always more of you than before. Rain always brings growth.”

For me when there has been a recent death that affects someone I know personally, it seems a bit harder to post, because I know their pain and grieving will take time, much time. But it’s Saturday and the day we focus on those families who’ve lost loved ones, maybe recently, maybe it’s been a while but grief has its own timetable. We pray for strength for the journey, comfort from the Lord and His people and for love to surround you through the numbness of coping with what must be dealt with. Jesus, lover of my soul, bind our wounds and make us whole. Praying for those whose loss is so new and tender especially.

Show us how to live, one day at a time, giving You glory. Your love never fails, though sometime our faith does. Help us to remember that the same power that raised Jesus from the grave lives in us.

"In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you."

  Jesus is not telling us that heaven has compartments or that we will have little places in which to live.  In the ancient culture, a father's house was where the extended family lived.  Rooms were often added on as the family grew through birth and marriage.  What Jesus was doing was using the present day illustration of a loving, tight, family community.  So, Christ is saying that He is preparing a place for us in heaven where we will dwell with God in close communion with Him and that there is room in heaven for all whom God calls to salvation. (by Matt Slick)

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=You+Are+Dancing+in+Heaven&&view=detail&mid=A40B4D29A872FFCACDE3A40B4D29A872FFCACDE3&&FORM=VRDGAR

Quote of the day from YOUR WORDS ARE POWERFUL, BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SPEAK by Suzi Yelvington: “ The enemy will want you to pay attention to your feelings; Jesus wants you to pay attention to His truth.”

Augustine said it stunningly: "In my deepest wound, I see Your glory and it dazzles me."