Group praying?

Heatherbythesea · Post by **Heatherbythesea** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:09 pm

Father God,

I lift up GrandpopaJohn to you. Your son needs to know your arms are wrapped around him tightly and that you care about him. Please give him the strength to let go of the scary thoughts and place them in Your hands. Please give him courage and the peace that passes all understanding. In Jesus' precious name, Amen.

hopeful28 · Post by **hopeful28** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:53 pm

I love how everyone thinks the same in here!!

I am very interested in doing this as well - please keep me posted!! May God bless you all.

cfe · Post by **cfe** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:13 pm

Welcome one and all, It is great to have you all praying with us. I will add you to my prayer list, I have lost track, but I do know there are more than 60 of us all praying for one another every evening at 8pm M.D.T. or just when ever they think to.

It is an honor to pray for GrandapaJohn, God knowes the problem, and He certainly knows the answer. for his Highest good Amen

We are studing obsessive scarey thoughts in our book study "The Battlefield of the mind" now, you may wish to join us there. Chapter 6 has been bring out God's plan for us and His hopes in us.

Barb G. · Post by **Barb G.** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:08 am

I think it is so awesome how we pray and care for each other too. Not just prayers but helpful advice too. Cheri I'm not sure about doing the 4X a day bi-lingual. I've tried so many natural things but thanks for telling me the aspirin/tylenol will cause liver/kidney prob.because what is our health worth in the long run.
I think it's neat when people like Heatherbythesea is praying for PappaJohn and she or others have many problems of their own.Hopeful and others I'm so very glad you've joined us. PoppaJohn I hope you are doing better. Now I wish to pray for Heather. Please join me cuz I know she's struggling right now.

Father God, thank you so much for Heather's caring heart. You see her heartache and I ask that all of us can give her a grp.hug across the miles. How we all would love to meet one another, hold each other and cry or laugh together. Father you have bonded us thru this site and I thank you. Please speak peace to Heather. Help her with her husband and family. Let her realize she is a good mom. Help her with this program and realize it does work. Help each of us to continue working the program even after we've finished. Bless each of us this day with an abundance of your grace. May we all sing praises throughout our day no matter what comes our way. In Jesus name. Amen.

cfe · Post by **cfe** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 4:33 am

I was just on the phone to my Mom she is 78, and lives 1,000 miles from my front door. I want to hug her every day, it has been getting continuly worse over the years, after my father died, then her sister died, I just hate to have her so far from me with no one out there to hug her. God sent both of my kids to her last Aug. they are out there, with her, now I am so more at ease knowing any tiime she needs family they are there for her. My Duaghter lives with her, and huges her every day.

God is so good and faithfull! now that my husband and I are getting along so well, I hate to leave him for any long period, my armes ache for him, by evening, but air fair out there is $300. I can't spend that on just a cuple days. I have so much hated to make that trip, some times 3 ties a year, but I felt I had to. Now I am relieved from that chore. It was a gowing pain, not to go out for her birthday last week I have done it for the past 15 years, but this year I just could not bring my self to leave my husband during calveing to go out there for my 10 day trip like I used to. I checked for a good air fair every day through Feb. and March. I just could not drop the thought, I should be there for her. Then last week I finaly felt the Peace of God, I don't have too, my kids are there to help Mom with her spring cleaning. and celebrate her birthday. How wonderfull! haveing them move out there was an answer to my prayer, yet it took me 7 months, to accept the awsome belssing of it.

"Trust is not inherited; it is learned! We learn to trust God by going through various experiences that require trust. By seeing His faithfulness over and over, we let go of trusting ourselves, and gradually we enter His rest and place our trust in Him. by Joyce Meyer
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on you own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil, This will bring health to your body and nurishment to your bones - Proverbs 3;5-8 NIV

"Trust and Obey for their is no other way, to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey" I love that song, it remindes me that Jesus doesn't judge me, he weeps over some of my choices, and rejoyses over some of my choices. When my kids first decided to move so far away I thought, my daughter and I had been estranged for so many years but now we have taken up as if none of that had ever happened, we had gone through this course tothere Thank you Lucinda!, and my son had already been in OK for 5 years, and just got married, and was moveing on in his life. I am still here and my family has all moved away.

Then I realized how important my relationship with my husband was and how much God wanted it to grow, this course has so helped me with that. Our kids are out there now, and so my husband will have a reason to go out there with me I can waite for that to happen, now, Mom has loveing people around her now, too. It is all good! but last Aug. when I helped my daughter drive out there, and I left with all of them in Mom's 20X60 traylor, I did not really recognize that as a good day.

Looking back at the last year, today, I can see God's hand working it all out, for my good. I feel so charished to day. God really went out of His way to make my life eaiser. I am so greatfull!!! This year I feeal I am learning to recognize every day as a good day, no matter what it looks like to me in God's plan it is a good day! and I will rejoice and be glad in it. I am so enjoying just teaching my face to smile, all the time. I do not want to be old and frowning all the time just out of habit, I want that habit to be smilling all the time.

I pray for all of you, to recoganize each day as a good day Trusting that God is working in it for your Higest Good. "This will bring health to your body and nurishment to your bones." Amen

Barb G. · Post by **Barb G.** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:19 am

I just want to say thanks to everyone who's been praying about our housing situation. We signed papers today to order our new home. It should be ready by July l0. We are to have closing here June 29. I pray the new owners would let us stay the extra time if necessary. I want to try real hard not to worry about that cuz that's one of the reasons I didn't want a new home.

Cheri, I just called the 800# for Frank's Health Products and ordered that so I'll give it a try.
Friends, What prayer needs do you have today??

cfe · Post by **cfe** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 3:36 pm

Joyce Meyer writes; We should work not just to accomplish, but also to enjoy our accompleshments.
Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat therof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God. - Ecclesiastes 5;19 KJV

We have so much in this Country we are surly blessed by God; yet we don't appreciat what we have, we don't enjoy what we have; we are a consumer driven economey and it seems imprtant that we always get more. so we get 2 jobs, and we both work, and still we can't make the money stretch over all our wants. The rest of the world is walking but our car isn't new enough, or fast enough, and we need one apeace. the rest of the world is living in humble shacks, but our house isn't big enough, or full enough.

My house is to full, but I am just noticing that after years of filling it. Also I am the only one who stayes in one place in the family so most of the herlooms are here. from over 100 years ago. I don't even like antiques, but I have them because they were aunt, sonso's. I doubt if the next generation will care. They want the newest gadget. So I take things to the good will, and wonder if those people that get it like it better. It all seems upside down, when I needed 5 bedrooms I had 2, now I only need 1 I have 5. when I had energy to clean a big house my house was only 28ft sq. now it is 30X100, and I can't keep up with all the dust, and clutter. Now I would like that 28ft again, so I close off most of the house. and we just live in a little part of it. unless we get company, now we live on the edge of nowear and the nearnest motell is, well there are 4 rooms in the village, It is nice to have the extra room when company comes. and that is in only a month. So I am trying to clear out the roomes from all the clutter and I do believe this is the year of the spider I cannot remmeber finding so many before. This year I will pay someone to come and wash windows, I just do not have the energy to do that and enjoy my company. and she can cary all this clutter up to the attic for me too. I will keep sorting out things, yet I am still buying things.

K.I.S.S Cory Tenboon was right we clutter our lives, and then cary out the clutter, what a waste of time and energy.

Help us Oh Lord, to be wise, to stop cluttering our lives, and stop missing the point, it is not "who ever has the most toys wins". help us to become more like you, make us to subtrac the unnessary, and adding only what you would have for us. Help us to Enjoy our life, get rid of the baggage and live every moment in Your perfect Will for us.Amen

Barb G. · Post by **Barb G.** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:51 am

Oh Cheri, I so agree with you on the clutter problem. I haul it out only to haul it in. Sometimes I'm not the one hauling it in, my husband is. I've had this problem all my life. I wonder if I'll ever be free of it before I die. After seeing all the clutter from my mom-in-law I so don't want to see me do that to my kids yet that's what I see. I straighten my house only to mess it up. My husband said last night there's a trail all over the house of where I've been. He's so right. My parents said the same thing. I've prayed over and over. Yest. working with someone at the bakery she mentioned how she tries to stick with one thing. After a while she was getting sidetracked and I think she was picking up on me. It seems when there's more on my mind this problem gets much worse. Suggestions for me and Cheri anyone?

cfe · Post by **cfe** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:25 am

Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether)/ the old [previous moral and spiritual condition} has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come! - 2 Corinthians 5;17

I look out my window and the world is white, with green grass sticking through the snow, and my bright yellow daffodils are laying frozen in the white how beutifull it all is, It has snowed now for 2 nights and all day yesterday but today the sun is shinning brite. It is Good Friday, signifying the end of the first Covenent and the beginning of a new Covenent with our God. one of grace, mercy, and Loveing oneanother.

Joyce Meyer writes; We start the Christian life as new creations of God. Our past is wiped away, The Christian life is one of change- of growth- of moving onward.

The pathway to freedom begins when we face our problems, and face them without excuses. "Yes, I'm negative, but if you had come from the kind of family, I did, you'd--"

Stop! No excuses. We know what we were in the past, but we also know that we don't have to remain that way now or in the future. With the help of Jesus Christ, we can have our minds renewed according to the Word of God.

The most difficult part may be to say to God, "I'm a negative person, but I want to change." Remember that a negative mind produces a negative life. You've probably tried to change yourself many times in the past, but it didn't work. Now you can begin to win the battle over Satan's stronghold by admitting who you are and acknowledging that you must depend on God to change you.

Holy and positive God, forgive me for all my negative thinking. You want me to be loving and filled with Your joy. Help me so that Satan has no stronghold over my mind. Please destroy every negative aspect of my thinking, through Jesus my Lord. Amen". by Joyce Meyer

God, forgive me for all my clutte, You want me to live in peace and harmony with all those around me and this mess is deafeeting me. Help me so that Satan has no stronghold over my life. Please distroy every defeated attitude of my thinking; through Jesus my Lord.
I pray for all of us to lift up our heads and look for Him to come and help us out of this mess we have locked our selves in to, and open the gates to freedom, this is a new season, of Spring cleaning. may we all clean out our hearts and lives to make more room for Him. Amen

cfe · Post by **cfe** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 3:05 am

Cooperate with God: by Joyce Meyer
You cannot get beyond your own opinion of yourself - no matter how many good things God may say about you in His Word. Regardless of all the wonderful plans He may have for your life, none of them will come to pass without your cooperation.

God does not have a bad attitude twoard you - you shhould not have one toward yourself! Shake off the past and set your sights on the future.
"For I know the plans that I have for you," delcares the Lord. "Plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope." _ Jeremiah 29;11 NASB

So Run with Patience; When you make mistakes, receive mercy from God and press on toward the finish line. Be patient with yourself while you are overcoming your weaknesses.
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. - Hebrews 12;1 KJV

As we celebrate the Triumph of God over sin today, His sacrifice to bring us back to Him, let us be gentle with ourselves, loveing and compassionet. This is the day of reberth, and a new start let us each give our trubles to the Lord and pick up his Yoke for it is light and let him guide us through our days with Peace, and Joy. Knowing we are Loved and Charished by our Heavenly Father. and Expect a change little by little in our lives every dawn of every day. Amen