April 29, 2014

Good Morning Lord,

Thank You for this quiet morning and for a little extra sleep.  Thank You for a nice walk yesterday and some time to spend with my husband.  Thank You for a nice day out yesterday with Barb and for help with a doctor appointment.

Thank You Lord for being present through the difficult stuff for me, for anyone who will seek you in difficult times.  Please be with the families who have lost loved ones in the tornadoes.  Please comfort them and hold them very close to You.  Please help people to lean on You when their "stuff" is in disarray.   Please hold close the families who have lost children and remind them that You still love them and that You are not far from them.  Please be with the Tittle family and strengthen them.  Please help all of those affected to trust You to provide for their needs, and then please reveal Your love to them all.

Please be with my friend Vicki as she goes for tests today.  I am pretty mad at cancer here lately.  I know Your name is above cancer.  I know that You are not far from us but near to us.  Please Lord, bring healing to my friend and to Wesley, to Bill, to Ruby, there were several others mentioned at church whose names I do not remember but You do.  Please bring healing and draw them all to a closer walk with You.

Thank You for spring, for the smell of my lilac bush, for the beautiful dogwoods, for new green leaves on the trees and new grass beginning to take hold in my yard.   Thank You for growth.

Lord, You are my God, my Father, You are never far from me.  Your love is amazing to me, it never fails, it never condemns, it only corrects.  You are the perfect Father.  Thank You for Your presence in my life.  Thank You for giving me testimony after testimony to share of Your greatness and Your character and You moving in my life in one way or another.  Thank You for nudging me back to a deeper study in Your word.  Thank You for reminding me that all I do is for an audience of One!

In Jesus Name
Amen

April 23, 2014

Good Morning Lord,

Thank You for a good night sleep and a great day yesterday.  Thank You for safety in travel and Your protection.  Thank You so much for an opportunity to visit with all my grandkids together.  Thank You for some time with Lindsay and the kids.  Thank You for the gracious and patient folks we encountered yesterday who helped us find the things we needed and who were pleasant in the middle of a noise bunch!  Thank You for this few minutes to talk to You and be able to think.

Please be with my friend Vicki.  You know her need, and You know all about her situation.  I know You are enough.  Please be very close to her and tangible and real.  Please be with Ruby and with Bill and Wesley all fighting cancer.  I know there are many fighting cancer.  I know that You are able to heal completely.  I ask for healing.

I pray that You would pour out Your wisdom on our church that we would recognize the pastor You would send to us.  I pray that You would make it clear, that You would make it smooth, and that You would let Your anointing remain on our church and the man who would lead it.

I pray that You would help us today to spend time together safely, have a good time, and honor You in all that we do.

Thank You for the beginning of family time.  Thank You for allowing me to see how much the kids are learning about who You are.

Please be with those who have soldiers over seas and help their families to rely on You.  Please meet their needs and send encouragers and people who will make the time easier to bear.  Please protect our soldiers and draw them close to You.  Please allow our soldiers to be brave in battle and be brave in sharing their faith with each other.

In Jesus Name
Amen

April 28, 2014

Good Morning Lord,

Thank You for getting us home safely and for Your protection from harm when I notice it and when I don't even realize You have protected us.  Thank You for a great day in church and a great conversation with a Godly woman.  Thank You for the encouragement.  Thank You for a week with all my babies and for helping that go well.  Thank You for Your presence in my life, for our conversation, for the blessing that I walk in.

Thank You for teaching me over and over that You will never leave me and that You give clear direction when You want me to do something important.  Thank You for reminding me that You want me to succeed, not to fail.  Thank You for allowing me to talk out some of the concerns in my head enough to put my finger on what they ever were.  Thank You for giving me stories to tell about being in a place that was so saturated with thickness of Your presence that I didn't want to leave.  Thank You for being tangible to me when I needed tangible.

Thank You for the salvation of my husband and the change in my family.  Thank You for a new idea.  Thank You for giving me the encouragement that You are fixing it.

Lord, please be with Vicki and give her strength and encouragement and remind her that she never walks alone.  Please be with Bill and Ruby and Wesley and the others who were mentioned in church last night that are fighting cancer.  Please strengthen them and bring complete healing to their bodies and more importantly bring healing to their spirits and draw them close to You and allow them to settle into Your love and Your presence. 

Help us Lord to understand the balance between Your love and Your holiness.  Please help us to desire to walk upright and keep daily in Your presence.  Please help us to begin revival in our hearts by giving  more of our lives to You than ever before.  Please Lord, move in me, help me to give more of me over to You.  I want to belong completely and totally to You.  I don't want to hold anything back.  I want it all to be Yours.  I know that is a big prayer and I might not have enough to faith to walk that out, but I desire to have that kind of faith.

In Jesus Name
Amen

April 22, 2014

Good Morning Lord!

Thank You for the chaos and the noise and fun of watching all the grandkids play together.  Thank You for a safe trip to Kansas.  Thank You for children who love each other and want to spend time together.  Thank You for Your provision and Your protection.  Thank You for the healing that is occurring in Wesley and for allowing him to be able to go home.  Thank You for watching over my friend as she traveled home.

Please be with my friends who are fighting cancer, please bring healing and strength to their days today.  Please grow healthy cells and allow the cancer cells to succumb to the chemo therapy.  Please give them and their families peace and strength and draw them to a closer very real walk with You.  Please touch them so deeply that their faces show Your grace and people will give You glory.

Please help us to manage all the kids today and help them to all have a good time.  Help us to teach Your ways and show Your love and bring You glory in all we do today.

I'm sure we will talk all day today, but this is all that will make it to "paper" this morning.

In Jesus Name
Amen

April 18, 2014

Sorry, I was out of town folks!  Thanks for joining me again today!

Good Morning Lord,

Thank You for a treasured few hours with an old friend.  Please be with Steve M.'s family and bless their time together.  Please bring healing to Bill and restoration to the whole family.  Please help Bill to feel well enough to enjoy his family while they are all around him.  Please allow his treatments to be effective and his life to be full of joy.  Please draw each one of them closer to You, remind them of Your perfect love for them, and draw them to a closer walk with You.  Please cover each one in Your protection as they travel.  Thank You for their willingness to welcome me in as a part of their family for a day or two.  Thank You for making the way for me to be able to support a couple of great friends.

Thank You for the great news from Wesley yesterday.  How great to celebrate in the midst of the battle!  Thank You for giving that whole family a taste of joy.  Please continue to be close to them and give them strength to walk the road before them.  You know that I am asking for complete healing in the name of Jesus.  I know that You are able.  I ask for peace to cover them all through the battle.  I ask Lord for not just Wesley, but for other who are battling cancer.  Others who are battle this cancer.

Thank You that Ruby has done well enough with her chemo that Vicki has been able to be away.  Thank You for providing.  Please bring healing to Ruby and allow her treatments to be fully and completely successful and her cancer gone.  Please strengthen her during the process and help her to draw closer to You as a result. 

I ask for Your blessing on Bart and his family.  He has been on my heart lately and I ask that You would bless his family and clearly lead them to the center of Your will.  Please bless them in their ministry and bless them as a family.  I pray that You would protect them from any assault of the enemy and be their shield.

I ask for wisdom for our church.  I pray that You would lead clearly and help us to see Your will so very clearly and help us to act in that direction.  I pray that we would have agreement and consensus and no discourse.  I pray that You would show us Your perfect direction for us and that we would be open to Your will, willing to do Your work, ready to show Your love, and seeking to get busy being Your hands and feet.  Help us Lord to get busy doing Your work. 

Thank You Lord for a beautiful drive home yesterday.  Thank You for the few spots where I wish I could have captured forever the view that laid out before me.  Thank You for 40 minutes of pure, open, loud, (probably funny looking from the other driver's view) worship!  Thank You for a great conversation the other day with the praise team about worship and leading worship.  Thank You for allowing me to work in music, thank You for people who work with me who desire to worship You for who You are.  Help us Lord to lead the church to do the same thing. 

Thank You for the times when I know that I am walking in the center of Your will.  Thank You for teaching me who You are and how much You expect from me and how much You love me, when I am successful and when I fail.  Your standard is impossible, but Your love is unfathomable.

In Jesus Name
Amen

April 15, 2014

Good Morning Lord,

Thank You for a few minutes of quiet this morning.   Thank You for a new perspective on a few things.  Thank You for my husband and for all he does to provide for our family.  Thank You for the attitude of teamwork we are currently sharing.  Thank You for his understanding of my trip tomorrow. 

You know Lord, I am okay with the rain today, because I see the beginnings of grass in my yard, buds on the trees, the red buds and dogwoods blooming.  Thank You for spring.  I am sure the day will come when I will fuss about grass to mow, but I'll try to remember how much I desired to have grass cover my mud. 

Lord, please be with Wesley today and help his stomach settle.  Please give the doctors wisdom to find the exact right dose and combination of medicines that will work against his cancer and keep him comfortable and as healthy as possible.  Please be with Becky as she supports him and remind them both that You love them and are not far away, but right by their side.  Please be with their boys as someone else cares for them in this difficult time.  Please hold them close and give them peace to walk in.  Please be with Tara and their whole family and cover them with peace and grace.  You know that I am asking for complete healing in the name of Jesus.  I know You are able.

Please be with Vicki and Steve today as they travel to visit with Steve's brother.  Please work miracles on his behalf and bring healing to him and allow his treatments to be fully effective.  Please bless the visit between brothers and family and allow joy to saturate the days, even in the midst of a difficult situation.

Lord, I am asking for healing for Tifany Vanater.  You know her need, You know every cell in her body.  I pray that You would heal her completely and she would not even need the surgery they think she must have.  I pray that You would touch her, give her strength and saturate her with Your tangible presence. 

I pray for strength for those that I know are struggling through a difficult season in their lives.  Struggling with loss, with pain, with more than they think they can bear.  I thank You that we are never called to bear a burden alone, but to lay them at Your feet.  I pray that You would help those people lay them at Your feet and allow You to strengthen them. 

I pray for those who need to be back in a close relationship with You.  I pray that You would let them desire to be in Your house, desire to speak to You, desire to be around Your people.  Please Lord, please help us as Your children to never trip someone up, never be a stumbling block to someone else's walk with You.  Please help us to be cautious in our lives to keep our eyes focused on You, keep our hearts clear and our words and actions to show Your love.  Please Lord, help us to show Your love and teach Your ways and allow You to draw people to Yourself, allow You to bring people into a place where they know You.  Please help us NOT to mess that up.  Please help us NOT to push people away.

I love You Lord.  I thank You for Your perfect love for me.  The love that is so complete, so designed to me personally that I am overwhelmed at times in the detail of it. 

Lord, please either give my husband strength and a decrease in pain, or lead him to make changes that will allow him to live a bit more comfortable and able to enjoy his life.  I am so very thankful for the days after his accident, the days after his surgery, the days after the elevator.   I am just asking that You might decrease his pain and give him some more strength.  I believe that You still heal, I believe that You still work miracles and could with a simple word heal him completely and eliminate his pain.  I will serve you if You do, and I will serve You if You don't.  I am just asking.

In Jesus Name
Amen

April 11, 2014

Good Morning Lord,

Thank You for a quiet morning.  Thank You for a little time to get myself together and think about some goals.  Thank You for encouragers and for teachers. 

Please help me to be easily led by the Holy Spirit today to work within Your will and show Your love.  Please help me to parent on purpose and not just react to each situation.  Please help me to teach Your love to my kids, grown and not yet grown. 

Please be with my friends who are struggling.  You know each one and their situation.  Please be present for them and very real and tangible. 

Please be with ld's dad and help him stay as pain free and healthy as possible while he is waiting to have the surgery he needs.  Please help his family know the best ways to help him.

Please bring healing to Wesley and strength to Becky and Tara and all of his friends and family.  Please help them to rest in You.

Please bring Vicki Your peace and bring healing to Ruby and Steve's brother.  Please help me to be a blessing.

Show me Lord where to go

In Jesus Name
Amen

April 10, 2014

Good Morning Lord,

Thank You for a quiet few minutes before the noise of the day begins.  Thank You for a pretty good day yesterday.  Thank You for watching over my family and providing for us daily.  Thank You for a break for my mother in her skin treatment.  Please help her to feel better quickly.  Thank You for a product that helps to avoid surgeries.

Thank You for this quiet of yesterday.   For helping my girls be able to rest while they were not feeling well.  Please help Lexie to feel better soon.  Thank You for working all things together for our good, even the unpleasant stuff.

Please help me Lord to be a blessing where I am called.  I want to lay down all that I have to pick up whatever You desire me to have.  I know I whine a lot.  I do.  But, really, I do want to do what I need to do in the Kingdom and for Your glory. 

Please be with Ruby, Wesley and Vicki's brother inlaw who are all fighting cancer of one type or another.  I know there are many, many more.  Please strengthen them and hold them close to You.  Please help the treatments attack the correct cells, and let the healthy cells thrive.  Please help them all avoid nausea and feel much better than they expected.  Please give them grace, smiling faces, kind caregivers, and excellent care.  Please be with my friends who are in the role of supporters, prayer warriors, do what needs to be done - ers.  Please give them strength and grace to cover them as they take care of those entrenched in the battle with cancer.  Please help them to lay their burdens at Your feet and let You carry them a while.  Please help us as their friends to help them when they are tired from burden carrying.

Please Lord, help me to be an encouragement to those around me. 

I ask Lord that You would move in the hearts of the people in this area and give them a desire to know You.  I pray that You would make them desire to be in Your church even without understanding why at first.  I ask that  You would help us to show Your character in all that we do, show Your love, speak Your words, teach  Your lessons, point people to You.  All for Your glory.

Please Lord lead us in wisdom toward choosing the pastor that You would have for AGF.  I am asking for Your wisdom and You promise to pour it out liberally to those who ask.  I am asking for every leader of our church.  I am asking for Your wisdom and for an obvious leading of the Holy Spirit toward the center of Your will.

I thank You Lord for Your perfect and never-ending love. 

In Jesus Name
Amen

April 9, 2014

Good Morning Lord,

Thank You for giving me the opportunity already this morning to speak my heart.  Thank You for Your presence and for Your relationship with me.  You are the perfect father.  You know just exactly how to love me personally in spite of and because of the shortcomings of my own.  How often You must have to make up for the shortcomings of Your imperfect creations. 

Please forgive me Lord for the times when I fall far short of Your perfect standard.  I know that I cannot make the mark, but I want to live the way You want me to live.  Thank You for Your grace and mercy.  Thank You for helping me to see things through Your eyes.

Please be with those who are struggling this morning.  Please strengthen the marriages that are struggling, and the ones that already seem to be pronounceable.  I know that You can bring new life to any situation You are allowed to reign in.  I ask for strength for those who are battling and a hedge of protection for those who need it.  I pray for the strengthening of our families and for victory over the enemy.  I pray that You would lead us to build up and not tear down. 

Please be with families who have lost loved ones.  I know You are our comforter and You will cover us in peace when we need it.  I ask that You would be very close to the Hill family and give them comfort.  Thank You for the testimony of a man who truly loved You and was still excited to see You move in people around him.

Please Lord be with my friends who are struggling with the realities of cancer.  Please draw them closer to Your chest and give them rest and give them strength.  I pray that nausea will be minimal, rest would be plentiful.  I pray that the cancer would be healed in the name of Jesus because I trust that You can do that either using or not using the skill of the doctors.  You alone are in charge of us, whatever tools You use.  I pray that You would slow then stop the spread of the cancer to the brain.  I pray that there would be no personality change and no memory function loss.  I pray that You would be very real and very close and that people will come to know You more fully through this process.  I pray for the stop of replication of bad blood cells, cells that will just get in the way of healthy ones.

I pray for Your care for the caretakers.  I pray that they would find rest in You and hope in You.  I pray that You would nudge the people that are Your hands and feet to effectively show Your love and mercy to those who really need it.  I pray that hospital and clinic staff are friendly, encouraging, helpful, and show Your love.  I pray for prayer warriors to continue to lift up those who are in such tough situations.  I know how I can tell when people are praying for me.  Help me to remember that for others who are in need.

Please Lord, lead clearly and make Your direction for our church easily understandable and idiot-proof.  Please help us to see things through Your eyes and not through fleshly eyes.  Please show us clearly who is Your choice for our pastor and help us to move in Your timing. 

I pray Lord that our church and all the churches on this river and throughout the state, country, and world will place You at the very front, acknowledge the prompting of the Holy Spirit quickly and correctly, be willing to put boots on the ground in the spiritual war that rages, show people Your love for them, tell people the gospel, take You out of the church and share You with the world.  I pray that You would give us all a desire to give You more of who You are, move our flesh out of Your way, give up who we are to take up who You want us to be.  I pray that we would start to see the spiritual battle clearly enough to suit up and get moving.  I pray for revival in this area and in this land.  I pray for lives to be fundamentally changed by seeing You for who You are and seeing ourselves for who we are.  I ask Lord for You to change me, prompt me, show me, grow me, and make me useful in Your kingdom. 

Thank You Lord for Godly friends and people who, if they ever do get tired of me, don't say so.  Thank You for a few minutes this morning.  Please let my words be Your words, Your words are powerful.  Please Lord soften the hearts of those who are becoming hard hearted.  Please keep speaking and working in them and don't give up.  Please work miracles in the hearts of men.

In Jesus Name
Amen

April 8, 2014

Lord,

Please be with my friend today and with her mother as she starts chemo.  I know there are so many right now struggling with cancer and all the stuff that goes with it.  Please be very tangible and present for them both and draw all of the family closer to You.  I ask that You would share Your strength with my friend as she cares for her family and carries burdens that are too big.  I ask that You would help her to lay those burdens at Your feet and allow You to care for her and her family.  Please help them to travel safely to Tennessee and help me to be able to meet them there.

Thank You for this long-time friendship.  Thank You for someone who loves me unconditionally. 

Please be with Randy Hill's family and strengthen and comfort them in their loss.  Thank You Lord that he knew You well and we are assured of his destination.  Please walk close to them and draw his family closer to You. 

Thank You for a day.  Thank You for providing me friends who love me and help get me past crazy.
Thank You for a good evening yesterday.

Please give me wisdom tonight.  Please help me to be articulate and loving in all that I say and do.  I ask that You would help me to see people through Your eyes and point them to You always.

I ask for Your leadership in the directions of my life.  I need You to lead clearly.  I know that You will.

Please Lord work miracles in the lives of those who are struggling.  Please reveal Your love and Your direction to them and help them to see You for who You are.  Help me to see You for who You are.  Please help me to be faithful to studying Your word and seeking Your will.  Please help me to know what You call me to do and then do it.

You are worth all I have, please help me to be able to let go of all I have to pick up what You give.

I ask that You would send encouragement and a good Godly friend to a friend of mine.  Someone who can help strengthen their walk with You and mentor them.  Someone to point them in the right direction and be honest when they are turning away.  You know the need Lord and I am asking You to fill that need. 

Thank You for Your grace.  Thank You that I do not get what I deserve. 

In Jesus Name
Amen

April 7, 2014

Well Lord,

How frustrating!  I will not be deterred from prayer this morning!

Thank You for being with Brit yesterday and helping her to feel better.  Please give her doctor wisdom to be able to treat her effectively.  Thank You for helping me feel Your peace about the music yesterday.  I do trust You.  Please help me constantly keep You in the center of my focus and help me to keep my eyes firmly fixed on You.

Thank You for Tifany in church.  Please Lord, heal her completely and keep her from having to have a re-do surgery with a long recovery.  I know that You can.  Please give her strength and help us to figure out how to be a blessing to their whole family.

Please Lord, provide for my husband.  You know what he needs.  .

Lord, I need You Oh I need You
every hour I need You

Thank You for a nice church dinner and a full sanctuary.  Thank You for a day of quiet.

Thank You for Godly role models, people who seem to be able to keep You in the proper place in their lives.  Thank You for their witness for You.

I feel like I should be doing more.  I don't feel like I am doing enough for You. 

Please show me Lord how to run my family according to Your word and Your will. 

Please keep working on the hearts of our prodigals.  Please soften their hearts, in their sleep if necessary, so that they can again hear Your voice clearly.  Please lead them to a place where they will "come to themselves" and return home to the Father.  Thank You for victories I have seen in areas where I have left the results up to You.  I pray for more victories.  I am not willing to lose those who are wandering Lord.  I love them too much and I know You do too.  Please reveal Your love to them and help them to get past the lies of the enemy.

Please help us as Your children to allow more of You into our lives.  Please help us to live with a spiritual mindset and not a flesh mindset.  There are so many more people who need to know You.  Please help us to be about the Father's business.

In Jesus Name
Amen

April 4, 2014

Good Morning Lord,

It is nice to hear the birds this morning.

Thank You for spring and flowers and birds and sunshine.  Thank You for a few blades of grass growing in the flat mud of my yard.  Thank You for someone who loves me enough to help get my grass started.

Today, I have many things on my heart. 

Please be with the families who lost their loved ones in Upper Big Branch Mine four years ago.  I don't remember to pray for them enough.  Please be extra close to them today and all the other really difficult days like Christmas and birthdays.  Please strengthen them and cover them with Your grace.
Please provide Godly stand-in men to be role models for children that will grow up not knowing their fathers.  Please help the answers come that will prevent mining deaths in the future.  Thank You for bringing people home from work safely every day.  Thank You for the men that keep the lights on.  Please protect them while they work, today and every day.

Please be with Tifany and bring healing to her body.  Please give her strength and help us to figure out how to be a blessing to her.

Please be in a couple of very difficult situations that I can't detail out in open forum.  You know the details, You know everyone involved.  You know my heart and what it desires to see done in each situation.  I want Your will, Your restoration, Your healing.  I know that You are able to do more than we can ask or even imagine and I can imagine a lot.  Please work miracles and bring healing.

Thank You for tanking me up the other night.  For allowing me to worship freely and remember how uncomplicated worship really is.  Thank You for the reminder.

Please protect the hearts of our children from the lies of the enemy no matter whose mouth they fly from.  Please help them to seek You, to desire the things of the kingdom, to walk with You, and to allow You to make Your home in their hearts.

Thank You for a bit of quiet this morning and a few moments to pray on "paper". 

In Jesus Name
Amen

April 3, 2014 evening

Thank You Lord

For a nice evening in Your presence.  Thank You for tanking me up and allowing me to just relax and worship You.  Thank You for teaching me a new perspective and letting it sink in.

Thank You for continuing to speak to me and take care of my needs, even the ones that I haven't dared to speak out loud.

Thank You for the blessing of a whole praise team who seeks to honor and worship You.  Thank You for the opportunity to work with all of them to lead people into a place where they can allow their hearts to be saturated with who You are.

Thank You for tonight's blessing, it wasn't lost on me.

Thank You.

In Jesus Name
Amen

April 3, 2014

Good Morning Lord,

Thank You!  Thank You for music to play, for a calm and relaxed meeting, for a clean house - well, for a few minutes anyway, for a  husband who keeps all those detail things that burden me taken care of like receipts and car tags.  Thank You for getting him through last week and for allowing him to have the strength to get to church last night.  Please Lord, help him to continue to gain strength and feel better.

Thank You for the opportunity to discuss some of what I am called to do with my husband.  Thank You for his job which makes it possible for me to do my parts of ministry.  Thank You for providing a way for me to write and to honor You.

Thank You Lord for the opportunity to know my grandchildren.  They are a blessing and a piece of the joy of my life.  Thank You for time with each of them occasionally to bond one-on-one.  Please help me wisely use my time with them to build a relationship and to teach them about You. 

Lord, today I ask for total and complete healing for a few people.  I am asking boldly at Your throne for the complete healing of Wesley, Tifany, A, V, R, A.  I know there are many, many more.  I know there is power in Your name that is above all names.  I know that just because I ask doesn't mean you will say yes, nor does is mean that you are required to do anything.  But, I know that the earnest prayer of a righteous man (my righteousness is filthy rags, my only claim to righteousness is in You) availeth much.  I have seen You change Your mind in scripture when one of Your children pray.  I don't know Your will in any of these situations, but I know that Your plans are to prosper us and not to harm us.  I ask again for complete and total head to toe healing in these places.  I'm sure there are more.  I will serve You even if Your answer is no, because You are my God and my fortress.  I ask for healing for physical issues, mending of cells, growth of healthy cells, death of the  unhealthy ones.  I ask for healing of spiritual deep wounds, of mentally deep scars.  I ask for restoration of hope when it seems to fail.  I ask for a closer and more thorough walk with You Lord for each one.  I ask that each individual would be healed according to their unique need and fully drawn to You to give You the glory. 

I pray for the ones who are wandering, who loved You and walked away or who loved You and are just messed up right now.  I pray that You would let the lies of satan be illuminated for what they are.  I pray that people will speak 10 truths to combat each lie of the enemy and the truth will begin to sound like truth to them.  I pray that You would prevent their own stinking thinking from gaining ground and allow sound judgement to sink in.  I pray that they would come to themselves, have a desire to return home to the Father because I know when they do, You will run to them.

Please help me Father to say the right thing to the right people to show them Your love and to point them to You as their savior.  Help me to love people with Your heart.  I know that is high stakes and now always easy.  Thank You for people who showed that love to my husband.

Please give strength to those who are struggling, walking through a difficult valley, or helping someone else through a difficult circumstance.

Please be with Becky as she is alongside her husband for treatment and for her children as they must be away from their parents for a while in an already difficult time.  Please guide the doctors and nurses to hear Your wisdom in all the treatments.  Please protect the family from the enemy while they are battling him in other arenas. 

Please bring wisdom to our church as we consider pastors.  Please help us choose only according to Your will.  Please guide us and make Your choice obvious and give us a feeling of peace about the right decision and an uneasy feeling if we are going the wrong direction.  Please close the doors that are not a good path for us and open the right ones.  We need this one to be idiot proof please!  Please help us to decide in unity and following the guidance of Your Holy Spirit. 

I know I have asked a lot today Lord, but I also know You desire the praises and the prayers of Your children.  I know that we have a straight path the throne room.  Thank You Lord that we are constantly able to speak to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.   What a privilege!  We are blessed and You are merciful Oh Lord.  Please help us to pray without ceasing.  To keep our conversation with You open through the day and keep You always on our minds.

In Jesus Name
Amen

April 2, 2014

Thank You Lord for helping me get home on time and get my house reasonably clean for company. 

Thank You again for blessing me with a testimony to Your goodness in the salvaged things from the old burned house.  Thank You for Your provision and favor.

Please give us wisdom toward accepting the person You would have for us as a pastor.

Please lead us clearly and help us to follow.

In Jesus Name
Amen

April 1, 2014

Good Morning Lord,

Thank You for a great night sleep and my beautiful new piano.  Thank You for good friends who will bail me out of a scheduling nightmare!  Thank You for being with me yesterday and showing favor to me in the doctors office.  You are amazing.  Your love tailored to me surprises me so often.  Thank You for loving me in spite of my shortcomings and helping me work around them.

Thank You for music in my life.  Thank You for noise, even when I desire quiet.  Noise is a sign of life in this house.

Please help the ladies, the people who are struggling today.  I have a list, but there are so many more.  Please bring them Your strength and hold them tightly and bring them encouragement.  Please help me to be a blessing and speak Your words and work in the center of Your will.  Please bring peace where there is fear.  Please bring comfort where there is sorrow.  Please bring strength at the end of our own.  Please give me wisdom to follow where You lead.  Please bring restoration to the injured. 

Please Lord, help us to desire revival of our own souls so sincerely that widespread revival is a given.

In Jesus Name
Amen