Praying for Each Other

Each Monday I will be posting prayer requests so that we can hold one another up and pray for each other throughout the week. 

 You can e-mail your prayers requests to me at iamalongfortheride[@]gmail[.]com. Feel free to e-mail today and I can add them. If you e-mail me throughout the week, I will post them next Monday.

Annie: Prayer request: My mom has breast cancer and is getting a double mastectomy next month. Pray that will be the end of it? 

Amber: I would really appreciate prayer for the next little while. I have four more weeks of school. After that I don't have a place to live or a job. I know that the Lord will provide but it is very hard trying not to stress out about my near future. I have a place to live for September but no job for that time either.

Amanda: I am having intense pain in one of my molars, which is causing the corresponding molar on the bottom to hurt, and my ear to hurt. I've been up a lot the past few nights because of it. Please pray that either Jesus heals it, or the dentist can fix it tomorrow.

Maria: I would like prayer for my husband and I. We have been trying to have a baby for a little over a year and a half now. So far God has said either no or wait every month. It is a struggle for my heart because I have wanted to be a mommy ever since I was old enough to hold a doll. I am trusting that God's timing is perfect and His plans for my life are far better than whatever I could dream up. I know that I can trust God's heart even when I can't always trace His hand in things. I know that every circumstance in my life is designed to make me more like Chrst. Even if sometimes it is a very painful process. I have been claiming Psalm 73:25-26 and verse 28 lately for comfort on the days when it's a big struggle for my heart. I am thankful that having children is not the goal of this life.

You can specifically pray: For my doctors appointment to go well at the end of the month. I am going to be asking about them testing me to see if anything is wrong. You can pray that I would stand firm in my convictions because I know that if they do find something wrong they will tell us to use fertility drugs and for us this isn't an option. We want God to get all the glory in this and we believe that He alone opens and closes the womb, not a pill. However, just for our own knowledge we would like to know if anything is wrong. Hopefully, I will be normal. Pray that I would find joy in pouring my life out for the women that God has placed in my life to love and serve. Pray that I would hold the desire before the Lord with open hands. And lastly, pray that I would rejoice with all my married friends who have babies and not allow my heart to fall into envy and jealousy.

Me: There have been a lot of things going on in my family (from physical illness to my affected by the tsunami). I just pray that God shows himself in all these situations and uses these struggles to bring us together as a family and bring us closer to Him.

Julie: I'm waiting on some news about internships for the summer and I just need patience and to trust the Lord has great plans for me and I don't need to worry or micromanage.

Jillian: sending a prayer for my baby brother who is stationed in Afghanistan.

Ami: Saying prayers for everyone and for everyone affected in the catastrophe unfolding in Japan. 

I wanted to give y'all an update. My husbands paycheck this Friday will be the first since before Christmas, that after bills we will actually HAVE MONEY instead of just a bank account with a negative balance. AND David's 1st daughter entered rehab last week. - Praise Jesus!