Prayer & Praise
I am no longer my own, but thine.
Put me to what thou wilt, rank me with whom thou wilt.
Put me to doing, put me to suffering.
Let me be employed for thee or laid aside for thee,
exalted for thee or brought low for thee.
Let me be full, let me be empty.
Let me have all things, let me have nothing.
I freely and heartily yield all things to thy pleasure and disposal.
And now, O glorious and blessed God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
thou art mine, and I am thine.
So be it.
And the covenant which I have made on earth,
let it be ratified in heaven.
Amen.
Wesley
So, I got Shingles a few months ago and now I’ve been diagnosed with mild arrhythmia. I feel like all the stress of my husband being chronically ill and my despair over all the problems trying to have another child have started resulting in health issues. I guess I need prayer, but I don’t even know what prayer is going to do because it’s not going to fix anything. And then I feel like a bad person because obviously I’m not enduring this well enough or I wouldn’t be starting to get these stress-related health problems.
i had to apologize to God yesterday… all the years of praying for my children seemed to only increase their pressures and burdens… He said to pray and so i’ve done, but He never answered
we had a small gathering and my son, who is a natural yarn spinner, recalled instances in his life that convinced him early on that God was real – close calls, accidents that should have been fatal and weren’t… i dawned on me that God was hearing my prayers, but He has His own agenda – His definition of blessing may not be mine
nevertheless, prayer continues for J2 and others here as the destroyer is real – Lord, bring J2 thru now, strengthen her and, Lord, open her eyes to see what You want her to know – it is so hard to do so now
J2, I don’t have a pat answer about prayer, but I truly believe we can commit ourselves and those we love into God’s care, so I’m praying for you. Please be gentle with yourself. You are loved.
Hi J2- I can understand why there is so much stress– chronic illnesses, care-taking, and disappointment can knock the stuffing out of all of us. I echo Nonnie– be gentle with yourself and give time for recovery. Just supporting my husband through chemo was exhausting. Praying for encouragement, strength, and healing for your family.
j2,
I hear you.
The last couple of years have left me with some serious stress related ailments.
i believe without the prayers of God’s people I might not even be here.
God hasn’t usually answered in response to specific requests, but I can still see His hand in all the messes.
Enduring doesn’t require style points.
We’ll keep praying…believing He will show Himself strong for you.
j2, I’m sorry your family is going through so much. Suffering is beyond me. At times it seems so random and I have to admit there are times I think the wrong people are suffering.
I can relate to stress as I think I’ve perfected it! 🙂 God bless you j2 and I’ll pray for you as I remember.
I don’t want to sound ungrateful, because I’m really glad I’m married to my husband and I love my daughter, but I’m still really stressed and disappointed.
praying for God to move the system, the powers that control our health care to move swiftly now on Michael’s behalf – Lord, please – a healing miracle of Your choosing now as we believe and trust in Your mercies and grace – not just for Michael only, but many others of the PhxP family – above all Your will be done and seen and Your name be glorified by all
The house next door to us has been a rental for over 30 years. The owner inherited it along with a ton of other property when his mother passed years ago. For the last few years things next door have gotten really strange with all sorts of stuff happening. The man who now appears to be the one who is the legal renter rents out rooms and I have no idea where he found them.
One of them is a woman who has obvious emotional issues. She is very slow and you see her now and then when she walks to the market as she doesn’t drive. On Christmas we took her and the man in charge Christmas breakfast and supper.
Today she approached me while it was drizzling and asked if I had some food I could give her as her monthly check hadn’t arrived. I took her a meal and spoke to her a bit and she told me she had five babies in her stomach. She explained two of them will be born next month and the other three later on.
She then started talking about the three babies being teleported into her and how she teleports to her husband’s home each night. She told me she wasn’t lying and I said that I didn’t think she was.
I asked her if she took medication and she stated she did for her well being. I brought up schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and she said she didn’t believe in them that one could only be spiritually sick.
I have no clue how to respond to her as she would like to talk some more. She lives in a horrible place where she stays in a bedroom all of the time with what I would describe as shady people.
Part of me wants to become involved while another part thinks staying out of this whole thing might be wiser. I’d appreciate your prayers. Thank you.
oh Erunner, praying with… had a similar neighbor who fixated on my daughter, it got dangerous – may God give you protection, discernment and wisdom, too now
Em,
Thank you for caring about me to the Lord.
Tonight I’m finishing packing up Trey…tomorrow we drive to Portland and Friday morning he flies off to Germany for three months.
When I prayed for his and his brother to be healed of this damnable disease I never thought this would be the answer.
I don’t know how he will handle it, nor do I know how I will.
We’ve never been apart longer than a week.
God knows.
Erunner,
I love the fact that you care when you don’t have to.
Praying…
Thank you em and Michael. Your prayers are welcome. It’s a dark situation there.