The prayer requests from this week's Love in Action feeding are below.
Two Thursdays ago, Johnny "Bag of Donuts" approached me at dinner to thank us for praying for a job for him the previous week. He'd found work holding a sandwich-board type sign on a street corner for a few hours each day, and he said, "Prayer works!" He asked that we continue to pray for him — this time for a full-time job. The following week, we did just that.
This Thursday at dinner, he came up in an excited rush and told me he'd been standing on the corner with the sandwich board, and a former employer saw him. The guy had recently opened a new restaurant, and on the spot offered Johnny a job as a line cook. Johnny was overwhelmed with praise for God and dazzled by how quickly his prayers had been answered.
I was pretty overwhelmed, too. I don't pretend to know *how* prayer works. We lift up people every week, every day. Some people's prayers are answered with an immediate "YES!", some are told "no" or "not yet." The only part I know for sure is that the glory goes to God. It's beyond my understanding, and that's OK :)
Johnny covets your continued prayers .... he's hopeful this job will be his chance to get off the streets, and will lead to a place to live. Please pray for him, as well as all of these other children of God who covet your prayers.
Blessings,
Erika
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
1 Corinthians 13:8-12
-- For Dave's killer to be found, brought to justice, and made whole.
-- For Bianca and her family
-- Wendy, Peanut, Shy’ann & Kamaurry
-- For Charlotte, Ed, Jacques, Robert, Brad, Lance, Kelly, Shante, Shamona, Randy, Richie, Roger, Scott, Tino, Tony, Keith, Smitty, Steve, Dennis, Brieanna, Willie Mae, Carl, Kayla, Lorenzo, Lennox, Rocky, Red, Thomas.
-- For neglected and abused animals and their caregivers.
-- For the well-being of all of LIA's volunteers
-- John from DE in Navy.
-- Financial blessing
-- Rafael L.G.: NEED HELP
-- Pamela C.: Breast cancer
-- James C. Jr.: I'm praying to go see my little girl and a better life.
-- Qually: Bible concordance. (He gave a phone number, so if someone wants to call him to provide a Bible concordance, contact me.)
-- Pery Canan promised me some clothes.
-- Birth certificate, encouragement, strength, and wisdom.
-- Amen. I'm requesting a foundation in Christ.
-- Genia: Help us achieve our goal of opening two businesses and helping us help ourselves. Keep Gary, Ashley, Stephanie, Dee and Genia safe, healthy and whole.
-- I pray for all dealing with their demons. That their demons will leave forever.
-- Keith A.
-- Johnny Bag of Donuts: Pray for a place to live. God bless everybody.
-- Michael: That I would become all that God has predestined for me to become. Praise Jesus.
-- Don W.: Job (employment)
-- My mother, Rebecca H., is in the hospital in Harrisburg, PA trying to recover from lung damage due to pneumonia. She is 81.
-- Pray for Perry.
-- Unemployment
-- Pray for all of us who are unemployed to find work, and for those of us who are looking for housing to find housing, and also for us that are seeking God to find him!!
-- For me, Brian R.: Pray my knee gets better and that the sickness I feel inside me leaves me. Thank you.
-- RJ: Help me and guide me in the right direction. I pray that everything I am going to do for my future is blessed. Bless all my friends and family.
-- Georgia T.
-- My roommate Ralph V., who has liver disease.
-- Sandra: Please pray that a job will be created and apartment found. Thanks.
-- Lord, I need you to help me get off drugs. I need you to save my life.
-- Napoleon P.
-- Troy: My job comes through.
-- For my father Gus, who's sick in the hospital.
-- Wand F.: God, I need you to help me and my family with my food stamps, Lord. Amen
-- Reynold O.
-- Michele: Lord, I so want to thank you for what you are doing in my life. I pray that you do the same for my friends and also my enemies. Keep my friends and family under your protection.
-- Luis V.: Para conseguir trabajo, y para tener paciencia. Gracias. (Translation: To get a job, and have patience. Thank you.)
-- For a nice old woman called Miss Georgia, that her husband will see some light and treat her right. Bless all.
-- God, please pray for my cats and all the blessed people of this church.
-- God, please for me and my friends. Thank you.
-- Father God, to be a blessing to others. To be your bride, Lord Jesus, without spot or wrinkle. To be filled with the spirit to overflowing. To bear fruit! In Jesus' name, Amen!
-- Randy: Dear God, bless us that are amongst this author and the need does not depend on us but the grace of your love. Fulfill this passage. Amen
-- Dave L.: That I get all my lost articles replaced. FAST.
-- Aaron W.: Healing prayer.
-- Hello, my name is Floyd and I ask you to please say a prayer for me that I get in school so that I can improve my life, and pray that the Lord's blessings continue to improve my life. Thank you and have a great day.
-- Frank S.: More work.
-- Elvis F.: More work, place to stay, stay out of trouble, pray for my family.
-- Family and friends, please.
-- God love Mary F.
-- Pray for Mo J.
-- Gary R. would like to express my loving thoughts on all of those who are in your hands. Keep on keeping on in Lord Jesus' name. Amen, Hallelujah. Amen. We praise you, Jesus, we give you thanks and all of your wonderful blessings on taking care of us, Genia and Gary, in our time in the hospital. God bless all who took care of me and Genia. God bless us all.
-- Please bless me and family.
-- David D.: For my health and disease of Hep C.
-- Tony V.L.: Kids and mother and father, sister, niece and nephew. All church people that I visit. Please have grace and mercy on them, my family, also me. Keep guardian angel over these people: Marc J., my friend Kevin T., Sandy of Walk, her mother Winnie, and me. In the name of Jesus, our Lord God. Thank you.
-- Pray for the victims in the Arizona tornadoes, wildfires that they will recover.
-- Theo: I'm ready to take your hand. Lead me through any storm. Bless my family. Bring us together.
-- Leonard M.: For help with my legal problems.
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