This week, Thursday’s Love in Action meal was provided outdoors. Because it was a very windy day, it was not possible to collect written prayer requests. In lieu of our usual prayer requests, I offer a few thoughts on intercessory prayer.
Thank you for keeping this ministry and our guests in your prayers.
Blessings,
Erika
"Intercessory prayer is not the same as prayers for yourself, or for 'enlightenment,’ or for spiritual gifts, or for guidance, or any personal matter, or any glittering generality. Intercession is not just praying for someone else's needs. Intercession is praying with the real hope and real intent that God would step in and act for the positive advancement of some specific other person(s) or other entity. It is trusting God to act, even if it's not in the manner or timing we seek. God wants us to ask, even urgently. It is casting our weakness before God's strength, and (at its best) having a bit of God's passion burn in us."
www.spirithome.com
“True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until you are changed by His attitude toward that person or circumstance. People describe intercession by saying, ‘It is putting yourself in someone else’s place.’ That is not true! Intercession is putting yourself in God’s place; it is having His mind and His perspective.”
Oswald Chambers
"I commend intercessory prayer, because it opens man's soul, gives a healthy play to his sympathies, constrains him to feel that he is not everybody, and that this wide world and this great universe were not after all made that he might be its petty lord, that everything might bend to his will, and all creatures crouch at his feet."
Charles Spurgeon
Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.
Romans 8:26-28 (MSG)
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Prayer Requests 2/18/16
The prayer requests from Thursday’s Love in Action meal are below. Thank you for praying with us for this ministry and our guests.
Blessings,
Erika
He got up, shouted words into the wind, and commanded the waves.
Jesus: That’s enough! Be still!
And immediately the wind died down to nothing, the waves stopped.
Jesus: How can you be so afraid? After all you’ve seen, where is your faith?
Mark 4:39-40 (VOICE)
-- Elizabeth: My prayer is that I get off the streets.
-- Pray for Reuben. Thanks God.
-- Pray for Marcus and he lands a job and a place to live. Also an opportunity to promote and sell my wood furniture designs.
-- I pray for all of those here and everywhere who are alone, homeless, hungry and hurting. May the Lord help those that are in need. Also for this family, I pray that our immediate needs can be met and that we can get emergency housing.
-- I pray to save money and get help on my drugs.
-- Jesus, I need you. I need your mercy.
-- Asking continued prayers for my sister Donna. That her red and white blood cells come up from her bone marrow transplant and her immune system gets stronger. Thank you, Lori
-- Trumane: Pray for everyone and for me. I pray that I get this job.
-- Jackie: I need shoes and pants.
-- Pray for Jeremy, Aran, Samuel, Philip, James, Abraham, Rebecca, Mary, Baby and Bruce.
-- Evelyn: God is my heart and my life.
-- Dear God, thank you for my Dad and Mom. I love you, God!
-- Pray for me and my wife to be safe and blessed.
-- Please pray for me.
-- Eric: I would like to pray the police department returns all my money, my ID cards and my keys.
-- Dear Jesus, please remove all the obstacles in my way so I can move forward. This will take divine intervention for me to be victorious. Consider it done. Amen
-- I need my boyfriend, Tavares, to accept Jesus as his personal savior.
-- Jesus, I love you. You love me.
-- I’m thankful for my life.
-- I wish we could have a bike.
-- Pray for my fiancé’s health. She has joint and muscle disease.
-- I would like a big wheel. (from a child)
-- Evelyn: God, please see Daniel back to me.
-- Pray for Fonda and her babies, Sharon and her children, FSB and Caley. Ricky, People, Nicolette, Nikki, Oneka, Judith, Naomi and Pam.
-- Please keep Kimmy in your prayers. Jesus, please help her to stop inflicting pain upon herself by cutting herself. Please let her see the light of Jesus and that there is hope in the name of Jesus!
-- Continued prayer for Ashley and her daughter, Trinity. Pray that Ashley gets a job and Trinity goes to preschool.
-- Continued prayers for our volunteer Harry who undergoes stem cell treatment for cancer, and pray for his family.
-- For Joey and his family as they reunite.
-- For Christian, who is tired of living life his old way and is trying hard to detox and get healthy.
-- For Tino, many continued blessings as he plans for his upcoming wedding and marriage.
-- For Dave's killer to be found, brought to justice, and made whole. For the police department to continue to give attention and effort to solving the case.
-- For Gypsy and Turtle.
-- For the health of our volunteers.
-- For Bianca and her family.
-- For Wendy, Peanut, Shy’ann and Kamaurry
-- For neglected and abused animals and their caregivers. For Nina.
-- For all of LIA's volunteers; help us be quick to listen, slow to speak.
-- Thank you, Father, for the hands and hearts of the Love in Action volunteers. Thank you for the generous giving of our donors. Thank you for the way the members of our ministry use their gifts to lovingly care for our guests. Thank you for loving us.
Blessings,
Erika
He got up, shouted words into the wind, and commanded the waves.
Jesus: That’s enough! Be still!
And immediately the wind died down to nothing, the waves stopped.
Jesus: How can you be so afraid? After all you’ve seen, where is your faith?
Mark 4:39-40 (VOICE)
-- Elizabeth: My prayer is that I get off the streets.
-- Pray for Reuben. Thanks God.
-- Pray for Marcus and he lands a job and a place to live. Also an opportunity to promote and sell my wood furniture designs.
-- I pray for all of those here and everywhere who are alone, homeless, hungry and hurting. May the Lord help those that are in need. Also for this family, I pray that our immediate needs can be met and that we can get emergency housing.
-- I pray to save money and get help on my drugs.
-- Jesus, I need you. I need your mercy.
-- Asking continued prayers for my sister Donna. That her red and white blood cells come up from her bone marrow transplant and her immune system gets stronger. Thank you, Lori
-- Trumane: Pray for everyone and for me. I pray that I get this job.
-- Jackie: I need shoes and pants.
-- Pray for Jeremy, Aran, Samuel, Philip, James, Abraham, Rebecca, Mary, Baby and Bruce.
-- Evelyn: God is my heart and my life.
-- Dear God, thank you for my Dad and Mom. I love you, God!
-- Pray for me and my wife to be safe and blessed.
-- Please pray for me.
-- Eric: I would like to pray the police department returns all my money, my ID cards and my keys.
-- Dear Jesus, please remove all the obstacles in my way so I can move forward. This will take divine intervention for me to be victorious. Consider it done. Amen
-- I need my boyfriend, Tavares, to accept Jesus as his personal savior.
-- Jesus, I love you. You love me.
-- I’m thankful for my life.
-- I wish we could have a bike.
-- Pray for my fiancé’s health. She has joint and muscle disease.
-- I would like a big wheel. (from a child)
-- Evelyn: God, please see Daniel back to me.
-- Pray for Fonda and her babies, Sharon and her children, FSB and Caley. Ricky, People, Nicolette, Nikki, Oneka, Judith, Naomi and Pam.
-- Please keep Kimmy in your prayers. Jesus, please help her to stop inflicting pain upon herself by cutting herself. Please let her see the light of Jesus and that there is hope in the name of Jesus!
-- Continued prayer for Ashley and her daughter, Trinity. Pray that Ashley gets a job and Trinity goes to preschool.
-- Continued prayers for our volunteer Harry who undergoes stem cell treatment for cancer, and pray for his family.
-- For Joey and his family as they reunite.
-- For Christian, who is tired of living life his old way and is trying hard to detox and get healthy.
-- For Tino, many continued blessings as he plans for his upcoming wedding and marriage.
-- For Dave's killer to be found, brought to justice, and made whole. For the police department to continue to give attention and effort to solving the case.
-- For Gypsy and Turtle.
-- For the health of our volunteers.
-- For Bianca and her family.
-- For Wendy, Peanut, Shy’ann and Kamaurry
-- For neglected and abused animals and their caregivers. For Nina.
-- For all of LIA's volunteers; help us be quick to listen, slow to speak.
-- Thank you, Father, for the hands and hearts of the Love in Action volunteers. Thank you for the generous giving of our donors. Thank you for the way the members of our ministry use their gifts to lovingly care for our guests. Thank you for loving us.
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Prayer Requests 2/11/16
The prayer requests from Thursday’s Love in Action meal are below.
Thanks for praying with us for this ministry and our guests.
Blessings,
Erika
Listen to this, you who walk all over the weak,
you who treat poor people as less than nothing,
Who say, “When’s my next paycheck coming
so I can go out and live it up?
How long till the weekend
when I can go out and have a good time?”
Who give little and take much,
and never do an honest day’s work.
You exploit the poor, using them—
and then, when they’re used up, you discard them.
Amos 8:4-6 (MSG)
-- Please pray that Marcus P. finds a job, home, and lead in a positive direction promoting and selling my first line of wood products that are ready to go.
-- Dear Jesus, please help me to get my life and plans together. Work things out for me so that I will be victorious.
-- Ritz: Rashon S.K. - I thank you.
-- I want a bike and a truck rail car and I want a race car. Thank you.
-- I love you, my Lord. I thank you, Jesus. God my sons Jesus and my power. I thank you, my Lord, my blood Lord. I thank you forever Jesus, my blood. God, thank you my Lord. I love you. Jesus is love, thank you. God is love.
-- Dear Jesus, please help.
-- Georgetta and Wayne: Please pray for a room to rent.
-- Tom S.: Help me to get it together.
-- Resa: To live until April 31.
-- Lori: Asking for prayer for my sister Lorna, that her red blood cells come up; bone morrow and her immune system gets stronger; her bladder infection clears up. Thank you.
-- Reynold/Bettey/cat
-- Shamura: I want a frozen doll that walks and talks.
-- Bilk
-- Please pray for me and my family for health and strength.
-- Eve: God send Daniel to me soon.
-- Evelyn: Tell Daniel that I love him.
-- Alderia; Judith B,; Mc Diane; Anne; Radley; Ferron; Barnes family; Jackie’s family; Mia; Love in Action; Ms. Kathy.
-- Lori: Pray for my brother-in-law that work picks up so that Scott and Donna can keep their medical insurance. Thank you, her sister, Lori.
-- Juanita and Steve: A place to stay; Steve to get a job and his ID back; Jaunita for surgery to go safe and sound; Larisha, Mahry, Amina, Donnonanan - for them to get to know the Word and get closer to God.
-- Please keep Kimmy in your prayers. Jesus, please help her to stop inflicting pain upon herself by cutting herself. Please let her see the light of Jesus and that there is hope in the name of Jesus!
-- Continued prayer for Ashley and her daughter, Trinity. Pray that Ashley gets a job and Trinity goes to preschool.
-- Continued prayers for our volunteer Harry who undergoes stem cell treatment for cancer, and pray for his family.
-- For Joey and his family as they reunite.
-- For Christian, who is tired of living life his old way and is trying hard to detox and get healthy.
-- For Tino, many continued blessings as he plans for his upcoming wedding and marriage.
-- For Dave's killer to be found, brought to justice, and made whole. For the police department to continue to give attention and effort to solving the case.
-- For Gypsy and Turtle.
-- For the health of our volunteers.
-- For Bianca and her family.
-- For Wendy, Peanut, Shy’ann and Kamaurry
-- For neglected and abused animals and their caregivers. For Nina.
-- For all of LIA's volunteers; help us be quick to listen, slow to speak.
-- Thank you, Father, for the hands and hearts of the Love in Action volunteers. Thank you for the generous giving of our donors. Thank you for the way the members of our ministry use their gifts to lovingly care for our guests. Thank you for loving us.
Thanks for praying with us for this ministry and our guests.
Blessings,
Erika
Listen to this, you who walk all over the weak,
you who treat poor people as less than nothing,
Who say, “When’s my next paycheck coming
so I can go out and live it up?
How long till the weekend
when I can go out and have a good time?”
Who give little and take much,
and never do an honest day’s work.
You exploit the poor, using them—
and then, when they’re used up, you discard them.
Amos 8:4-6 (MSG)
-- Please pray that Marcus P. finds a job, home, and lead in a positive direction promoting and selling my first line of wood products that are ready to go.
-- Dear Jesus, please help me to get my life and plans together. Work things out for me so that I will be victorious.
-- Ritz: Rashon S.K. - I thank you.
-- I want a bike and a truck rail car and I want a race car. Thank you.
-- I love you, my Lord. I thank you, Jesus. God my sons Jesus and my power. I thank you, my Lord, my blood Lord. I thank you forever Jesus, my blood. God, thank you my Lord. I love you. Jesus is love, thank you. God is love.
-- Dear Jesus, please help.
-- Georgetta and Wayne: Please pray for a room to rent.
-- Tom S.: Help me to get it together.
-- Resa: To live until April 31.
-- Lori: Asking for prayer for my sister Lorna, that her red blood cells come up; bone morrow and her immune system gets stronger; her bladder infection clears up. Thank you.
-- Reynold/Bettey/cat
-- Shamura: I want a frozen doll that walks and talks.
-- Bilk
-- Please pray for me and my family for health and strength.
-- Eve: God send Daniel to me soon.
-- Evelyn: Tell Daniel that I love him.
-- Alderia; Judith B,; Mc Diane; Anne; Radley; Ferron; Barnes family; Jackie’s family; Mia; Love in Action; Ms. Kathy.
-- Lori: Pray for my brother-in-law that work picks up so that Scott and Donna can keep their medical insurance. Thank you, her sister, Lori.
-- Juanita and Steve: A place to stay; Steve to get a job and his ID back; Jaunita for surgery to go safe and sound; Larisha, Mahry, Amina, Donnonanan - for them to get to know the Word and get closer to God.
-- Please keep Kimmy in your prayers. Jesus, please help her to stop inflicting pain upon herself by cutting herself. Please let her see the light of Jesus and that there is hope in the name of Jesus!
-- Continued prayer for Ashley and her daughter, Trinity. Pray that Ashley gets a job and Trinity goes to preschool.
-- Continued prayers for our volunteer Harry who undergoes stem cell treatment for cancer, and pray for his family.
-- For Joey and his family as they reunite.
-- For Christian, who is tired of living life his old way and is trying hard to detox and get healthy.
-- For Tino, many continued blessings as he plans for his upcoming wedding and marriage.
-- For Dave's killer to be found, brought to justice, and made whole. For the police department to continue to give attention and effort to solving the case.
-- For Gypsy and Turtle.
-- For the health of our volunteers.
-- For Bianca and her family.
-- For Wendy, Peanut, Shy’ann and Kamaurry
-- For neglected and abused animals and their caregivers. For Nina.
-- For all of LIA's volunteers; help us be quick to listen, slow to speak.
-- Thank you, Father, for the hands and hearts of the Love in Action volunteers. Thank you for the generous giving of our donors. Thank you for the way the members of our ministry use their gifts to lovingly care for our guests. Thank you for loving us.
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Prayer Requests 2/4/16
The prayer requests from Thursday’s Love in Action meal are below.
Thank you for praying with us for this ministry and our guests.
Blessings,
Erika
When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” When Jesus heard this, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.”
Mark 2:16-17 (NRSV)
-- Please pray for Eugene, my mother Ms. Ella, Shannon and her son Juan.
-- Juanita: I am going to a Social Security disability hearing on February 11th. Please let the judge give me my S.S. checks back so I can get off the streets.
-- Please pray for my sister Donna who received a bone marrow transplant. Pray that her red blood cell count will come up, her immune system will get stronger and her bladder infection will clear up. Thank you, Lori
-- Peace and Harmony for all.
-- Dear Jesus, please help me to get my storage organized. Thank you. Amen
-- Blessings for all of God’s people.
-- Pray for Robert and Marilyn’s finances and that Robert quits smoking and learns how to read better. Pray for John who is in the hospital with pneumonia. Pray for Ernest with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cancer.
-- I’m thankful for my life, food and my family.
-- Roger: Pray for my high blood pressure, two strokes and a bad kidney.
-- Herbert: Pray for the homeless, people that are hospitalized, my family and my friends. Please pray for my kids, asking the Lord to send angels to protect them. I pray for my enemies and I forgive them. Pray for my transgressions, forgive me, Lord. Pray for my protection and safe return from Memphis. In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen!
-- Evelyn: God, see about Daniel in my heart.
-- I want a Frozen doll that walks and sings (from a child).
-- I want a race car (from a child).
-- I want a bike (from a child).
-- I pray for all of those here and those that are cold, hungry, alone and homeless. I pray for my family for immediate emergency shelter/housing. We need the blessing of a hand-up not a hand-out. We all need help, but I need your help to provide shelter for my family.
-- Dear Jesus, thank you for my dad, my mom and my sister.
-- Please pray for me and my family to find a place to stay.
-- Please put my brother to God.
-- Pray for Jenny, Samuel, James, Philip, Abraham, Rebecca, Mary and Baby.
-- Jesus, I love and thank you. I believe in you. Thank you for my life. You are my best friend. Jesus, I love you forever.
-- God is Love.
-- Please keep Kimmy in your prayers. Jesus, please help her to stop inflicting pain upon herself by cutting herself. Please let her see the light of Jesus and that there is hope in the name of Jesus!
-- Continued prayer for Ashley and her daughter, Trinity. Pray that Ashley gets a job and Trinity goes to preschool.
-- Continued prayers for our volunteer Harry who undergoes stem cell treatment for cancer, and pray for his family.
-- For Joey and his family as they reunite.
-- For Christian, who is tired of living life his old way and is trying hard to detox and get healthy.
-- For Tino, many continued blessings as he plans for his upcoming wedding and marriage.
-- For Dave's killer to be found, brought to justice, and made whole. For the police department to continue to give attention and effort to solving the case.
-- For Gypsy and Turtle.
-- For the health of our volunteers.
-- For Bianca and her family.
-- For Wendy, Peanut, Shy’ann and Kamaurry
-- For neglected and abused animals and their caregivers. For Nina.
-- For all of LIA's volunteers; help us be quick to listen, slow to speak.
-- Thank you, Father, for the hands and hearts of the Love in Action volunteers. Thank you for the generous giving of our donors. Thank you for the way the members of our ministry use their gifts to lovingly care for our guests. Thank you for loving us.
Thank you for praying with us for this ministry and our guests.
Blessings,
Erika
When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” When Jesus heard this, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.”
Mark 2:16-17 (NRSV)
-- Please pray for Eugene, my mother Ms. Ella, Shannon and her son Juan.
-- Juanita: I am going to a Social Security disability hearing on February 11th. Please let the judge give me my S.S. checks back so I can get off the streets.
-- Please pray for my sister Donna who received a bone marrow transplant. Pray that her red blood cell count will come up, her immune system will get stronger and her bladder infection will clear up. Thank you, Lori
-- Peace and Harmony for all.
-- Dear Jesus, please help me to get my storage organized. Thank you. Amen
-- Blessings for all of God’s people.
-- Pray for Robert and Marilyn’s finances and that Robert quits smoking and learns how to read better. Pray for John who is in the hospital with pneumonia. Pray for Ernest with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cancer.
-- I’m thankful for my life, food and my family.
-- Roger: Pray for my high blood pressure, two strokes and a bad kidney.
-- Herbert: Pray for the homeless, people that are hospitalized, my family and my friends. Please pray for my kids, asking the Lord to send angels to protect them. I pray for my enemies and I forgive them. Pray for my transgressions, forgive me, Lord. Pray for my protection and safe return from Memphis. In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen!
-- Evelyn: God, see about Daniel in my heart.
-- I want a Frozen doll that walks and sings (from a child).
-- I want a race car (from a child).
-- I want a bike (from a child).
-- I pray for all of those here and those that are cold, hungry, alone and homeless. I pray for my family for immediate emergency shelter/housing. We need the blessing of a hand-up not a hand-out. We all need help, but I need your help to provide shelter for my family.
-- Dear Jesus, thank you for my dad, my mom and my sister.
-- Please pray for me and my family to find a place to stay.
-- Please put my brother to God.
-- Pray for Jenny, Samuel, James, Philip, Abraham, Rebecca, Mary and Baby.
-- Jesus, I love and thank you. I believe in you. Thank you for my life. You are my best friend. Jesus, I love you forever.
-- God is Love.
-- Please keep Kimmy in your prayers. Jesus, please help her to stop inflicting pain upon herself by cutting herself. Please let her see the light of Jesus and that there is hope in the name of Jesus!
-- Continued prayer for Ashley and her daughter, Trinity. Pray that Ashley gets a job and Trinity goes to preschool.
-- Continued prayers for our volunteer Harry who undergoes stem cell treatment for cancer, and pray for his family.
-- For Joey and his family as they reunite.
-- For Christian, who is tired of living life his old way and is trying hard to detox and get healthy.
-- For Tino, many continued blessings as he plans for his upcoming wedding and marriage.
-- For Dave's killer to be found, brought to justice, and made whole. For the police department to continue to give attention and effort to solving the case.
-- For Gypsy and Turtle.
-- For the health of our volunteers.
-- For Bianca and her family.
-- For Wendy, Peanut, Shy’ann and Kamaurry
-- For neglected and abused animals and their caregivers. For Nina.
-- For all of LIA's volunteers; help us be quick to listen, slow to speak.
-- Thank you, Father, for the hands and hearts of the Love in Action volunteers. Thank you for the generous giving of our donors. Thank you for the way the members of our ministry use their gifts to lovingly care for our guests. Thank you for loving us.
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