Prayers for week of June 27

Irene -- For my relationship with my friend.

Rhianwen -- For all who were at Zoe and Justin's weddoimng today and Sam and Monica's last week
That those who came for a party heard the Good News and will remember it.

Kerry -- pray that I will do what God thinks is right, not what I think in regard to this friend. And that God will give this man wisdom.

ZoeRose -- Prayers for my dad, now in his 70s and going through some tests. That he'll be healthy

Able -- For my mum that the results of medical tests she is having are positive. Secondly that God might really speak to her at the service a week tomorrow. (ie. Able's ordination.)

Joyous -- For discernment in what I should be doing when I retire.

Wilfried -- for guidance and for obedience

Ruby -- strength and faith in God; also must speak at a rather large event and is nervous.

Thanks, Joyous, for noting them down!

Prayer requests for week of June 21

Sorry they're so late, folks!

Helene: For wisdom in her new leadership responsiblities as Lay Pastor at the Cathedral. For patience and tolerance in her new role as it challenges some.

ZoeRose: I ask for prayers as I continue in my new job. I am very thankful to the Lord for this new adventure! I ask for travel mercies as I fly to Ft. Worth for the ACNA Assembly - I'll be writing about it and reporting on it.

JulieAnnRose Serenity: pray that my hubby is feeling well enough to enjoy next weekend as we celebrate our anniversary.

MingLynn Lionheart: Remaining positive amongst chaos and bleek economic times. Pray for provision.

Wilfried: Pray for the formation of the ACNA. Pray for God's will to be done.

Joyous Schism: for discernment on where I should be going next in my life, particularly whether I should be taking retirement now - what is the right way to spend my time and energy?

For Ruby as she makes decisions.

Prayer requests 6 May 2009

Joyous: Facing a decision regarding whether to take early retirement. That she would clearly know what she should do over the offer she had at work to retire. If she accepts it, she would also like clear guidance about what direction she should take with her life.

Ruby: Friend Joanne took an overdose early Friday morning. Pray for Ruby for strength, wisdom. She feels empty and stressed. Ruby's church is up for sale and they have an opportunity to buy the building, but they need to raise circa £30k to do so by this Wednesday

Irene: I need direction about my job. I want to do what God wants me to. I am having trouble letting go of some hurt and anger I feel at work.

Able: For good endings, closure and new beginnings all with God at the centre - and that God would restore my soul. That God might speak to this person in SL who was character assassinated in a Christian group.

Helene: I need to use the next three months well to establish a good routine, in case I am recommended to start training at theological college

JulieAnnRose Serenity: for Samantha who is a satanist - for her salvation

Rhianwen: Thank you for answered prayer re technical things and that they will keep going

Wilfried: For peace, wisdom, and obedience

Prayer requests 16 May 2009

Joyous: guidance in a couple of decisions

Saskia: strength and wlsdom ln certaln thlngs

lrene: Please pray for my continued healing and for peace in my family.

Rhianwen: For my friend J ho was recovering well from an injury but now is unhappy and disappointed because it's getting worse again.

Wilfried: that I am free from anxiety and do all that God wants me to do - that I OBEY and Carry through !

MingLynn: Please keep and comgort my Godmother, Mary Francis Clark in her battle with breast cancer at age 84.

Able: having a meeting with the bishop - that it goes well

Prayer requests for May 9

Helene: big decision to make regarding work need a lot of wisdom.

Saskia: lnsplratlon for my asslgnments.
wlsdom regardng a few matters

Liliana : keeping my spirits up
have an open sore from the burns on my neck that is giving me a lot of trouble.

Able:been to a meetlng at college meeting concerns a friend pray that God's will might be done, and that somehow, whatever the outcome, it might be turned to his glory.

Joyous: for my friend Chris. She had been providing care for her elderly mother, who recently died. And now she is caring for her father, with whom she has a difficult hisory.

Charlie: - for Margarita's counselling, and for our friendship.

Rhlanwen: for three firends who are enduring and ask that they be sustained by an awareness of the presence of Jesus.

Wilf: that God helps me focus on what I need to focus on in this coming week

Prayer requests April 18

Liliana: About half way done with the radiation and am tolerating it well. Biggest negative I'm feeling is being tired most the time. It will go away after treatment is over. Only prayer I can think of for me is to keep hanging in and as I get treatment, receive all the blessings that God is raining down on me.

Able: Moving in circa two months with so much to do between now and then. For God to help me work through everything I need to do

Helene: For God's guidance as I continue to work on my paper about SL ministry.

Irene: For the candidates and team on Sabine Creek Tres Dias that the Lord will be glorified in everything that is said and done. Also rejoicing in the continued healing of Joe.

Rhianwen: Thanks for the continued healing of Janice. For her computers improvement.

NewCreature Writer: Prayers for his parents, they don´t know Jesus yet, i have been praying for about 11 years. Anyway, pray to God touch their hearts and minds

Wilf: Pray for a friend and his family - his wife and both of his sons are either sick or wounded

Saskia: Pray for my Job, im gettin so much grief at work from my boss, and for tuesday i have somethin i have to do but not lookin forward to it, and guidence in everything really

Prayer requests 11 April

We missed praying together this Saturday - a lot of things were going on, and only a few of us showed up - and we decided to go to the service Helene was leading.

We do, however, have this important prayer request:
Saskia: We are havin a holiday club fro the kids next week, i am doin a few things durin the week, the main bit is that i am fronting it on the thursday, and so far my prep for it is non existance. I would like God to hurry up and show me which way he wants me to go with it.

Praying for each other during the week

Please see the important note at the bottom of this page.

I've been thinking of a way we can keep up with prayer requests during the week, and encourage one another to join in prayer requests.

One way would be to just add comments to the prayer article each time it's posted ... another way is twitter.

Twitter is basically a way that people keep track of each other - what they're doing, thoughts, some conversations. What's typical in twitter, though, is people having 90 people they are "following" - so they get lots and lots and lots of updates.

I'd like something we can use that's really concentrated just on our prayer requests.

Would you like to give this a run? Go to http://www.twitter.com

Make an account that is for prayer only. If you already have an account, make a new one (well, you don't have too - you can get your feet wet by just "following" us if you want) - or the page of your current account won't just be our prayers, but all the other stuff too. Mine is called WilfriedPrays ... something like that might work for you.

What we really want to avoid is ... that we're "talking to everyone and no one" - what is sometimes said of twitterers. Here ... we are praying for each other ... and with each other ... audience is just us, and were not distracted by zillions of others.

If you don't want the whole internet to be able to see your prayer requests, be sure that when you sign up, you select "protect my updates."

Then ... go to http://www.twitter.com/WilfriedPrays
Click on "follow." I'll approve your request ... and then ask if I can follow you as well. You will get my prayer requests ... I'll get yours. All the people you allow to "follow" you will be able to see your "updates" - your prayer requests, or the prayers you type for other people while you pray for them.

Other people to add immediately:
http://twitter.com/AblePrays
http://twitter.com/HelenePrays
I'll "twitter along" people as they add themselves, so I'll be informing everyone to add you so they can pray for you.

Some extra info: Twitter only allows you to type 140 chars or so in an update. If you want to type a longer prayer than 140 characters when praying for someone ... just put a comment in the prayer thread at the Bible study site. You can link it in your "tweet" (your status update) - go to http://tinyurl.com and create a "tiny" url for the link, and use that url - otherwise the link will probably be too long.

This may or may not work well for us. But we won't know if we don't try! We might also want to just use the comments in the prayer threads ... disadvantage here is that they are "public" - everyone sees them. Big advantage of Twitter is you get your prayers all in one place, so you don't have to go looking for the thread on the site.

When you sign up, consider putting http://anglicanecumenicalbiblestudy.blogspot.com in your profile url so you can get easily back to the bible study site from Twitter, and remember to look at it every now & then & leave comments on the stuff we're reading / we read!

Important note: This will only really work effictively if you have an account that is ONLY for following other people who pray, and ONLY use twitter for that purpose. It won't work if you also sign up other people ... and make "tweets" like others, "I'm having a boring day / I'm back at the office" etc. etc.. The purpose of this is for your twitter account to be a virtual sacred space, a space set apart from prayer - and if you send out promotional tweets, or just about what you are doing, these will also be tweeted out to all the people who are following you in the context of prayer.

Prayer requests March 21

Irene: Thanksgiving and praise for Joe's continued healing. Family relationships need to be healed in my own family.

Helene: or wisdom and guidance as I put together the report the DDO wants me to do before I can go further on my journey. That I might bring glory to God through this paper.

Jacques: Darcy, a friend in rl and in sl who has a problem with the bottle,

Wilfried: for strength in a very tough week working out financials and work, extra prayers next few days please ;)

Able: for a friend of mine whose curacy 'package' is still up in the air - made complicated by a part time curacy / secular posting

Joycelyn: Thanksgiving and praise for mom's rapid recovery and helping her to accept her need to use a walker full time and for my healing too :)). and with everything falling into place nicely so sure work will be soon too .

link to blog catalog

Prayer requests March 15

Sorry for taking so long to get these up, I forgot! Most of you will have gotten them already on the notecard.

Able: Thanksgiving to God for answered prayer, and healing from difficult past experiences.

Saskia: That God would guard and protect her especially over the next 5 weeks, and that she might be hedged around by angels with Christ at her side.

Loo: For her to know God's closeness, guidance and blessing and that she might be led to a place of peace and blessing.

ZoeRose: I ask prayers for my sister who is looking to get full custody of her son.

Zenia: Thank you Lord for this day and all thease good people to gather together in your name and with your word to give us strength to be reminded each day and Night you are Rightous and watching over us; For the land Owner here to allow us to come back even though she is a Non Believer ;-)

Joyous: for my rl church as we go through a visioning process that we may be led in God's way. for myself, guidance in what I should be doing wiith my life

Wilf: That I will calmly be obedient to what God wants of me.

Baeric: That the letter of acceptance to uni comes through

Allie: for my family for Nathan and Joel two young men I know who are off for a 6 month mission.... for me to accept grace

Joycelyn: that I am working again oon and have strengthened me enough to go forward and live/grow life again - also please pray for the health of Joycelyn's mom

Helene: I ask for peace as Monday approaches and on the day. I would like the grace to receive the news of whether the diocesan interviewers have said yes or no.

Prayer requests 1 March

Baeric: funding for masters degree in Septemebr to be released to me

Joyous: For my Commission on Ministry meeting on Tuesday, that I may make an appropriate contribution

Joycelyn: For mom to improve her outlook and somehow become realistic in her expectations of others. For me to be working yesterday with the right job :)

Irene: Continue lifting up Joe and Phyllis for healing and comfort of the Holy Spirit.

Helene: For guidance as to how to run my classes. They are growing and I need to find a new way to work and new staff so the children get a good experience. This is new territory for me.

Adam: my sister's husband bill and family- he is suffering from leukemia and has a bone marrow transplant in april

Able: for strength and wisdom for studies during a particularly stressy time

Wilf: Guidance and obedience in getting life things together

Prayer requests 22 February

Dracona - a friend of mine Carol in Florida... is in hospital with a tumour and needs strength and healing and ask for clarity, wisdom, and willingness to finish my studies

Baeric - applied to Leeds Uni for a masters degree, and so I am looking to get financail aid for that...that the aid is ready and able to come is my request. To study CyberLaw

for Liliana. For God's closeness and healing presence.

Able - That God would open the eyes of my heart and bless me with wisdom

Sas - for constancy of hope and peace

Irene - Continue to lift up Phyllis and Joe - he is not doing well. And please keep me lifted up for peace and not giving in to the stress of the moment.

Joycelyn - Guidance, purpose, healing and strength as well as work yesterday!

Joyous - Guidance in what directions should be taking in life as it unfolds.

Wilfried - Guidance, strength, obedience ... help getting my "life" together

Helene - peace while waiting for decision regarding next step in ministry

Prayers 15 February

Irene: Praise for the continued healing of my friend Joe...they removed his breathing tube! Peace for my daughter and her husband, Bob.

Wilfried: for focus on my work and things I have to do.

Johnnie: continue prayer for hours at work to stabilize, regular hours, consistant, not 10 one week and one 40 hours

Saskia: for guidance and knowledge

Able: Son (sick) gets better AND focus for work (exam coming up).

Joyous: For my friend Richard, who is still suffering results of an auto accident. That he regain health and courage

Adam: for my brother in law and family- he has leukemia

Helene: for guidance and peace while waiting for decision regarding ordination process

Joycelyn: for a good job - for stabilizing of her mother's health

Prayer requests week of Feb 8, 2009

Note: please pray * especially * for Adam and Charlie this week.

Adam: pray for his family; his brother-in-law was just diagnosed with leukemia and the family is struggling with this.

Charlie: Please Pray for me as Margarita and I are going through a rough time as we re-assess our relationship. She just wants to be friends, So I am feeling a great loss of love.

Able: Focus in working through current commitments and space to come before God with things I feel burdened by

Sas:
a) That she would know that the present direction she believes God is leading her in is right, and that she will be doing what God wants her to do

b) That she might know the right course to begin in September, and in that it will fit around family commitments and that funding / support might become available

c) A return to focus in spirituality / devotions

Joycelyn: would very much like to be working full time, and thankful that all SL is helping me with. thanks for mom's helath improving too

Joyous: Guidance on where I should be putting my time and energies.

Helene: Peace as I wait for the next interview. An acceptance of God's will.

Irene: Not sure how to phrase my request. I had words with my daughter and would like swift reconcilliation. And a blessing on our little business that it might not become a source of contention within the family.

Wilf: Peace, focus, freedom from anxiety to get work & other things done - is quite crucial.

Prayer requests, 31 January

Joyous: For guidance. And that I may make a contribution on the vestry

Helene: I have at least two diocesan interviews this week coming - it's all becoming very 'real' - so peace would be good - wisdom, honesty

Irene: Wisdom for David's doctors and for my son-in-law that his doctors will have wisdom and be able to accurately diagnose his illness.

Saskia: For a youth event that we are tryin to organise in our community, that everything comes together and that we are not aiming to big with it. And also that God will show me where he wants me to be and from September.

Able: For focus, and clarity in drawing up a couple of alternative proposals for my dissertation.

Joycelyn: For mom's health to continue to immprove, my house to be sold quickly, and for me to both get an unemployment extension and to find suitable and local full time employment with benefits soon.

Wilfried: For my job, and for getting my things order

Allie: for my parents and my work

Messianerin: for a new job

Prayer requests Jan 24 2000

Helene: my interviews (discernment process for ordination), my journey in general, Phil's health

Joycelyn: for work, have a job I've applied for, would really like your support in prayer for it, mom's health, and me growing a circle of honorouble persons who will standy by me in my hour of need shoudl it arise again.

Able: wisdom

Irene: I just found out that I am likely going to have to leave my current school and move to another position. I have some options and I want to take the one that will be the one God would have me choose. Please pray that I will hear the Holy Spirit clearly and that I won't choose what I think is best but what He does.

Saskia: youth work in my community

Joyous: for my friend, Chris, whose mother died recently. Chris has been providing care for her mother, and her father can be difficult for her to deal with. That I can provide support to Chris. Beyond that, discernment of what I should be doing

Wilf: That I follow God's leading obediently

Prayer requests for week of Jan 11

Irene: Please pray for my son-in-law Bob - he has been diagnosed with a non-maglignant tumor in one part of his brain and he has another "lesion" in his temporal lobe and is seeing a neural surgeon on Tuesday."

Loo: The ability to withstand the winter and a series of colds, my son has his mocks next week, and Moo has a piano exam

Allie-Please pray for my family, my class and my ministry that God may make clear to me my purpose in his own time.

Helene: I would like people to pray for Phil's vision to improve. Also that I get over the tiredness I feel.

Joycelyn: continued prayer for work and mom's health and things here to continue upward :)

Sas: my younger bro, the band are in the recordin studios for their new album and over the next two months it will be really tense time and a lot of travellin
and for me to stop havin so much doubt

Wilf: Strength, wisdom, obedience

Able: I would like to pray for a gift of faith :-) Never can have to much

Arundel: for everyone to experience God's peace

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Special prayer request: I'd like to ask you to pray for a very good Anglican SL friend of mine, Cady. Cady is having tensions at her job right now which are very unpleasant, and things are seeming very unfair indeed as well. Please remember her about her job, that God would provide for her, and that God would give her peace and help her job situation.

Urgent prayer requests

- Helene's husband has been admitted to hospital with an urgently serious heart problem. Helene's family is already distressed with her daughter, who may have grave health problems because of someone else's mistake; and Helene has been very stressy / busy and this comes at a very bad time. Please pray for Helene and her family.

- Joycelyn is in very urgent need of God's help. There is a major argument and misunderstanding underway which could mean for her a major life change and the loss of all stability and comfort she now has. Please pray that God will provide and that he will also give Joycelyn peace.

- Wilfried's friend is faced with the possibility that he may be the father of an unborn baby, whose mother has been exceedingly abusive in the past to him; it seems like there is very little hope for this child if his friend does not take on this responsibility. However, the mother in that case may be inclined to use the baby's well-being as a bargaining chip, as she seems to be doing now in threatening to abort if certain demands are not met, and has used her own well-being as a bargaining chip in the past. It may be best for him to agree to help raise the child with the mother; it may be best for him to relinquish all right and responsibility so the mother has a better chance at raising the baby without using the baby's well-being to make him comply with what she wishes. Both options seem to be fraught with grave danger to the unborn baby.

Prayer requests, 22 November

Wilfried: Thanksgiving for all God has done for me; and for Him keeping me in the next difficult weeks
Helene: I would llike have support to get through the next few weeks and my commitments
Irene: Please pray that our family make the right group decision for our living arrangements.
Saskia: God is askin to do certain things which im gonna find hard to do so really i need to be able to step out in faith and know that God will be there with me
Allie: Please pray that I continue to move forward at work and get things done.

Prayer requests, 16 November

Wilf: thanksgiving for good friends and their support; for all God has done in the last weeks; also for guidance, and perseverance in the coming week
Joyous: for the young people of the Diocese of Michigan and the Diocese of Eastern Michigan at this weeKend's Happening event, that they will experience the Spirit of the Lord and build their lives around God's love
Allie: For Evelyn from work that she won't be lonely without ther daughters at home.
Helene: pray for Jacky who is not expected to live, and for her daughters Chrissy and Gemma and husband Kevin
Able: a prayer of heartfelt thanks, God has been healing some aspects of my life in quite an incredible way
Irene: Prayer for those in California whose homes and very lives are in jeopardy from the wildfires. Some of these folks are probably from SL - and one of my Tiny friends has fire on three sides of her right now.
Loo: Wisdom, discernment and encouragement