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Two prayer requests...

J

jbow

Active member
The first and main one is for grace and for Spiritual help. I'll give a little background and try not to make it too long.

First let me say I have been a Christian since I was a child but I was never taught to pray. The older I get the more it amazes me how little teaching there is in our churches on prayer. I am coming to believe that prayer is possibly the most important thing in life, without which one cannot live the "victorious Christian life".
The Lord has been leading me into prayer and a study of it for some time but I am a slow study... i'd rather eat broken glass than pray. I'd rather go hungry than pray... I can sit and watch a movie... no problem. I can sit and watch a football game... no problem. I can sit here all day and peck away at the computer... no problem. I can sit and read, novels or the Bible... no problem... but pray for 30 minutes... are you kidding??

The Lord has also started dealing with me about a local ministry at the courthouse and detention center. I went unprepared to try and lay a claim. About 10 days ago I went and "prayer walked" several times around the city courthouse.... I had not prayed about it, I just prayed as I walked... asking the Lord to give me the place to minister. Well, if you are a serious Christian, if you've been around the block you will know what happened next. The enemy jumped on my with both feet and snared me with "the sin that so easily besets", we all have one. I fell flat on my face. I feel like the woman in the commercial who is saying, "help, i've fallen and I can't get up".
The Lord is still leading me and I am going to need strength and support. He led me to a small booklet by J.C. Ryle titled, "A Call to Prayer". I read a quote by Ryle a couple of weeks back that I really liked so I ordered this and a copy of his book, "Holiness"... and John MacArthur's book, "When the Church Becomes Like the World" and a little book by John Flavel titled, "LUST".

My Father is working on me but as I said, I am a slow study. I have to exhaust ALL my methods before I will ever try obedience. I mean, I try to be obedient but I want to be obedient my way. So, I am going to start a prayer life, not just the blessing over the food and the quick prayer in the morning or the prayer when I lay my head on my pillow that usually consists of... "Lord, forgive me for my sins...".

I know that He is in this and I intend to learn to pray. I intend to develop whatever prayer life He intends for me. I am aware that the enemy will fight me on this for I am convinced that this is what he fears more than anything and I am convinced that it will accomplish more in this war than anything else I can do.

So, my first request is for power to get up and gain power again over this sin that has gotten hold of me. I know that He has given us all we need for righteousness and for everything we need in this life but I also know that sometimes we get tangled up in things in this life in this world... and I have... and I need help, I need some prayer support. I will be starting tomorrow AM when I am alone at home.. or I will I will sin. I plan to pray... pray that I will choose to do right. Please give me some support in this because I know how important it is and I don't want to fail and I don't want to put it off any longer.


The second request is just for some bronchitis i've been dealing with. Cough, sinus, and a little fever. I'm sure it will pass soon anyway but i'm sure prayer will help.

Also, as long as you're praying remember our younger daughter, she is 27 and is dealing with a "lifestyle" problem. We have suspected for a while but in a recent crisis in her life she decided to tell us. I think we are in between denial and faith. We gave both out daughters to the Lord when they were born and I know that He is faithful, though we are not and He will do His work. He has called her (though she is in doubt) no matter for Jesus said that all who the Father call will come to Him, Jesus, and whoever comes to Him He will in no wise cast out... so it will work out but I don't want her life here to be a wasted life of misery, I know to well about that sort of living. I want her to surrender sooner rather than later, however, I trust the Lord and He is sovereign after all... but throw up a prayer for us in this too.

Mainly though, I need some help from some of you to run interference for me against the enemy as I learn to discipline myself and pray. I intend to find out what there is to prayer, not saying a prayer... but prayer and I am a little apprehensive for some reason. I guess going into warfare should make one apprehensive.

If you pray... Pray for me.

Thank you,

Julien
 
You are right indeed, prayer should be the most important part of our lifes. I too struggle sometimes , but I have seen GOD answer alot of prayers. I will be praying for you and your family . It is hard to pray when satan throws all the wordly things to do in our face and we try to fight our flesh. Lord our GOD we pray for Julien to be able to pray and enjoy praying to you LORD. We ask that Julien will think of you constantly and that prayer will be the first thing on Juliens mind. Wealso pray for healing of the spirit and body of Juliens daughter , I ask LORD that she will come running to you and That you give Julien courage and strength in these trying times AMEN!!
 
First welcome to the CMD Forum, Julien, as we are glad you are with us and our brothers and sisters (members) will certainly hold you up in prayer and I will also!

Faithful prayer is the power to endure and overcome all things in this mortal life....Satan even trembles when we pray, for it is so powerful and will defest the evil one when our hearts are true to God and we are praying to Him in Jesus' name! I, too, have fallen away from praying and don't study my Bible like I should, although I did for 20 years or more! I was so thirsty that I couldn't get enough of His Holy Word while learning and knowing the Scriptural truths! I am very ill, even today, and shakey until it is hard for me to think or do anything, but that is what the ole devil wants to keep us from prayer, reading the Bible and serving the Lord! Therefore, I stand with you in prayer for the ability and the desire to read the Gospel of Jesus and most of all to pray! He says to pray without ceasing.....to me this is having Jesus within me, so that God's Holy Spirit guides and directs me into all truth1

When I was hurting and so physically and emotionally ill, during my ex leaving our home and filiing for divorce, that I cried out to God saying, If You are really real, then reveal Yourself to me and He did ( I was also being prayed for by many spirit-filled Christians! I was truly saved, although I have known about Jesus since I was a little child but did not know Him as my own personal Savior! After water baptism and baptised by the Holy Ghost, I prayed and served the Lord like I had never done before and read His Scriptures, like I said, as if I couldn't drink or eat enough of His Holy and absolute truth!

Once I fell away from praying and reading the Bible, daily, I am not as close to Jesus as I once was, although He still dwells within me and I know not to sin willfully! I pray for those asking for prayer and send up prayers when different ones come to mind....but not like I used to do! I used to read the Bible and than pray for 45 minutes to an hour! I loved the Lord so much and felt so Spiritually close to Him, Who has performed many miracle in my life and answered many of my prayers the way I wanted Him to do so! Took much patience waiting many times for the revelation of my prayers being answered! Keep your daughter in prayer and show her love no matter what but don't accept her sins but let her know in kindness that you will pray for her and ask God to draw her nearer and then He will draw nearer to her and lead her right where she needs to be to accept Jesus as her own personal Savior too! I know because I prayed for years for mine, and my youngest, Tami, has submitted herself to Jesus and is a truly different pertson. I asked God to do what needed done to save my children and grandchildren but don't let satan harm their bodies or their souls!

I still pray for them to be saved, but not as often, and ask for God's help in their getting saved, and Tami to be spiritually uplifted so that she won't slide back and not know how good He is and that He loves her so much.....just like everyone He has created, especially, those who have accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior!

Cry out to your Heavenly Father, Jehovah God, and tell Him what you need to serve and worship Him in Spirit and in Truth! Give Him your all, and believe me He will be there with you helping you to pray and answering your prayers according to His will! His will is that no one should perish but come to repentance (turning away from sinning again, willingly) and have everlasting life with Jesus in His Kingdom forever! It is not God's will for anyone to be ill, for that is of the devil, but there is so much corruption by willful sinning on this earth with chemical pollution in the air, water and food, it takes a lot of faith and quoting the healing scriptures for Him to move in our lives but when it is our appointed time to die....it will happen but hopefully with salvation in Christ Jesus!

Well, you see I am a long-winded writer and don't know when to stop as I serve and follow Jesus all the days of my life! I am a mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and could be a great-great grandmother in a few more years, should God allow me to live that long in my mortal body, but it is wearing out......sooo I pray, God help me to keep serving you and save those who will be saved and then come quickly, Lord Jesus! Amen!

My brother, Larry, had a hard time in praying, but He loved the Lord with all his heart, mind, soul and spirit, but that was one area which satan kept him from having the power to endure and overcome, as he passed away by suicide in August of1997 at the age of 60 and would have been 61 in Sept. He was in deep depression and wouldn't go to the drs but relied on Jesus to heal and take care of him! Sometimes we don't know why, for sure, how these things happen to our loved ones or to others, but God knows and He is a righteous Judge and will judge accordingly!

May God Bless! Amen! My desire is for you and me, too, to pray faithfully and to study the Bible, diligently! Amen! :angel: Ma Betty
 
It's funny but I was thinking a few minutes ago about all the things I put off doing and how all of a sudden they seem like things I want to do tomorrow... laff.

I know who and what it is though. The warfare is sometimes so real. As long as we are complacent Satan pretty much leaves us alone.. and the unregenerate... well, they feel no struggle at all.
I think it was Terry L. Johnson, (one of my favorite authors) who put it in that context. Like we are all in a river current and the unregenerate don't even feel it, they don't even know there is a flow, but the for the Lord's people there is always a struggle, we are always swimming upstream as long as we are in this world, even when we think we're not.

Thanks for the help... i'm going for hours instead of minutes and it really seems foolish to my flesh. You know... don't go overboard. Don't be a fanatic... but I want what I have read of others having. I want to walk in the Spirit and I truly see no other way... I am tired of "me".

Thanks again,

J
 
Along with the rest of the family as we cast our crowns at His feet, those feet of the one to whom we owe everything.

It is kind of weird to think of all the time and effort we put into finding relics and old coins considering God is going to burn them all up one day... I guess there will be no detectors in the new Heaven and the new Earth...

But, that's ok!

Thanks again.

Julien
 
Thank you, Julien and I too look forward to meeting you in heaven! You will make it with the Lord leading you homeward....just keep your heart filled with His love and your mind always thinking of Him first! When we fail, just pick ourselves up by calling upon Jesus for help and He will elate us up above the shadows of the darkness of our weak flesh! Keep on, keepin' on the straight and narrow way of God and you will not go astray nor fail......for by staying with Jesus, Who never fails, than we won't fail to be resurrected up to our Heavenly Father like He was! May God Bless! Amen! :angel: Ma Betty
 
No, probably not, as there will be no need for MD'ing in new Jerusalem City, as it will already be filled with gold, diamonds and precious jewels of all kinds! Even a cystal clear river flowing from the throne of God! When all is made new, there will be no corrosion, corruption, polution, sinfulness, dying or tears, for we will have the best of the best to dwell in and with Jesus forever more! May God Bless! Amen!
 
prayers said jbow, ive seen you on alot of other forums, including the old bountyhunter forum:thumbup: so welcome to this one and come back often!!!!!
i do not pray like i should but i also know that dogmatic/ritualistic style prayer is worse than not praying at all!! more important than prayer or at least as inportant is reading the bible!!!!!!! i truely believe and i have experianced answers to my problems jusy because i practiced reading the bible daily!! one day it might be a half hour the next it might be an hour the next day maybe 15 mins, it doesnt matter how long....just do it!!! really spending time reading the bible is like spending time with god!!!!!!!! my church offers prayer classes does yours? a great book to read that shows how the enemy thinks and acts is called "the screwtape letters" by c.s.lewis. sounds like the enemy is attacking you in alot of different ways, be strong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
chuck.
 
God is with you. As we struggle to walk with God, satan tries his best to hinder our walk. The closer we walk with God, the harder the devil works against us. If you are facing spiritual warfare and you know it, then you know you are walking with God. If satan leaves us alone, we are not doing anything for God. You are in our prayers.
 
Praying in Michigan for all that you mentioned!
Look at prayer as a way to talk with your best friend!
Remember the Lord promises to not let us face any temptation that we can't handle.
We got your back!
 
I will be praying for you.

Lisa
 
I prayed this morning. I don't feel any different but I don't walk by feelings. Something I read in Ryle's book really helped me. He noted that when Israel left Egypt... someone took the first step. When Soloman's temple was built the first stone was laid deep in mt Moriah. When Noah built the ark it took 120 years but at some point he made the first axe stroke to the first tree.

So... I am just going to continue to pray every day. To come into His presence every day. To petetion Him every day.... and know by faith that I have a great and faithful advocate with the Father who presents my feeble prayers as His own to His Father and mine. I know that time will make a difference and if not in this world, then in the next. Many of our fathers in the faith lived their whole life waiting for the promise given to them, for many it was fulfilled in death, fulfilled in the next generation. God is faithful and I will wait on Him.

You know what is the most comforting thing about God to me... it is that He is sovereign, it is His grace, it is that all of salvation is of the Lord... that it is all His work. There is great comfort in the doctrines of Grace. Knowing that what God started, He will finish.

Thank you for your prayers... thay have helped me. Please don't stop.

Julien
 
n/t
 
Julien, I;m still praying for our Lord and Savior, Jesus, to help you in your prayers! Remember, though you think your prayers are feeble, as long as you truly believe in your heart and mnd Who He is by faith, every prayer goes up to Him! In our weakness, Jesus' joy is our strength to keep on, keepin' on doing what God has called us forth to do including following Him all the way Home to Glory! May God Bless! Amen! :angel: Ma Betty
 
Yesterday I got up and after it was quiet Iprayed. I just opened my heart to my Father. It was good. I didn't really feel any different but things happened all during the day to help me walk in the Spirit, to deny the flesh. I could tell that your prayers and mine helped.

Then last night I woke up at 2:45, had to go. Then I began to cough. I came into the living room so I wouldn't keep my wife awake. I finally got stopped coughing enough to go back to bed at 5:00... got back to sleep... woke up again at 8:30... felt bad.. tired... etc... didn't pray... today wasn't as good... flesh was stronger than spirit.. prayer really makes a difference and I can see very well that the enemy is trying to get me to not pray.

I will have another go tomorrow and try to be consistant because it really makes a difference, at least in my life. Every time I have ever spent some morning time in prayer... more than a little prayer while showering or driving, but a set aside time for prayer... it has made a difference and I guess that makes total sense because if we could have a victorious life on our own... we would say, "Thanks Jesus for the new life... i'll take it from here". We are so totally selfish and the depth of our corruption is so far beyond our understanding. Jesus truly is our only hope and I know why we will cast our crowns at His feet because we will only have them because of Him.

Please keep praying for me.

Julien
 
Continued prayers for you and also me to pray, faithfully, and to keep praying, daily! Prayer does make a difference! I have a plaque that says that very thing! I'll see if I still have it up on the wall and haven't packed it away and post a pic or the words to it....those are my intentions anyway...but don't always get them done like I should! I either forget or get caught up in doing something else! May God Bless! Amen! :angel: Ma Betty
 
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