I almost didn't ask because it seems selfish. Something very disappointing happened tonight that made me feel pretty bad. It's certainly not the end of the world, and that's why I almost didn't ask for a prayer from my frens, because there are so many more important things going on than my little problem. But then I realized that is just the enemy trying to get me to dismiss my situation as inconsequential. It may not be all important, but it is important to me. So if you wouldn't mind sparing me a prayer that God lifts my feelings of pain and distress and blankets me in His comfort, I would be very grateful. Thank you.
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u/gooby, it is a PRIVILEGE to pray for you. Your disappointment and vulnerability are situations with which Christ our Lord is VERY familiar. THANK YOU for calling us to prayer!
"Precious Heavenly Father in these moments I want to uplift to You our fren, gobby. The details of gobby's situation are none of my business but Lord, YOU KNOW very well all that's going on here and You already know the needs to be met. I only ask that You, Sovereign God, will be glorified in this situation because I know that when You are uplifted, all people will be drawn to You. And when people are drawn to You, Lord, those people are mightily BLESSED! Father, I pray for MIGHTY blessing and uplifting for our dear gobby. Lord, provide that u/gobby may grow even closer to You and be empowered even MORE to be Your witness and be Your healing touch to their surrounding community. All praise, honor and glory, FOREVER be to The Lamb who was slain before the foundation of the world! THANK YOU, LORD JESUS! AMEN! AMEN! and Amen!"
Thank you so much, AroomaNuminahh. I honestly did feel that I probably shouldn't ask for prayer, considering all the many challenges so many people are dealing with. And yet, if I hadn't recognized that was just what the enemy wanted, I would have missed out on all this concern from my frens and this lovely, heart-felt prayer from you. Thank you so much, fren. It means more than you know.
Amen! Great prayer, fren!
Agreed, fren.
Amen. Amen!
And Amen! Thanks, fren.
Amen!
And Amen. Thanks, fren.
Amen
Where we go one, we go all...happy to extend a hand across the ether. Best wishes fren.
Thank you, fren.
God wants us to pray to Him constantly, in all things great and small. Never worry about too much prayer. I'll send some your way as well.
Thank you, Mr._A. (fren) for the prayers. Much appreciated.
Amen. Me too. I lift you up in prayer, brother. While I'm at it, might as well lift up this entire community. I love the way GOD works here.
Thank you, fren. I never expected so many people to reply and offer prayers. God's family is the best.
Hope this helps put things in perspective. God bless you.
Romans 8:28-39
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Thank you. I know this, and it just makes me all the madder at myself for feeling so bad, when I know this to be true. Thank you very much, fren.
We all go through difficult days, weeks, months even years. I’ve been so low I couldn’t even muster the strength to grab onto a rope to get me out of deep depression. Christ didn’t give me up, and I didn’t let go of Him.
“Do not rejoice against me, O mine enemy; when I fall, I shall arise. When I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.” Mic. 7:8
I'm sorry you've had to battle depression, it is so insidious. To know God, yet to be depressed, seems so contrary, so baffling. Yet He made sensitive souls and sensitive souls are so close to everything. I know He'd never give you up. And I'm glad you didn't let go of Him, either.
One of my favorite verses is rendered so beautifully in the Kenneth Wuest translation of the New Testament. Hebrews 13:5 "Let your manner of life be without love of money, being satisfied with your present circumstances. For He Himself has said, and the statement is on record, I will not, I will not cease to sustain and uphold you. I will no, I will not, I will not let you down. So that, being of good courage, we are saying, The Lord is my helper, I shall not fear. What shall man do to me?
I love the way He repeats Himself there.
And now despite everything you are going through, you are blessing and encouraging me. God uses His own in the midst of their tears and fears.
Yes, He does. And I'm glad you were blessed by it. If you don't have that translation, I highly recommend it. It's so rich. Wuest did it by using as many words as necessary in English, to convey the original Greek meaning. And whenever possible, he did it in word order. I really love that translation.
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Heavenly Father, please comfort Gobby with your love that endures forever. Fill Gobby with the joy you have for him that he sees you at work in his life. Let him know that in this life we will have troubles, and disappointments, but we may rest in you, knowing that your son, Jesus, has overcome the world. Show Gobby the way forward from this heartache, that it be a stepping stone to a deeper understanding of you, and not a stumbling block that remains in his way. Shine your light into Gobby that it lifts his Spirit and brightens his world that others might also know who you are. I ask this in Jesus' Holy name, Amen.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2016%3A33&version=ESV
Thank you. That is a very astute prayer and I appreciate that you considered it could be a stumbling block to me. I will have to watch carefully that I don't agonize too much so that it doesn't become one. Thank you, fren.
You are welcome!
Lord we’re tired. Physically, mentally and Spiritually. But you have carried each of our burdens but some of us have heavier burdens than others. We realise that these are Spiritual attacks and we know we must pray in the Spirit and bind the enemy so he doesn’t get a foothold in our lives. We ask that for awhile, you lift our fren high, give them strength not just for today, and not just for the situation at hand and allow them to feel your presence and comfort of your secure arms as they heal. Take their pain and distress and use it for good so that they stand in victory in your name and not in overwhelming defeat. This victory Lord, belongs to you! I pray this in Jesus precious name! Amen.
Thank you, fren. I crave to feel His strong arms and just recline in His comfort. Appreciate the prayer.
God Bless.
Thank you. You as well.
Sending prayers to you fren, that G-d will not only help you carry your pain and distress, but will also, in time, reveal to you the path which made this disappointment necessary.
Lots of hugs too, I’m sorry.
Thank you. I keep reminding myself that there is something better around the corner and one day soon I'll see why this happened. Appreciate the sentiment and prayers, fren.
You got this. I hope you feel better!
Thank you, fren.
Dear heavenly father… I lift up my friend to you. I ask your father whatever the circumstances are, that you would move in a mighty way. That you would show him your love, wisdom, and guidance. We ask that you lift the burden of fear, because that’s only from Satan. Let him rest in your loving arms, and give him a sound and sweet sleep tonight. Bind Satan, and all his emissaries, and let them have no part of my friends heart mind body soul or spirit. Free him from any chains of the evil one. In Jesus name amen
Thank you so much, fren. I love that you prayed for sweet sleep. That sounds so nice. I could really use that, as I'm sure we all could. I pray the same for you.
You know, I really did sleep better than normal. Thank you!
Awesome! Praise the Lord for he is greatly to be praised!
Indeed.
Done.
Thank you so much, fren.
Praying for you gobby.
Thank you so much, fren.
May god shine his blessings on you and lift your spirit. Never hesitate when among frens, WWG1WGA
Thank you. This was a good lesson I learned. Never hesitate among frens. So true. I appreciate your well wishes, fren.
On it fren. Doing so now. Best wishes and may blessings come raining down upon you.
Thank you so much, fren. What a lovely sentiment.
I am praying for you now, dear. That there is greater pain in the world does not make your pain less. I am glad you reached out, and I hope you find comfort here.
Thank you so much, fren. To have such an outpouring means more than anyone can know.
Thank you so much to all my frens who came to give me encouragement and prayer. I often see people requesting prayer here, but never considered that I might ask for some myself, one day. I'm so glad I did, because it gave me the opportunity to see the concern and prayers of so many frens here, which is so uplifting and so encouraging. And it gave all of my frens here an opportunity to pray to God on my behalf. And any time spent with God is time well spent. Thank you all so much.
Thanks again to all of you who lifted me up in prayer tonight. Just knowing so many fine people here cared enough to reach out means a lot. I really didn't think too many people would respond. Boy was I wrong! Ha. But now I must go to sleep. I know I'll be sleeping better tonight because I asked for your help and you interceded for me. I'm very grateful. How lucky we are to have such a great God. Good night, frens.
So true, Jkshaffe. God truly is Great. And you know what, I'm so glad I did ask for prayer. First, I hesitated and had to talk myself into asking. And then, I thought (because it's late where I am) that there would be few people on the board who would respond. And yet, there were so many! We can always count on our frens. It was a nice thing for all of us to share and I appreciate you, fren.
Praying for you, gobby. Don't minimize your disappointments. We all have have stuff going on in our lives offline. WWG1WGA
So true. Thank you, fren.
You're welcome, gobby. Hugs
Praying now!
Thank you so much, fren.
Consider it done. May He heal your heart and help you see the bigger picture to your disappointment.
Thank you, fren. I'm looking forward to that, to seeing why this happened and how God will turn this into something spectacular. I appreciate the sentiment.
Since Jesus told us the Heavenly Father cares about the tiny sparrows, He surely cares about our seemingly tiny problems. It is true as well that sometimes the problem is not as small as we think.
Heavenly Father, I ask you to guide gobby to your place of peace and release him from pain. Comfort him and reassure him of Your love, we all deal with disappointment differently. You know best what his deepest needs are, make Your Presence in this situation clear to him.
Thank you. Very astute of you, fren. His presence is like a warm blanket and a loving embrace.
Prayers for you. Dont feel silly asking. Glad you asked.
Thank you. As I told someone else, sometimes I feel petty bothering God with my issues. This is a big deal to me, but even still, compared to the horrors of the world, it seems minor. I'm glad to be reminded that He cares about our concerns.
I just wanted to say these posts really give me hope sometimes. The prayer warriors posts are usually low interactions and it's hard to know if they rise because people care of if they just get that obligatory upvotes as ppl scroll on. These types of posts that bring out the lurkers are very inspirational. So OP know that if anything this post did not just get the prayers you sought but helped me believe those posts are not just obligatory upvotes :)
I'm glad, fren. And I admit, I didn't expect many responses, but I sure was wrong. God's army is everywhere.
Done! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much, fren.
Said a prayer ❤️
Thank you, fren.
You most certainly may. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
:D Thanks, fren.
You got it. When you're ready to sleep tonight begin thanking God and remembering each blessing you've gotten from Him. Praise and thank Him as you picture those special things that always touch your soul. You'll have the bert sleep of your life, knowing He was always there and is also remembering each moment as well.
Thank you. Lovely thought.
Fren, we are always here to lift someone up. It is not being selfish to ask for help. May God help you through this time of trouble and give you peace. He is a loving Father and does not want to see His children suffer.
God bless you, Fren. WWG1WGA!
Thank you, fren. Sincerely.
Lifting you up in prayer. God bless you.
Thank you, fren. May God bless you too.
Father,
Let Your Holy name be Magnified about all other. We Honor and Worship and Adore you.
We thank you for bestowing all good things according to your loving-kindness.
We ask that could comfort gobby with your peace that passes all understanding.
Flood Him with the promises from your Holy Word.
John 14:27 - Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Philippians 4:19 - But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Psalms 55:22 - Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
1 John 4:18 - There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
Proverbs 12:25 - Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
Matthew Chapter 6
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
More:
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-Worry/
In Jesus Holy Name, Amen.
Thank you so much, fren! And thank you for all the comforting verses. <3
No need is so small as to escape God's interest. He is interested in your problems too. I pray you can have that confidence that you need.
Thank you kindly, fren.
Praying for you fren. God wants us to come to him with ALL of our concerns.
Thank you fren, that's a good reminder. Sometimes I feel I am being petty, troubling Him with my problems when there are such horrors in the world.
Hard to pray for somebody when they don't tell you what they need prayers over.
Oh really? Nobody else seemed to have trouble. :o(
Maybe I take my faith a little more serious than some others. It wasn't meant as a mean comment, but rather asking what is needing prayers over. Vague "pray for me" requests will not reach God's ears, he tells us to be very direct about what we pray for.
Just prayed friend. God's got you.
Thank you so much, fren. It means a lot.