I got home today from my 5th funeral of the year. They have all been elders I have loved & known for a very long time. I guess I don't want to be alone in it anymore, so I am telling y’all. They all have lived long & good & wonderful lives, wonderful examples. I am trying to let it move through me, but I feel so impatient & mean & precious about everything instead. Prayers for it all, please.
Could you please pray for me? My brother is a new Christian and has brown in his faith but recently, he’s been going through a rough period in life and I don’t know if it’s shaken his faith but his behavior has changed quite rapidly. He seems to be pulling away from Christian friends/ influences and last Sunday, said he wasn’t physically going to church anymore because he prefers watching the sermon online. He did go, but said he wasn’t going to be going back. I don’t know what’s going on but God does. Please pray for peace in this uncertain time. I know the Lord is the ONLY one capable of changing hearts/ healing hearts, bring true repentance and true growth, but I am hurting through this. Thank you.
Moses struck the rock instead. Jonah ran away, Peter looked away, Thomas denied him etc. Don't be discouraged, the Bible is so affectionally full of your brother & us. God is here, & I will talk to Him about this.
Please pray for my little brother? He may have to fo dialysis for his kidney infection. He’s feeling good and feels healthy but his functioning is lowering and it’s just so weird. Please pray for successful procedure and recovery.
Praying, praying, praying hard
hi! i hope you're doing well. may i ask for tips to look for in a church? i don't feel comfortable where i am going. my biggest fears are that i'll end up going in a progressive church with no prayer or compromise with God, the second one is that they could be fundamentalists and i no longer know how to handle that. mine for example, i love people there but it is always this stigma about appearance, like you're a worldly if you wear pants or cut or dye your hair or listen to non-christian music, etc... and well they preach a lot about reaching salvation and stuff so i get confused every time when they say it. most of the time they compare themselves with other churches and the non-believers and i hardly can see the love for the lost. i personally don't think that helps me with my relationship with God. and to add i don't have friends and i haven't ask for them to God because i feel scared to have them. i don't think i am a good influence yet because i think i have to learn a lot. so i feel alone in my journey, i don't trust people, i usually think people will criticize me hardly for the way they refer to others. maybe if you don't have any suggestions, prayers are welcomed too. have a great night!
The things I look for in a church are mainly 2 things, which I learned from my mom:
2. am I being fed? (Preaching is by far my biggest priority, do I leave corrected, helped, encouraged, learned etc.) which can be said in another way: is God being taught about well here?
For me, other parts are additional (my preference of music, aesthetic, style of preaching etc.)
In regards to your fundamentalist fear: I really, really understand. It is a world I love with people I love, & I love to visit it (I was just watching a crusade & the powell sisters while at work today actually!). It is not that every fundamental church is the same & I know that, but I also know you know what I mean lol, it's easy for me to get bogged down. I don't have a countenance that can withstand always being corrected about things I am not even doing, for me it is not a warning, it just causes paranoia.
What you may want to try is a more traditional southern baptist church, start there, & see how you feel. It may set you free from some of the more deeply rooted fears you can have in fundamental culture, while still having commonality in the parts you enjoy/would miss somewhere more modern. Who knows where God will lead you! <3
I want to encourage you about making friends: you do not have to be perfect to be a good friend or to have friends, & it may be your #3. On your list of things you care about in a church will be having a large group of people there your age! So you can be around the people of God, yes, but also make friendships. I am not very good at it either, but we can both do it!
For the requests thing; i had a recent return to Christianity but i still feel incredibly weird and bad about dealing with my parents about religion/ their interpretation if it. i feel like they treat it as part of their politics instead of like... The Mysteries of Everything. ps. be safe during the hurricane ;)
I am so thrilled you're back! We were just asking about where you were, that's uncanny.
Praying for your connection with your parents & by extension all the others you will meet with the same outlook. The more you dig into Bible the easier it gets. Praying.
ps. thank you! hopefully it will just be a lot of noise & little damage. <3
Prayer request:
Please pray for healing for my family. We need it so much. Please pray for true change in our hearts and that each one of us grows into the kindest versions of ourselves. There is so much love we could be giving to each other that we’re not. Please pray that we will have the courage to have conversations and change and grow.
Thanks.
I know what this is like. When it's uphill it hurts so much, & I'm sorry. Praying for healing, because I also know it is wholly possible.
Can you please pray for my grandfather? He’s having a pretty intense surgery and while we have high hopes, there’s always risk. Thank you :)
Praying!
Can you please pray for me? I'm really struggling with feeling responsible for ushering the salvation of people in my life. My church is working through this series on selecting four people in your life and helping them to know Jesus. My pastor says things like "Without your help someone is facing an eternity without their Creator." I know that as Christians we are tasked with spreading the good news, and when I think about the amount of people I know or have met who aren't saved I feel overwhelmed and guilty. Maybe it's a generational thing too but I'm gen z and it just seems like people my age either get combative or put up a wall when you mention faith. I'm more than willing to have those conversations with people when the opportunity arises but until then all I've been doing is praying for others and trying to live like Jesus/be a light. Still I worry that I'm not "trying enough" and I'm letting God down.
I'll use my salvation story as an example & maybe it will help:
Anon from a while ago- I totally meant conceive! G-d bless you :))
Ahh praying for you! 💛
Please pray that I am able to convince soon, G-d willing
can you clarify what you mean?
Can I ask for prayer? I feel a burden in my conscience and my comprehension of repentance is to try to fix the stupidity I could have done, it's not just about asking for forgiveness to God or the recognition of something wrong done. And this has stopped me to run to God, I'm constantly thinking how many times should I ask God for forgiveness, am I forgiven right now? Am I Not? If I sin again and not repent enough do I have a foot in Hell? I've heard many people say that if we continue in sin we are because the Bible gives that interpretation. I do believe I am a new creation but my question sometimes is a born again believer can be punish in Hell if he doesn't repent? I also have this thought about God that He wants us to be miserable in here to be more like Him and find true peace in Him and then I have questions of the love of God is cruel but holy at the same time. I'm not tortured by these things all the time but I was back then, and makes me being tired of being Christian because I'm never repenting enough, I'm not praying enough I'm not going to church or serving enough or being radical enough I could be considered by other christian "lukewarm". Sorry for the long story here hope doesn't bother you.
you do not bother me! I have a lot of things to share regarding these topics if you wanted me to share them on or off anon! & I will be praying for you
can you pray for a person who is lost
who remembers what it felt like to sit in the light and glory but has sunken so deeply into the dark
Praying tonight & praying Psalm 139 over this person.
O Lord, you have searched me and known me! 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. 5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.
7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? 8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! 9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, 10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. 11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” 12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.
13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.
19 Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me! 20 They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain. 21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? 22 I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! 24 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
Can you pray that I’ll be able to find work soon? I’m trying to trust God but am feeling quite anxious about my financial situation. Thank you for offering to pray❤️
I'm not sure how I missed this but I am praying for you now!
Please pray for me, I'm anxious about something to do with a relationship and genuinely scared of the outcome
Praying for you tonight.
Prayers please: My friend I saw just this weekend collapsed in the airport before she boarded to leave & she is to have surgery for herniated discs. She is in immense pain. Please intercede for her.
hi, it’s me, the one with the co-op apartment dreams. my interview with them is tonight! I’m going to put my best foot forward, show them that I would be an asset for them while also trying to explain that they would be also aiding someone from a background with hardship. I hope I can strike the right balance. Please, if you still want to, pray for me. I want to live somewhere safe and sure
“Safe & sure” made me emotional. I pray you get this! I am so proud of you!
Update: I am visiting the coop apartment tomorrow morning, sunday 10am est, if I like itthen there will be an interview. I am feeling all kinds of scared
Oh man! You can do it!!
