Today, someone called me and prayed for me until the tears rolled down my cheeks and the power of God overtook me. If you read my post from yesterday, you know all about how I experienced God's presence as I praised Him at home. The individual who cried out to God for me was greatly used by the Lord to add to the tremendous peace and joy I've been basking in.
Prayer is powerful and works wonders. No matter what we may be going through, when we petition God, He answers us. That's why I'm excited about Thoughtful Thursdays! This is the time when we will pray together for the individuals who requested to have the prayer warriors of the Daily Cup family, along with my ministry prayer team, to come together and touch and agree on their behalf.
Please join me in covering the following people in prayer. *NOTE: Some requests have been edited for clarity and length.
A woman named Sharon needs prayer for strength and healing. She wrote:
Dear Dianna, I love your blog and it has gotten me through some really rough times. Thank you for offering to pray because I surely need it now more than ever. I lost my home in the tornado in Joplin, Missouri. I have a husband and kids, and my family is destroyed about losing everything. I don't know why God would take our home from us. We just bought it two years ago after saving up for it for over three years. I am very angry and hurt about it. All our clothes and possessions have been lost, and we are staying with one of my aunts who went through the same thing in New Orleans. God helped her rebuild her life, but it still doesn't seem fair, and I don't think I can handle this frustrating situation. My husband is depressed and my kids miss their toys and neighborhood friends. Life can be so unfair sometimes. Please pray for me and the strength of my family. I need God to help us make sense out of this.
Beth-Ann Paige is praying for healing. She wrote:
I am requesting that your prayer team prays for me and my failing health. I was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and I feel scared to death about it. I'm just sick about it night and day. My father Bill died from the same illness only a year ago and I can't help feeling like I'm next. You always talk about faith in such an uplifting way, but I don't know how to be positive like that. I want to be, but I don't know how. Please pray for my faith to be stronger and for my health to improve. I am doing everything the doctors have ordered me to do, but I'm scared it won't be enough. Thank you for praying for me and for providing such beautiful inspirations that help women like me. God Bless you.
Andonnia Maiben needs prayer for guidance and clarity. She wrote:
I am requesting prayer due to the following: I am in a new place. I am realizing that I wasn’t living a Christian life to its fullest. I was still tip-toeing back into old habits. I have grown up in the church, was baptized at seven, was a choir member, or whatever else the church needed at the time. As I grew older and left home I kept my values, but struggled with some things because I hadn’t made the decision to give them to God. I once told my Pastor from home that he was “wrong” and that God could never choose me for ministry. Then, through the influence of a very special person in my life and a lot of prayer, I realize that God has been using me my whole life. January 3, 2011 in my class room, I surrendered to God’s call on my life. Things began to change. I got thirsty for the word and would “study” the Bible on my own. I was able to share my findings with others, and I began to really pay attention to what I prayed for because it was happening. {The good and the not so expected} At the present, I am in a place where I have NO CONTROL over what’s happening. Surrendering to God can be scary if you think about the logistics in the natural (you don’t know what’s next or where you're supposed to be…becoming unsure of the next day). I find joy in my spirit and peace when I realize that God is leading me, which is best, but it can be difficult when you take your eyes or focus off God. I am the owner of two businesses, a teacher, a graduate student, and a poet…who is morphing into God’s minster. I don’t know where that will take me, but I know my many experiences in the last twenty seven years are just part of my testimony. But I need the prayer warriors and Naomi’s of our community to keep me lifted.
A woman who wishes to remain anonymous needs prayer for her daughter. She wrote:
First of all I want to say, as I have said before I thank God for your blogs. Over and over again I have been so blessed with your words of wisdom. I pray for you daily that God will give you what he wants us to have.
I come to you to please go into prayer with me for my daughter. She has a childhood friend that has truly hurt her. They have been friends since elementary and were always together now that they are adults. Lies have been told. She is trying to turn other friends away and it is only jealousy. My daughter received a big promotion at her job, and a lot of praises and support went out to her. My daughter has tried numerous times to go to her to find out the problem, and to try and sit and talk about it, but she won’t. I asked my daughter if she wanted me to intervene and she has begged me not to. They were friends on face book but have deleted each other. My daughter cries a lot because she misses her friends.
I have been there before and all I can tell her is to remain faithful, stay in God’s word. I told her this will only make her stronger. I do want my name revealed because she does read your blog. My prayer is that God's will be done but give them both peace. I miss my daughter's friend as well. I know right now her friend does not have a job and financially, I know she is struggling.
Keisha Stanford needs prayer for employment. She wrote:
Dianna, I got my Master's degree last year and I thought I would have a job by now, but no one is calling me. My bills are piling up and I feel like getting an education was one big waste of time. I desire to be a Christian counselor but cannot seem to find anything available in my field. Is God trying to tell me something? Did I make the wrong decision by pursuing my education in counseling? I have been praying to God but I don't know what he wants me to do. I just need him to speak to me.
TODAY'S PRAYER: Dear Lord, You see every request that has come before You. You know all about the hurt, pain, sickness, frustration, and uncertainty Your people are facing. Although I do not have the power to make things right or better, You can do all things, oh Lord. So, I pray right now, that You will intervene as only You can, according to Your divine will. And we submit to Your will, even if differs from our own, always realizing that Your way is best. In Jesus' name, Amen.
