Daily Cup family, let us pray together for the individuals who have sent in emails and reached out for help. Please read the requests below and intercede.
Angela from SC wrote:
After battling breast cancer off and on for the past 25 years, my mother’s doctors said there is nothing else they can do for her and they are not expecting her to make it through the month. My mother seems to be at peace with everything that is going on and I think it’s because my father passed away 3 years ago from heart failure. He died in January like they expect her to, and she hasn’t had the same kind of fight in her since then. She is only 62 years old and I am not ready to let go. Part of me doesn’t want to see her suffer and I don’t want to be selfish but how do you tell your mother goodbye? I want to make the most of this time with her and be strong through it but every time I think of living without our days together, conversations whenever I need to talk, and just her laugh (she has the funniest laugh) my heart sinks. It feels like it’s breaking. I would like prayer for the strength to release my mother and let her go. I know her time to go to heaven is coming. She loves God and I know where she is going but it’s so hard to say goodbye.
DT wrote:
Dianna, I read the prayer request of a young lady who was struggling with homosexuality on your blog and it gave me the courage to ask for prayer for myself. I was molested from the time I was 3 years old until the time I was 14 by my stepfather. He raped me repeatedly and I hated men after what he did to me so I turned to women hoping to find true love. I have only had a few intimate relations with the same sex but I am trapped and bound in chains by these desires. It is not even that I love being with a woman more, but I just can’t see myself with a man because I harbor so much anger. Every man that touches me I just see my stepfather. I can’t see how to move beyond this. Please pray for me to be healed from this heartache and unforgiveness that is poisoning me inside.
Anonymous
I am a first lady of a church and I struggle secretly with depression. I have my own personal emotional issues on top of all the expectations church members have of me. There are so many demands on my husband’s time to be there for everyone else and I feel like he never has any time for me. I cry and cry and sometimes I can’t even get out of bed. He doesn’t understand fully and I don’t know what to do. I feel like I don’t want the pressure of having to be someone else’s shoulder to lean on when I need a shoulder to lean on MYSELF. I feel like my mind is about to snap and I desperately need some help. I need someone to hear me when I cry. I feel like I’m screaming in a deep dark forest away from everyone else in the world and that nobody can hear me. I need to know God hears me and he still cares, and I’m not crazy. I need help. I’m lost and can’t see my way out.
Shia wrote:
Hi Dianna, I love your blog and all your inspiration and encouragement. I would like to ask for prayer to get over a heartbreak. My fiance broke off our engagement 4 months before we were to be married. He said he isn’t ready to be married to the “kind of woman” I am. He wants to be himself and he feels like I am to into God and that I don’t understand his needs. We were briefly in a sexual relationship but I felt guilty and told him I wanted to be celibate until marriage and that is when he first started changing. A lot of the things I was once doing I stopped because I knew it wasn’t pleasing God. But I don’t think he was ready for the change. I know my mother, my family, and my friends keep telling me it is for the best that he left now rather than later. But it doesn’t make it feel any better or easier. I know God can put my heart back together and stop this deep pain. I dont understand why I am going through all of this. Prayer for me to move on and get over this hurt inside me is what I need.
T wrote:
I started a youth group at my church and I got really close to one of the girls in my group. She is 14 and she confides in me about a lot of different things. She has been telling me a lot about an older drug dealer she is involved with and they are having sex. I saw them together one day in the mall and he means her no good. The lifestyle she is in is very dangerous but her mother, who works in the finance department at the church, does not know about it. I talked to my pastor, but didn’t tell him the identity of the girl. He told me I need to tell her mother because she is a minor, but I feel nervous like I will be betraying her trust. I need the boldness to do what is right. I know God let her come to me for a reason and I may possibly be able to help get her out of this before something terrible happens. I’m asking for prayer for guidance and strength and NO FEAR.
Father, situations that are complex and difficult for us to navigate, are easy for You. Oh Lord, there is nothing too hard for You to work out. You can heal any hurt, no matter how severe; solve any problem; carry any burden; forgive every sin; and deliver us from any bondage. I pray today for everyone who has requested prayer, that You would stretch out Your mighty hand of deliverance and move on their behalf. We trust You and believe it’s done by faith. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
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