I get excited about Thursdays because it's time to intercede for others in our Daily Cup family. I'm asking that every person reading this, would take a moment to look over the prayer requests listed in this "Thoughtful Thursdays" post and send up a prayer on behalf of someone else. You already know how much I believe in the power of prayer! So please join me in bombarding heaven on behalf of those listed below:
Rena wrote:
I would like to request prayer for my sister who lives in Atlanta and has breast cancer. Please agree with me in prayer for her total healing and restoration.
Jeanie wrote:
I am asking that you pray for continued covering from the enemy over my marriage. My husband and I were separated for about a year and I have prayed to God that my marriage would be restored. Well God has brought my husband back home and we have been taking it one day at a time. However, while he was away he had taken up with another woman. Now he has been trying to distance himself from her but she is relentless. Constant calling, begging, cursing him and I out. I just ask that the Lord to remove all unholy soul ties that my husband may have so we can get back to God's business of having a marriage that will truly uplift the kingdom of God. I know that is our mission but I know the devil is attempting whatever he can to prevent that from happening. I pray that this woman will go away and let us heal, I pray that the Lord will strengthen my husband and give him constant fear of the Lord and I pray that God will allow me to stay emotionally stable and seek him continuously. Sometimes I will chose to resort to my own understanding which makes things more difficult. I know I need to let the Lord handle this situation and to trust that his will will be done, but pray that the Lord sustains me to see this through as I do get anxious and my thoughts run rampant. In Jesus name I pray that these things be added to our life. Amen.
Angela wrote:
I would like prayer for my job/career. I am not sure what I am supposed to be doing. I have had a desire in my heart to work from home for years but I do not know how to walk into it or if it is God's will for me.
Finances: I have a good job with decent pay for the area, but I still struggle in this area. Extra stuff keeps coming up with my car, my daughter, and I find myself barely making it some weeks. I want to relocate closer to my job which means I would have to move to a city where I don’t know anyone. I need guidance of where to go.
Health: I have been diagnosed with fibroids and I don’t want to have surgery. Some months, the pain is very bad. I want to be healed.
Emotions: I am single at 48 and I feel worthless and hopeless. I cannot enjoy my life. My son is grown and out of the house. My daughter will be out soon and I don’t know what I am gonna do. I have been divorced 5 years and there has been NO ONE. I am frustrated, confused, depressed, oppressed, bitter, full of anger and hate and I know it is not of God. I don’t trust men. I act so crazy with the men and so jealous with them, I run them off all because I have been cheated on so much and every man has left me for another woman. I am so lost. I don’t know what to do. My self-esteem is 0. I go through periods of mixed emotions, fear, anxiety and depression. I am just so mixed up.
I need to be delivered. I need to be fixed. I need to be healed. I need to be made whole and complete in the Lord. I know he is the only one who can fix me but I don’t know how to get there. I need God to show me how to be content with this single season. I need him to teach me how to enjoy it. I need him to put people in my life who I can do things with and show me how to do things alone and enjoy it as well. I do things but I never enjoy myself. I cry 95% of the time and I am just tired of living this way. I try to reach out to people (Christian) and they treat me like I am crazy. A lot of my friends are married and they don’t help me at all. I just want to be free from the stronghold, this bondage that is stealing my life from me. Some days I am filled with fear and I don’t even know why. It just hangs over my life like a cloud. I need help!!!
B wrote:
Back when I was 25 I was involved in a sexual relationship with a married man. It was the stupidest thing I’ve ever done and the biggest mistake of my life but I got pregnant and had an abortion. The guilt of it still kills me inside. A few years ago I got married and now my husband and I are expecting our first child together. I am only 3 months along and I feel scared to death that something is going to happen to this baby as a way of God punishing me for killing my “true” first child. I know people say God is not vindictive and he is loving but in a way I feel like I hate myself and God hates me too for what I did. I’m miserable! I’m tired of living in fear and guilt. Please pray for me to get this weight off my back and release myself, and forgive. Thank you.
T. Asia wrote:
Hi Dianna,
I have been a smoker for 25 years. I started when I was just 13 and I want to get rid of this habit. My grandmother who was also a smoker just died of lung cancer. I feel like it is God’s way of warning me but I’m so addicted to Nicotine. I have tried to stop 4 other times unsuccessfully. My daughter calls them my cancer sticks and is pleading with me to quit so I don’t end up like her grandmother. It tears me up to hear her say that but I need God’s help. I feel like it will take a miracle to break this bad habit and I need one!
God, You know all about every circumstance and situation. You are able to destroy yolks, loose captives, renew minds, heal bodies, stabilize emotions, and regulate thinking. There is nothing too hard for You. So today, we come to You on behalf of everyone who has submitted a prayer request, asking for Your divine intervention, according to Your will. Though we don't know all the answers or have any power to change things, You are omniscient and omnipotent. You are able to do ANYTHING and we place all our faith and confidence in You, Oh Lord. Right now, we praise and thank You in advance for doing what no other power is able to do.
We count it done in the name that is above every other name-- Jesus' name--Amen.
If you need prayer, please don't hesitate to submit your request. I would be honored to stand in faith with you. Please click here to learn how to request "Thoughtful Thursdays" prayer.
