Prayer Requests 1219/06
Feature: Nari Ho, my former employer :)
hey guys... please pray for...
forgiveness. i need to truly forgive one of my friends from my heart. i hold on to a lot of hurt and nurse that hurt instead of loving her and being tenderhearted. God needs to restore our friendship to be His way. but we keep just trying to avoid, sugarcoat, or put bandaids over wounds that go deep and that have been there for a long long time. and forgiveness my friends.. is a very hard hard thing.
the Word & prayer. these days i read the word because i know i need it and i can't live without it. i feel like i'm starving when i haven't read the word. in doing this i might be "surviving" but i'm stripping out the whole relationship with God. meeting with God out of necessity instead of out of Love.
wisdom & clear leading from God.
i feel like... i get soooo easily confused with God's Word... i just get so confused, and i'm so emotional sometimes it just throws everything off, and then i feel so embarrassed when i'm wrong. i'm so unwise and weak... i hate it... anyways thanks guys for your prayers... this life can be so hard sometimes... the road really is narrow... i just need to fix my eyes on Jesus.
Prayer Requests 12/11/06
Feature: Debbie, pray for her . . .
Hi Guys!
This is really cool that we do this every week. So thankful. I think God is pleased. haha.
in any case, praise God, i just finished up my first semester at Northeastern with this teaching business. really excited for the field i'm going into =) huge prayer requests on my heart these days is wisdom and discernment. i am realizing how strong my emotions play in my life and thinking, which can be a strength but also a huge weakness if i don't have wisdom. so...please pray for objective eyes to see. and specific arenas for prayer in this area are: marriage and ministry.
Another thing I've been realizing is that often times I ESCAPE to God.
this was something really challenging that I read:
The most Christ-like person in the world is the man who never finds his fellow-man a nuisance.
It is easy to feel Christian in the moment of prayer and meditation; it is easy to feel close to God when the world is shut out.
But that is not religion—that is escapism.
Real religion is to rise from our knees before God to meet men and the problems of the human situation.
Real religion is to draw strength from God in order to give it to others.
Real religion involves both meeting God in the secret place and men in the market place.
Real religion means taking our own needs to God, not that we may have peace and quiet and undisturbed comfort, but that we may be enabled graciously, effectively and powerfully to meet the needs of others.
that's me! selfish me. it's all about me and God, me and God. and i shut the world out. when that defeats the whole purpose of why he saved me. he must think i'm some clingy daughter that won't find other friends.
please pray that my goal and passion for God to be glorified would become a real-life REALITY in selflessly loving PEOPLE. I want to be ruined for christ. stretched, transformed. so far...yet so wonderful that he uses people like us.
yeah so, recap: WISDOM, DISCERNMENT, DYING TO SELF, LOVING OTHERS (not only when it's convenient, taking extra steps to be thoughtful)
thanks all!
fighting together,
debbie
Prayer Requests 12/4/06
Feature: Mr. Trump Jahps Lee, no he's not dating, he's just pimp
Hey Guys
Last week was a rough one, trying to fast from media intake. I failed miserably, so, were you guys praying for me? I hope so, because I need it. :) I really want to continue to try to fast from media and really focus on spending my leisure time reading good Christian books. Work has been getting really busy, but I feel as though God provides more than enough grace to help me get through each day, please pray that I will be salt and light in the workplace. Lastly, please pray that I will have much wisdom when I attend upcoming holiday parties.
thanks!
steve "bok jabs" lee
