I’m spending the next 5 days praying and fasting.
I have 3 major goals for this time:
- To get direction for our ministry
- To ask for miraculous help for our finances
- Renewed physical health, including release from gluttony
If you have never fasted for a number of days, the physical benefits can be quite incredible – but that’s another story.
However, I would like to do something a little different as well – I’d like to pray for you.
I really appreciate both the online and offline communities that I have become a part of and I want to include the needs of my friends (that’s you) in my time of humbling myself before God.
So… what do you need prayer for? Anything goes, whether you think it’s selfish or not, I don’t care.
I want to pray for the things that are really important to you.
Please either leave a comment, email me or send me a tweet and I’ll add you to my list.
****NOTE: Prayer requests sent by email or Direct message will be kept confidential****
I sent you an email. I hope five days is enough. 🙂
I got your email. Thanks.
I’ll be praying. I don’t know that I’ll have an answer for you or that God will give you an answer in that time but it won’t be for lack of praying!
I sent you an email, too. I hope Helen didn’t use up all of your days. If you ask her, I’ll bet she’d give up one for me. That’s the way she rolls.
I’ll find a way to fit you in some time that God has a moment to listen 🙂
Candy, it looks like it’s a good thing we got here early. I think we filled all his prayer time slots.
I’m awake for around 960 minutes a day. That’s 960 1-minute prayer slots available…. I think I can fit a couple more people in 🙂
Where do I start?
I am under extreme stress. I need peace.
My church is on the tail end of a nasty split that took years, so the people need encouragement, love, peace, joy …. All the things that were stolen from them during the split.
Partly because of the split and partly because of the economy we are in dire straights financially right now. Sunday we have a board meeting where we will be discussing where else we can make cuts so that our budget balances. We are about $2k short each month and that kind of deficit can only be made up in a few areas, none of which are “easy.” We need a financial miracle and wisdom.
My Youth is full of broken people. Real hurting teens. I prayed for them to come into the group but I am overwhelmed by it. There are too many and I don’t know how to help them. I swear that the parents in our community need to be beaten publicly.
Two of my minister friends are being pushed to their limits. One is frustrated because his pastor keeps putting too much on him and he can’t get involved in what God has called him to and the other is in a pretty good situation but all around him marriages are failing. It is causing him a lot of pain to have close friends calling him one after another because their marriages are falling apart.
I could go on and on, but those are the major areas.
Wow. OK, I’m on it!
You can pray that our church gets the land we’re looking at so we can pursue the vision He’s given us. We’re still trying to find financing, and no matter what, this will take some financial miracles.
Thank you for the prayer and I’ll be praying for you in the areas you mentioned. If there’s anything specific I can pray, send me an email or tweet. I’ll be there for you!
Prayers will be rising up to heaven for you!
Hi Peter,
I am so gonna take you up on this offer. Bless you for making it!
My family and I have left our church. It was a painful decision, but it was the right one.
The way some of them have responded to it is just…I don’t have words…they are just plain mean-spirited. It’s a confusing time and I’m just so hurt. And mad. And I’m so tired of church junk, I don’t even want to go find a new church.
I will though. God wants us to live in community, so I will. But I’m gun-shy about opening myself up to trust new people again. Could you pray for me to get over myself? Could you pray for me to let go of what happened to my family at the hands of our brothers and sisters? Can you pray for our direction to the new church God wants us to be a part of?
Thanks so much. God bless you and thank you!
Marni
Of course I will Marni. I know how you feel to some degree and can definitely pray about that for you!
I emailed my request. I’m praying for you too brother.
2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials f of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith h produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. James 1:2-4
You can pray that I will continue to come out of the “fog” that I have been experiencing lately. You can read more here: http://kevinmartineau.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-do-you-do-when-you-find-yourself.html
You can pray for our upcoming Kids Camp that is happening Aug. 10th-14th. Pray that many children (and families) will be impacted by the Gospel.
You can pray that I can get my renovations done before the end of the summer.
You can also pray for direction for our church as we make plans for the Fall and the future.
Thanks for being the church Peter!
A friend of mine (Mark Bettin) was riding his bicycle 9 days ago before work in the park, slipped on a curve, and is really in bad shape. He has a broken pelvis, all the ribs on one side, collar bone, fractured skull, and has been in a coma ever since (coming to only once for a moment while in the care-flight helicopter).
Please pray with me that God would be glorified regardless of the outcome.
Pray for healing, and more importantly, for grace to make it through this very difficult time for the family involved.
Thanks,
Michael
Peter, I am so touched by your invitation. This sacrificial gift is greater than anything else you might present.
I would appreciate prayer for restoring balance between the ministry of my blogging & social networking time, and prayer & writing time.
Thank you thank you thank you.
I’ve just added you and your ministry to my own prayer list.
Love in Christ,
Anne
Peter; May God bless you and give you strength as you obey and fast!! Yes, bro, I need some prayer, and have been nudged also to fast; perhaps you are another confirrming voice that I better get on it. My finances are a mess, I’m still unemployed and would like work to pay off debt; and as excited as I was to start seminary, I even started a new blog for it too, I’m asking God why? It’s not llike I’m working in ministry now…..but I know I should do this, I just don’t want to be blind sighted. So I am trying to muster all my faith, so please pray for God to get my spiritual llife centered to Him more completely, financial and job breakthrough so I can be faithful in my finances and tithe as I should. Continued health, so far so good. Keep satan far far away and give me super renewed strenght, determination andpower for this seminary charpter comming up in my life. For Olivia my daugher too, who is 3; that I can be a loving, secure, Godly mom to her as welll.
Peter,
First, I will remember you in MY prayers as you fast and seek Father.
Second, if you could join me in my prayer that He reveal a little more of His will. I sense Him calling when my husband is obviously closed to it…not sure what that means.
Third, please pray for the Church. Many of us seem to be struggling with the effects of broken people in a fallen world…tho we know Who is ultimately in charge, the personalities can drive some away…
Grace~
Jaime
I just wanted to say, I’ve been reading your posts and replies and it is shocking to see how many of us are dealing with, praying for, fasting around the same issue; prayer, breakthrough, the church and all it’s brokeiness, I am right there with all of these. I mentioned in one of my replies that we reallly need to start banding together as bloggers and pray for eachoter, maybe even starting a group for prayer on Facebook, what do you all trhink? Blessings to you all, Robin