Praise Reports:

HI all,

Well I thought I would offer my Praise to the Lord here!!!

Today I went to the doctor - follow-up on my new Migraine meds
which are working so much better!!!

Well the results of my liver function test - were......
it is functioning normally!!!!

So now I need to get my cholesterol down & loose some weight.....

He actually said just losing 15-20 lbs will make a big difference!!!

But if I am working on it - I want to get down all the way &
keep it off.....

I am going to do a lot of juicing and just eating a lot more
fruit & veggies .... which are good for you!!!

Lori
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I hope no one takes offense, but often we call God the Great Lumberjack. Today He performed another miracle for us. We live rural on 6 acres of wooded property (and have access to 30 acres of wood). This is how we heat our entire house---fallen trees. The danger is the many that surround our house. Plenty have fallen in storms and we barely escaped damage to our being, property and chattel. This morning the winds are 60 mph. I heard a great crash at 5 am. I happened to look out the window and noticed our security light was out. With a flashlight I was able to see the pole and equipment came down without pulling electrical and phone wires with it. Had the wind blown slightly different this would have crashed through the house, specifically where I sat working on the computer. We thank God that once again He has diverted extravagant costs and inconveniences with damage, and once again, sent an angel to move harm from my life.
Thank You God Almighty, for all the unseen miracles You do for me. Thank You, Lord Almighty for all the ones I recognize. Forgive me when complaints come forth from my heart and lips, because You alone preserve me and mine. In Jesus, name, I proclaim Your mighty protection and favor. Amen
editor

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We had a deadly disaster averted last evening. We heat the entire house by wood burner and always planned what to do if we had a fire.

Last evening our dog Einstein came running into the house totally scared. We laughed at him, but Dick finally went to look out the window to see what might have scared him. All he could see was black smoke. We had a chimney fire. Long story short all got out safely, but it was Dick's quick thinking that saved our house. We had bought a product to throw in the wood burner in case of a fire. Never knew if it would work or not. It did enough to contain the fire. Dick also used 3 extinguishers. It took the firemen 45 minutes to get here, but that product kept the house from going up.

We can't heat now, but I can give public testimony and praise to God my mighty Protector for sparing us, not just once this week, but twice within 4 days. Almighty God, You protect and provide. We thank You for overseeing this fire, for giving Dick wisdom and for You watchful eye in this situation. We praise You, Lord! Amen


editor
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I received my annual performance evaluation at work today, and was informed that I am being promoted from IT Staff Auditor to IT Assistant Audit Supervisor. I will be more involved in the actual project management of audits, with the goal to be promoted within the next year or so to a full IT Audit Supervisor where I would lead audits with staff reporting to me. The promotion will involve a 5% salary increase which will be effective in the pay of April 14.

I share this not to boast, but to give credit to God and glorify Him. In November of 2002 I was laid off from the company I had been with for 14 years as my position was eliminated. The severance package was generous, with almost a full year of pay and benefits, but it took that long for the Lord to open up the door to my current position.

I praise God for his great provision and guidance in my life.
DAVE


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Urgent Closed Message Board Request:

Some of you will remember Edith as she has followed our boards for 6 years, including here.
This was posted on one of my closed boards that I checked today. The request is from March 1. I will contact her and let her know we are now praying and will update you if I can. Thanks.

<b>Hi,
I haven't logged on for quite a while. But I need prayer from the group.
I have new twin gr granddaughters. The weigh only 1 lb 10 oz and 1lb 12 oz.
There names are Dakota and Raven Please pray for them.<b>

Lord we thank you for the blessings you have granted the EDITOR in the area of health, we ask you to continue to bless with weight loss and colestrol control.

Message Board Request:

One of my friends had a doctors appointment today and discovered that the doctors wish to do more testing to see if he has a tumor. And if he does... and it is in the fifth stage he will only have six months to live.

He is very upset and doesn't know God fully as of yet. Please pray for his peace of mind, for his faith, that he would know God and have faith. Pray that they find nothing and that if they do God will bring him through it.


Thank you.

Tender Heart

Response:

Father God, we bring Tender Heart's friend before You and we ask that You be with Him. It will be either a time of him seeking You or a time of his bitterness. We know You are patient and long suffering in a person's salvation. We pray that this is a time that You have arranged to have him turn to You. Comfort and support him through his illness. Send those that will proclaim Your name and Your healing power. Touch his body that he might have health and a praise upon his lips. Touch his spirit so that he might desire to lean on You for strength and comfort. Touch his mind that he might have peace that comes from knowing you, in Jesus' name. Amen

Message Board Request from Wendy:

hi, this is probably going to sound strange but I just feel a heavy burden right now after talking about some issues with an online friend. First of all, it is so easy to open up online and think you know a person. I am ashamed to say we talked for a month before religion as he puts it was even brought up and I found out he is a die hard liberal atheist...but I think that was the straw that broke the camel's back in a sense. I am just feeling so many conflicting emotions right now. Scared for the world, even as I trust my savior to protect me. The whole Iranian bomb crisis makes me tremble for the world, but at the same time glad because it makes me think the rapture may not be far off, then sad again because my life is a pathetic dot, and I haven't done anything for him really. I just feel so empty at times, mainly because I am not allowing him to fill me up. Maybe that is why weight loss is so hard...trying to use food for the wrong reasons. Anyway, I tend to think too much at night I know I am probably a little depressed, but the more I see of the world, the more I long for Jesus to come back. But that is selfish, when there are so many lost people in the world. I just feel like I never lived in a time like we are in today. Even after 9/11 I didn't feel this urgency. I think it started in me around the time of the 2004 tsunami-like the world is slowly coming to an end. It seems to me everything on the news points to revelations. Wars, rumors of war, plagues, earthquakes, etc. I don't know what to feel, or how I can best serve the Lord...but I surrender my life to him to do whatever he desires.
Wendy

Response:

Wendy--- I pray God speaks to your heart. I pray God draws you closer. I pray God lead you into a ministry which it sounds like He desires for you. I pray your depression lifts. I pray you find your way to become motivated to diet. I pray God grants you peace. Amen

Message Board Request from me (editor):

My nephew Steve was rushed to the hospital while working out of state. He had chest pain and they discovered an aneurysm on his heart. He has Marphins Syndrome and has outlived the life expectancy. He has a great deal of other heart issues going on also. He is in need of open heart surgery. Please pray for him.

Response from Angelic:

Heavenly Father, We bring Steve before you, He is in need of your
healing touch. I ask you to be with him. You created this heart
and I ask that you recreate it, if it be your will.
Please put your angels around him, Put your people around him, to
pray for and with him, to encourage him, and to pray for, and with
the family. Give this family a peace that you are in control of
Steve's life.
According to Medical Knowledge, Steve may have outlived their life
expectancy, but we know that Steve's days are numbered by you.
You gave him a job to do down here, and we ask that Steve stays here
until it is finished. May your praise come from the heart
and voice of Steve and the family. May they lean on you for strength
and comfort.
Amen

Message Board Request:
wendyladi98
 hi, you guys are the only ones I could think of to ask to pray for me right now...my family is not being very supportive of me right now and I am trying so hard to react in the way Jesus would want me to but I confess I seem to make things worse so I just have to let go and let God. My mother refuses to listen to the way I feel...it is a long soap opera so I'll try to shorten it a bit. I need prayer for God to help me not place so much importance in pleasing people/letting them affect me. Today I was feeling God working in my life and wanted to share some issues I need to pray about and concerns I have right now. She doesn't understand that I am simply trying to build intimacy and bonding and thinks I want her to fix me.. so she blew up at me...My mother is the closest person to me in the world. She raised us in an overprotective very sheltered way, and it has taken me a long time to mature and become comfortable living my life, taking responsibility etc. I just want so much for her to be proud of me and see how I am growing, but lately it is like trying to please the unpleasable.This has happened before and the point is it usually brings me down from the spiritual high I was on and makes me appear the weak and incompotent person she thinks I am. I just so crave someone to be vulnerable with who I don't have to impress or prove myself to... thank God that He is there. So to recap...It is amazing how strong hope is even when dashed to pieces over and over. I get these highs when it is like life is this great adventure, I can just feel God's strength in me and I am so close to God...but all it takes is one negative instance/argument to have me depressed and weak again, so I need to learn to be strong no matter what people do or say. anyway...sorry I am being such a downer lately lol. I just wish the devil wasn't at me constantly, and that my family would be closer and love each other like we used to.

Response from Toni:

Father, we lift Wendy up to you in prayer, asking for strength of spirit for her. Help her to stand fast in Your good and perfect will for her life. Help her to keep her eyes on You, Lord, looking neither right nor left to those who would offer their opinions. Let her joy be in You, Father, the author and finisher of our peace. Thank You for showing Your love to her as she strives to grow closer to You. Thank You for sending Your Son and Your Word ahead to show us the way. Amen

((((((((((Wendy)))))))))))

Message Board Request:

DavEdsel
 In reading the news sites on my lunch hour, I see that there has been serious damage caused by tornadoes in the mid-west yesterday and today. This includes the states of Kansas, Illinois and Missouri. I would ask that we keep this situation in prayer, and also note that one of our dear moderators, Toni, lives in Missouri and pray for her and her family's safety.

Thank you.
 
Response:

Lord God, Dave is such a watchman and prayer warrior for those who live in states with tornadoes. We join him in his concern for safety for those touched by these natural disasters. We pray that they might be comforted in knowing Your power is so much mightier. We pray for those who have had damage and inconveniences due to these storms, and we ask that order be restored soon in their lives. Watch over your children that face peril and be their abiding place, in Jesus' name. Amen

Please be in prayer for 2 year old Collin my grandson, he will be having his cranial facial surgery next week, the 21st.
thank you
Debbie

Father God, we are keeping this appointment to watch and pray for Collin.
Father God, how beloved is this young child's life to You and us. So many times You have healed him and kept him safe from peril. So many times You have heard our prayers for him and answered. With confidence we come before You because of Your only begotten Son Jesus, and pray for Collin for You to work a miracle. A safe surgery. A productive result. A speedy recovery. A drawing together of many saints in prayer for this occasion. A time to witness of Your Deity. A time for doctors to learn, teach and heal to help others who have this affliction. A time of family gathering together to receive Your strength and comfort.
We come to You Lord, expecting and willing to receive Your highest will and our chiefest praises for the wonder and guidance You will oversee in this young life. Thank You Father that our concerns are Yours. Amen

Message Board Request:

I just spoke with Fayrda on the phone - Russell has a nosebleed that will not stop. It has been going for over 1 hour and now he feels light-headed. She is taking him to the emergency room so they can pack it and see what is going on. At this point, Fayrda says the doctor told her when she called him that it should be only a few hours in the ER, then they will release him. So, I am not going to the hospital yet unless the situation changes. Hopefully this is all a minor issue and can be easily treated and resolved.

Please pray for healing for Russell and strength and peace for Fayrda (and me).

Thank you.
DAVE

Response:

Lord God, we have no idea why this is happening to Russell and what the cause could be. However we know that it is not normal. We know that You know why this happened and with investigation and diagnosis on the part of physicians what should be done to treat and prevent this. What we are coming before You Lord, is healing for Russell and peace and calmness for his parents as they meet this challenge. We ask You, Father for protection over this child and we ask You for answers that can be met. Grant wisdom in this situation, through Christ Jesus, our healer. Amen

Prayer Book request:

Johnson City, NY USA

Healing
Comments: My 31 year old son Joseph was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease 2 years ago. He has returned home last month so we can care for him. He is feeling lost. Please pray for healing.

Thank you. Diane

Response:

Gracious Father, we bring Joseph to You. He has a debilitating disease called Lou Gehrig's. We turn to You for hope and help for him.
 
Father God, Your Word states that You desire us to be in health. There are verses that proclaim we are healed by Christ's stripes. There are countless examples of Jesus healing many diseases. We believe that You are the same yesterday, today and forever.
 
For these reasons we pray for Joseph's health, that You might make him well and whole. We pray for his physical well being and healing of any abnormalities that he may have in his body.
 
We pray, Almighty God that You help him to examine if there is a course of action that he should take to enhance his health.
 
We pray, Almighty God that Godly doctors will indeed guide him to courses of treatment if available.
 
We pray, Almighty God to unearth if his nutrition or diet is lacking in essentials.
 
We pray, Almighty God to examine his inward man and to eradicate any stress or unforgiveness which manifests in a physical ailment.
 
We pray for Joseph's family who will be caring for him. Touch them and allow them to be vessels of healing and compassion.
 
We thank You, Father God now for the gift of health and we stand firm that this is Your desire for Joseph. Send forth Your Word to heal, through Christ Jesus. Amen

Message Board Request:

I had a cold about 3 weeks to a month ago, well since then I have had alot of wheezing and a presistent cough. I havent been on the last few days because it had gotten pretty bad. I went to the Dr today about it he has prescribed me with an inhaler I have to use 3X per day for the next 3-4 weeks, he says it should clear up. He said the cold triggered asthma. I had noticed when exercising it got worse. Anyway He says I can exercise still but to take the inhaler first. I believe God is the Lord who heals us and that he restores our health will you please pray in agreement with me on that? Thank very much.
Love ya
JIL

Response:

"Father, right now I pray for healing for Natalie. Touch her body, Lord, touch her lungs and bring her back to full heatlh soon. We expect you to do a perfect work.

In Jesus name, Amen."


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DAVE

Thank you Prayer warrior for your beautiful prayer, you bless my heart, so in turn I want to pray for you.
Lord you know the desire of Prayer warrior's heart, you know the need whether great or small today. I ask you to grant this desire whether it be physical, mental or spiritual whatever. I come boldly before your throne of grace and ask for you to bless P.W. today.

I can't tell you how much I appreciate your prayers.

Debbie, thank you so much. I do have a desire of the heart for ministry and I know God is going to bless that because you gathered together in my "hidden room" of desire.
I have marked Collin on my calendar for Tuesday. I have quite a bit of the day free, so I will indeed be in prayer for this perfect, innocent grandchild of yours. You might very well like to post your request on http://invisionfree.com/forums/Grace_Today/
I am very grateful that more are starting to faithfully pray for others on that site. We go where God goes. :)