Daily Prayer Thread 1/31/03

Psalm 86
1 Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
2 Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
6 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.
7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.

I'd also like to request prayers for my grandmother who is in the hospital currently with the flu and not doing well at the moment.

1 posted on 01/31/2003 6:50:12 AM PST by billbears

Prayers for your grandmother; by His Stripes she is healed, bilbears

2 posted on 01/31/2003 6:57:38 AM PST by Ff--150

3 posted on 01/31/2003 7:01:37 AM PST by Ff--150

Prayers being sent.

Update on my dad:

His surgery went smoothly, and he doing very well. He did not have a very restful night however, due to a restless roomate with Alzheimers. They will be moving him to a different room today. Thank you again, for all your prayers.

4 posted on 01/31/2003 7:41:55 AM PST by pubmom

To: pubmom; billbears; Ff--150; silverwoman1; LeeMcCoy

Pubmom, I'm glad to hear your dad is doing well!

Prayers for all, for your families and friends, for your loved ones and our country.

5 posted on 02/01/2003 4:55:18 AM PST by 4CJ (Be nice to liberals, medicate them to the point of unconsciousness.)

To: Ff--150; silverwoman1; billbears; LeeMcCoy; pubmom

Prayers for the families of the Columbia shuttle, their friends and loved ones - may God give the comfort & strength in this time of need.

6 posted on 02/01/2003 7:52:50 AM PST by 4CJ (Be nice to liberals, medicate them to the point of unconsciousness.)

To: 4ConservativeJustices

AMEN.

I received a prayer request from a friend involved with Native American (Indian) mission work. The couple that runs the orphanage on the Pine Ridge reservation, Louie and Malvina, were seriously injured in an accident Thursday night. It is thought the weather was a factor.

The driver of the other car was killed as well Louie's sister, who was a passenger in their car. Though seriously injured, they will survive. My friend's biggest concern is for those who will be caring for the children, they're known to have severe drug and alcohol problems.(Its a very big problem on the reservation, which is why the orphanage exists in the first place) Please pray that this may be a wake up call to those who have been irresponsible to become responsible. Also pray that if it is the Lord's will, that he may make a way financially for my friend to get there to assist. Thanks again for all your prayers, I'll give an update when I have one.

7 posted on 02/01/2003 11:50:34 AM PST by pubmom

8 posted on 02/01/2003 1:58:39 PM PST by amom

How sad. Joining you in prayer for all concerned.

9 posted on 02/01/2003 2:02:30 PM PST by amom

To: amom; Alamo-Girl

Thanks for the ping, amom! The following is a prayer which I have posted on some other threads. Thank you for letting me know about this thread. Thank all of you praying Freepers for joining together for praying for our heroes and our nation and our people.

I try to write to my elderly mother on a frequent basis. In each letter I close with a prayer. I wanted to share today's with you now.

Our Beloved Heavenly Father, Our Lord Christ Jesus,

We come before you now and beseech you to please care for the souls of these precious ones in our space program who gave their lives in the quest for greater knowledge of the Cosmos which you created. Take these precious souls in your arms and place them gently into the highest places in your Mansion that you possibly can. Heal their souls of any wounds which the trauma may have caused them. Comfort their souls as they leave behind their friends and families.

Hold their friends and families close to your heart and give them legions of comfort angels. Help them to find strength in you during this period of intense raw pain. Help their families gracefully adjust to the changes in dynamics which occur when we lose dear ones. Protect these ones who are very much in the public eye. Let them know that we CARE about them. Guide the media personnel in their efforts to gain stories for those of us who do care. Let them be sensitive to the pain of these precious souls who have lost so much while those stories are gathered.

Father, we pray for the people in the space program who were involved in this mission. We ask that you will guide them in finding out the root cause/s so that any future reoccurence may never happen again. We further ask that you will enlighten people who find debris as to the importance of it being turned in to authorities. One just never knows which little bit might spell the key for us to understand the disaster. Please Lord, if there is such a piece or pieces, please let them be found and turned in by unselfish citizens.

Father, we ask for your mercy and care not only for the souls involved in this national tragedy, but for any and all who have given their lives wearing our military uniforms. We have had recent helicopter crashes and other incidents where we have lost soldiers. Father, we include them and their families in our prayers. We continue to pray for all of our military who are actively serving in any capacity, and their families.

Father, guide all of our leaders in their decisions which are needing to be made. Especially give our President grace and wisdom in his decisions to deploy our forces. We pray and trust that whenever he bows his head in prayer, which he has indicated he does do, that he will have an extraordinary ablility to hear Your words and guidance. We support him and lift him up in our prayers and are grateful that you have allowed us to have in office one who does sincerely believe and depend upon the arm of the Lord. We would ask that each and every person in office or who is in a leadership and decision-making capacity also have an extraordinary ability to hear heavenly guidance when they bow their heads in prayer. We are in a very crucial time in many levels and many fronts, Lord, and we have never needed your intercession more. Grant us that intercession, our Father! Grant us the vision as a united people that we need in order to allow your own divine plan for our nation and civilization to be made manifest.

Father, we place all of this upon the altar and we give gratitude and praise to you that you do indeed hear and answer our prayers. We ask that all of our prayers will be adjusted according to thy will, for we do not wish to pray amiss in any way whatsoever. In the name of the Everlasing Word,

Amen

~written by TEXOKIE Feb 1, 2003~

10 posted on 02/01/2003 2:09:40 PM PST by TEXOKIE

11 posted on 02/02/2003 7:39:45 AM PST by Deadeye Division

12 posted on 02/02/2003 7:50:34 AM PST by Alamo-Girl

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