1 The horrendous conditions and situation in Haiti. It is not bigger than God so I pray for continued miracles, intervention, and for people to keep coming to help without getting in the way. I pray for the suffering, loneliness, dying, and utter human pain. I pray for selfish and self absorbed people to look and feel the pain that others are feeling. I pray for their discomfort and for anything spiritual they might be experiencing to have some meaning they want to explore. May we all grow from witnessing this.
2 For my husband and my marriage. Marty's anxiety issue is creating so many problems at home. My response doesn't always help. I pray for submission, modeling to my daughter and that Marty will fall on his knees and find happiness in the only True way. Marty is very unhappy, often stressed and continues to question why? Please, Lord, pursue him with no let up. Get him. Use me or not but get him.
3 My young daughter as a result has gotten combative with him. I pray for her to apply what she knows about Jesus to her daily behavior and I pray to be a spiritual leader to her. A positive encourager. I pray for my patience with her and her humility in responding her her parents and living in front of her God.
4 My step children and their partners; my siblings and their spouses who aren't saved and for all my extended family who aren't saved. I pray for miracles in their lives and for Christians to cross their paths. I pray for God in his sovereignty to find them and reel them in on their knees recognizing their need. I also include all my non believing friends who think they don't need any thing related to Christ; they really have no real need or rather don't recognize the spiritual famine they are in.
5 For my friend Bea and her husband who is recovering in the hospital. For their children and that this week things will settle down for them now that they have an aunt at their home caring for them.
6 My spiritual growth. Teach me Lord to want to drift only toward you. Thank you for the discernment I have but help me to use the winnowing fork like you did to separate what is not about you vs what is all about you. Help me with my idols and to give up any notion of taking credit for anything I might do. I pray Lord for humility and wisdom. Remove any desire I have to get attention and cover me in a blanket of modesty, submission, and pierce any pride that puts a barrier between us.
7 Lord, I pray for my church and for all churches that are YOUR church. I pray that the church only speaks Your Truth and that Christians never strive to do other than to live a Christian life that honors you every single day. I pray that everyone is discipled with Your Word and gets the instruction they need from other godly Christ followers. Without instruction, encouragement, reading Your Word we can get complacant and that will be the death of the church. Please Lord bring Christians to their knees daily and help us with Your Great Commission.
8 Jesus, I have always had compassion for people who are lonely or rejected/neglected by others. I pray Lord for you to comfort these individuals and to show them who You are so they can find joy in knowing You. Please place people like this in my path if I can help them. Nudge me if I am contributing to their sorrows. Help me make someone's day.
9 Also Lord, I pray for a strong desire to do Your will. That I might not seek or want anything that is not of Your will or does not glorify You. I recognize I do my own thing a lot but thank you for helping me to see it when I do. I love your nudges, please don't let me ignore you. I want to do Your will because I know You know what is best for me even if I don't understand it at the time.
10 Lastly Lord, I am sorry for my sins. I know I hurt You when I don't submit to you or my husband or have thoughts and actions that go against what you have designed for me to live within as a Christian and follower of Your Son. I thank you for all your blessings in my life daily. Help me to pass them on. Thank you for your mercy and grace. I love you and my prayer is to joyfully serve You as You will.
Amen
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