Our fourth team to West Africa leaves today, be in prayer for safe travel. Pray that their families have a peace about them being on mission. This week lift them up as they minister to a group of people that desperately need Jesus.
Some of the prayer requests from our Prayer Cards this past Sunday.
Pray that all the schools start off with a good year
Pray for a member’s uncle that the doctors can figure out what is wrong with his health
Pray that a member can live her faith.
Pray for a member as they have medical tests done today and that the results come back good
Pray that Drew and Owen will be open to the Holy Spirit
Pray for a member’s sister, who is a believer, that has cancer. Pray that the family can feel the Lord’s strength and they can glorify God during this difficult time in life.
This prayer request is from a Missionary we have worked with in an Eastern European Country.
Please be in prayer for one of our company families. This comes from their caring bridge site: Josiah (age 7) has been diagnosed with stage IV Lymphoma. Please join us in praying for healing for his body, peace during testings/treatments, and comfort.
Please also pray for his parents Charlie and Jennifer as walk down this road with their oldest son. Pray for peace, a protected mind, strength and endurance.Josiah has two little brothers, Judah and Noah, please pray that they would have comfort in a time when they don’t understand all that is going on.
Thanks for praying!
On August 4th, we prayed for a missionary that was having complications with her unborn child. Praise the Lord, everything worked out. Precious!!!
Born: Sunday, August 7th, 2011
9:58am
Weight: 6lbs 1oz
Length: 18.5in
She is doing amazing and we are praising God for His hand over our baby girl. Thank you all for your continued prayers!
Be in prayer for Pastor Jason today as he begins a new series called “Renew Your Belief.” For the next 10 weeks, he will be describing what we believe as a church. Starting tomorrow, there will be a devotion each day written by a leader of Living Hope on our doctrine.
Here is a picture of New Testament believers: “…they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, to fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to prayers” (Acts 2:42). Devotion is a power word. Devotion involves discipline. Devotion requires drive and passion. Bottom line, these believers were committed to the Word, Community, Worship, and Prayer. Some might say they are devoted to eating all organic. Others might say they are devoted to certain t.v. shows. But, how many of us can say we are devoted to what we see in Acts 2:42?
Lord, I pray that all believers can be devoted to your Kingdom. Help us to be devoted like the believers in Acts 2:42.
Romans 15:4c – “…through the encouragement of the Scriptures we may have hope.”
At times, that Scripture is hard to put in practice. Often, I seek my encouragement in the world. The world though, at times, is not very God honoring. As a believer, we all need to push ourselves to look for encouragement in God’s Word before others. Because scriptural encouragement is the kind of encouragement that gives us hope.
As you spend time in the Good Book today…pray that God shows you the encouragement that you need.
This report and request for prayer is from a missionary we work with in a very closed country. Due to security, all name’s and locations are removed. Please be in prayer for this family.
Dear Friends & Family,
Thank you so much for your prayers the last 2 weeks for our family. In the last 2 weeks here is what has happened…
– With the help of wonderful friends, my husband has temporarily closed our home and got himself and the kids to big city. They have been here a week now and we are SO thankful to be together again.
– I have been going weekly to the hospital for non-stress tests to monitor the baby’s heart rate, and each week she has passed the test.
– I have also been going weekly to measure the amniotic fluid level and Hope’s growth…
– We have been praying that there would be no need to induce before 37 weeks. And I am 37 weeks TOMORROW!!
– My mom is on the plane right now, flying to the big city, and we are SO thankful she is able to come and be here!
I had an appointment this morning so that my doctor could make more decisions about the baby and when she will arrive. We looked at several factors. First was the fluid levels. They have dropped just a bit from my appointment from last week… but the doctor was amazed that even with the low fluid, the baby managed to flip. She had been head down for 2 weeks, and is now breech again. Hope’s growth last week seemed to be following her curve (2 wks behind in some parts, 4 weeks behind in other parts), but that growth slowed a bit this week. Because of the baby’s position we were unable to get a good reading on the blood flow to the placenta.
Based on all those findings, the doctor feels it is best to induce. We have scheduled the induction for Sunday, August 7th. The doctor is willing to try, as she put it “a gentle turning of the baby” to see if we can get her head down, but she is not willing to try much. She feels that the baby is not strong enough to withstand much. If the baby doesn’t turn easily, then we will quickly move to a C-Section. If she does turn we can proceed with the induction.
I am not a fan of induction or the possibility of C-section and I am continually having to just give that over to the Lord, knowing that He is the one in control!
I will be 37wks 3 days when the baby is born, although her size is smaller than that. We will not know the condition of her lungs/stomach until she is born, but we are praying hard that she will be born flighting and STRONG!
Thank you all for continuing to pray, and we will update when we know more!! We continue to give our baby girl over to the Lord, knowing and trusting that He is working His will in His timing!
Praises:
– That the baby has continued growing albeit slowly!
– That she has made it in mom until 37+ weeks
– That our family is together and more help is on the way
Pray:
– That the baby will get into the right position and STAY PUT!
– That the baby’s lungs/stomach will grow strong and healthy over the next few days
– That there will be no complications after she is born and she can start growing faster than she has thus far.
– For wisdom and peace for us as we make decisions for the baby.
Please be in prayer for Family Night Worship tonight. Pray that the message and object lessons can be communicated in a Spirit-filled way that young children can understand. We are blessed as a church to have great opportunities for our families to worship together.
I don’t know if you have every used this resource, but if you like praying for the nations check out this operation world page on the web. In my prayers today, France was laid upon my heart. Watch this video and spend some time in prayer for this country that so much needs to know Jesus.
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