Take this day to catch up on your reading, pray, and rest in the presence of the Lord.
Surely you desire integrity in the inner self,
and you teach me wisdom deep within.
—Psalm 51:6
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You got it Jessie! Praying now!
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hey, i have a huge favor to ask. would you lovely women care to pray for me? i’m struggling in my faith and it has got me really down. i want to grow in my relationship with God but i’m struggling. it would really mean a lot❤️
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A good word
Praying for your sister Heather! That the Lord continues to draw you and your loved ones close to Him. That your sister is a testimony of Gods grace!! Amen!
I’m new here too! But I’m guessing they send it out early so we have it and once we finish the month of june which is Romans we jump to psalms together as a community:)
It’s good for me to be reminded that when I sin, I sin against God (Psalm 51:4). This verse doesn’t just apply to adultery, as David did. And it’s not just doing things I shouldn’t be doing (anger, jealousy, drunkenness, coveting, fornication), it’s also not doing things that I should be doing (evangelism, bridling my tongue, caring for orphans & widows, attending church, reading the Word). Although I don’t want to be condemned or wallow in self-pity, guilt, or shame, I want to feel the heaviness, the weight of how ugly my sin really is. Too often, I find myself being lackadaisical & lazy when it comes to sin. I want to experience a godly grief over my sin. I want to hate it, to fight it. Help me Holy Spirit!
Heather Hickey – I am praying for your sister right now. And for you as well.
LYNN, praying for Jack’s appointments. Thank you for praying for us.
HEATHER, praying for your sister that God will remove that wicked brain cancer. May His Hand cover the whole family and remove sickness, premature death, or any demonic. form of kill/steal/ destroy devices.
Please if you could all say a parader for my sister, she is 41 and diagnosed last August with Glioblastoma stage IV brain cancer. She had surgery and had 99% removed and has been doing well, but her newest MRI showed new spots and they are now are watching it month to month. She has the hugest FAITH for GOD and is sharing her story all the time. It has brought family closer, friends to church and she has touched so many. Just need prayers for continued battle with this cancer.
Thank you GramsieSue…your prayers were felt on my end yesterday. Three kiddos age 16,6, and 8 months…energy is always needed!
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@TERESA DONLEY glad to hear your mri results came back with good answers! Happy Saturday ladies!
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There’s a bit of an update on the MRI I had on Thursday. The results were posted to my chart, and I saw them last night. Then got a text from my doctor saying it was completely normal (for someone my age!). I have an appointment with him on Monday to discuss all the findings because I think some of them sound rather ominous, and appeared so when I looked them up. I didn’t play Dr. Google, but I played Dr. Mayo Clinic and Dr. Cleveland Clinic. I’m praying that the doctor can help me understand why some of the results aren’t ominous and pointed toward dementia. That definitely scares me more than the MRI machine. I know God will be with me no matter what, just as He always be. Praying for a sense of peace around this whole thing. And praying for each of your requests as I read them.
@Heidi and others who prayed – thank you so much for your advice and your prayers. I didn’t freak out or even get too stressed. It was an hour to lay there with my eyes closed (with a wash cloth over them so I wasn’t tempted to cheat), Christian music in the background and time to talk with God and be reminded that I’m never alone. There was plenty of room in that MRI tube for God to be with me – and He was!
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The NIV version says it this way: “Yet you desire, faithfulness, even in the womb you taught me wisdom in that secret place.” I love how this version says it. Even in the womb.
Good morning and Happy Saturday sweet She’s. It’s going to be a very hot Saturday in sunny California, About 107° today and even hotter tomorrow.  I’ve been here all along, but haven’t had time to comment.
Enjoy your Saturdays from wherever you are. I had to be reminded, again this week, that I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Even at my age I need that reminder.
1 Peter 4:8-11
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8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 9 Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. 11 If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.
This is my prayer. To be filled with the Holy Spirit and follow God’s lead in loving others. Praying for all of you. Have a fabulous weekend.
I feel such a strong pull to pray for each of you today. For all of the requests listed and those not spoken. This is such a wonderful group of women.
For those of you caring for your husbands, I pray for extra strength and needed rest.
For those with children still at home, I pray for wisdom and energy.
For those waiting for God to answer, I pray for patience and peace.
And most of all, I pray for all to feel His presence and love in a mighty way.
Good to see some of you back.
Good to see new names.
Blessings and hugs to each of you. ❤️
Good morning ladies, praying for the requests mentioned! @Heidi, to answer you from yesterday, I’m actually taking a 3 week break to prepare for the school year, I’ll start the second week of August!! I’m excited to prepare for my classroom and take a break. God is faithful, just as he was in the midst of these past two years. Thankful for what I’ve learned about God and how he has grown me closer to him!
I saw this today in response to the question: Why Did God Create? This is on the Ligoneer Ministry website and is by Steve Lawson. The last paragraph is amazing and something I never thought about! Glory to God!
Why did God create? Certainly not because He needed someone to love. Throughout all eternity past, God enjoyed perfect love and intimate communion within His own being. The three persons of the Godhead—Father, Son, and Spirit—enjoyed perfect relationships and completely fulfilled one another. Thus, God was not inwardly lonely or personally empty; He was entirely self-satisfied, self-content, and self-contained. So God did not create because of some limitation within Himself. Instead, He created everything out of nothing in order to put His glory on display for the delight of His created beings and that they might declare His greatness. The book of Genesis records God’s extraordinary display of sovereignty in speaking creation into being—and in saving it.
In Genesis, Moses first recorded the stunning demonstration of God’s sovereignty in creation. God did not look down the tunnel of time and see the universe evolve out of nothing. He did not foresee a big bang and then adopt the chaotic results as His eternal plan. To the contrary, God intentionally spoke into being everything out of nothing. He was under no coercion to create. There was no external pressure upon Him. Rather, His act of creation magnificently displayed His imperial sovereignty. No outside restraints can be placed upon God’s supreme authority, not by Satan and his fallen angels, and certainly not by mere men.
A. W. Pink writes with thought-provoking wonder of the extraordinary sovereignty of God before creation:
In the great expanse of eternity, which stretches behind Genesis 1:1, the universe was unborn and creation existed only in the mind of the great Creator. In His sovereign majesty God dwelt all alone. We refer to that far distant period before the heavens and the earth were created. There were then no angels to hymn God’s praises, no creatures to occupy His notice, no rebels to be brought into subjection. The great God was all alone amid the awful silence of His own vast universe. But even at that time, if time it could be called, God was sovereign. He might create or not create according to His own good pleasure. He might create this way or that way; He might create one world or one million worlds, and who was there to resist His will? He might call into existence a million different creatures and place them on absolute equality, endowing them with the same faculties and placing them in the same environment; or, He might create a million creatures each differing from the others, and possessing nothing in common save their creaturehood, and who was there to challenge His right? If He so pleased, He might call into existence a world so immense that its dimensions were utterly beyond finite computation; and were He so disposed, He might create an organism so small that nothing but the most powerful microscope could reveal its existence to human eyes. It was His sovereign right to create, on the one hand, the exalted seraphim to burn around His throne, and on the other hand, the tiny insect which dies the same hour that it is born. If the mighty God chose to have one vast graduation in His universe, from loftiest seraph to creeping reptile, from revolving worlds to floating atoms, from macrocosm to microcosm, instead of making everything uniform, who was there to question His sovereign pleasure?
God’s dazzling display of sovereignty in creation was a primer on His right to rule in matters of salvation. God, who commanded the light to appear on day one of creation, soon would order gospel light to shine into the darkened hearts of spiritually blind sinners. God, who separated the waters on day two, would cause an infinite chasm to separate Himself from sinners. God, who gathered the waters together on day three, would gather sinners to Himself. God, who created the sun, moon, and stars on day four, would omnipotently create saving faith. God, who began to create the animal kingdom on day five, would graciously send His Son to be the Lamb of God to take away sin. God, who created Adam and Eve on day six, would soon re-create sinners into His image. His free grace would perform the second Genesis in the salvation of lost men and women.
Praise God for His kindness and undeserved grace!
Help me to walk in integrity always and give me wisdom daily to walk in your way!
LINDA C—My heart goes out to you dear sister as you deal with your husband’s dementia. I know all too well about the overwhelming weight that is on the caregiver. I pray that God will give you supernatural strength and peace for your grieving heart.
HEIDI—I am praying for your daughter and a peace for her as she starts this new school. Middle school is definitely the worst and I am so thankful that God showed you and your husband what needed to be done.
TERESA DONLEY—How did your MRI go? What did you find out?
JEN B, AIMEE ROGERS, LAURA, MICHELLE PATIRE, LYNN MCCARLEY, NICOLE BURKE,
SHARON JERSEY GIRL, MERCY—I am lifting up your needs to our gracious Lord. I am praying for all needs mentioned but can’t list every name.
So glad to see TINA and ERB back with us!
Please pray for Jack and I on Tuesday. He has two very important doctor appointments. The logistics of getting him up and out the door in the morning are very difficult. Pray for wisdom for me and for his doctors.
Love to each and everyone of you sweet sisters!!!
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I pray that my life would echo His wisdom, always, and I would daily walk in integrity!
Oh to know God more each day, and to be filled with His wisdom!…my daily prayer! Praise God for James 1:5, if anyone lacks wisdom – let him ask of God. Many of you, my dear sisters – whom I’ve never met, are going through great trials or times of important decisions. Praying that God will guide your hearts, fill you with His wisdom and direct you in the way that you should go. He hears, He sees, He knows. May He fill you with His peace and be gracious & merciful in each and every situation, and may you be encouraged that you are being prayed for here in this community.
@Heidi – my sister was told by the family she is staying with that she can stay a little longer if she hasn’t found a place…praying for you as you break the news to your daughter & for her that she will receive the news well.
Blessings to you all!
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Good morning:) :)
Well- for those praying for my request from yesterday about my Little Lady and her new middle school, we told her last night and honestly I think it went the best it could have. She still isn’t keen on going to the new school and we told her that’s fine, she can process through that and we will help however we can. But we got to have a good discussion about our reasonings and hopes for this new opportunity, so I’m glad she could listen to our hearts behind all of it.
Thank you for praying!!! Please keep lifting her up through this transition, I know it won’t be the easiest thing for her… ❤️ HAPPY WEEKEND!!!!!!
Another quick request. My husband just received DMV letter telling him he can’t drive any more.
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Sweet sisters,good morning! Been awhile since I posted. I come asking prayers for the many changes facing our family. My husband’s dementia has progressed to the moderate stage. We’ve already made many protective changes in the last 2 weeks. At times I’m overwhelmed by all needing to be done. So thankful God knows His plan for each day and the strength He provides. Family is supportive and helpful, but in the end major decisions are mine and most care giving falls on. We need wisdom for how much info to give him,acceptance by him. Biggest decision is where to live that is affordable when our lease expires. We do not qualify for govt assistance but still have limited resources. So much change is difficult on both of us, especially on anyone with dementia.
Thank you for your prayers and listening hearts.
TOSHYANNA HILL – welcome to God’s family! I pray this study gives you a strong foundation for an unwavering, life-long faith in the Lord.
So far Paul has given us the bad news about our sin-filled, condemned condition. It is the story of every human since Cain. The kindest, most generous, compassionate, humble person you know is equal to the meanest, stingest, evil, proud person you know in God’s eyes until each has surrendered to the Lordship of Jesus.
Thank you, Father, that you have promised to give us yourself if we seek you wholeheartedly. I praise you for your transforming power over each of our lives, that our hearts and very beings would become sold out in radical devotion to you. Thank you that even when we are afraid to pray bold prayers, you still welcome us to ask you to help us in wanting to want more. ***“And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.” Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”” ***
Mark 9:23-24
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Sincerity and truth are what you require; fill my mind with your wisdom.
Psalm 51:6 GNT
Same truth..
From a different angle… The Good News Translation..
Lord God, I pray this truth over the day of my sisters here and my own, in whatever we do and wherever we may find ourselves, may YOUR wisdom fill our minds, and Lord God may we act in sincerity and truth… for your Glory..
AMEN.
Happy Saturday wrapped in love and prayers..❤️