Lent is a season where we reflect on the depth of our sin and embrace the hope and strength found only in the cross of Christ. We seek unhurried moments of quiet to read Scripture, pray, confess, and repent. Take some time today to catch up on your reading, make space for prayer, and rest in God’s presence.
The Lord does not delay his promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.
—2 Peter 3:9
Victoria E I saw your comment late last night as I was “awake” again in the middle of the night. I didn’t respond then but I’m praying for you sweet girl. One great advice I received when I was a new mom was to sleep when the baby sleeps so you don’t get so sleep deprived. Hang in there we are praying for you. AND we are rejoicing with you!
Thankful for God’s kindness and grace.
I hit return before finishing. I just want to say I’m thankful for all of you. This is a safe place to lay down requests knowing someone is praying. So grateful to our God who is patient with us, so patient that he wants all of us to be saved. There’s always hope for our loved ones.
Good morning sisters. It’s rather gloomy here in Northern California today. But that’s OK, I’m still going to attempt a run walk.
Grateful for His merciful patience, demonstrated through His word, through my life, over and over.
Grateful for the community of women who see each other as eternal sisters in this temporary world we’re here to serve and influence.
Grateful for the freedom to have access to these scriptures and put our names next to our prayers without fear of attack or arrest.
His blessings and gifts and provision and goodness are screaming from every place and I pray we have the ears to hear and eyes to see.
MICHELLE PATIRE: so grateful for your sensitive Spirit and recognition of Hid presence. I agree- taking the thoughts captive is so important. It builds your protection and defense in the next battle… Someone once encouraged me to literally write the thoughts down and under it write verses that speak God’s truth into the thought and claim His victory in the situation. Maybe it will be a good exercise in bringing Him into the attack and give you the strength to claim victory in the battle…
Stay strong and keep His truths close in your heart and mind ❤️
Good morning, ladies.
I reach today to the SRT girls for some encouragement and prayer. This is about to get real and vulnerable. So please be kind in any response.
Last night, one of my closest believing sister friends and I went to visit a mutual friend who is a male peer. We had graduated together from high school, but have kept in touch over the years. It’s been ten years, lol. And now he knows my family, as we are all local musicians and he is too. He is a very hospitable person, very active in that gift, so he makes it a point to befriend people he meets. He is not saved. But his gift is very present.
Anyways, I do think the Lord has brought him back into my life for this season, as I am living with my parents post 2020 pandemic. I don’t hang out with him alone and last night God allowed me to see why.
The moment I stepped into his grandmother’s house with my sister friend, I felt a heaviness. I did not shut it out. Instead, I allowed it to linger until there were voices whispering things of sexual nature to me over and over. I tried to ignore them, but I did not submit my thoughts to Christ. It was very heavy. I’m not sure what faith background you all have, but it felt like a “familiar spirit”– something I had experienced and was strange and supernaturally heavy.
Anyways, we hung out all three of us for an hour. When I got home, the Lord put it on my heart to call my believing sister friend who was with me to pray for me. Because suddenly I recognized I was under a sexual attack. Though I had not acted, I felt the intensity of it on my body, heart, and mind. Then I called another sister in Christ who has walked through this with me years ago and she prayed for me, too.
Okay, so now I’m asking you ladies for prayers. My heart is to bring the message of Christ to others. My heart is to marry a man who loves Jesus just as much as me– or even more, you know? Someone who is a fit for me.
But Satan knows my weakness. I have had a history of sexual temptations because of my dangerously lived teen & college years. And my desire to be married.
It’s been quite a few years since I have had an experience like this. I am sold out for Christ. But my heart was so distraught last night that I did not deny Satan right away. My prayer is that I would recognize the temptation quicker next time– if by some chance it comes.
This is not a good thing. This person is a brother to me. Not saved. Not attractive to me. It is of the enemy. So, I also pray for help navigating this relationship to be healthy and normal. That temptation would cease. That I would have boundaries. Thank God my friend was there last night. God is good.
Thank you for reading.
I know by God’s grace I can overcome this. May I have eyes to see and ears to hear His voice louder.
Thank You God for Your patience and love ❤️
I look forward to the new heaven and the new earth. Yet I also appreciate God’s patience in bringing it about because I have unsaved family and friends. I confess my prayer is sometimes “Come, Lord Jesus but not yet please.” This is the time to earnestly pray for the unsaved to turn their hearts to Jesus, praying for them until time runs out.