Monthly Archives: June 2011

Prayer Requests

For a Second Time Today

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I hope you all have had a pleasing Saturday so far, and perchance you stop by here for a second time today, please pray for Allison’s friend –Misty Smith (husband Greg) and her pre-born daughter, Willow Grace – I am so loving that name.  The following is from Melinda:

And the LORD knows all the going-out and coming-in of all His people.  Praying for Martha and family.  I have a request for a friend of Allison’s and our family.  She is family to us…the one who drove over to be with Betty while we were on our way to Knoxville.  She lives in Knoxville; is pregnant (due in August); has high BP and eclampsia.  The doctor changed her BP meds yesterday, and if she gets through the weekend, on Monday will begin to give her steroid shots to help Willow Grace’s lungs, since she WILL be early.  Pray for her health and Willow’s.  We are praying that this will help her BP and she can wait a few more days without serious complications.  Doctor says for every day Willow is in the womb, it is two days less in NICU.  We who have had healthy babies and little trouble having them are blessed.  It took awhile for her to get pregnant and now this…very serious.  Please pray fervently as you think of them.  Thank you!    Love ya! Melinda

Thanks y’all,

Kathie

Prayer Requests

Just In Case

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A few of you are plugged in this Saturday morning, I want to pass a prayer request to you for your weekend conversing with JESUS.  To those who want a Care Page link for Joshua’s story and his mother’s recent post, please let me know via email.

Additionally, I received word this morning that doctors expect Martha Barnes to transition from here to Eternity within 24 hours.   They and we know that DADDY GOD is in charge of that; even so we appreciate the Doctors sensitivities and I ask that you all intercede for Martha and for her family, particularly her daughter, Ann.

And since we are praying please go ahead intercede for those Specific Unspokens on our PFT list.
Thanks, Kathie

Kathie, Here is the latest update on Joshua Akin..the little boy my Sunday School class and prayer chains have been praying for since he was born in 07. His family lives in Morristown, TN..my hometown. They go to my cousin’s church there. Melinda Hanna got me started on their CarePage and I have asked for prayer for Joshua before. He is a miracle child and God has used his life to touch so many people and show them God’s Love. Please add him to our prayer list. His dad lost his job at Berkline Manufacturing and they lost their insurance there. Over three hundred people in our little town lost jobs because of this closing.  It has been very sad there and hope for new jobs is scarce. Lee Akin is a wonderful man and father. He has shown his trust in God and is trusting again that something will open up for him so he can take care of his family. Thanks for being such a great prayer friend.  love you, Mabel

Assurance - Promise, Christian Living

Not Holding Out

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 Genesis 16: New American Standard Bible (NASB)
2 So Sarai said to Abram, “Now behold, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my maid; perhaps I will obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
via Gen 16:2 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

Do you see right away what went wrong in the happening of verse 2? Go to my maid???

And you know what fostered that debacle? Don’t you?

Accusing God of evil!

Let’s not do that today. Let’s not ‘help’ GOD that way today or tomorrow. Let’s not assume that He is holding out on us even though the relief, the provisions, the blessing we want is long in coming to us.

You will recall that GOD kept His promise (Issac) and that Sarai and Abram’s debacle is still causing havoc today.

May we learn from them!

Numbers 23:19 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
19 God is not a man who lies, or a son of man who changes His mind. Does He speak and not act, or promise and not fulfill?
via Numbers 23:19 – Passage Lookup – Holman Christian Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

Psalm 84: 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.
via Ps 84:11 – Passage Lookup – 21st Century King James Version – BibleGateway.com.

No Good Thing Will He Withhold from them who walk uprightly.  I urge you to ponder that.

Loving you and thanking you for your faithfulness, Kathie

LaJuanna is having a bone marrow test on Tuesday and asked that we pray for her. And her husband, Jim, discovered a potentially serious problem too. She covets our prayers for the both of them.

She also passed along a request to us from her cousin.
Nichole Kittrell is under going tests for  heart problems. And Lance Hoven, 30 year old with multiple medical maladies. Click HERE for full details.

I am continuing to pray for specific unspokens at PFT and I hope you are as well. God is continuing to work Mightily even when we do not see His Hand. Click HERE to call each name to Him.

Assurance - Promise, Christian Living, Forgiveness, Repentance

The Victorious

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First out of bed and before my coffee I was praying. Praying for some of those unspoken specifics listed at PFT. Click HERE to go there.

And then I read my Journey. Some of the very words I had written to ABBA were there on the page; the very circumstance was there on the page.  HE cares, He is listening. Oh, that we would learn to listen.

He speaks to us.

But often we do not hear. We hear not because we are dull of hearing. We are dull of hearing because we have talked, railed, complained and moaned for so long without listening. Without reading His Word, without obeying His Word.

But this is not so with the victorious. They have troubles. They have circumstances abundantly adverse and yet they are not defeated.

Why?

Because they listen. They seek to hear Him. They seek to obey Him.

There is someone close, very close who demonstrates this to me.  When she is assailed with her own flesh or the wicked enemy, she goes to ABBA, not to rail and complain and moan but to listen. She puts the opposition to silence (even her own flesh) by picking up her Bible and opening it for ABBA’s voice. She says He never fails to speak when she shuts up to listen and obey.

My earthly father’s favorite song was Trust and Obey – for there’s no other way to be happy in JESUS but to trust and obey. 

Trust and obey. Said another way – Learning to Listen. 

Isaiah 30: 21 Your ears will hear a word behind you, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right or to the left.
via Isaiah 30 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

And when you are blessed enough to hear, let not fickle, unfaithful emotions turn you from what you have heard.  WALK what you heard.

Joyce Meyer said something like this: You have to DO what is RIGHT even when doing what is right still FEELS Wrong.

Isaiah 30:15 For thus the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said, “In repentance and rest you will be saved, In quietness and trust is your strength.” But you were not willing, via Isaiah 30 – Passage Lookup – New American Standard Bible – BibleGateway.com.

Learning,
Kathie

Melinda has pneumonia, unable to see her sister Betty because of it — both dear women are depending on our prayers.

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Not Alone!

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For many years I have been ‘preaching’ that it is unhealthy, unwise and yes even ungodly for married folks to allow the development of a close, close friendship outside their marriage with a person of the opposite sex.  And today I find I have company!! 

So for our time together this Wednesday, please let me direct you to The Barn Door. The post there today is offered by Cheryl Moeller. She and her husband Bob have written a book entitled The Marriage Miracle.  I have not read the book but I am so endorsing their:

8 Reasons why it’s “dangerously wrong” to have a close relationship with someone of the opposite sex. 

Please click HERE and visit The Barn Door even though for your convenience I have copied and pasted the article here.  The post following this one at The Barn Door is great too.  

Please be diligent in your praying, particularly those unspoken requests at PFT.  Click HERE to call their names to the LORD today.

Thank you for being on the other side of this screen! Love and prayers, Kathie

8 Reasons why it’s “dangerously wrong” to have a close friendship with someone of the opposite sex?

Posted by Cheryl Moeller: Stand up Comic for Moms, Syndicated Mom Humor Columnist, Author, and Mom of 6. Contact: momlaughs@gmail.com

1.  If they are similar in age or potentially attractive to you, there is a problem.

2.  Every love affair begins as a friendship, just as your marriage did.

3.  As you spend time alone together (or even in a group), a deeper connection can develop.

4.  You can learn to turn to them for emotional support (rather than your spouse).

5.  The energy that should go to your spouse, now goes to your friendship with this other person.

6.  Once the two of you share secrets, you’ve entered the danger zone.

7.  Your emotional bond easily opens the door to a physical one.

8.  Your heart is now divided in a way God never intended it to be.

“Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.” Proverbs 5:15

“Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.” Proverbs 4:23

“Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.”1 Corinthians 6:18

“And so dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all He has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice-the kind He will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship Him. Don’t copy the behaviors and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.”Romans 12:1-2

Remember, marriage is for better for worse for keeps.
by Bob and Cheryl Moeller, For Better For Worse For Keeps Ministries, author of the life-changing book The Marriage Miracle
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