Prayer Circles

Dear Lord, Please help all those with chronic illnesses. We suffer more than people see on the outside and have lost the faith at times.Help us hold up to the daily struggle of living.

Airefairy: Welcome to the Circle. I know all will be praying for you to be healed from the Hepatitis C and to give you the strength to be able to cope and endure your hardships. You Mom is also in much need of prayer, so she will surely be in mine and the other prayer partners here. Please know that you can come here anytime to ask for prayers and support, or to just get things off of your chest. Also, we want to always thank the Lord when he has helped us and has made us aware of his neverending love for us. .

lynn: What you have written is so true. We may not look as though we are ill and having a bad time, but some are fighting a battle just to get through the day. I don't think that we really lose our faith, just that at times things get so tough that we fail to see where God is with us or is listening to our prayers, but He is and will help us with our daily struggle of living. I would like to share the following with everyone, especially if there is anyone who is feeling really discouraged right now. Think of this as God speaking to us all:

"Fear thou not; for I am with thee; be not dismayed; for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of My righteousness."
Isaiah 41:10

Love and Prayers,
Dolphin

Dolphin and all my sisters and brothers, Thank You for your Fellowship and Prayers. My sister is thriving and surviving with Polyareritis Nodosa. Since she is sensitive to the steroids, it is hard for the doctors to get regiment of treatment. Therefore, the flareups are coming more often. But she's a real trooper and with GOD's help, she's weathering the storm. At one point she said she wanted to end it all. By GOD's Grace and intervention we got past that. Please keep us in your prayers.

This Morning I'm asking for Prayer for myself. I know it sounds strange but today I couldn't pray for myself. All i could say was Help me, Lord. My step-mother is leaving my Dad and I'm taking him home with me. My father has Alzheimers and he is an ACTIVE Alcoholic. I am a recovering alcoholic. GOD delivered me 6 years ago. Pray my strength in the LORD, that I can give him the love and care that he deserves. He was a good father when he was himself. Now he's afraid and....
Thank You

dolphin, Thank you for the uplifting
thoughts. I am at my lowest point in my life and am searching for a reason for all this pain. You uplifed my spirits. Thank you, and God bless, lynn

Dear Prayer Partners:I am so glad I found this site. Please pray for me and I will pray for you. I need help with financial and family problems. Neverending illnesses.

Dear Partners in Prayer: This site made me almost cry. I felt like the man who complained because he had no shoes, until he met the man who had no feet. My needs are small compared to most and I am humbled. Thank you in advance for your prayers. God spared my life three times, yet He won't tell me what He wants me to do with it. I have done everything to please my family, to make amends, to help others. To no avail. I am still in the wrong. Prayer does help, I do it everyday...guess I need a powerful prayer circle to pray with me. I will do the same for all of you. I know God hears my prayers, and I know He has a lot of people to help. I am just waiting patiently for my turn. I can stand in line for a long time for the extra help through prayer! :)

First of all; at this very minute I feel thankful to have stumbled across this site. My life has been turned upside down, living with Lupus!!! Constantly, I tell myself, it could be worse!
The last year, my episodes of being bed ridden are getting more frequent. Now I constantly have fear of waiting for the next flare-up. I have become obsessive to figure out this disease.....it is making me crazy....
I can live with the daily pain, but when I can't get out of bed it is like I am going to die (very lonely).

Dx 96'-However, I really do not like to share or dwell to other's, but I am desperate for Input and Prayer for Strength.

One more prayer, to keep working.

Thanks for listening,
diane

Diane. I too share the frustration of the "wolf" On pg 5 I listed my webpage address to help others know that they are not alone in how they feel. I will keep you in my prayers. I know that your questions will find the answers you now seek. Patience is what God left out when he created me.

In Christ.

Lyssa

Pattilh.

I have learned one thing in this life and that is that God answers our Prays in his time, not ours. I have also come to see that God has answerd our prayers, but that his answer was sometimes No.

Let Go and Let God. You have to make yourself happy, before you can aid others in their healing. I know that you are trying to make ammends for all the wrongs that occured along the way.

You will be a better Christian for it. God is there with you. That's why you only see the one set of footprints.

In Christ,

Lyssa

to all of you who have responded to my plea for help. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I never realized that there are so many loving people out there. You don't even know me and yet I feel as if we are all of the same family. I guess that is true, since we all belong to Christ. Tonight my prayers will be for each of you who suffer from a chronic illness. As we lay in rest tonight Dear Lord, keep us safe and for those of us who are suffering, lay your gentle and healing hands upon our heads. We will not be defeated for you are with us always. you are our light and hope for all eternity. I ask you Lord to heal each one of these kind people. Amen

Please include me and my mother to your list of prayers! I have lymes disease- My mother is in Kidney failure(already had a transplant) in need of lots of prayers. Send another kidney-&-complete healing. Also to Clear up my blood disease and the lymph edema--allow me to get the medical coverage I need also. I thank you all very much. Elaine,.and Judy!

I suffer from Addiction. I know I made the choices I did and now the confusion and doubt that are a plague to those of us in recovery are chemically etched in my mind. I hae absolute faith in the God of all creation, the healing power of your prayers and mine, and the principle of life I know as unconditional love to flow through our lives together for the health and wel being of us all. Today I am sober 7 months and I have a new job and for the first time in years, people can stand to be with me. I am healed and am healing to a better life than I could ever imagine. I'm still alcohjolic, but by my faith, I am healed. By my faith, you shall be healed, too.

i wish all who read this to pray for my nephew in scotland ,who is dying ,he has tb, liver failure and is hiv positive,he just recently gave his life to the lord and made his peace with god, i also pray for my sister who has made all the arrangements to have her son home as he does not wish to die in hospital,i pray for the peace that passes all understanding,to fill her and her son at this time,that the lord will comfort her in her time of need ,i ask this in the precious name of jesus,amen

I have a cronic illness that has left me very week. My husband and daughters are going through very, difficult times. I feel so stressed out these days I feel that I can't hold on much longer. Please pray for me, I need God's help to regain some strenght. I am overwhelmed with troubles at this time, I pray that things will improve.
God Bless you all

Pat489.

Please email me your address and tell me what is going on. I'd like to write to you. I hope I can help. my email is : lyssaann711@bluebon.net
I'll keep you in my prayers.

In Christ,
Lyssa

Dear Dolphin: Thank you for your kindness and compassion. I have not heard anything from the Social Security Office, Lane Evans, nor my lawyer...except that he wrote me a letter telling me that he does call down there every so often and he gave me the phone number to call them myself. Now, I don't know what to do, because he told me they get upset with clients calling the offices to check up on their status. Thank you for your prayers. Lately, when I try to pray, my mind goes completely blank. I keep telling God I am sorry about this. I know it's the many drugs I have to take and the aftermath of the last heart attack I had that makes me this way, sometimes. I keep trying though! God Bless you, you are truly a God-send to all of us! Patti

Dear lyssaann711: Thanks for your thoughts. I agree, whole-heartedly. I know I have to wait my turn and I do so, willingly. I give all problems to God and let Him handle it. I try very, very hard not to take them back from Him. It's funny that you mentioned the footsteps, as that is my most favorite writing. It gives me so much comfort. It is not that I don't "let go", it is my family who refuse to let me "let go".The past is supposed to stay in the past, not kept up front all the time. I have learned that I cannot change the past, but I can learn from it...which I did. However, my girls have a different view on this idea. :) It's just that when I think they are all right with me, and everything is fine, they come up with something new to make me feel guilty or upset. And, half the time, I don't remember what they are even talking about! :) Thanks again and God Bless you. Patti

Dear Pat489: Please, hang in there! I feel your stress and the desperation you are going through. Would you do something for me? To get back your strength, get up every morning and bathe and get dressed in real clothes. Do one daily living skill and then rest. Do SOMETHING everyday. Take a nap in between activities....just do something little. I was so weak and tired after my last heart attack that I thought I would never be the same again. Each day, I got up and did something extra other than my daily living stuff. sometimes, I would fall asleep two or three times a day! I am always in pain with the fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, but I knew if I didn't do something to gain my strength back, my muscles would atrophy and I would not be able to walk or climb stairs, etc. One month ago, I adopted a new puppy. I used her to give me more activities...as she is going to be a big dog and needs to be well-trained. I can now get down on the floor with her and clean up after her, and train her to do all sorts of cute tricks. She took my mind off ME. She is very aggressive though and has a problem with nipping and biting everything. At my wit's end, last night, I prayed over her and asked the Lord and St. Francis to please make her less aggressive. I turned to her and said, "Cocoa, you have one week to straighten out, or you will be going to go to someone else!" Guess what happened? Today, she has been a perfect little angel! Prayers do work! Even for God's smallest creatures! :) I am not saying you should get a puppy. I shouldn't have gotten one, myself! But, she gave me another reason for getting up in the morning, and I love her dearly. It would have broke my heart to have to give her up. I was so worried about her aggressiveness with having four grandchildren around. After all, they do come first. With God's help, I will be able to keep her and not have to worry about her hurting anyone. She, now has God's special blessing upon her. Just as you do, too. May God Bless you and Keep you always, Patti

Dear chiwiz: I just wanted to say how wonderful you are for going through all that you had to go through, to get to where you are now. Through the guidance of our Lord, you overcame your addiction and can live the rest of your life in well-deserved peace. I, too, am addicted to cigarettes. I keep quitting and going back, over and over again. God helped me give it up and then, I went and did something so stupid, I can never forgive myself for....I tested Him by thinking I could have just one more cigarette and I would be fine. Know what happened? He turned His back on me because I refused His gift of help! Now, He is leaving it all up to me. If I ask Him again, for help, I know He would fogive me AGAIN, but now, I am too ashamed to do so. I thought I was so smart. Well, the joke is on me, right? So, keep the faith and never trust in just yourself. Don't play games like I did. Bless you! Patti

Dear nana1: God Bless your family! Your poor nephew will need a lot of help and tender loving care. My heart cries for him. Most of all, I feel so very sad for your sister. We just buried my sister last June, and she, too, wanted to die at home. Her only daughter had to quit her job to take care of her. To give her a break, I would take my sister home with me as she loved my cooking and I was the only one who got her to eat. I taught my niece how to put vicks vapo rub in her nose so that she could change my sister's diapers. It took a lot out of my niece to have to do this for her mom, but she never regretted it. I will pray that your sister has the strength to go through this horrible ordeal with her son. My mom has never gotten over the death of her daughter. None of us have. we just accepted her dying as a release from all the pain and suffering she had to go through. Having a dying person at home, is very hard for the family to see. To have to stand by and watch someone you love so very much, struggle with death. My poor niece has now buried her father, younger brother, and now, her mom. Too much death for a 38 year old, huh? She became a born-again Christian during her mom's illness, and I truly believe that God gave her the strength to do what she so lovingly did for her mom. Bless you for being there with your sister during their time of need. Patti

I would like to add my voice to this prayer circle for those with chronic illnesses. Diabetes and asthma run in my family.

Hi! I suffer from Fibromyalgia and diabetes. My prayer is for god to heal and or ease not only physical pain but mental. I pray that HIS peace surrounds all that they may expierience his loving care. God bless all!Peach2630

I add my prayers to those who are dealin with Alzheimer's, my dad has it, and it is bringing up all his violence and upsets. He is a five year old in a 77 year old body. The thing that gets me is his wife, is curently in remission from breast cancer, yet she is under such stress, that my question to the doctor will be "how is she supposed to remain disease free if she is under all this stress?" All of their friends have pretty much deserted them, and she has such a hard time finding care during the week. I am the only child here where they live, although my brother is here too. I am afraid for her personal safety and pray that he will not get so "off" in his frustration that he will hurt her. She is in full denial about the abuse and is unwilling to call the police when he starts to get violent. I have agreed to help in whatever way I can, yet I have my own family and have to deal with things here at home. I pray that God will bring people across her path that are willing to help her and have the patience to deal with him and his abruptness and abusiveness.