please pray

My niece and nephew are here and I know i have not written in a couple of days. They are the best gifts God could have given me, besides my salvation. I love spending time with them. Also I learned some disturbing news, a very good friend of mine, her sister in law overdosed on Tuesday and is now on life support, she is in her 20's. I am heart broken about this, Jesus could have saved her from whatever hurt she felt that led her to this. Please pray for her family. Also a friend of mine who I have not seen in years, her son has Rhabdomyosarcoma it is a very rare form of cancer, Ayden is his name, he has a twin sister named shayna. I wanted to see if all of you could pray for these two families for me. I know that God can and will wrap His loving arms around them and cover them. I also know that God can and will comfort them. Thank you to all of you for praying for them. Also just a reminder Dee Dee surgery is 08/12/2009. God Bless all of you.

Phil 4
⁷And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
 ⁸Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

These 2 verses just hit home for me today. This is what God is saying should be my focus right now. He can and will make peace with these situations and I just need to trust Him and allow Him to be my comfort in all of this and allow Him to work in me so I can give these people in my life the words He gives me for them. This is not about me it is about them and me bringing Jesus to them at this time of need. Thank you for allowing me the time and space to vent this to you.

In  Christ
Karyn

Hi, Karyn.
I'm sorry about your friend's sister-in-law. I will be praying for her.
Please hear a most loving tone in this: Keep in mind that God does not promise that we will not go through difficult times, but He promises never to leave us nor forsake us. That is a promise for His children. I don't know if she is a believer. Even believers have hardships and difficult cir****tances. Jesus said, "In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world." Our part is to turn to Him and lean on Him and His Word, to get through every difficult cir****tance.
The Lord could have kept me from being chloroformed and raped at the age of 15, I guess, but He didn't. He did keep me from getting pregnant, He did preserve my life, and He did give me holy amnesia until the time that I could handle remembering everything. God gave us dominion over the earth. It's not His fault that 1) bad people have dominion, too, and do things that hurt good people, 2) believers tend to forget the help we have in God's Word, all the promises at our disposal, for our taking and claiming through our obedience in living for Him, and 3) we tend to try to solve our own problems, in ways that do not involve God.
I'll be praying for Ayden and Dee Dee, too. Thank you for bringing all 3 prayer requests to our attention. I'm sure others will log on, see them, and will pray, too. Yes, God's peace is wonderful and available. I'm so grateful for it. :)
Blessings,
Mary

Mary thank you so much for all you do. I know their are lots of prayers going out becase of this post, that is why I post it. I love the prayer warriors on this site and I love the faithfulness of all of you, especially you Mary, you will all be blessed because of your obediance to God and I thank God for you everyday. Mary thanks for the verse I will so be keeping that one with me for a long time.


In Christ
Karyn

You can add my prayers also! I've had so many young people recently commit suicide and it's just so sad that these young  folks feel life isn't worth living at such a tender age, they should have so much to look forward to. Just know that God is watching over all of this and will have His perfect will.

Thank you so much. I can always count on my friends on this forum for prayer. I do so appreciate it. God bless you

In Christ
Karyn

I was on the road, traveling, this weekend, so I am just catching up on the posts.  I will pray for your friends and family.

Trish

Thanks so much Trish. They really need the prayer. My friends sister in law passed away Saturday and the wake was today. She was only 21 years old. The family needs losts of prayer.

In  Christ
Karyn