On the menu today:
"Prayer Testimony by Dwayne Anderson"
"221 Prayers of the Bible - #24 - 32 in Judges"
"Surprise Me God 30-Day Experiment – Day 22”
"Prayer Exercise"
"Famous Quote"
“A little laughter”
"Friendly Reminder"
“Watch us live”
“Inspiring messages”
"Recommended Books"
"Your Prayer Closet Blog Home"
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"Prayer Testimony by Dwayne Anderson"
(Used with Permission)
Dear People of God,
I know your time is precious so I won’t take much of it, but please allow me to tell you my testimony. It is how I am able to stand today.
Eight years ago I was diagnosed with CML - Chronic Malignant Leukemia. A few years prior to being diagnosed I had started feeling different. I thought it was due to getting old, even though I was only approaching 35. December 4,1999 I went to the doctors for a general check up. The doctor order blood work; a couple days later he called and order a retest of blood work. I found out my test results January 4, 2000. When I was told that I had cancer , I was told that it was fatal and I was living in the last year of my sickness. My white blood cells counts were 7,500 when normally they are suppose to be under 500. My spleen was so enlarged with white blood cells that it was extended below my ribs.
I was giving 3 options for treatment. One was to have a bone marrow transplant, two was to take injections of interferon twice a day and three was to go on a study and try out this new drug which was liquid chemo and was still undergoing FDA approval.
That night my wife and I went to a bible study at some friends house. The house belong to 3 sister, Sister Mary and Sister Martha who were twins, and sister Thelma. At the bible study I met a man by the name of Prophet Bill. He laid hands on me and I went out in the spirit. For the first time, When I got up I felt different; I knew that I was healed because I hadn’t felt like I did in a long time. I felt my stomach and I could no longer feel my spleen, it had went back behind my ribs and I did not feel any more pain.
The next week when I went back to the doctors to find out about my treatment, the doctor confirm that my spleen was no longer enlarged. My blood count had went down to 6,000. He was amazed that my symptoms were changed for the better in one week. I told him that Jesus had healed me. He didn’t believed it because he believed in Evolution. He put me on the study for the liquid Chemo. I started the pills even though I knew that God had healed me. My blood count continued to drop until it went all the way down to 600 and then it stabilized. Eventually I stopped taking the medicine daily because I truly believe that the Lord has healed me. I should had been dead 8 years ago, according to my doctor, but the Lord said “Not So”.
You may contact Dwayne directly by email: mailto:dwaynemary1@yahoo.com
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"221 Prayers of the Bible - #24 - 32 in Judges"
Today we continue to take a closer look at how folks in the bible actually prayed regarding day-to-day issues that came up in their lives. Feel free to click on the scripture verses to read each specific prayer/answer in the Amplified Bible.
Prayer #24
Who Prayed: Israel
# of words used: 14
Need or Request: Guidance
Bible verse: Judges 1: 1 - 2
Answered: Judges 1:2
Prayer #25
Who prayed: Gideon
# of words used: 135
Need or request: Revelation & guidance
Bible verse: Judges 6: 13, 15, 17 - 18
Answered: Judges 6: 12, 14, 16, 20 -21, 23
Prayer #26
Who prayed: Israel
# of words used: 36
Need or request: Deliverance & forgiveness
Bible verse: Judges 10: 10, 15
Answered: Judges 11: 1 - 33
Prayer #27
Who prayed: Jephthah
# of words used: 55
Need or request: Victory
Bible verse: Judges 11: 30 - 31
Answered: Judges 11:32
Prayer #28
Who prayed: Manoah
# of words used: 91
Need or request: Angel to appear
Bible verse: Judges 13: 8, 11 - 12, 15, 17
Answered: Judges 13: 9, 11, 13, 16, 18
Prayer #29
Who prayed: Samson
# of words used: 33
Need or request: one last victory
Bible verse: Judges 16:28
Answered: Judges 13: 4 -5, 16:22
Prayer #30
Who prayed: Israel
# of words used: 14
Need or request: Guidance
Bible verse: Judges 20:23
Answered: same verse
Prayer #31
Who prayed: Israel
# of words used: 19
Need or request: Guidance
Bible verse: Judges 20:28
Prayer # 32
Who prayed: Israel
# of words used: 24
Need or request: Revelation
Bible verse: Judges 21:3
No answer recorded
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"Surprise Me God 30-Day Experiment – Day 22”
Today's surprise came through one of my children who announced during dinner she was going to start preparing immediately to go to Pepperdine college. These days I guess it's never too late to get started......
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"Prayer Exercise"
Allow me to say this prayer out loud with you: "Lord I know you know what's best for me.....even when bumps in the road appear. Help me to stay focused on your hand at work in my life helping me to find, know, do and understand your will in Jesus name. Amen"
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"Famous Quote"
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." By Nelson Mandela
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“A little laughter”
After dying in a car crash, three friends go to Heaven for orientation.They are all asked the same question: "When you are in your casket, friends and family are mourning over you, what would you like to hear them say about you?"The first guy immediately responds, "I would like to hear them say that I was one of the great doctors of my time, and a great family man."The second guy says, "I would like to hear that I was a wonderful husband and school teacher who made a huge difference in our children of tomorrow."The last guy thinks a minute and replies, "I'd like to hear them say...... LOOK, HE'S MOVING!!!!!"
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"Friendly Reminder"
You may choose one of the following to submit your personal prayer needs or request:
1) Post a comment here on our Blog
2) Email prayer requests only to : prayerstillworks@gmail.com
3) Skype Dial In # 510-931-7732
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“Watch us LIVE online”
Your Prayer Closet Blog LIVE online TV Shows broadcasts & records Monday - Friday at 10:30 AM Pacific Standard Time. Scroll down to watch.
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“Inspiring messages”
Turn up your speakers to listen to some thought provoking, uplifting & encouraging messages. Click here.
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"Recommended Books"
The Believers Prayer Manual by Flynn Cooper
Commanding Your Morning By Cindy Trimm
The Rules of Engagement Prayer Series by Cindy Trimm
The Threshing Floor by Juanita Bynum
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“Your Prayer Closet Blog Home”
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Friday, January 25, 2008
221 Prayers of the Bible - #24 - 32 in Judges"
Thursday, January 24, 2008
"Special Edition: Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and You"
Special Stand Alone Edition
Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and You
Written by Rusty Wright (Used with permission)
Forgiveness Can Be Good for Your Health
Have you ever been cheated or mistreated? Got any lingering grudges you’re holding onto? Is there any “unclear air” between you and a family member, neighbor, or coworker regarding a dispute, a slight, an offense? Could those situations use some forgiveness?
More and more medical doctors and social scientists are extolling the benefits of forgiveness and reconciliation, benefits both to individuals and to society. This article examines some of these benefits and presents several inspiring case studies, stories of forgiveness in action.
Would you believe that forgiveness can be good for your health? Lingering anger, stress, or high blood pressure could indicate that you need to forgive someone (or to be forgiven yourself). Many religions—including, of course, the Christian faith—have long held that forgiveness is an important component of a fruitful life. Now secular research supports its value.{1}
In the early 1980s, Kansas pschologist Dr. Glenn Mack Harnden searched in vain to find studies on forgiveness in the academic digest Psychological Abstracts. Today there exist an International Forgiveness Institute and a ten-million-dollar “Campaign for Forgiveness Research” (Jimmy Carter and Desmond Tutu have been among the ringleaders). The John Templeton Foundation awards grants in the field.
Harnden says forgiveness “releases the offender from prolonged anger, rage, and stress that have been linked to physiological problems, such as cardiovascular diseases, high blood pressure, hypertension, cancer, and other psychosomatic illnesses.”{2}
He’s big on this theme. When I ran into him in Washington, DC, a while back, he spoke enthusiastically about attending an international gathering in Jordan that saw forgiveness between traditional individual enemies like Northern Irish and Irish Republicans, Israelis and Palestinians.
George Washington University medical professor Christina Puchalski cites forgiveness benefits supported by research studies. Writing in The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, she says, “The act of forgiveness can result in less anxiety and depression, better health outcomes, increased coping with stress, and increased closeness to God and others.” {3}
Daily life brings many sources of conflict: spouses, parents, children, employers, former employers, bullies, enemies. If offense leads to resentment and bitterness, then anger, explosion, and violence can result. If parties forgive each other, then healing, reconciliation, and restoration can follow.
Startling Contrition
Robert Enright is an educational psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin—Madison and president of the International Forgiveness Institute. He laments the fact that despite society’s conflicts, “almost never do we hear public leaders declaring their belief that forgiveness can bring people together, heal their wounds, and alleviate the bitterness and resentment caused by wrongdoing.”{4}
The year 2006 brought a startling example of contrition by Adriaan Vlok, former Law and Order Minister under South Africa’s apartheid regime. During the 1980s, racial conflict there boiled.
In 1998, Adriaan Vlok confessed to South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission that ten years earlier in 1988 he had engineered the bombing of the headquarters of the South African Council of Churches, a prominent opposition group. The bombing campaign also included movie theaters showing “Cry Freedom,” an anti-apartheid film.{5}
I had tickets to see “Cry Freedom” in Pretoria the night it opened, but the screening was cancelled. The next morning, a bomb was discovered in the theater I would have attended.
You can imagine my interest when BBC television told of Vlok’s 2006 attempt to reconcile personally with Rev. Frank Chikane, former head of the South African Council of Churches, the group whose headquarters Vlok had bombed. Chikane, now director general of the South African president’s office, reports that Vlok visited his office and gave him a Bible with these words inscribed: “I have sinned against the Lord and against you, please forgive me (John 13:15).” That biblical reference is Jesus’ Last Supper admonition that his disciples follow his example and wash one another’s feet.
Chikane tells what Vlok did next: “He picked up a glass of water, opened his bag, pulled out a bowl, put the water in the bowl, took out the towel, said ‘you must allow me to do this’ and washed my feet in my office.” Chikane gratefully accepted the gesture.{6}
Vlok, a born-again Christian, later told BBC television it was time “to go to my neighbor, to the person that I’ve wronged.” He says he and his compatriots should “climb down from the throne on which we have been sitting and say to people, ‘Look, I’m sorry. I regarded myself as better than you are. I think it is time to get rid of my egoism . . . my sense of importance, my sense of superiority.’”{7}
Startling contrition, indeed.
Strength to Forgive
Have you ever unexpectedly encountered someone who has wronged you? There you are, suddenly face-to-face with your nemesis. How do you feel? Frederic Luskin, director of the Stanford Forgiveness Project, says, “Our bodies react as if we're in real danger right now to a story of how someone hurt us seven years ago. . . . You’re feeling anger, your heart rhythm changes . . . breathing gets shallow.”{8}
Corrie ten Boom and her Dutch family hid Jews from the Nazis during World War II. For this she endured Ravensbruck, a concentration camp. Her inspiring story became a famous book and film, The Hiding Place.
In 1947 in a Munich church, she told a German audience that God forgives. “When we confess our sins,” she explained, “God casts them into the deepest ocean, gone forever.”{9} After her presentation, she recognized a man approaching her, a guard from Ravensbruck, before whom she had had to walk naked. Chilling memories flooded back.
“A fine message, Fraulein!” said the man. “How good it is to know that, as you say, all our sins are at the bottom of the sea!” He extended his hand in greeting.
Corrie recalled, “I, who had spoken so glibly of forgiveness, fumbled in my pocketbook rather than take that hand. He would not remember me. . . . But I remembered him and the leather crop swinging from his belt. I was face to face with one of my captors, and my blood seemed to freeze.”
The man continued: “You mentioned Ravensbruck in your talk. . . . I was a guard there. . . . But since that time . . . I have become a Christian. I know that God has forgiven me for the cruel things I did there, but I would like to hear it from your lips as well, Fraulein.” He extended his hand again. “Will you forgive me?”
Corrie stood there, unable to forgive. As anger and vengeance raged inside her, she remembered Jesus’ death for this man. How could she refuse? But she lacked the strength. She silently asked God to forgive her and help her forgive him. As she took his hand, she felt a “healing warmth” flooding her body. “I forgive you, brother!” she cried, “With all my heart.”
“And so,” Corrie later recalled, “I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world’s healing hinges, but on [God’s]. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.”
“My Father, the Town Alcoholic”
When Stanford education and psychology professor Carl Thoresen and his colleagues began recruiting adult subjects for the Stanford Forgiveness Project, they had trouble signing up males. When they started using the terms “grudge” and “grudge management” in the recruiting, the men came. Thoresen thinks some men felt “forgiveness” was a feminine activity, but a “grudge” was something they probably should deal with.{10}
Consider a guy who had a longstanding grudge involving a family member. And aren’t family conflicts often causes of intense stress?
As a teenager on the family farm, Josh McDowell loved his mother but despised his father “more than anyone else in the world.”{11} His friends would joke about his dad being drunk. It tore him up inside. “I hated my father for the embarrassment and shame his alcoholism caused my family,” McDowell relates. “I also resented what it caused him to do to my mother. I’d go out in the barn and see my mother beaten so badly she couldn’t get up, lying in the manure behind the cows.” Eventually his mother lost the will to live and died, Josh says, “of a broken heart.”
In college, Josh met some followers of Jesus whom he liked. Skeptical about Christianity’s validity, he accepted their challenge to examine evidence regarding Jesus’ claims and found it convincing.{12} He thanked Jesus for dying for him, admitted his flaws to God, and asked Christ to enter his life and take over. Soon he realized he no longer hated his father.
Josh says, “I had confessed to God my feelings for my dad, asked God to forgive me, and prayed that I could forgive. And it happened as quickly as I asked. No longer was my dad a drunk to be hated. Now I saw him as a man who had helped give me life. I called him and told him two things I had never told him before: ‘Dad, I’ve become a Christian and . . . I love you.’”
“But how . . . how can you love a father like me?” Josh’s dad asked on another occasion. Josh explained how to place his faith in Christ and his father made that decision, too. About fourteen months later, his alcohol-ravaged body gave out and he died. But the changed life of the town alcoholic influenced scores of people to place their lives in God’s hands. “My dad’s life was brand new those last 14 months,” recalls Josh. “His relationship with me and with God were both reconciled. Jesus Christ is a peacemaker.”
Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and You
Secular research supports the value of forgiveness, a concept at the core of Christian faith. You might wonder, “How does all this relate to me personally?” May I offer some suggestions?
As a starting point, become forgiven yourself. The late and renowned ethicist Lewis Smedes wrote, “Forgiving comes naturally to the forgiven.”{13}
Josh McDowell says once he was forgiven by God, he could forgive his alcoholic father. If you’ve never known for sure that God is your friend, I encourage you to ask Him to forgive you. You might say something like this to Him right now:
Jesus, I need you. Thanks for dying for my flaws and rising again. I ask you to forgive me and enter my life. Please help me to become good friends with you.
If you asked Jesus to forgive you and enter your life, He did. Tell another believer about your decision. Contact this radio station or the Web site Probe.org and ask how you can grow in your faith.
If you’ve already come to faith in Christ, keep short accounts with God. One early follower of Jesus wrote, “If we confess our sins to [God], he is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from every wrong.”{14} The proverbial country preacher said, “I ’fesses ’em as I does ’em.”
Ask God to give you the strength to forgive others and love them as He does. Lewis Smedes mentions three components of forgiving others: “First, we surrender our right to get even. . . . Second, we rediscover the humanity of our wrongdoer . . . that the person who wronged us is a complex, weak, confused, fragile person, not all that different from us. . . . And third, we wish our wrongdoer well.”
Contact the person you’ve wronged or who has wronged you—and seek to make peace if appropriate and possible. The biblical prescription is that the offender and the offended should run into each other as each is en route to contact the other.{15} Of course, not everyone will want to reconcile, but you can try.
Realize that forgiving may take time. Shortly before his death, Oxford and Cambridge scholar C. S. Lewis wrote, “I think I have at last forgiven the cruel schoolmaster who so darkened my youth. I had done it many times before, but this time I think I have really done it.”{16}
Forgiveness and reconciliation can be contagious. They can make an important difference in families, neighborhoods, workplaces, and nations. A good relationship takes two good forgivers.
Is there anyone with whom you need to reconcile?
Rusty Wright is an award-winning author, journalist, and lecturer with Probe.org who has spoken on six continents. He holds Bachelor of Science (psychology) and Master of Theology degrees from Duke and Oxford universities, respectively.
Notes
1. Gary Thomas, "The Forgiveness Factor," Christianity Today, January 10, 2000, 38-45.
2. Ibid., 38.
3. Christina M. Puchalski, M.D., "Forgiveness: Spiritual and Medical Implications," The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, September 17, 2002; http://info.med.yale.edu/intmed/hummed/yjhm/archives/spirit2003/forgiveness/cpuchalski.htm; accessed January 27, 2007.
4. Thomas, loc. cit.
5. "Botha implicated in Church bombing," BBC News online, July 21, 1998; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/136504.stm; accessed September 3, 2006.
6. "Feet washed in apartheid apology," BBC News online, 28 August 2006; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5292302.stm; accessed September 3, 2006.
7. "Minister atones for race sins," BBC News video, 3 September 2006; http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?scope=all&edition=i&q=Adriaan+Vlok&go.x=0&go.y=0; accessed October 4, 2006.
8. Joan O'C. Hamilton, "Peace Work," Stanford Magazine, May/June 2001, 78; http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2001/mayjun/features/forgiveness.html.
9. Corrie ten Boom, "Death Camp Revisited," Worldwide Challenge, July/August 1994, 35-36. Quotations from and details of this encounter as related in this section are from this source.
10. Hamilton, loc. cit., 77.
11. Josh McDowell, "Forgiving My Father," Worldwide Challenge, July/August 1994, 37-38. Quotations from and details of McDowell's story as related in this section are from this source.
12. To examine some of the evidence for Jesus, visit http://www.whoisjesus-really.com/ and http://www.probe.org/.
13. Lewis B. Smedes, "Keys to Forgiving," Christianity Today, December 3, 2001, 73; http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/015/42.73.html. Quotations and concepts from Smedes cited in this section are from this source.
14. 1 John 1:9 NLT.15. Matthew 5:23-24; 18:15-17.16. Smedes, loc. cit.; emphasis in the quotation is without attribution.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
221 Prayers of the Bible - #22 - 23 in Joshua
On the menu today:
“221 Prayers of the Bible: #22 - 23 in Joshua"
"Surprise Me God 30-Day Experiment – Day 21”
"Prayer Exercise"
"Famous Quote"
“A little laughter”
"Friendly Reminder"
“Watch us live”
“Inspiring messages”
"Recommended Books"
"Your Prayer Closet Blog Home"
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"221 prayers of the Bible - #22 - 23 in Joshua"
Today we continue to take a closer look at how folks in the bible actually prayed regarding day-to-day issues that came up in their lives. Feel free to click on the scripture verses to read each specific prayer/answer in the Amplified Bible.
Prayer #22
Who prayed: Joshua
Need or request: Complaining because God had not given victory
# of words used: 90
Bible verse: Joshua 7: 7 - 9
Answered: Joshua 7: 10 - 15
Prayer #23
Who prayed: Joshua
Need or request: Decree for sun and moon to stand still
# of words used: 14
Bible verse: Joshua 10:12
Answered: Joshua 10:13
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"Surprise Me God 30-Day Experiment – Day 21”
This turned out to be a very grueling, challenging and long day. Most folks might have given up. But to my surprise and truly by God's grace I was able to press through a very challenging, time-consuming and frustrating situation.
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"Prayer Exercise"
Allow me to say this prayer out loud with you: "I will accept no more failures, set backs or never ending cycles of non-fruitfulness. Give me the confidence, resources and boldness necessary to launch forward to finish every thing I have started in Jesus name. Amen"
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"Famous Quote"
"My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still small voice of God in their own hearts. By Andrew Young
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“A little laughter”
Three preachers sat discussing the best positions for prayer while a telephone repairman worked nearby. "Kneeling is definitely best," claimed one."No," another contended. "I get the best results standing with my hands outstretched to Heaven.""You're both wrong," the third insisted. "The most effective prayer position is lying prostrate, face down on the floor."The repairman could contain himself no longer. "Hey, fellas, " he interrupted, "the best prayin' I ever did was hangin' upside down from a telephone pole."
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"Friendly Reminder"
You may choose one of the following to submit your personal prayer needs or request:
1) Post a comment here on our Blog
2) Email prayer requests only to : prayerstillworks@gmail.com
3) Skype Dial In # 510-931-7732
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“Watch us LIVE online”
Your Prayer Closet Blog LIVE online TV Shows broadcasts & records Monday - Friday at 10:30 AM Pacific Standard Time. Scroll down to watch.
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“Inspiring messages”
Turn up your speakers to listen to some thought provoking, uplifting & encouraging messages. Click here.
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"Recommended Books"
The Believers Prayer Manual by Flynn Cooper
Commanding Your Morning By Cindy Trimm
The Rules of Engagement Prayer Series by Cindy Trimm
The Threshing Floor by Juanita Bynum
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“Your Prayer Closet Blog Home”
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
221 Prayers of the Bible - # 20 - 21 in Deuteronomy
Here's what's on today’s menu:
"Prayer Testimony By Bridget Ratliff"
“221 Prayers of the Bible: #20 - 21 in Deuteronomy"
"Surprise Me God 30-Day Experiment – Day 20”
"Prayer Exercise"
"Famous Quote"
“A little laughter”
"Friendly Reminder"
“Watch us live”
“Inspiring messages”
"Recommended Books"
"Your Prayer Closet Blog Home"
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"Prayer Testimony by Bridget Ratliff"
I just want to give a Praise Report......I have been unemployed since Dec 2001. During this time I stayed home with my children because they were small and I did not want them in day care. It was also during this time that I decided to go back to school because their were some thing that I needed to finished for myself and so that I could be that example for my children...
In 2004 I started back to school and working on completing my Associate Degree.In March of 2005 I graduated with an Associate Degree in Business Administration that is when I began to look for entry level position that my degree was in but nothing happened. So I decided that I would work on my Bachelor Degree also in Business Administration until I could found a job. Well as the story goes in June 2006 I graduated with the Bachelor. Still no job so for the second time I continue to go to school this time working on the Master Degree. Every place that was hiring I would apply during this process their were many interviews but after the interview their was never a call back for that second interview.
So I became very discourage I just could not understand why even people that I knew would not hire. These people that I would ask for a job were people that could make that decision without going though personal they had their own business. I would pray and cry Lord why can't I find they right job. Before things got better they got worse because I lost my home. Yes I was one that was affected by that adjustable rate mortgage during this period I got very depressed because I thought I had done something wrong and that I had failed God.
In the fall of 2006 my family and I moved into a house were we were leasing with option to buy $1,300 is the rent and addition $400 dollars is applied to the down payment grand total of $1,700 per month (and please whatever you do don’t be late with the rent because it would cost you additional $400 dollars as a late charge) All of this was causing great stress on my marriage. There were time times even through all of this that I just wanted out. Oh did I fail to mention that I am legally blind and that I have had two strokes.
Here is were God began to change me before the end of 2007 God drop this in my spirit that change was coming miracle began to happened one after another in November God paid off a $46,000 thousand dollar student loan. In December checks began coming in the mail. God began to bless my family so that I went to my husband and told him that God was going to bless us to pay $1,000 a week for tithes. (This will be another praise testimony later.) In January God gave it to my Pastor to tell me that God was going to bless me so I just began to shout for the victory. As far as the job situation goes I gave it to the Lord and stop looking for a job because I had just gotten tired of looking and then hearing no for the answer. So you know by then I just began to rest in God because I know that in his perfect time he would open that right door. The other morning while I was still at home in the bed sleep a job came to my front door. My starting date is February 18, 2008 Thank you Jesus God has done it again!!!
Bridget can be reached by phone at 708-921-7835
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"221 prayers of the Bible - #20 - 21 in Deuteronomy"
Today we continue to take a closer look at how folks in the bible actually prayed regarding day-to-day issues that came up in their lives. Feel free to click on the scripture verses to read each specific prayer/answer in the Amplified Bible.
Prayer #20
Who prayed: Moses
# of words used: 59
Bible verse: Deuteronomy 3: 24 - 25
Need or request: Moses asking to go into Canaan
Unanswered due to disobedience: Numbers 20:12
Prayer #21
Who prayed: Moses
# of words used: 114
Bible verse: Deuteronomy 9: 26 - 29
Need or request: Israel to be spared
Answered in part by Moses intercession to God: Exodus 32: 11 - 14
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"Surprise Me God 30-Day Experiment – Day 20”
I was very pleasantly surprised to find a very nice, friendly lady who is also a believer with a soothing voice on http://www.blogtv.com/ hosting a show about "sewing". This reminded me that no matter were you may be.....God's probably got some folks around somewhere.
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"Prayer Exercise"
Allow me to say this prayer out loud with you: "Lord allow what appear to be stumbling blocks in my life at this moment to become stepping stones to new levels of living in Jesus name. Amen"
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"Famous Quote"
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." By Martin Luther King Jr.
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“A little laughter”
Q. Who was the greatest female financier in the Bible?
A. Pharaoh's daughter - she went down to the bank of the Nile and drew out a little prophet.
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"Friendly Reminder"
You may choose one of the following to submit your personal prayer needs or request:
1) Post a comment here on our Blog
2) Email prayer requests only to : prayerstillworks@gmail.com
3) Skype Dial In # 510-931-7732
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“Watch us LIVE online”
Your Prayer Closet Blog LIVE online TV Shows broadcasts & records Monday - Friday at 10:30 AM Pacific Standard Time. Scroll down to watch.
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“Inspiring messages”
Turn up your speakers to listen to some thought provoking, uplifting & encouraging messages. Click here.
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"Recommended Books"
The Believers Prayer Manual by Flynn Cooper
Commanding Your Morning By Cindy Trimm
The Rules of Engagement Prayer Series by Cindy Trimm
The Threshing Floor by Juanita Bynum
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“Your Prayer Closet Blog Home”
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Monday, January 21, 2008
221 Prayers of the Bible - #11 - 19 in Numbers
Here's what's on today’s menu:
"Prayer Testimony By Josue Calvo-Perez"
“221 Prayers of the Bible: #11 - 19 in Numbers"
"Surprise Me God 30-Day Experiment – Day 19”
"Prayer Exercise"
"Famous Quote"
“A little laughter”
"Friendly Reminder"
“Watch us live”
“Inspiring messages”
"Recommended Books"
"Your Prayer Closet Blog Home"
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"Prayer Testimony by Josue Calvo-Perez"
When I was an infant my parents wondered why I would complain with pain and was unable to walk correctly. They took me to a doctor and this doctor told them that I had a very serious and irreversible hip disease. The doctor told them that by the age of 18 I would be wheelchair ridden. My parents never accepted that, thus they prayed hard. And when they returned me to that same doctor. That same doctor that said that I would never walk again, said that miraculously I had nothing anymore.
Here is another great example of how prayer works. When I was about 8 years old. I was playing around the school yard during lunch time with some of my classmates. And till this date no one knows how, but I fell and hit the right side of my face against the corner of a cement wall. The fall caused me to break the bone around my right eye in four pieces. The doctors said that I may never see again out of my right eye. The had prognosticated the worst.
My parents would not accept it. They took me to an eye specialist who later performed surgery on me. To make a long story short, I can now see very well very very close to 20 20. And the Lord is so good that when I tell this story to other eye doctors they try to examine my right eye. To God be all the glory because they all tell me it is impossible, you should have this that and the other, yet they can't even find a trace that anything ever happened to me.
In conclusion I am a walking miracle. My life is a constant prayer, and I give all the glory to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
P.S. There are many more prayers that the Lord has answered. Yet one thing I have noticed is that he doesn't always answer it, in a manner in which we want.
Josue can be reached by email: mailto:webmaster@freshmannachristiancenter.org
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"221 prayers of the Bible - #11 - 19 in Numbers"
Today we continue to take a closer look at how folks in the bible actually prayed regarding day-to-day issues that came up in their lives. Feel free to click on the scripture verses to read each specific prayer/answer in the Amplified Bible.
Prayer #11
Who prayed: Aaron
# of words used: 32
Bible verse: Numbers 6: 24 - 26
Need or request: Blessings of God on the people
Answered: Numbers 6: 27
Prayer #12
Who prayed: Moses
# of words used: 27
Bible verse: Numbers 10: 35 - 36
Need or request: Blessings of God on their journey
Answered:
Prayer #13
Who prayed: Moses
Request or need: Seeking God burdens too heavy
# of words used: 136
Bible verse: Numbers 11: 10 - 15
Answered: Numbers 11: 16 - 20, 25 - 30
Prayer #14
Who prayed: Moses
Request or need: Guidance
# of words used: 56
Bible verse: Numbers 11: 21 - 22
Answered: Numbers 11: 23
Prayer # 15
Who prayed: Moses
Request or need: Healing for his sister Miriam
# of words used: 8
Bible verse: Numbers 12:13
Answer: Numbers 12: 14 - 16
Prayer # 16
Who prayed: Moses
Need or request: To spare Israel
# of words used: 208
Bible verse: Numbers 14: 13 - 19
Answered: Numbers 14: 20
Prayer # 17
Who prayed: Moses
Need or request: Judgement
# of words used: 20
Bible verse: Numbers 16:15
Answered: Numbers 16: 23 - 34
Prayer # 18
Who prayed: Israel
Need or request: Forgiveness
# of words used: 25
Bible verse: Numbers 21:7
Answered: Numbers 21: 7 - 9
Prayer # 19
Who prayed: Moses
Need or request: New leader
# of words used: 56
Bible Verse: Numbers 27: 16 - 17
Answered: Numbers 27: 18 - 23
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"Surprise Me God 30-Day Experiment – Day 19”
I just have to stop and say the Lord has truly been good to me over everyday of the 30-day experiment. Today he sent someone to my house with specific food items I needed from the supermarket. I love how he seems to tailor each surprise to my specific needs! Thanks from the bottom of my heart Lord.......
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"Prayer Exercise"
Allow me to say this prayer out loud with you: "Take me to a new level in my personal prayer life and efforts in Jesus name. Amen"
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"Famous Quote"
"You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try – you don't take the risk." By Rosalynn Carter
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“A little laughter”
A young boy had just gotten his driving permit. He asked his father, who was a minister, if they could discuss the use of the car. His father took him to his study and said to him, "I'll make a deal with you. You bring your grades up, study your Bible a little and get your hair cut and we'll talk about it." After about a month the boy came back and again asked his father if they could discuss use of the car. They again went to the father's study where his father said, "Son, I've been real proud of you. You have brought your grades up, you've studied your Bible diligently, but you didn't get your hair cut!"The young man waited a moment and replied, "You know Dad, I've been thinking about that. You know, Samson had long hair, Moses had long hair, Noah had long hair, and even Jesus had long hair...." To which his father replied, "Yes, and they walked every where they went!"
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