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Prayer Request for a Stranger
self | 12/25/04 | RaceBannon

Posted on 12/25/2004 11:56:52 AM PST by RaceBannon

I just met a woman while exercising at the track. She was crying her eyes out.


TOPICS: Activism; Evangelical Christian; Ministry/Outreach; Other Christian; Worship
KEYWORDS: comfort; prayer; relief; stranger
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We didn't talk much, she didn't want any company, I could see that, but something hurt her this Holiday.

I gave her a tract on who Jesus is and said Merry Christmas.

I drove away, bought two coffees, went back and gave her one. Made her smile just once anyways.

I also called an old woman friend who got engaged a year ago, havent heard from her in a while. She and her fiance broke up. His dad died the same day as mine last August, and he started doing steroids, and then her Mom had to have stem cell transplants to try to lick the cancer she was dying from.

Her mom made it by a hair, but her fiance went to the dark side due to the steroids.

If you have the time, please ask the Lord to bless these two women, the one crying and my friend from Chemistry class. Let the crying one learn who Jesus is from the tract, and let my friend look to the Lord to satisfy her troubles and lonliness.

1 posted on 12/25/2004 11:56:53 AM PST by RaceBannon
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To: RaceBannon

A prayer sent. Lots of people in lots of pain and holidays can be hard times:'(


2 posted on 12/25/2004 12:02:36 PM PST by CindyDawg (Merry Christmas, Freeper Friends)
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To: RaceBannon

You gottem, for both troubled ladies.............God Bless and Heal them both..........


3 posted on 12/25/2004 12:11:17 PM PST by litehaus
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To: RaceBannon

Prayers for those women. May they find their peace in Christ.


4 posted on 12/25/2004 12:47:44 PM PST by No_Outcome_But_Victory (Today's established church: the stifling coercive theology of P.C. enforced by a secular episcopate.)
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To: RaceBannon

You have a kind and thoughtful heart. May God richly bless you for caring about these two hurting people and will join the prayers for them as you direct.


5 posted on 12/25/2004 12:59:15 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt (Pres Bush to Chilean Security stopping Agent: "He's with me." And, Mr. President, we're with YOU!)
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To: RaceBannon

Prayers being sent.....


6 posted on 12/25/2004 1:19:17 PM PST by hoosiermama (Pray without ceasing for our President and our nation.)
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To: RaceBannon

The world could use more people like you. Most wouldn't have given her a second glance.


7 posted on 12/25/2004 1:19:56 PM PST by dogwoof
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To: No_Outcome_But_Victory
Prayers for those women. May they find their peace in Christ.

A simple truth that has helped me muddle through many,many a-time: God never gives a tree heavier fruit than it can bare.

8 posted on 12/25/2004 1:30:27 PM PST by yankeedame ("Born with the gift of laughter & a sense that the world was mad.")
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To: RaceBannon

Christmas tears...


9 posted on 12/25/2004 2:13:06 PM PST by derheimwill (Love is a person, not an emotion.)
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To: RaceBannon

Praying for them and saying a prayer of thanks that God put on earth a person like you.


10 posted on 12/25/2004 2:24:03 PM PST by Cindy
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To: RaceBannon

I will remember these two ladies in my prayers.


11 posted on 12/25/2004 5:40:48 PM PST by A knight without armor
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To: RaceBannon

May the Lord be with her


12 posted on 12/25/2004 6:03:43 PM PST by franky (Pray for the souls of the faithful departed. Pray for our own souls to receive the grace of a happy)
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To: franky

Thank you all!


13 posted on 12/25/2004 7:16:16 PM PST by RaceBannon (Jesus: Born of the Jews, through the Jews, for the sins of the World!)
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To: RaceBannon
I don't do tracts or push Jesus on people when they are down any more. If there is a natural opening, I offer my prayers and leave people be. If asked, I share what faith I have.

The last thing I need is anyone hitting me with Jesus stuff when I am down. They make me uncomfortable. I do appreciate their prayers IF I feel like they are not trying to suck me into their brand of Christianity.

When I first got a heightened enthusiasm for my faith in Christ, I made some awful mistakes, hitting people with that sort of thing when they were weak and defenseless, like a captive audience sort of thing.

Your hurting people will be in my prayers.

14 posted on 12/25/2004 8:10:10 PM PST by Aliska
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To: RaceBannon

We never know how our prayers will touch anyone we pray for. (Just think of the Blessed Virgin Mary asking Christ telling Christ about the lack of wine at the wedding of Cana).

Lord, I ask you guidance and tender loving care for these two women. I have been in both places -- fighting my husband's cancer with him, and after his death-fighting the tears.

May they ask for and receive your comfort and care. Amen!


15 posted on 12/25/2004 8:14:36 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: RaceBannon; father_elijah; nickcarraway; SMEDLEYBUTLER; Siobhan; Lady In Blue; attagirl; ...
Prayer Ping!

Please notify me via FReepmail if you would like to be added to or taken off the Prayer Ping List.

Please post your prayers to RaceBannon;

16 posted on 12/25/2004 8:25:17 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: RaceBannon

Prayers on the way!


17 posted on 12/25/2004 8:31:23 PM PST by BlessedBeGod (George W. Bush -- The Terror of the Terrorists)
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To: RaceBannon

O Lord,
into your hands
we commend these two women,
and all those with aching hearts,
and battered souls,
and aching bodies
and the emptiness
that life so often brings.

O Lord,
you too know
the ache that comes from being rejected,
the taste of dust,
the feeling of exhaustion,
how the darkness in men's hearts can hurt
those who don't deserve it,
and for this,
you came
to teach,
to heal,
to save.

O Lord,
let us who know you
hear your voice in our hearts,
be your hands
to soothe the pain of another,
be your voice
to say your word
to one in need,
to be your tool
to reach out and heal,
this day and always,
Amen.


18 posted on 12/25/2004 8:34:11 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: RaceBannon
I drove away, bought two coffees, went back and gave her one. Made her smile just once anyways.

That was such a nice thing to do .. some folks today would have just passed her by without a thought

Sending my prayers for two strangers in need

19 posted on 12/25/2004 8:35:28 PM PST by Mo1 (Should be called Oil for Fraud and not Oil for Food)
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