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[Freeper Requesting Prayers for Daughter] Prayers please. Daughter lost phone overseas
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Posted on 02/22/2015 5:31:35 AM PST by Suz in AZ

Need prayers for a miracle. My daughter is overseas and lost her phone. She's going to retrace her path in the morning to try and find it. She needs a miracle, not just to find the phone, but to help increase/renew her faith in God and in miracles.

I believe there is power in numbers and hope you would pray in her behalf today. Her name is Hayley. Thanks.


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To: oh8eleven
Un-friggin-believable.
Given all that, you would still have us believe God...(?)

I do. I believe in God and the Son that He sent.

141 posted on 02/22/2015 9:46:06 AM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: Suz in AZ

Prayers that she find refuge in the Lord, and her phone, too. Also blessing of safe travels.

Ignore the unkind attacks posted here. They don’t matter.


142 posted on 02/22/2015 10:09:46 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Suz in AZ
Most likely stolen. Tracfones can be had on the street about anywhere in Asia.
143 posted on 02/22/2015 10:12:07 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: Hawthorn; Mr. K

Do you two always make derogatory statements on prayer threads?


146 posted on 02/22/2015 10:37:34 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Suz in AZ

Some years ago I got home one evening from work and realized my cell phone was not in my purse. I searched my car but to no avail. I had made a couple of stops along the way but couldn’t call any of the stores because my cell phone was and still is my only phone, having ditched my land line several years before that and not regretting it, but even so, losing my cell phone was and is a pretty big deal as if I had some sort of emergency, a medical emergency or a fire in my apartment, I would have no way to call for help.

I logged into my cellular provider’s website (I had Sprint back then) and was able to subscribe for a 30 day free trial subscription, a “find my phone” service. It was a service that would also allow a parent to ping the location of a child’s phone and or the child. I didn’t even need to have an app installed on my phone to use it and in fact at the time I didn’t even have a “smart phone”.

What the service did was ping my phone and it returned a map with a location, accurate within about less than a quarter of a mile.

I used it and it returned a location for my phone which was my office building. I drove back to my office but didn’t find my phone. It turned out that I must have dropped it in the parking lot and one of my co-workers found it. About an hour after I got back home, my co-worker, since my phone wasn’t locked with a pass code (shame on me), he was able to determine it was mine and sent me an email to both my home and work email addresses and he got it back to me the next day at work, he had found it in the parking lot next to where my car had been parked and thankfully it hadn’t gotten run over. Phew!

I now have a “smart” phone, a Samsung Galaxy S4 and it came with many apps pre-installed including a “find my phone” app called Lookout. The app enables you to not only locate your phone but also lock it remotely and send a sound, a loud scream, to help you locate it, even if the sound on the phone is set to silent mode. With a premium subscription (at $ 2.99 per month) it can even send you an email with a picture and location of anyone who incorrectly enters the passcode on your device three times and allows you to remotely lock your device, and also wipe all data from it and have it backed up to the “cloud” and allow you to restore it once the phone is found or a replacement phone is activated.

I believe that iPhones and other smart phones also come with that sort of app pre-installed. She might have such an app installed on her phone and isn’t aware of it or hasn’t activated it or knows how to use it.

As others have suggested, while I understand that prayers are appreciated, neither you nor she should sit around waiting for an answer or help from God (and God helps those who first tries to help themselves – right?) but she should contact her cellular provider ASAP! They may be able to help her locate it or lock it remotely and most importantly suspend the service on the phone in case someone picked it up and is making calls on it or trying to sell it, and help her get a replacement.

FWIW, in October of 2013 I traveled to the UK for work, my first overseas trip. Although I was traveling with my work laptop, I was pretty paranoid about the thought of losing my phone. Or for that matter my credit cards and passport. And while in England they sort of speak the same language we do, in the North Yorkshire, you’d be quite hard pressed to know that. : ),

Before I left I made a photo copy of my passport and airline tickets and created a Word document with all my personal emergency contact numbers and phone numbers for my cell provider and credit card companies (and I set to memorizing my CC numbers so I didn’t have to write them down anywhere), the phone number of the hotel I was staying at, etc. I even laminated two small cards containing these phone numbers and put one set in my luggage and one in a zippered compartment in my purse, not in my wallet just in case that got lost or stolen. Yea, I’m a little OCD, a bit Sheldon Cooper like in some regards, but I don’t see that as a bad thing – being prepared in advance for any and all circumstances is not being paranoid but just being prepared.

With that being said, I hope all works out well for your daughter on her trip overseas and that you can rest easy and please let us know how it works out. Losing a cell phone while traveling overseas or anywhere for that matter is a big deal but it is not the end of the world if one is smart about it and takes the appropriate actions.


147 posted on 02/22/2015 11:05:44 AM PST by MD Expat in PA
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To: Lurker

God sees when a sparrow falls. And consider the lilies of the field, Solomon, in all his glory, was not clothed as one of these. How much more will our Father care for us? God cares about our smallest worries. He also appreciates when we take the time to pray and listen to His concerns as well.


149 posted on 02/22/2015 11:09:42 AM PST by rabidralph
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To: Suz in AZ

I will pray that she finds her phone and for her larger issues, as well.


150 posted on 02/22/2015 11:10:07 AM PST by rabidralph
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To: KevinB

If we can take the time, we can fit all of these concerns into our prayer time, I think.


151 posted on 02/22/2015 11:11:51 AM PST by rabidralph
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Why? God doesn't care about the phone, true, but He does care about her.....even more than her earthly parents. If something concerns her then it concerns God.

Matthew 7:9-11

9 “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

153 posted on 02/22/2015 11:55:47 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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