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Please Pray for Freeper Friend and Other Family Friend
self | 5-30-02 | Freedom'sWorthIt

Posted on 05/30/2002 5:29:28 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt

Please pray for Freeper Friend Lex (has not posted here in awhile) who has cancer and is in much pain. I have posted to several threads but not an independent thread for prayer for her until now. Please pray for God's healing mercies for Lex, a dear one who attended the 1998 March for Justice and who was a frequent article poster here. Please pray for God to provide all the necessary wisdom and to supply every need involved with this situation. Thank you in advance, all you Free Republic prayer warriors.

Also, a brother of my sister in law been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease, otherwise known as Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). This is a terrible, fatal disease and for him has started in his throat area which is the worst place for this to start. His name is Johnny.

All prayers for him are welcome. He has three grown children but a 12 year old neice (also my neice) whose heart has been broken by this news...and of course his sister - my sister in law - the same. Please pray for God's help, for good medical care and for some light to break into the darkness here and into Johnny's heart.

We cannot understand these illnesses. We can only pray for God's healing mercies to come into each situation...and, well, FReeper pray-ers know how to pray.


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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
Psalm 46:1:

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

81 posted on 05/30/2002 12:26:18 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Yes, He is - all praise and honor and glory to His name!

82 posted on 05/30/2002 1:50:33 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt;Budge;whoever
My Thoughts and Prayers are with Lex and Johnny. Prayers for their families and friends. God Bless All
83 posted on 05/30/2002 2:11:47 PM PDT by deadhead
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
A prayer and a bump!
85 posted on 05/30/2002 2:46:42 PM PDT by AuntB
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt; Budge; MeeknMing
Budge, MeeknMing, thank you for including me in this opportunity . . .

Isaiah 40
30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Lex & Johnny, hold on to your hope. All things are possible with God.

Continued prayers for your health and well being, in Jesus' name . . .

86 posted on 05/30/2002 3:06:46 PM PDT by BraveMan
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To: deadhead, AuntB, BraveMan, AdminModerator
Am deeply grateful for your prayers. Please continue to hold these people up in prayer as you can. Thanks again. (And thank you, Admin Moderators, for helping here on this thread.)
87 posted on 05/30/2002 3:29:18 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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bump!
88 posted on 05/30/2002 4:09:15 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
I just learned today that my mother has cancer. I'll be leaving tomorrow to go help her. I'll pray for all those who are mentioned on this thread.
89 posted on 05/30/2002 10:47:37 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
This is our prayer:
that life may be intense and beautiful as the sunrise
that if we must part, death may be noble and purifying as the storm
that love may be immortal and never ending as God has made us to be.

Pain is so hard to bear - it is only the beauty of those lives, in their former joy and in their present sorrow, that redeems the journey through pain. At the end of that journey, whether on earth or in heaven, there is healing. God, ease our pain. Ease our suffering. Heal us. We turn to You, who suffers with us, in Jesus name...

90 posted on 05/31/2002 1:16:56 AM PDT by dandelion
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To: dandelion, potlatch, MeeknMing
Thank you. Dandelion - appreciate your comments very much and the prayers of all.

Potlatch - so sorry to learn of the news about your mother. Will pray for her - and you if that's ok.

The FR prayer warriors are amazing, so please when you can ask for prayer for her - and I will try to pass the word in the meantime.

91 posted on 05/31/2002 4:42:58 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
Amen,........More Grace and Mercy,.........In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!
92 posted on 05/31/2002 10:01:17 AM PDT by maestro
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

Teach Us To Pray
Healing through the Prayer of Faith

Is any among you suffering? let him pray. Is any cheerful? let him sing praise. Is any among you sick? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up.--James

THIS IS A very definite and wonderful promise. According to the record, it was undoubtedly acted upon by the disciples and proved to be very effective for hundreds of years. That this mighty promise still stands is proved by unnumbered thousands of Jesus' followers today. Faith healing through prayer has become a practice founded on principles that never fail when rightly applied. Those who seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness are having all things added, as promised. When we "take with us words" and attempt to go into God's presence, our faith in Him is the power that swings wide open the gate that leads into the inner kingdom.

But in order to keep the gate ajar it is a daily necessity to withdraw into this deep stillness of the soul. Listen first to the innate voice of faith; then through the centers within the subconsciousness you can appropriate the life, substance, and intelligence of Being.

Man builds up an enduring state of faith by repeated realizations of Truth. The illumination thus gained comes forth in man as spiritual understanding expressed in sound words.

Faith draws upon substance. Dynamic, creative, transforming power is roused to spiritual action when man affirms his unity with Almightiness and his undaunted faith in its power.

"Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say." "Concerning the works of my hands, command ye me."

Man must not only be submissive and obedient to the divine law; he must also realize that he is the offspring of the ruler of the universe.

When asking the Father for that which belongs to the Son under the divine law, man should assume the power and dignity of the Prince of Peace. He should not crawl and cringe before an imaginary king on a throne but rather feel that he is the image of an invisible being who has created him to represent His mightiness as well as His loving-kindness. We should affirm with conviction those mighty words uttered by Jesus: "All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth."

The prayer of faith is not supplication, a begging God to give things to man. Prayer at its highest is the entry of the ego through faith into a realm of mind forces that when rightly contacted change the character of every cell in brain and body. One who has mastered even the primary technique of prayer has made contact with the spiritual ethers that connect all minds, high and low, and by means of which great reforms for the good of man can be projected into the world's thought ether.

When Jesus prayed, sometimes the whole night long, He did not plead with God over and over to do what He asked. Through positive faith Jesus was laying hold of new ideas, which through His spiritual understanding He incorporated into His consciousness, which included both soul and body. Through this mental process He became a living demonstration of spiritual man.

Today Jesus Christ is our helper and teacher. Every man when he prays should recognize and take advantage of this truth. He can profit much by realizing that the same Spirit is in him that was in Jesus, who became the Christ. Paul wrote, "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you."

Jesus is teaching us today that to pray effectively we must believe and know that there is a dispenser of the thing asked for and that by reaching out in prayer we can receive it from the one great source. This is truly the prayer of faith. "All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them."

Faith, the conviction of a higher providing source, is based upon spiritual logic or innate reason and on the certainty that an all-wise and all-powerful Creator's plan includes necessary provision for His offspring. Among even the primitive forms of nature this providing law is active. The insect stores food in the egg for the sustenance of its progeny. When man emerges from his animal consciousness and feels within him the stirring of Spirit, he finds that it is supremely logical and true that Spirit has provided for his supply and support.

When we have achieved spiritual realization of our prayer and our innermost soul is satisfied, we have the assurance that the thing is accomplished in Spirit and must become manifest.

We may continue in our realization of faith until the whole consciousness responds and the instantaneous demonstration takes place.

Spiritual Truth, psychology, and science tell us that visible things come from the invisible and are dependent upon the unseen for their existence. The sense mind cannot conceive of this.

"But there is a spirit in man,

And the breath of the Almighty giveth them understanding."

Before man can fully appreciate and work the spiritual law, he must cultivate a consciousness of reality. When he does this, he finds he is automatically working with God, through Christ, and that he can say with Jesus, "My Father worketh even until now, and I work."

Prayer is impotent and unfruitful when the one who prays is without the firm belief that his petitions are answered. When man turns wholeheartedly to God, the prayer of faith brings forth abundantly. Healing currents of life are freed and flow into and through soul and body, healing, redeeming, uplifting the whole man. Since the prayer of faith is the activity of divine love, let us pray without ceasing, knowing that God hears and grants our petitions.

Truly the Lord is in the midst of us. When we turn toward the omnipresent light of Spirit in faith, our eyes are opened to the astonishing fact that this seemingly material body and these temporal surroundings conceal the immanent God. We come to understand what Jacob meant when he said, "How dreadul is this place! this is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."

In prayer attention is the concentration of the mind upon a statement of Truth. Attention is focalizing the I AM or inner entity upon a word of prayer, until the inner meaning is realized and the soul is aware of a definite spiritual uplift. As a lens focalizes the sun's rays at a given point--and we know how intense that point of light may become--so concentration focalizes the mind on a single idea until it becomes manifest and objective.

In concentration the Holy Spirit works through the divine mother substance to bring forth the fruits of Divine Mind. The Holy Spirit is the teacher. The teacher and the student use the same principles; but the teacher arouses and inspires the student to greater achievement. The Holy Spirit today is urging us to greater spiritual effort.

When we direct the mental powers upon a definite idea, faith plays its part; it is involved in concentration. As we give attention to the idea through one-pointed mind concentration, we break into a realm of finer mind activity, called faith or the fire of Spirit. Thus faith opens the door into an inner consciousness, where we hold the word steadily in mind until the spiritual ethers respond to our word. Earnest, steady, and continued attention along this line is bound to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit in abundant measure. A steady, unwavering devotion of heart and principle to Spirit develops in us supermind qualities.

Source: http://www.websyte.com/Unity/TUP.htm

93 posted on 05/31/2002 10:14:54 AM PDT by Search4Truth
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To: Search4Truth
Thanks for your contribution to this prayer thread.

Surely, there are battles in the spiritual realms that we cannot see. Jesus Christ was and is the infite eternal Son of the Triune God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), Savior, Redeemer, and soon coming King. He prayed while walking this earth as the God-man, Emmanuel, God with us - because of the corruption that is in this world and because of His great need to be in unhindered touch with His Father - who is also OUR Father. The corruptions of this world make that communion with the Father very difficult. But communion in prayer with Him is something without which Jesus could not go forward and the same for us now. But, praise His Holy Name, He has given us the Holy Spirit who came to bring life from the dead and who is our daily Comforter, Guide, and Companion. The Holy Spirit defers to the Son and the Son defers to the Father. And, somehow, in the great good news that Jesus came to bring us, we are offered a share in that communion. No matter what happens, we can and must always pray. And if and when we cannot, we have the joy to know (esp. here at FR) there are others who will pray for us. It is connecting us to the Eternal God, the Holy One, that we do when in real prayer. And, with Bible open (as someone said today) with God's Word as the light unto our path, and the lamp unto our feet, somehow He will bring us through the darkness into the Light of His presence.

94 posted on 05/31/2002 12:18:53 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
Our prayers are with her. Please check out www.drday.com -- I believe her anti-cancer diet was instrumental in my cancer being cured (yes, cured). Please God, in the name of Jesus, help these people in their time of need.

Carolyn

95 posted on 06/01/2002 4:51:21 AM PDT by CDHart
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
Amen,........More Grace and Mercy,.........In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!!!
96 posted on 06/01/2002 9:02:58 AM PDT by maestro
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
Prayer sent ...
97 posted on 06/01/2002 9:07:16 AM PDT by manna
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To: 4Godsoloved..Hegave; mombonn; kayak; Mike K; Bahbah; Ff--150; Pegita; Faith; pubmom; eureka!; ...
An update on Lex. (Thank you each one for praying for Freeper Lex - real name Pat when this need was earlier mentioned. These prayers were so welcome then and continue to be so.)

She is sleeping most of the time now. Pain on her left side near her ribs. Please pray for an end to the pain - for God to take away the pain. Her husband and she are still great in their faith in Jesus Christ and His mercy and healing grace. Please pray for God's presence in that room with Pat, surrounding her and filling her with God's presence and healing mercies.....and thank God for this lady's faith and love and for that of her dear husband. Pray for God's Holy Spirit to comfort those who love Pat. And, if this be the time, for God to be in her going on to live with Him. However else you care to pray - all prayers are welcome at this time.

(I don't have an update on Johnny - with Lou Gehrig's disease - but thank you all for also praying for him).

98 posted on 06/22/2002 6:56:01 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
Prayers continue.
99 posted on 06/22/2002 7:02:28 AM PDT by pubmom
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
My prayers go out to Lex and Johnny, and their families. Special prayer to Lex to ease the pain of the cancer.
100 posted on 06/22/2002 7:05:28 AM PDT by Angelique
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