Prayer Chain, link 25

The president of Felicia's "imprint" is having spinal surgery; Heather W. has the flu;  Tess has chronic, severe back pain; and please continue to pray for Janet and her family. Don't forget Debby, who has a sore neck today. Kathy's neck is sore too.

Also, please stop by Marilyn's "Chew & Stew" and see who needs prayer... and "Text Painter" has a sick boyfriend whom she's trying to nurse without catching it because she has no health insurance.

Finally, please pray for Patti W. who does not believe in prayer.

The Bible passage I have been led to share with you today comes from II Corinthians 6, verses 1-10:

   ²(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

   ³Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:

   ⁴But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

   ⁵In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

   ⁶By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

   ⁷By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

   ⁸By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;

   ⁹As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

   ¹⁰As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things."

We begin our permanent prayer requests each day with prayers for our troops, ALL governments and leaders around the world WHETHER WE LIKE OR BELIEVE IN THEM OR NOT. It is right and proper to pray for their safety, enlightenment and wisdom... as well as to pray for their souls. Also pray for all of our countries and their people: born and unborn.

Please pray, too, for an end to ALL violence: true peace. REAL civilization. For as long as the barbarism of any killing is still tolerated; no man, woman or child can truly rest assured. If we were to stop killing and focus on LIFE we could likely put an end to nearly all disease as well as explore the furthest reaches of the universe. We destroy ourselves by our limiting beliefs. Instead of trying to prevent overpopulation by diminishing our numbers through slaughter we should be seeking extraterrestrial colonization possibilities. Yet if we do not curb our thirst for blood those exploits would also soon be doomed to extinction as well. Read Isaiah 65.

I do my best to find prayer requests here on gather that have not yet been added to the chain: you can help by searching for and adding these yourselves throughout each day. If you have a prayer chain or list, I would be honored if you'd link to this one. Please don't forget Heather's daily prayer list! She gives us a beautiful prayer each day.

Please also continue to lift up in prayer all those from previous links. Even those whose prayers may have been answered... and ESPECIALLY gather members who have been missing for a while. Don't forget pray for each other as well... Including those who don't request prayer but may nonetheless need it.

The lastest requests I receive via email etc. will be added at the TOP of the article as I receive them, until the next daily link is posted. The Praise Reports will be published monthly for the time being, until I start getting more of them.

The previous links of the prayer chain are all still valid, as are the links spidering off from them. Here is the directory table of those links: