Prayer for Susan Bowden

Friends...
Susan has made a prayer request known to Donna for herself. She requests prayer that God would provide a full-time job with benefits including health insurance.
Jehovah Jireh: The LORD Will Provide.

The Righteous Run into the Strong Tower of  Jehovah Jireh..............
Please pray for her.

Jim and Susan

Just talked to Susan Brown. She and Jim are signing up for the Sunday night Explore. That should be all of us unless Dan wants to come.
She also ask us to pray for Mike. His life seems to be in disarray again. Drug issues, behind on child support, volatile relationship and major issues with his wife, and problems at work. Sounds like he needs an experience like Paul had on the road to Damascus. A face to face. The enemy has had control long enough. Pray!!

info for optional posting to the blog via e-mail

Group

If interested, if you find it convenient to post to the blog via e-mail instead of doing it on the blog page (or maybe you want to forward an e-mail prayer request, as an example), you can do so.

Do this first:

go to:

http://www.blogger.com/home

sign in with you Gmail email name and password

go to dashboard

click on settings

click in Email & Mobile tab

under Posting Options you will see where you can specify an email posting address. It will be in the form: yourGmailname.sectetwords@blogger.com. Complete what you choose to be “secretwords” and save your settings.

Now you will be able to post via email by sending an email to the yourGmailname.sectetwords@blogger.com address, as if you were sending to a real person…..

Also as a result of an e-mail exchange this morning with “Linda-Geek” she has had the insight that using the “comment” tab at the bottom of an individual post would be a good way to acknowledge a prayer request or comment in any other way about that particular post. As a result, I have changed a setting so the “comment” tab is available with every post and does not have to be chosen as an option. Thanks to Linda-Geek,” …. she is GOOD! Try it!

Ps this post was made via the e-mail option method….

Explore

I talked to Donna Skrivanos, Bill Parkinson's secretary, this morning. She asked about our community group, and if we were ready to be part of Sageworks yet. I told her we were praying about three options that we had discussed at our last meeting, and we would probably have a better idea about our direction after our 09/04/09 meeting. Also, told her our group had a lot of sage in the marital, children, and financial areas, if we decide to be sages.
She strongly encouraged our group members to do Explore. She said this is one thing Big Sage, Bill P, really wants all his troops to know and do. I told her Linda, myself, Suzanne, and Susan Bowden had already signed up for Sunday nights(6:00 to 7:30), and that I was confident others would do likewise.
She asked about a leader. I told her I would take the job, but at our next meeting, if someone else in our group felt like they wanted the job, I would gladly defer.
She said Sageworks was definitely a work in progress. Initially, they want to get all the community groups organized and under a shepherd, with the shepherd getting to know his three or four groups really well, ie. strengths, weaknesses, problems, opportunities, mentoring potential, etc. Then launch after the first of the new year into ministries or mentoring.
This was all gleaned in a 15 minute conversation, and I'm sure subject to change, since Sageworks is a work in progress.

Prayer for Friend of Robyn

group... please pray for a young woman and her family, a friend ( i won't name her, but some of you may know her.) of our daughter Robyn from high school (maybe before). She has 5 kids and has been seperated form her husband. Donna and I ran into her dad last night and he said "they are talking" and went to church together as a family Sunday. Prease pray for her marraige to be restored and for her to know the loving forgiveness of Jesus. She is a Christian, just fallen into sin as we all do. The last time Robyn tried to call and just be her friend, she would not even call back....Pray for her heart to be softened and for kind conviction to come to her. Her parents (Christians) have had a difficult time dealing with this and need to be lifted up in love too. Thanks.

Please pray for our granddaughter, Kendyl

OK.... I am going to try to post a blog.... First, Friday night was such a blessing to me and such an encouragement. There is nothing like praying together as a group, lifting our voices to God in praise and in supplication. Woke up the next morning to read Ezekiel 22 and saw again Ezek 22:30.... God looking for a man to stand in the gap for the land and finding none... wondered if that was the GAP in our blog title. I saw us as that (collective) man standing in the gap for the land and those in it and marveled at God's timing in showing me that after our time together and Ernies blog. Praise His Name!!!

Now a request. Please pray for our granddaughter, Kendyl, who started 8th grade and had never been to school before in her life. She has had a rough start... feels overwhelmed and lonely and out of place. Her nervousness is causing her to have trouble with even doing the work or taking the tests. I know God has a plan for her in this, and He will not leave her or forsake her. Please do pray for her this week.. her third week in school.