Prayer Needs 9/26/08 cont.

From our precious sister Amrita in India:
"The churches of Allahabad have recieved an attack threat for this Sunday. Uphold us in prayer."


And from Trish:
"My brother Bobby was transferred to Nashville yesterday and will undergo surgery sometime today." (Friday, Sept. 26, 2008)

Prayer Needs 9/26/08

Recently we came to know of an ex-Christian Muslim lady. Her maid does some work for us. Mrs Noori knows our family very well. Some of my relatives taught her in school.

She grew up in a traditional Christian home.Her other siblings married non-Christians and she married a wealthy Muslim and converted to Islam. She is a widow and before dying her husband made her promise that she would raise their children according to the Muslim faith. He even took her to Mecca on a holy pilgrimage.

We asked the maid to find out her Christian name, but she does not want to disclose it. Her college going son does not want her to reveal to anyone that she is from a Christian background.
She told her maid that she sometimes goes to a church in the suburbs of our town.Her daughter married a Christian pilot and lives in Goa. The son is very displeased with that. Mrs Noori goes to Goa to celebrate Christmas with her daughter.

The maid told us that Mrs Noori has converted a spare bedroom into a Christian prayer room. She has a cross on the wall, maybe some Catholic pictures (the maid is uneducated, so she can 't describe it well) and a Bible. She cleans the room and locks it.

Sept was the holy month of Ramadan for the Muslims in which they fast and pray and indulge in good works. Mrs Noori does not fast but she sends food to the Mosque ,her Muslim friends and maid.

Her daughter and son have come to celebrate Eid (Oct 2nd) with her. Tomorrow is the last Friday of the fasting month so she is going to have a special feast in the evening for her family, friends and give food to the mosque and poor people.

It breaks our hearts to see that this woman who must have gone to church in her growing up years has rejected Christianity and has wholeheartedly embraced Islam, although she is trying to pacify her conscience by maintaining a Christian prayer room in her house.

I sent her Christian literature through the maid. She accepted it and said that she would read it after Ramadan and Eid We are praying that she will do that and God 's Word may touch her heart.

Pray with us for Mrs Noori.
Love, Amrita

I'm thinking we need an area to post prayer requests and I'm thinking we need to take these needs seriously and seriously pray about each one. How many times have I glossed over a written need, said a hasty "Lord bless this person and meet their needs. Amen" and gone on with the day? Too many to count to be honest with you. I want that to stop. I want to change. I want to be a person who honest-to-goodness prays when she's asked to ... who prays when there's a need ... who hears the Lord's promptings and prays ... who takes the time it takes to pray and then prays.

I won't beat myself up too badly, for I have taken time to listen to our Father as He directs my prayers and I've prayed accordingly. But not nearly as often as I should have. That, my friends, is changing. If anyone wants to join me, wonderful. Let me know. If there are prayer needs, let me know and I'll post them on a special section on my blog and Lord willing, one day, I'll also post the answers God gives. For now, I'll set that area up and wait to see what happens when God's people pray.

Thanks to a friend from Kentucky, here is the web address to check out the Obama / Biden issue for yourself:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/vpchange.asp

I was sent this via email earlier this evening.....

"This is an interesting read - I looked on snopes.com and it has it but is not able to verify it. We cannot prove anything yet, but if this comes true, then you will know it was planned all along. However, we should get on our knees and intercede for this nation. Our future is at stake.

This was first sent as an email on Thursday, September 18, 2008, 8:37 AM

Have you heard anything about this?"

"On or about October 5th, Biden will excuse himself from the ticket, citing health problems, and he will be replaced by Hillary. This is timed to occur after the VP debate on 10/2. There have been talks all weekend about how to proceed with this info. generally, the feeling is that we should all go ahead and get it out there to as many blog sites and personal email lists as is possible. I have already seen a few short blurbs about this the "health problem" cited in those articles was aneurysm. probably many of you have heard the same rumblings. however, at this point, with this inside info from the DNC, it looks like this Obama strategy will be a go. therefore, it seems that the best strategy is to get out in front of this Obama maneuver, spell it out in detail, and thereby expose it for the grand manipulation that it is. So, let's start mixing this one up and cut the Obama-ites off at the pass - send this info out to as many people as you can - post about it on websites and blogs - etc."

From the rising of the sun to its setting

The Name of the Lord is to be praised

Psalm 113:3

This is the day the LORD has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Psalm 118:24

Little children, you belong to God and have overcome them,

because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

I John 4:4

Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He is good,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

Let the redeemed of the LORD say so,

Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the adversary

And gathered from the lands, From the east and from the west,

From the north and from the south.

Psalm 107:1-3

"God designs all the afflictions of the Godly for the increase of their everlasting joy."

-Jonathan Edwards-