November Prayer Requests

I need your prayers - if you have time, will you please consider praying for me? Here is my prayer list for this month:

1. Thanks for praying for FGF in Springfield. God was so kind to be with us and empower us.  Women were deeply ministered to.  Thank You Lord.
 
2. We have at least over 70 new sisters in Christ that joined the family of God this past weekend in Alberta, Canada.  I had the privilege of partnering with Sherwood Park Alliance Church for their annual Christmas dinners.  God moved and I was there to be a part of their harvest of souls.  Thank You Lord!  Pray for our new sisters and Sherwood Park Alliance Church as they seek to continue to minister to the new believers.
 
3. For me personally, I am asking God for wisdom for the coming year.  I want to be wise in knowing where to speak, what to write and how to live.  May God increase and I decrease. 

As usual, thanks for partnering in prayer with me.  May we proceed on our knees.

Comments

[sandy]

Hi Jennifer,
The first time I heard you speak I was in the midst of a long lasting pity party. I had had a cancerous condition that, thank GOD, my doctors were able to deal with, by way of a hysterectomy - at 45 years old. Within 18 months, just recovered and getting back into shape, I fell and shattered my right ankle. At the same time, my husband was fired, our youngest daughter graduated from HS, I lost my job at church, and... we moved. WHEW! It has been a LONG road to recovery from ALL of that, mainly the heart ache of losing a job I felt I was gifted at; but also trying SO HARD to recover from a 5 way break in my ankle. I have been very active all of my life - competing in the jumping and endurance equine disciplines; jogging, hiking, biking... and now I found myself unable to walk without scaring all the neighbor kids - FORGET RUNNING! The doctors all said I would never run again - and to count my blessings I could walk. I tried to count my blessings, but I did about as well at that as I did at jogging. They also said if I EVER rode a horse again, I would NEVER compete again. As a result of the long layup, I put on weight, developed borderline pre-diabetes, and my cholesterol skyrocketed. Still, people said, count your blessings. I tried. The SPIRITUAL healing has taken a long, long time - but as my heart has healed, I have found that I HAVE jogged (albeit looking like Quasimodo); I HAVE taken a few fences, and last October, 2007, I dismounted from my hard hitting but reliable 22 year old mare... having completed 25 miles!!! I cried like a baby as my mare laid her head in my arms. To date, now, I have barrel raced that mare, and completed 3 other 25-30 mile races, and plan to complete my first 50 miler in about a decade - this spring. Most important, I have learned that I am NOT what I do, church work or not. I AM whatever God has made me to be - and with that understanding has come the most important healing of all. So... my prayer request is a tremendous counting of my blessings, even though I walk with a limp most days, I am reminded of the emotional limp that I live with; I don't feel like it is a handicap - I see it as a reflection of the very heart of who God made me - though damaged by sin, He has made me to walk with Him again. What you learned in the dark - I must have learned on crutches or crawling. Done that, too. God is good, all the time!