Prayer Request (past)

I started my own Christian Blog on LiveJournal, but I could not find a Christian community who would read it on there. So the next few blogs that I write will have “(past)” in the title, to indicate that they were written a while ago.

This next one is from last January.

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!!

That’s how I feel right now.

All I want to do is find a site, a simple site, where I can add a prayer request. But I can’t find one.

I pray to God, but I feel that that is not enough. I want other people to pray with me. I want to know that God is hearing my prayer, and that more people are praying for the same thing so that I KNOW that He hears me.

God hears everyone. He hears all of us. I know that. But, sometimes, it just doesn’t feel like enough, you know?

I can’t express how many times a day this goes through my head. Or a week.

Is it really that hard to find a prayer group where you can be anonymous, where no one has to know every detail of your life, but still will pray for you? Is it truly that difficult to go to your congregation, stand up in front of them, and say, “Hear me! Please, help me pray to God, because I need help right now, and you are the only family that can help me!”

No, don’t shake your head, “No.” I know it is. I know it can be. We’re all worried about what everyone else thinks, and we say, “No, they don’t want to hear what I have to say. They’re busy. I’m not important enough.” Or maybe you think, “But that request is so personal. I don’t want my congregation knowing that about me.”

We’ve all thought that before. Or, at least, a good majority of us.

It’s amazing how our lives can interfere with our prayer. It’s not like our lives belong to God or anything, right?

No, WRONG.

We DO belong to God. We should not be ashamed of ourselves in front of the Lord, because it is HE who created us, HE who made us, and no one will ever love us more than God does! Do NOT be ashamed to ask the Almighty Father for help, because HE IS THERE FOR YOU.

Not enough people realize that anymore.

I went out, looking for a prayer group. I searched the web, I searched Facebook, LiveJournal, Google, and a few other ministries.
A dear friend of mine told me to e-mail his pastors’ the prayer request. And I couldn’t do it.
Why couldn’t I do it?
It didn’t feel right.

I shouldn’t have to ask two pastors’ to pray to God for me. Because, I can pray to God myself. It’s not about having other people pray for you. Yeah, sure, having a ton of people pray for the same thing with you is great—it adds a sense of completeness and community to prayer. It makes you think, “Hey, they CARE. They want to pray with me about this to God; He has to listen to me now, right?”

But in truth? God is already listening.

You don’t NEED other people to give God prayer. He hears you. He knows what your saying. He WILL provide. God is Almighty. God is All-Knowing. God. Is. Everywhere.

He can do anything, any time He wants. He’s really that awesome.

So, you know what?

Forget the prayer group. I’m going to post my prayer request right here, in this entry. God already knows what it is, and I’ve already prayed to Him. If you see it, that’s great, pray for it if you want to. But know that God has already heard, and is already providing the answer for me.

So, here it goes.

Dear God,

My cousin is on a mission in Haiti. He’s not with a mission group or a church group or anything; he went on his own to help out there.
He’s on an island off the mainland, and there’s no food or water there right now. Please, keep my cousin and all the other people there and on the mainland with You, God, because they need You, and they desperately need Your guidance and protection.

God, I know this may seem kind of strange, but I have a second prayer request, also, about something that hasn’t happened yet:

Obviously, You know about this, God. You know that there was an earthquake in Eureka, CA. It was a 6.5 on the scale. Well, scientists are saying that, in the next two weeks or so, there is supposed to be another earthquake along the San Andreas Fault, and it will hit San Fransisco up to Oregon. It is supposed to be more than one to one and half times bigger than the Eureka earthquake.
God, please, keep the people in the Bay Area and those along the San Andreas Fault in Your hands. Please, don’t let the quake be as severe as the Eureka Earthquake. God, I pray to you that it doesn’t happen at all.

God, I am so lost. I look at everything going on in the world, and I don’t know what to do about it. I don’t know how to help. God, please guide me in this. Tell me what to do.

There are so many things happening. It’s like a giant game of domino’s, where one event causes another, and another, and another…. And there’s no end. For all we know, two or three months from now, another catastrophe, another earthquake, may happen, making all of this seem like nothing.
Scientists are saying that the ocean is what is causing all the quakes. I’m no scientist, but I do believe in You, God, and my life and faith rest in Your hands. I have been praying that the coming catastrophes lessen, rather than grow in size and trauma. I don’t know what else to pray for, anymore. All I know is, that with faith and trust, You will hear me.

So, God, please, hear my prayers. God, the world is in Your hands, and I pray to You that everything will get better. So, please, help my cousin, and the people in Haiti in their trials right now. Help the people along the San Andreas Fault in their times of need, and prepare them for what is ahead.

God, keep everyone safe. Please.

Amen.

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