Crazy Love Challenge #2

It’s Sunday – the day we worship and praise Almighty God – and what better day to have another Crazy Love challenge?

Almost every single day I get emails asking for prayer….so how about this for our Crazy Love Challenge #2? What if bloggy friends who have prayer needs wrote posts and linked the post below – giving the bloggy community an opportunity to pray for one another specifically. There is something wonderfully amazing about praying for one another….and it is clearly what God wants!

Remember last summer? I asked you guys to pray for my precious bloggy friend Cindy. Cindy was a mom of many, adoptive mom, and transparent in her life…..she was tender hearted and kind and radically loved Jesus. She also had cancer. I asked if you guys would join me in a day of prayer and fasting for her. Many of you fasted for the first time {that was Crazy Love – fasting and praying for someone you didn’t know!!}.

Remember how amazing it felt to go before the throne of grace together for a friend – even though you didn’t know her? To love on Cindy and her family from afar? And it was unbelievably humbling to Cindy to know so many, who have never met her, cared so much!! Although we don’t understand it, God’s plan wasn’t for Cindy to be healed this side of eternity and she went to be with Jesus just days later. But the point is, we did what we could do. We always trust the Lord and know that His plan is best.

When we pray for people we don’t know we are coming together as one body, asking the God of the Universe to move. That’s Crazy Love. In fact it’s Crazy Love in it’s truest form.

So please do a blog post asking for prayer. In case you are feeling shy about sharing your prayer need, you can start your post by telling your bloggy friends that your post is in response to this Crazy Love Challenge.

Many of you have serious stuff that needs prayer…like adoption obstacles, wayward kids, job loss, upcoming surgery, cancer treatments, houses that need to sell, broken relationships, spouses who are closed to the idea of adoption, mission trips…etc…Please be gracious as you post your prayer need – you don’t even have to go into great detail…just here is my prayer request.

In order to link a post you must put your prayer request as part of your title. For instance: Jubilee’s having surgery next week {April 30th}. If I was linking a Prayer Request post I would put the title on the MckLinky something like: Daughter Having Surgery…that will make it much easier for people to check back in with you and see what’s going on.

I would urge each of you to look at the requests on the links and pray for them. If you can, please leave a comment that you prayed for them. It will bring encouragement and be showing Crazy Love!!

So hop on it. Write your post. Link below and then start clicking on others to pray for them. This is going to be so exciting!! Prayers going up from all over the world for sweet bloggy friends.

19 thoughts on “Crazy Love Challenge #2

  1. beautiful. i love it. looking forward to praying!

    [ps–i got my necklace prize. thank you!! i'm so thankful for you sharing some of your inspiring family!!]

  2. I love this idea. What a great challenge. Crazy Love has really challenged our family and I know that because of it, our family is only going to grow. I'm posting more about it on my blog on Tues. Hugs and love

  3. Thank you so much for doing this. Little Abby has been on my heart all day and I blogged about this earlier. I feel such peace knowing others are praying as well. Thank you….

  4. Awesome, Awesome idea!!!!!!! I have someone re-making my blog to have a section to do this on an on-going basis!!!!! I am so excited…go CRAZY LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!

  5. THANK YOU LINNY! I have tried to word/publish an entry all day & eventually gave up. I then read your challenge and knew God wanted us to be bold in asking for faith-filled prayers for Gracie. We'll definitely be praying for Miss Jubilee!

  6. What a wonderful idea! 🙂 And I'm glad you had a wonderful time with your family, with the chocolate outing… I'd love that! 😀 Your friend from down under, Susan.

  7. Oh thank you! I covet prayers for our adoption journey. I love to pray specifically for others – this is a great way to bring them both together for me.

    Thank you so much for having such a heart for other people.

    You are awesome Linny!

  8. I just want to comment AGAIN. It has been such a beautiful gift to be able to pray for my brothers and sisters…thank you so much.

  9. I thought of you and your family today, your timing of this couldn't have been more God ordained. Thank you for letting us pray and bring our requests!!

  10. Hi Linny-
    Not sure what spoke to me this morning about your post because I have been reading for quite some time but am mostly a lurker not one to come out of the computer and write! But I could use prayer but im not up for sharing it on my blog (i haven't posted anything since my husband left us 8 months ago). Im not exactly what I want prayer for just know that I could use some I am now the single mom of three amazing young children and just could use prayer in the raising of my children. I no longer attend any church since my marriage feel apart im not up for being judged so i stay away. Thanks for all your amazing heartfelt post they are always uplifting to me.
    Megan
    masweet121902@yahoo.com

  11. This has been such a blessing to be a part of. I've never had so many comments…people I've never met praying for us!! CRAZY LOVE!! I said a prayer this morning thanking the Lord for each and every one of those who prayed for us and the HE would bless them all!

    What a sweet thing Emma said…and I've thought the very same thing about her!!

    This is kinda funny…you see, I'm still a little new to blogging and I thought that because I had your link on my page that I was a "follower"…well, I just figured out that I wasn't!! lol…I just figured out how to do it, so now I'm # 1045!!

  12. hi, linny! thanks so much for stopping by blessedhomestead and praying. thanks for your encouragement and doing Crazy Love Round 2. I've been reading some of the posts of those who linked. yes, it is wonderful to know that people around the world are praying for me! bless you. ps- wondering if you and dw have heard of Rescue Haiti's Children. it was started by doug phillips of Vision Forum. been watching some videos on vimeo from them, talk about ripping your heart out. anyway, just an idea if you all were looking with someone to team up with- i think they're great. blessings. brittany.

  13. I don't have a blog, butI have a huge prayer reequeat: I fell in lovw with a beautiful angel from Reeces Rainbow, but my husband is totally opposed to adoption.
    Thank You,
    Lea

  14. okay… so I am assuming that you are going to have a BIG ole PRAISE party so we can share the goodness…but I have to tell you something….. and now! Mixed in with the job situation that I asked for prayer my folks decided to retire, and that meant they couldn't help so much with college for our daughter, she has a full ride but there is a small amt we have to pay each semester, about 1700.00, I just didn't know what to do. So I decided to give more…. I mentioned earlier that I adopted a compassion child, and then I gave to some families in need this week at wal mart, two of them.. we didn't have it, but I felt that it was urgent. Today she was told she got an additional 1300.00 in a grant from the school. We don't know the rest of the package yet, but I could only think that this was GOD reminding me, He knows the needs and He is aware and He is moving. WOW! Thanks for letting me share.

  15. I need you to know that your Crazy Love 2 lead me to pray and change my Memorial Box Monday Post. I could do nothing until I went through the list and wrote down all the prayer requests and checked back throughout the day to see if more had been added. I even felt lead to leave a note to say that I was committed to pray for these family and their needs.
    You my Christ following bloggy friend have shown me Jesus yet again. Not only in word but in deed. And, not you but Christ in you caused the change in the Memorial Box Monday. I want to remember to share and be faithful to all.

  16. Have been away for many days and catching up on your blog. Just read your "words echo" post…..THANK YOU for being so transparent and vulnerable. I do consider your blog my absolute favorite..often it is like a devotional for me. I had just finished studying "Crazy Love" when you started your crazy love posts…..It is SO up my alley and it (and the Lord) inspirited me to do some most wouldn't consider in our home. I plan on blogging it and I will let you know when I post….
    Anyway…SO wish I lived close to you. I am confident you would be my friend!!!!

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