Thank you so much for this prayer post, I will read about Davids and pray for him, and for the others that you mentioned and for people who commented in here.

Can you please pray for my mother, she had treatment for Pagets disease, but she is still having pain and lumps are forming on her forehead. The Dr is concerned and wants her to see her tomorrow.

Also, could you pray for me, personal, it's got to do with fear, I thought I had it tackled but it keeps coming back, however the Lord has been so good, He's been encouraging me with His Word, it's amazing 🙂 .

Many, many thanks!!! 🙂

I will be praying for those in Africa and for Davids need for a home.
Please pray for my Gideon who had surgery on both legs Friday. He is in a body cast for at least 6 weeks. So far he is unable to wiggle his toes on the left foot. Pray the surgery was successful to help him be able to stand (he has arthrogryposis) and there is no nerve damage to the left foot. Also we are in the process of adopting #8=pray for immigration approval and for a successful fundraiser this Saturday.
Thanks again Linny for these days of prayer and fasting. Jackie

For a job. I have found THE job. It's not a huge salary but it will challenge me and put me in my community and will have some fun aspects too. Oh and I can walk to work! Please pray that the resume I send tomorrow produces an interview…and of course the job.

Also, my fur baby, Sadie, had another seizure this week. They are getting more frequent but less severe. I have been a hot mess worrying about her. I know that only the "dog people" will understand that she is my family. My baby and my best friend. I hate to see her suffer.

My lord, my God, my Holy One, my Rock, who can not tolerate wrong, please speak to me about my desire to adopt a special girl from Ecuador and my finances (homestudy fees). Allow me to observe, be astonished, and wonder, because you are doing something in your time that I would not believe if I were told. I approach you with anticipation and confidence as you are the creator of the universe and my father who loves me and wants to share your word and desires with me. Amen

Will be praying for that handsome boy for his father in Heaven to put a burden on family to adopt him fast.

Please pray that I continue to battle against the anxiety that I feel all to often. I understand intellectually how absurd it is for me to feel it and to fear the things I do. Pray that I am reminded each time who is watching over me, who is guiding me and protecting me. Pray that the 'loneliness' that creeps in even when I am in company of others stays at bay. I'm doing much better these days but its definitely still there.

I have a praise/answered prayer to share also. I have a fear of talking in front of others especially if it involves me personally. I have not prayed in front of a group but understand and believe the power of prayer. Sunday was our prayer walk in our church building-1st ever-I decided to go after being told I could pray silently. I prayed that afternoon for God to help me overcome such a stupid fear because prayer is so wonderful. I went and chose the group to pray for our staff-I didn't know that elder who lead the group, there were about 8 high school boys in that group and myself. The lone female! I almost chose another group but I really wanted to pray for our staff so I went anyway. I prayed OUT LOUD with the group and even volunteered to open or close the group on quite a few of the staff members. God was holding my hand because my anxiety symptoms NEVER even began!!! It was a great time!

Please pray we sell our house (today would be good.) :0)
My hubby gets a stable job. (currently laid off AGAIN)
My sister finds a safe place to live and a good babysitter for her little one.

Many thanks. Looking forward in saturating today in prayer with you ladies!

Praying for all who have posted and for Davids. I know God is awesome and able to make these things happen!
Thank you God!

Please pray for our adoption and my husband's job. Long story as short as possible – we're military but with the National Guard. Currently year to year contract. Possible long term (AGR) position available but requires moving this summer. Please pray that God works out the details of this possible move and our adoption (ideally that our child is home by then so it won't be an issue). I know He is in control and I pray that His will would be done.

I will certainly be praying for Davids – that his family will find him and his life will change!!!

Please pray for the sale of our home to go through so we can join my husband (who has already started his new job after being laid off! Yay!) down south. Please also pray that we would find the new home in the place that God would have for us and that God would work the details that all would go smoothly with the move and transition.

Praying for Davids and Davis!

Please be praying as we head to court today for our little Annie. This should be a big one. Please pray for the judge who will be making the decisions that will affect our girl for life. Trusting that the Lord is right in front of us!

We are in the process of adopting a four year old boy from China and we have LOA for him. God has recently lead us to try to adopt a 13 year old boy from our soon to be son's city at the same time. Two days after we sent in our Letter of Intent to adopt the 13 year old, we found out that the two boys are foster brothers. We were shocked! Please pray that we get pre-approval to adopt the 13 year old! I have asked for prayers for this boy before because he wants a family so badly.

Hi Linny thank you for once again bringing us all together to pray for one another.

I have 3 prayer requests~
1. Reconciliation with my 18 year old son. It has been 16 months since he has spoken to me and his older brother and we don't know why.

2. For my husband's heart to break for the orphan. We started our adoption journey a few months ago and he has placed it on hold. Yesterday I had to officially tell our social worker we were on hold.

3. For my husband and his siblings. They lost their mother 12/23/10. One sibling is really being awful about the estate and assets.

Blessings,
Suzanne

1) For our sanity during this wild and long waiting process for Ethiopia. That we would feel peace about it and see God's leading at every step.
2) For my fear of flying to be completely healed and for me to actually be excited to hop on a plane and even the 15-30 hour ride to ethiopia
3) For agencies in Ethiopia to be able to maintain an ethical and smooth adoption process. For the few bad eggs to not ruin the chances of millions of children to have families.
4) For drawn from water orphanage to have a smooth transition to the new organizational structure due to change in laws.
5) for my closest friend to find the opportunity to talk to her husband and for him to have a softened heart towards the orphan
6) For the kids in my youth group to have broken hearts for the Lord

Struggling here with bonding with our newly adopted little girl. I need Christ's compassion to tolerate her whining and to guide her to a place of peace rather than manipulation or control. We're home just over a month. Thanks~

Will definitely be praying today!
Our house is still for sale. We really desire to see God's hand move soon on our behalf. What is seemingly impossible for us is possible for Him! Thank you for your prayers!

Please pray that the Go Team will be able to visit the Open Door Orphanage on their trip this week. Last year God brought this precious waiting child (girl) in Uganda to my attention and not a day goes by that I don't think about her. He also enabled one of my closest friends to go on the trip with DW (and the team) and so I was able to send Birthday gifts as she will be turning 8 on the 1/15. They are supposed to go on the 14th. I know God has a wonderful plan for her! Pray that I can wait in faith for his perfect timing in revealing that plan.

Also, please pray for the hearts of the pastors at my church to be opened to what God wants to do this year in and through us. Pray that they would be willing to set aside plans, sermon series, routine, etc. and lead us into deeper relationship with Jesus.

I shall lift up all the prayer requests before ine today! What a great idea.

Please pray for our family that God will provide us with a home. We have been living with my in laws since April after moving back from the mission field in the UK and we are so ready to get settled! (My husband has a new job that takes him to the Middle East frequently.) Also this month, our baby boy Jude would have been born whom we lost at 18 weeks pregnant in August.

Standing at the Red Sea and praising Him now before the water parts for all these prayers!!!

Naomi

I'm praying for and asking prayers for Cash again. His mother did return and pick him up. I have been worried to the point of making myself sick. I'm praying for God to move and bring him back here where he is safe, loved and taken care of the way he should be.

Also a personal prayer request I can't share for a few more weeks.

I will be praying for all these requests.
Please continue to pray for my son, Matthew, who has turned away from the Lord and his entire family. We have not seen him in over three years.
please pray for our adoption. Pray that we get everything done quickly so we can meet our deadline.
Thank you to every who is praying.
Christy

We are in the midst of a domestic adoption and are approaching our renewal date. We are having a hard time trying to decide which direction to go. I would like to pray for a CLEAR and definite plan be made for us and that we can both see and agree on it.

Please pray for a better job for me. The job I have now is untenable, but I can't quit. I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place.

I will be praying today. I am asking for prayers for myself as my immune system is now not only attacking the Lyme Disease and co-infections but is attacking my joints and making several staple foods on my limited diet a problem for me to eat.

Thank you…

Praying for that precious boy to find his family.

I am asking for prayers for a potential adoption situation we learned about next week. A PBM is pregnant and due with a baby girl in March! We are waiting to be contacted by the birth mom and jump every time the phone rings.

I am asking first and foremost that God would be with this birth mother and her baby even if she is not meant to be ours. If she is I pray that God would move in our lives to help us find the money we will need to pay for lawyer fees. We are still recovering financially from adopting our older son and the hospital bills from the birth of our second son only 8 months after our older son came home to us (yes, he was a *bit* of a surprise! 🙂

Thank you so much for all your wonderful prayers!

God bless you!
Jen

I put this in the comments for yesterday's post, but it looks like that was the wrong place so I'll redo it. I have a lot of issues going on right now, but will try to make this short. We were trying for the last couple of years to adopt from foster care. It has become clear that this was the wrong path. We have left that program and are persuing a different route. We have our info in country trying to get permission to adopt a little girl. I am having troubles getting a letter from one of my doctors that the officials in her country want before they will give us permission. Also if we do go on to adopt her the agency we will be using is not licensed in our state, so we will have to use a different agency that is licensed in our state to complete our homestudy. I have contacted most of the agencies I can think of and for one reason or another none of them will work. I am down to 2 that I can think of and am waiting for a response from them. My prayer is that I can get this letter soon and that one of these agencies will be able to complete the homestudy for us or we will be able to find one that we have not thought of yet. Also I have been really sick since Saturday. I ended up at the ER on saturday afternoon because I could not stand up with out falling over. I am feeling better, but I am still pretty dizzy. It came on really quickly and I just feel like this is all an attack, so prayers for protection would be appreciated. I thank You all for your prayers.

Thank you for this day of prayer. I am praying for Davids family to come forward for him and for Davis and the team in Africa. And also for each of these requests.

Could you please pray for my sister who has not spoken to my family in almost three years? She has a 3-year-old daughter and I found out is expecting again. It breaks our hearts, especially my mother's, to not see her daughter and grandchildren.

Thank you to everyone praying.

I would like to pray for the Duffy family as they complete their adoption in Uganda and bring their little girl home.

I would ask for prayers for my family, especially my Grandfather as we grieve the loss of my Grandmother this past November.

That God will continue to open my husband's heart to his faith. And that I can be patient with His revealing of the path for my life.

And for all of those children who we want to help and even more for those we can't.

Along with working on an international adoption we are also foster parents. Today we had 2 year old twin boys placed with us. Will you please pray that their little hearts can heal and they can learn to accept the love of a family. Please pray for a smooth adjustment for the boys and for my older son as well – he has been an only child for almost 6 years now.

Praying along with you!

A few months back I asked for prayer for my sweet "K"….would you pray specifically today? There is something going on at 1pm today that is huge for her and God must move some enormous mountains on her behalf!! Thank you so much!

Linny,
I could really use prayer for little Levi who is still growing inside of me. I am 28 weeks along after a very trying couple of years…. Losing Samuel, our son who was stillborn fullterm, a miscarriage, a son we were to adopt, Joel stillborn at 28 weeks along. We were blessed with a daughter, Hope 22 mos through adoption last August. Levi is a result of embryo adoption. We know our road to him is anything but traditional, but we have seen God's handiwork all over it:).

Please pray my blood pressure can be kept in check for as long as possible, and that he can stay put in my womb for as long as possible. I was in the hospital on bedrest, but now am home on bedrest. Please pray for our other 5 at home as they adjust to mom having to stay put in bed and that the Lord would protect Levi till we meet him face to face. Thank you so much!

Sara

I am lifting up these requests unto the Lord this day. Praying that God urgently moves in desperate situations and comfort/quiet our hearts and minds as He moves and guides, and gives us strength to endure. I ask for prayers and wisdom regarding employment, that doors be open, for healing to take place, that I not give in to weariness and doubt, and that my mind and focus remain positive and on the Lord in these times. Thank you and may it be well with us all today.

Please pray for Pauline. She is a beautiful little girl in EE who has DS and is in need of a family who can adopt her from a very strict region. My husband and I had hoped we could do it – but we dont think we can afford to – and it's heartbreaking. There is another family waiting to see if they qualify for the region – please pray for Pauline, please pray her famiyl finds her. She will be 5 in September and it will be too late. Feel free to contact me for more information. Thank you so much!

This is a post about her: http://theannessafamily.blogspot.com/2011/01/urgent-prayer.html

My Friend is trying to bring a baby home from Eastern Europe…the only thing holding them back is the money…can you pray that God will provide exactly what they need. They hope to go in March…but I am not sure they are that close.
I would love prayer for my son…he needs healing and Salvation.
Thanks Linny,
C~

My family, like so many, is in need of a lot of prayer. I will keep it fairly brief due to the public forum.

My husband is looking for work and has had a hard time getting interviews let alone a job. He has had two interviews with one company this week. Please pray for us that this be the job and if it isn't that we will stand strong.

We have had a lot of family turmoil this past year. Praying that feelings are healed and we can move on from hurt.

Praying for wisdom in adding another child to our family. We have just completed the adoption of our third child in November and I am feeling the Lord calling us back to China again for the fourth. Finances are not available for this as my husband is looking for work and we struggled to get it all together to complete our daughters adoption.

I am so weary from all that we have been through this. Praying for the strength needed to hold my family together during the tough times.

Thanks for your prayers!

My sweet precious great nephew is trying to come early. He is due April 2 and is trying to come now. Pleas pray that he stay inside long enough to have strong lungs.

God is good; am praying for Davids family to come quick.

Prayers to all who post and those who might want to or tried and something failed (like me last prayer day). Prayers for Davis, David and Gabe.

Prayers needed for:
Daughter and her two kids and their situation.
Son and his situation, for guidance and direction.
Daughter and her situation, for her to find hope.
For all 3 to find God leading them and to hear Him!
For my health and for my direction, God is working, I can feel it. If it is God's will for us to adopt that my husband's heart will soften & if it is not to be that I can accept it.

Thanks Linny, prayers to you and your family!

Dear All,

James and I are in the process of adopting, and we want to adopt a little 7 year old girl from eastern Europe. God has placed her so deeply in our hearts, yet the mountains before us seem impossible. We are having difficulty getting approval from our agency to adopt an older child with special needs (we are mid-twenties, no children and have chosen to adopt first). We have tried switching to two other agencies and we were declined both times. We have a very broken relationship with our own agency, and for 4 weeks we have been waiting for them to set a day and time we can meet. On top of this, James has been a police applicant for 2 years (they move VERY slowly), things have started to move on that front and he MAY be going to training for 1/2 year in just a few months. Of course, we cannot adopt this girl at the same time. We need to know if there is any hope that we actually can adopt her, cause if there isn't we can help find a family for her, and likely help financially. Yet we pray every day, that she would be our daughter, it is our hearts desire, and a request that brings glory to God.

Right now, we feel like David facing Goliath. We seriously need God to show up in some VERY miraculous ways or simply close some doors and point us in the direction He wants us to walk.

Please pray that today or tomorrow we would hear from our agency and be able to meet with them. We are praying that in meeting with them, that God would give us His eyes and show us a way to be Christ to them.

Love, prayers and hugs to you all.

Cammy
jamesandcammy.blogspot.com

Linny, so thankful to read the good report on your Twitter about Davis. Continuing to pray for him, and now for Davids as well.

I would like to join many others in asking for prayer for Joanne Heim, who blogs at TheSimpleWife. She suffered a very serious stroke yesterday morning and is in extremely critical condition. She is a 38 year old wife and mom of two daughters, ages 9 and 12. You can read updates on her condition at http://www.MarlaTaviano.com or at http://www.TheSimpleWife.typepad.com.

Please also pray for a personal request of mine that I haven't posted here before, but have been asking of the Lord for many years. Thanks, Linny!

Praying for the team/and my Amber to have safe quick travel home.

Praying for our house to sell.

Praying for God to move in a mighty way in our finances. We need a miracle!

Praying and hoping for a son from China…trusting God, we don't meet their requirements..income

Praising God, that Amber has Godly friends, thanks to the team!

I will be praying for Davids and all of the other children who so desperately need a home.

Thank you, Linny, for the ministry you have through this blog. What a blessing and encouragement you are!

My prayer request is for my husband. I am praying for the restoration of his relationship with the Lord as well as his relationship with me. I know the only thing I can do is pray, but oh how powerful prayer is!! We are actually divorced, but I know that God has called me to fight for him and for my family and I will not give up. Nothing is too big for God and He will be the one to receive all the glory!

Thank you.

I'm back! I have just received 2 prayer requests and wanted to add them here:

1. Seth was at SFCV with our Grace. He was in the hospital having his special need attended to and they were also checking kidney function (he only has one). The report is that he only has 30% function and that he is not a candidate for a transplant. Please pray for miraculous healing for him and peace and wisdom for his family.

2. A thought to be 14 year old young man was recently adopted. A bone scan says that he is 21…His family is considering disrupting. Please pray them. I cannot fathom what they are going through. Pray that they will seek God's wisdom and comfort through this.

THANKS!

I have a very close family friend who is battling terminal cancer, she is 18 and relapsed last year after a 10 year remission. She was told she would die at 6 so every day is a miricle but prayers for her family, I also just heard one of her good friends in the hospital has died of a bone marrow transplant so the family is very discouraged. Any prayers would be much appreciated! Thank you!

Update, more prayers are being heard! My husband got a call to come in for a third interview and it looks like they are ready to make a job offer.

I love being able to share the answers to prayers with my husband. He hasn't really "seen" or been taught how powerful prayer can be and that our Father loves us all so much. Being able to share this with him really shows him how much Jesus is with us every day.

I have posted prayer requests in the past. Those some requests and also, personal.
Thanks!

Would appreciate prayer for job for my hubby (almost 2 yrs unemployed) and restoration of our marriage.

My wonderful, amazing, talented husband still does not have a job. He's submitted over 150 resumes and had not one call back for an interview. We decided for him to go back to school in the meantime and he is evening having a hard time with getting all the paperwork in there. Things just keep coming up…their website not working, his assigned adviser being out of the office, etc, etc.

Please pray for a job for him, wisdom about how many classes he should take right and finances to cover all of this in the meantime.

PRAISE: Fairly certain we have decided on a home church. We were able to be introduced to the congregation last week and were so warmly welcomed. I felt at home for the first time in over a year AND I was invited to the women's bible study that is starting in two weeks AND a family invited us over for dinner in two weeks!! YAY!

It seems so trivial in comparison of the great needs of so many others, but we really need our home to sell so we can join my husband on Feb 1st as he begins his new job in another town. Thank you!

To God be all the glory for Davis, Davids, and Gabe! I am thrilled to have been a part (albeit very small) in prayers for these people

Carey and Steve, who are adopting Julia and Aaron, needs your prayers, their situation is shared in here:

http://schwenzerfamilyupdates.blogspot.com/2011/01/blah.html#comments

Please pray for my husband and I ask we seek God's will for our next adoption. Please pray that God shows us and helps us to know whether a certain special needs blessing in China is our son and for our social worker and her approval of us for another child (we have not talked to her yet). Also for a clear financial way to do it.

Please also pray we conquer over the lies satan tells us and God grants us the awareness and success over any of satan's strongholds in our lives.

Thank you all so much. God is so faithful and it is such a comfort to know brothers and sisters are praying for us.

Please pray for my adopted daughter, 29 years old and now a mother herself. She is unmarried but living with the baby's father in a mentally abusive relationship. She has schizophrenia and his mental abuse makes her mental stability very rocky. She is afraid of his taking her baby and that's why she's with him. I don't think he could get the baby but her paranoia plays into the mix and she is afraid of him. Thank you all so much. Our God is a God of miracles and my daugh. stands in need of one.

We have been praying for many months for God's hand to be visible in our financial situation- in general and as is applies to our adoption. Monday I felt led to kneel in prayer over a specific request we have had pending for almost 6 months that would provide relief to a huge burden. Yesterday I received an over-nighted letter, likely prepared at the same time I was praying, informing us that our application has been denied. The closing of that door and the end of the hope that we have maintained for months is difficult- though we know He has a better plan! Please be in prayer for our financial situation and for our eyes to remain open to His answers.

~Kelly

We are in the process of two possible adoptions and are feeling attacked. Please pray for wisdom, discernment, peace, and finances.

Thank you.

Praising the Lord for the new developments of family and healing!!!

You moved me beyond words when you said pray for him as if you are his (Davis) mommy and Daddy because he has none. That is one way we can indeed love the orphan. It never struck me so plainly.

So I will add a mini request–I have been praying to adopt again. With 3 at home my hubby feels complete. My heart is still burdened for another. Even my son, age 6, prayed last night that God would change Daddy's heart and he would change his mind and let us bring home child #4. I know God can move this mini-mountain. Pray with me 🙂
-Heather

Please pray for my little son, he is getting ready to undergo a very serious heart operation. He will be entering the operation with complications already in place. He is smaller than what the drs would like him to be for this operation and parts of his lungs are not working. They are hoping to halt the sections of his lungs failing by doing this heart operation sooner rather than later.

Please also pray for the rest of us. Thanks, Grace

Please pray for patience and guidance regarding my employment.

Hi Linny-
First time leaving a comment, but I've been reading for several weeks now. 🙂
My parent's are adopting twin girls, due in March. One of the twins has a heart problem that will need to be operated on within 72 hours of birth. Please pray for complete healing of the heart so that no surgery will be necessary.

We are thrilled to know that Davids now has a forever family, and it is due to Christians who spread the word and Christians who listen to the voice of God when He places a call on them. Praise God!

We are asking for prayer as we seek to adopt a little boy from the same hosting group that Davids came with.

We're trusting God for the funds to bring Misha home.