Ya’ know I was thinking about how it works in the heavenlies when we pray together. I believe that God loves it beyond words when we join together in prayer {and fasting!}.
So for instance, when you pray for the GO Team heading to Uganda, you are part of the team!!
Prayer is the key to the entire team seeing God move.
We depend on the prayers of God’s people.
And when we have days of Prayer and Fasting?
Well each of those requests that you and I intercede for?
We are part of the victory!!
If you have been participating in the Days of Prayer and Fasting you will remember a request that we have prayed for for months….
it was from Freedom Hollow Farmgirl…
Together friends we have contended for reconciliation with her son who was
about to graduate from high school.
Remember?
Well guess what??
Here’s what Freedom Hollow Farmgirl asked for prayer for yesterday morning:
Hi Linny
My prayer request continues to be the same – that my son and I are reconciled BEFORE he graduates from high school – TOMORROW JUNE 4.
As it stands right now, I will not be able to watch my baby boy graduate. I do not have a ticket to graduation. The school will not give me a ticket. Long story short – they don’t want to be involved in family matters. Our custody order is on file with the school which states my ex and I share joint legal and physical custody. The school’s answer [and this is a private catholic high school!] is they gave my son 12 tickets and it is up to him to distribute them to who he wants to. I did not even receive a graduation announcement.
I did mail my son a graduation card and a letter telling him how proud I am of him and that I’ll love him forever, I’ll love him for always.
I even tried callein the parish priest and he did not return my phone call.
I’ve been praying and told God if it is HIs will I not see my boy graduate, I’ll try to do it with a happy heart. I know God works everything for good.
EASIER SAID THAN DONE! But I will try to be obedient, that is what I desire most, to be obedient to God.
Thank you for this opportunity to share my heart with you all.
Blessings,
Suzanne
So are you ready for this????
Here’s what Suzanne {Freedom Hollow Farmgirl} posted on the airline problem post I did:
Linny,
I just have to share. I just got a phone call
GOD PROVIDED TWO GRADUATION TICKETS FOR TOMORROW.
I AM GOING TO SEE MY BOY GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL.
GOD ROCKS! GOD ROCKS!
AND HE CARES HE HEARD OUR PLEAS AND PRAYERS HE ANSWERED!!!
blessings
Suzanne
Friends!!
You and I were part of that!
We joined together and look at what God has done.
As of yesterday morning she did not have tickets – look what God did!!
I am all teary and weepy just imagining her joy!!
Would you now pray that this graduation will be the beginning of complete reconciliation?? It is, no doubt, in accordance with God’s will….He longs for all of us to live in unity…
Anyway, God is so faithful…
and He just loves, loves, loves that Jehovah of the Last Minute stuff!!
I wanted to update you on the GO Team as well.
Dw, Emma, Graham and that portion of the team should be landing in Uganda soon.
But the other portion will have to take different routes and won’t be to Uganda until Monday. Dw is very bummed, but we are trusting that God will use this for good. When I talked to Steve last night I said, “Well be looking for opportunities to share Jesus, because He’s got you on a different mission than any of us had planned!!”
Please continue to pray.
And there is an important meeting Sunday night in Uganda. God has been working {this does not have to do with Elliot} but something else. I completely wish I could tell you all, but that is not possible. There are just things that cannot be shared in a public forum. BUT God has been moving in a HUGE way with a ministry that we have participated in….and I had to go before someone when I was there in April and God used that meeting to glorify Him and further progress is being made….Please keep praying for that situation. I will just call it the “Esther” situation.
Before I left for Africa in April I felt like the Lord said, “You will be like Esther in this certain situation.” It required me going to present myself before someone. The team prayed for divine wisdom and God spoke so clearly the second I woke in the middle of the night on the morning I was to go to be “like Esther.” It was crazy and amazing all in one. It was also very humbling that He would move like He did. I’m sorry to be so vague, but anyway, God is continuing to work in this “Esther” situation and I am giddy – Oh how HE loves the orphan!!
And no, it does not have to do with a little girl named Esther.
Just clearly an Esther role I was able to be used by Him in to ‘stand in the gap’ at a ministry we have loved for years. But there is a very important second meeting – please hold that in prayer, asking specifically for God to move in a mighty way.
Thank you for being part of the “Knee Team.”
On our knees before the throne of grace.
Actually I kinda like the name “Knee Team.”
Think we might do something with that real soon!!
Rejoicing with Suzanne and please pray with me that her son
will see God’s mighty love through her as he graduates today.
Not the "A Team" the "Knee Team" – I like! 😉
Linny,
Suzanne's situation has been one of the prayer requests that I felt most led to pray for. I can so relate to how she feels as I too have a son who hasn't spoken to his family in now almost 4 years. I am so encouraged and hopeful for her.
Praying for the graduation and the GO team.
Christy
We sreve a truly wonderful GOd who cares about each detail of ours.Praise HIM for the answer about the graduation and now I will be praying about reconciliation.Praying for the Esther situaion too.
Leveta
Praise to our Heavenly Father ! I am so thrilled to hear Suzanne's update. We too have a similar situation with my 18 year old grandson that is completely heartbreaking. I am so thankful Suzanne will get to attend her son's graduation, and hopefully a brand new happy beginning for this family. I also continue to pray for the Go Team, and for the good works you talked about. As I read all of the prayer requests yesterday, I was in tears. So many people in so much pain. We all know what it feels like. We all have our own "things" we have been dealt. I prayed over each request as I paged down. Our God is so good – He Is Able.
I love it how Suzanne wouldn't give up to the very last minute (asking for prayer the day before graduation) as well 🙂
Smiling here.. yes will join in prayer that she and her son will have a reconciliation and everything is forgiven. It is so important.
So happy for Suzanne! And I love knee team. Will be praying for Uganda. So glad Dw there safely.
i was so burdened for suzanne's request! LOVE that she got to be there. indeed will pray that this is the beginning of complete reconciliation.
also-personally love every story that anyone can share right now about our God of the Last Minute–so it just makes my heart leap!
so thankful for the way God has clearly led you and used you in the Esther situation and praying for that meeting!!
love you, linny.
I sit here with tears in my eyes as I am reading your post of God's awesome grace and provision in Suzanne's life!! This is truly a God Story and so blessed that I could be a little part of it.
Okay Linny, are you ready for this! I have posted on your last two prayer/fasting days and have prayed for Suzanne too. God is so faithful! Soooo..my prayer requests were for my husband who has moved out, completely abandoned our family financially,emotionally,spiritually and physically. Well, God still has a plan for that prayer I am sure of it and it is ALL in his hands,(keep praying =) but….I was also requesting prayer for my son, who was sexually molested by an older married woman while spending the last year in Texas with my brother in law. Guess what! God is the most awesome father, and my son is back home for good!!!!!! He's back in my loving arms to stay until he graduates from high school. As much as I could have "forced" the move, and could have possibly put a strain on our relationship, (because his father wanted him to stay there also) God moved a mighty, mighty, mountain and instead I get to be the one who got to open my arms and welcome him off the airplane on Thursday night with the most amazing hug. His uncle sent him home on 4 days notice to me, because he was disobedient! Yes, you heard me, disobedient. I am soooo overcome with joy, and praising God for his amazing timing and faithfulness! Amazing, just incredibly faithfully amazing! =) Judie
Linny…i too sit here with tears streaming down my face…so thankful…so grateful…that our God loves us so much! i too had such a heart for Suzanne and her son and continued to pray for her since reading her post…to see the immediate and awesome answer to that prayer…well, i just can't wait to hear how it went today! Continuing to pray for her right now through the graduation time! Thank you, Jesus…You are so faithful! Praying through all the prayer requests yesterday was such a privilege, people i don't even know are so precious to me…and what was my prayer request? To be used by God in some small way…my heart has been ripping out of my chest with such pain for all the things that are happening all over the world…the urgent needs….so wanting to be doing something for them and for the Lord…and then you posted today about the Knee Team! My heart just bursts…i have a small place…on a very special team! Thank you for letting me be on the team and pray unceasingly… fast…and watch what the Lord does with it all! oh my what a privilege!
So praying for all the details for the Go Team and special energy/strength for DW…praying for your Esther role and favor! Praying for you and healing, as we continue to pray for Elliot…the Lord is so not done yet! Praying for your whole family as they are here and there…that the little ones will have special times with you while everyone is away and you will have strength, wellness and refreshing times as well. God's love pouring out upon you! Thank you again, for everything! <3
Linny I just LOVE being part of the KNEE TEAM!!
God worked his miracle at 9 p.m last night, 16 hours before graduation my phone rang with the news of two tickets. The mother that gave them to my friend to her she did not like my boy, that he was a mean kid. My friend share part of our story and told her he was an angry boy not mean.
My mom went with me, I never put myself in a situation where I am alone when I know his father and the stepmother will be there. Just too dangerous. WE HAD AWESOME SEATS! 5 rows from the stage, right where the graduates walk in. My mom even got a little smile and a quick wave from my boy!
He pretty much kept his back turned from me as much as possible, his paternal family were sitting on the other side of the gym. But I did get a couple smiling shots of him with my long lens.
If you only knew the entire sick story, I don't even believe it and I am living it. That is how evil and wicked it is.
But GOD is so much bigger than the evil. I will continue to praise God. He's holding Brock close.
And the mountain moved because of all the prayers my brothers and sisters in Christ who pleaded and prayed for me.
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR HELPING ME SEE MY BABY GRADUATE!
The tears are coming now, thanking God over and over again.
Blessings,
Suzanne
I LOVE the Knee Team 🙂
I also LOVE watching God do what He does best…no matter what the mountain, He can move it. And when He doesnt, the path He leads you on is more than you could have ever hoped for!
Brooke Annessa
http://www.theannessafamily.blogspot.com
You all can see my beautiful boy in his cap and gown on my blog freedomhollowfarmkiddos.blogspot.com
Still rejoicing in the miracle God blessed me with!!!
Linny — your heart is so big, your words are so wise! Thank you for sharing, thank you for praying. I am so glad Suzanne was able to see her son graduate – may it be the beginning of much healing and reconciliation. I am also praying for the "meeting" that will happen tonight. I am so glad I could pray with you the first time and will pray with you again. Also praying for you and the littles at home – may it be a sweet time with NO DRAMA OR ACCIDENTS! 🙂 Love ya, lady!
OMGOODNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I cried like a fool over that prayer request! Olivia is graduating 8th grade on the 13th and I could not imagine not being able to be there. What absolutely wonderful news. I am so happy for Suzanne. And I can add a bit of good news too. God provided us a way to pay a bill that was taking years off my life because I was stressing over it so much. And just as the clock was striking 12 I might add 🙂
Continuing to pray Linny!
joyous news suzanne! May Jehovah be praised! (of the last minute!) i am praying for the Esther situation sweet Linny and the entire uganda visit and work to be mightily blessed of the Lord as His living Word continues to flow through that nation. praise Him for the provision of the bill paid! Praise Him for the Knee Team! Today I am fasting in thanks to my Shepherd for the prayers sent up as incense before Him for the safety and release and homecoming of my beloved brother Christopher and his babies Natalia and Nikodem. How can i thank you saints for bending your knee in love for me but to continue to pray for you. THoug hi have not yet heard, nor seen the victorious miracle of their release I praise Him for hte strength to carry on in obedience until I see the manifestation of His goodness. He loves them more than i ever can and that is a LOT! Please continue to pray with me for the manifestation of their release, believing, until they come home. Glory to Him for His lovingkindness and faithfulness every hour. Please continue to post the answers to our prayers as they flood in. It strengthens and rejoices this heart! Much love, Lynn Marie