Oops!! Father still knows their names, but I need an update!

This post is a plea for forgiveness and help to my followers. I have started a new blog about diabetes and because I was looking to freshen it up, I decided I wanted to do the same for this blog and my devotional blog, One Sacrifice For All Time. I knew that if I replaced my template I would lose some of my gadgets, but I didn't really have too many on this site. However, it never occurred to me that I would also lose my listing of all the people I had listed in need of salvation. Thankfully, my Father knows each and every one intimately, but I am asking that if you had a loved one or were burdened for someone on this blog, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE leave me a comment so that I may "re-list" them here. I will also be adding several "new" names and hope to update this blog a little more often.

Again, I am truly sorry. I re-posted my original post from January so if you are new or need a refresher on the purpose of this blog please scroll down and read that post. Thanks to all the faithful prayer warriors out there who are working alongside me to pray for the lost and dying of this world. May we see many new souls caught this year.

1000 Souls

Last year I started a page in my prayer journal titled, "1000 Souls" with the intention of listing the names of 1000 people that I know need salvation and praying for them at least weekly. I must confess at this point only consists of 54 names, but I can praise the Lord that I could remove one of them as salvation has occurred for them. PTL!!

I have decided to extend my prayer challenge to my friends in the blog world. I believe that prayer is a very misunderstood AND UNDERUTILIZED aspect of the Christian life. I by no means am an "expert" in prayer, which is exactly why I am qualified to talk about it. Jesus said that we were not to pray as the hypocrites with big words and lengthy phrases, but rather in plain speech with a humble worshipful heart; a heart that believes that the One to whom we pray both hears us and WILL ANSWER us.

"This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him." 1 John 15:14-15

My purpose as stated at the top of this blog is this: I want honor my Lord by providing a place to publicly display His Power and the Power that exists through prayer and praying for the salvation of others. I to invite you all to participate in my "1000 Souls" prayer by commenting and leaving the initials of someone you know that needs salvation. Please be sensitive to the public nature of our relationship; you might even want to sign it anonymously.

Secondly, I plan to write a post (hopefully weekly) with regard to prayer and what the Lord has taught me, and I invite you to share prayer requests each week either for yourself and/or family and friends. Feel free to leave additional names for salvation each week as well. If you really feel led to do so, I also invite you to post what the Lord has done in your life through prayer and link your post back here to my site with Mr. Linky. If you should choose to write at your blog, I ask that you invite others to participate here in the "1000 Souls" so as to magnify the ability to pray for the salvation of as many people as possible. I have no problem with renaming it "10,000 Souls" should the Lord so bless it.

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A Friend Comes at Midnight

A Friend Comes at Midnight

And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves; for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; and he will answer from within and say, ‘Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you’? I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs. Luke 11:5-8 (New King James Version)

Hello everyone out there. I'm sorry I have negleceted this blog in postings, but rest assured not in prayer. I have prayed for the people listed here and I can't wait when the answers start pouring in about salvation so we can begin gloryfying or great Father for His love and hearing of our prayers.

I hope that this will be my last week back in the work force, and I will be back home with my little bugaboo with a refreshed attitude of gratitude about being a SAHM and homemaker. I have so many ideas floating around about organizing and running our home.

I would like to encourage any of you out there to continue to seek the Lord for the lost and please leave their names here. I really hope that by the end of 2009 I have at least 1000 souls in need of salvation represented on this blog. Sometimes I think we don't see great movements of God in our lives because we don't EXPECT great movements of God in our lives. I am expecting HIM to answer our prayers on this site and save our loved ones (and our enemies).

The signs of the end times are EVERYWHERE, and it won't be long before the chapter on the church age and the age of grace is closed, and the door is forever shut. We must seek out the lost with great urgency and share the good news of Jesus Christ with them before it is too late.

meanwhile praying also for us, that God would open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains, that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. Colossians 4:3-6 (New King James Version)