Ending the Year Well
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I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing. 2 Timothy 4:7,8 NIV
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The Challenge to End Well
by Dr. Charles Stanley
From Daily Devotionals for Men on Thelife.com/Experience
What is true in track and field is equally true in life: how we end the race is more important than how we begin.
God does not take new believers straight to heaven upon salvation. Instead, He leaves us here on earth and gives each of us a ministry to carry out with Christ’s all-sufficient power. (Read the full Devotional)
As 2008 comes to an end, spend time in prayer this week asking God to show you how to finish well. Pray for others in your life who need the Lord’s strength to finish this year and face the new one.
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MONDAY
Post-Abortion Chat Series
Each week in the month of January we will be hosting a chat dealing with the topic of post-abortion. Please be in prayer for those leading the series as well as the many women whom God is prompting to join us and begin the healing process.
Online Requests: Teen & Youth Concerns
I’m pregnant. I just found out and I don’t know what to do. It’s gotten around school that I got pregnant by a guy I don’t know at a party. I know it was wrong, but no one believes me. Now I only have a few friends who stuck with me. This whole pregnancy thing is really hard to deal with. I don’t know what I’m going to do or how I’m going to survive. No one listens to me and I just need someone to talk to. (fromtodayon.com from dmlive.com)
I have so many questions about relationships but I don’t know who to talk to. How do I make decisions about dating and love without getting hurt? It seems like all my friends are making bad decisions so I don’t want to go to them for advice. Sometimes I think my only option it to risk heartbreak. (fromtodayon.com from dmlive.com)
TUESDAY
Finishing Well in TruthMedia
We would appreciate your prayers as we close the chapter on 2008. Ask God to grant us energy, strength and perseverance to finish strong in ministry.
Online Requests: Health & Safety Concerns
My dear husband has been sick for nearly 3 years. The heart specialist said it is the lungs and the lung specialist said it is the heart and his doctor said nothing. He is experiencing pain through his joints and muscles and has no strength to even go for a second opinion. Will you please stand with me in prayer for my husband’s salvation, deliverance and total healing? (Online Mentor)
My husband and I are unable to have children. I feel so strongly that we are meant to be parents but physically it seems impossible. Please pray that, if it is God’s will for us to have children, He would heal my body. Only He, the Great Physician can make this happen. (thelife.com/experience)
WEDNESDAY
Looking Ahead
We need God’s wisdom to plan ahead for the coming year. Please pray that our team would have creativity and willing hearts to pursue with confidence whatever God has for us in 2009.
Online Requests: Family & Financial Concerns
I wish to thank you for praying with me for my family; my brother has come to the Lord. He is just about to be shipped out to Iraq and I told him I cannot release him to the war zone without him surrendering his life and his marriage to Jesus. So we prayed on the phone and he said a prayer with me. Praise God! (Online Mentor)
I would like to ask for prayer for my unsaved grandmother who is 88 years old. Please pray also for my mother, aunts, uncles, nieces, cousins, sisters,brothers and the rest of my relatives that they may surrender their lives to Christ. Please pray for our country Jamaica that the crime and violence may cease. I believe that there is no distance in prayer, and God is a Universal God.Thank you and may God continue to bless you all. (secretsofsuccess.com)
THURSDAY
Volunteer Needs in the New Year
Join us in praying that God would provide workers for the harvest that is in front of us in 2009. We need more volunteers to join with us in so many capacities – from online mentoring to leading chats to writing articles. Visit truthmedia.com for more information on how you can do ministry in 2009.
Online Requests: Marriage & Relationship Concerns
Please pray for my husband and me. He says he doesn’t love me or want our marriage. Although we are believers, he’s fallen away from the Lord. Please pray for supernatural hope and love and against all fear and doubt. Pray for complete restoration of our marriage so that we can be a testimony to others. We need a miracle. (secretsofsuccess.com)
My husband and I have been married for 7 years now. We have two beautiful children, but I think that’s all We have. I don’t think either one of us want this anymore. The last two years have probably been the worst. But when I think about our relationship, I don’t think it’s ever been my definition of good, healthy, or happy. His is verbally, emotionally and maybe even mentally abusive, oh and there has been the occasional push so physical on top of that. We don’t enjoy each others company. the truth is we’ve never been able to get to know each other as I became pregnant very quickly after meeting each other.There is a part of me that wants to be married because I said until death do part. I feel stuck, sad, lonely, depressed, unloved, not needed or wanted. What do I do? (womentodaymagazine.com)
FRIDAY
TruthMedia Leadership
Please pray with us for our leadership, specifically our Director, Karen. As she leads our ministry she needs a special covering of prayer for wisdom, patience, boldness and strength. Thank you for lifting up all our leaders in prayer.
Online Requests: Spiritual Concerns
Please pray for me that I may renew my faith in Christ and that I may overcome the temptations of the flesh. (secretsofsuccess.com)
It is so hard for me to know what I am supposed to do with my life. I feel like I don’t have a direction and I’m going to come to the end of my life having wasted it. How do I know what to devote my time and energy to? Can you pray for me to figure out some direction in my life please? (thelife.com)
on the issue of post-abortion: over 24 years ago, i found myself pregnant. i was in my very early 20′s. without the Lord in my life at that time, i saw no option other than to abort. i did so going into the middle of the 5th month. i could not have it done in my country as the laws said I was too far along. i ended up crossing the border and although I didn’t know it at the time, it was but by the grace of God that I didn’t die. i carried this deed with me throughout my whole adulthood, only pondering on it every now and then. in my 48th year my relationship with the Lord was re-newed. and in this renewal, i was able to forgive myself of the actions of a very scared, naive young woman who carried this guilt all these years. it was a trial that I had to experience, it was His will but it has also made me stronger in knowing that our God is truly a loving and forgiving God. my life today is so blessed as I now grow in my spiritual life.
Thanks so much for sharing your heart, Kanj. If it is possible we would love to have you join the post-abortion chats starting the first week in January and taking place every Wednesday at 9pm EST. Here is the link for the evangelistic chatroom where it will take place http://thelife.com/discover/chat/. I really think your story, encouragement and prayers could help other women start the process of healing. Thanks again for sharing the freedom and healing you have found in God’s forgiveness.
SarahH,
thank you for the invitation. I’d be honored to join the chats but as to what more I can contribute, I’ll let the Lord guide me.
God bless,
kanj
SarahH,
I logged on to the thelife.com/discover/chat at 9pm tonight(wed). i stayed for an hour. I will return next week. I’m still not sure where I can contribute but I know that the Lord will show me why I may be needed here.
bless you