Prayers To My Father

Prayer Request

2010-04-16T05:25:00.000-07:00

From Gabrielle Eden:

My job: I need to seek new employment. I am burning out on telemarketing, and they will not pay me well now for administrative duties. They were willing to pay me well when I went along with dishonesty, but now that I have resisted their dishonest ways, they have demoted me. I feel God is sending me out to find something new.

Will be praying for you Gabrielle, to find just the right job and that you will be right where God needs you to be.

Prayer Request

2010-02-27T06:00:00.000-08:00

From Gabrielle Eden:
God has given me better work, but I need prayer for being able to sleep so I can do my job. Also, I am going to be working days and doing data entry and answering phones in addition to setting appointments by phone. I also would like prayer for the company to operate more in integrity and that I could help them do this more.

Praise Report

2010-01-04T16:00:00.000-08:00

From Gabrielle Eden:

I have a new kitten who is the healing of my heart. My thyroid level miraculously went up as the TSH went down. I am very near normal now. Praise God!

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Thanks for sharing that Gabrielle - it is always a blessing to hear when prayers are being answered!

Prayer Request

2009-12-20T06:16:00.000-08:00

I received a prayer request from Tammi, a single mom of five who is raising the four kids who live with her, and she is facing eviction on January 5th. Tammi has no car, so relies on others for transportation. Tammi mentioned that she feels like she has been on a roller coaster and is stressed by what she is facing. She is trying to look to God in all of this and believes this isn't the life He has for her.

Let's remember Tammi and her children in prayer and pray that God will provide good and safe housing for Tammi and her children and that she will feel peace and rest in God's love in this situation.

Prayer Request

2009-10-29T14:19:00.000-07:00

Prayer request from Marni regarding her mom:
October 27th

Today my mom was diagnosed with cancer. She suspected something was wrong but said nothing until she was sure.

The cancer is in her thyroid, lymph nodes, and there are scary nodules in the back of her throat and in her eustachean tubes.

She's 63, a high school English teacher, mom, wife and a Grammy.

She also has no relationship with Jesus. She thinks she's saved...but she's not.

I believe God won't waste this diagnosis. Please pray for this to be a time where I have ample opportunity to share my faith with her and for her to finally give her heart to God. Ditto for my sister and step dad who need God as well and are reeling from today's news.

Update, October 29th:
As an update, my mom had a biospy yesterday...it's just gonna tell us what the doc already knows...that it's cancer. But today's prayer request is that it NOT be anaplastic cancer. If it is anaplastic, the cure rate is non existent and the life expectancy is less than a year.

But first and foremost, I would love for you all to keep remembering my mom's salvation in your prayers. To me, cancer is secondary to that.

Please keep Marni, her mom and family in your prayers. Praying gal!

Prayer Request

2009-10-28T15:16:00.000-07:00

I received this request from Gabrielle Eden. Please be praying for her friend:

My friend Gale has H1N1 and is weak from the results of chemo treatments that have left damage to her body.

We are concerned that she won't be able to weather the virus.

Thanks for your prayers!!!

Good News and Praise The Lord!

2009-07-15T06:18:00.000-07:00

Great news from Sherri's friend Cheryl who has been undergoing treatment for brain cancer:

1. 4 weeks ago today I found out I had lung cancer that had metastasized into my brain. Friends brought me to Barnes-Jewish hospital where I was told had I NOT been admitted and started receiving treatment when I did I would have been history within the week!

2. 3 weeks ago today I was in Barnes-Jewish ICU recovery eating scrambled eggs, sausage, and drinking my morning coffee after having surgery a day earlier where a 4 cm cancerous tumor was removed from my brain!

3. 2 weeks ago today I was picnicking if beautiful Forest Park enjoying the view from the World's Fair Pavilion and the company of 2 GREAT recreational therapists and other 2 other patients from the Rehab Center!

4. One week ago today my beautiful sister Marcia spent the day with me, I got to go swimming and even ate Chinese food and managed to take a few bites using chopsticks!

5. Today I am preparing for my discharge Saturday when I get to go home! Where I am REALLY looking forward to seeing family & friends. Sleeping in my OWN bed! Having my coffee pot on ALL day long if I want to.

Will return Thursday evening, July 24th to spend the night before receiving the gamma knife radiation treatment on the 25th. It's NOT really a knife but targeted laser treatment to what is called the tumor base, that's the site where the 4cm tumor was removed, the shadow on the right front brain lobe that showed up on the original MRI. They will do brain CAT scan/MRI that morning to see if any where else needs to be treated. Then I get attached to the equipment where as I envision it they start zapping the bad cells kind of like in Star Wars with the light sabers!

Gee, wonder if after they remove the space helmet thing I'll come out with Princess Leia's hair do? Sure hope NOT!

Like I said it's GOOD NEWS Wednesday!

Prayer Requests, July 8th

2009-07-08T05:32:00.000-07:00

Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Heb 4:16

Sherri:
Tyson is a 19 year old soldier, serving in Iraq who was hit yesterday and is suffering brain trauma. They say he is in a hospital in Germany, and they are sending him back to the states (I think to Texas) to a head trauma facility for care.

We LOVE this BOY. He is hilarious and very outgoing - full of life and always smiling and trying to get those around him to belly laugh. He would do ANYTHING to get you to laugh till your sides hurt!

He was thrilled to serve his country and I think we all owe it to him to lift his name in prayer.

When I find out more details, I would love for all of us to send him a card of encouragement - maybe get a bunch of people to join me(your churches, blog readers etc.) Wouldn't that be a great way to encourage someone who sacrificed so much on OUR behalf?

I hope you'll all help.

Annie:
Let's keep Wendy in our prayers as she has been fighting Pneumonia. She started getting worse a few days ago when the fever came back and the coughing became worse and more painful.

Prayer Requests July 2

2009-07-02T19:53:00.000-07:00

Wendy:
My dad finally had his appointment with the oncologist today. All the tests are saying that he has follicular mature B cell lymphoma. This is a good thing and a bad thing. While it is very treatable with chemo and radiation, it's a recurring type of cancer. Yup, it can keep coming back. Seeing that my dad is more afraid of the treatment than the cancer, this is probably not what he was wanting to hear.

Preliminary results point to him being at stage 2, but they won't know for sure until they do a pet scan and a marrow draw next week. At least we hope it will be next week. There's been way too much waiting around already! Once the testing is done we'll find out about when the treatment will start. Anyway, my dad seems to be in good spirits. I'm hoping that he will stay that way! And as always, I really appreciate all your prayers for him. You guys are the best!

Annie:
A life-long friend of my family needs urgent prayer. Christy is 38, married and mother to a 16 year old son. Her parents were some of the first friends my parents made when they moved to Bend in 1965.

Several years ago, Christy took Phen-Phen (the diet drug) and it severely damaged her lungs and heart. She got better, but has taken a turn for the worse. She is on oxygen to breathe and morphine to control the pain. She is now unable to work. If God doesn't heal her, she will die and leave a husband, son, 2 sisters, 2 brothers and some of the most God-fearing parents I have ever known.

While I pray that God heals Christy while she is on earth, I do not know His plan and it may be that she will be called home. Either way, please keep Christy and her family in your prayers.

Prayer Request

2009-07-02T05:00:00.000-07:00

From Sherri:
Annie, Please add this to your prayer blog, and if the rest of you will lift up this young man in your prayers---We're needing some miracles here, folks!

*This was forwarded to me by my friend Cheryl who is recovering from Brain Surgery in St. Louis. She had the large tumor removed from one side, but the two smaller tumors on the other side of her brain they did not remove. She will begin radiation on her brain ASAP, then later is scheduled for Chemo for the lung cancer that they also did not remove.

Amazingly, she is in GREAT spirits- I think right now it is harder on those who love her! She has been a rock!
(SHe's a real fiesty thing, so I'm certain she's giving her doctor's fits!)

Anyone, please read the following and lift this young man and his family, (and Cheryl and her family ) to the throne!

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I'm calling on all my friends for special prayers for my stepson and Mark's only child, Christopher Puttmann.

Chris is 18, he just graduated from High School May 28th of this year, where he was given a standing ovation for his strength and courage. He attended the ceremony just 1 week after brain surgery at St Louis University Hospital. He was also voted "Most Shy" in his graduating class (not surprising, considering who his Father is....) Chris rides horses and actually has spent most of his life competing, he loves dogs, video games and country music. His career aspirations are attending college and becoming a Physical Therapist. He is tall, dark and handsome, at 6'1, he towers over his father and enjoys calling Dad, "shorty"

2 weeks after Chris was discharged from his Neurosurgeon he began having pain and twitching in his legs, then weakness with frequent falling and difficulty urinating. We were told at the time of the surgery that the "tumor" was most likely benign and despite our inquiries and concern, we were told that the patholgy report "was not back"

After several trips back to St Louis University where he was given pain killers and seizure medications, we took Chris to Barnes Hospital in St Louis. There they performed a Ct scan and MRI of the brain and spinal cord. Within the hour, we were told that Chris had a rare form of cancer called Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor, PNET for short. In 4 short weeks, after the removal of "the tumor" in the left frontal lobe of the brain, the disease had spread to throughout the brain lining and all through the spinal cord.

Currently, Chris has paralysis from the waist down and has an indwelling foley catheter to help him urinate. He is receiving radiation dly and chemotherapy weekly. Prognosis, we're told, is not good. All the doctors efforts are focused on irradicating the tumors and inflamation throughout his brain and spinal cord in hopes of Chris regaining the use of his lower extremities, his bowel/bladder function and most importantly his survival.

Chris has also been transferred to Children's Hospital in St. Louis as this type of cancer mostly affects children and the staff there are more familiar with the disease itself and the treatment.

Chris has yet to complain and receives daily treatments and rigorous physical therapy with a quiet nod of acceptance. The nurses and doctors consider him their "best" patient.

Chris is blessed with having 2 sets of parents and therefore, someone is always at his side, playing cards, board games or watching movies. He has yet to be discouraged and remains optimisic. He is so couragous and my new HERO. I'm sure he would love to hear from any and all of you. A cherry note of encouragement, a text or a phone call. I'm not sure of the address but he is in room 1201 at Children's Hospital in St Louis, MO. His cell phone # is 618 694-6601

Please pray for our Chris, we all know God is capable of miracles and hopefully he's planning one for Chris now

I will try to keep you updated on his condition and progress. Please keep him in your prayers.

Praise Report

2009-06-29T16:51:00.000-07:00

I received this from Gabrielle today!

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I got a new test of my TSH level. TSH goes up when the thyroid goes low. My TSH had gone down. This is just since getting prayer. I went to get anointed with oil and hands laid on at a healing room here in the Cities. I also spoke the words of healing scriptures, and I asked you guys to pray for me.

This is a tangible miracle! Thanks so much for your prayers!

Gabrielle

Prayer Requests

2009-06-28T18:36:00.000-07:00

From Amrita:
This is a prayer request for Kishen. He is a Hindu convert has a young family. Kishen is suffering with throat cancer. He's had chemo and is now under going radiation, but because of ulcers in his throat he cannot swallow food. Do pray for him and his family.

Gabrielle:
Just seeking to be cleansed from bitterness. Seeking to truly forgive - people in general.

Daunice:
Still on unemployment and seeking God's will in what He has for her. Also the bills and debt are becoming overwhelming.

Sherri's friend Cheryl Collins:

She was recently "paralyzed" on one side and thought she had a mini stroke.

Yesterday, Upon further testing at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, she found out she has lung cancer that has spread to both sides of the brain, and she is awaiting further testing to see if it has spread elsewhere.

She lives alone, has no insurance and although she is a very strong, brassy sort of lady, I'm sure she is shivering in her boots.

What I'm asking of you is that you send her some encouraging thoughts, prayers, scriptures, forwards or links....anything to help strengthen her spirit as she begins the battle for her life.

Some of you know her, and know that she is a loyal friend and would do anything within her power to help a friend, and she loves people. She would love to know that others are thinking about her, praying for her, and trying to uplift her.

You can send the email to me at asmurphy@clearwave.com and I will forward it to her.

General:
I know there are a lot of people struggling financially out there and I don't know of anyone that is immune from it. It is a scary thing not being able to pay the bills or house payment and the thought of losing a house is pretty heart breaking. Let's keep those who are struggling in our prayers and that God will guide all through these hard times.

A Prayer Over You

2009-06-07T08:16:00.000-07:00

As I was doing my devotions this morning, I was reading a passage that I have read many times before. In fact, it's a passage that is both highlighted (in yellow and pink) and underlined in my bible. As I read this, I was struck by the thought, 'what if we prayed this over each other every day? How would that affect our lives and the lives of others?'

There are a lot of people who need prayer, myself included. We are in uncertain times and by uncertain I mean politically, financially and personally. I know in my life, there are some things right now that are pretty darn scary and uncertain and they hinge totally on my faith in God. I do know that He has a plan for me and my family and no matter what happens, He will use these situations we are faced with for the best because He loves me and my family that much.

So, back to the passage. If everything in this world is uncertain, I believe that this passage tells us the one thing that is certain. And that is God and His love for us. I believe that He will take care of us and guide us if we let Him dwell in our hearts. So, friends, my prayer for you is this:

I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:16-19)

I pray that you will find hope in this and that you can rest in the certainty of a very big God whose love for us is deeper than anything we could ever imagine.

Blessings,
Annie

Prayer Requests

2009-05-29T16:54:00.000-07:00

Wendy:
I would really appreciate prayers for my dad. He was just diagnosed with Lymphoma today. We don't know which kind yet (the doctor is a bit of an idiot), but hope to find out soon. Not exactly the news we were hoping for. Anyway, thanks in advance for praying for him.

Vicki:
I had a big misunderstanding with a friend of mine. We have been friends for 38 years. I wont go into the details but just say I don't know which way to go with this. I don't know if God wants me to make the first move or to wait on him.

Also, please pray that Vicki feels at peace about doing the best she could as a caregiver for her mom.

Thanks friends - you're awesome!

New Prayer Request

2009-05-15T20:19:00.000-07:00

Gabrielle Eden has requested prayer for:

Her Nephew: Healing for his mind.

Gabrielle: Healing for my thyroid glands - just diagnosed with hypothyroidism, and not happy at all about the idea of taking more medicine chronically.

Thanks for praying over these. You're awesome!
Annie

Prayer Request For Wife With Cancer

2009-05-12T15:47:00.000-07:00

New prayer request...

Peter:
Please pray for my wife. She has just been diagnosed with breast cancer - stage II.
Thank you.

New Prayer Requests

2009-05-11T16:28:00.001-07:00

New prayer requests....

Helen:
I reconnected with an old friend from grammar school on facebook and she has been an at home caregiver just like me, only her mom's doctor is recommending that it is time for her mom to go to a nursing home. She's had some complications from cellulitis and the doctor feels they can do better wound care and such there. Carrie is feeling bad putting her mom in a home, and burned out from caring for her mom. She needs strength..... I know that when mom was at her sickest, I couldn't pray myself, but I could sit in His presence and know that my needs were being put forth in front of his throne by many many people, and He hears them as He reads my heart. I want the same for her....

Debi:
For God's hand in the sale of her business so that she can stay home and homeschool her children.

Beverly:
For the healing of blood clots in her leg, possibly caused by sitting to long due to overseas flights.

A Friend:
Wisdom in the handling of a situation where her young son has been viewing pornography on the internet.

Sherri:
That power will be restored and for the safety of those in her community who were affected by the inland hurricane.

URGENT Prayer Request

2009-05-04T06:33:00.000-07:00

A very good friend of mine sent this to me and I am going to share it so that we can cover David in prayer. You are all a blessing.

Annie

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Please pray as soon as you get this message for David. He is in our family and is currently suicidal. We really need to pray against the enemy and no matter when you read this your prayers matter. Please join us in praying for his deliverance from the darkness and against any feelings of wanting to hurt himself.

Thank you,
Debi

The Need To Pray For Others

2009-04-25T08:54:00.001-07:00

Over the past several months I have realized there is a great need to pray for others and I wanted to create a place where people could come and leave any prayer requests they have.

There are people in this world who are hurting, broken, addicted, jobless, homeless, hopeless, ill, in need of salvation, healing and direction. We all know such people and I have felt led to start this blog as a place where we can gather together and place our petitions before a mighty God who is willing to listen and able to help in what I feel is a time of great need for so many.

Please feel free to email me at buzzbyannies@gmail.com with any requests and I will post them as I receive them. I would also love to hear about any prayer requests that have been answered and will post those as well.

I believe God is a God of love and has great passion for all of us. If we are willing to seek Him with all of our heart and rest in His care He will reveal the plans He has for us.

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.:
Jeremiah 29:11

Let's truly believe that truth that was spoken thousands of years ago and is alive still today.