The Need for Prayer

Sometimes we need prayer right now, not days later when we request it in our church. Writing a daily devotional I have had quite a few occasions in the last couple of months where my readers email me requesting prayer for themselves or for others they love. If a person takes the time to go online asking for prayer from their internet friends they really need it in a timely manner.

Praying for others is no small matter, so if you're asked to pray for another be diligent with the Lord in this matter, for collective voices praying is powerful and results in manifestation when it comes from the heart and is a sincere desire for people in need even when you don't know them personally.

A study was recently done that showed people who were prayed for recovered 30% more than those who were not prayed for. In this research study, prayers were assigned to a group of patients while another group were not given the praying group. The patients who prayed for recovered more quickly than the group not prayed for as well. Families who are prayed for in crisis get through that difficult time more successfully and quicker than people who have no one to pray with them and help them and be their for them. Love of others is a healing presence and a source that lifts the spirit of one hurting and grieving. So if you are a prayer warrior and feel a call to lift burdens from others please email me so I can make available these prayer requests to you.

If you need this ministry to be an intercessor in prayer for you or someone you love please send your request to: djbraman@gmail.com

If you need a person to pray on the phone with you leave your phone number at the email address and someone will call and pray with you. Posted prayer requests will be by first name only unless otherwise requested. You can post a prayer for prayer request on comment.

10-21-09

Continue to pray for 10 year old Jacob Rhodes from Kinston, NC who had brain surgery at Duke Hospital yesterday, that his recovery will be speedily. His recovery will be two months so emails to him would be great to lift him up. His Mother, Donna needs your prayers as well. You can email him at: dlrhodes@embarqmail.com

10-21-09 Steve Raeford, a coworker with my husband at Sandoz has a 25 year old daughter who lost her best friend since childhood last week needs prayer. She is grieving over this shock of the loss and is having a hard time understanding why. Her friend who was 25 years old had flu-like symptoms and went to the hospital. She went into a coma and was brain dead for some time and the family made the decision to take her off life support. Situations like this are difficult to understand and we pray for God to give closure to her family and her friend.

10-21-09 I would like to send out this prayer request for a married couple who are friends of mine and who are struggling with marriage problems as a result of an unfaithful incident by the husband, Teresa is struggling with the pain of this but loves her husband and is praying for a way to save her marriage of 12 years. They have two beautiful little girls. You know the devil is a liar, and he loves nothing better than to attack marriages because that covenant is the closest thing we have to our covenant with the Lord. Pray for repentance by him and that forgiveness will come into her heart. Marriages that opt to stay together in such a crisis go through a lengthy healing process, pray for that healing to come and to redirect their lives and bring them, in love into a relationship with the Lord.

10-21-09 Donna Brown has a brain tumor that in inoperable. She is in a rehab with hospice in Wilson. She is in her sixties and a wonderful Christian. Her husband passed away a few months ago who had Alzheimers. She also cared for her Mother-in-law for years who also had Alzheimers. She has taken care of others for so long and pray now for the Lord to comfort and care for her in her last days.

10-21-09 Please pray for Steve in Goldsboro that God will send him a wife. He has been a Christian for 2 years now and is searching for a Christian wife. Don't laugh at this prayer request, because if more people would pray for a wife and allow God to send them, there wouldn't be as many divorces and so many marriages unequally yoked.

10-21-09 Pray for the recovery of Keith Hobgood who had lung surgery two ago. He had contracted an infection on his lung and the surgeon had to make and incision to get to the lung to actually remove the infection. Pray for the healing of that lung.