We also have joy with our troubles,

because we know that these troubles produce patience.

~Romans 5:3 NCV~

( I selected this verse last night and emailed it to myself.  This morning, the needs to be posted just seem to require the verse.  God provides!)

Continue to pray for Mrs. Faye Price and her family.

Dukes

Day by Day

Vance Havner had a great book. But this journey we are on has given this new meaning.  I am not a patient man.  We must just trust God and be patient, waiting on mom to get better.  She has good days and bad.  Even though today she stood and tried to walk, with total support, and sat for over an hour so she was probably very tired but today she had a bad day. The therapist are really working her and that may be why she has had two “different days”. she has just been a little less moving of left side, and a little more hazy confused at times not smiling as much.  We know with brain injuries patients can go up and down and you dont really know where the new normal is for over a year.   Just pray for her.  Pray for her cognition, pray for no infection, pray for her mobility and strength.  Pray that God would allow complete recovery.

Dad is doing well continue to lift him up.  He is having good workouts at therapy.  Pray for his work and classes as he is stretched mentally and emotionally.

A new friend said to me yesterday, “there is nothing like intimacy with God”  This journey along with his and Justin and Jennifer’s have taught us all that sometimes it is not like we want it but it is what it is.  And more importantly we have learned that what we know about God, we now really have experientail heart knowledge that he loves us and walks with us and carries us.  Our intimacy has grown in reality as He has walked through this with us.  He does love us so much.  We can live each day with Him because He lives.  When we suffer in pain, he relates to us he is there with us and he understands our anger, sadness, our desire to right a wrong. He also beautifully picks us up as we would our own children when they fuss and yell because something unfair has happened to them.  We pick them up and hold them in and through the emotional state they are in at the time.  He is with us, emmanuel, all the time through good  bad and ugly.  How much peace does that bring, a peace that passes all understanding.

Thanks for all your encouragement and prayer and all the way you have shown us love as a family.  We appreciate it and will never forget it.

Susie Eads’ Mom

Requesting prayers for my Mom. She has a breast biopsy tomorrow for a suspicious spot seen on her mammogram. She has survived breast cancer twice in the past and has undergone a mastectomy of one breast in 1997 and then then radiation and grueling chemotherapy in 2006 for cancer in the other breast. Please pray for a good report. She’s a strong lady. I love and admire her more than words could ever express….

Pray for Mrs. Nadine Council.  She has been having hip troubles that have limited her ability to do the things she normatlly does.

Deloy Chapman and daughter, Gracie, leave for Ecuador Friday morning!

Dwayne and Trisha Wison will be on a mission trip in

El Salvador June 27-July 6.  Pray for them too.

KOMpray

Kids on Mission Pray

International Mission Board

Prayer requests

“Let the little children come to Me, and don’t stop them,

because the kingdom of God belongs to such as these,”

Luke 18:16b

Mexico City missions to youth

Gerardo is new Christian in Mexico City. The church he goes to is called La Iglesia que Te Ama which means The Church that Loves You. Isn’t that a great name for a church? Gerardo is praying for his teenage sister. His sister is sick with bulimia, an eating disorder, so please pray that she will eat right and be healthy. Will you also pray with him for her to accept Jesus as Savior?    Two teenage missionary kids have a Saturday night youth group at their house, and Gerardo likes to go. These teens spend time praying for their Mexican friends. They tell their friends about the hope of Jesus. So many have difficult home lives, but they study God’s Word together and ask Him to guide them.   Alejandro grew up in a Christian home but he never knew that he needed to trust Jesus himself. He became a Christian this year and was baptized along with 4 other youth. Now he helps lead the youth group!   Alejandro and Gerardo both love studying the Bible. Gerardo says the Lord is calling him to be a youth minister one day. The first teenager he hopes to reach is his sister.   Please pray that God will continue to use Gerardo and Alejandro, and the 2 missionary kids. Pray that they will be able to help teenagers in Mexico City who need Jesus.

MORE PRAYER REQUESTS FROM MISSIONARY KIDS

I’m worried about some of my friends at school.  One believes in astrology, writes her horoscopes, healing powers in crystals etc., another has a severe hatred for God, and doesn’t want anything to do with Him.  Most of my friends are simply indifferent.  Please pray for them that God may have His way in their lives.  JILLIAN, age 14 (Central, Eastern and Southern Africa)

Please pray for me. I don’t have very many friends where I live. Please pray for my friend “Alice” to become a believer. EL, age 9 (East Asia)

My best friend is a Muslim, she has a Christian mother, but her father decided for her to be a Muslim. I would like her to be a Christian because I care about her. KATIE, age 12 (Northern Africa and the Middle East)

I need a friend. CALEB, age 6 (Pacific Rim)

War

…I HAVE NO alternative but to bluntly call it a war…

The prize is the inner spirit of my children, and the stakes are high. Arrayed against me are those who wish to extract money, loyalty, and the strong creative energy my son or daughter may have to give. In the eternal dimension, the prize is the soul of my children. I am not prepared to compromise or negotiate. Until my children are old and wise enough to distinguish their enemies from their friends, I hold the responsibility to conduct both a defense and an offense on their behalf, demonstrating all the time how and why it is done for their benefit.

It is not a phony war the effective father faces. It is often a jungle conflict fought with the stealth of a modern day “guerrilla” who appears in the day as an innocent friend, only to return in the night as a bitter and exploitative foe. My eyes return to the war photo of the squad’s leader, mine detector in hand, leading the way. Behind him are men; they follow because he has the capacity to discern the safe path. There are no careless steps; mistakes are fatal. Gordon MacDonald

“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12

Posted by Mike Benson at June 17, 2009 1:57 PM

May your joys outnumber your troubles!

Anna Lee

“I am He who lives, and was dead,

and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen.

And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.”

~Revelation 1:18, NKJV~

Doctor appointments can help the caregiver as much as the patients.  That’s the way I feel after taking Momma and Daddy to the doctor yesterday.  I know we are one the right track.  Thanks for your continued prayers for my parents, my sisters, and me.

This devotional is the kind of medical treatment we don’t need, but it carries a message that needs to be shared.  Thank you, Mike Benson, so getting across messages in such a special way.

Lazy

THERE WAS A big, overgrown cow poke named Tall Cotton, whose specialty was going to sleep during duty hours, leaving the rest of the crew to do his share of the work…

The boys took it for a time, but they finally decided that something had to be done about the matter.

Then came the day they found Cotton curled up in a haystack, boots off, sound asleep. They opportunity was golden. The boys rounded up a huge tarantula, killed it, and laid it close to Cotton’s leg. Then they tied a pin on the end of a stick and jabbed the sleeping cowboy a couple of times. Cotton came awake like a wild Comanche doing the snake dance and, at the same time, a cowboy rushed up and smashed the tarantula with his boot heel.

Cotton took one look at the dead tarantula and turned white. He began to get sick, even though the other cowboys did their best to console him with stories of horrible deaths they had seen as a result of tarantula bites. Finally, one of the crew, who laid claim to having read Ten Thousand Things Worth Knowing, as well as Dr. Chase’s Recipe Book, offered to try to save Cotton, even though he admitted it seemed hopeless.

First, the cowboy poured a pint of Castor oil down Cotton. Then he followed it up with a glass of soda, a cup of vinegar, and finally a quart of water in which a plug of tobacco had been soaking. For a while it seemed almost certain that Cotton was going to die from the tarantula bite, but the medicine was potent and, eventually, he was saved.

After that, the crew had very little trouble with him lying down on the job, especially in haystacks! (Stan Hoig, The Humor of the American Cowboy, 26, 27)

“Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.” Proverbs 6:4; cf. 6:9-10, 24:33

Have a blessed day!

Anna Lee