Mind if I pray for you?

Mind if I pray for you?

54 Comments 06 February 2013

mindifi

I’m so thankful you stopped by for prayer. I truly believe prayer changes things because it involves a conversation and a communion with God. He is capable, near, and close to the brokenhearted. I know there are times when you feel like He doesn’t hear, or that your faith is as small as a speck of sand. Be encouraged. God does see. He does hear. He understands your needs far better than I do.

I’m just a girl who believes God wants to do amazing stuff in you, in me, in this world. So take a risk today and share your prayer request in the comments section. Together, we’ll create a really cool prayer group. I will pray for you right after your comment, so check back to read your you-shaped prayer.

Now for a question:

Have you ever felt helpless?

That all you can do is holler a few words to the heavens and ask for simple help? I’ve been in that place more times than I can count. It’s a good place. A hard place. A needy place. Where we realize that we can’t do everything. Usually during those times, my prayers sound a lot like this one:

icantprayer

We can’t control our friends or frenemies or enemies.

We can’t even control our own lives.

We can’t control what God will do.

We can’t control how long we’ll grieve.

We can’t control our health or lack of it.

We can’t control our children or spouse.

We can’t control our circumstances.

We can’t control the timing of things.

We can’t control money or bills.

And sometimes life careens out of control and all we can do is yell “Help.”

If you’re in that space today, I give you permission to share your YELP prayer request in the comments section. May Jesus come to your rescue today!

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  • secret angel

    I love your website and so glad that I found it. I have been a victim of abuse and DV and have started a ministry to provide education and reach out to victims of abuse. Please pray for this ministry and for my upcoming book, The Walking Wounded. The majority of proceeds are going into ministries that help victims of abuse. I have started Secret Angel Ministry and have plans to one day build Secret Angel Safe Houses and Secret Angel Transitional Houses for victims that want their lives transformed by the Grace of God. God rescued me and I know that He will do the same for others…

    • leahcbrock

      Love your blog (it’s what got me onto this site), praying for your book.

  • ELAYNE

    GOD HAS BLESSED ME IN MANY WAYS OVER THE YEARS ,I FEEL HIS PRESENCE I KNOW HE HAS NOT LEFT ME. THE LAST FIVE YEARS HAVE BEEN BAD IT STARTED WITH MY THEN TEENAGE DAUGHTER HAVING ANXIETY THEN SHE DROPPED OUT OF SCHOOL (SHE IS MY ONLY CHILD) WHICH I KNOW GOD SENT TO US. THEN AT NINETEEN SHE SENT ME A TEXT SHE WAS PREGNANT I CRIED FOR DAYS SHE WAS UNMARRIED I PRAYED AND FELT AND ACCEPTED BEAUTIFUL AUDREY INTO OUR HOME , THEN FOUR MONTHS LATER SHE WAS PREGNANT AGAIN DURING THIS MY HUSBAND WHO IS DIABECTIC STARTED LOSING HIS SIGHT HE NOW CAN NOT DRIVE THE TENSION IN THE HOME IS UNBEARABLE. THEN IN DEC. THIS PAST YEAR I LOST MY DEAR MOTHER WHO HAD BEEN MY ROCK. HER HOME MY REFUGE, THE SORROW WAS ALMOST MORE THAN I COULD BEAR, SHORTLY AFTER THAT I GOT DEMOTED AT MY JOB AND TOOK A LARGE PAYCUT. MY MOTHER HAD LEFT SOME INSURANCE AND LEFT ME TO DIVIDE AMONG MY BROTHERS AND MYSELF AND THEY ACTED BADLY , MY NEW SUPERVISOR SAID TO ME YOUR SPIRIT IS BROKEN AND ITS TRUE I KNOW IT IN MY HEART. ITS LIKE GOD ASKED HER TO SAY THAT. SO WITH THAT BLESSING FROM MY MOTHER I MOVED MY DAUGHTER AND THE MAN SHE SOON MARRIED AFTER THE BIRTH OF MY SECOND GRANDAUGHTER BEAUTIFUL LITTLE ALLYSON, WHO SMILES ALL THE TIME ALL OVER HERSELF. i LOVE THESE BABIES. INTO AN APARTMENT IN HOPES TO HELP WITH TENSION BETWEEN MY DAUGHTER AND HER FATHER. I WORK TWELVE HOUR DAYS AND MY WORK IS NOT DONE WHEN I GET HOME. NOW MY HUSBAND OF TWENTY SIX YEARS HAS LEFT BEEN GONE FOR TWO DAYS. IM MENTALLY STABLE I WOULD NEVER HARM MYSELF BUT JESUS WHAT IS GOING TO CHANGE ALL OF THIS , MY BEAUTIFUL REBECKA HONOR STUDENT SO PRECIOUS AS A CHILD HAS NOT MADE A LIFE FOR HERSELF THAT I PICTURED AND IT HAS TOOK OVER MINE. I GOT ALL OF THEM LOOKING TO ME FINANICALLY AND SUPPORT AND MY BACK IS ABOUT TO BREAK AND MY HEART IS ALREADY TO PIECES. PLEASE SEND ME WHATEVER GOD HAS TO SAY TO ME. IM BELEIVING

    • http://www.marydemuth.com Mary DeMuth

      Lord thank you that you see Elayne and that you love her family. Help her to know way down deep that You are working on her behalf. Amen.

  • natasha

    Dear friends sorry if i may say this but i really need to let you all know that a great thing that has happen in my life and also in the life of my son, I have been sick for the last 6 months and i lost my job i had no to run to all that was left with me was my only son lovely son who brought the solution to my problem although i never know how it all happen but all i can say is thanks be to Dr Ekaka who help me with healing spell through my son and after 7days i started seeing changes in my life. I will advice anyone in need of help to contact him on his email: ekakaspelltemple@yahoo.com

  • Fiore87

    I feel like nothing goes right for me…yrs past and everything going wrong…when I think I’m doing good something always happen…love wise and job wise are never on my side

    • http://www.marydemuth.com Mary DeMuth

      Jesus, please lift Fiore’s head and help them to feel like You see, that You know what’s happening. Use this time of stress and sadness to draw them to Yourself in cool, amazing ways.

  • E

    I don’t even know what to pray. I keep speaking Isaiah 41:10 but I can’t let go of this grip on my fear. My 20 year old son called me in the middle of the night last night to tell me he is seeing things, shadows lurking, and he is having thoughts that he doesn’t want to have. I feel frozen, I don’t know what to pray or what to do, but I know he is under attack. He has struggled with drugs of and on for the past 3-4 years. He loves Jesus and everytime he falls, he is full of deep remorse. The last time he did drugs, he was in a very low point in his life and he told me he made a pack with satan during that time. When he sobered up he was horrified at what he had done, turned back to the Lord, called and told me everything. Since then the more he reads the Bible and prays the more he sees things and the more his mind becomes filled with thoughts of doing stronger drugs. I need truth and life spoken to me. I feel as if I am in a dream trying to run and scream and yet I am going nowhere and making no sound. HELP!!

    • http://www.marydemuth.com Mary DeMuth

      Jesus, lift E today. Help her to realize You are stronger than Satan, that You love her son more than she does, and that her fretting doesn’t merit anything. Help her give her son to You, and help him turn fully to You. You are greater. You are stronger. Amen.

  • nenek

    As a pastor’s wife, I’m faced with watching him be drug through very discouraging times with his leadership team. Please pray for us as we walk through this trial and that we would hear what GOD is saying not just the discouraging words of man. As we long to follow God, I long to stand with my husband whatever the future may hold.

    • http://www.marydemuth.com Mary DeMuth

      Jesus, please be with nenek and her husband during this stressful trial. Be the rock they need. Defend them.

  • Sunnyday

    Please ask God for physical healing and a desire to know God for two granddaughters and two grandsons. One has autoimmune disease (12), two have emotional issues 11 & 13 and one has glaucoma 26. Thank you and God bless your ministry.

    • http://twitter.com/MaryDeMuth Mary DeMuth

      Jesus, please bring healing and a holy yearning for Sunnyday’s grandkids. You are big enough, and we trust You!

  • Sounding

    Need to increase my Faith, to believe that God is an on time God. I can say it, but I need to reaffirm it. I need a prayer to help me accept that I cannot change yesterday, but in God there is Hope for tomorrow.
    Help me Lord to gain the Faith, the Strength, the Wisdom, the Knowledge and the Understanding about You…Amen

    • http://www.marydemuth.com Mary DeMuth

      Lord, increase Sounding’s faith in small and big ways this week. Bring new life, new joy, new hope. Provide please. Amen.

  • Blessings by Grace

    I ran across your article An Open Letter, I can’t stop
    crying. I wish I could do this but I can’t and I feel so sinful. I know that I
    must get to this place but I have been struggling for the past 3 years with
    PTSD. One night I went to bed and the nightmares started and they haven’t
    stopped. I am so tired. For 40+ years I have been so proud of myself that I had
    healed all the wounds by myself and that I was so strong. I have always had
    Jesus as my best friend that was always there through the wounds of my soul;
    abuse from mother, abuse from choir teacher at the alter were he married at 10,
    the rape, the pregnancy, the abortion ect… Everything plays in the mind and
    my soul over and over again. I pray that someday my soul will dance again.

    • http://www.marydemuth.com Mary DeMuth

      Jesus, set Blessings of Grace blessedly free. Thank You that she is at the end of herself SO THAT she can find more of You and Your capability to heal her. Bring people in her life who will dare to pray her toward new healing. Help her rest in Isaiah 43:16-21. You will do new things. Rescue and restore. And hold back the words of the evil one. Amen.

  • Lennette

    Dealing with so much opposition from people, need to have strong clarity and confirmation from God as I am at a cross roads and unsure of what to do.

    • http://twitter.com/MaryDeMuth Mary DeMuth

      Jesus, please clarify the path for Lennette even now. Give her peace about what to do. Help her discern what the opposition means. Amen.

  • sarah

    I’ve dealt with too many phonies over the years that I become very jaded regarding magic and spells. Dr Deva Email: lakshmantemple@gmail.com you helped me through some really tough times and leading me to this spell was the best thing you could have done for me. I honestly didn’t see my future ever changing or that I would ever have love in my life again, especially after my divorce and breaking up with a man I thought was perfect for me. With this spell a whole new world opened up for me. I’m now with someone that truly loves me and is good for me and I never would have met him had it not been for the magnetic attraction spell. You saved a life Dr. Deva!

  • colleen @ the gift of mondays

    how incredibly timely. prayers are needed. we own a small motel. 25 rooms. we pray for our guests-the ones who are here and the ones who will come in the future. we keep the Bible -out and open- to Psalm 91 in each room. we keep the tv’s set to The Trinity Broadcasting Network believing that just one Word from God can save a life. each night my boys and i kneel down and ask God to destroy satan’s strongholds off of our guest’s lives. we pray with people and believe for their healing or their breakthrough.

    we believe that this is a place of favor and grace.

    and on tuesday a lady checked in…and killed herself. we found her thursday morning.

    with all our asking for God to cover…it didn’t seem like it was enough. and that, along with my past, broke me.

    http://www.thegiftofmondays.com/2013/02/i-know-how-it-feels-to-be-broken.html

    • http://twitter.com/MaryDeMuth Mary DeMuth

      Jesus, I pray for Colleen and her family that You would surround them with songs of deliverance and help them rest in You. I pray for the woman’s family left behind that You would comfort them. This is a big, painful world, Jesus, and how You must grieve too. Help Colleen to press into You despite this tragedy.

  • Shelley

    After years and months of tragedy and heartache, I feel like giving up. So many issues, and right now dealing with parents with dementia who need some caregiving almost daily, but resent that they need assistance. I should be at home more with my husband to try to save a hugely disappointing marriage I don’t even want to be in.

    • http://twitter.com/MaryDeMuth Mary DeMuth

      Jesus, lift Shelley’s heart, mind and face today. She is so tired and discouraged and she feels like giving up. Don’t let her. Help her know how needed she is, how beautiful You made her, and how much strength You give when she is weak. Thanks that she doesn’t have to be strong, but simply surrender her fatigue to You. Renew her today. Amen.

  • sherrylu

    we have been praying for our son. he is not going to church and has some friends that are not the best influence on him. lately, he has begun hanging around with the guys he grew up in church with (PTL.) praying for the Lord to hound him back into the fold!

    • http://twitter.com/MaryDeMuth Mary DeMuth

      Jesus, may those church friends build into Sherry’s son. Woo him to your side, please. We know You love the prodigals!

  • http://twitter.com/happywivesclub Happy Wives Club™

    No, I don’t mind at all. I’d ask for more hours in the day but that is unlikely to happen So that I’d better manage my day and when it’s done…it’s done and to just be okay with that (and go to bed :) ).

    • http://twitter.com/MaryDeMuth Mary DeMuth

      Jesus, help her stop when work needs to be done, and I pray her mind can rest too after a busy day. Give her sleep.

  • Michelle

    Struggling with depression. My husband and teenage son both have bipolar and the stress is too much. We have financial problems because of it and my son is struggling to pass 10th grade. My 18 yr. old daughter hates college and is having a hard time with adult responsibilities. My own recurring thoughts are that this is just too hard and I don’t want to do it anymore, it being try to hold everyone together and I feel like I’m falling apart myself. I have friends and a church family but it feels like nobody really knows, or can know what this is like…how hard it really is. I smile and keep pushing forward but I’m so sad and tired.

    • http://twitter.com/MaryDeMuth Mary DeMuth

      Help Michelle realize way down deep that it’s not her job to hold it all together. It’s Yours, Jesus. Help her offload the stress onto Your capable shoulders today. Give her rest and perspective and peace. Amen.

  • http://www.blessingthebeloved.blogspot.com/ Tammy Carter

    battling severe depression this last week.

    • http://twitter.com/MaryDeMuth Mary DeMuth

      Jesus, please lift Tammy’s eyes from her circumstances and sadness to the needs of this world and the wonder of You. Pull her from the mire. Set her feet upon a rock. Bring JOY, Jesus.

  • http://thepuresacrifice.blogspot.com/ Deanna Wiseburn

    Still looking for work (unemployment will end soon), and struggling a bit to set healthy boundaries in my life. Although I am learning to trust God more and more each day. Also realizing that if I do not submit my schedule to Christ, that things simply will not work out. So learning to submit ALL to Christ.

    • http://twitter.com/MaryDeMuth Mary DeMuth

      Help Deanna submit her schedule to You, Lord, and please provide a job for her and her family. Amen!

  • Olivia

    I’m a recent college graduate that just moved back in with my mom after spending a semester in a graduate program that wasn’t for me. Looking for employment, learning to live with my mother as an adult, praying for trust for next steps, etc.

    • http://twitter.com/MaryDeMuth Mary DeMuth

      Lord, give Olivia patience and joy as she moves on in this new stage. Bring a church to her that she can be herself in and make great relationships. Provide a job. Amen.

  • Joni

    My husband has stage 4 colon cancer. He is in remission but is medically unstable. I have to stay at home to care for him. We don’t get a lot of contact with folks from our church. Which is causing my husband and I to become very lonely and depressed. I would ask that you would please pray that our church would make a better effort to shepherding us. Thank you so very much for your prayers.

    • http://twitter.com/MaryDeMuth Mary DeMuth

      I pray for Joni’s church, that they would see this need and step up and care for their needs and build relationships with them. I pray You would give Joni supernatural strength to care for her husband, and I pray for continued remission for him too.

  • Lynne Dickey

    I have been widowed for almost 2-1/2 years. God has brought me to a place where I am ready to move on, to remarry if that is what He wants. (Believe me that is a God-thing in my life.) God has been showing me that I need to step away from very toxic relationships with my father-in-law and sister-in-law. I know I cannot drag those relationships into a new life. This is very hard. Thank you for your prayers.

    • http://twitter.com/MaryDeMuth Mary DeMuth

      Jesus, do something new in Lynne’s life today. Relieve her, and help her create good, solid boundaries around herself, but also open her heart to new relationships. Amen.

  • abbysnews

    i was hoping you’d have one of these today. :) It seems like sometimes when it rains, it pours. found out one of my friends died suddenly the other day, and last night i got in a car accident and am still a bit traumatized by it. stressed about all the stuff i have to deal with now w/ car repairs, dr visits, etc…

    • http://twitter.com/MaryDeMuth Mary DeMuth

      Oh no. Jesus, comfort Abby as she grieves her friend and be with her during the stress. It’s too much.

      • abbysnews

        Thanks Mary :)

  • Kirsten

    I need prayer for my relationship with my teenage daughter. She is constantly rebelling with an air of entitlement and selfishness. I am finding myself depressed and exhausted because I feel like a failure as a mother. I am trying to “control” her…without luck. I feel our relationship is in constant tension and there is no peace in my home. It seems all I do is lecture and punish ~ she feels unjustly punished and I feel sad. I would love for God to soften her heart, help her understand how good her life really is (even though we won’t buy her a car, let her stay out on school nights, etc), help her to see we do love her and that is why we are setting limits. I pray that God will show me how he would parent her and help me restore peace in our home.

    • http://twitter.com/MaryDeMuth Mary DeMuth

      Jesus, only You can shoulder this hard burden. Help Diane give it up to you. Bring peace to her relationship with her daughter, and remind her afresh that You love her daughter more than she does. Amen.

  • Diane

    I live near Binghamton, NY (which has been labeled the gloomiest town in the nation) and I get SAD in winter. Walking outdoors helps, but I get in a slump about my writing. Thanks for your webinar last night–it was great!

    • http://twitter.com/MaryDeMuth Mary DeMuth

      Oh dear. Jesus, be with Diane. You be her light. Give her joy in the midst of the gloom. Amen.

  • laura

    Your life is parallel to mine. You are much, much further ahead. Please pray for mental, spiritual, physical peace as waves of repercussions try to drown me and keep me from finding hope in Him.

    • http://twitter.com/MaryDeMuth Mary DeMuth

      Jesus, show Laura that Your shoulders are big enough to carry the past and her fears. Amen.

  • Janine

    I continue to ask for prayer surrounding manifesting faith…that where God has asked me to walk, blindly, finds me open, courageous, humble, giving and gracious. The story of my life over this past year, with all of its’ supernatural experiences…finds my spirit renewed, strengthened and fortified beyond any vision I have ever had for myself. God is leading me…I am learning to walk by faith…I command the mountains that stand in my path to move…as I walk towards my destiny in Christ!! :) )

    • http://twitter.com/MaryDeMuth Mary DeMuth

      Lord, increase Janine’s faith in amazing ways. Help her walk in the scary, exciting places You have for her. Be her bravery!

  • annepeterson

    Mary, I would love it if you would pray for me. I am in the process of making a hard copy for my eBook and I just can’t get this right. When I transfer it over the dpi’s of the 6 pictures go back down from the 300dpi’s it asks for. I’ve read your ebook on this subject, but I”m still not seeing what I’m doing wrong. So, I’d like prayer. Prayer that God will show me what to do and that I would not become anxious. Thank you SO much. The buttons of insecurity keep trying to go off, and I am keeping them at bay. Still praying for Julia. Praying that God helps her.

  • Del Marie Riley

    Oh bless you for praying for all of us. I’m in a bit of a tizzy. Today I fly off to Florida to visit my daughter and pack what we left behind in our house when we moved to Colorado in September 2012. I’m leaving my 15 year old son and his dad for 16 days. I just realized, that in his 15 years, I’ve never been away from my son for more than 4-5 days. And I’ve never flown by myself before. I’ve always had someone with me to help me. Please pray my son is in good hands while I’m gone. Also that all goes well with my trip today and it has no hiccups along the 2000 mile journey. Thank you so much for praying. I pray that God will bless you today, and all of your tomorrows in whatever area it is you need blessing in. In Jesus name, Amen.

    • http://twitter.com/MaryDeMuth Mary DeMuth

      Jesus, I pray for Del Marie that You would hold her as she flies and take care of her family while she’s gone. Give her peace.

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