Jesus Listens for Advent & Christmas: Monday, Week Four

 

Happy Monday, Friends!  How was your weekend?  I hope it was field with peace and fun activities.

We are beginning week four of our study, and can you believe that Friday is November 1st?  This week we're reading pp. 54-65.  I am sharing the very first Bible verse of the week because I read it this morning for my Read Through the Bible Bible Study.

Prayer Requests

• Pray for our military and military families, and the Wisconsin National Guard deployed in Iraq.
• Pray for Kitty's son Mike to get a job that uses his talents.
• Rita asks for prayers for her sweet daughters for their fall graduate school semester.  Pray for them to have a healthy and productive work/school/life balance.  
• Pray for Christian leadership in our country.  Also pray that God will turn our hearts to him, and he will lavishly bless us with his steadfast love.
• Pray for free and fair elections in the Unites States in every precinct! 
• Please keep Rita's sister and youngest daughter in your prayers:  big life changes about to happen.  PRAISE UPDATE:  God showed his hand with a miracle with Rita's youngest daughter last weekend, which greatly helped her relax in peace over the life change her daughter is making. The transition has begun. They are blessed by Him.  She prays the transition continues peacefully and amicably.
• Pray for Rita's sister as she's moving, and also pray for her sisters helping her to move.
• Be in prayer for Carla's Florida  friends who lost 1/2 of their home. Today they received a forbearance on their mortgage payments until February 1st.  UPDATE: from Steve and Jessica...Clean up has begun. Everywhere you look a mess, the streets are lined with everyone's former household possessions stacked everywhere. People are cleaning and working... and look like Zombies. It is emotionally tiring.  The only normalcy to the mix, are the kids. Our little daughter brings us such joy and a reason to keep going.
• Let's pray that we are blessed by our Advent study.
• Kitty asks if you could pray for Cissy’s emotional and mental wellbeing, please.  You may recall that she was in a car accident a couple of weeks ago.  She also requests that we pray for Eric also because he's miserable with his job.   Pray that he can find something suitable for him with insurance.
• Rita asks that you pray for her daughter as she is being admitted to the hospital today for a significant case of pneumonia, and she asks for your fervent prayers for her complete recovery. She is the mother of her granddaughter.

Set your alarms (7:14 AM and PM) to pray this verse for our country from now through the election.

Until next time...

Blessings!
Ricki Jill