In Need Of Prayers

I am in need of prayers right now. Both for me and for my family. Especially my step-son. He is staying with us right now. Sleeping on my living room floor.

I am in need of much patience and guidance on how to deal with him. He needs to get off drugs and stay off them. We are trying to get him in a treatment program but I'm not sure he will actually go.

So will you all say a prayer or three for us?

Thank you much!

A Time Is Coming-John 5:25

"I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live." John 5:25

I love this verse. It is such a wonderful promise.

There are other verses that start out with the phrase "I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come.."

One such talks about worshiping in spirit and truth. Another says "you will be scattered" John 4:23 John 16:32

Another says: "For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." 2 Timothy 4:3

"But the one who endures to the end will be saved." Matthew 24:13

Something to look forward to! Just have to be sure not to let my ears get control of me. Not such an easy thing to do...

Set Your Mind On Things Above

"Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.  Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.  For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God." Col 3:1-3

I need to work on this right now especially. I'm having some problems with family right now and have a tendency to get upset with the situation. Keeping my mind on things above would be the best thing to do. Then I won't get all upset over things below.

It is much easier to say than to do though. Please pray for me. I'm going to need all the help I can get in the next week or so. 

For Such A Time As This Esther 4:14

 "For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?" Esther 4:14 NIV


I love this story. Esther became queen of Persia. Then when the Jews were going to be killed. She was there and able to speak to the king and save them.

She risked her life to do that. As it says in the verse she could have "remained silent" and God would surely have delivered the Jews some other way. But it is possible that God had her put in that position just for "such a time as this". That may have been the greatest purpose of her life.

And us? I have wondered myself exactly what I'm doing here. Why? Why did I not go somewhere else? Why did I not end up with government job? Why did I not marry any of those men I dated years ago? I could have done so. I could have had a dozen children by now If I had gone that route. Why did I not end up in a city?

Why did I end up in this place at this time with these people doing the things I'm doing now? I have no idea. Other than the fact that someone needed me to be here at this time...

Maybe that was the only purpose. Maybe that is what I was made for. Then again...there may be more to come. Perhaps my "such a time as this" has not come yet.

I am certain that there is a purpose. For me. And for you. Even if you never know for sure what that purpose is...you can be sure there is a purpose. All our lives till now have been leading us, preparing us, for "such a time as this".