As we journey together “let us think of ways to motivate one another in acts of love and good works”(Hebrews 10:24 NLT)

the last few weeks have been a huge challenge to say the least.  I have had numerous friends go through some terrible experiences, I have prayer, cried Prayed and cried some more.  The scary thing is I still have some great people in my life going through some horrendous things.

Over the last two weeks I have seen a friend who lost her husband who waged an incredible battle with non-hogkins lymphoma. 

Last week the young woman who sang at our wedding lost her first and only child.  She knew all along that she was going to loose her  baby as soon as she was born and yet she was courageous and looked at each day with her baby was an incredible blessing.

Tonight my flower girl lays in the hospital tonight.  She has sickle cell anemia.  See has lost sight in her one eye and they are working o save her vision.  

Also tonight we have a lady from our church who is also laying in the hospital PRAYING her baby can stay in her tummy until Friday.  When the baby will be 32 weeks.  She is battling pre-eclampsia.   And her blood pressure keeps skyrocketing.

Never before have i felt so bombarded…I have spent so much time praying for all of these people.   It hurts so much and yet.  My faith has not sunk nor wavered..  Amazingly it has soared.   I have watched these two incredible women walk away from their personal battles in losing people they care about SOOO deeply and they have relied on God to carry them through!  It by no means that they have not struggled in their own ways but their stregth is not their own and it is quite evident.

Even though I live LONG distance from these people I still have learned so very much from them and their grief along with giving God the glory though everything they have faced is an encouragement  to me.  And their stories can be an encouragement to you as well.  Will you let them?

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Pray that your husband will enjoy his manlimess as he patterns his life after Christ  and strong men in the faith.  pray for his mental, physical, emotionalsocial, and spiritual strength.

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Eph 3:16  that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,

1Pe 2:21  For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.

1Co 10:11  Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.

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Pray  that your husband will choose healthy, God-honoring activities.  Pray that he will not live in bondage to any questionable habits or hobbies, but that he will experience freedom in holinessas he yeilds to the Spirit’s control.

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1Co 6:12  “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be enslaved by anything.

1Co 10:31  So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

2Ti 2:4  No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.

All references taken from the ESV

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Pray that your husband will choose his friends wisely.  Pray that God will bring him men who will encourage his accountability before God, and will not lead him into sin.

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Pro 13:20  Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Pro 27:17  Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

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