The bones heal relatively quick. 6-8 weeks. But the muscles atrophy during this time. Rebuilding muscle is not an easy thing, especially for seniors. 

As someone who is recovering from a broken ankle, I know he has a long road ahead of him.  Let's keep him in our prayers. 

In our dally prayers, lets lift up a specific person or team. Everyday, see if we can focus on individuals. 

This is our job, to be a praying people for our leaders. Local Pastors, Mission/Conference people, Union People, Division people and GC people. 

I know they need our prayers. It is good to be as specific as possible. Health, Spiritual Guidance, conflict resolution, Courage, Patience. 

I am encouraging her to feel her feelings.  Eventually she will get to a place of acceptance and whatever the issue is, she will accept it and the treatment and whatever adjustments need to be made will become a new normal for her.  But between now, and that future time, she will experience emotions like fear, disappointment, anger, etc.  Those emotions are part of the path she is travelling.  I have discouraged her from trying to suppress them.  She told me she started crying yesterday when she was going over her lab results from the doctor with her lab instructor at school.  In her situation, not only is she studying to become a doctor, she is surrounded by classmates also on the same path and professors that train our doctors.  That may sound comforting but the information available to her can be overwhelming.

She needs as much prayer as she can get.  He plan is to become a psychiatrist.  If she doesn't get into medical school, her plan B is to enroll in the PhD program in psychology that her current university has.  She is a servant than wants to help other people.

The best way to express anger is to be assertive.  Becoming assertive (instead of suppressing it or acting with aggression) becomes a MATTER OF PRAYER for Christians honestly trying to change.  Of course, praying is rarely enough but it plays a big role.  Being assertive involves standing up for one's self in a calm and firm manner.  It also involves allowing others to disagree and even act inappropriately.  One being assertive does not feel the need to beg and plead for others to agree with them.  They state their case and let the cards fall where they may.  When others act inappropriately, an assertive person forgives (that is not the same as suppressing anger).  Forgiveness is authentic.  It releases the other from condemnation and turns their case over to God.  

Dear Conference Family,
 
I'm writing today to call you to prayer for an urgent need we have at this very moment. A tragic situation has been developing over the last day or so for one of our conference's elementary school teachers who lives in Bloomfield and teaches at Discover Christian School in Farmington.
 
Shondalyn Essig did not show up for school on Monday morning and has not been seen since. On Tuesday morning, the Bloomfield, New Mexico police department has issued a missing person alert.
 
The alert was released shortly before noon on social media, and was shared hundreds of times on Facebook by Tuesday afternoon.
 
Diane Harris and Paul Negrete, RMC director and associate director of education, will arrive in Farmington, New Mexico, late Tuesday night to support the students, teachers, and the school’s faculty. Doug Inglish, vice president of administration, along with his wife Susan, and Jana and I will be making our way there tomorrow to lend our support as well.
 
The Pinon Hills Adventist Church is working with the authorities to help locate Shondalyn and is planning to hold a prayer vigil Tuesday night.
 
Please make this a serious and urgent matter of prayer! I believe there's tremendous power in prayer, especially when God's people urgently seek Him together.
 
And let us all hope for Shondalyn's safe and quick return.
 
We will update you as more details emerge.
 
Because of Him,
 
Mic Thurber, president

I hope that all ends well! 

She is a 74 year old woman who is unable to get the COVID vaccine due to an underlying blood disorder. One of her doctors cautioned her to not get the vaccine as it would have likely caused her blood disorder to cause her life to be shortened quickly.

The household she lives in (me, my husband and my grandmother) all contracted the COVID virus sometime late July. We started showing symptoms on July 26th. We have all been vaccinated, but not my mother.

Mom stayed isolated from the rest of the family, but began showing serious symptoms through the week: bowel irregularity, confusion and poor oxygen uptake. I insisted she be tested though she was certain she "did NOT have COVID." Her test was clearly positive. I called an ambulance and sent her to the ER on Monday, August 2nd. She struggled greatly with oxygen uptake and the disease kept progressing further.

The ER staff moved her to ICU. She was put on oxygen. She was given several different medications to combat the disease. The oxygen maxed out. She was put on a BiPAP for extra oxygen. It maxed out. As of yesterday morning (one week after trying less invasive methods), she was intubated with a ventilator and put on a feeding tube regimen. She is sedated and resting prone on her belly. 

The nursing staff is sometimes reassuring. Sometimes they are very worried and caution to give me any false hope.

I appreciate them all.

I am unable to contact Mom directly. I cannot call into the room where she could see or hear me. Because I too, had COVID symptoms within the past 2 weeks, I cannot gown up and go visit with her. My siblings have other restrictions keeping them from visiting in person. 

I must simply send my love via prayers and God's healing angels who will care for her in my place.

MY PRAYER REQUESTS:

I pray the Lord's will be done. I pray for the miracle of healing. I pray that Mom find a sense of calm and peace as she continues this struggle. I pray that the ventilator will do the job it needs to do, and that she will soon be able to breathe on her own. I pray for her clarity of mind when she is regains consciousness. I pray for her heart, her kidneys, her lungs, her stomach and all her vital organs to be healed and disease free! I pray for her soul. I pray that wherever her mind is, deep inside, that she is finding comfort in the Love of God. I pray that I make the right decisions regarding choices I'm called to make. I pray that God will direct my path.

WILL YOU PLEASE JOIN ME IN PRAYING FOR MARSHA. SHE IS GOD'S DAUGHTER AND OUR SISTER IN CHRIST. 

I have been asking God to rid of my  pain from shingles infection for three and half years.  Isn't this a right kind of prayer request, or right time?

Jesus meant more that what he said.  Just like to know what the original text says.

Dear Friends of “Dial Daily Bread,”

I am sure that everybody who believes in the Lord shares a common problem: we seldom get answers to prayer as fast as we want them. Some get tired waiting and give up their faith. Habakkuk, in chapter 2, verse 3, encourages us not to give up: "The vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry."

That word "tarry" in the Hebrew is two words. The Good News Bible has the idea: "The time is coming quickly, and what I show you will come true. It may seem slow in coming, but wait for it; it will certainly take place, and it will not be delayed." The idea is not that God is slow, or that He has to be waked up.

He's very quick--so much so that Isaiah says He answers our prayers before we pray them ("before they call, I will answer," 65:24), but the answer seems slow to us. One reason is that there are hindrances to His answer getting through to us, as Daniel describes in 10:12, 13 when the angel tells him, "From the first day that you set your heart to understand, ... your words were heard, ... But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days."

It could well be that the Lord has already sent the answer to your prayer, but some similar hindrance has occurred. In the meantime, it's your job to believe in the Lord, to appreciate His character, to know that He is your Friend, not your Enemy. So David says over and over, "Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him" (Psalm 37:7). Wouldn't you be embarrassed if you became impatient like King Saul when he was waiting for the prophet Samuel to come and he went ahead in his impatience and did what he should not have done? (1 Sam. 13).

Habakkuk is telling us, "Don't get impatient; hang on. The Lord will not truly delay. It would be a pity if when His answer does come, you in the meantime have given up so you can't receive the blessing, and then like King Saul you lose everything!"

--Robert J. Wieland

From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: February 10, 1998.
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Anyway, most know that we had retired and moved to Florida back in Jan/Feb '11 and than had to move back to MA in Aug/Sep '12 when we found out that the DCF were taking our grandchildren from our daughter and the father. Well we now have guardianship of our grandchildren. Parents didn't and still have not shown that they are capable of taking care of the children. We had intended to stay at least another year to give them more time to bond with there children, but my Mom fell and broke her leg this past Sunday. So we have a problem and that is how to take care of her. The best place is to be back there and close. We need prayers, that we will be able to pack, and get there, find a place to live. Figure out what to do with my Mom! Can she realisticly(sp) live on her own at her own house or have to go into a assisted living facility!! Or care we really take care of her. My has also been diagnosed with Lime disease, so she really can't take care of her as well as when she broke her hip back in May of '11. And with us now taking care of the grandchildren, we really can't take care of her and them. But with Gods help and your prayers we are going to give it a shot. So thanks for your prayers in advance. Not only that we're going to try and accomplish this before the month of June is over.

I went to public school and never made any friends. I never made friends in church either growing up because my dad was a "church hopper", so there was no real fellowship with anyone. We've moved to a small city and my dad finally settled down to stay attending one church.

I wasted student loans going to a private college studying a major that I didn't really like anyway (criminal justice), which I later changed to liberal studies. I also ran out of pell grant due to having moved from another state before finishing at a 2 year college and then having two study another 2 years all over again because of credits not being transferable.

Now I can't seem to find a permanent job, it gets really lonely with nobody to talk to.

I've been thinking of doing what my mom used to do as a college drop out, and that is to go canvassing or at least pass Glow tracts out in the street

I might even try connecting with my church members more, I suppose. Maybe they can find me something to do.. 

I've also been thinking of going back to college, although I'm not sure how finances would work out or what I'd even want to study...

I guess I'm asking prayer for direction in life

we  need to  be  praying  for  all the family members of the victims

dgrimm60

So far I have spend over $10k for his medical issues.   He still needs patella and trachea surgeries.  This alone will cost over $5k.  Personally, I've had enough.  I'm trying to get my finances in order because my wife and I are retiring within 4 years.  I'm afraid if he can't be treated with medication that I'm going to have to have him euthanized. 

Any suggestions?

Sully needs your prayers.  

Robert

on the 15 February, i am having a hysteroscope, to see what is going on with my lady parts. My periods for some time have been very painfil, passing blood size clots, and i have constant pain on my right hand side.

My lasy surgery  was Decmber 2014. it was on my knee to tell my it was damaged i  need a replacement. The anaetatist said i was so stressed all my veins collapsed and they couldnt get the needle in my veins, so they had to knock me out with gas.

The is GA number 22.

I am truly over it. the next 2 big operations will be my knee and most definately another back operation.

i would pray everything goes alright, and if i was to end up having a hysterectomy, then i am fine with it.

i am just terrified of not coming out of the general.

Please pray for my sureon, Dr Gerahty, and that he finds my prolem, and that i dont throw uo afterwards. I do it really really badle.

i also had a friend that NEVER cam out of his general and died 3-4 weeks later.