I hate open heights! I can’t stand balconies, glass elevators freak me out, and when I am driving across a bridge, you’ll find me hugging the dividing rail along the inside lane.
Some friends tried to help me conquer these fears by inviting our family to join them one Sunday afternoon at Inner Peaks Climbing Center. I cringed at the thought of it, but JJ and our boys really wanted to go. So I caved in and agreed to a family “outing” inside this huge rock-climbing center.
When we entered the doors, my heart stopped beating as I look up at the highest peak – 25 feet! The instructors assured me that a web of ropes, harnesses and carabiners would hold me tight. Before I could say “no thank you,” I was strapped in and signing an injury waiver. I played it safe and stayed on the lower peaks.
Towards the end of the day, our friends John and Laura challenged their eight-year-old son Steven to climb to the highest peak – promising $5 in tokens and a cone of ice cream at arcade next door if he would touch the bar at the top.
Steven was afraid of heights, too, but he loved a dare. The promise of reward, mixed with the challenge and faith of his father evoked courage in Steven.
I watched with admiration as that little guy started the climb with confidence. He made it to 15 feet, then 20. But as he inched past the next face of the wall, he saw just how far he had to go before reaching the bar at the top. In fear, he looked down with tears and said he couldn’t do it. Then he cried out for his daddy’s help.
By this time, John was holding their very tired 3 yr old, and Laura was feeding their very hungry baby girl. I don’t know where my brave husband was, but as I looked around I realized I was the only one standing there who could do something.
Suddenly courage and strength surged through my body. I called out to Steven, “Don’t give up buddy. Wait for me to come to you. You can do it. I’ll help you!”
I said a quick prayer that God would help me and that Steven wouldn’t give up and start repelling his way down before I got to him. In no time, I reached the 20 foot marker. I crossed over the peak and up beside Steven to encourage him, reminding him of how far he’d come. Using my words and my confidence I focused his thoughts towards a higher goal, an inner peak, a reward that would be much greater than ice cream and game tokens – the reward of getting to a placehe had stopped believing he could reach.
My fear was gone. I had stopped thinking about me long enough to focus on helping someone else reach their goal and overcome their fear. Strangely enough, in that moment I overcame mine, and reached a peak of my own.
I became the response of a child’s cry for his father’s help. And that day became a picture of what happens when friends pray for and encourage one another. Like Jesus, we come alongside each other in some of life’s hardest challenges and highest peaks and we say, “Don’t give up, you can do it. Wait for me. I’ll help you.”
In that moment we take our eyes off our fears, our doubts, our struggles and set them on someone else’s needs. There we find faith to believe the power of God’s Word for them, and somehow our confidence in God’s promises and power are true for us in a way they may never have been before. That is the power of a praying friend!
Today, I invite you to join me in a conversation with God and some girlfriends so that we can experience what happens when women pray – for each other. This is your chance to share a request (a need, a hope, a desire) that you want someone to pray for you for this week. In return, you will pray for one person for the next week, too.
And because I love to share with friends books that draw me closer to Jesus, those who participate in our “conversation with God” will be part of a drawing next week for a new book called “Dear Jesus.” It is filled with devotions and scriptures that capture the heart of God’s response to every woman’s longings and intimate struggles.
Here’s how we’ll do this:
Click the word “Comments” below my name on this post (just under the 2nd green box).
Type in your prayer request in the white box.
Include your first name and where you are from.
(If you don’t have a blogger account, you can sign in as anonymous. But please include your first name at the end.) After type your request, click enter. Your comment will post.
Read the prayer request/comment above yours and pray for that friend.
Copy and paste it in an email to yourself as a reminder to pray for your new friend throughout the week.
On Monday, I’ll post about the power of praying God’s Word and share some of my favorite scripture prayers. Wouldn’t it be neat to find a Bible verse to pray for our prayer partner and post it in Monday’s comments? I’ll share how to do that.
There were two people in blessed in my story. But I never would have experienced what God had for me to give or receive that day if Steven hadn’t asked for help. I pray you will experience the power of a praying friend by promising to be one and allowing someone else to be one for you today. Be sure to click “comments” just below this box so that others see your prayer request and you find the request you are to pray for, too.
© 2008 by Renee Swope. All rights reserved.
Please pray that God would heal me and that God would heal my Long and short term memory and that God would heal my brain and my mind.
Hello everyone –
I am in my second marriage. Phil and I have been married for 3.5 years. We have a 2 year old son named Silas, and I have two older children from my first marriage, Emily and Isaac. Phil and I are currently separated. It is very painful. We have both hurt each other deeply. I sense the Lord telling me that our marriage is like two parts of a bone that was set incorrectly and that the Lord needs to break it to re-set it correctly – in His perfect healing. Please pray for divine revelation for both Phil and I, that we would learn and acquire wisdom for healing ourselves and our marriage. Please pray for three wonderul children. Thank you.
Blessings,
Sonia, Ontario, Canada
(If someone would like to contact me my email is [email protected])
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Sara – I will pray for you!
My prayer request is for my relationship with my sister to recieve healing. She is going through some struggles and placing blame on these items of her life in my direction. While I am not blameless, I’ve struggled with showing her love and support the way that she needs it, I have felt drained and have not made many attempts to reconcile. I am not sure why this is such a struggle for me! I appreciate your prayers very much.
Connie from California
Prayer request for Gary and Cindy Hogman.
Gary is serving in Iraq while his young wife is fighting cancer here. Prayer is a powerful thing.
THIS COUPLE NEEDS OUR PRAYERS. PLEASE READ THIS.
IT MUST BE TERRIBLY DIFFICULT TO BE IN IRAQ WITH A SICK WIFE AT HOME.
Bobby S. Briggs, MSgt, USAF
823 ESFS/SFOC Flight Sergeant
BAGHDAD AB , IRAQ
Tough times don’t last… Tough people do!!! My name is Gary Hogman. Some of you receiving this know me, some do not. My wife, Cindy, is 32 years old and has just been diagnosed 3 days ago with stage 4 cervical cancer and her chances for survival are very slim. She was pregnant with our second child and had miscarried recently at 3 months, and now we know why. This is a request for you to forward this e-mail to everyone you know, asking for prayer. The more people that pray for her to be healed, the better. Pray and forward. It only takes a second to hit ‘forward’.
Please do it and don’t delete this. Your prayers can, and perhaps will, save her life. Please pray and ask everyone you know to pray for the HEALING of Cindy and the removal of all cancer in her body, so she may enjoy all that life has to offer, and to continue to be the wonderful mother to our 5 year old son, Michael. The power of Prayer is unsurpassed.
I want the whole world to have her in their prayers the next few weeks. God will hear our cry. Please do not be offended by my plea. This is only a request for your help. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for reading this and helping with our request for healing! No words can express the power we have when we each do a little to come together.
Regards,
Cindy’s in-love husband – Gary
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Sarah, I will be praying for your brother, that God will be with him and lead him through this process.
My prayer request is for emotional health. I am trying to recover from a nervous breakdown. I would greatly appreciate continual prayer as I try to find my way back.
Hi Keri, I have also been feeling like I have this spirit of fear hanging over me. This has been going on for weeks, my mother says that it’s just the devil trying to distract me from doing and being the person God wants me to be. So I will pray for you and that this spirit of fear is lifted from your heart. Please pray the same for me.
This is Karen Whalen again, please be praying with me for discipline, I need discipline before God. Thank You
Keri,
I couldn’t have said it plainer than that, I will be praying for you, and prayer for me of the same thing. Thank you for your words of need.
Karen Whalen
I am having anxiety attacks and am fearful of mental instability of any kind. I would like prayer for a strong mind and to put my FULL trust in Christ and to have faith with all my heart, soul and mind that He loves me and that He is fully trustworthy. I just need assurance that He is with me and will make a way for me to be more like Him and live a victorious life for Him. Keri
Hi my name is Sandra lately me and my children are believing God that I would be bless with an better paying job and to be bless with an brand-new vechicle and for God to bless our finances so that we can finally go on an family vacation. Most of all I believing God to send me an wholesome mate that loves children and to an postive role model in my children lives. Alsp we are in need to have our home we live in now to be fully-upgraded with brand-new furniture, appliances and with flooring. Thanks,
Ishmael’, I have a question about Ishmael in the bible. Sarah how did you come to say you have a lot of Ishmael’s in your life. I like what you said, and I will be praying for you. But I would like to know what you mean by what you said. Because if it is what I think it is, be praying for me too, because I have the same, and it is very difficult to releast them.
Patty, I’m praying for you…also Lane and Dolly.
“Never stop praying, especially for others. Always pray by the power of the Spirit. Stay alert and keep praying for God’s people.” Ephesians 6:18 (CEV)
With concern and prayers,
Sarah
My name is Sarah and I live in Missouri. Recently, I have had powerful conviction about some “Ishmael’s” in my life that I believe God is pointiing His finger at and saying. “these have to go!” I would like to ask that you would ift me up consistently in prayer as I trust God to remove these things in my life? I know I won’t be able to remove them in my own strength, I must surrender, trust and believe God to remove the mountians in my life. These are habits and attitudes I’ve excused for many years. Thank you for your prayers!
To all of my friends in Christ who prayed for my job interview last Thursday. I GOT THE JOB!
Thank you and I haven’t forgotten to pray for you as well.
To Jayne, I will certainly pray for your friend Debbie and her brother.Please ask her to just hold on to Jesus’ promise to be with us even in the midst of the storm.
Please pray for me I have a problem with my back. I am not in a lot of pain, however the doc says that that just indicates this is more serious because I must have serious nerve damage. I am losing feeling and function in my left foot. I go to see a specialist on Aug.11. Please pray for healing for me, and for wisdom for the doctor. If it is not God’s will that I be healed of this please pray that I can be at peace, because the idea of back surgery is scaring the life out of me. I am 45 years old and have 2 teenage girls and husband at home, our son is going to be away at University in the fall.I still have things that I need to be able to do.I work full time and I take college classes in the evenings.
Thank you for your prayers.
Patty
You haven’t said anything about what I sent you as far as my Journal is concern. Should I send it again, because somehow maybe got lost in the sending. Let me know if you get this.
Please pray for my friend Debbie, who’s brother was critically injured this past weekend in a car accident.
Thank you and God Bless!
Anomymous, I’m praying for you and your marriage. Most importantly I’m praying that the Lord will give you a clear understanding as to what is really going on in your marriage. I pray that you will put your focus on the Lord and seek him with all your heart for the anwsers that you need and your stength. I to have a husband that has been having an affair for sometime now so I can tell you that prayer is the best thing right now. If you like to email me at [email protected] I would be delighted to help in prayer.
Sonia, I am praying for you and your children to be healed and have peace in the mist of this storm. And pray for me and my boys we are trying to forgive and move on in our lives.
Renita
My prayer request is to pray my strength in the Lord. I am in the mist of many storms all at once and have been for the last three yrs. I’m to the point I just want to let everything go my marrage and my home they both have been one heart break after another and I’m seeking God for the answers that I need. I don’t want to be out of the will of God so please pray for me my marrage my sons and my home.
Dear Karen, I will pray for you right now. Keep leaning on the Lord; keep doing everything you can to help yourself; God will not forsake you – He loves you TOO MUCH!
My daughter Hannah graduated in May from a Christian university with an elementary education teaching degree. Years ago, she felt God calling her to teach in His kingdom.
She has applied and interviewed for teaching positions in various Christian schools with no success. She is contemplating teaching in the public schools, but jobs are scarce.
Hannah has medical conditions (spina bifida, diabetes) which make health insurance a must. Her benefits expire November 30th.
She is confused (Why did I earn a teaching degree if I cannot find a position?) and scared (What will I do for medical care when my benefits run out?) and hurt (What is wrong with me that no one will hire me?).
Please pray that the Lord will guide her to the place He has intended her to be all along, and that He will grant her trust and patience in the waiting. Thank you, and may God bless you! Debbie
Pray for me to have the courage to keep looking to God for my weight loss. I had been going to Curves but in the last two months I have stopped. This will describe my situation easier. I am 61 years old,I am 5’2’, small bone, but my weight is not according to my height. I weight 166, which is due to medicine that I took a year ago and gained weight with it, and haven’t be able to loss it yet. It is very difficult to loss weight when you have gained it through medicine.I take walks when it is cool. My Niece and Nephew-in-law have two dogs a Labrador and a Maltese which I walk also in the morning sometimes. They have 4 son’s one is 18 years old, going to College this year, one 15 years old, one 13 years old, and one 9 years old. I come to live with them after a series of problems. I am on a limited income
Please keep me in prayer; I will take two exams on August 10 and 11. I have to pass these exams in order to continue with school. If I do not pass them I will have to sit out for this semester till I pass them. This is my last semester. I know that my Father did not bring me this far too just leave me. Please pray for me that I will pass and be able to walk in December, and make the financial load that my husband has carry for almost four years lighter on him
Thank you for your prayers
Aminta