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.
Sherri, I am praying for you now. Lord, I thank you that your timing is perfect. That you had Sherri’s request come in two hours after she posted and it came at 3:30 EST. I thank you that you promise to work all things together for good for those who love you and are called according to your purpose. Father God, I pray that you would shower your wisdom and love down on Sherri, her husband and their children. I pray that you would anoint those who are prayerfully counseling them as pastors, elders and their wives. Lord, even when we get ahead of you or step out of your Divine plans, You are not surprised or panicked. You are the God who is able to do all things – and to do immeasurable more than we can think to even ask. Please show Sherri and her husband your ways, lead them in your truth and teach them as they put their hope in you today for what tomorrow holds. In Jesus Name, Amen.
margaret…I was a single-mom forever, and I’m believing God with you that you will be victorious…..God will surely be your provider….sherri
I’ve never done this before, so please bear with me….and time is of the essence, so I didn’t have time to read procedures….
I need prayer DESPERATELY…..my husband and I are meeting with 2 elders and their wives TODAY at 3:30 p.m…mtn. time…ours is a marriage that should never have happened; but I’m trusting GOD to real HIS perfect plan…and give peace to our elders in leading and guiding us in ALL HIS truth…if GOD still wants us to be married and use us for his glory….please give me the strength and courage to do it….there are 10 children involved….GOD PLEASE HELP US!!! sherri
Hi Lisa from Albany, GA
I will be praying for your marriage and for your husbands business. I pray that God would bless your marriage and that he would draw both of you closer to Himself as he draws you closer to one another. I also pray that God would pour out His blessing upon you husbands business. I pray for guidance and wisdom in decision making and for financial success. I pray for understanding between you and your husband because when you run your own business it puts alot of stress on your marriage. You have to rely on God for every penny that comes in and praise Him when it does. I also pray for You Lisa, that God would continue to give you grace and help you to be your husbands biggest supporter and to know that your going to be right beside him every step of the way.
Jennifer McKinnon – Spfld, Oh
Please pray for my finances. I am a single mom who tithes regularly and am starting to really feel the burden of the recession. I am asking God to help stretch my paychecks to meet my family’s financial needs.
Bless you,
Margaret
Here's a prayer request from my friend:
I want to seek your prayers for an opportunity I’ve been presented with to go to Israel with Tony Hooper.
Tony is a former worship leader at Brownsville in Pensacola, FL. He is currently recording and gearing up to lead worship with Michael W. Smith for the upcoming Promise Keepers tour. He’s toured with many major acts in Christian music over the years and has a an absolutely on fire heart for Jesus.
He and 9 others are going to stay at a ministry house on the Sea of Galilee in Tiberius. Each morning and evening will be spent in intercessory prayer and worship for the nation of Israel and for the upcoming U.S. elections.
As musicians we will have a chance to spend some time with local musicians and worship leaders teaching and training them in their churches. As a team we will probably be leading worship in some Messianic churches.
The cost of the trip is going to be about $3000 depending on what it costs to get me to Atlanta. I don’t have $3000. I don’t have $30. That’s why I need your prayers. God has to bless this or I can’t go. I spent a great deal of time in prayer over this this morning and in tears I asked the Lord for help in making this happen. I’m extremely humbled by this. I’m not sure why this guy who has a great deal of friends and influence in places I could only imagine would invite me, a guy he hardly knows at all, to go on this trip with him. I can only think that the Lord is leading. Inside of 7 days I have to have a plane ticket paid for to secure my place. The Lord knows I will probably be the least talented in the group but I have a passion for Yeshua.
Thanks,
Pastor Bob Headley
Director of Worship & Media Arts
Maranatha Assembly of God
Hi, I just recently answered an ad for an Property Manager position Im believing God for this position.Also me and my family are believing God to have our home to be remodeled over with brand new appliances, flooring, and furniture. And mot of all Im believing God to send me an wholesome mate. Thanks,Denise
Me and my family are in dire need to have our home fully-furnished with brand-new furniture,appliances, and flooring. Also Im in need for an better paying job with exclusive benefits. Most of all Im believing God to send me an wholesome mate.
I’m going to pray for Jo Anne in Indiana and her prayer request for a new job.
My prayer request is for my husband and I to know (and agree) what to do with 2 of our 3 children for their schooling this fall. These 2 are currently enrolled in a Christian school (in Utah). We love the school and feel that they are getting a great Christian education but we would love to not have this financial burden. We tried to get them into two different charter schools and did not get accepted to either. I’m open to home schooling but my husband isn’t at this time.
Thanks for praying!
Paula
I am entering this as a Johnnie -come-lately,never the less, my prayer for EVERYONE is that GOD’s will be done in your prayer requests. I logged on seeking pray and now all I want to do is pray for each and everyone of you. My concerns are (by the world’s standard) astronomical, but we serve an awesome GOD and HE is more than able to meet ALL our needs Phil 4:19. I don’t want to appear “super” spiritual, but I now realize, there are Christians facing some major situations in their lives. so I am standing on HIS Word, which is HE will NEVER leave us nor forsake us, assurely not. HIS promises are true. HE doesn’t lie. So,according to HIS word, all our needs are met thru JESUS CHRIST. GOD’S will for your prayer requests. Stand on HIS WORD and we all receive HIS promises. HE is a good GOD. I have been so blessed logging in. Peace and Blessings to each and everyone of you
Jennifer,
I will be praying fervently. What a blessing that you can confidently state how wonderful your husband is! I will be praying that God will show me a verse for you and I am looking forward to sharing that with you. May God bring you comfort and His peace that is not the peace of this world, but a peace that passes all understanding.
Glory to God,
Tara
http://tabletwenty.blogspot.com
Heidi,
I lived in San Diego almost all my life, although I now live in the Palm Springs area. Feel free to email me and I would be happy to help you locate a church. SD is huge, so be sure and let me know a particular neighborhood or area.
Many blessings to you!
Tara
[email protected]
My prayer request is to find a new job. Mine will end August 2. I have three children and a spouse at home, we need the second income.
I have had interviews and am praying the job at Uath Valley Unniversity comes through-
Whichever job offers opens up I pray for peace of heart and wisdom
Thanks,
Jo Anne
Indiana
Hi my name is Jennifer McKinnon. I’ve been receiving Proverbs 31 Ministries daily devotions by email for a couple of years, then I found your website. I want to thank you because it has been such a blessing in my life. My prayer request is for our garden center/ landscaping business. We opened up a garden center this spring as an expansion of our landscaping business. We grow all of our own annuals and some trees and shrubs. I’m asking for blessings on this business. I’m praying for us to get to winter without any debt. The bills are never ending. Last winter we went through winter with no savings and carried over debt from the year before. God brought us through that extremely stressful season, but it was so hard. Our goal for this year is to somehow have all of our debt paid off before the season ends with a little in a savings acoount to pay for our mortagage, utility bills and school tuition through our dry months. My husband plows snow through the winter and works nonstop around our farm, but there’s no guareentee that we will even have snow… We have so far had a pretty spring and summer year, but there is always a tax due for this and payroll hits just when all of the other bills hit and there is alway a shortage on funds to pay everything. I’m just asking for wisdom to pay everyhting and for God to continue to provide us with customers and jobs. My husband works fo hard, nonstop really. I have never known anyone before that gives everything he does 110%. He is a little nervous about winter. I want him to see that all of his hard work is worth it. He takes such good care of us. He such an amazing husband and father. I just want to make enough to pay all of our business bills plus all the taxes that go along with it. I would really really appreciate your prayers.
Thank You
Jennifer McKinnon
Amy I will be praying for you and the ones you work with to make the right decisions.
I work with children from broken/abusive homes. I know your feelings for your niece. I will be praying for you, her and the mother. The mother needs God in her life. I will pray for that also.
My marriage and for my husbands buisness.
Lisa Albany,Ga.
I ask you pray for me not to be so critical of other people. I don’t say things to people but the thoughts are there and that is just as bad.
Cynthia
Cherokee, Texas
Sarah, wow! you used the right word for sure….’incredible process’…. i will be saying a special prayer for your brother and his birth mother. 🙂
I myself need prayer as i start a new chapter in my life. yesterday i had my official last day (of 6 years)at a wonderful job with wonderful friends/coworkers. i am picking up and moving across the country to start a new job and journey. i know that the Lord is always by my side ….but i am making this move all on my own… i’m asking for prayers of safe travel, success in my new job and for God’s guidance to build relationships with the right people in my new surroundings…..oh and to find a wonderful Chruch home when i get there. 🙂 God has led me to this new chapter and I am so excited to see what He has in store for me! Thanks!
Heidi of Fort Lauderdale, Fl…..soon to be San Diego, California!
Please pray for me to have wisdom in dealing with a secretary who is making big mistakes & taking advantage of us. We have been to nice and let her get away with things but need to confront her now. I also have a 16yr old niece with us for the summer and does not want to return home to her abusive mother. Need the mom to sign her over to us.
Thanks…Amy
I have just found your website and wanted to say “WOW” and PTL for fellow believers. Just love it.
One year ago I joined a church after visiting one service. The congregation is amazing, very loving and supportive. I immediately become very involved in choir, prayer teams, teaching children’s Sunday School class, and singing solos. Without any warning, I began going through a deep depression which basically kept me totally withdrawn for two months. I am now back at church but still experience fear and anxiety. Please pray that I will continue to be totally dependent of the Holy Spirit to guide me in what ministries to be involved in. My confidence and self-esteem is also under attack. I have had to quit most of my duties at church which bothers me more than I’d like to admit.
Maybe I was over committed but I was enjoying being active. My friends tell me to choose one or two areas so thats what I’m trying to choose.
Thank you for your willingness to lift my concerns heavenward. Mary
Please pray that my husband will find God-centered, gainful employment soon. He has been out of work since November and he is feeling quite defeated at this time.
Pray that our family’s faith will remain strong and that we continue to trust in Him each day to deliver us through this situation. We pray that my husband will find a job that he will glorify Him through.
Thank you so much for your prayerful support. I will pray for each of you also.
There is true strength and power in prayer.
Praise God.
This is a great idea renee!
please pray for God to bring into my life a wonderful friend who will be influential in my life. Also, I would appreciate prayer for direction/guidance for my future and to know clearly what God wants me to do next. Thanks, Anne
I’m so happy to pray for others yet so hesitant to ask for prayer for myself, just like you spoke about in your devotional yesterday. Thank you Renee for sharing and for providing this opportunity to pray and be prayed for. It is 7am Sat here in Phoenix,AZ. We have been traveling on and off with my husband’s job for almost 2 years. My prayer request is that God would keep us in the center of His Will wrt to this job. Please pray for God’s blessings to be upon my husband, this company, his work relationships and travel mercies for the children and I.
May you experience His Presence today!
Loretta
Please pray for our 7 year old son. Last August I remarried and we moved 10 hours away from where his biological dad lives. This is the first time our son has ever been away from us this long (all summer) and it’s been very hard on all of us. His biological dad will not let him return home early even though our son has begged me a couple of times on the phone to bring him home. It tears my heart out and I feel so helpless.
Thank you for your prayers.
Patricia, Tampa Fl
Dear Bonnelle, I would be honored to pray for the healing of Tammy’s son and that God will be praised through this miracle. I will also pray that God will give you wisdom and understanding as you look to the future and what God wants of you. I know that He will make his way plain to you. I will also pray that you will be able to pickup the information quickly for the test so that you can spend time with your family. Sister in Christ, Judy
My prayer request is for Michelle Slaughter, a woman who works for me. Through various circumstances she has been evicted from her home (by her mother) with her two preschool children. She only works for me part-time, so her finances are minimal. Her husband (whom she is separated from) is waiting to go to prison. And she is a new believer in Christ. I am searching for a church in the community in which she lives for help both spiritually and physically. Thank you for your prayers! Judy
I have two requests:
1) Please pray for my friend Tammy who’s son has cancer. Pray for the peace of God which passes all understanding to guard their hearts and their minds and that healing would come to his body so that all the world would know that God is still in the business of healing!
2) I am seeking the Lord for direction with my job. I would like forward movement in whatever way He chooses. I love the people I work with but am feeling there’s more… that there is a next step He would have me take. Please pray for His wisdom as I study for an extremely hard test I will be taking (also for work) and that I can still make time for my family in the midst of the process.
Many, many blessings to all of you.
Love,
Bonnelle
Please pray for my husband- he struggles with depression and his job is really stressful right now. Please pray that I can be a supportive wife and keep him in prayer-I get frustrated with him too easily and give up.
Kim from Holly Springs NC
I need you to pray for a financial breakthrough, since my husband died last year its really been hard to make ends meet, there is so much that I need to do but can’tbecause of my financies, please pray for wisdom in making decisions.
Wow,what an awesome insight guess I never thought of it thst way. Since my late husband passed away in 2002 I find it so hard to even engage in friendships. I have recently through a great deal of prayer made a friend in our church but feel like I drive her crazy because I vent with her everytime were together. Not having friends for so long I guess I really dont know how to anymore : ( Ive since remarried and my husband is awesome ! I just wish I could look at people again eye to eye and be able to freely talk to people. Please pray for me as i finally have returned to ministry and would love to get this behind me.
Kim ,Fredericksburg,Virginia
hello, i thank you for your daily devotions that keep so encourge.
My mother and i never had a great relation, dont know why, but i have tried to reach her by summiting to all her needs, even i have wash her feet in symble of respect and humility and still she puts me down, and i think i had enough, i decide to put it in Gods hand and let her decide when she can love me without telling so many things that hurt, so i decide to stay away for awhile, am i desrespecting my mother by doing this or should i continue taking her bad comments and humiliation? i love her so much it hurts, but i dont like to feel down every time i visit her with her comments of what i did in the past and how its my foult that i was raped and molested by my own family, i still feel in my heart that she does not have the right to talk to me that way, but i must honor my mother according to the word of God, or should i try to stay away from her? this is very confusing for me please pray that the Lord will give me understanding about this situation, i want my mother to love for who i am, i forgive her for neglecting me, and leaving me with people that she knew where not responsible with children, well i was already five, but i still need your prayers, please
I was blessed to hear you speak at She Speaks, thank you. As I listed my doubts/fears on my card with things like self-worth, self-esteem, etc., I was so blessed to go forward and receive the card that said,”Able.” I believe God was telling me that I am to do much more than I believe I can do.
Well, right now, I need God to do more than is humanly able. My son has cancer. We have been in this battle for 6 years now and so far all brain tumors have been removed successfully and all treatments have had no long-lasting side effects. Nick is precious. Last week we discovered that the cancer has spread to three places. Two places in his brain and one on his vertebrae……….oh, Lord, please heal my son on this earth. We have a very critical appointment in Cincinnati on Wed, July 23rd, at 11 a.m. with one of the nation’s lead brain tumor specialists. Please pray for my son and for my other kids and for me and my husband. http://www.nick7-11.zoomshare.com for his story
God is leading my husband and I on a journey. We have been struggling financially for the last few years and everything is coming to a head. Please pray for unity between us in dealing with such things, boldness for me to speak to him in love the things he needs to hear, and for discernment from the Holy Spirit for me to understand something I may not yet understand. Also please pray that my husband’s and my heart will soften even more.
Thank you – Karla
hi renee, glad to have an opportunity to read your struggles with seeking people out for prayer. I’m also facing such problems. Always wonder is it right to impose on others my burdens. Thank you that your sharing has assured me that our sisters are always there for us if only we know!
Raquel… I will be praying for u that the lord would create in you such a heart that would long and thirst for more of Him.I have already marked my calendar to pray particularly for your sharing and I pray God will use you mightily as his spokesperson to glorify him.
Please pray for my transfer to my hometown.I have been teaching away from home for three years now and would love to return home to kUALA LUMPUR[my hometown].please pray that God will open doors that NO MAN CAN SHUT.
Thank you.
Sheena, Malaysia
My prayer request is that God would create in me a heart that would long and thirst for more of Him. I will be speaking on July 29, 2008 to college students in our city. Please pray for God’s power to be displayed and more souls will be saved. Please also pray for salvation of my family.
Thank you for your prayers…
raquel
Oops..its pretty late right now…
I misread my prayer gal, I will be praying for you Kim!
Please pray that I will be able to organize my thoughts and put them on paper. That my book proposal would be complete before the deadline of Sept. 30th.
Also that there would be some clarity about our church.
Thank you so much, Joanne, California
p.s. Elizabeth…I will be lifting you up in prayer this next week. Please email me if there is anything else that comes up that you’d like me to add to your prayer list. You can reach me thru my blog. blessings!
I’m praying for all of us.. that God will both bless and strengthen all of us both during and through our trials.
I pray for my sister above me in this blog that the Lord will be bring you to the church home, that your family will be strengthened and that your family will seek and hunger to know the Lord.
My prayer requests are: that my mom’s upcoming cat scan will be negative; and that I will soon receive the healing for long-standing physical illness, and if He wills, answers. I’ve grown so weary of feeling bad so long. I also pray that I will soon receive deep-level spiritual and emotional healing that keeps me from having the intimacy with the Lord I desire (which has also kept me single all these years; I knew I couldn’t have a lasting, Godly marriage without the first). I pray for a heart that is released and free to deeply know Him, and a heart that will always hungers for Him and His Word.
Please pray for my family. Pray that we find a church home, for our relationship with the Lord to be strengthened, as well as our relationship as a family to be strengthened. I will be praying for you, Jane, and your son Jordan. God Bless all of you who posted comments and all of you who did not have the words or courage to comment. In Jesus name. C in AZ
Dear Blessed B,
Please know that I will be praying for your husband, children and daughter-in-laws that they follow the path to Our Lord. I will also pray for your personal intentions, your job,and CD songs.
Your prayer partner,
Jane
Please pray for my son Jordan who has relapsed again, and will not seek help. He also continues to make poor choices with his circle of friends.
God Bless,
Jane
Dear Anonymous above Blessed B(me),
I will be praying for you and your struggles with a bipolar husband (my brother is also bipolar) and seeking to be a good mom yet being accused by your own mom of not measuring up. May the Lord grant you grace and peace and give you a fresh sense of his presence and guidance. Also, may you find someone you feel safe talking with. In His love,
Blessed B from L.A., CA.
My constant prayer is for my husband and children to return to the Lord, and for my two daughter-in-laws to be saved. Also praying for my younger brother to repent of his many life-long addictions, and for his wife to find strength and fresh direction following her recent leg amputation (due to diabetis and gangrene in her foot). For myself personally, God’s will regarding my job,and also completing the CD of songs from my heart.
Blessed B from L.A., CA
I am dealing with depression at this time.My bipolar husband spent a lot of money, and caused a great deal of financial problems within the last 2 months.My mother, who was a workaholic, accused me of being a bad mother, because my children love to be on the computer. I often feel as if I can’t talk about these things to most Christian acquaintances at church-they really don’t seem interested.
July 18, 2008 at 1:15 p.m. I received a call at work from my sobbing sister. She had just been fired from employment at a hospital she had been employed at for 15 years. She is 48 years old and an RN that has been in management positions the last few years. She was the main breadwinner of her family and unemployment will only be one quarter of what she was bringing home. They were financially strapped before this. She has acute fibromyalgia and wears a narcotic pain patch daily. She and her husband are Christians. They had put an addition on their home so that their living space was all on one level due to the fibromyalgia. Please join your prayers with our prayers for peace and wisdom for the family as well as guidance and direction for God’s will and purpose through this storm of life. Thank you. Sherry S.
Please pray for my seven year old daughter. She has to go in for a stimulation test on July 29. This test is done through either IV or Blood draws. Pray that the IV takes so that she does not have to endure many needles. Also pray that this test will help figure out what is going on in her body. The doctor beleives that an enzyme is being blocked in her adernal gland and this is causing her body to begin showing signs of early puberty.
Pray that I will not worry and leave this matter in God’s hands. The docotor has assured us that the issue is nothing serious. Pray that I will be patient and trust God through this.
Anita
This is a stretch for me because I’ve never asked for prayer outside of family. Please pray that my husband comes to know the Lord and his healing power. We have three little girls and I’m facing divorce with him leaving the state. I love him dearly and know that God wants this marriage to work. I’ve been a stay at home mom and have never worked before. I’m now needing to enter the workforce and I’m clueless and scared. Please pray that God gives me the strength and revelation on what to do and where to go. I am believing and praying everyday for a miracle in my husband’s life, our marriage being redeemed and financial breakthrough.
Thank you so very much for anyone who is willing to pray for me. It truly means the world.
Jayme,Ohio
Renee…
Thank you doing this prayer post…you are an amazing woman and mighty warrior!
Elizabeth…I will be praying for you that God would open doors for a job and that you would be dancing soon with a babe in the womb! Keep trusting and hoping…God is faithful!
My prayer request is for my husband and I to be debt free soon.
Thank you to whomever prays.
My husband, Ryan, just interviewed for a promotion at his work. We have been praying for open doors concerning his career, and felt that God had opened a door with this particular job. We are praying that Ryan gets the job, but more than anything, we want God’s will to be done, and to have the peace that surpasses our understanding regardless of the outcome. Thank you for your prayers.
Amie