Hi all This week's prayer requests from the Jail Ministry Earl > "Sharon E. Cannon" wrote: > > Hi all, > > Please, please read these prayer requests carefully and REALLY pray for > these ladies! These requests tonight are really heart-rending! > > Sandy Dunbar and I visited the jail tonight, and the Spirit of the Lord > was moving there in a MIGHTY and POWERFUL way! Sandy taught from John > chapter 4 about the woman at the well. There were 17 women in the jail > tonight, and usually when there are that many in the jail, they are noisy > and rowdy. But tonight you could have heard a pin drop, and many of them > were crying. Even when the guard came to get one of the women out, and > the woman took a long time getting her things together, it didn't even > seem to create much of a distraction! > > Here are the prayer requests. I am trying to write them exactly the way > the ladies wrote them, as much as possible, though I'm not sure I can > read every word of them. This is a long message, I know, but there were > a lot of requests and most of the ladies wrote lengthy requests. > > ========================================== > My Name is Loretta G. > > Please pray for me to get a low bond reduction, because I don't know when > I go to court. > > Pray for all three of my children Sherina, Franklin, and Tiffany G. > My youngest is living on the streets of Charlotte. I don't know where > she is or if she is all right. She has a bad temper and attitude. I'm > so afraid for her. My oldest two are struggling with kids. Please pray > for them and my grandchildren. > > Also, pray for my two best friends Renee G, she's a truck driver, and > Cheryl F, we both have drug and alcohol problems. > > Please pray hard for me to find a job and get some help. > > Thank you. > > In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. > > Thank you, > Loretta G > ========================================== > > My name is Kristen T. I am a new searching Christian. I'm trying > so hard to live right, but I let the devil win every time & I can > honestly say I am tired, very tired. So if you will please pray for my > salvation. For my knowledge, faith, trust in the Lord to grow & continue > to grow. That I can learn to turn away from the devil & live with > Christ. I want you to pray for my family. And my boyfriend. My friend > Delicia & her family. Bette & her family who just lost her father. Ease > their hearts. I pray for all of us to become better acquainted with > God. I want y'all to pray for my court dates & God's will be done in my > life. And for my understanding of it. Thank you & God bless all of you! > > ========================================== > Hello my name is Janice R. > > I wish that you pray for me that I stay in the word of God and that he > will stay with me forever. Pray that I get out of here soon so that I > can some way walk in a church before I leave. Wish and pray that God > help all my girlfriends here and out there and that they stay in the > word. > > I want you to pray for J. C. and Johnny, the men most in my life. > Without them I don't know. > > I pray that everybody stay with the Lord. > > Thank you very much. I will pray for you too! > ========================================== > > Prayer Request: Amanda T > > This is a special prayer request for Joyce T and her family in this > time of undue hardships. They are in deep financial and physical binds > due to my sins. > > Also a request for Damascus W that his heart will be right with > the Lord while he battles his own addiction and lifestyle. > > And please put a special prayer in for me the sinner that I am. My > addiction has cost me everything except for my life and that's Only > because of God. Pray for me that this trip to prison (6 mths.) will help > me and that I will be able to fight this disease and stay strong in my > faith when I am released. > > This request is the difference of whether I live or die or ever have any > kind of a life. > > Thank you. > Amanda > ========================================== > > Please put in your prayer for me to be a better person and help me to get > out of jail so I can do better. > [No name given.] > ========================================== > > I need prayers for myself & my family. I need change in my life & I'm > not sure how to do that on my own. I need & want God's help to change > me. > > I don't want to be here as I'm sure no one else does. God please help me > to be home & do the right things for myself & my children. > > I want prayer for everyone who is hurting & suffering including with > myself. > > Thank you. > Marie B > ========================================== > > Please put into your prayers my Uncle, Jim P, who is in the hospital > on life support. My children who are safe in the arms of my mother. For > my love, Shane M, to help him find himself. For my friend Angie for > helping me and for finding herself. For myself for strength to get thru > this time of trial. > > Amanda W > ========================================== > > I pray for everyone. Wish we would all get along. Be one big family, as > we will be one day. I pray for my family Ricky Sr., Ricky Jr., & Crystal > Denny. > [No name given.] > ========================================== > > Pray for my children Chris Dustin Steven Ceara and hope God I get out > soon and be with them. > > Thank you. > Sarah N > ========================================== > > I would like for you to pray for me to give the strength to carry on. I > have violated probation and am going to be sent to prison 40 to 50 > months. I would like to make bond and see my mom and boyfriend before I > go. Please pray for me that my life would get better and to give me the > strength to carry on and be a strong person. > > Juranie W > ========================================== > > Hi, My name is Chandis H. I'm 25 years old with 4 children. > Somehow I messed up in my life and lost all my children to someone else. > I want nothing more in this world but my children. Sometime I find > myself not believing in MY LORD! I hate myself for feeling that way, but > I've only had bad luck in my whole life. I would really like for you to > pray for us to be reunited again. I've tried to the right things in life > but I find out that I fail at everything I do no matter what it is. > Sometimes I feel myself wanting to end myself. I always pray but it seems > to get the opposite. Something happened to me in my childhood to make me > hate everyone at times including my parents. I've never prayed for that > thought to leave my mind, or for the memory of the molestation to > soothe. I'm in very much need of help, mentally & physically. Thank > you. Chandis. > ========================================== > > Please pray for my children (2 boys) (Ronnie) age 7 yrs and (Rodney) age > 3 months. And my 2 yr. old daughter (Alyssa). > > Also pray for me. I feel so lost and lonely inside. I feel like no one > loves me, or no one cares. I've really done a lot of BAD things in my > life. Sometimes I think my life is hopeless. I have hit rock bottom. > I'm trying to pick myself up but it's harder than I thought. I need > help. I need God. I pray but sometimes I think God has helped me > enough. Will he help me through this again? I need him more than ever. > I"m really going through a lot emotional. I feel like my heart is > breaking. Please pray for me. -- Chassidy B > ========================================== > > My name is Glenette L and I've been here since Feb. 4, 2000 for > non-support. I've been to court several times (2/10, 3/2 & 3/23) and > there's a $500 purse on me. I've contacted a center for drug addiction > called T.R.O.S.A. I was told by my caseworker last week that I could be > released to my mother with the paper stating I've been accepted. We've > done all that we were told to do and I'm still here. I truly want to go > to T.R.O.S.A. and receive help. My addiction goes back 9 yrs. I have 3 > beautiful children: Amanda La'sha 13, Charles Kelly 11, and Sa'Nedra > Ieshia age 9. Please pray that God protects them. Be to them what I've > haven't been and can't be. Please pray for my mother Betty W, she > has medical problems. And please please pray that I get out of here and > on to TROSA that I might get the help I'm seeking. > ==========================================