Sowing Seeds Ministry

Sowing Seeds of Faith
Dear friends,

 

My friends, the Word of God has long been something stressed in the Prayer Needs Ministry.  Something else is also on my heart that I would like to share with you.  Quite a few of you are, more than likely, active participants in a local church.  In my opinion, an opinion that I believe can be substantiated directly by the Word of God, the Bible, the local church is the appropriate place for corporate worship.  Though each and every one of us ought to personally and individually read the Bible frequently and pray, it is also important for those of like faith to spend time together, and this view is specifically supported by the scripture passage in Hebrews - read Chapter ten, verses nineteen through twenty five in particular.

 

 

My fervent prayer is that each one of us involved in this ministry will take time every single day to read the Bible.  I provide some scriptures each week to consider.  You may use them if you like, or even better, develop your own methods of daily study and meditation, based on the Word of God.  Ask God to work in your heart.  Pray for forgiveness of sin, and examine your own life first, and then prepare yourself to pray for the requests in this week's prayer needs letter.

 

 

Thank you once again for being an important contributor to this ministry.  It is valued and greatly appreciated!  

Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and a commander to the people. It became him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering. We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God. We do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.)
The God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you.

2 Tim. 2:3. Isa. 55:4. Heb. 2:10. Acts 14:22. Eph. 6:12,13. 2 Cor. 10:3,4. 1 Pet. 5:10.   



from  Bible.com  

 


Prayer Request from Bernice Heath
Email: mailto:vivizhere@hotmail.com
Prayer Request: Please pray for health to return.  Bernice has been shaking for 2 days now plus there's a problem with a hernia pressing against her lungs. She has been struggling with asthma over the years, an elderly lady and very frail.  Bernice has been a devout Christian and prayer warrior all her life.

Prayer Request from Cindy
Email: mailto:leng5161@yahoo.com
Prayer Request: Father I thank you for you are indeed mighty. Lord I pray for deliverance and that you will release my finances from the control of my sis in law and brother. Lord I pray you grant me protection and favor as I look for a new home to move to in Jesus name. 

Prayer Request from Imelda Reyes
Prayer Request: having problems in my marriage. 

Prayer Request from Charles Ndambuki
Email: mailto:charles4him@gmail.com
Prayer Request: Prayer request for salvation of Stanley and his family to know the will of Lord in their live.Prayer request for my village's famine and drought.Praise report on answered prayer of healing to my mother in law.Pray for East Africa families' faced with famine.  Bro Charles 

Prayer Request from Joan
Email: mailto:joanesom@yahoo.co.uk
Prayer Request: Can you pray for a much loved family?  I just heard the dad has a few hours to live. 

Prayer Request from Cindy
Prayer Request: My son has asked me to move to Galax (where he and his fiance live) and I want to but I have been unsuccessful at finding a job. I want to move but I am concerned that I want to because I have nothing here. I have been divorced for 10 years and have had only one significant relationship during that time that lasted for 2 years. I am just a few months from my 50th birthday and I don't want to spend the rest of my life alone. I also don't want to consume my son's life and become a burden to him. I have prayed about this daily but I am still in turmoil. Please pray that God reveals His plan to me. I want to follow His will.  Thank you. 

Prayer Request from Gerald
Email: mailto:Docpv1st@yahoo.com
Prayer Request: I was born with emphysema in the bottom part of my lungs (bronchiecstasis) Had pneumonia 7 0f the past 8 yrs.On oxygen, 2 % chance of recovery. Gravely ill for past ten months. I am an evangelist of the gospel, 64 years old. Please pray that I be made whole. Thank you! 

Prayer Request from Barbara
Email: mailto:gods_little_angel2@sbcglobal.net
Prayer Request: Please pray for my 14 year old granddaughter and her family.  I pick up my granddaughter for Sunday School and church.  She goes two Sundays, then skips two or three in a row. Her parents don't go very often.  I have two requests.   1.  that my granddaughter will go every Sunday and 2. that mom and dad  will start coming.    Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get her and the parents to come oftener without  being pushy?  I have a prayer partner who has panic attacks.  She needs prayer for healing.  Thank you all for praying.  Barbara 

Prayer Request from Ouida Hewett
Email: mailto:ouida@atmc.net
Prayer Request: Hello Family and Friends!
Please keep my niece Megan in your prayers, as my sister explains below, God had His hand in this as it could have and should have been a lot worse. Thanking you in advance for God healing her with no complications. Be well!  Tricia
Megan's friend was driving the SUV on their way to breakfast followed by some friends - when she got cut off and driven off the road by an elderly  woman - and over corrected when she went into the median.  At the time, Megan was up in her seat, actually standing with her back up against the ceiling - turned around - getting her wallet out of the back seat - when the SUV flipped four times. That's why the injuries are on her left side and not her right.  Megan said she looked at Sammie when her head was upside down and saw her grip the wheel.  During one of the flips, Megan went through the passenger glass window which was closed, but miraculously somehow ended up on a patch of grass.   Her friend tried grabbing her feet as she went out the window - and the witnesses said they don't understand how Megan didn't touch the pavement.  She looked like she was jumping through the air. 

Prayer Request from M.L.Kehoe
Email: mailto:mlkehoe@aol.com
Prayer Request: Please continue to pray for Pastor Ed for a torn tendon to the bicep.  He will need to have surgery.  I will keep you advised as I hear his news.  Thanksgiving prayer for Ginger who reported his injury.
Scripture:
Read the Bible this year.  You can find a calendar to read the entire Bible  at
http://www.dailyway.com/ReadTheBibleOnline.html
That is not the only location, nor the only on line translation.  There are many others available if you prefer other translations.  Nothing wrong with reading a good, old fashioned Bible, either.  The important thing is to faithfully read the Bible daily because reading the Bible builds your faith, for "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."  Romans 10:17, KJV
Please pray for the nations of this world, and certainly for the leaders of your own country.  I believe that this is God's will, as this is mentioned specifically in scripture.

There is amazing power in united prayer.

Remember 2 Chronicle 7:14: 'If my people who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land".
If you ever need to change your subscription information, whether changing your Email address or you need to stop receiving the messages for any reason, note the subscription information and the contact information at the bottom of each message.  Just as our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is a choice, the privilege of sharing with others in prayer is also a choice - your choice.

I urge you to prayerfully consider these needs and thank God for the privilege of being able to approach His Throne directly in prayer, all made possible by Jesus the Son, and that is why it is in His Name that we pray.

Yours in Christ,
Brian Masinick