Prayer Ministry
Prayer is the heartbeat of Chronic Joy Ministry.
Prayer Pond
You are a precious, vital member of the Kingdom of God and of this community. We’re glad you’re here. Grateful for your presence. Blessed to lift you in prayer.
May God bless you and keep you today and always.
“For where two or three come together in my name, there I am with them.” Matthew 18:20
Before you leave today, please #PrayItForward by lifting up one or more of the requests in front of yours. Then be sure to click the “I PRAYED FOR THIS” button to let the requester know you prayed for them.
You are invited to share your prayer request and/ or praise to our Prayer Pond using the form below. Once your note is received, we will share it according to your instructions. Feel free visit us often and share updates!
Kathy K
Hello Prayer Partners,
I started this summer hoping to be ready to look for work by now. I had several "good" days over several weeks this summer, but now the pain and fatigue is increasing. I did apply to some jobs, but because my 30 years of experience is 8 years in the past, I have been passed over. Now I feel I'm not ready to commit to even part-time office work because my days are so unpredictable. I've been in counseling, and that has helped my mental health improve tremendously, thank the Lord! But in asking and waiting on God for his leading, I've realized it is OK for me to not work right now and try to address the pain and fatigue without extra stress of a new job. I get SSDI, and my only daughter is very willing to help me meet my expenses and does not harbor any resentment about it. I have SO very much to be grateful for, which I pray and thank God for multiple times a day. I need His help and your prayers so I will adjust to this slower-paced season of life, because I had been a DO-ER. I guess at 64, it is OK to slow down now and be still and know God. Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers!
Received: September 10, 2019
Bettie Gilbert
Dear Lord,
Thank You for the plans that You have spoken over us:
“Even to your old age and gray hairs
I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
I will sustain you and I will rescue you.” Isaiah 46:4
We praise You for creating us and for carrying us from birth. Thank You that only You truly sustain and rescue us. Help us today in these places where we are weak and feel the weight of our years creeping up on us. Help our loved ones who are struggling to see Your sustaining and rescuing in their lives. Will You carry them even as we ask You to carry us too? We love You our dear rescuer.
In the name of Jesus we pray,
Amen
Received: September 8, 2019
Gail Godwin
Hi, everyone. The last week has been filled with situations that I've had a very hard time dealing with and would appreciate your prayers.
1. My car battery died. only 15 months old. Thankfully, It was still under warranty so was replaced free. But I'm not able to leave my house because of severe allergies so the exposures in the store have kept me feeling sick and in bed.
2. My room air conditioner died and it was only 1 year old. Here, in Florida, you can't live without A/C in summer. Thankfully. I had already purchased another room air conditioner which was outgassing. So my friend installed it but all of the new plastic was making me so sick. I have severe allergy to plastic. I figured out how to use it without plastic front and covered the foam openings with aluminum foil which has diminished the new smells.
3. I went to wash clothes and my washer tub had terrible moldy smell in it. I tried to wash clothes but now all my clothes have a moldy smell on them and nothing I've used to clean them is getting rid of the smell. Thankfully, I have a few shorts and shirts that weren't washed and I can wear. I've tried using products that were recommended to get rid of mold smell but none have worked. I need a solution of this mold problem.
Anyway, God has helped me deal with these situations but I'm so weak physically from lack of food still and have to stay in bed a lot. Thanks for your support and prayers. Gail
Received: September 8, 2019
Bettie Gilbert
Please pray for my friend Gayl and her young adult son, Stephen. He is in the hospital, being treated for an enlarged heart from complications associated with His Muscular Dystrophy. Just today he came down with a dangerous infection, cDiff. Please pray he will respond to treatment for both this infection and the heart difficulties.
Received: September 8, 2019
Anonymous
Please pray for my son with chronic health and mental health issues. We have been trying many things without much improvement. I am praying for Gods guidance through this and asking him for revelation and purpose. Please pray for our family through this ordeal and hope in his healing spirit.
Received: September 2, 2019
Chronic Joy
Dear Lord,
We praise You for calling us into Your family as Your sons and daughters:
“Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, ‘Abba, Father.’ So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.” Galatians 4:6-7
Thank You that we can cry out our deepest longings to You, our intimate and dear Father. Open our eyes to see the beauty of the life of Your Son, Jesus, given for us, so that we too could call You our Abba, Daddy. May we lift every request to You, and trust that You hear us because we are Your children. Lift our hearts away from cowering before You as a slave, to joyfully embrace Your nearness here. Help us to lift our prayers and our love up to You, our own Heavenly Father.
In the name of Your son, Jesus, we pray,
Amen.
Received: September 1, 2019
Ashley
For Stacey: to overcome strongholds, bitterness, anger, nicotine, and restoration for her marriage.
For Ashley: for her house to sell, finances, and protection.
Received: August 28, 2019
Anna
I have had some days where I've had some hope and I want to thank each one of you who prayed for me. It had meant everything to me!! I got through the last 3 recent surgeries now, am facing another one today (August 26th) which will be a painful and lengthy recovery. This makes surgery # 38. As you know, when you are already living with chronic, it harder to recover from surgeries too. But I told my husband today, I will face this courageously, and so will he. He's been amazing though it all and I am very blessed. But it's been really tough for both of us --a harder year then most. I guess all the years of chronic caught up to us (many of you know how that feels) But we will just let Jesus hold us. He has gotten us through all the other surgeries, and will be there for us today as well. Thank you again for praying. May the Lord bless you for your kindness. Hugs, Anna
Received: August 26, 2019
Chronic Joy
Would you join us in praying together this week?
Dear Lord,
We come before You today, admitting that we are crying out along with the Psalmist:
“My eyes are ever on the LORD,
for only he will release my feet from the snare.” Psalm 35:15
There are so many ways that we feel trapped within our places of illness and struggles. We are praying for our dear ones who also feel trapped. Will You help us to keep our eyes fixed on You, the only Worthy King. Will You show us that You alone know the way to bring rescue. We are waiting upon You here. Thank You that You are faithful to bring us release and rescue in Your own way.
In the name of Jesus, we pray,
Amen.
Received: August 25, 2019
Bettie G
Thank you all for praying for my recent MRI. Praise God, It came back clear! So my Neurologist released me for physical therapy for the occipital neuralgia, beginning this Tuesday. I would appreciate prayer that I would have the strength to maintain that therapy. I also appreciate continued prayer for my sister-in-law who is undergoing a second round of chemo for breast cancer. Thank you all so much!
Received: August 25, 2019
#PrayerMonday
#PrayerMonday is an invitation to pray for this ministry, for those affected by chronic physical and/or mental illness, and for each prayer request tossed into our Prayer Pond. We’ve created a Prayer Focus calendar and encourage you to sign-up and commit to praying during a specific hour – to link arms with us in bringing radical hope and compassionate change to the world through the power of prayer.
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Card Ministry
Would you like to offer a kind word, encouragement, an inspiring quote, or prayer to a fellow chronic illness traveller? On hard days when it seems almost impossible to take one more step, sometimes it soothes the spirit to extend ourselves a bit. Writing a note to a fellow traveller could be just that.
And it’s simple to do!
Stop by the Prayer Pond and as you read through the requests, when God tugs at your heart, pause and pray, then consider writing a note, card or letter to encourage that person too.
Or let us choose. You write the note of encouragement and we’ll choose the recipient.
Send your card to: Card Ministry, c/o Chronic Joy, 1015 Lemira Circle, Waukesha, WI 53188 and we’ll send it on for you.
Would you like to receive a note of encouragement? We invite you to sign-up, and as our mailbox fills up, we’ll forward a little love to you.
REQUEST A CARD
From time to time our hearts are moved to send old-school notes to those in our community. May we bless you with tangible expressions of love and community? *US residents only.
SEND A CARD
Would you like to send a note or letter offering prayer and encouragement? Mail your unsealed cards and letters to us and we will send them on to someone in our community.
Prayer Posts
In A Small Place | God’s Love Poured Out
In a Small Place by Annie Johnson Flint Fret not because thy place is small,Thy service need not be,For thou canst make it all there isOf joy and ministry. The dewdrop, as the boundless sea,In God's great place has part;And this is all He asks of thee;Be faithful where thou art. In thee His mighty hand can showThe wonders of His grace,And He can make the humblest roomA high and holy place....
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Volunteer Prayer Coordinator – Bettie Gilbert
Chronic Joy's New Volunteer Prayer Pond Coordinator We are delighted to officially welcome Bettie Gilbert as Chronic Joy's brand new Volunteer Prayer Coordinator!Bettie is a beautiful soul with a huge heart for prayer who has been with us since the very beginning. (You'll learn more of her story below.) Bettie will welcome and invite our community into prayer through Scripture, short prayers,...
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Acquainted with Grief | Prayer Prompt
Acquainted with Grief Strange acquaintance for the Son of God! The brightness of glory, and the express image of the Father’s person! But He came into our world on purpose that He might know by experience all that His people had suffered; yea, all that His people deserved. He had heard of sorrow. He had seen it in others. But He had never felt it Himself. He took our nature. He...
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Prayer Books
The Way of the Heart: Connecting with God Through Prayer, Wisdom, and Silence
Henri J.M. Nouwen
Inspired by the ancient teachings of St. Anthony and the Desert Fathers,The Way of the Heart clears before us a spiritual path consisting of three stepping-stones: Solitude (learning not to be alone but to be alone with God); Silence (the discipline by which the inner fire of God is tended and kept alive); and Prayer (standing in the presence of God with the mind in the heart).
Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation
Ruth Haley Barton
Do you long for a deep, fundamental change in your life with God? Do you desire a greater intimacy with God? Do you wonder how you might truly live your life as God created you to live it? Spiritual disciplines are activities that open us to God’s transforming love and the changes that only God can bring about in our lives. Picking up on the monastic tradition of creating a “rule of life” that allows for regular space for the practice of the spiritual disciplines, this book takes you more deeply into understanding seven key disciplines along with practical ideas for weaving them into everyday life.
Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
Timothy Keller
Christians are taught in their churches and schools that prayer is the most powerful way to experience God. But few receive instruction or guidance in how to make prayer genuinely meaningful. In Prayer, renowned pastor Timothy Keller delves into the many facets of this everyday act.
The Deep Place Where Nobody Goes: Conversations with God on the Steps of My Soul
Jill Briscoe
This collection of short stories, reflections, and poems from Jill Briscoe centers on the theme of our relationship with God, and how that relationship must be our daily priority in good times and bad.
