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Welcome, Praying Pals!


We are so glad you've joined us to pray. As you know, PrayingPals.org offers a way for thousands of Christians worldwide to gather online and pray for prayer requests. In addition to church, it's a great way to get extra prayer. Please share about it with your friends. Take part in our weekly prayer time in three easy-to-apply steps. Yes, it's as simple as 1, 2, 3...

 

1) Focus on God's Word with the devotional and prayer tip of the week.

2) Pray for all submitted and consolidated prayer requests.

3) Send in your prayer request and/or praise report. 


Or simply click here to listen   and pray with the radio version of this week's devotional and prayer time with Stacie Ruth. (NW Iowans can tune in each Sunday to KCHE 92.1 FM at around 7:20 AM to listen and pray.) Remember to pray for your pastors. Amen? 

Click here to join in the devotional and prayer time with the radio version.
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1) Take God's Word for It

a weekly devotional by Stacie Ruth






Let our Lord rule you instead of your past.


At the end and at the beginning of a year, people tend to get reflective. What happened in the past year and what might happen in the next? Such reflection can result in people feeling energized or, frankly, immobilized.


We're almost to 2025. Are you feeling energized or immobilized?


Focus on Whom you know: The importance of deriving our identity from God and not other people cannot be overemphasized in our image-focused world. When we know Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, we know we are God's very own children and heirs to His kingdom, which cannot be shaken! We know He works all things together for good for us who know Him! And NOTHING from the past year or the next can stop His love and ultimate-best eternal plan for us. Anxiety melts away in the warmth of His love. Go ahead and throw down every worry, every care at His feet. Go ahead and mourn when needed while knowing He cares and comforts like no other. Go ahead and trust Him, knowing He goes ahead of you.


Remember Whose you are. Remember His character. Remember His love! You are loved and irreplaceable. Remember His promises. He is real. He is near! And He makes all things new.


Go ahead and let go. Let go of the past. And let's go to the Lord in prayer. Appreciate the best of the past. Mourn and lament the worst of it. Learn from it and notice His provisions all along. And then open your heart and hands to Him who loves you and offers Himself to you. Ask Him to help you drop any sin. Ask Him to help you stop rationalizing and start realizing His Word.


He is with you. He is for you. Let's be sure to be for Him and welcome Him to rule in every area of our lives. He is so good -in the bad times and the good. Let's love Him back today and every day in the new year. Amen?


Let our Lord rule you instead of your past. He makes us new in Christ! And, when He returns, He will make all things new. (Hallelujah!)



All of this may sound good. But don't take my words for it. Instead, take God's Word to heart:


"Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!" (II Corinthians 5:17).


"Do not [earnestly] remember the former things; neither consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs forth; do you not perceive and know it and will you not give heed to it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. The beasts of the field honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen,

The people I formed for Myself, that they may set forth My praise [and they shall do it]" (Isaiah 43:18-21).


"And He Who is seated on the throne said, See! I make all things new. Also He said, Record this, for these sayings are faithful (accurate, incorruptible, and trustworthy) and true (genuine)" (Revelation 21:5).


 

-Stacie Ruth Stoelting Hudzinski, www.PrayingPals.org 

 

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Prayer Tip of the Week  


Ask the Lord to show you how to view your past, present and future through His perspective found in God's Word.



2) Prayer Time:

  

"Lord God, thank You for hearing us when we pray. Today, we lift up all requests submitted to PrayingPals.org and ask for Your best for each request. Please heal and be with the sick. Help the persecuted. Draw unsaved loved ones to Yourself. Help the widowed and grieving. And be with those who desire Godly spouses or are in challenging marriages. Please provide jobs for the jobless and hope for the hopeless. We also pray for U.S. military members, who protect the innocent and yet are in harm's way, and for their families. We pray for another great awakening in America and beyond. We ask You to draw us all closer to You and ask You to use us as we share about Jesus. We love You and surrender our will to Yours. We love You. We praise You! You are good all of the time! In Jesus' Name, Amen."


3) Share Time:

 

Share your prayer request at www.PrayingPals.org. If you have a praise report, please send it by e-mail instead at info@prayingpals.org.


Reminder: Be sure to encourage your local pastor and love your neighbors with intentionality.


 



Special Note to the Depressed and Anxiety-laden:


If you are on the brink of suicide, immediately contact the National Suicide Prevention Hotline in the way you prefer: You can text at 741741, call 1-800-273-8255 (en Español:1-888-628-9454), or use the Deaf and Hard of Hearing version at 1-800-799-4889.


For other battles with less acute depression and anxiety, here are other free options which will help you talk, pray, and find a Christian mental health professional in your area:

  1. Schedule a free conversation with Focus on the Family's Counseling Department. Call them at (855) 771-HELP (4357) from 6:00am to 8:00pm (Mountain Time).
  2. Call Hope for the Heart at 1-800-488-HOPE (4673) Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-1:30 a.m. CST; Closed weekends. Línea en español 1-855-867-0824.
  3. Utilize this web site to find someone in your region: https://connect.aacc.net/?search_type=distance.
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