Busted Halo: For Others

Today's "fast" idea from the website Busted Halo suggests a fast from prayer for my personal needs.  Okay!  Here goes!

Amy:  Father, her heart is toward La Casa de la Esperanza.  She feels called--and I rather believe that You are, in fact, calling her--to spend a school year there.  There are many details to consider as we move forward with this mission.  Please grant us direction, wisdom, and provision.  Please show us the things that we, by ourselves, would probably miss or fail to take into account.  Please be glorified not only by Amy's willing heart, although I imagine that You would be extremely blessed by it, but also by our willing hearts to let her go and to help her make this mission possible.

Julie: Lord God, You know my heart is most concerned not merely for her physical safety in the city, although that is certainly true.  My heart is most concerned with her spiritual "safety" and the dearth of Christian fellowship in her life.  I don't know whether the difficulty she is having in attempts to connect with Redeemer is an indication that it is not Your will for her to be fed there OR an indication that the idea is receiving spiritual opposition from the enemy.  My first request from You, then, is discernment about this conundrum.  I don't want to be asking for something that is outside of Your will.  Please, in either case, lead her to Christian fellowship in the city.  She seems to be remaining close to You, and I ask You to give her the commitment to maintain that closeness.

Holland:  Dear boy!  Dumb boy!  I think Mom is right; he doesn't appreciate Amy.  Oh, well.  That is her issue and his issue and not my issue.  I did say, though, that I would pray about his Habitat for Humanity fundraising, and so I shall.  Please, Lord, provide for him according to Your riches in glory.  Please honor his heart for the poor and the downtrodden.  Please also honor his young manhood and his need for adventure.  I ask that You would prove Your heart to him by opening the purses and pockets of Your people to provide for this ministry.  Bless him; bless my daughters, too (and more?? )