Let Me Pray With You…
As a believer, one of the most satisfying things for me is to pray with others. As I have said before, there is just no way that any human being can completely meet the needs of another human being. Only God can do that!
That is why I am thankful for every opportunity that I get to pray with others. I believe in prayer because I believe in the One that I am praying to.
During the worship services, it is difficult to have the time to pray for many of you. So what I want to do in this entry is to ask you to let me have your prayer requests and needs. I will set aside time on Wednesday (20 February) at around noon to pray with you.
If you are comfortable about it, you can make your prayer points as specific as possible and even leave me your actual name. If not, just leave your initials (real or otherwise in a not so obvious way).
Either you are from Singapore or anywhere in the universe, I will pray along with you.
Please do not enter request that will be awkward for others in any other ways (e.g. pray that John Tan will quit his lying habit or that Mary Lim will marry me). They will be moderated and probably not made it to the comments posting.
Then after Wednesday’s prayer, I will write another entry on this blog for you to share your answered prayers so that all of us would be encouraged (especially me!)
God will answer our prayers in His right time and if it is good for us.
Matthew 16:19
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
That is why I am thankful for every opportunity that I get to pray with others. I believe in prayer because I believe in the One that I am praying to.
During the worship services, it is difficult to have the time to pray for many of you. So what I want to do in this entry is to ask you to let me have your prayer requests and needs. I will set aside time on Wednesday (20 February) at around noon to pray with you.
If you are comfortable about it, you can make your prayer points as specific as possible and even leave me your actual name. If not, just leave your initials (real or otherwise in a not so obvious way).
Either you are from Singapore or anywhere in the universe, I will pray along with you.
Please do not enter request that will be awkward for others in any other ways (e.g. pray that John Tan will quit his lying habit or that Mary Lim will marry me). They will be moderated and probably not made it to the comments posting.
Then after Wednesday’s prayer, I will write another entry on this blog for you to share your answered prayers so that all of us would be encouraged (especially me!)
God will answer our prayers in His right time and if it is good for us.
Matthew 16:19
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
posted by Jeff Chong at 12:50 am
47 Comments:
Please pray for God to heal my hemorrhoid problem which have been troubling me since childhood.
I'd like to pray for God's direction in my life after collecting my A level results ; pray that I'll make the right decisions.
Thanks Pastor!
PH
WOW! Thank God so much for your heart to pray for us. Yes and amen, it's a sheer joy and privilege to pray with others! :D Think we all need to be encouraged that it really is a blessing, not only to the pray-ee, but also to the pray-er!
Hmm. I got a few prayer requests.
1. For a breakthrough in emotional strength and maturity this year, that God will help me train myself to draw strength and joy from Him and His promises everytime I feel melancholic. =)
2. For my friend KS, who should be coming this Sunday. He seems to be a seeker, 'cos he says he's interested in Christianity, but I don't think he has really heard the full gospel before. So please pray for his heart to be open and receptive to the full gospel, and for his mind to understand what it really means... :)
3. For wisdom and effectiveness in planning and preparing for some MM for the HopeKids June camp - that we can assemble a committed and enthu team by end Feb. :)
4. For all the children in HopeKids ministry to experience God's love and understand His character more this year =) and that God will help us get at least 10 more enthusiastic and dedicated volunteers by this year and help the HopeKids service expand to at least 200 (or was it 300?) kids by year's end too. :D
5. For the health and safety of our church planters in Africa - heard that food prices increasing very much and political situation quite unstable there.
6. For a rain-free (and mud-free) soccer match this Sunday for the HPL. For a safe and very enjoyable match too. And that none of us get any "ang-pow" too. :P
Thanks a doz Ps Jeff! Really touched by your heart for us. Do share with us any prayer requests that we can pray for you too... =)
thanks yeu ann. will let you know on another occasions.
hi all, keep it coming...
Hello Ps Jeff
Will like to pray for God's leading and direction in my career and personal life,for a specific vision in next 5 years.
Be more word centered, and God to equip me with wisdom,love and anointing as a learning shepherd.
Thanks much!
-SS- A faitful reader of yours =)
Please pray that I will find the right life partner asap.
wlyl
few prayer request:
1) God will guide me and show me the direction after i graduate;whether to pursue a degree or to work.
2)A spiritual breakthrough in terms of maturity and have a new perspective of how i look at things.
3) Spiritual revival in the caregroup, that every member will be united as one, refreshed and have a heart that is truly seeking after God. we need a revival in the caregroup!
SL
Please pray:
1) Me and my Cg members not only do things but be more like Christ in character. Tat growth will be frm the inside out (compelled by love) and not outside in.
2) To not quit easily or give up easily wen situations become taxing but knw His grace is sufficient.
3) To knw how to discern God's voice and obey it.
Thank you!
-SF-
Pastor Jeff. please help me pray for a breakthrough in my spiritual life. i had been getting tired in serving God but this cannot be and this is not i want to happen. help me pray for a breakthough in this. thank you pastor.
Dear Ps Jeff.
Great idea here. will be gd to hv Pre-Bs though.
Anyway, here's my prayer request, if you have time/not too troublesome. Thx for offering.
Yeah, do believe in prayer.
However, it's a year long thingy, and maynot have immediate answers. :)
1)Find my ministry direction & opportunity. (Worship/music,Youth/Counselling??)
2)God will groom & grow me to serve as CL. (plus able to manage time & maintain/grow spirutual life)
3)Able to manage my new projects/job role and be the best CRA at work for His Glory!
Thx.
Dear Ps Jeff.
Great idea here. will be gd to hv Pre-Bs though.
Anyway, here's my prayer request, if you have time/not too troublesome. Thx for offering.
Yeah, do believe in prayer.
However, it's a year long thingy, and maynot have immediate answers. :)
1)Find my ministry direction & opportunity. (Worship/music,Youth/Counselling??)
2)God will groom & grow me to serve as CL. (plus able to manage time & maintain/grow spirutual life)
3)Able to manage my new projects/job role and be the best CRA at work for His Glory!
Thx.
Dear Pastor Jeff
thanks for opening your heart fro such a meanningful activity
First of all, I like to pray for a breakthrough in faith. I believe in God 99% of the time, but there's this really sticky 1% of me that has tiny but heavy doubts that's keeping me from having 100% faith in Him.
I pray to be convinced for sure about God and be able to go for the upcoming water baptism without a single worry.
I pray that if that happens, my non-Christians will consent my decision, and if they do not, find a God-honoring way to get around the problem.
I also like to pray for my church sister's mother who is diagonsed with cancer. May God heal her and restore her to good health.
Last but not least, I hope to receive God's will for me soon; to know my calling as I am undecided which career path I should pursue.
Thank you!
xxx
Dear Pastor Jeff
thanks for opening your heart fro such a meanningful activity
First of all, I like to pray for a breakthrough in faith. I believe in God 99% of the time, but there's this really sticky 1% of me that has tiny but heavy doubts that's keeping me from having 100% faith in Him.
I pray to be convinced for sure about God and be able to go for the upcoming water baptism without a single worry.
I pray that if that happens, my non-Christians will consent my decision, and if they do not, find a God-honoring way to get around the problem.
I also like to pray for my church sister's mother who is diagonsed with cancer. May God heal her and restore her to good health.
Last but not least, I hope to receive God's will for me soon; to know my calling as I am undecided which career path I should pursue.
Thank you!
xxx
Pastor Jeff,
Thank God for your offer!
Please pray that I will make effort to consciously hand the remote control to God. I want to be able to live out a life which is not controlled by myself, but controlled by God who knows everything.
Thanks!
Dear Pastor Jeff,
Can you help me pray in 3 areas please...
1) For me to focus on God and draw near to him
2) For God to guide me in my career as I am considering a career switch
3) For God to soften the hearts of my family towards Christianity and eventually to come to know Him as their own personal saviour
Thanks a lot pastor Jeff :)
Hey Pastor Jeff
I'm from Hope church, tertiary service.
My mum is diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer, she just found out this week.
It's early stage.. please pray that God would set His healing hand on her and heal her completely and the cancer cells would not spread to other part of her body. And if possible just the surgery to remove her tumor can heal her .Hope she don't have to go through chemotherapy.
This is the second time she got cancer. 9 years ago she got blood cancer, and God healed her completely. And My brother and mother and I came to the Lord through that experience.
So please pray that God can do another miracle again and that my father can accept Christ this time.
I strongly believe God can heal her and that He put this trial for a purpose like what you taught in your sermon-" How to handle stressful time, I think it is really applicable to me.
Thank you
Natalie Lim
And also pray for strength for me to cope with my school major projects and for me to be there for my mum. As my dad is oversea and my brother is serving NS.
And I hope that incident can be a powerful testimonial to impact people and help to bring more people to know more about God's work.
Thank you
Natalie Lim
Hi PJ!
Pls pray for my dad & mom to have a fulfilling marriage, and not to commit any emotional adultery.
JG
There is a new believer in my CG facing family opposition to his faith. Pray that we can take care of him and his needs. Pray that his parents' heart will soften. Pray that he will stand firm. Pray that he can be a good testimony to his family as well.
I'm going for 8 days of reservist. Pray for protection. Pray that I can make fruitful use of any spare time.
Thank you! :)
Hi Ps Jeff,
Please pray for one of the brothers that I know. He left church a few months ago. Please pray that he'll resolve whatever issues/problems he's facing (which I don't know of because he never shared them). Pray also for God's covering to be upon him and that he'll continue to seek and server Him. I don't know whether he's attending any church at the moment, so please pray that he'll be able to commit to a church. Thank you. God bless!
Steven
Dear Pastor,
thank u for your time, i would like to be prayed for my interview at M coy.. that if its god's leading, i would hv god's blessings and find favour with the interviewers & be bless with the job. Pray for fruitfulness in my work life.
2ndly, would like to pray for my sis to come to know christ. and that god will bless her with a job of her desire, & she will experience the power & glory of god in her job search.
May god bless you greatly. Amen.
Soo
Hi Pastor Jeff,
Thanks for your heart, i will join you in prayer on wed at noon.
Please pray for
1- A close friend of mine, PY who has left church due to some personal issues. Pray that God will lead her back to Him, show her He is the one true God and it is only Him who can give her fulfilment.
2- Another dear friend who received Christ during xmas but is not committed due to busyness. Pray that God will protect her and help her to guard her heart as she finds her way out of an unhealthy relationship. Pray that she can sense God's presence with her in all her unhappiness and that she will grow to have a heart that desires to know and love Him.
3- My cg. That we will make our relationship with Him our piority, walking closely with Him, growing in His word and applying it in our lives as we build relationship and bond together.
Thanks :)
Js
Please pray for my sheep that she will not leave God but to keep her faith in God, pray that she have the strength to overcome this temptation that she's facing now .
Thank You :D
Dear Pastor,
Please pray for my sheep that she will draw nearer to God once again and for her to find a way out for the struggles deep in her heart, in the area of BGR and self esteem.Pray she will have the strength and will from God to really walk in the right way this time.Thank you!
Please pray that My mum will stop her serious Verbal and Emotional Abuse for many years.
llw
Pray for my UL that she'll have the wisdom to lead the group, for it's God's work she's doing, not the work of man.
Also for my brothers n sisters having exams now. Not to be caught up by the busyness but to focus on God more.
Thanks n regards.
Will start to pray tomorrow at arond noon. Keep the requests coming!
Dear Pastor Jeff
Please pray that my teaching Practicum starting next mon will go smoothly and I will do well and glorify God!
Thanks WL
Dear Pastor Jeff,
Please pray for my family. My dad has a very big credit-card debt (a 6-digit debt) to pay off, and we don't know what to do here. Please pray for God to provide financially for my family so that my dad will not be trapped by his debt and able to pay off, and that his income will not drop in the next few months.
Please also pray for God to speak to his heart, because he's a Christian, but not a commited one... that God will help bring him back to Him through this experience.
Thank you so much for praying for us, Pastor. God bless you...
Hi Ps Jeff! Could you keep my CG bro Shawn in prayer for his exams? That God'll grant him knowledge and understanding and stamina through the next few days till next Monday :) And oh yeah, for him to do well in his exams too.
Thanks a doz Ps Jeff!
Can pray that God will bless our pastors (including our dear ps jeff) and their wives and families in every area of their lives. Esp for continued physical health and strenght. =)
Hi,
i would like to pray for my cg, in terms of sowing and retention. all of us have been working really hard for these 2 weeks' ess, and we really want to pray that God can see our efforts, more and more pple'll come to know God and we can see a revival in our cg! :D we also want to build good relationships with our contacts, so that they are able to have a open heart towards the gospel and come to know of His love!
; also, i would like to pray for my cg 's recent converts that all of them will be able to be retained successfully and join us for future activities ,and of course, to know God better and build a relationship with Him (:
lastly, i want to pray for my cg, that we can stay strong and bonded as a family of God. we will overcome our temptations and problems together, and grow to become strong women of Christ! Please also pray for us to be faithfilled people who can make biblical decisions, and support each other in times of need.
thank you. & God bless :D
Dear Ps Jeff, would you like to leave your prayer requests too so that we may pray with you too?
Please let us have the privilege to partner with you as well to pray with you. (though i can only do it at night).
Btw, i've prayed for Natalie's mum who has cancer, and family, and for xxx's entry's mum.
Hi Pastor Jeff!
Please help me pray for the following pointers..
1. Pray for security of me in God's Plans, and God's control.
- in God's chosen leadership
- in God's plans specifically for me
- in God's control over problems and issues
2. Rebuking and correcting
- for God's revelation to my life of what rebukes and correction he will like to speak to me so may I learn and grow from them
3. Reconciliation
- reconcile relationship with particular brother and sister
- reconcile relationship with my eldest sister, who have hatred towards me and christianity.
4. Fruitfulness and dependence on God for Pioneering of new specialised caregroup
- pray for God's anointing on a new creative and retention caregroup pioneered in tertiary.
- pray for our dependence on God always and not on our own strengths for ideas and plans.
5. Love God more
- To always practise Mark 12:30 in my life. =)
Thank you Pastor!
Thank God for you pastor jeff, here are my prayer request...
1) Pray that God will strengthen the caregroup. To have everyone well established in God's love and strongly rooted in the his truth. To be relying on God, and living out his truth.
2) Pray that God will let my family see and understand my faith. Though, they saw miracles and changes in me but they are still not willing to accept God. Pray that they come to know the truth and God soften their heart.
3) The ability to deliver the gospel with greater conviction and love.
Thanks :)
Hi Pastor Jeff, thanks alot for your good offer [Prayers from a righteous man is powerful and effective James 5:16]
My prayer requests are:
1) To be a more forgiving and gracious person, focusing on God.
2) To be more dilligent, hard-working, organised, having more wisdom and effctiveness in business. Earning more to have a good breakthrough and be free from any debts.
3) To be more Christ-like in character, having his ways in me.
4) To be able to reach out to more people around me to know God.
5) GOD's better direction for me to know which ministry i should serve.
6) GOD would help me, watch over me, bless me in my trip leaving town soon.
Thank GOD for you. :)
gl
Hi Pastor Jeff, thanks alot for your good offer [Prayers from a righteous man is powerful and effective James 5:16]
My prayer requests are:
1) To be a more forgiving and gracious person, focusing on God.
2) To be more dilligent, hard-working, organised, having more wisdom and effctiveness in business. Earning more to have a good breakthrough and be free from any debts.
3) To be more Christ-like in character, having his ways in me.
4) To be able to reach out to more people around me to know God.
5) GOD's better direction for me to know which ministry i should serve.
6) GOD would help me, watch over me, bless me in my trip leaving town soon.
Thank GOD for you. :)
gl
yo! real glad to have such a cool pastor like you! hehe! rmb me? e girl whom u sat beside in e bus after ARISE? please pray for me that i can have a breakthrough in my emotions that they will not control me but i control them. this has been hindering me in being a leader for God for a few years.. please also pray for me that i can get into food technology option in my second year. THANK God for you! :>
Helping a friend post this prayer request:
Pray for my sickness, have been down with flu n a bad headache. - Sharon
Just finished praying... it was tiring but rewarding.
Ps. Jeff
I have some request prayer too...i noe im late
1. All things go smoothly.
2. Pray that i can pass all my paper in this coming exam. Hope GOD will give me more wisdom and understanding towards these subject as it is quite tough for me.
3. I am able to continue my study in oversea.
Having quite a difficult time struggling whether to continue my study o not.Hope that GOD will make a way for me.
Thanks Ps. Jeff
R.C.
Dear Pastor Jeff,
I am really touched just by reading the prayer requests.People need the Lord. My sheep called me today after quite some time of not able to meet up. She asked me to meet her up for shepherding. I believed some how her heart has been softened and I pray that its a start of her growing closer to God and having the will to do what is right.
Prayer does a wonderful thing to stirring hope and faith within. I am praying for you and family too, Pastor
Had prayed with you R.C. :)
Pastor Jeff, thanks for your invitation to all of us to send you our prayer requests.
I'd like us all to pray that this year's US presidential elections would yield an astute leader who is able to moderate the conflicts and crises that are going on around the world as we know today.
For example, the pervasive tension in Palestine and rest of the Gulf, the nuclear threats from North Korea and other brewing conflicts happening in the world. We know that God will never totally remove all these problems in the world because Jesus has preached thus:
"When you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be frightened. These things must happen first,"
-- Luke 21: 9a.
However, God created the notion of national authorities and bestowed the rulers and heads of governments with the powers to mitigate the effects of such conflicts to the world's populace.
I'd like us to pray that whoever heads the next US Cabinet be a Godly man/woman of discretion, vision, and a peacemaker who seeks not to further battles but to enhance the global cohesiveness of all communities.
Dear Pastor Jeff, we love you. You pour out so much for us and it can be tiring for you but I know that God sustains you. Our lives have been so touched by you. We want to pray for you too. If it's convenient, can you share your prayer requests and we will pray for you.
Hey MJ and company, i need wisdom and strength. It is fundamental but these are 2 qualities that I need in a big big way! Appreciate your prayers greatly.
Pastor Jeff,
Thank you for your heart to really want to pray for us! appreciated it...
Keep me in prayer in these area:
1. Focus on His ministry and pray for MALE shepherds and leaders to rise up! Pray for their willing heart to serve..
2. making some important decision in my life, and I seriously want to honor God, pray that God will lead and show His way.
3. Pray that God will protect and strengthen all the leaders, let us be strong and not be easily affected by trials...
Lastly, Dear Gracious Jesus, I uphold Pastor Jeff, and all the pastoral leaders onto your Hands . Be the leader in their lives, and help them to continue to be zealous about the work that You will lead them to do..they shall be the salt and light and will proclaim Your goodness whenever they go. Lord,Protect them and continue to nurture them to grow deeper in love, patience and always beingfilled with joy. In Jesus most precious name, we pray, amen.
" This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God's people, but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God. Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, men will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and your generosity in sharing with them and everyone else." 2Cor9:12-13
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