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  • Maureen813
    Maureen813 Member Posts: 1,826
    edited February 2012

    Dear Lord, Thank you for all the blessings you've bestowed upon us. Please guide our healthcare providers to make the best decisions about our care. Thank you for carrying us through our trials and providing the inner peace we need to move forward every day. Please help lift my spirits from this down feeling and heal my soul.  Your will be done.

    Amen

  • mnmom
    mnmom Member Posts: 1,841
    edited February 2012

    Amen

  • sundermom
    sundermom Member Posts: 98
    edited February 2012

    Lord,



    Thank you for the beautiful sunshine we saw today in Ohio. I can see your healing touch at work in my mother. Please continue to give me guidance about decisions that need to be made regarding my parents long-term care. Help me find the words when talking about these difficult issues with them. Watching my mother being taken from me due to cancer makes me worry that I will be taken from my children prematurely. I pray for a sense of peace in this very uncertain time.



    Amen

  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 9,611
    edited February 2012

    AMEN

  • shabby6485
    shabby6485 Member Posts: 48
    edited February 2012

    I never posted on this forum before but thought I'd share a profound experience I had yesterday.  I have very bad anxiety especially related to health issues.  I have ADH and ADL and a strong family history.  I was going for my pre-op (9th and 10th biopsy in 3 years) for excisional surgery for atypia scheduled for tomorrow.  I was feeling so alone and scared.  Really having a hard time in that waiting room.

    The nurse came to get me and her name was Mercy.  I told her a little about my history and how scared I was of medical tests and my upcoming surgery.  She grabbed my hands and looked me in the eye and recited Psalm 91.  I started to tear up.  For 40 minutes she spoke to  my about the power of prayer and how I am not alone. That no matter what, I was going to be ok.  She went on to tell me that she was only scheduled to be in ambulatory at the last minute and she felt that we were meant to meet.  

    Usually my blood pressure is sky high but when she took it it was normal.  I was petrified of the EKG but she talked me through it and it was normal.  On my way, out she asked me if she could hug me and out the door she went.

    I cried all the way home.  In three years of this rollercoaster, I have never felt more comforted. Of course, I am nervous for tomorrow but I feel that Jesus put her there for me yesterday.

    Thank you, MERCY! 

  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 9,611
    edited February 2012
  • policewife84
    policewife84 Member Posts: 86
    edited February 2012

    Hi Ladies!

              Shabby,

                        It is amazing how God knows what we need before we do, isn't it? I know he put Mercy there just to comfort and guide you.:) Dear Heavenly Father, tonight I come to you asking for continued healing for all of my breastcancer.org friends. It is under unfortunate circumstances that we all met, but we are focused on you, Lord, and that makes us stronger than cancer. I know that we will be able to use our experiences to glorify you, Lord. To show the world that you are a mighty, merciful God, full of grace and healing. Thank you Lord, for all of the daily blessings and gifts that you bestow on us - from the sun to the rain, and the promise of eternal life through your son, Jesus Christ. Thank you Lord, for my husband, my home, and for loving me as I am. In Your Name I Pray,

    Amen

    Love,
        Brandi

  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 35,657
    edited March 2012

    Dear Lord, Thank You for all the love these wonderful

    people share. Please bless them and give them peace

    threw all they are facing. You know and care for all of

    them, and they are so kind and giving to each other.

    Thank You for being with them and carrying them threw.

    In Jesus name. Amen

  • Rocket
    Rocket Member Posts: 910
    edited March 2012

    Father thank you for the amazing women on this thread that choose to put their trust in You.  We are so grateful for the opportunity to love and serve such a Mighty God!  Please help each of us today in our struggles to understand and work out Your will in our lives.  Help us to follow You and trust You completely when our faith is weak and we are frightened.  Let us feel the presence of Your Holy Spirit working in us to guide and comfort us.  Thank You for the gift of Your Son for it's through Him that we have a relationship with You.  We ask these things in His most precious name.

  • bcincolorado
    bcincolorado Member Posts: 4,758
    edited March 2012

    Dear Lord,

    Thank you for the people who inspire others and lift up prayers here.

    Thank you for helping others find us when they need to be comforted.

    Please give us all Your peace that passes understanding and give us peace.

    Amen.

  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 35,657
    edited March 2012

    Help us, O Lord, to fight this disease. Help us to take

    charge of our medical care and treatment. Give us all

    positive, fighting spirits. Help us to say no when it is

    appropriate, remembering always to treat everyone,

    including the medical staff attending us, with the same

    dignity and respect that we expect of them. Guard us

    from temptation to resign to passivity, negativity or

    anxiety. Surround us with people who will care about

    us and will pick us up if we fall. In Jesus name we pray. Amen

  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 35,657
    edited March 2012

    Dear Lord, Please be with and comfort those in need

    of peace and rest in Your loving arms. Help those that

    are having chemo, tests, or other challenges. May they

    know and feel the prayers and love we are sending their

    way. We love You and thank You for all You have done

    or are doing for us. In Jesus name we pray. Amen

  • torigirl
    torigirl Member Posts: 748
    edited March 2012

    Heavenly Father,

    Please Bless us...

    Please Protect us...

    Please Heal us...

    Please Cure us...

    Please Bless us all abundantly...

    AMEN 

  • Cherilynn64
    Cherilynn64 Member Posts: 156
    edited March 2012

    For anyone interested:

    www.cancershrine.com.

    I live in Arizona in the Phoenix area, and we have a cancer shrine at a Catholic church in Mesa that was built in 2008. I have been there twice and going again tomorrow. It is wonderful. And you dont have to live here to partake. If you or anyone else with cancer want to be prayed for, you can submit that request on their website. I was able to make mine in person.....and I received a small bacth of prayer notes last week (they leave your name up for 2 weeks is all b/c there are so many requests). Surprisingly I got a second batch of prayer notes yesterday, I thought I was done! I couldn't believe complete strangers prayed for me....it was very humbling and I am so grateful.

    There is no fee - you can make a donation if you wish but it's all funded by people making donations on behalf of ohers. When I went and prayed there last time, I put in $20 with the prayer cards of those whom I prayed for to cover some mailing costs. But you don't have to. I made the prayer request for myself. I felt weird doing so, and kind of selfish.....but I'm alone and no one else would know to do it for me. And I am SOOOO glad I did. When I received that first small envelope and read the names of people who had prayed for me (some incldued brief notes), I literally sank to the floor crying. 

    Yesterday I learned I do not have to have chemo. Right now I am cancer free. I got the second batch of cards in the mail when I got home from getitng my Oncotype score. Can you believe it?

    St Perergine and St Agatha are whom I have prayed Novenas for intercessions to God....I have done a powerful lot of praying. I sing at Mass weekly, but after the year I have had (PTSD diagnosis due to a breakup with a guy in June whom I cannot believe did not go through this with me...long story but it was very traumatic in nature and 7 months to the day I left I got diagnosed with breast cancer).....I pray the Rosary nightly and just find myself talking with God more. Now I have thanked him for my second life...and have asked in the last 2 days, "OK, what do You want me to do now....tell me where to go, what to do, Thy will be done...." I do believe in the power of prayer. And I have a kidck ass guardian angel! Always knew that one though :-)

    Cheri 

  • mkw1
    mkw1 Member Posts: 102
    edited March 2012

    I am delighted to find this discussion board. The LORD bless you all this weekend. 

    The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear Him and He delivers them. Psalms 34:7 

  • policewife84
    policewife84 Member Posts: 86
    edited March 2012

    Good Evening Ladies,

                           I just wanted to touch base with y'all and make sure that everyone is okay following those awful storms. I was watching the news and the devastation is just horrific. Please join me in saying a prayer for those affected. 

    Dear Heavenly Father,

                              Tonight I come to you asking for your mercy and grace for those affected by the storms that have passed through. Please comfort them, Lord, and show them that all is not lost; for your light shines even through the darkest storm. Remind them that you are in control Lord, and that glory will come in the morning. Thank you Lord, for giving us the ultimate gift - the gift of eternal life. Remind us, Lord, that cancer is similar to the devastation left from the storms, and we often feel like we are left to pick up the pieces and sort through the rubble. With you, we can carry on, knowing that you are always there to help us carry our burden.Thank you Lord, for loving us eternally, and unconditionally. In your name I pray,

                                                                                Amen

    Love,

             Brandi

  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 35,657
    edited March 2012

    Dear Lord, Thank You for all the support and love shown

    to us here, as we praise you for everyday You help us

    threw. Please be with all those that are facing a storm in

    life. May they feel Your comfort and know You are there

    to carry them threw. Thank You for bring all these prayers

    to help us see, the love and caring of others, when we are

    feeling alone with our treatments. Bless and give peace to

    those new or just need Your caring arms around them to help

    the pain and suffering, that they may rest and be able to work

    on getting threw. We love You and thank You for all the ways

    You carry us and help us see the light of the world. In Jesus name. Amen 

  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 35,657
    edited March 2012

    Dear Lord, Be with all the sisters here that are going

    threw any medical treatment or challenges. May they

    find peace, knowing You are always there to carry them

    threw. Bless and comfort mkw1 and others that are new,

    May they feel the love and caring that has help me and

    others, to stay strong and know they are winners with

    You. We love You and thank You for Your Everlasting

    love. In Jesus name we pray. Amen

  • fhar451
    fhar451 Member Posts: 13
    edited March 2012

    Please pray for me that my biopsy tomorrow turns out to be B9. I can't believe I am having to go thru this again, only 7 months after my first lumpectomy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I pray to God to watch over me and get me thru this.    

  • Cherilynn64
    Cherilynn64 Member Posts: 156
    edited March 2012

    I will say a prayer for you tonight.....good luck.....the waiting sucks, I know....

  • CRuth
    CRuth Member Posts: 8
    edited March 2012

    All -- having trouble sleeping tonight before my 1st chemo infusion tomorrow and found this prayer link.  Thank you for posting so many beautiful prayers and reminders of God's love and blessings.

    Fhar 451 -- am praying tonight for a benign test result and the strength for you to face whatever comes.

     Blessings and peace to all -- Cyndy

  • Rocket
    Rocket Member Posts: 910
    edited March 2012

    Cyndy, praying right now that you will feel the peace that passes all understanding. It is difficult going through chemo, but God is right there with you, holding you. Nothing will touch you that hasn't passed through His hand. He will guard and keep you. Let us know how you are doing.



    Fhar451, praying for B9 results. Lean into Him. He knows your fear and will comfort you through it. Keep us posted.

  • bcincolorado
    bcincolorado Member Posts: 4,758
    edited March 2012

    Dear Lord,

    Thank you for helping people who need a comforting place find this thread.

    Please be with all who are worried tonight about new diagnosis.

    Please be be with those facing surgery and scared.

    Please be with doctors and medical teams and help them to be compassionate and give them the knowledge and wisdom to help with the best outcomes.

    Amen.

  • Rocket
    Rocket Member Posts: 910
    edited March 2012

    Father I come humbly to Your throne of grace. I plead for a cure for this disease. Please hear those that cry out to You in their fear. Let them feel Your presence. Grant them Your peace and strength. Help them to recognize that You are faithful and will not leave or forsake us. Pease ease their pain, worries and help their families as they struggle through treatments. Help each of us Father as we reach out to You in need. We ask these things in Jesus Name.

  • policewife84
    policewife84 Member Posts: 86
    edited March 2012

    Dear Heavenly Father,

                                 I come to you tonight asking for guidance, as my darling husband and I try to work through fertility damage resulting from my chemo treatments. Only you know the plan you have for me, and I am asking that you allow me to be at peace with that plan. You know how much my husband and I are longing for a child, and the difficulty we have had conceiving. You know how worn out I am - and how frustrated with my body I have become. Please provide me with peace Lord, and to allow us to make this decision based on trust and faith in you Lord. Thank you Lord, for loving me, and giving me eternal life through your Son, Jesus Christ. I love you, Lord, and I commit my life to you - to serve, and to follow you in all that I say and do. Lord, I ask for comfort for Cyndy, that she is handling her first chemo well, and for Fhar451, that she had wonderfully,clear, benign, biopsy results.

    In Your Name,

                     Amen

    Love,

    Brandi

  • fhar451
    fhar451 Member Posts: 13
    edited March 2012

    Biopsy results - B9!!!

    Thanks to God and to all of you for your prayers and support.

  • policewife84
    policewife84 Member Posts: 86
    edited March 2012

    Fantastic news sweetie! I am absolutely thrilled for you! How great is our God!

    Love,

    Brandi

  • bcincolorado
    bcincolorado Member Posts: 4,758
    edited March 2012

    Dear Lord,

    Thank you for answered prayers.

    Amen.

  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 35,657
    edited March 2012

    Thank You Father for the good news that fhar451 has

    found out. Please be with others that are still going threw

    the unknown. May they stay focus on You and Your caring

    love. Please be with all those that are hurting or just need

    to remember all those that are thinking and praying for them.

    Please help   others and me with our cancer challenges

    we are facing. We love You and are so grateful for all Your

    blessing and friends we have here. In Jesus name we pray. Amen

  • footprintsangel
    footprintsangel Member Posts: 35,657
    edited March 2012

    Be strong and take heart,

    all you who hope in the Lord.

    Psalms 31: 24

    I know the thoughts that I think toward you,

    say the Lord, thoughts of peace and not evil,

    to give you a future and hope. Jeremiah 29:11

     God does not have us follow the light. He has

    us follow Him and He becomes our light.

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