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At FamilyLife we consider it an honor to pray for you, our family and friends, and we commit to doing so every week. If you have a prayer request, please post your request on the prayer wall below (using the "Add your comments" box below).

Once prayer requests are received, they will be distributed each week among the various departments throughout FamilyLife and prayed for by our staff during our weekly prayer time.



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Anonymous @ 11/19/2009 2:34:57 PM 
Please pray for me and my husband. We are going trough hard time now. Trough out 10 years of our marriage he's been periodicly lying to me ( always something secret going on behind my back)when I find out about it I get heart broken and have hard time trusting him. I get isolated. We recently attended Weekend to remember, he feels like he wants to start new life with "no more secrets", but I have hard time beleiving that he will change after all these years. Please pray for him to really become honest, open and loving husband that I can trust. Also please pray so God will heal my heart that I will be able to forgive him and except him and for our children.
Thanks
Anonymous @ 11/12/2009 6:10:21 AM 
Anonymous @11/12/09 7:00 am
Please pray from my marriage of 12 yrs. My husband has recently rented an apartment and is considering leaving our family. He has started a relationship with another woman through text messages and it is unknown what else. We are a blended family with 6 chidren, his, hers and ours. My daughter who is now 19, has dissociative identity disorder and this has caused a huge strain on our marriage.Our family has faced much adversity in the last 13 yrs that we have been together and now satan has a stronghold in our lives by convincing my husband to rent this apartment because he is "confused and needs time to think"... I am for my marriage and love my husband with all my heart, I am willing to fight to the very end for my marriage and have told my husband I am not giving up on us. The 2 children that are still living at home, this is beginning to really have an impact on. I pray that God could reach my husband and he would be repentant and he would choose our fam
Anonymous @ 11/10/2009 11:44:34 PM 
Please pray for our son Christian he is 17 years old. Two days ago he had a melt down cussed at his father, told him he hates us both and wanted to commit suicide. When our son started to get physical and said he wanted to kill my husband, my husband picked up the phone and dialed 911. My husband did hang up but about 1/2 hour later the police did arrive though by then my husband had taken our son to his Chemistry class after he had calmed down. Our son has had trouble for quite some time being a team player in our home and doesn't like to be reminded of doing things we've asked. We are a Christian home and our children have been raised in the church. When he was 13 years old it started with his best friend a pastors son told him about some bands ( panic at the disco, the killers...) , flat ironing his hair, wearing skinny pants, punk rock, emo attitude, wanting a tatoo. We allowed the skinny pants from a surfer shop, took him to C28 a christian clothing store to buy slim fitted
Anonymous @ 11/6/2009 2:53:25 PM 
Please pray for my mom who has been sick for almost a year. The doctors cannot find what is wrong with her and she is frustrated and feels like she is going to die. Please pray that

1) The doctors find out what is wrong
2) God heals her mind, body, and spirit.

Her name is Rita.

Thank you so much
Anonymous @ 10/24/2009 6:14:17 PM 
Please pray for me I’m trying to stop drinking, I’m stopping. I do good every morning and by night I don’t do so good. I’m going to start a list of numbers I can get of people that will pray with me when I’m weak. I have a good church family but I don’t want to talk to any one that I know personally. Thanks for you prayers.
Anonymous @ 10/16/2009 3:34:25 PM 
We received Referral Acceptance from China for our 5 yr old daughter on Monday, and then learned that she has been struck with a very serious illness on Thursday. She has been diagnosed with spinal acute myelitis, but we have no details as to when she got sick, how long she has been sick, or what kind of treatment she is receiving. From the info we have gathered it is an attack by the immune system on the spinal cord and is very serious.
Please PRAY for these:
- healing of her body
- for her to receive good treatment
- for the CCAA and the orphanage to allow the adoption to proceed(we want her to know that she has a family that is waiting for her)
- that she would not be scared...grace and peace for her painful state
- peace for us as we wait to receive more details (it's very hard to think of her in such pain without her family there to comfort her)
Thank you for your prayers. If you would like to put her precious face with your prayers, you can find her photo at www.loving
Anonymous @ 10/13/2009 1:43:27 AM 
contd. a driver to drive him to work and this person has been in charge of providing tea, coffee, oats, horlicks etc to my husband at appropriate times. Yesterday, my husband came back home from office and he collapsed in bed saying that he was very tired - i am worried whether this driver might have added something to the beverages ( he had said that his father killed him mother by giving her a tablet and when that failed, took her out and bludgeoned her or something like that). i am very worried - no one will believe me and i have no proof that this man might harbour criminal tendencies. The reason for the girl consuming poison is also unclear.As and when my husband refuses him money, he might turn violent or even do something rash when he drives my husband to other cities. Please pray for my husband's life ( he thinks he is in no danger) and also that this driver should leave our employ immediately. Instead of us turning him off, it would be better if he went off on his own. Please
Anonymous @ 10/13/2009 1:42:21 AM 

Dear friend, please pray for my husband. i am afraid that our driver ( of two months) might make an attempt on my husband's life due to some petty revengeful thinking. This driver has been pressing us for money ( About Rs. 40000) and also for an increase in salary even though he is being adequately paid, fed etc. He insists he wants to get married within 2 weeks. His reasoning being that otherwise his grilfriend would commit suicide. She had previously attempted suicide and as a result this fellow lost his job. His father has thrown him out of the house and he claims that everyone in his house are against him, troubling him and that his father murdered his mother when he was a kid. But despite all this he lived with his father till two weeks ago, gave him all his salary etc and even tolerated his step-mom and most of his earnings was given to his step-mom. Now, he has started asking us for money and my husband is not keen on retaining him. My husband is ill and therefore needs a driv
Anonymous @ 10/9/2009 9:14:41 PM 
i would like to buildup my personal and my family life with Jesus Christ.
Anonymous @ 10/9/2009 7:45:57 AM 
There is no peace at home especially when my husband is there. He is over critical, angry, irritable and fights with us all the time. He is happy, jolly and laughs when he is with others. He looks on me and the child as a huge burden and growls at us. he hates to spend for our needs and grudges us everything. But soemtimes, he gives us too much - when we don't need it. He moves between two extremes. He used to beat the child terribly but stopped it a few years ago after i started praying to Christ. My daughter is in 12th std and she is terribly depressed due to her father's angry outbursts and degrading remarks. He always puts her down and deflates her self-esteem. Sometimes it looks as if he would be happier without us - we are a burden for him. I have nowhere to go - my parents will never help and everyone prefers that we spend the rest of our life like this ( between the devil and the deep sea) but we should never ask them for any help. i am worried that he will turn us into mental
Anonymous @ 10/6/2009 1:43:40 PM 
We need prayer, financially we are struggling to get by. We are discouraged and frustrated. My husband is completely commission and has had a tough year. We have spent time in prayer and it seems like we are getting no where. We have prayed if this is where we are suppose to be than please make it 'work' and if not than please open a new door. God please help us! We feel so down and discouraged. My husband has recently been on the church board and we have been asked to host a care group it seems like we have been struggling more and more as we do more. We want God's will for our lives, right now we feel like we are a sinking ship. Please pray for us.
Anonymous @ 10/4/2009 11:51:34 AM 
Please pray for me to get another job. I am having alot of problems in my current job with my supervisor and manager. They are constantly trying to tear me down especially with my director. I need another job before they can succeed. The situation has denigrated into harrassment. Also I am owed back wages. I was given a new job assignment in July that pays more than twice what I am making now but to date I have not been paid for this new job although I am performing the job. My director professes to be a Christian but he is blatantly cheating me out my wages. I have emailed him, he ignores me. I need stronger faith. My faith is weak right now.
Anonymous @ 10/3/2009 8:48:50 PM 
My prayer request is for my friend, who is Christian and just needs a lot of prayer. Her father has put her down all her life and told her horrible things about how worthless she is and built up a wall of lies around her. She is here at college with me and my group of Christian friends and we are doing our best to make sure she never has to go home. She has been assaulted by three different guys in her past, one or more being sexually, and her father told her she deserved it. She has turned to cutting and other things to try and cope. I don't know the extent of everything but I do know that she really needs God to do some miracles in her life. She has been hurt on so many levels she has it ingrained into her mind that she is worthless and we are trying to eliminate that and show her that people do care about her. Please have everyone you can pray for this girl. Her name is Anna.
Anonymous @ 10/3/2009 12:41:59 AM 
Please pray that i should get a nice, new house of my own with a garden. i am really desperate for a house of my own. Please pray that i should receive my inheritance also - my parents and sister are enjoying my property and have cheated me out of it. They are not relinquishing my share and have chased me out of the house. I have prayed for so many days, months, years - there is no respite. i am terribly desperate for a house of my own - i need one. i am tired of washing and cleaning grimy walls and stairs and making do with very little space and adjusting all my life. No one understands my despair - i feel so suffocated, overwhelmed and desperate enough to commit suicide when i am within these walls. Please ask Jesus to please lift me out of here and plant me in a beautiful place - my soul craves peace and quiet - i need to have a nice garden, my own plants and i need to walk on the bare earth. Everyone keeps pushing me into corners and squashing me - it is too much. Please ask Jesus
Anonymous @ 9/28/2009 6:55:19 PM 
Please pray for my 9 year old son and my 5 1/2 year old daughter and myself. My best friend (my 42 year old husband) went home to be with Jesus on 8/3/09. This was totally unexpected. His heart stopped while the children and I were waiting at our friend's house for him to join us. We had been married for 18 years. He was a leader in our church, at our church Bible camp, at the school where he worked, and in our home. I am so very lonesome for him. The song by MercyMe, "Homesick" speaks to my heart, 'If home's where my heart is than I'm out of place'....'I've never been more homesick than now'. Please pray for wisdom for me as I single parent now. Pray that I will be the best Mom that I can be to our two children. Pray that I will continue to offer up a sacrifice of praise. Pray that God would be glorified through this and that those who came to hear salvation preached at his funeral would give their lives to Jesus. Thank you so much. Joy
Anonymous @ 9/26/2009 11:29:40 AM 
My husband and I attended a "weekend to Remember conference" in april of this year. My husband did not submit his evaluation card. On it he check the "I recommitted my life and family to Christ" box. At the end of September he said he keeps messing things up, and does not feel like he wants to be married anymore. We have a 17mos. old little boy and a 12yr old daughter that just started Jr. High..We have been separated for 4 1/2 weeks now. Its been very difficult to say the least. His faith at best is shakey he said, and needs time to think things through, but as of yet has had no action towards seeking answers. Please pray for him, us, and our family..
Anonymous @ 9/23/2009 9:26:57 PM 
Please pray for my marriage. My wife filed for divorce a month ago and has completely cut off communication with me and many of those people within our circle of Christian friends. I pray that God can soften her heart and allow her to give all of her pain, resentment and bitterness to Him. I also pray that He continue to work in my heart and that I stay focused on Him and honoring Him and not fall into the trap of responding in kind to her actions. Finally, I ask that God blanket our 3 children with His love and peace. I know that through Him all things are possible and pray for a the wonderful miracle of reconciliation and restoration of our family.
Thank You! Chris in Shawnee, KS
Anonymous @ 9/22/2009 6:12:30 PM 
I'm a 50 year old new single Mom (I brought my almost 4 year old adopted daughter home from Guatemala 3 1/2 years ago) and I do child care in my home. I have a degree in Christian Ed. and a master's in child development and have been a preschool child care teacher for years. Now that I'm doing child care in my home, though, to be with my daughter, I'm feeling overwhelmed and discouraged. I used to think I was very good at behavior guidance but I'm really struggling because of the added responsibilities (meals, cleaning, range of ages of children). Please pray that I will first spend the time with the Lord that I need to, to be dependent on Him, and also that I'll become more efficient at doing things. Pray for calmness and wisdom in knowing how to work with the children. Also, pray that if the Lord wants me to do this long term (after my daughter goes to kindergarten), that I'll start to enjoy it and see it as a ministry for Him. Right now, I just don't enjoy it and am discourag
Anonymous @ 9/17/2009 9:38:06 PM 
please, pray for healing for randy and Steve. They are both very sick. I'm not sure if there Christians.
Thank you!
Anonymous @ 9/12/2009 4:02:06 AM 
My wife and I are experiencing one of those gaps in our marriage that is creating more isolation than oneness. Kids, jobs and the stresses related to them, and daily routines have all taken precedence over focusing on our marriage.

Please pray for:

1) Healing and restoration in my marriage. That we could make time to focus on growing our marriage and staying in love.

2) Spiritual growth for both my wife and myself.

3) The opportunity for my wife to become involved in a women's Bible study.

4) That my wife and I could develop a consistent routine prayer life together.

5) For certainty and guidance in my job situation after a recent merger.

Thanks in advance for lifting these concerns up. God bless!

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