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Yes Thank you sweetie! I so appreciate it! Blessings AMENIE!

I need to add another life and death situation. Man I tell you people are being hit and the Lord is much bigger in their situation. Again please stand with me. J You can pray for our granddaughter, Paula. She is 17. She's been in the hospital for several days now. Her white blood cell count is very low and no immune system, so she's in isolation giving her antibiotics. She went in thinking it would be overnight and now they don't know when she will be released. Her body is not responding the way they were expecting. Much love to you, [♥] Donna

Oh no! A Sudden change of events. Here is what my cousin Maggie wrote Please pray they are doing the emergency procedure on my brain right now. The time she wrote this was at 2:40Pm Pacific time, Thanks for prayers starting right now!!!

I wanted to give you the latest reports. Thank you so much for praying God is moving I am so excited seeing the Lords hand move in these precious lives. Thus far I have only received two latest reports. Please keep praying. I write to you all, my dear FB friends, close Christian friends and loved ones regarding Todd. I have read every post and have rejoiced that all of you are in some way connected to me by our Lord Jesus and are praying for Todd. Ever since Wednesday, 4/11, the journey has been LONG, but our great God has produced victory every time we turned around. Todd was answering commands on Friday, after only 48 hours. Yesterday, Saturday, I went into his room and he squeezed my hand three times, just like he did when he was a little boy. That little hand squeeze meant, "I love you." Then I would squeeze his hand four times, which meant, "I love you too". When he squeezed my hand three times, I broke into tears because I knew at that moment that his frontal lobes were functioning well. That was my miracle! God has spared his brain function. PLEASE KEEP PRAYING HARD. The prayers of righteous ones avail MUCH. I love you all! Keep encouraging us. We need it so much. Connie Blanchette My cousin's response, I just got to eat my first meal in two days. Boy, was it good! My brain just started draining. God is so faithful!!! I didn't have to have the emergency surgery, and will be having the regular Surgery scheduled early next week where they will replace the stint in my brain. Thank you for all your prayers!!!♥ Christ is always faithful♥!!! :0) Maggie Sharp I am praying

Thank you so much my friend. May the Lord bless and keep you, and shine upon you.

PLEASE PRAY FOR THREE OF MY FRIEND'S AND MY COUSIN, THEY ARE ALL IN LIFE AND DEATH SITUATIONS. I GOT THE EMAIL BELOW THIS MORNING. THESE ARE GOOD FRIENDS OF MINE. Another urgent prayer request!!! Our dear son Todd suffered a traumatic brain injury on Wednesday, 4/11/12 when he fell from a large semi-truck to escape 4,000 lbs of rebar steel falling on him. he is in university hospital, El Paso, Tx. The doctors gave NO hope on Wednesday when he was life-flighted from NM to TX. I told Jesus that I believed HE was on the Throne of our Life -- not Satan. Today is 4/14 and in 72 hrs our God has shown us signs of improvement in Todd. Life will never be the same. PLEASE PRAY for Todd and Bob and me during this time and the LONG road ahead, with the major decisions that need to be made. Thanks soooooo much Connie Blanchette MY FRIEND CONNIE SMITH SHE IS GOING IN TO GET HER AORTA REPAIRED BECAUSE IT WAS TORN. IT IS A LIFE AND DEATH SITUATION FOR HER. SHE HAS SURGERY ON MONDAY. PLEASE PLEASE SEEK THE HEART OF GOD THAT HE WILL ENCOUNTER HER AND BRING FORTH A CREATIVE MIRACLE. MY COUSIN IS IN THE ICU BECAUSE SHE HAS A BRAIN INFECTION AND THEY ARE GOING TO DO SURGERY AS SOON AS THE ANTIBIOTIC'S KICK IN AND STOP THE INFECTION. I AM CRYING OUT FOR A CREATIVE MIRACLE FOR HER AS WELL, AND THAT THE LORD WOULD BRING FORTH A NEW BRAIN, AND DIVINE HEALTH... I HAVE A FRIEND WHO I WAS IN MISSION SCHOOL WITH HER SISTER'S LUNGS ARE BLEEDING INTERNALLY AND THEY HAVE TO RUSH HER TO ANOTHER HOSPITAL IN ENGLAND TODAY TO DO A SURGERY THAT IS A LIFE AND DEATH SITUATION AND SHE MAY NOT MAKE IT THROUGH EITHER. HER NAME IS TRACE WALKER. I AM BELIEVING FOR A CREATIVE MIRACLE PLEASE KEEP HER IN PRAYER . THANKS SO MUCH. I HAD RECEIVED AN EMAIL AND FB MAIL THAT ALL FOUR ARE GOING THROUGH ALL THESE LIFE AND DEATH SITUATION SURGERIES AND MY HEART IS BURDENED FOR THEM, AND I AM SO BELIEVING FOR FOUR CREATIVE MIRACLES. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH AND DESIRE TO SEE THE LORDS HAND MOVE IN THEIR BODIES AND IN THEIR LIVES THROUGH HIS TOUCH. PLEASE STAND WITH ME IN PRAYER. I just feel like it seems my family and friends are all getting hit at the same time. It breaks my heart but I know the Lord is in control. THANKS SO MUCH. JEANIE

Hi all and Blessings. I have not been on here much have had a lot going on in my life. I really could use some prayer as I have been walking through so much that has occurred and it has been a totally trusting the Lord time in my life and being able to move forward through such painful times. I just found out a few weeks ago my mom has dementia and that she will only get worse because on her scan they saw a deterioration in the front part of her brain. Now I rebuked that word and I am claiming healing in her brain, and through out her body. My mom had two hip replacements and she is in a lot of pain and now she is on a breathing machine. Her husband is also not in good shape. They both live in Washington and I live in Oregon. These two places are really cold and so the pain I deal with is not good in cold weather. I have had surgery after surgery and the cold weather cripples me. I have been believing for a long time for healing and I still believe the Lord is going to heal me. I trust Him in that. With that all said I am praying into moving my mom her husband and myself to a warmer climate but need the means and wisdom to go about how to do this. I am no use to my my mom if I have in a lot of pain so I felt we should move to Texas. For one it has a ministry I want to be apart of and it has better medical which is needed for myself and my mom and her husband. I am asking for prayer for wisdom, revelation, knowledge, and understanding in how to go about this. Please pray for finances to be able to move there. Basically that the Lord will open doors of great favor and opportunity. Also for a creative miracle in all three of us in total healing and restoration. I want to honor my mom as she is losing her memory and honor her husband even if he does not like me. I care for his salvation and for him. Thanks for any prayers you can offer in this time. Please if you get a word from the Lord I could sure use it in this time. Hugs

Hi friends and family There will be a funeral for my cousin Tommy this Sunday in In California. Please keep my family in your prayers, there needs to be a lot of healing in this side of the family. I know it will be hard for all of us to lay Tommy to rest he has touched many lives. I already miss him so much. Please keep me in your prayers as I travel to Santa Rosa. I will stay in Santa Rosa until I leave for India November 2, 2011. Please keep me in prayer as I head out to India with the Vertical Call teams. It is interesting how all this loss in the last month between my friend Kerri who took her like last month, and my cousin Tommy dying from alcohol happened before I leave for India. I have totally forgotten about my missions trip and wonder how I will get through this trip emotionally because of what I have gone through this past month. God will have to be my strength in this time. Thanks again for your prayers, love and support.

Thanks so much it has really hit me hard losing my best friend and brother. And also losing my other friend just last month she took her life. I am going to grief counseling for the first time this morning. Blessings.

Thanks so much.

Thank you all so much for the prayers and encouraging words. I can not tell how hard it has been walking through two losses in less then a month. Wow and the loss of five family members on one side of the family do to addiction. One thing I do know is the Love of Christ set me free and healed my heart and saved my life. I can never say I did it all myself I can only boast in the one that set me free. I am to go to India November 2nd to minister and do a twenty four seven prayer and worship for 2 weeks straight, for the nation of India to turn to God. It is a huge event with my old church back home. However right now I am just trying to put one foot in front of the other and I cannot stop crying at least for today and praying tomorrow my heart will feel less pain then the day before. I know the Lord turns all things around for good for those who are in Him. I know in this the Lord will use it to be glorified. Well Blessings to you all and please continue to pray for my family. We need a financial miracle to bury my cousin right now. Please pray for that miracle with me. Many hugs to you dear ones. :)

No words can explain the pain that runs deep within my heart with just a few simple words, and sometimes I find myself with no words at all just tears running down my face and a heart that is shattered. Tommy and I were two kids in our younger days just wanting to be loved but came from dysfunctional families. He was like a little brother to me and he always had a knack for making me laugh when I was hurting inside, and he had a tender side where he would put his arm around you and let you know everything was going to be okay. Tommy and I drank together smoked together and got high together. We were always there for each other and we always had a way to make one another smile. We would tease each other silly and we would have our times of making each other mad, but we always looked passed it. Tommy would stick up for me if someone did me wrong, he had that big brother protection stance. We were able to be vulnerable with one another because we just felt comfortable with each other and never felt threatened. We could just share things with each other what we could not share with anyone else. Tommy was my best friend and I loved his child like manner in the way that he would love on people. As years went on his addiction got worse and he tried to get help. He would go into addiction Hospitals to get help but never seemed to get passed his impossible addictions. Tommy and I had a falling out in 2003 and the addiction took him further down while the Lord drew closer to me and I drew closer to the Lord, and the Lord broke the spirit of addiction off my life through healing the wounds deep in my heart.. Tommy’s path and mine headed in different direction. Then I saw Tommy in 2007 and we forgave each other and our relationship came back around. Tommy struggled so bad with addiction he would call me drunk wanting to talk to me about the Lord. Tommy when his parent were together when he was younger they were Jehovah Witnesses and so Tommy knew the scriptures inside and out, he would quote the Bible to me but he never knew the one in which he was quoting which was Jesus Himself. Tommy wanted what I had, he had seen how I had cleaned up my life, and how happy I was so he would call me and ask me to teach him about the word and the Lord. I would share with him a little bit but the problem was he was so drunk and I would tell him please call me when he was sober, and we will take a look at the word together. Tommy never called in fact he disappeared. Then before I moved to Roseburg Tommy called me out of the blue and told me he had been working on oilrigs in Alaska and that is where he had been. I told him I was moving and I wanted to stay in touch. I had told my aunt I was concerned Tommy would die like my brother and our uncles because the addiction looked like the very ones that took my uncles and played a roll in my brother’s death. I prayed many times for the Lord to break the addiction that took my uncles and my brother off this family bloodline, and off Tommy! I was scared for Tommy the way I was scared for my brother. I look at all these deaths staring at me in the face today and wonder why am I the one who survived this addiction, and why am I any different? . I stand astonished before the Lord today so heart broken. WHY are they gone and I am left behind. What I have seen with Alcohol addiction it has taken the life of many in my family, and my friend Kerri who took her life recently struggled with Alcohol addiction. Addiction kills and it steals lives. My own mother battles with addiction my cousin Tommy’s mother is an alcoholic. People say Alcohol is not as bad as drug’s, I am here to tell you as one who has picked up the pieces through every loss Alcohol kills when one is addicted to it. How does addiction take place it is when ones heart is hurting so bad they have to take something that makes them forget about it, so they do not have to feel. The bottom line is addiction is not the problem it is the heart that is the problem. When one feels rejected, abandoned, betrayed, bitter, resentful, ect that is when addiction becomes ones best friend. How do I know this because I was one who struggled with addiction and the underlying symptoms is what is in the heart. Until the heart is healed addiction will have room to move in and operate. I am angry not at God but addiction. That spirit is looking for a wounded heart to live in. I love the scripture, search me oh God and find no unclean thing in me, some versions it says, “ Search me oh God and Find no pain in me.” My cousin Tommy will be deeply missed and he took apart of my heart with him like my brother did. He was one man I was so close to and will always have my heart. I do not know if he is in heaven and I pray to God he is. I want to say this, “I know God spared me and I pray I will be a voice that speaks out on addiction and the condition of the heart. Please pray for my family and his three kids left behind he was only 42 years old. I know there are many hurting right now from this loss. Tommy will be remembered Always.

Thanks sweetie.

Hi all wow, I had another unexpected surgery that needed to be done. I go in tomorrow for foot surgery. Yup it was quick! I had multiple surgeries on the big toe well the bone graft that was put in shifted and now I have a point sticking out of my toe. Please pray for quick healing and that it does not become more serious. I am suppose to go to India on November 2, 2011. Thanks so much.

Yes I am aware of that and will continue to stay on the wall of intercession. I have also been in prayer over the global economic situation right now. Greek plummeted and Europe is right behind them, and as you all know America is tied into Europe's banks. Today there is a great concern in this as well. So have been in prayer and will continue. Take care everyone. Here is the link. www.foxbusiness.com/investing/2011/09/09/european-bank-debt-concerns-ignite-sharp-selloff/

Thank you Jesus power is on again.

No can you believe it started in Arizona. They say it is not a terrorist attack and yet they have no clue what happened. I think they are trying to pacify the peoples. Here they just found car bomb in New York, and DC. WOW do we need to stay in a praying place.

Hey friends Unbelievable there is a power outage that hit southern Cali and through Mexico, Arizona and New Mexico. Some Cell phone towers down. we need to pray for protection on America because something is up with such a huge power outage.. SO LETS PRAY NOW!

I have a praise report. I got all the monies in for my trip. Yup checks and more checks God opened the flood gates for India. Thanks so much for your prayers. Hugs

Thank you all so much for the Love and prayers. My fundraiser was great and I was able to get through and God provided what was needed for the down monies for the trip now I have to raise more for all the other stuff. Blessings

Hi beloved friends of God. I tell you it has been such a heavy and weary walk for me. I am thinking about seeking grief counseling. My friend Keri Miller who was like my kid, I mentored her and loved on her in the Lord. Keri took her life August 14, 2011. Keri FB me and told me she was not doing well and gave me her number to call her because she changed her number. I told her I would call her when I was done with this project I was doing,and now it is toooo LATE!! Crying or Very sad I have been dealing with all kinds of emotions. I at first felt guilt but knew no matter what she had her mind made up not to live. She struggled just with life etc. Keri was only 36 years old and had so much to live for. She worked at a Pshyc ward and was going to school to become an RN and this was her last year of school.. She had a heart to help others ect. emotionally it has been this roller coaster one min I am angry the next it feels distant, then I am okay then I am teary. I have a church that does not give you time to grieve and they think what is wrong with you, you should not feel this much. ect. I want to run away for awhile by myself. I lost another best friend back in August 22, 1993. we had our Birthday a day apart so we would celebrate it together. She called me the night before her death telling me she was getting a divorce and I was concerned and asked if I could come over and be with her. She told me, no, and that she was fine and she sounded to fine to me. Early the next morning they found her hanging in her bathroom. I was devastated and carried so much guilt I did not know the Lord then and I wanted to even take my life. It was the worst pain ever. It is strange how both of my close friends took their life in August. On May 6, 2005 my brother was murdered and they never found his killer I did not even think I would make it through that one it was as if half of me died. One week after my brothers death my mentor was killed in a head on car crash. May, 12, 2005. When I was a 15 my best friend and I ran away with, was raped and murdered. The list goes on and on of people close to me dying tragically. I have prayed that the Lord would break off tragic shock and loss off my life, and memory. I have had prayer but I do not think I worked through the grief cause it all comes up with this tragic loss of my little friendie and spiritual child. Please pray for me in this time. I am getting ready to go to India and I feel all over the place not sure what the heck is happening to me. I do not go to India until November. So I just need counseling or something. It is hard to walk through this because you feel what you are feeling is wrong. Do you know of any good forums or grief places I can go to? Thanks so much.

Thanks Connie I do not feel bad or blame myself. I believe nothing could have been done. It breaks my heart to know she was hurting and took extreme measures. It is tragic she was special she was like my kid and was only 30 she has just had a Birthday. I lost another friend who hung her self the same date as my friend Keri only she was 28, her name was Katy, and I was only 23 it was the most gut wrenching time for me. I did not know the Lord then. I have lost a lot of friends and it never gets any easier. I am thankful I have Jesus and that he is my all in all. I am also in a lot of physical pain from an injection that went wrong and I have a fundraiser tomorrow night. So a lot on my plate right now and I am needing a touch from the Lord. Hugs to you sweetie.

Hi and blessings friends. I just found out my friend committed suicide. She was more like my spiritual kid. She lived in California where I moved from to Oregon. I had talked to her briefly three days before she took her life on fb. I told her to call me when she had time because she had told me she was not doing well. Oh man do I regret not calling her that day! Well now she is gone. Please pray for the Miller family who will hold her funeral tomorrow afternoon. In the mean time I have been busy with fundraisers and had to have a neck injection do to bad pain, now I am suffering from the injection and I was put on a new pain med on the market. Tomorrow I have dessert theater at church for raising money for India and I am in pain physically and emotionally. Please Keep me in prayer I feel so emotionally a wreck and I am overwhelmed. Thanks so much.

Thanks so much Connie..

Hello friends, The Lord says we have not because we ask not. I am asking for your prayers for finances for India. I need $2000.00 before the 31st so need a financial miracle right now. I have been doing fund raisers but as you know many are without jobs and tend to hold on rather then sowing. We are a kingdom people and the Lord I know always gives us above and beyond anything we can think or ask. Please pray the Lord will release the finances to go. Thanks so much. Jeanie