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A number of prayer requests, from probably least pressing to most pressing. Please, I ask everyone who reads this to pray for me to the Lord our God.
1. Loneliness. None of my friends, it seems, want to keep in touch with me. This tends to have a disastrous effect on one's psyche and the way one thinks about one's desirability to be around.
2. School issues. Rather than me explaining it again, please read the most recent (today) entry in my blogger. Link is in the sig.
3. Church issues. I am angry with a member of the leadership of my church who basically told me I suck at singing. See the blogger as well.
4. Home issues. My mom has essentially forbidden me to talk to my dad - the reason being that he refuses to come to the table with my living expenses and tuition. I don't know what to do. My dad is in Australia and lives with my stepmother, whom I dislike (there are lots of reasons why this is so which I don't feel like getting into at the moment) and even if I were to live with him, he lives in the middle of Nowhere, Tasmania. The nearest University is in Hobart, and I don't think it's very good. I would have to go to Melbourne, Sydney, or Brisbane to go anywhere that would really set me up well for life in the field I'm majoring in (B.Sc in Linguistics...actually, Speech Pathologists in Australia, I think, only need an undergrad, so their qualifications aren't transferable to Canada or the US, where a Masters is required to practise as an SLP).
I'm so confused. Please pray for me.
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Originally Posted by ICTHUS A number of prayer requests, from probably least pressing to most pressing. Please, I ask everyone who reads this to pray for me to the Lord our God.
1. Loneliness. None of my friends, it seems, want to keep in touch with me. This tends to have a disastrous effect on one's psyche and the way one thinks about one's desirability to be around.
2. School issues. Rather than me explaining it again, please read the most recent (today) entry in my blogger. Link is in the sig.
3. Church issues. I am angry with a member of the leadership of my church who basically told me I suck at singing. See the blogger as well.
4. Home issues. My mom has essentially forbidden me to talk to my dad - the reason being that he refuses to come to the table with my living expenses and tuition. I don't know what to do. My dad is in Australia and lives with my stepmother, whom I dislike (there are lots of reasons why this is so which I don't feel like getting into at the moment) and even if I were to live with him, he lives in the middle of Nowhere, Tasmania. The nearest University is in Hobart, and I don't think it's very good. I would have to go to Melbourne, Sydney, or Brisbane to go anywhere that would really set me up well for life in the field I'm majoring in (B.Sc in Linguistics...actually, Speech Pathologists in Australia, I think, only need an undergrad, so their qualifications aren't transferable to Canada or the US, where a Masters is required to practise as an SLP).
I'm so confused. Please pray for me.
Praying for you dude.
Tasmania is a little bit in the middle of no where. You should come to Canberra. It has the only Australian Uni in the Top 50 unis in the world... The ANU. I'm pretty sure the linguistics program is pretty good too... i have met some people who do it and they all think its great.
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Hello, Ryan-
I'm back from reading your blog. And this is what I found...
Satan would have me bowing down beneath the yoke of despair. He would have me curse the God who bought me at the price of His own dear Son. He would have me bow down to the golden image of self-loathing and despair. This, let it be known this day and forever, I refuse to do. God is able to save me and to provide those blessings for which I long (friends, and a girlfriend, and hopefully subsequent courtship and marriage, a successful career in whatever He calls me to) and to rescue me from the loneliness into which I seem to have got myself, but even if He does not, I want the enemy who would seek the destruction of my soul to know this: I will not bow to his perverted image, which is, at base, a perverted image of myself. Instead, the God who created me can rescue me from the fiery furnace of the lonely existence that I seem to live, or He can choose not to do so, I will not bend the knee to despair, either way. I would like my friends to hold me to this.
So you can first of all consider me your friend. And then you can consider this a "holding you to it".
On top of all of your other burdens, you are suffering from one more malady, unfortunately, common to all men. Stiff-Necked Syndrome. I don't mean that as an insult, but rather a statement of fact. Our neck gets so used to craning to (or remaining in) a certain position that it needs to be retrained to keep our face in the right place. You know the truth, but your neck is stuck searching for the lie.
I don't doubt that Satan IS working overtime to thwart your above commitment. He wouldn't be all that clever if he wasn't and we do know that he is clever. And he is much more committed to his task than we are at times. Which proves our need for a capable intercessor. Praise God that we have one in Christ.
I am joining Christ in praying for you. That your faith would be strengthened, that you would not grow weary of retraining your neck and that God's grace would overwhelm you.
In the spirit of the priesthood of believers...
May the Lord bless you and keep you,
May the Lord make His face to shine upon you
And be gracious unto you,
May the Lord lift up His countenance upon you
And give you peace.
Blessings,
Mrs. D
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praying for you.
-In Prayer-
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w00. Thanks for praying for me, guys. And thank you for the encouragement, Mrs. Mara's Mom (Mrs. D)
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Originally Posted by Mara's Mom On top of all of your other burdens, you are suffering from one more malady, unfortunately, common to all men.
Just wanting to clarify that by "men" I meant "people". Us women are included in the "men".
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Praying for you Ryan. I don't think I could say it any better than Mrs. D, So: You can also consider me a friend, and here's holding you to it, brother. Praying for you.
-D