Prayer and worship

Im in....

Hey Guys! I hope you're all spending some time with God this evening. I have been praying a lot more for our group recently then I have in a long time. My family all has been going through a lot of trials, but I feel like God was giving me a warning about this and actually gave me a visual of how my family is laid out. My parents, my uncle and aunt and their two kids, my sister, my brother, my husband and myself, and my mother in law. And since I had that picture given to me (it was about a month ago), things have been stirred up in every one of these families in one way or another. My brother (as I told you all) had a vision and it was like God, the Lion of Judah, came roaring in and tore him out of his lifestyle and back into reality. He recommitted his life to God and he has been coming to church regularly! Huge miracle and a blessing, but it has caused other problems. His girlfriend (who is not saved) has struggled with the transition for him. I am going to encourage him to go see The Case for Christ with her and pray that she will accept. They are also struggling with a loss as she was pregnant, but recently miscarried the baby. My parents have been having a very hard time with my brother too. They feel responsible in leading him back to God. Especially my mom, who wants everything to just be perfect all the time, is struggling a lot with it. My dad has his own struggles (that demon of the love of money that I have mentioned) as well as his business and his inability to retire, despite the fact that he wants that. My uncle and aunt are struggling as their two kids have wandered from God too. My cousin, Nicholas is a drug addict and has been on and off of drugs for many years. He lives with his parents and is off drugs at the moment, praise God, but struggles because he has no direction. His younger sister Jessica also has no vision for her future and has dropped out of high school. My sister and her husband are selling their car and have been struggling in trying to get the title. I mentioned that my mother in laws home was hit by a tree in a recent storm and she does not have home owners insurance. The praise about this is that it has jolted her out of her sloth and as soon as she has finished getting the house repaired, she intends to work on getting the title transferred into her name and paying off debts that are owed on the house. Right now it is in her moms name, who has been dead for about 8 years now. We are going to be helping her pay for the repairs, so I am just praying that God bless that situation. And for us, I think I have told yall that Chris is deploying to Japan May 1. You all know what that means for me. We've gone through enough of these to know my fears and anxiety, but I am trusting God. I am not counting the days until he comes home. I am praising God for every day that I get to spend with him now and I am praying that God gives him direction and guidance and uses him every day that he is gone. And that He uses me and keeps me in perfect peace while Chris is gone. Please pray for these things for me while yall are praying tonight. And I am also working on a project for my disabled friend, getting some stuff together for her for her new apartment (she allowed the old apartment to be over run with bed bugs). I am praying for her that she can keep this new place in good shape, but regardless of whether she is grateful for the gift of a new apartment and new used items, I know that God is calling me to do this for her. He reminded me that even though there are people in this world who don't love him and are ungrateful for his gift of life, regardless, he still died for those people and he loves them. Regardless of someone elses reaction, I still have to obey and do everything I do for God's glory and because He has asked me to do it, not for the sake of that other person. Gosh, that is such a hard lesson He's been teaching me recently. I want so badly the love and affection and recognition of my peers, but really only God's recognition and love matters. I am encouraged, because as I said, I had that picture of our family with all of these people on this like hexagon and God was in the center of it all. I know that there is all this stuff happening in each of the families right now, because God is doing some amazing, moving work. I trust him. Pray for me that I can shine Gods light into all of our families. As you all are praying tonight, please pray for these things happening in mine and my families lives.