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LORD

thank you that we can cast our cares on to you and leave them in your capable hands. today I'm lifting up Claire's sister, to you and my bro, Rob.

I don't know Claire's sister very well LORD, but i know that Claire has been sowing seeds in her life and she has come to our church a couple of times. It always amazes me when you save an unbeliever. How you change someone's heart around so that they believe and make a commitment to something they can't see, can't always feel, something that did not make any sense to them before. But that's the power of your spirit...that it can reach into someone's soul and find whatever is keeping them from seeing you, and just remove it like it was nothing. So one day they don't believe and that same day they believe wholeheartedly.

You know exactly when that day is for each of your children. The day they experience the joy of their salvation. You have already planned it. You already know what it will take and as we wait eagerly everyday, hoping ,'is today the day LORD?'.......You teach us to be patient and to persevere so that not only do they move a step closer to you but we who are believing also move a step closer to you.

I ask that you give Claire a desire to build an awesome strong relationship with her sister. Help her to be an awesome example of you LORD in word and deed. And when it's hard to love Kirstie (?), please give her the strength to not give up, but to keep sowing seeds in her life. We never know when one of these seeds will actually grow and bear fruit. But you do LORD.

All things are possible in your name Lord Jesus. We know you can open Kirstie's (?) heart to you. We know you love your lost sheep. Help her to find you LORD. To move closer to you and to know that there is something missing in her life. A place no one else can fill but you LORD.

Help Claire LORD to make Isaiah 32 a reality for her sister...so Claire can be a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm and like streams of water in the desert for her sister so her eyes will no longer be closed, and she will be willing listen.

Thank you LORD.

As for my bro. I know he knows you and sometimes he shows so clearly to me his potential to serve you. You have given him a love for conspiracies, for the end of days, a curiosity about historical facts, a soldier's heart. I look forward to that day LORD when he clicks that he's meant to start now. Not postpone you until he's a better person, but let you change him so he can be all you want him to be. He wants to fulfil his potential and he doesn't realise that this can only be done through a personal relationship with you. Open his eyes and ears LORD so he can hear the messages you have for him personally, and so he can listen.

You know all my prayers for him LORD. He does love you. He does belong to you and he does have faith. But he's yet to start living the life you have planned for him. I know that each day he gets closer and I thank you LORD for the work you are doing in his life that I cannot see. For the spiritual battle you are fighting for him so that he will be set free and experience the awesome life you have for him.

Help me LORD to see his heart the way you do, fill me with your discernment LORD, so like Jesus I can see what's keeping him from taking the next step. What's keeping him at just being convinced and not yet committed. Show me how to love him LORD. Show me how to reach him. Open my eyes to the opportunities you give me to sow seeds that will one day reap you an awesome harvest.

You have helped bring so much of what binds him out to the open in the last year LORD. For that I am grateful. Help him to see the truth LORD. To recognise Satan's lies in his life, and to recognise your truth which will set him free.

Lord, Jesus, set my brother free of all that binds him. Help him to not be fearful of the truth, but to know deep in his heart that you cannot abide by lies, big or small. That you are the way the TRUTH and the life. Without your truth LORD we lose our way and we cannot live the life you have planned for us, cannot experience the victories you have for us. TRUTH is who you are. You are the light and you cannot live in the darkness without shinning your light.

We cannot earn this life, we cannot change ourselves...yes we can change ourselves but it's not A TRANSFORMATION that can only come from you. It's not A LIFE CHANGING TRANSFORMATION that only you can do, like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. Two completely different entities yet the same....only you can do that LORD. Only you can TRANSFORM a ground crawling insect into one that can fly....

One day LORD, I hope to see my brother fly. Help him to hear you LORD, to know your will for his life and give him the courage and wisdom to obey your will.

I lay these requests before you LORD and look forward to your will being done on earth as it is in heaven. In the name of my Saviour and Lord, Jesus. amen