A contest, and prayer needed?

  A couple nights when I read this I cried. Because I for nearly eight whole months I have been beyond grieved, I've been crushed in spirit and in heart. I have been shattered into so many pieces that most mornings it is a miracle that I can keep breathing. Because I will never (in this life) have the safe arms of my papa, and the only ones to understand this kind of pain is those that have lost not only a father but their absolute best friend.
And though I have not lost my faith nor has it been scarred or damaged, I have not felt close to God within this pain. I always know He is with me but within this scripture He clearly opened my mind as to why I felt this way.
'For a mere moment I have forsaken you, but with great mercies I WILL gather you.'
Within reading this I have also realized that the fault of being forsaken is my own. When I was a child my dad and I would pray every night. Around the age of 7/8 this had stopped a little because of the chaos of life. One night I told my dad I wanted to pray with him before bed. We asked my mom, Jon and my other sister and brother to join us, but they all declined. So my dad and I went into the room and prayed (over time Jon and my mom started to join us in our nightly prayers). And that routine continued until January 4th 2010 when we became homeless. We would pray for our church friends (which list got huge because we were going to to a super church and then our other church friends when we changed churches) and of course our family.

I need to take up that routine again, I need to find that Prayer Warrior inside of me again. And I will.

So, if you are still with me after all that. My reasoning for sharing this is to ask of you if there is a prayer request you need prayed for, (be it life altering or small) let me know. If it is someone you know who needs prayer, give me their name and the request and I will add them to the list of people I am going to pray for. Prayer is powerful, I have always known that, and it will be stupid of me if I continued to owe this powerful weapon within my grasp but never using it against the enemy. I'm taking up my weapon now, the power and strength of prayer.