Happy Friday, Siestas! Did you hear the big sigh of relief coming from LPM this morning? We made it to the end of the week alive and well! I told one of my co-workers yesterday at lunch that I’ve never wanted a week to slow down more than this one. But, we’re so happy and grateful to serve each of you!
The ministry will shut down at noon today and then each of us will scamper off to our Christmas destinations, however, before Christmas gets completely past us, I wanted to bring your attention back to Passion 2013. Do you remember last year when we were able to scholarship and meet with 1000 young women at Passion? If you remember, a few months ago we announced that this year when we wanted to give out scholarships to 2000 young women to attend the conference.
Well, it was our desire that, after giving out each of the scholarships, we could rally together 2000 Siestas (you!) again to partner with each of these girls and pray for them. Listen, if the Passion team is believing God to fill the dome this year, why can’t we believe God to provide 2000 prayer partners?
So, I am thrilled to announce that we have our website up and running to make that happen!
Here is what you need to do: Click on this link.
When you get to that page, the instructions are very clear how you can receive the name of the girl you will be praying for.
Here’s why we need to bounce on this with both feet: Passion is January 1st – 4th so it’s coming up very quick! If you could take five minutes to do that, we would appreciate you more than you know and some wonderful young woman’s experience at Passion may be altogether intensified. You might put her name in your phone every day as a reminder to pray for her before, during and after Passion.
At the bottom of the page, right before you enter your email address, there is a “counter”. If you see “0” then that means there are no longer any girls available. Praise the Lord! However, don’t let that stop you from joining this army of prayer warriors January 1st – January 4th while we’re all at Passion.
We love you ladies so much and hope you know what a vital part you’re playing in each of these girls’ lives. Let’s make sure each of them are lavishly covered by name. We know the Lord will show up and can’t wait to see lives changed and transformed. I am sure when we get back we’ll have a tremendous report for you. We know you’ll want to hear all about it!
Thank you for partnering with us and praying. We love you all so much!
Lindsee, I signed up for 5 girls’ names. The fourth and fifth place names were the same (Aaron Bauer ????). Is that a girl? Are there one or two more names you want to give me. I will pray for them. Email me and let me know.
Thanks, Amanda Gibson
That the Lord could use this wretch in service for one of His beloved is a high honor. I’ve got my girl’s name now and I’m getting busy!! Thanks so much!
Thank you for the opportunity to pray for these sweet young ladies! It’s a privilege! Blessings this Christmas, New Years and beyond!
DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What. A. Privilege.
Thank you for this honor. I set my phone calendar to remind me to pray for my girl at 3 pm every single day for one year.
this is so cool! i would be happy to supply my email address if my sponsored young woman would like to provide me with specific prayer requests.
Done. I have 5 girls.
GG
Each member of our family is praying for one.
I’m so excited for Passion 2013. We have 8 of my daughter’s friends from Florida State University staying at, or more like all over, our house so they can attend the event. I will certainly be praying….
Signed up & ready to go. I may already be praying… 😉
My daughter and her two best friends (all three college freshmen–3 different colleges) were given a scholarship. We knew they all wanted to attend Passion this year but didn’t know they applied for the scholarship–what a wonderful blessing! We are so grateful! These three girls love God and His Word. (I purchased the SSMT spirals for them and for their moms to do this year!)
I was moved to years to find that someone (besides my husband and I!) will be
prayingfor my daughter during those days. Thank you to whomever has Rebekah (and Bea and Kathleen!) I am going to go sign up for my own girl to pray for!
Hi! I’m so excited about the Passion conference. I get the honor of taking 3 girls. Would love to be able to pray for one of yours!!
Thank you for the email reminder to be a Passion Prayer Partner! It is a joy to pray for the women God paired me. I commit to pray daily beginning today for their health, their personal and spiritual needs, as well as their travel to and from Atlanta. I will be worshipping along with the Passion participants via website. Thanking God in advance for ALL He is doing before, during and after Passion 2013!
So excited about this opportunity to pray! Both of our teenage daughters are going!!!
I wanted so much for my beautiful 23-year-old daughter to attend for the first time this year – and alas, her “big-girl” job teaching school is demanding her attention. So I’m honored to chooose another student and pray for her. Thanks for the opportunity.
my niece is going to this event with a couple of girlfriends. i’ll be praying for them, plus one more.
Hello! I hope all is well. I wanted to go to the Passion 2013 this year and seen this post about scholarships available. I tried to see if there was a link to the scholarship but couldn’t find one. Does this mean that LPM has reached their cap? This would be my first time ever going. Please let me know. Thanks and God bless
I’ve been waiting and watching for this! Last year when I signed up I set a reminder on my phone. It still goes off every day at 8 am and i still pray for these girls. But here’s the coolest thing: my son also attended passion 2012 so of course I was reminded to pray for him as well. He came home and shared with his dad and me that he gave his heart to Christ at one of the sessions. So now when that reminder pops up I pray for these precious girls and my son to grow deeper and stay in the Word.
Thank you for this opportunity…I am so honored and feel so blessed to be a part of Passion 2013…Also, wish I was there..Praying for you Beth to never lose sight of your love for Jesus…You must come to Florida, You are my Spiritual Mama and have been for 25 years!!! Love to all of you for the hard but wonderful work you do!!!
Praying for one…so excited to do so!
I’ll be praying the Lord will be with the young ladies.
Humbled & honored to have the privilege of praying for Lindsay.
Thank you for this opportunity!! Praying for 5 families! God is good!!
Absolutely!
I received the name of a man. Is this right? I will certainly pray for him, but am a bit confused why I didn’t received a young woman’s name.
Hi Teri, we ended up sponsoring a few young men as well, and although I tried to remove their names from the list, I missed some. I’m so sorry!
Hey Lindsee! Bless you for responding to this post. However…..I believe you are supposed to be off work for the holidays! Go play sister. We’ll all be here when you get back! Love you and wish you a very Merry Christmas! And I hope I DON’T see this post until January……just saying.
It is an honor and a privilege to lift these young women in prayer as they attend Passion 2013.
Great idea!!! Merry Christmas!!
My best friend and I are both serving at passion and both got a name. I will be doing registration and meals. Praying that I will get an opportunity to meet these young ladies.
Both humbled and honored to pray for these young ladies! Merry CHRISTmas, dear siestas!
It is an honor to pray for these young women
I signed up and will be Praying for my girls.
Thank you
Carol
I’ll be serving in Kneel, the student prayer area, and praying for two girls in addition to the student I am bringing with me for the event. Also praying that God gives me the chance to meet them!
I am a 20 year old college junior and me and four of my friends got the LPM scholarship this year and I just want to say what a blessing it is to be able to go!! I would not be going without the scholarship, so thank you so much. And also, this prayer partner idea is SO encouraging, and I am SO thankful for each one of you praying for girls going 🙂 It means the world, and I love being able to see such godly woman use their time to be in prayer for a younger sister they don’t even know. Can’t wait to see what God does in my life leading up to and while I am at Passion, as well as the lives of the many young women that will be at Passion 🙂 Thank you all!!
Looking forward to praying for a special girl.
I have my three names and am honored to lift them up in prayer.
Thank you for this privilege.
Signed up! Ready to cover Passion 2013 on prayer. I’m believing God has blessings upon blessings awaiting all who attend.
xo,
Shelly
I’m back…just got an email from LPM stating to pray for the following person but no name was attached. Sorry to be a bother. I am happy to pray corporately.
How cool–they’re ALL TAKEN!!
I however have another request for you, siestas! I will serve as a Doorholder (Passion’s term for volunteers taken from Psalm 84:10–“I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.”) for Passion 2013! I am serving on the intercession team. There is 24-hour prayer throughout the whole conference, and we, as praying intercessors, need prayer too! Can I ask that as you read this and then as God would graciously bring us to mind, would you pray for me and the other intercessors at Passion?
THANKS, sisters!
I am praying right now, Courtney! Thank you for bringing this MOST CRUCIAL ministry to Passion this year!
I will be at Passion for the first time ever this year and it has blessed me so much to know that the Siestas will be praying for my trip as well as the other girls who I know who are attending. We are so excited to see what God will do in the days to come! Thank you so much for praying for us! 🙂
I’m praying for the girls:) Love ya’ll!
Done…one of the other posts said all names were taken, but I was able to pick! So excited to be praying for these girls and I’ll be serving in the 268store during Passion 2013-maybe I’ll get to meet one of them 🙂
Well, maybe they all are taken…I got an email, but no names 🙁
Brooke from Waco, TX – You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your carts overflow with abundance. Psalm 65:11 NIV
What a blessing to be a part of SSMT 2013. I will be praying for a special name, and the SSMT group. In such a time as this we have many unspoken prayers. God Bless as we carry forward in HIS LIGHT in 2013!!
“I sought the Lord, and HE answered me; HE delivered me from all my fears.” Psalm 34:4 NIV
King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God
Ruth 1:16
Bev Goodman
Morristown, Tn
Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Galatians 1:10 NIV
Janet Jackson from Richmond, IN – “Here on Earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart because I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 (NLT)
Praying for my young women who are at Passion 2013 and I was moved to look in on the podcasts to see just what the experience must be for them.
I was so blessed to see all of these young men and women, earnestly seeking the Lord, in prayer and in praise.
And, Beth, I was blessed to see you as you spoke so powerfully to them on the last supper. It was a Spirit filled, emotionally moving lesson. Thank you so much for being there for them and giving yourself wholly to what the Lord had set out for you to teach.
You bless us all with your gift of teaching God’s Word.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent HIs Son to to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
I John 4:10-11 NKJ
I just wanted to say thank you to all of you who prayed for those of us who went to Passion! I am so thankful that God allowed me to go through receiving one of the scholarships! I have been struggling with stuff that is going on with one of my brothers, but I’ve done my best to stay strong for my Mom, to be “her rock” as she says. I didn’t realize how much I was pushing my own emotions and hurt out of my mind and ignoring them until Passion, when all of that came out. God used Passion to teach me to have a bigger view of Him, trusting that He is always faithful, instead of praying for something and preparing myself for the worst, telling myself that it may not be God’s will at the time. During Passion, I started to pray for my brother, believing 100% that there would be improvement by the time I got home on Friday. When I got home, there had been a definite improvement in the situation. While things aren’t perfect, there has been a change for the better and God is working in my brother’s life. I plan to keep my wristband on for a while as a reminder of what God showed me during Passion. I can’t thank you enough for your prayer and the opportunity to be a part of Passion 2013!
So I’m not sure which wonderful woman diligently prayed for me during my time at the Passion conference but I just wanted to say thank you!! The whole week I could see how God had prepared my heart and poured grace on me to learn and grow during my time there. I was incredibly exhausted at times BUT God sustained me and gave me HIS peace to have great joy despite my physical tiredness. If you were the one who had my name to pray for me, I would love to talk to you and thank you in conversation! God used you in my life, thank you!!