Here's an e-mail I just received about a child who needs prayer in TN. Please forward as requested if you feel led, or e-mail your support to 1volsgirl@bellsouth.net.

Subject: Prayer Request signing

Prayer request

I am starting a signing for my son's best friend who has cancer (Hodgkin's Lymphoma). He is 11 years old and is not doing well at all. He was diagnosed with this cancer 2 weeks ago and the tumor is next to his jugular vein and entwined in it...it has moved his wind pipe over a inch making it hard for him to breathe. The tumor is the size of a large eggplant and is sitting right above his heart. This little boy needs all the prayer he can get. I would like you to sign this and pass it on to as many people as you can. Once we get to a thousand people can you please send this back to me at:
_1volsgirl@bellsouth.net_ When I get the 1000 people that have signed it...I am going to print this up for my sons best friend and show him how many people care and how many people are praying for him to get better. If you have a heart at all you will all do this for me. I love this child as though he is my own and we really need all the prayers!
Thank you, Peggy Lesley
Brookwood Church 4th and 5th grade Volunteer Coordinator

Please don't just Forward this --- copy and paste it into a new message then add your name to the bottom of the list and send it out to as many people as you can and pray for him!

1-Dawn Thumm-Blythe
2. Susan Dodge
3. Glen Dodge
4. Mary Korbe
5. Carol Halstead
37. Teresa Frost
38. Steve Frost
39. Cindy Dickerson
40. Tracy Higginbotham
41, Lisa Walker
42. Malinda Hight
43. Sharon Hogan
44. Joan Watkins
45. Connie Ledford
46. Lisa Adams
47. Tonya Cannon
48. Jan Whitaker
49. Debbie Champion
50. Susan Harris
51. Carol McLaughlin
52. Bebe Burkhardt
53. Cheryl and Johnny Wilson(also a Lymphoma patient)
54. Linda & Tom Clark
55. Kathryn Gale
56. Valerie Zequeira
57. Cali Zequeira
58. Jeff Glick
59. Barry and Kay Roberts
60. Jessica Roberts
61. Jamie Roberts
62. Kelly , Staci, Kelsi, Mackenzie & Sidney Olcott
63. Heather, Lee, Riley and Jackie Taylor
64. Michelle Kalb
65. Ted Kalb
66. Cord, Ragan, Cooper & Camden
67. Craig, Melissa, CJ, Mary & Trent
68. The Creed Family-Chris, Amy, Brooks and Campbell
69. Jeff and Laurie Weber
70. Paul and Lori Webre-parents to a leukemia survivor (love and hugs to you!)
71. Cathy Stanfield - mom to Sabrina - dx rhabdo at age 14
72. Pat Boyle - mom to Sean - dx rhabdo at age 17
73. Debbie Frank
74. Mark and Wendy Collier-parents to Andy leukemia survivor
75. Amy Parker
76. Karin Smith
77. Christy Baker
78. Jill Durham
79. Heather and Brock Bullard
80. Mendi and Clay Griner
81. Leslie & Trey Sherwood
82. Barclay & Courtney Woodward
83. James & Carly Thomas
84. Mark and Cathy Buescher
85. Catherine and Anna Alvarado
86. William Griftner
87. Walker Hutchinson
88. Kirsten Hutchinson
89. Gordon Clingan
90. AManda Clingan
91. Bill Wicks
92. Harriet Perrine
93. Connie DiNunzio
94. John DiNunzio
95. Jackie Chapin
96. The Bollinger Family
97. Jennifer Barber and Family
98. The Hughes Family
99. Doreen Perks
100. Diniaco Family
101. The Brazill Family
102. The Brass Family
103. The Abate Family
104. The Bucci Family
105. The Ricciardelli Family
106. The Stein Family
107. The Perez Family
108. The Laggy Family
109. The Karkenny Family
110. The Payne Family
111. The Merilli F amily
112. The Bolton Family
113. Spicer Family
114. The Flink Family-KNOW THAT JESUS STILL HEALS!!!!
115. Lee Ann Majka
116. The Naimoli Family
117. Fusco Family
118. Fagan Family
119. Bombaro family
120. Fortini family
121 Parlett family
122 Highley family
123 The Bailey Family
124 Ed Bailey
125 Marge Smith
126 The Adams Family

 

Our prayers for the child and family. I reposted it on my space

 

Thanks, Nona, much appreciated.

 

prayers sent.

 

In my prayers.

 

In my prayers.

 

Dude - you gotta go to www.snopes.com before posting this. At the very best, this has been around for 2 years and no one has been able to confirm if it's a hoax.

See:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/prayer/hodgkins.asp

 

Well, been a while since I've checked back here. Let's get one thing straight -- I ain't your Dude. If I've posted a prayer request that is false, then so be it, but what's the harm? I went to the link you provided and can't tell if it's a hoax or not, so I'll leave it up to God to decide.

If you have to spend your life deciding who's worthy of legitimate prayer, then you'll spend your life doing research rather than praying. Let God take care of the hoaxters.

 

Taterdog,
Actually, I think God does care how you go about doing things. I Cor. 14 verse 40 says "Let all things be done decently and in order." I think this pretty much says it all. We are also to be good stewards of all our resources and praying for a someone who doesn't exist is a waste of precious prayer time and gives no one joy except Satan. You have been deceived. In closing, it never hurts to be corrected when wrong ... Proverb 15 verse [32] "He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding."

Cheers,
Bill.

PS. This is a hoax, as are most emails asking for something now days. At my job (IT) of the 96,000 emails PER DAY that travels my networks, 92% are spam, hoax, or virus. By forwarding these emails you only make people with jobs like my mine harder. Thanks.

 

Thanks, Bill, but I realize this is a hoax. And yes, I was wrong to post it.

And BTW, thanks for quoting scripture to me. You would make quite the Pharisee.

My point was that if we do something in the right spirit, God will understand. No one is perfect, certainly not me, so if I didn't check with snopes before posting because I didn't even know what snopes was, God will not think my prayers are in vain. And I've never thought He expected me to be wasting His time when I came to him with a prayer request which wasn't accurate. Maybe your God is not the same an mine. Mine's never too busy to spend time with me.