This song from the olden days of my youth keeps singing itself to me in my quiet moments:
I know who holds the future
And I know He holds my hand;
With God things dont just happen
Everything by Him is planned.
So as I face tomorrow with its
problems large and small
Ill trust the God of miracles, Give to him my all.
It might just be one of those God things for me and the family, but I sense that it'll strike a chord for others who need the kind of security that only God can offer, echoing the wonderful image in Zepheniah:
The LORD your God is with you,
he is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
he will quiet you with his love,
he will rejoice over you with singing."
Theologically speaking, the "everything by him is planned" bit of the song (not the Zepheniah one 
) is a tad naive - or just simplistically childlike. It's easy to pick holes in the choice of language (ie leaning towards a sense of "fate"). From my reading of scripture, and through my experiences, I'd put more emphasis on the battle in which (eg in Job's circumstances) God's enemy "plans" some of our setbacks, whilst God plans our restoration and recovery. That makes more sense, to me, of the nature of God' sovereignty, and the nature of prayer as a wrestling and striving for God's rule.
Nonetheless, however we voice our faith, prayer is based on resting our concerns in the throne room of heaven, where our needs are left to the will and good purpose of God's sovereign and victorious loving-power.
This recalls our recent foray into the Psalms. The refrain "God is my rock and redeemer" (or refuge) has echoed through repeatedly. That phrase only means anything useful if we need a rock of strength in weakness and vulnerability and we need redemption from evil or rescue from danger.
So we pray to our God the Rock and Redeemer - for his strength and stability amongst the storms of daily living; and for his loving-power to be revealed in the circumstances in which we need his redeeming power, his rescuing love, his secure refuge.
Join us in prayer by posting your comments with your requests to the God of miracles
revpaulh
Pro
Mark's health continues to be a roller coaster of improvements and setbacks. This week has been tough for Mark, in and out of surgery, and doctors puzzled (so far as we can tell) about the cause (and cure) of the present infection that causes his ups and downs.
The one thing we do know is that, humanly speaking, it's going to be a long haul.
Please pray:
That God will surprise us with his sovereign healing.
That God will strengthen Mark - physically and emotionally.
That God will give specific wisdom and insight to the specialists as they determine the root of Mark's problems and a meaningful way ahead in his treatment.
That God will continue to bless the family with the confidence that Jesus will be glorified through even the toughest times.