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Hi, I am Chris--I want to introduce myself!
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Posted by: Chris Logan
Hello to all of you!
My name is Chris Logan and I live in a small town in the midwest where there are just a few hundred people whom live here. I am a country girl at heart with a love for the Lord but need a new beginning in my relationship with Him. I am married with two grown Sons and no grandchildren at the time being but have 8 cats whom we love and adore! My husband and I are animal lovers and receive much joy from our pets. I love music and play the piano and used to love to sing until health problems along with smoking have almost destroyed my voice. I am a housewife with disabilities but yearn to be restored in my very soul and body to be a clean and usable vessel that the Lord can use in the ministry, His ministry, in which He has called me to. I have a burden in my heart for the sick, the downtrodden, the lonely, the afflicted, the bound, the prisioner, the poor and most of all those that are considered "outcasts" (and the ones that some churches do not want) or should I say they do not feel wanted or accepted at some churches. I want to be truly "real" in the sense meaning spiritual and not wear a false face to cover up any of the many flaws I have in my life. I yearn to be honest above all with the Lord and with you and also with myself. I do not desire to fellowship or be a part of any so called "spiritual cliques" but only pray that I can be a blessing to someone whom the Lord should put in my path. I am in much need of prayer for myself and my loved ones and I know prayers are many times answered by praying for others in need. May God bless each and everyone whom cries out to this ministry and may He show Himself mightily in their lives that His name would be exalted and no man would or could receive any glory! May His truth, (for "we shall know the truth and the truth shall set us free,") reign in our lives so that we may truly KNOW HIM!! At this time I am unable to be a part of a church family due to health problems but I am still a member of the 'body of Christ" and we, you and me, are the church----not a title or a building!! May HIS body of believers rise up and proclam the Good News of Jesus Christ to all those who so desperately need Him so they might be saved, healed and delivered and set free from sin, sickness and death and also the ones with a wounded spirit or broken heart would be restored and healed! (Sometimes we forget about these!) God bless everyone whose name is on this ministry's list and most of all, may the Son of God, Jesus Himself be glorified beyond comprehension in all our lives that we might know Him, the ONE whom gave HImself for us that we may live!! Halleujah to the Lamb!! He is alive!!
Posted by: christythompson
Hello Chris
And welcome to you
We are all trying to follow the Lord here
No one is perfect here
especially me.
God is working on me, daily
The word of God is our map and guidance.
I pray you find a church home
because God word calls us to fellowship.
You mention feeling like you belonged.
I can't say I have ever felt that way truly.
Yet I am where God wants me
and isn't that what its all about?
To be where God would have you to be
and to be in line with his word?
Its hard to not be guided by what we "feel".
Acceptance is important to most.
I truly am a sinner with many mistakes
Yet God has a church home for me.
Sometimes people rub me the wrong way.
I think I am being refined with Gods sand paper.
Its all a learning process
So welcome as we learn together
and God bless You.
Posted by: Chris Logan
Christy,
Thank you for your sincere reply back along with your honesty. I do appreciate that.
Actually, I do have a home church which is aprox 45 miles from me and I can not travel that distance anymore along with the price of gas as well.
You are right, none of us are perfect, and all of us need to see the love of Christ and He will always welcome, love and accept us and His love is unconditional. i have a long way before my love begins to touch that and i don't feel I am alone. When we need to see Jesus with skin on, we usually go to church or someone whom is a Christian. I at this time am also where I am supposed to be with the Lord and He had to allow me to be pulled away from others to show me what He wanted me to see. We can fellowship when 2 or more agree in His name, it doesn't have to be a temple or a title or a building. I am so grateful for that for what if everybody was disabled and could not attend church services? What if all the church doors for some reason were closed down? Would we be able or know how to praise, worship and seek the Lord on our own in our homes? I know what it is like to have to stand alone with Christ as when you are disabled many people do not want to be around you like you may be contagious, nor do they always know how to minister to us or we to them as well. i praise the Lord for His church or the body of Christ should I say for without them I would not have been saved or healed or even know how much the Lord truly loves me! I also feel that His ministry within us is to love the unlovable, the ones whom we would rather not sit by us in the church building, and to accept them where they are, for that is what Christ has done for all of us! The drug addicts, the alcoholics, the ones whom are dirty and even smell, do we make them feel accepted and welcomed to the kingdom of God or are they out in the taverns because there people will falsely befriend them and accept them for who they are? I need prayers so much for i fall so far behind in my love walk and especially in my own family and in my own home for that is where all of our ministry starts and is the hardest place to love unconditionally. I don't want to be one to "talk" the love walk but to actually do it. I am also wanting to be in agreement with others who want to be at that same place in their walk with Christ. THEY WILL KNOW WE ARE CHRISTIANS BY OUR LOVE!! Not by our church attendance, not by our many prayers to be seen and heard, but by our love! Please pray that for me Christy and forgive me if I may sound judgmental but this is so heavy on my heart and I need His help because my flesh is in such rebellion along with pride and I need to allow Him to take complete control of my life and be the Lord of all!
Posted by: Chris Logan
Christy,
I read your email again and received more out of it. I am also being refined by the refiner's fire and it is very painful for me and i would guess for you as well. I understand what you said about sometimes people rubbing you the wrong way as that can happen to me also! I am not easily offended nor hopefully do I carry my feelings on my shoulders but I do know and understand when I sense, feel, whatever one may call it, accepted, loved, along with wanted and needed. Christ did and does all of that for me and I think sometimes I and others also expect to see, find or experience that in the churches we attend. I have had the experience of knowing and feeling belonged especially when the Lord Himself planted me there at a church- But He has also planted me at a couple of churches (for HIs reasons) at where there was no love, acceptance, or belonging unless you walked, talked, prayed and acted just like them-----and believe me, some of it wasn't "Christlike!" They were a cold, cold body of believers that could have cared less if you were born again, baptised in the Holy Spirit, sick and bound or etc, etc! I am sorry, but Jesus and His presence wasn't welcome there either! What a sad shame for the ones whom came who so desperately needed to know the Lord and His awesome love---that He cares about our every need and desire! He would move mountains just to show us HIS unfailing love and we are to mimick or follow the steps of Christ in our love for others---especially those whom are looking to the church for that love and acceptance that they might find the true love of Christ. We are the imperfect church whom Christ is perfecting and we do need each other's prayers, understanding to a point and to realize and know though that the Lord loves us too much to allow us to stay the same. If we are going to call ourselves Christian, then we are going to have to start walking it out for the world is watching our every move and are laughing and mocking those of us who are not living as we talk. the world can spot a phoony in a second and some years ago i was the most "self-righteous" individual one could find as the Lord had done a marvelous work in my life and everybody could see it! He has shown me that I cannot be this way anymore as He can't use us if we are so high minded we are no earthly good. I don't ever want to be seen that way nor that i act superior to others for the Lord has no favorites! He loves us all, warts and all!! Why don't we do the same to and for others??
Posted by: ninababy73
Welcome Chris. I look forward to praying with and for you and your family. Many Blessings and Welcome. 
Posted by: Chris Logan
Ninababy,
Thank you for your prayers and reply back to my email. I am new at this and I so appreciate anyone's prayer of faith for me and my family.
May God bless you and meet your needs also! Pleas also pray that I can and will quit smoking. It so hurts my testimony, stands between me and the Lord and i have COPD.
Posted by: christythompson
Chris
I was completely alone in a church once
that really was not alive to Jesus.
the people behaved as you say and had no
regard for the word of God
I considered it my mission field
I was there to bring the light of Jesus
to speak his word and proclaim truth
in a dark world.
So what you say can happen
God will give you grace
when and where you
need it.
Posted by: Chris Logan
Your prayers are so appreciated, thank you so much Ninababy! May God bless you and yours for your time and sincerity in the ministry!
Chris Logan
Posted by: Chris Logan
Thank you Ninababy for yor welcome and your prayers!
May God bless you as well and may He meet every need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus!!
Thank you also for the prayers for my family!
Chris Logan
Posted by: christythompson
I want to say publically
what a Welcome 
addition you are to this site
Your prayers and insights are blessing others
Thank you for taking the time to pray as you have!!!
Welcome to the Annointed Family
Posted by: Chris Logan
Christy,
If you only knew how much you have touched my heart tonight. I sit here and weep with the encouragement you, the others, the Lord and this website have given to me.
I have wanted for so long to find a way to be used of God right here in my home in a way and a time that I could do it as I can't minister out in the field as I once did. I never dreamt that God would make such an awesome way for me and open such doors for me to not only bear my soul and heart to others and have them pray for me but would grant me the wonderful priviledge of being able to pray for others as well!
What a blessing from on high and I am at a loss for words that could begin to explain how I am so sensing the love of Christ in my innermost being at this time. To be used of Him is the greatest gift He could give to me other than salvation and it brings me such joy to know that the Lord has ministered to others in their time of great need! Whether it is me or one of you, it doesn't matter as long as the Lord is being exalted and prayers are being answered!! Halleujah!! all glory goes to Him!!
It has been a few years since the Lord has used me this way or this much and it feels so good to be back home in HIS will and way for me in my life. I can still minister to my husband as well and that is another awesome blessing and so important to me!! I know now that is so important to the Lord and is a necessity in my life! And I want it to be!! Yeah Lord!!
Thank you, thank you God, Pastor Jerry and all those on this website whom have been praying for me and my family!! And also for this wonderful opportunity and I pray I will be a blessing to those whom need a touch from the Lord and that I will have the way, the time and the sensitivity to the spirit of the Lord to continue doing what blesses me most.
I pray that I will be an encouragement to others whom have a calling on their lives whom have been close to giving up and that i might say or pray the very thing that would once again restore their faith and hope back to the Father and his people once again.
I was so, so discouraged and to the point of despair before I found this website. As i said earlier, i wasn't even looking for a prayer website but was doing research on cancer on the internet as my sister in law was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. However, while I was researching, in my mind and heart, prayers were going up to the throne room of the Lord for her with desperate cries in my heart that God would comfort her and all our family.
You see, i have lost 3 siblings with cancer and 2 other of my siblings have had cancer also----along with losing a brother in law and a sister in law with cancer along with several close Christian friends. My heart has been broken with so much grief and is has been such a long, dry spell spiritually and I had felt almost to the point that the Lord had forgotten me. Even though deep down I knew he really hadn't.
I understand despair, discouragement, disheartening and disappointment. i have said that the Lord has had to put me on the shelf so to say and draw me unto Him and away from others to show and teach me many things. Doing this in my life was the only and best way I could learn the things I needed to know from Him. It has been a long, long dry spell in my soul.
Painful as this dry spell and in the desert spiritually this has been and very well may continue to be but I know one thing, He has given me a new Christian family whom cares about and prays for me through and with the love of Christ and i am so elated and excited about this as it has been a long, long time since i have been a part of a fellowship intimately and it is so good to be back home!!
I want to be a blessing back to all of you as the Lord leads me to and i pray that anything I may say or do would be only straight from the throne room of the Lord and I would want to be told if there is anything contrary to this!!
Thank you again for your prayers. I am so blessed!! I pray the Lord's blessings on everyone of you that come to this place for prayer or to pray for others and that you will not see me or my name but you will see the life and love of Christ in and through me and all of us and that you will feel welcomed and able to share your innermost needs!
God love you,
Crystal (Chris) Logan
Posted by: christythompson
And to that I say
AMEN
Posted by: Chris Logan
Christy,
Once more as I forgot----but thanks so much to you Christy for welcoming me into this ministry. I know the Lord has used you especially to draw me to Himself and to know that I was in the will of the Lord. I needed so much to truly know that and the confirmation was such a blessing to me! I always want to praise where praise is due!!
One might think I should have known that and I did but it was still good to know I was hearing and sensing the Lord's direction for me and such a time as this!!
It is always good to have a witness from the Lord that one is going in the right direction! i think subconsciously I was waiting on that go ahead so to say!!
Thank you Christy!!
Chris
Posted by: Patsy
Father,
Thank you for all your children. We may walk to the tune of a different drummer in some areas of our lives, and in tune to the same drummer in other ways. Bless us for we believe Jesus is our Savior and we want forgiveness and to grow more closely each day until we reach home.
Bless this new member and may she reach out to our suffering world for we all need prayer. Our nation and all places in this world need cries of worshipers in public and in the closets of our homes. May we look at the needs and not focus on our faults or differences. Our gold is to pray that your will be done for the best of all. We earnestly pray that You will open doors that the hungry may feast, the sick receive help, the angered find peace, the unloved find love and we all reach the peak of happiness you would have for us all.
Loving my Father,
Patsy
Posted by: Chris Logan
Patsy,
Thank you so much for the welcome and prayer. I need and appreciate your prayers and I will remember you in my prayers as well.
God bless you for taking the time to pray and welcome me and for your steadfastness in the things of God.
Love, in Christ,
Chris Logan
Posted by: Patsy
undefinedTen years ago a grandmother in my Bible study wept as she shared. Her daughter had a child out of wedlock and the grandfather refused to accept the child and the father because of the race issues and anger he held. She was deeply upset that her husband was active in the church and so unforgiving. He was tearing her family appart.
This morning the children of the church were batized. One of the children was the child born ten years ago. Yes, the minister said, "It is my privilege to tell you that this child is the fourth generation to join this church!!". God showed me the grandfather's hand on the child'e head. It is so beautiful that the grandmother was willing to just sit and wait for God to renew her strength. She did not leave her husband. She did not reject her daughter or the child. She just sit and left it were we all struggle off and on. I wonder what was on her mind.
Loving my Lord, and also in a dry place this day and have been for weeks many weeks also.
Patsy