Heavy Prayers

I just submitted my homework project for the week...with 1 hour to spare until the deadline!  I've been wanting to send this post out so since I finished early(wink wink..pushing it down to the wire), I'll post now.
There are so many burdens right now.  I'm feeling such a burden to pray.  Several of my friends and family members are struggling with big stuff:  flooded house, job not going well, marital strife, need for Jesus in their lives, infertility, babies and families separated and waiting for government offices to get off their butts and grant travel clearance, need for a word from the Lord telling them what step to take next, need for healing.  Such big stuff!  I can't fix any of it.  I can only pray. Ironically, the Gateway Devo app(on iTunes store for free download this month) is a month long daily devotional about prayer.  Perfect timing, cause I need to learn more about prayer. Here is my favorite memory verse. 

Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer--it does not rise from deceitful lips.  Psalm 17:1




And of course, one of my all time favorite passages in Habakkuk. I love the last part of this passage because it describes how the Lord will help us climb that rocky mountain by making our feet firm!  It doesn't promise an easy and unencumbered climb.  Some climbs are flat out HARD!  But, He makes our feet like deer....swift..agile...sure footed...and able to climb those big rocks.
Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls,  yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.
 The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights. Habakkuk 3:17-19