Anchor Recovery Ministry

09/04/2026

It’s Friday and we’ve nearly made it through what for some has seemed like a totally chaotic week with doctor’s appointments, procedures, surguries for some loved ones and fears for others.

I pray you all have a great day in the Lord. He is in the still small voice and also in the thunder. May the Lord go before each one of you and minister to your heart in the most special way today. I thank the Lord for being with me always through my journey of over 75 years. He alone, has been my strength, song, deliverer and love and to Him I give all my devotion and praise today.

Donna trivia, I love the Lord, my Bible, my family and friends with all my heart. I had my first child, Regina at 15, 21 years later gave birth to Amber and was pushing forty when I gave birth to Shiloh. I love to read, dance, serve at Word Weavers Volusia and see my grandchildren/great-grandchild; that makes me happy. I also love to go to various support groups, family groups and church.

I'm still not sure if I am walking in my true destiny but I hope to impart goodness and kindness along the way. Life has had thorns amidst the roses, but I still praise the Lord, anyway:)
I am a sister among you, and that is enough.

“Just Call to Me. I guarantee I will answer you. I will make you strong & brave.” (Ps.138:3)
“Don’t be pulled in different directions or worried about a thing. Be saturated in prayer throughout each day, offering your faith-filled requests before God with overflowing gratitude. Tell him every detail of your life, then God’s wonderful peace that transcends human understanding will make the answers known to you through Jesus Christ. –PHILIPPIANS 4:6–7

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08/31/2026

“I love when people that have been through hell walk out of the flames carrying buckets of water for those still consumed by the fire.” Stephanie Sparkles

On the day we pray for families, we note that times have been chaotic, life has had many ups and downs. All in all, I have to keep the thought before me, THIS TOO SHALL PASS, at times. In this world we don't have much time for silence, peace and sometimes we don't even have time for friends and family. This can make me sad. Sometimes getting together with family, and friends just doesn’t work out. I find as I get older, I'm reverting to how my Mama coped with family. She was only able to really touch the ones that were right there before her or close around her. It wasn't that she didn't love everyone just as much, she just didn't have enough energy to "save the world" although I know she would've if she could’ve.

She always loved to have all her grandchildren together, but sometimes that was impossible, so she just loved the ones she was with. I feel that way sometimes but have had enough life experience to realize I can only work on myself. I can't even "fix" me let alone you, or my beautiful and loved family and friends. It's sad sometimes, yet at other times can be freeing.
So, we pray for all families, intact ones, estranged ones and those who wonder if it is ever going to get better. Will they all ever be on the same page? Putting our hope in the Lord to work miracles of healing for families, today.

Borrowing from some slogans, "I didn't create it, can't change or cure it." But a heart of love will always have wishes and hopes that things will work out for the best.

08/30/2026

Make me useful in some way for Your kingdom, today, Lord.

Help us to see the beauty of life as it is, as acceptance is the key to peace and serenity.
Remind us that there is always enough love to go around and that there are many people in the world who would be happy with even a tenth of the blessings we take for granted. Open our eyes to the miracles around us. Make us truly grateful for life as it is, yet not forgetting to pray for Your perfect will as You see it. Open our eyes to the army of angels surrounding us, ready to surround us with protection.

We yield to Your mighty plan for our lives even when it feels like the dream that turned into a nightmare. You are seeing the heavenly tapestry of beauty while we are looking at what makes no sense at all.
Make me truly grateful for so many blessings, especially the family You have given me. Thank You, Lord for the gift of life today.

08/29/2026

Good people pass away; the godly often die before their time. But no one seems to care or wonder why. No one seems to understand that God is protecting them from the evil to come. Isaiah 57:1 New Living Translation
It's Saturday and I'm dedicating Saturdays to prayers for those who have lost loved ones to death.

"People don’t have any idea how very exhausting it really is for a grieving parent to function on a normal level.” Katja Faber
Grief doesn’t just affect parents, but wives, husbands and siblings, also, grief is exhausting to the whole family. When we lose a parent, no matter how old we are at the time, it hits you hard.

I also have a feeling that there is someone who has lost a loved one and they feel so alone. They are thinking thoughts that there is no one who will ever love them again and why even try to live? I say that isn't true and that the Lord will draw you closer to Him and reveal a love that is like none you have ever known before. A love that doesn't depend on outward circumstances or people. A miracle kind of love that is filled with grace and mercy. Hope will rise up again in your heart and this time, it won't be disappointing. Hang on.

Thus saith the Lord: A voice was heard on high of lamentation, of mourning, and weeping, of Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted for them, because they are not. Jeremiah 31:15
Anita Smith once said that any parent who's lost a child will make sure their hearts are right before the Lord that they may see them again in heaven. The thing about Saturday’s prayer is there is always a family experiencing the death of a family member somewhere. Only a move of the Holy Spirit will help us today.

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08/28/2026

TGIF! So glad this week is winding down! So glad the Lord is on the move! It’s the day we pray for unspoken prayer requests. Those are the kind that are hard to share, even with our best friends. But the old song, WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS, came to my mind as I wrote this. I grew up in Flintstone, GA, or what I call Chattanooga Valley. Old hymns mean a lot to me. As I always say, find a verse or a song to hold on to when you feel like you can’t move forward.
Some people have gotten tragic news this week. Lord, hold and comfort them. Reveal Your best plan for them and their life going forward.

Another old hymn, WHERE COULD I GO BUT TO THE LORD? That has always been true in my life. Lord, help us please today providing hope and comfort where there appears to be none. We pray these things in the precious name of Jesus.

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08/27/2026

Thursdays we focus on recovery and small groups, praying that each one would find one that will help them on their journey. Churches, Celebrate Recovery, Invitation to Change, Al-Anon and AA, NA groups; any gathering or ZOOM meeting that keeps people from isolating themselves in their pain becomes a source of healing. It's a great day for recovery in the State of FL. We pray that people will come out of the darkness into His glorious light and find full recovery there.

These words from someone in recovery will pierce your heart. She said "I chose the first drink, but the rest chose me. I did NOT want to be an alcoholic. I woke up every day not wanting to drink, and I hated myself when I gave in." Anon

From TRAUMA AND THE 12 STEPS we read: “Many individuals who have recovered from addictions contend that having structure was an absolutely critical element in making this change happen.” This goes along with the idea of making a new life.

08/26/2026

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Lord Jesus, Lord of the day, go before us. Lead us, guide us, cover us, our families and loved ones. I plead the blood and ask for favor and let us be truly thankful for the abundance you have poured down on us. We in this nation are so blessed and yet we take so many things for granted. Help us to always look for ways to bless others and remember to see the beauty you have created instead of the chaos that surrounds us so often. You are beauty, grace and glory to me this day.
I pray single parents and their children and for all those who are sick, recovering, in the hospital or needing more care. I also hold up those still suffering from being in accidents and all the repercussions of that.
Adding extra prayers for my daughter, Regina, today.

From the book of Micah 7 we read:
But me, I'm not giving up.
I'm sticking around to see what God will do.
I'm waiting for God to make things right.
I'm counting on God to listen to me.
Don't, enemy, crow over me.
I'm down, but I'm not out.
I'm sitting in the dark right now,
but God is my light…. He's on my side
and is going to get me out of this.
He'll turn on the lights and show me his ways.
I'll see the whole picture and how right he is.

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08/24/2026

On Monday, we pray for our families and extended family. Lord, please go before each of those that we love and You love. Jesus, take the wheel in this complex, sometimes perplexing life and bring Your will about. We ask blood covering that nothing will come to us that You haven't sifted with hands of love. Yes, we must trust in You with all of our hearts and lean not unto our own understanding. We roll our burdens onto You and pray that we not grab them back. We need mercy, Lord, we are at Your mercy. Remind us of blessings, remind us of provision, remind us of prayers that we have prayed in the past that You have answered in a mighty way. Your love surpasses all trials.

Feeling overwhelmed? God has got it covered. Call; his line is never busy and He won't put you on hold. Jeremiah 33:3
(AMP) "You can't do it on your own. Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things, fenced in and hidden, which you do not know (do not distinguish and recognize, have knowledge of and understand)."
“Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will either say, I wish I had or I’m glad I did.” Zig Ziglar

Lord, I pray you bless all who come here for hope and help and prayers. I ask that You be with that one who is hurting the worst, and only You, Father, know which one it is; which one needs the hug, the arms of comfort and help.

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08/20/2026

We’re praying for families in recovery today.
"When cruel words fly from the mouth of another person, drunk or sober, Al-Anon helps me remember that I have choices. Perhaps I can say the Serenity Prayer to myself, or refuse to discuss the topic any further. I can listen without taking the words personally; I can leave the room, change the subject, make an Al-Anon call, or explore other alternatives. My sponsor can help me to discover options that seem right for me.
We may never have the choices we would have if we were writing the script, but we always have choices.“ In All Our Affairs

Lord, we come before you asking for blessings on all who come to this group for support and the agreement in prayers for their families and friends. We all have hopes and dreams and yet know that sometimes we have to yield those to You for Your word, Your story and Your glory to appear. Especially as mothers we probably wish we could just make our families happy, and we each have a picture in our mind of what that would look like. I bet Mary, the mother of Jesus wished she could keep her son from suffering, yet without that the Gospel would not have been born and we all would be without hope. So, help our dreams be in line with Yours for us as we try to yield all to You. Mercy, Hope and Peace to all today in the name of our Precious Savior Jesus, the only One who will not disappoint us.

“Holy God, thank you, for the life you have given me. Sometimes I wish it were different, but you know who I am and you choose what you wanted me to do or to be. No matter what you do in my life, enable me to thank you in the midst of my circumstances because your loving presence is always with me. Amen.” Cecil Murphey

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08/19/2026

“Your prayers, dear child of God…shall be answered---some of them perhaps, during your lifetime on earth, all of them, certainly, during your lifetime in heaven.” Samuel Prime
Today one of our prayer focuses is on those who are sick, in the hospital, facing surgery, or recovering. Those can be” big order” prayers, it seems. Sometimes we feel we are hitting the ceiling with our prayers, but we can’t give up.
We also are praying for single parents and their children. Lord, please send all the help needed today and every day.
"Would you know who is the greatest saint in the world?" asked William Law. "It is not he who prays most, or fasts most...but it is he who is always thankful to God, who wills everything that God wills, who receives everything as an instance of God's goodness, and has a heart always ready to praise God for it."
“If you have a kind word, share it now. Whenever a person is around you, take that opportunity to LIFT him or her up. You know there is a difference in hurting and helping others. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. It is that simple.” Suzi Yelvington

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