I was thinking today that it would be really cool to be able to read to Ian a list of the people who are reading this blog and praying for him. So, if you read the blog and pray for Ian, leave a comment on this post with your name and where you're from. I think it would be very encouraging for him as well as for us.Thank you again for praying.
Larissa
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«Oldest ‹Older 801 – 835 of 835Ian - I had a hard day at work today, and then I read you blog. I feel stupid for thinking I have any hard days. I am praying for you so that God's power is made great in your weakness.
PrayForIan is open in my browser all the time and I check it morning and evening for updates. Ian and Larissa are also on my prayer calendar for each day’s prayer time ...
Lydia, the 13-year-old daughter of friends, was struck by a large truck while getting off her school bus on 17 May. Lydia was thrown 100' by the impact, landing on the highway. She is still in a coma, but small improvements are showing. She still has no sight and cannot speak, and of course the prognosis is uncertain.
Please Pray For Lydia
Brian
Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
I discovered this blog as my husband and I are nearing our 24th wedding anniversary.
It has been a marriage of "true love" and "Christ centered love" that has recently been so battered by the circumstances of life, and the enemy of our soul...
I have found myself at times surrounded in darkness and then I found your video with Piper's quotes...
and it is true. There have been days where nothing but Christ could sustain our marriage, and your video gives loving evidence to the strength of committed christian love. God Bless!
Ohhhhh my goodness. You both inspire me SO SO SO much! You're a HUGE encouragement to me! THANKYOU for serving God. And THANKYOU for your completely beautiful display of unconditional love.
With love in Christ,
Emily Ruthann
praying for you Ian
all the way from the united kingdom and ireland
Hi Ian and Larissa,
I came upon your story on Godtube today. I remember hearing it a while back on Chris Fabry's show.
It's such an amazing love story. God really wrote a beautiful love story for both you. I'm really touched. I wish you all the best in life and tons of blessing from God in this life and in the next to come.
Desiring God is in our google reader. That is where we heard of you both. I really appreciate you guys and the faith the Lord has given to you in the midst of this journey. As you come to mind, you're in my prayers...
Thank you for boldly and openly living out your faith. You have been an encouragement to me and have spurred me on to recommit to living more intentional.
Larissa, you have been an inspiration to me. I thank God for you.May God's grace abound much more which each coming day.
Our pastor used your testimony in our service last Sunday as an example of a Christ centered marriage. You won't ever know how much of an impact this has made on my life and the couples around us. Thank you for the example and know that we pray for both of you as you continue to grow as "one flesh".
Ian and Larissa, your story is so beautiful. I am praying that God will continue to heal you, Ian, and give you both strength. He is faithful!
but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk, and not be faint.
Isaiah 40:31
-Nicole, Chicago, Illinois
Praying Colossians 1:9-12 over you guys.
Also praying for endurance and patience, by grace!
And also praying that the Lord would make you and your marriage like a bright city on a hill, displaying the goodness and love of the Lord - but the city has a lighthouse, and the whole city is on fire. That would be a stinkin' bright city!
Ivan.
I saw the video and I agree with you. God is amazing!
I pray for you and your wife, for God's faithfulness continue to accompany.
The testimony of seeing the true love between you is an inspiration.
larissa and ian,
came across your story tonight, in the middle of a dark patch of my spiritual walk with the Lord. thank you for sharing your story; your courage and love for Christ and life is like fresh water to my parched soul. i will remember you and pray for many many more blessings from the father of the heavenly lights! if we don't meet on earth, i look forward to rejoicing with both of you in heaven.
strong to overcome,
Joyce (Beijing, China)
Hello- I just heard your interview on Boundless and I'm praying for you both. God bless.
As a young newlywed, your love story has inspired me beyond words... but more than that, your commitment to each other and to God leaves me speechless. Thank you. Thank you for allowing God to work through the both of you. Thank you for being a Light to total strangers.
After having read your story, I don't think I will ever be the same.
Alex Stratos - Richmond, Va
Thank you for deflecting the temptation of bitterness and spite. I always read Psalm 23 when even intense affliction has me down - our cups really do run over. I will regularly be praying for you two.
I only just found your video and I want to say thank you for being such a godly example of a married couple that love each other through thick and thin! Your story is so encouraging and challenging; your lives truly glorify God! I am praying that He will richly bless and guide your steps each and everyday.
Bec, Australia, Tas
Dear Ian and Larissa,
I've never met you and probably never will this side of heaven. Going through my own trials in my daily walk with the Lord, your posts are a place where I go to when discouragement hits me. Why? Because you're heroes? No and yes! It's so encouraging to see GOD in your life! You stand - more often than we know, with feeble knees, but still steadfast, because you stand on the Rock! That makes you both heroes! Keep on keeping on! Don't give up!
Corine Daane, the Netherlands, Europe
Ian and Larissa-
I am praying for you...
You have inspired me with your story and help me strive to love unconditionally.
thank you. thank you. thank you.
God bless.
Our pastors showed the doco from desiringGod.com to our church last weekend - WOW - and thanks. Praying for both Ian and Lariassa, what an awesome God we love and know! Kirralie - NSW AUSTRALIA
Saw the doco at church last weeekend - WOW! Praying for you both, Kirralie NSW Australia
I'm not very good at prayer but I'm working on it and keep you in my heart. Looking forward to seeing you guys in heaven! I'll be one of the crazy ones! And we can have a massive awesome spiritual conversation (or God-blah as some of my friends call it). May He make this all worth it.
From Australia,
Tash Kenealy
Hi, I'm from Brazil, and i've prayed for both of you everytime i remember you! You both has blessed my life so much!
God be with you, forever, and ever, and i'll be very happy to see you in heaven someday.
God Bless you! More and more, everyday!
Hi Ian & Larissa. How are you? I'm a 17 brazilian girl.
So, i saw your marriage's video. Is so beauty, and we see the God's love in your life. Like you said: He is really awesome. I hope God always and always bless you two. And from now, I'll pray for you Ian, and for you Larissa. Kisses from Brazil!
Ian and Larissa,
I am so pleased to have found your blog. I too am blessed to be with a wise, and beautiful man, and I hope to marry him someday. When I shared your story with him, it changed our relationship in such a new and wondrous way that I cannot express in words. In short, your marriage and witness does not go unnoticed. I shall pray for you both.
In Christ's Love!
Lindsay
You are an example to all of us of what love means and what marriage is truly about! Praying for you Ian..that God will strengthen and uphold you always!
I can not wait to meet you huys in Heaven! Stay strong, both of you! God bless.
Budapest, Hungary
I've been reading your blog for a couple of months now and each time I come across it I'm still amazed by how passionitely you live for Christ and continue to do so regardless of obstacles that come in your way.
Thank you for being such a beautiful example of what marriage is and thank you for giving me dove's eyes towards Heaven, and the true Prize of all.
May God continue to bless you with His peace.
You are both really inspiring and I hope when I'm married that Jesus will be exalted in it like how he is with yours. I'll be praying that you two will keep your love strong and that it will keep growing. Also that God will encourage your hearts and give you rest in him. Thank you so much for sharing your story and letting us in on your life you both are really great examples.
Love in the Lord Jesus
Hey, Ian and Larissa.
is a blessing know the history of you two. You have reached lives like mine (I live in Brazil!) ... God bless you both always .. Always bringing more of it to them.
Love
Nicole
(new reader)
Your story moved me in such a real way. Thank you for your transparency. Praying for strength.
I am praying for Ian.
Here is an update on my comment of 24.6.12
Dear Ian and Larissa,
One thing has not changed ... PrayForIan is still open in my browser all the time, and I continue to check it morning and evening for updates.
Lydia spent two months in a coma, then gradually was released from it to the point she could be moved out of acute care to a rehab hospital. Two months later she was allowed weekend visits home to see her younger brothers and to have some friends come to see her.
Because Lydia's home visits had been going so well, and because her return to the rehab hospital was becoming more emotionally traumatic for her, this past week she was returned home for good, with local rehab providers coming to her family home, and Lydia visiting a local rehab office one day a week to use equipment that cannot be brought to her.
She still has "a long row to hoe" [her extended family
are all market gardeners!] and her Mum and Dad often cause her frustration by having to ask her to repeat things over and over until they can understand what she is trying to say ... but progress is happening, little by little.
No one knows how much she will come back to her former self, nor what the new Lydia will be like, but she continues to surprise and delight with tiny fragments of old memories coming to the fore from time to time.
Please Pray For Lydia
With every blessing to you both, and thanks to God for the great inspiration you provide to all of us who follow you here.
Brian
Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
I am praying for you Ian, and I am praying for Larissa as well. As you joined in marriage, I cannot pray for one without praying for the other. Your blog is a daily source of inspiration and I thank you for your honesty in sharing your feelings. Life becomes overwhelming sometimes. Coming to your blog shifts my perspective, helps to readjust my focus to the glory of God. There are great things in store for you and for your marriage. Much more happiness is on the way. God Bless!
Dear Ian and Larissa,
I saw your video several months ago on fb- posted by Nate Lawrenson. I think of and pray for you often. Your testimony is wonderfully and incredibly thought provoking and moving. It causes me to contemplate my relationship with Jesus and my loving earthly husband even more. I am definitely ready for your book. Can't wait to see it and buy it! God bless you both!
Lisa Shively
Kansas City, MO
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