Comments on: Unspoken Prayer Requests

By: Mandy

Mandy — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:40:19 +0000

“The Guessing Game” request sounds familiar. At my fundy U, one girl I was in prayer group with for a semester was fond of these. She was a friend, but she tended to be self-important. Everyone else would simply say “I have an unspoken”, but she always had to qualify with “I have a very special unspoken” to make it sound more important. I always had the urge to tell her that if she wanted “special” prayer for something then she was going to have to be specific.

By: Sims

Sims — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:16:02 +0000

I had a teacher in High School who would begin every class with prayer requests and (Student led) prayer for each request. Very early in the schoolyear the students realized that he would NEVER cut short the prayer time as long as there were requests for prayer being made. We got out of so many quizzes and tests for lack of time in that class, but the things we prayed for… (My cousin has a wart. She tried everything to get it to go away…) Ah who cares if I have no idea what the periodic of the elements table is.

By: Big Gary

Big Gary — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:51:45 +0000

A friend’s father was a stalwart church member and a chain smoker. A brother church member tried to talk him into stopping smoking by saying, “Think how much money you could give to the church that you’re spending now on cigarettes.” The father thought for a moment and said, “A lot. But then how would I pay for my cigarettes?

By: Christine Woodman

Christine Woodman — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:44:35 +0000

I just can’t tell you how fun it is to hear about a spoken unspoken from a near stranger in a grocery store. I actually found myself saying, “Well, I wasn’t aware that my mother was so concerned about my daughter’s decision to wear thongs rather than briefs, and I didn’t know she was pretty concerned that our children would join a coven because they have seen Harry Potter or that she was fairly certain my husband was hell-bound. But thanks for the tip.”

By: tigersharksteph

tigersharksteph — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:51:14 +0000

anybody ever get the spoken unspoken from someone else about you. Thats always fun. Its starts with “I have this friend (as they stare directly at you attracting the eyes of everyone else in the room) who is struggling with sin…” And then everyone pats you on the back on your way out, and you get invited to everyones “bible studies”. Yup, fun stuff.

By: Marsh

Marsh — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:23:23 +0000

My old church would go through the spoken requests, and then they’d ask for a show of fingers for the unspokens (which would be tallied – “Okay, how many on the piano side, Brother Andy? 175? Brother Paul – how many on the organ side? 210? That’s, uh, let’s see, 385 this evening.”) The kids were always trying to think of some request or other to inflate the count (in all earnestness).

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:07:42 +0000

I was in a service where a guy’s “smoking habit” got prayed for; when he raised his hand and said, “Unspoken,” the pastor thought he said, “I’m smokin’!”

By: Trina

Trina — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:28:54 +0000

lol Ron! I was just going to say something about that. It amazed me how many unspokens some people had!

By: Ron Bean

Ron Bean — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:01:12 +0000

Did anyone ever hear the “arithmetic unspokens? It went like this:
“I want to add two this week.”
“I want to add four this week and take away two from last week.”

By: James

James — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:44:53 +0000

Is it me, but it seems as if all the references to these “unspoken” requests are about women??? Um, does that say anything?