Asking for prayer

Just got a call last night from my cousins who manage our apartment complex in TX. Seems there was a big fight last night, and a couple of young guys (not even tenants -- friends of tenants) beat the hell out of a young Mexican (I think they said he was 17 or 18) whose family lives quietly in our apartments. Stephanie and Edie had to spend about 2 hours cleaning blood off of the breezeways where the incident occurred. They said there were pieces of hair and skin in the staircase, like they beat his head into the concrete.

The boy is in the hospital now, and he’ll be fine. The two thugs were arrested.

This isn’t the first fight on our premises. This isn’t the first time (by a LONG shot) that the police have had to arrest someone on our property. This isn’t the first time that my cousins have had to get stern with tenants. Suffice it to say, the tenants involved in the beating are being evicted.

I don’t think that the apartments have ever been prayed over. I know we haven’t done it since we’ve owned them (July 2006). There was a drug dealer that lived there, but he was arrested in November 06. There are still drugs on the premises, according to the police and to other tenants. There are always fights and bad blood.

Gary and I pray for wisdom and guidance constantly, but I don’t think we’ve ever actually prayed for peace in our buildings. Like a blessing on the property.

So I just ask for prayers for our place. We are putting financing on them and selling them now, but it’s been a hard road to plow. Pray that God opens the doors He wants open and closes the doors He wants closed, and they we be wise enough to know the difference. Pray that whatever “powers and spiritual forces” exist there be cleaned away. Pray that the sale goes smoothly and without incident. Also, pray protection over my cousins as they lead the charge.

There are two properties: The Tropicana and The Country Place apartments, in Longview TX.

Thanks! Blessings!

Dale