Okay, I really didn't know how hard this would be or how much I would be tempted or tried during this process and its only day 2. End of Day 1 I got pulled over not buckling up. There's $20 bucks down the tube and made me late for our Meet the Sandites night where we got to watch our son play in the band and they announced and introduced football players and such. Today, we had a blow up with our son because of him blowing off his homework and not applying himself to his full potential. Jana is stressed, I'm stressed, but I'm not giving up on this.
Lord, I confess my sins of doubt, anger, and pride to you write now. Those are definately a stumbling block to me. I confess all my sins to you right now, the ones I know and remember and the ones I don't. Lord I pray that you will send your Spirit to us and defend us against the attach of the devil. He is trying real hard to work distracting and blocking not only this blog but all aspects of my life. I know you have a plan for me and I wait to receive your plan at your timing, not mine. Lord I pray authority over the enemy in the name of Jesus, who has all authority.
I specifically pray for my job that you will bless it and continue to bless me in so that I can get out of debt and be able to pay my student loans. Lord prepare me over the next 6 months to be in a place to handle the extra load of the payments.
I lift up my small group to you Lord that you will continue to work in them and through them. That they will see your power through this Prayer series and that when we complete this that we will all be the prayer warriors that we see in other people and want. I pray for growth in our small group both in spirit and in numbers.
I lift up to you Kelly and her family. I pray that you will open the hearts of her husband and child and that they will see your unhindered love and grasp on to it and not let go. I pray for her husband specifically. You know the needs and what is going on. I pray your will be done in their lives.
I continue to pray for Mark and his job and his wife. Lord, bless them for being so faithful to you even when times have been so tough. God I thank you for bringing them into our lives and the lives of our small group. I pray that you will open doors that need to be opened and close the ones that need to be shut.
I lift up my wife to you that you will take this stress and burden of the problems of whats going on and relieve her stress. God bless her because she is so faithful to you and to me. Love her when my love is not enough. Guide her when I'm not able to lead, and giver her the faith to know you are in control of all things, even when we want to be in control or have no control.
I thank you for Susan and Warren for coming back to our small group. God, lead them to the place you want them. Thank you for their friendship, laughter and insight. Bless their jobs and their lives and the lives of their children.
I lift up our church to you in prayer. I pray for the pastors and their families. I continue to lift up in prayer to your the people of Peru who blessed us so much and those that made decisions to follow You. Guide them, protect them, love them and use them.
God, I lift up those prayer requests my feeble mind forgets. I give you the glory now and in the future for all the things you do, for the prayer requests that are answered during this time. I know you answer all requests and whether its a yes, or a no, or a not yet, I thank you.
I love you Father.
James
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
Day 1: 90 Days of Prayer Blog
This being my first blog experience, I want to track my prayer habits and the answers that God provides. My small group is going through When God's People Pray, and I am doing a seperate prayer workshop app on my droid. All to often we pray for things, we get answers and we thank God or we forget to thank God. But all too often when talking to someone about prayer and how God answers all prayers, its hard to remember all the examples. So as an encouragement to others and to myself I start on this 90 day prayer journey for no other reason than to thank God for all the things He has done and will continue to do in my life.
So what is my part?
1. Confess and receive forgiveness for any sin, including unforgiveness, doubt, unbelief, fear and anything else that might be between me and God (1 John 1:9).
2. List my prayer requests. Phil 4:6
3. Take authority over the enemy. 2 Chron 25:8
4. Pray in detail, and ask for God's will.
5. Place my trust in His specific promise.
6. Thank God and praise Him for what He is doing according to His will. (Phil 4:6)
Day 1: The first thing I lifted up in prayer to God was to forgive me of my sins. I confessed them to him because I do not want anything to stand between God and I. I prayed for forgiveness of my unforgiveness, hatred, doubt, pride, fear and any unconfessed sin.
Specific Prayer request for me: My biggest prayer request is that God will prepare our finances for our upcoming student loans that we have to begin paying in March, 2012. Currently there is no money in the budget for it and I don't know where it will come from. I am praying specifically that God will bless my sales for the next 6 months that will provide the commissions to pay off some current debt to put me in a position to start paying off my debt.
I am also praying that God will show me His power through this process and that will use it for His glory and not mine. I am praying for the marriage of Kelly who is new in my small group that you will reconcile it and praying for Mark and his job. I pray that God will bless Mark in his faithfulness to Him and provide him with unseen income as he is in sales too.
I'm praying for our small group that as we continue through When God's people pray study that we will increase our prayer life and see God work in ways that we have never seen before.
Praying for the people of Peru that we were able to see and share the saving grace of God's mercy with. Praying that the men who committed their life to the Lord will step up and be leaders of their church even when it is unpopular.
Finally, I'm praying specifically for my wife and I that through this process of learning more on prayer that our prayer life both together and individually will be strengthened and will grow.
Lord I take authority over the enemy and I pray that You will overhtrow and overturn the works of the darkness and all those principalities. I place my trust in You and Your promises and I know that you will answer according to Your word and Your will. I thank you Lord and give you praise for all things that you have done and will do each and everyday in my life. Help me to be a vessel to share your saving grace and the power of prayer that you supply to each believer.
Its in the name of Jesus Christ that I ask all these things. Amen.
I'm praying for all that read this and hope and pray it is an encouragement for your life.
In Christ,
James
So what is my part?
1. Confess and receive forgiveness for any sin, including unforgiveness, doubt, unbelief, fear and anything else that might be between me and God (1 John 1:9).
2. List my prayer requests. Phil 4:6
3. Take authority over the enemy. 2 Chron 25:8
4. Pray in detail, and ask for God's will.
5. Place my trust in His specific promise.
6. Thank God and praise Him for what He is doing according to His will. (Phil 4:6)
Day 1: The first thing I lifted up in prayer to God was to forgive me of my sins. I confessed them to him because I do not want anything to stand between God and I. I prayed for forgiveness of my unforgiveness, hatred, doubt, pride, fear and any unconfessed sin.
Specific Prayer request for me: My biggest prayer request is that God will prepare our finances for our upcoming student loans that we have to begin paying in March, 2012. Currently there is no money in the budget for it and I don't know where it will come from. I am praying specifically that God will bless my sales for the next 6 months that will provide the commissions to pay off some current debt to put me in a position to start paying off my debt.
I am also praying that God will show me His power through this process and that will use it for His glory and not mine. I am praying for the marriage of Kelly who is new in my small group that you will reconcile it and praying for Mark and his job. I pray that God will bless Mark in his faithfulness to Him and provide him with unseen income as he is in sales too.
I'm praying for our small group that as we continue through When God's people pray study that we will increase our prayer life and see God work in ways that we have never seen before.
Praying for the people of Peru that we were able to see and share the saving grace of God's mercy with. Praying that the men who committed their life to the Lord will step up and be leaders of their church even when it is unpopular.
Finally, I'm praying specifically for my wife and I that through this process of learning more on prayer that our prayer life both together and individually will be strengthened and will grow.
Lord I take authority over the enemy and I pray that You will overhtrow and overturn the works of the darkness and all those principalities. I place my trust in You and Your promises and I know that you will answer according to Your word and Your will. I thank you Lord and give you praise for all things that you have done and will do each and everyday in my life. Help me to be a vessel to share your saving grace and the power of prayer that you supply to each believer.
Its in the name of Jesus Christ that I ask all these things. Amen.
I'm praying for all that read this and hope and pray it is an encouragement for your life.
In Christ,
James
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