There is a prayer concert tonight at my church and I am going to bring forward requests of prayer for the race.
Does anyone have any specific requests that they would be willing to share? I will check the blog before I leave tonight so feel free to post all day.
Tuesdays were the day we agreed upon as a team to pray anyways, so even if I miss your request someone else will see it and lift you up in prayer. I spend way too much time demanding that I be allowed to do things on my own. I know from experience that it isn’t beneficial to live independantly. Please do not hesitate to ask for prayer, for anything.
That said please pray for me. I need motivation, wisdom and clarity of thought. Most of all I need peace. I need to slow down and truly take the time to rest. I am worried about leaving behind the people I have spent the last several years building relationship with and witnessing to. I know that they are in God’s hands but I truly love them and it’s tearing me up inside to think that I would leave and someone wouldn’t step up to be the hands and feet of God in their lives. Someone HAS to step up… Something HAS to happen.
I know that I’m supposed to go, I have to, but there is one person in particular that I don’t want to leave. It has taken 3 years to build up trust and get to the place where he’s actually receptive to what I have to say. This guy has a crazy past. He was a drug addict who totally pulled himself out of the gutter. I see God’s hand in it although he doesn’t recognize it himself. He’s SO bitter and pessimistic, which drives me crazy, but over the last year I have seen a huge change in him. I really, really want him to know God. More than anything else.
Please pray that someone would step up and be placed in a position to continue to speak into his life. Someone he would respect and not just ignore like he used to ignore me. I guess what I’m hoping for is that it would be easier for someone else to step into the role that I’m playing. That it would take them a month to gain his trust when it took me three years. That I’ve done enough of the ground work and he would be more open to the message of the gospel.
Isn’t it crazy how seeing someone the way that God sees them makes you love them, even when they’re not very lovable? And how loving them the way that God does hurts SO bad sometimes but also energizes you to be patient with them and makes you willing to forgive almost anything?
God is very awesome.
Thank for your prayers and please let me know if there’s anything specific that you want prayer for. I’ve already taken note of the things previously said and I’ll be specifically praying for everyone who’s just been accepted to the WR. 🙂
Nicole.
