Prayer for my Dad

About a month and a half ago, my father was in a bad car wrecka nd he broke two vertabre in his neck. My brother and I found out last night that he will be having surgury on Tuesday and we want to just ask ya'll to pray for him and the doctors as he goes under the knife.

Prayer Request: Things are About to Blow

In just over six months I graduate for the University of Arkansas at Monticello. I will be a college graduate. So what, may you ask, is the problem?

I have no clue what I am going to do after this time of my life is over.

I know that God has something huge for me. And I am ready to go to where ever he is calling me, but the thing is I have no clue where I am headed.

The fall of 2004 was when I got to Monticello. There is no doubt that this is where God wanted me, and he has made that apparently clear. But he has also made it clear that I do not need to stay here.

These last few months I have been trying to figure out what God has for me next. Where do I go? What am I going to do when I get there? How am I going to get there? These are the questions that I can't seem to get any more light on. There are many opportunities, but there can only be one descision.

Last night might have been the start of something huge. At first I tried to ignore it, but the more that I wrap it around my brain, the more that I think that it is a huge possibility. We are on the verge of something huge, and I want to be right in the middle of it when it happens.

I might be going to BOSTON.

Pray for me, Travis, Jack, Karen and Micheal. Pray that God will make it apparently clear what we are to do about this. Pray that if it's not us, that God will raise up those who are supposed to go. And more than anything, pray that God will prepare the hearts of those in Boston for whoever he sents.

Boston get Ready!

Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name,

Thy kingdom come,

Thy will be done. on Earth

as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread

and forgive us our tresspasses,

as we forgive those who tresspass against us.

Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

For Thine is the kingdo mand th power and the glory

Forever and Ever.

AMEN.

How many time have you said this in your lifetime? If you are like me, too many to count. We said it before every softball game (15 years worth), we said it before every marching performance, we even say it now after every intramural event that we participate in, but what is it.

Growing up, I htought that to pray we had to use the Lord's Prayer in every single one. That God would only listen if we said what Jesus said. As I got older it became a game, in a sence. As long as I kept reciting the Lord's Prayer, I would be fine.

I eventually got to a point when I started asking questions: When should we pray? What/who do we pray about? And should the Lord's Pray be anywhere in the mix?

It wasn't hard finding the verses that say we should pray continually. We should pray in trouble and in good times. We should pray for other believers and non believers. The sick and the
healthy. But I never found anything reguarding the Lord's prayer.

Jesus was giving us a model. Not exactally what to pray, but how to pray, or the order we should pray. We should start with praises to God. God is soverign and should be prioity in our prayers. Then we should pray for others (thier needs). We should end with ourselves (what we are struggleing with, what our needs are).

Did you notice where we ended up? Prayer isn't about us, or getting something for yourself, its about glorifing God. My prayer life isn't the greatest, but I want it to be better.

Prayer is the easiest way to get closer to God, as long as you aren't always doing all the talking!