Today's Prayers

• The FamilyLife application is hefty and asks a lot of tough questions, I'm praying for the strength and discipline to get it all filled out without procrastination... Toby and I are bad about that, and it is due by Christmas...

• Still praying for Amy and all the other things I listed in my last post...

• The last couple of days of GPM have been prayers that they raise enough $ for Destiny student conference, and for Transformation 20/20; for the Nigerian Women's Minisry's use of Magdalena: Released from Shame; and for Guinena Bissau, one of the smallest countries, to become one of the largest missions sending nations.

Global Prayer Movement

Campus Crusade for Christ,which FamilyLife Ministries is a part of, has a Global Prayer Movement going on... I signed up to pray on the 15th of every month at 6pm (the day and time of our wedding to help me remember), but they also have a prayer journal that I will update a link to every month. You can download it and print it out, but I just bookmark it and look at it daily (it's in my bookmark bar) before I pray. This months Focus is West Africa. Today the prayer is for blessings for their partners to be able to continue to give faithfully to the ministry. It also has a daily verse, today's is:

1 Chronicles 29:21-24 (New International Version)

Solomon Acknowledged as King

21 The next day they made sacrifices to the LORD and presented burnt offerings to him: a thousand bulls, a thousand rams and a thousand male lambs, together with their drink offerings, and other sacrifices in abundance for all Israel. 22 They ate and drank with great joy in the presence of the LORD that day.
Then they acknowledged Solomon son of David as king a second time, anointing him before the LORD to be ruler and Zadok to be priest. 23 So Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king in place of his father David. He prospered and all Israel obeyed him. 24 All the officers and mighty men, as well as all of King David's sons, pledged their submission to King Solomon.

Prayers for Today, Hope for Tomorrow

I started this branch off of my normal blog to keep track of all of the things I am praying for... If I can pray for you in any way, let me know and I will add you to my daily prayers... I would like to update with answers to prayers here as well :)...

Some Label, Tag, and Keyword Definitions:

• FamilyLife - The Ministry Toby and I are in the application process with
• CCCi - Campus Crusade for Christ International (FamilyLife's Umbrella Organization)
• GPM - Global Prayer Movement a ministry of CCCi
• HomeBuilders - A small group, focused on building marriages and families using materials created by FamilyLife (the first study is available for download here)
  
• Requests - Any prayer requests I get will be vaguely reported on here (I won't use specifics, and I can keep things anonymous if anyone prefers)
• Updates - on prayers requests I have had, or on other things I have been praying about
• Books - Since this is also kind of a devotional blog for me, I may recommend whatever book I am reading in my devos here
• Events - I will let people know of any events that are coming up, that I am praying for or that we are attending that have to do with prayer, spiritual walks, or evangelism