picking up from jane's thoughts, how about for our ACF time this week, we talk about how we are praying... both for ourselves and for ACF. just leave your prayer(s) as a comment and spend some time praying what others have shared as well.
hmm... honestly, in the midst of traveling, my prayer life has been slacking a lot lately. :( i guess for myself i mostly pray for my safety and smooth travels but i also pray that God will show more of himself to me as i see more of his world. for acf i pray for more unity among the christian groups on campus. honestly, i've been feeling somewhat out of touch with acf and emory in general, so it's been hard know the specific needs of the group and how to pray for it. but i've been praying that we be a group that reaches out to the wider campus through love. but especially me, that i step out of my little christian bubble and see the need of emory and that of the world as i travel.
i pray for ACF to be a community drawn together by and because of Jesus Christ. that we would explore what this means and to live this reality day by day.
i pray that God would be present to me. at times, i feel God is silent-- of course, this can be attributed to my own failure to seek God's presence. yet i often wish for God to show up in undeniable ways. perhaps my heart needs correction, but i wait to see how God will answer.
prayer has been very erratic for me, just when i remember and want to. for example, this morning my mom woke me up at 4:30am to go pray.....i almost opted to sleep and eventually while i was praying at church, i did fall asleep. my prayer topics have been about the church here, my family, and acf leadership as well as how i'm going to spend my summer. i have so much free time, it's a wonder that i'm not praying more.
i pray for more understanding of the fact that God did it--that he did everything, that Jesus died and rose and that my life does not need to be one huge scramble to get "it" right with God (whatever it is--because in my mind it changes), because God did it. i pray that my relationship with God wouldn't be about riding an ever fluctuating tide of good/bad, close/far but about what God has done and what his character has shown us he will promise to do. i basically want to pray that my relationship with God would quit being dictated by flimsy feelings of what i feel are good/bad days.
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hmm... honestly, in the midst of traveling, my prayer life has been slacking a lot lately. :( i guess for myself i mostly pray for my safety and smooth travels but i also pray that God will show more of himself to me as i see more of his world. for acf i pray for more unity among the christian groups on campus. honestly, i've been feeling somewhat out of touch with acf and emory in general, so it's been hard know the specific needs of the group and how to pray for it. but i've been praying that we be a group that reaches out to the wider campus through love. but especially me, that i step out of my little christian bubble and see the need of emory and that of the world as i travel.
i pray for ACF to be a community drawn together by and because of Jesus Christ. that we would explore what this means and to live this reality day by day.
i pray that God would be present to me. at times, i feel God is silent-- of course, this can be attributed to my own failure to seek God's presence. yet i often wish for God to show up in undeniable ways. perhaps my heart needs correction, but i wait to see how God will answer.
prayer has been very erratic for me, just when i remember and want to. for example, this morning my mom woke me up at 4:30am to go pray.....i almost opted to sleep and eventually while i was praying at church, i did fall asleep. my prayer topics have been about the church here, my family, and acf leadership as well as how i'm going to spend my summer. i have so much free time, it's a wonder that i'm not praying more.
i pray for more understanding of the fact that God did it--that he did everything, that Jesus died and rose and that my life does not need to be one huge scramble to get "it" right with God (whatever it is--because in my mind it changes), because God did it. i pray that my relationship with God wouldn't be about riding an ever fluctuating tide of good/bad, close/far but about what God has done and what his character has shown us he will promise to do. i basically want to pray that my relationship with God would quit being dictated by flimsy feelings of what i feel are good/bad days.
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