Friday, August 31, 2007

I praise you Father God for the beautiful day you have given us. I think for the time with my boys this morning.

Thank you Father for all of the many blessings you have poured out upon us. Thank you for my wife and children. Strengthen and encourage Angie today. May she be a special blessing to someone today. Help us to be the great ministry team you desire us to be. May we be your servants. Show us the young couples you want us to minister to.

I lift up the teens in our church. Grant them great courage and strength today. May they be bold for you. May they be bold with their peers and their teachers. Help them to be the absolute best at whatever they are doing today. May you grew and increase the influence of the UBC Youth Ministry. I pray for Nancy and I am thankful for the special and strategic role you have placed her in at the school. Give her increased boldness to stand for your truth and show her how best to teach and encourage the youth.

I pray for wisdom and guidance for our church. I thank you for the leaders who are serving. I look forward to seeing whom You will raise up for the new church year. May all be willing to heed your call to serve.

I am looking forward to all that you have for our church in the near future. Expand our influence. Grow our members. Teach me what I need to learn to lead the Student Ministry. Search me and show me my faults. Provide me the strength and wisdom to change what needs to be changed. May I be a good steward of all that You have provide for me this year. Show Angie and I how to be Your kind of parents. Help us teach our boys about You. May they never know the darkness of living without You. May their future spouses and their families be drawn to your side today. May they know You are real and true today. I come before you in Christ Name. Amen!

Tuesday August 21, 2007

Gracious God, I praise you for this day. I praise You for the light you have given to me, my family, and some of my friends. I praise You foBlogger: Prayers of DT Boy - Create Postr my wife. Strengthen and encourage her today. Give her the patience and grace she needs for all that she will encounter today. Heal her body. Heal her pain. Heal our pain. Carry us through this week. Guide our steps even when we do not see it. Thank you for my boys. Draw them to your side. Teach them more about You this day. Help them learn Your Word. Help them learn the words and signs. Place a spirit of peace and calmness within them.

I praise you for the students from last night. May the BCM and UBC be used to minister to them. May we be spring board for them to minister to other students. I desire to see students brought from darkness and into light. Show me my role in this. Bring students into my path so that I may reach out to them. Show me how to best be a light of hope for hurting students. Show Denise, Lisa, Meme, Vicky, Sonya, Johnathan and others how they can show the love and light of Christ to those around them. I praise you for Denise and the ministry she has done this summer. I look forward to the wonderful ways You will be suing her this semester. I praise You for the wonderful things you did with Johnathan this summer. May the stories of Your wondrous deeds be told over and over again all over this city.

I thank you for all of the youth You brought to us Sunday Morning. May You bring even more tomorrow night. Guide us as we study Your word. Raise up leaders for them. Provide us with all of the space we need. I desire to grow and expand our youth ministry. I look forward to how you will be working on Sunday Nights. Provide all that we need. Help the youth to have the consistent time they need and many of them want to have with You. Show them who they are to share the Gospel with. Give them a heart for the lost. Burden them for their friends and classmates who do not know You. Burden them to change their campus.

Expand the ministry of UBC. Raise up the leaders we need. Grant us new Sunday School leaders, new council leaders, new Deacons, new ministry leaders and small group leaders. Raise up people who have a desire to reach the lost and do whatever it takes to accomplish this task. Grow us beyond our imagination. I praise You for the new members we have. I praise You for Angelina and her acceptance of You and her desire to be baptized. Amazing!!!! May she be a beacon of hope in her classroom. May she tell her friends all about You and the choice she has made. Use more than her parents to teach her. May her friends ask her questions about church. Give her the answers. May she invite her friends to come and watch her baptism and may they ask questions because of it.

I praise You for the sacrifice of Your son. For it is in His name that I can and do come before You this morning. Amen!

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Gracious God thank You for this wonderful day. Thank You for all of the children You have brought to us for VBS. I praise You for the wonderful conversations and lessons that are going on each and every night. I know many of these little ones have rough homes and I ask Your protection around them. I plead with You for the salvation of them and their parents. Use our church to reach our and minister to them. I thank You for all of the workers who have given so much of their time for VBS. I thank You for Angie and her willingness to serve as our Director. Grant her and all of the workers strength and courage for the rest of this week.

I praise You for all of the wonderful time I have had with my family lately. Thank You for Angie and her love and how she takes care of our home. Thank You for my two boys. Help Angie to accomplish all that she needs to get done today. Protect her mind, body and spirit today. Encourage her. Show her Your direction for ministry and service. Give her the boldness to step up and do whatever You desire her today. I praise You for Aiden's continues healing. I praise You for how he is growing and learning so much. I thank You also that my youngest boy is growing so much and learning so many new things each day. Continue to help him with his speech and all of those things that he needs to improve on. I lift up their future spouses and their future in-laws. May they be walking in will this day. May you provide abundantly for their needs today.

I lift my students to You. I pray for those who will be returning to Western soon. I beg that You show us how best to reach them, how best to bring the lost sheep into Your fold. I pray for the teenagers who will soon be returning to classes. May Your children be bold this year in sharing their faith with their friends. Grant to them the courage to stand up for what is right. May they be bold in telling their friends what is right and wrong.

Show UBC the direction you desire us to go in. May we be bold in our witness to Macomb. Show us how to get back to the streets! In Christ name. Amen!