11-13-2011

Thank You for today, and for my amazing husband!
Please teach me patience, and not to be so sensitive about things that don't matter!
Lord, I know that you have placed a specific type of adoption on my heart, if it's Your will for us to do this, please place it on Clint's heart also. If we don't have the same heart about this it would be a mistake.
Help Clint to know what to do about a job. The time is coming very soon when we have to make an official decision, and more than anything we want to do what will bring You glory!
I want to pray for a couple of marriages that may or may not work out. Lord open their hearts to You so that they will have Your wisdom figuring out their situations!
Please be with family members, that they will come to TRULY understand what it means to love you, and to follow you whole-heartedly!
Please reveal the sin in our own lives Lord, and teach us to trust You no matter what our circumstances!
Amen
Eph 2:22
"And in Him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by His Spirit." 

Galations 2

Nov. 3, 2011
Dear Lord,
Thank You for the family I was born into, and for the family that I married into! They are all amazing!
Please teach me and Clint what it means to do every thing we do for Your glory!
I know that if we were to have a baby soon Clint would be thrilled, but we don't want to rush anything that You don't have planned. Please give us wisdom to know what to do in this situation.
Thank You for sending Clint these opportunities to be interviewed with companies he likes, please help us to know exactly what You want us to do on the job front!
Help me to know what route to take for school, and Lord pleaaaaase let it be a quick road! =) I'm tired of school, I'm tired of the jokes, and I'm tired of feeling like people don't believe that I will follow through.
Lord, above all else I pray that You will bring glory to Your name and further Your kingdom through Clint and I both apart and together!
Lord there are people that I need to pray for and You know who they are and You know what they need, Lord I pray for wisdom in each of their situations! Guide them to what You want for them, don't let Satan take things that look like good and use them for evil! You are sovereign, please help us to understand a little bit of the big picture!
Galations 2:14
"When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the Gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?"

I realize this verse is talking about Jews Vs. Gentiles, and that is not the same as believer vs. nonbelievers, but when I read this verse that is what I thought of. How is it that we live our lives to blend in with the world, yet so many times expect the world to live as Christ? Aren't we to be the examples? Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself."
Don't forget what Love is.
1 Cor. 13.

The Next 30 Days

For the next 30 days (well, 29 now) I will be using arise and rebel as a prayer journal.
So
Nov 2, 2011
Dear Lord,
Thank You for today, and for everything You have given me.
Please remind me to keep a positive attitude, because my attitude reflects You.
Thank You for Clint, and for providing him with the Spiritual growth that we need to not only make this marriage last, but to make us both madly in love with each other every day.
Thank You for parents that taught me how to love despite frustrations, and for siblings to practice it on =).
Lord please help Clint and I to know what doors are opened by You, more than anything we want to do Your will. Help us not to get caught up in the things of this world, but to always be concerned with the things of eternity.
Remind us both daily that people are what matter, not our jobs, or our classes, or what neighborhood we live in. People are what we need to be ultimately concerned about!
I know that You always provide a way for the things of Your will, but I ask Lord that You would help me to seek out that way and follow it for next semester. Knowing what You want me to do and doing it are very different. Help me to DO.
Gal. 1:10
"...if I were still trying to please people I would not be a servant of Christ"