This week, my church youth group will once again be embarking on our trip to Student Life at Cedarville University. This is our second year going with a great group of students and I'm excited to see what's in store for us while we are there. But I wanted to ask that you be in prayer with and for as we are there this week.
1. Pray for the Students
I ask that you pray for them and how God may work through them. Pray that they come to a deeper understanding of Christ because of the time they have here. That they don't waste the opportunity given and they truly grow in the Word. That as they learn and grow in this environment and have to return as always at the end of the week to reality, that they may come down from this spiritual high still rooted in the Word and grounded in the foundations laid this past week. That they will hold each other accountable and bring encouragement to each other as they grow closer. That as a group they may examine how they can seek to serve the Lord and bring him glory. Ultimately, that they continue to pursue Jesus with everything in their lives for his glory, honor, and praise.
2. Pray for the Leaders
This is the third time my mom and I able to break away and serve in this manner. I look forward to these times and am excited for the ways her and my dad poured into me during the time I was under their ministry and now I have the chance to serve alongside of them in their ministry and it is an extreme blessing. But I ask that you pray that God may humble us before him and use us as his instruments this week. That we may have patience and grace with the students. That we would be willing to serve them in whatever ways that they may come to know him more. That as we teach, we will do boldly, not straying from his Word, and not of ourselves but him speaking through us. Pray that our influence on these students will point them to Christ and he may be glorified by us throughout this week.
3. Pray for the Speaker
I ask that you be in prayer for the speaker and our time with him throughout the week. That he may be humbled before God to use him and speak through him and that our hearts may be open to what he is saying through God's Word.
4. Pray for the Staff
The Student Life camps are held all around the country throughout the summer and these groups of staff travel all over week by week. I ask that you pray for them, that God would give them strength in continuing on because I know it must be tiresome. That they may exemplify Christ by their actions and words throughout the week, pouring into these students lives to point them to Christ even though they are only with them for a short time.
Above all else, pray that God may be glorified in every aspect of this week. That we realize though the games and time to hang out are great, but the true reason to gather is to learn and worship the one who deserves all praise and glory for the grace he has poured into our lives.
"Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen." (Ephesians 3:20-21 ESV)
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