Ben Pettit

Lord I pray today that you would give me strength, bravery, courage, and greatest of all love and compassion. I pray that your will would be done in my life no matter what. I’m not sure of the costs that I will have to pay while on earth, but I know they will never be as big as the price you paid for me.

I am humbled by your mercy and your grace. I pray for the hurting, the broken and the loss. May they see us [christians] as beacons, lighthouses, bright places of hope. We wait and we hope in you Jesus. You are my refuge and my strength. You are beautiful.

May your beauty extend to us. Let us be a passionate people. Passionate about making your name famous in all the earth. I pray that we would desire things that our holy, pure, and true.

Thank you Lord for the wonderful people that you have put in my life. Thank you for the cross. Thank you for grace. Thank you for everlasting, eternal, sin-less love.

Amen

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
- Philippians 4:6

I’m up early today. I had a hard time sleeping last night for some reason. I woke up at about 2am feeling awful. I do feel rested but the only sad thing is everyone in my house is still sleeping. So I’ll have to probably hide away in the living room or with my iPod for the next couple hours.

Waiting to to hear back about one interview day and time. Pray for me if you would. Pray that I would let the Lord use me completely. I really want to be that grain of seed that dies to produce many seeds.

Lord how silly am I to think I can do anything good on my own. Calm me Lord. Speak through me. Let me be your instrument of love and compassion.

Not the ER waiting room. Life’s waiting room. You’ve been there. I’m there.  Sitting, waiting, wishing, hoping, dreaming, praying…

The most stressed I’ve ever been in my life is where I am right now. Nothing in my life is concrete [my relationship with Jesus is, yes I agree]. I have no reason to get organized, no reason to get excited [except eternal life, yes I agree]. I’m looking forward to what is coming in my life but, it’s stressful when you have absolutely no idea what, who, how, where it is.

God is it so bad for me to ask for some insight? For some grounding.

I’m an idealist, I see what could be, I’m not sure I even can see what is. Tonight is about the closest I have ever been to that. I see an un-organized problem and I solve it. So Lord I ask that this evening you send your holy spirit upon me and give me rest. You would reassure me that everything is going to be alright. That you "would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain" [1 Chronicles  4:10].

Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden.

Meglio una riprensione aperta che un amore nascosto.

Proverbs 27:5