Prayer Requests - October

Since I'm starting out and the month of October is nearly over I thought that I would just do a few prayer requests. I hope to break these down more often than just a month, however here's where we are going to start.

Prayer Requests:
UCSC Football team - Positive attitudes and displaying a Christ like personality while playing
Sister - Tooth, recovering from shoulder surgery, being off of work
Matt's father - recovering from foot surgery and being off of work
Sunday School Young Pro class - grow closer together and closer to God through our studies
Tommy (friend of a friend) - dealing with mental illness
Unknown (friend of a friend) - dying of kidney failure
Grandmother #1 - recovering from fall on knee, mental healing, physical healing, that she might be able go home by herself.
Grandmother #2 - mental healing, physical healing
Campus ministry where we came from - that they might grow, and others might realize their importance in God's kingdom
My Aunt & my entire family - grieving the passing of my uncle.
Myself - patience, understanding, & growth; less stress at work; things to slow down in my life
Abby's dad - health issues
Cousin - pregnancy difficulties
Tiffany, Lee, Mindy, Mandy, Janeen - pregnant
Wife - headaches and tiredness; stress of first semester after PhD
Trey - health issues with being able to speak

Prayer Praises:
College Student we know #1 - feeling better from episodes that were very concerning.
College Student we know #2 - successful surgery


I think that it for now. I hope over time that the second list grows longer than the first, however for now it's not that way.

What is this blog?

Hello everyone. Well I have officially bit the bullet. Even though I'm a tech guy and been in the industry for over 10 years I have put off blogging thinking that I didn't have anything to talk about. Well lately I feel like God's been putting something on my heart to do and I kept denying that I should do it. But lately it's been on my mind a lot so I figured why not!

This blog is the first in a series of blogs that I hope to do. However this blog I feel is probably the most important. I don't promise to update it often, however I promise to try.

So what is this blog about?

This blog is an attempt to help each other remember prayer requests that we have, specifically I have. The prayer requests will probably be very vague in nature to try to protect people privacy. If you find a prayer request that is about you and you would prefer it not be on here, feel free to let me know and I'll be glad to remove it. If you have a prayer request and you would like for me to include it, let me know and I'll try to put it up. No promises on that though. This blog is also an attempt to help myself have a better prayer life. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (NIV) says..."Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." So that's what I'm trying to do. Pray continually, and rejoice in everything.

Not all of the prayer requests are going to be negative in nature. Thanksgiving prayer requests will appear (and hopefully often).

So that's what I'm trying to do. Hope you enjoy it and I hope that this blog leads you also to a stronger prayer life.