please pray...

tonight, another wednesday night at youth group has come and gone. without going into the details, my heart is once again heavy (which has seem to become a weekly occurence for wed. nights). i need to still prepare my lessons for school tomorrow, but i do want to ask for your prayer...for the jr/sr high youth at first baptist...for a mtg. tomorrow at 5, with the "leaders" of the group and the new pastor concerning the direction the group needs to take...for those kids who seem to many to be impossible to reach or contain...i know that this is not much to go on for most of you, but i would so dearly appreciate your prayers.

God alone can work this situation for good, and He will...for He works all things together for good. He is perfectly good and holy in these struggles...i pray that i may remember that and live that, pushing aside my selfishness and pride. i'm currently looking back at a passage in I peter 5, that a dear friend showed me right before i headed out to malaysia two summers ago. i need to daily be following the instruction of vs. 5-11 so much more closely--submitting, clothed with humility; humbling myself under the might hand of God; soberly watching out for and resisting the temptations of the devil; remembering God's perfect plan and His amazing grace; and praying that in all things He will be glorfied.