What Are You Storing Up?
June 19th, 2009
I described in my previous entry what it meant to store up prayers. This got me thinking, what prayers should I be storing up? Here’s my incomplete list of what I thought of so far broken up into categories.
- Work:
- Motivation to work diligently when I don’t want to
- To be able to do the right thing even when it might cost me a favor, promotion, or my job
- To be prepared with words to share about God and Jesus with my coworkers
- Wisdom in how to motivate my coworkers to do their best jobs
- Wisdom in how to manage my job and family life when time becomes scarce.
- The ability to let go of the job if God is calling me elsewhere
- That I would faithfully serve God until the day I die
- A continually growth of my ministry skills and heart so that I might always be useful for the kingdom
- Marriage:
- That I would always put Christ first
- That my wife would not become my idol and that I would not become hers
- Faithfulness when I’m tempted to cheat on her (One of my biggest fears)
- Patience when communicating as I’m not the best communicator
- A servant heart that will serve even after a long rough day of work
- Endurance to persevere in love if she enters into a prolonged sickness
- That I would love her even when she isn’t giving me what I want
- Family:
- Patience with my children when they’re driving me nuts.
- Wisdom in how to teach and discipline my children
- Character that I would want my children to follow
- Integrity in all my speech. That I would not make false promises.
- Christ-likeness to serve and die for my family as Christ served and died for us
- Wisdom in balancing work, family, and church
- To not make my children my idol but offer them up to God
- My children’s salvation
- My children’s future: education, occupation, marriage, family
- Hope and vision not to abort my baby or despair if s/he is diagnosis with Down Syndrome or some other disease or handicap
- Wisdom to manage my finances so my children don’t grow up spoiled or deprived
The list is already long and there’s much more I can add with a little thought. It’ll give me something to pray for during those long Wed Prayer Meetings.