Marie's Prayer: Big Daddy Weave's "What I was Made For"

Good-bye to my old life
I don’t listen to those lies anymore

Sometimes I think that my whole past was a lie. This year I'm focused on the truth and getting rid of everything that made me a worse person than I should be. So I'm saying good-bye to my old life and focusing on the new and improved me. So I ask God to help me this better person. No more lies, I won't listen to them.

Megan's prayer: Big Daddy Weave's "What I Was Made For"

Confidence is still something I struggle with in my life. Even though my grades in school are great, I still can’t see that it is a reflection on my hard work I put into the classes. I see it as an accident, or a mistake, or that I just got lucky. I’m not sure why, but I am constantly struggling with whether or not I’m good enough.

I’m working on that confidence. I’m working on believing in myself. And when I’m going through those times where I can’t seem to see the good, I’m working on believing those who are still able to see it in me.

I’m hoping someday this song will be true…

I used to think that I was never good enough to cut it.
It took a while for me to see but I finally saw it.

Chris' prayer: Big Daddy Weave's "What I Was Made For"

Whenever possible, I like to interrupt my work day with prayanewsong. Usually shortly after lunch, I'll close anything I'm working on, stop checking the email incessantly, and just try to get 20-30 minutes of good praying/listening in.

Today, that is just not possible. The second I logged in to Blogger to do my praying, the office got busy. I was emailed, IMed, and a coworker walked into the office and is talking with my other peers. I thought about just stopping and waiting until I could find peace later in the day...and I still might.

But this reminds me of a question I was asked last night by one of the teens in my youth group. S/he asked, "How do you know when it is God that is talking to you?" Because of all the stuff flying around the office right now, there is a very small signal to noise ratio. What God is trying to tell me is mixed in with the conversation going on behind me, the ding of the instant messenger, and the woosh of the email client. What He's saying through this song is very hard to hear at this point.

Like I told the teen last night, the answer is patience. A lack of hearing requires even more listening. And its importance is not lost on me. The dialog with God, the back-and-forth relationship with Him, the Love shared between me and Him is what I was made for.

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Erinnicole's Prayer: Big Daddy Weave's "What I Was Made For"

I am really big on Purpose, the concept. I like being needed, and i enjoy specific tasks assigned to me. So as far as God's Plan for me, i pray a lot about what it is. So far, God hasn't seen fit to show it to me yet, and i'm okay with that. i will wait as long as i am supposed to. but until then, i understand the most simple of all fates i am to be doing loving Him. It reminds me of the acronym JOY, of the order to love. when you love Jesus, you can love Others, when you love Jesus and Others, you can love Yourself.

Loving You is what i was made for