Megan's prayer: Jeremy Camp's "Take My Life"

During my Senior year in high school, I was one of the co-founders of a new class – Prayer Class. A few of my friends and I made a deal with one of the teachers that if we got enough students to sign up for the class, that he would teach the class. Within a few days, we had a full class.

In the first class, we talked about just how scary prayer can be. Growing up, we all ask God for things, and sometimes remember to thank him for the blessing in our lives, but this class, prayer class, was going to be a new type of prayer. We were going to be challenged to give ourselves over to God. To allow him inside of us, and let him work through us. We were told that this type of prayer could be scary because it led us to the unknown, but in the end it would be very rewarding.

It was scary, but slowly, and through the support of the others in my class, we all found ourselves beginning to let God take a more active role in our lives, to allow him to be in control. It was an absolutely amazing semester of prayer.

Somehow over the past three years, I have lost that feeling. I find myself trying to keep control of my life instead of giving it over to God. Today’s song reminded me of that wonderful semester, that time when I was able to give all of myself.

Take my life, take my mind
Take my soul, take my will
Cause I am yours now, I give it all to you

Erinnicole's Prayer: Jeremy Camp's "Take My Life"

like a child reaching out

we talked today in my theology class about being worthy basically. we discussed the different kinds of love and Agape was one of them. Agape is the unconditional love of God. my teacher was telling us about one of our many "human conditions" and how one of them is that we naturally put other things before God, and that we don't stop and think "what would God think of this right now?" well first of all, i really like my teacher, and typically i agree with everything he says, but i didn't agree with this. i mean, i do stop and think or at least make an effort to. but i understood what he meant after he explained that when we feel this way it is Sin as an attitude. so then it made more sense and i don't think he meant applied to everyone. anyway, he continued to say that God loves us despite what we are, especially when we sin. he told us that because of our natural inclination toward Sin, it is often hard to love God above everything else all the time but how unconditional love works is that we don't have to. It was said that the Agape love is just us having to accept the peace and love God gives us and of course we should love Him back, but our primary thing is that the Love God gives us is a gift and we are just supposed to accept it. it is not earned, it is given. all we simply have to do to receive it, is reach out our hands like a child. i thought that was a nice thought. that something so valuable and yet so priceless and such a "Hot Commodity" (who doesn't want unconditional love?) is so easily accessible to me just for being me...virtually nothing more than a weak and unworthy human just struggling to love God. God is so generous and good!!

Marie's Prayer: Jeremy Camp's "Take My Life"

like a child reaching out

I'm reaching out to God, I want Him to take my hand and tell me what to do next. Like a child I am anxiously awaiting answers to my questions. Why? I ask, that one word insistent, and annoying. Why did I let myself get swept away in lies? Why did my car decide not to start today after school? I always ask, yet I know it must have happened for a reason. So I reach out to God like a child, expectant to learn these vast many things that have puzzled me so. Hoping that He'll answer me. So I wait.

Chris' prayer: Jeremy Camp's "Take My Life"

Here I am I'm giving all I can … I feel I'm through

One of my favorite Christian songs is Big Daddy Weave's "Being in Love with You." In the song, Mike Weaver sings essentially about being bogged down with doing all of God's work, but not being able to feel God's Love. That sentiment is echoed in the first verse of Camp's song from today.

Right now, in my ministry, I feel a little bogged down. I feel like I'm doing everything that is being asked of me, everything that I'm being called to and more, but I'm finding it hard to feel God's joy right now. It feels like I'm being pulled in a hundred different directions, and yet without any direction at all. In short, I feel I'm through.

I'm hoping this feeling passes. I'm hoping that I'm able to find joy in what I'm doing soon. That is my prayer for today, that I might be able to give all I can, and (perhaps selfishly) feel something in return.


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