Megan's prayer: Kutless "I Lift Up My Eyes"

Lately, I've been having a very hard time coming up with original thoughts and words during prayer. My mind goes blank. Lucky for me, my daily prayer is centered around prayanewsong's daily song. Even Masses and adorations are filled with either reading or singing. I'm able to talk to God through these words found in the music.

Tonight at adoration, I was having a hard time finding a song that I could use as my prayer. I couldn't sing "Overwhelm Me," which is one of my favorites, because that was not the prayer in my heart. I don't know if I can handle being even more overwhelmed right now. The song that did stick with me was "Hold My Hand." What a beautiful, perfect prayer for my life right now.

Tonight's prayanewsong song was able to give me a similar feeling.

Oh how I need you Lord
You are my only hope
You're my only prayer

Chris' prayer: Kutless' "I Lift My Eyes Up"

Tonight, I went to Exalt!, my church's praise and worship/Adoration/Holy Hour. For the testimony, my Youth Ministry Director was asked to give a talk on new life. It was fitting that he was giving the talk, seeing how he and his wife had given birth to their first child just three weeks prior.

To begin his talk, Bob read from the tenth chapter of John:

10 I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.

How perfect it was, then, to come home tonight and listen to today's song, where Jon Sumrall sings the same thing: to come and give me life. Sometimes I think, as Christians, we get caught up in Good Friday– Jesus coming to die for our sins, and, as strange as it sounds, overlook, or diminish Easter Sunday. Yes, the dying for our sins part is very important, but it is the rising that is crucial- He came that we might have life.


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Catie's prayer: Kutless' "I Lift My Eyes Up"

where does my help come from?

My help should come from God. I should constantly be turning to him with whatever I need and trust in him to take care of me. However this doesn't always happen. I rely on trying to fix the problem myself, trying to turn to other people, whatever, before going to God. However, if I would just go to God in the first place and let him guide me, the problem would be fixed how God wanted it to be instead of how I or someone else thinks it should be. And since we are suppose to be work to do God's will, this is something I should try to do day in and day out throughout my everyday life. The hits in life would be much easier to take if we just gave them up to God.

Katie's prayer: Kutless' "I lift my eyes up"

oh how I need you Lord

That statement could not be more true! I desperately need God, like all the time! (: But sometimes I forget that. My mind tricks me into thinking I don't need God, I can do it all by myself. And sometimes I will follow this way of thinking for a while. Then I realize how stupid that is, and turn back, only to trick myself again later. There's always a constant back and forth pull, always. The realization of this phrase is the one thing that always brings me back. If I could just constantly keep that in mind, I wouldn't have a problem.

Jen's prayer: Kutless' "I lift my eyes up"

So the first few lines from this song come directly from Psalm 121:1-2

¹ I lift up my eyes to the hills—
where does my help come from?

² My help comes from the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.

It makes sense, then, that in the following verses when Kutless sings about needing God's help, that of course you'd want it from the Maker of heaven and earth! Who better to help you than God! But after thinking about it, I realized how guilty I am of going to other people first before God. When I'm frustrated I should immediately pray to God, but sometimes I forget and call up a friend to vent and gossip. My prayer today is to remember that all my help should come from God. He is my only hope.