Megan's prayer: Steve Angrisano's "Sweet Redeemer"

I'm not very good at living out the phrase "Offer it up". I tend to complain, wanting others to feel sorry for me. It's not really an attractive quality - I would like it to be differ, I am trying for that to be different.

Tonight I could sit here, praying, and complain to God about my day, a day that didn't really turn out great. Instead, I'm going to do what the lyrics say.

I surrender all I am to you.

All of my stress, all of my bad day, all of the things that are preoccupying my mind right now - I surrender them all to my God.

I pray that tomorrow I can continue to surrender it all to God. I also pray that I'll be able to surrender all the good along with surrendering the bad.

Jen's prayer: Steve Angrisano's "Sweed Redeemer"

The word that stuck out to me in this song was "ALL."

I surrender all I am to you

How often do I give Jesus parts of my life and not ALL of them? Jesus, you can have my job and my family, but I'd like to choose which friends I have and the fun stuff. Don't get into that area, okay? But Jesus gave ALL of him for me, so why wouldn't I give up all to Him?

It's so simple to say. So hard to live.

Katie's prayer: Steve Angrisano's "Sweet Redeemer"

I had my first official interview for a Youth Minister position last night. As I was lying in bed, all I could think about were the places I messed up. The times when I should have said something different, where I could have added more, where I didn't show my personality or knowledge as much as I should have. I kept replaying the interview in my mind, but with all these changes I feel I should have made. After a while of all this thinking and role playing, I realized it was all pointless. It doesn't matter that I might dream it went another way. It doesn't matter what I would change now. The past is the past and there is nothing about that interview I can change. Nothing I can do to make them like me any more or any less. Nothing more I can do to have a better chance of getting that job. I guess there's nothing more left to do then, but surrender it all to Jesus. Leave all my worries, fears, and hopes in His hands.

Sweet Redeemer, I surrender all I am to you.