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When I was younger I started keeping a prayer journal, where I would write down my prayers instead of say them out loud. Writing them out makes me think more than just saying empty words, and I can go back and look how God has blessed me.  I really enjoy writing them and I thought I would post one of my prayers from a couple of weeks ago.  This is mainly a blog for me and helping me stay honest and spend time with God. 


God,

Help me.  I haven’t talked to you in a very long time and I guess I am coming to you because I need your help.  I need a job, one that will allow me to have weekend and nights off.  I know who you are so I know you are capable to grant me this task.  So I am praying to you with the faith that knows that you are greater than anything I can imagine and you are in control of all things.

Help me.  I don’t know what to expect with this new youth ministry.  I think that the community and school has big potential, but I just don’t know where to start.  Give me wisdom and give me knowledge of what I need to do.  I want big things and I can’t do that without you.  I pray that you will help me to reach those big things.  I really need you.

Help me.  I am a husband now, and I am not very well equipped.  Let me be a man that my wife can lean on and trust with everything that she’s got.  She is the most amazing woman I have ever met and I need to be able to be there for her.  Allow me to be the best husband I can be and give me the strength to try.  I never want to be the reason she has difficulties or heartache. 

Help them.  God I have so many friends and family that I am grateful for and I pray that they stay strong in their faith.  I pray that as many of them are starting new times in their lives that they will seek after you and become the men and women that you have called them to be.  I thank you for giving me these people, because I know that I would not be who I am today with out them.  

Help Bandera.  Help Bandera, TX to seek after you.  This town needs you and they are searching after you.  Give them the knowledge of your grace, mercy and power.  Dwell in their hearts and give them a hunger and thirst to run after you. 

Help my nation.  We were once a nation that was considered a Christian one.  I know that they are pockets around this nation where your gospel is thriving, but I also know that they are places where you are not being taught.  I pray that our nation awakens to the power and might of who you are.

Help the World.  I am so grateful for the people that are committing themselves to proclaiming the gospel in other countries full time.  I pray that they will have the strength to continuing on and will see the fruits of their labor.  Give them encouragement that what they are doing is not in vain.  Give me the desire to pray for these missionaries and nations where you are not being heard.  Allow me to have an opportunity to serve them in any way that I can.

Thank you.  I thank you for the wonderful things you have given me my entire life.  I am very lucky to have everything that I do.  Help me to see how lucky I am and to realize that it doesn’t matter without the gospel.  Help me to boast only in you and your gospel.  Thank you for you.
                                                                                                     
                                                                                                       Love,

                                                                                                Ryan Henson

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