Day 2

So the first day we were given a list of biblical challenges that we could choose to take up this summer.

Tonight we chose. You could choose how many you wanted, depending on where you were at and what areas you wanted to be challenged in, etc.

I decided to take up the challenges to do a reading plan that covers the heroes of the bible, which I guess will be about 7 chapters today. Also, to memorize the book of Philippians, which sounded like a lot of work but something kept drawing me to check this challenge. Then, I want to pray for 1-3 co-workers and their salvation. I really hope that by praying for these co-workers consistently that God will work through me to reach them and that He will give me the opportunity to share the gospel with them. Finally, to keep a prayer journal. This isn’t really a challenge…I already do it…but not every time I pray and I don’t have a separate journal for my prayers, so I feel like it will be interesting to commit to praying this way for the next 10 weeks and see how God uses this to help focus my prayers. Also, it will be so cool to look back after this summer and see how God moved and answered my prayers.

There were a few others that I didn’t check just because I felt that it would be better now to not overwhelm myself. I don’t know how demanding my job will be, and I don’t know where God will be taking me, so if I decide later on that I can handle a little more, there were a few like praying for an hour each day, taking prayer walks, memorizing one to five verses a week, and LT-wide prayer Monday and Thursday mornings that I can do. For now, I’m looking forward to how God will challenge me through the things I chose tonight.

Yesterday I heard the jets! It’s not Virginia Beach without a little jet noise!!!