"So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you." Romans 12:1-2 (The Message)
Lyssa (left) and Friends, Bible Quizzing (2007)
Lord, I pray for the desire in Alyssa and Kyle's heart to fix their daily attention onto you. Oh how I hope that they don't become so well adjusted to the world that they fit into it without even thinking. Help them choose to be aliens and strangers of this world. Give Alyssa and Kyle a hunger and thirst for your Word, and for whatever it is that You, Lord, desire for their lives. Bring out the best in Alyssa and Kyle and help th em develop a deep maturity in you. I thank you, Lord, for hearing my prayer.
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