prayer.

Please pray for me for endurance, to push through obstacles that are holding me back.I don't want to return to the same place I was at before. God has been so good to me lately, but I can definitely hear satan calling me back into old ways. Right now it's stronger than ever.

Its kind of discouraging, because I know I was getting on the right track and doing what needed to be done, stepping up in new ways, and taking challenging opportunities; but now I think maybe it's that I've poured so much of myself into other people that I've lost focus on how important it really is to change things in my own life. I love helping people and especially doing the little things that mean something to others, but maybe I just had the wrong mindset. I was probably doing it just to keep myself busy and distract myself so I wouldn't need to confront the issues at hand in my personal life. I guess I'm just asking for prayer for endurance, and focus, so that I might be able to bring things back to God, lay it all at his feet, and get rooted in him, so that someday i can become a "mighty oak, a planting of the Lord, for the display of his spendor" (Isaiah 61:3).

I would also appreciate prayer for God to provide a strong friend. I've had so many friends placed in my heart recently, but either they have no passion to live for Christ, or they are just too busy. I miss having a best friend who was always by my side. It would be such an encouragement during this period.

God knows whats best, and I am in no way trying to complain, because I know my life is so blessed. God's provided for me, and I know he will fulfill my thirst to better know and seek him out in my life. But for the couple people that read this, those are just a few things that I'd really appreciate prayer for. thanks.