Please Pray

 Tonight is a night where I feel like I have a lot I would like to blog about.  This has been a crazy week for me and so many different things are going on in my life.  I would actually love to tell you about my fun weekend celebrating with my roommate Meggie. She is getting married in September and her sister flew up several of Meggie's friends. We had a great weekend in the city and in Connecticut, but I will do that another time and post pictures to go with it!   For now here are some pictures from last weekend at the Boat Basin. 

Amy, Catherine, Maggie, and I . (we are all in a fellowship group at Redeemer together)

Maggie,me and Neal.  (Neal is a friend from Redeemer)

This is out by the water.  You can somewhat see the lights of New Jersey in the background.  

We had a ton of fun enjoying the beautiful weather!  

Tonight at church TK rocked the house again when he gave an incredible sermon titled "Rejoicing in Tribulation."  He has been going through the book of Habakkuk and it has been so good.  Tonight I felt like I could have been the only one in the room.  I really needed to hear the words that he spoke tonight.  one point he made hit me hard.  He talked about when hard things are going on circumstantially around us we have to REMEMBER who HE is.  It is easy to remember who HE is when life is great, but when the storms come we often get sucked in to our circumstances.  We often forget to connect the storm to our faithful God.  He talked about that instead of getting consumed with the circumstances around us, we need to instead go back and look at who God is.  He is the God of Abraham, Moses, Elijah, Hanna, and and many other biblical heroes.  He is FAITHFUL.  He always has been and always will be.  I needed to hear that.  Right now I have so much going on in my life circumstantially.   It is so easy for me to wake up in the middle of the night and think "oh my goodness."  What I have to remind myself is that God has never forsaken those who trust in him.  I have peace in that.  God will take care of me.  I am learning once again that I can't put my hope in my circumstances because those things are going to continue to change.  Life is full of change.  The one thing for certain I know will not change is God.  He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.  I want to have the faith of Elijah.  I want to have faith that says, nothing is to hard for God.  With all that being said, I would love to ask you to PRAY FOR ME.   I am going on vacation with my family in 10 days(June 17) and I am praying that the Lord would answer some very specific requests by then.  I do not really want to go in detail, but please pray that the Lord would work mightly.  I know that God's timing is not my timing.  He may choose to not reveal his answers so soon, but He also says to pray specifically and to give him our needs and our desires.  Please pray that I would trust our faithful God!  I remember in high school when people would ask for prayer in my bible class and they would just say "unspoken request."  I use to not like that at all, but for now on this blog I will just keep my request to "unspoken". :-)  Thanks for praying!  

And now to leave you with  This Article

It is an article  from Christianity Today on Tim Keller and Redeemer. It is very interesting!