Urgent Prayers Needed

Friends, Co-Workers Seek Clues in Search For Missing DC Christian Outreach Worker: MyFoxDC.com

Matt Hill who is on staff with Campus Outreach in Washington, DC has been missing since Tuesday at 11:30am. His car is missing, his cell phone is gone or dead and no one has seen him for almost 72 hours. There has been missing persons report filed but the family really needs prayers!! His brother Daniel Hill is one of my longtime college friends and I am hurting for his family and for Matt whatever might have happened. Please pray that they will find him.

Right now we are really just trusting the Lord, God is "El Roi" ("the God who sees") and we can trust that he knows exactly where Matt is and how this is a part of his will. Please pray and spread the word that prayers are urgently needed. Thanks!

We can already see how God is using this for his glory. Jesus is all over the news. The article above is just one of the many news stories on Matt.

"If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer." Matthew 21:22

a twisted heart

Sometimes things happen in which my heart feels so twisted. I become confused, frustrated, and unnerved by the Lord. To be unnerved=to deprive of courage, strength, determination, or confidence; to be upset. These are the feelings I have mostly when I want to take control of my life, want to do things my way.

It's hard not knowing what God has for me in life. It's hard not to know what the future holds because I would like to know. I think sometimes its even harder to hope that something might happen when you have no idea. Its like taking a risk in your heart. Hoping something might happen (something you think would be good for you, something you desire) when I really have to be able to say "but God I really do honestly want what you have/desire for me."

I can hope some things but I have to know some things as well. I have to know that no matter what I want, God is going to give me what is best. No matter what I want, God's will is better. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than yours ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:9.

So as I continue to figure out God's will for my life, what he may or may not have for me, I will claim Psalm 37:4 "Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desire of your heart." I want to delight myself in Him. I want to delight myself in learning more and more of the truth of the gospel and how my life is not my own (Gal 2:20). Im praying that my twisted and confused heart would become more rooted in the gospel that I would desire only the things the Lord would have for me. I'm praying that God will give me the desire of my heart or the heart of His desire. Im praying that what I want would line up with his will.

I don't have to feel unnerved because my strength, my confidence, my determination, and my courage come from the gospel. These things cannot be based on my circumstances, they must be based and rooted in the truth of the gospel. The gospel is truth and it is good. "Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you."