Prayer List

Dear God,
Father in heaven you are mighty. You are holy and perfect and above all there is has been and ever will be. You are the first and the last, the alpha and the omega and you are love. Thank you Lord, for your ear or mind whether your reading this or listening to my thoughts. I'm so sorry for not living up to this prayer list that I've had for over a week. Its kind of crazy I take all the time to write it out but don't even use it. So thanks for the opportunity to use it right now I pray that you'll bless everything on it the way that you want.
Lord I pray first for Taylor, that he'll get that one guy in a bible study. Please give him the strength, faith, boldness and confidence he needs to accomplish his goal and find the man that you have set up for him to be with. I pray that he will be bold and courageous as they do bible studies and that you'll use Taylor as an instrument to truly get to that man's heart mind and soul.
I pray that Reachard can be a man of consistancy. Please give him the strength to be consistantly open with me and the rest of the brothers, that he'll talk to me as much as he needs to and really put it all out there on the line. I pray that you'll control his eyes and help him to not look all over the place at the many beautiful women that walk around our campus everyday but that instead he can be self controlled and alert, always focused on you. Thanks for giving him a pure heart I pray that all his intentions with Rachelle will be of the utmost purity and love. Please bless his efforts and give him the humility to know when it is or is not time to start dating her on the sixteenth.
Lord I want to pray for Alex Wertz as well, please give him confidence and peace when it comes to school. He has been such a hard worker and I know your using him in a great way. I just pray that he'll have the best possible balance of school, work and the ministry. Help him to never stop pursuing perfection with all his heart. I pray that all his quiet times and prayer times will be efficient, effective, and inspiring. Thanks for his partnership in the gospel and his strength to overcome the challenges that are on a campus by yourself. I love him so much help him to feel my love and please fill him up with a great joy!
Thank you so much for Nacho's wildness and sporadic heart. I pray you'll continually use him and help him to grow into a mighty man who is so intimately connected to you that it is amazing. I love his perseverance and I pray you'll take care of all the challenges that have recently been brought to the Parra family. Help him his brothers and sister and everyone in the family to get through this terrible time of sadness and somehow turn out stronger on the other side. I love him so much please fill him with a consistancy and an unswerving joy that is not dependant on emotion.
Lord I pray that Jack can continually work on his discipline and perseverance when it comes to being a mighty man in the paid ministry. I know he is doing a great job, help him to really feel it and believe that he is. Help him see the ginormous impact he's having on every teen's life right now and the ways that he can grow as well. I pray you'll give him the strength to accomplish his goal to meet have every teen in a bible study or a discipling time this week.
Please give Pete the continued perseverance and growth to also be a solid paid intern ministering to the needs of every campus student. He's been doing a great job as you can see. Help him to be consistant with it and really continue to develop the skills and talents that you've given him. I pray he'll continue to grow and be even more disciplined than I have ever been. Give him total victory over sin and a radical indignance towards other people's sin. Help him to lead the campus with much boldness and faith.
Thanks also for the amazing Nic Hermasillo. I pray you'll continue to work through him at Mesa college and Grossmont. He's been growing so rapidly and I'm so proud of him, thanks for giving him victories and an awesome girlfriend as well. I pray Olivia will not distract him from the real task at hand and that he'll be much stronger and persistant with leading the bible talks he leads. Help him especially to get with Lamar and continue to assess where he's at, where he needs to be, and what he needs to do in order to get there. Help him to figure out the best spot he can be in for the future house(s) and really have the humility it will take to make any house work.
Thank you SO much for the hilarious and fruitful Kirk. I love his personality, his humor, his strength, and example. I pray you'll continue to build his discipline and diligence. Please give him wisdom and strength to fully take care and address the deep sin of Moses and Adam. He's been such a great example for both of those men and I know your using him in a great way. Thanks for his love his support and all the talents you've given him. I pray everything can go well with his future in florida and that he can really bring a bold element of love and faith to every place he goes. Please protect him when he goes up to OC with Adam to address the gang. That is such a bold expression of love, please don't let him get hurt beyond repair.
I also want to pray for my amazing roomate Kevin. He's such a hard working man full of character. I know his goal is to finish Isaiah and I pray he'll really get through it accomplish it and learn something powerful from it. He's a great brother and always giving. I pray you'll continue to increase his strengths and turn his weaknesses into strengths. I pray especially for his purity and the purity of all of us really that you'll give us radical victories over the lust, pornography and masturbation we so deceitfully get pulled into far too often.
And my last roommate Sam is my personal favorite. He sleeps next to me and is such a talented man. Please Lord fill him up with an immense amount of discipline especially this final week of finals. I know he has to get a lot of A's and I pray you will bless him to accomplish the grades he needs to get in order to be an intern this Summer. I know he's been struggling with a lot of impurity lately and I pray you'll once and for all give him the strength, the desire, the drive, the boldness to throw it off, to get it out of his system, to crucify his old self and become a slave to righteousness instead. I know he works hard and tries hard but I pray you'll give him the extra ounce of discipline he so desperately needs right now.
In addition I want to pray especially for DAVID at UCSD! I'm so grateful we got a Taiwanese brother studying the bible. Its so cool seeing his eagerness to hear the gospel and really study the word out. I love his presence at the bible talks each week and I pray he'll come tomorrow and bring my bible and be excited to receive his own. I know he's a busy man but I pray that he'll never let himself get too busy for you Lord. Give him a solid foundation, please be the foundataion he builds his entire life upon. I pray Alex and I will be great ambassadors helping him understand your teaching. So give him the strength to read his bible every day and seek you with all his heart.
Lord i also want to pray for Chris Hernandez. I know he's got a lot of big trust issues but I pray that you'll give him the faith to let you take control of his life.

In addition I pray right now for my discipler Daniel, this amazing example and brother and disciple for the entire campus ministry. I know you've given him some great talents, help him to never stop using them to bring you glory. I pray you'll really be with his future job that he may get. Please give him wisdom on which job to accept and which job to reject. I know that you've allowed him to develop some radical skills and i pray that he really uses them to bring you glory above all. Please hook him up with an epic job so he can pay off debt, take care of the family, and really show an immense amount of love to those around him. I pray that especially with this last week of school he'll be a man of deep focus, staying on the path and really protecting his time. Help him to be extremely open with you and also with me. I pray that everything that was kind of under his radar on monday will really be revealed and taken care of before its due so he doesn't "forget" or procrastinate but that he can finish super strong and learn a grip.Overall i pray he'll work harder than he plays and that he too will stick to his prayer list.

Father God I want to pray especially for the future of an amazing woman disciple and girlfriend Lisa Hinton. She has so many talents and forms of beauty I'm so proud of her growth and excellence in life. Please give her an extra dose of understanding when it comes to the future. Right now shes in a crazy transition point of life and I know that she has the ability to be great at whatever she does. I pray that she will see it and that she'll make the right choice which will fill her with the most amount of joy purpose and accomplishment. I know she has dreams of going in the full time ministry and especially planting a church possibly in San Clemente. I know she could do a great job at that and really make amazing progress when it comes to trusting in you above all else. Lord if it is in your plan, if it would be productive and fruitful I pray that I can be one of the men that plants a church in San Clemente. I think it would be a great experience and an amazing time in which we could build our relationship and devotion to you through serving such a city as San Clemente. Obviously there is currently not a church that we know of there and I know that you have people that live there that are seeking you and want to hear your message. Please give us a boldness, confidence, and faith to see that and pursue that. Even if I'm not included in that plan I pray that Lisa can do a great job getting out of her comfort zone and not worrying about what other people think about her and her dreams. Lord I love you like crazy and I'm so extremely eternally grateful for all that you are doing right now. THanks again for being my God and blessing me in so many great ways. I love you with all my heart, mind, soul, and strength.
please finally be with our household tonight as we pray for understanding and wisdom in what to do for the future of this house. I love you so much and pray we can really be on the same page with everyone being happy. Your awesome God. Much love,
Curtis

library prayer

Almighty Father,
As you know this library can be a monstrosity of distractions and contractions from truth and academics. I'm sorry for letting the girls and surfline and espn and youtube and laziness get in the way of my duties. The things you've entrusted me to, I push away because i'm having "a bad day" or I don't FEEL like working hard today, the excuses are endless but it always comes down to the same mess, I don't know why but there's just no motivation to excel at the moment. I know you want me to shine and glorify you with my life and I know that if I don't work hard I will never grow, learn, or return fruitful with the talents you've given me. But at the same time if I try to build this house of knowledge and so-called academic "success" without you behind it, its meaningless. And if you are not the builder of my house than my house is fruitless. I know that my laziness has brought you distress and I'm sorry for not always doing my best. Please Lord give me the strength energy drive and capacity to truly drive out demons and fight through all the most challenging seasons. Use me today to grow and prove productive in purity. Thanks for dying for me and rising for me and help me to allow your power to motivate me. I love you G.

Tsunamis, Perseverance, Wisdom and Love

Two days ago an 8.9 Earthquake smashed off the coast of Japan causing a tsunami to wreack havoc on the coastal areas of Japan. Fortunately, they have some of the most solid construction in this area, and more than 1000 are dead. This could be MUCH worse, but that is still 1000 people who no longer have any chance to follow God. Though it is possible that everyone of them was a solid disciple and currently with God in heaven, for some reason I have little faith of that. It scares me. It challenges me. It inspires me. Life truly is delicate. At any point now I could be picked off by Satan, and die, and fail, and never be with God. But what am I doing to prevent that? What am I doing to not let that happen to myself, my friends, and my family? Truth is, not a whole lot. The end times are near (matt 24) and yet all day yesterday I was selfish with my time and just stayed home on my butt, paying no attention to the battle. I failed. Because even if I didn't watch porn or fight with my family, I didn't do the good I knew I should've. For that, I am sorry Lord. I've been so self-centered and focused on the future and how great its going to be to start dating that I forgot about the present, and the bible studies I need to have and the things I need to do in order to take as many people with me to heaven.
And as a result of the laziness of me and the lack of love from me and whoever, one of my dear brothers has left in seemingly the most woosy possible way--with a text:

"Daniel I love you. I courteously resign from the Christian religion. I don't believe my family is going to hell because they aren't baptized the right way. I don't believe in Satan. I don't have my sexuality anymore but I am still staying away from sexual immorality. I still believe in truth. Please don't pray for me. Also, no offense, but I don't want to 'talk about it' with you or anyone. Please don't feel sad about it."

This is not something I will dwell on. this is not something I will have a worldly sorrow about. THis is a disgusting display of what Satan can do to the most holy of men. This is how bliinded he can make us, even to the point that we deny his very existence. I love Jon Rattan and I will always love Jon Rattan, but Satan has a hold on him right now, and if I could save him I would, but I don't think I can and I don't think he wants to be saved, and therefore I will do my best to not let this happen again. I pray that I can be a great discipler, really getting in there with the men I've been entrusted to. And I pray that I myself will NEVER be blinded by Satan's deceit. Lord I'm sorry for even thinking about the possibility of leaving you.

For the message of the cross is foolisheness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."
...For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength...
1 Corinthians 1:18, 25

Thank you so much for the cross Lord. It is amazing and my wisdom and man's wisdom will never be able to come even near the wisdom you can and do present.

But through all the murck, all the terrible things that are happening in SD and the world. THere are some amazing things. Gordie Nash is slowly becoming a disciple. I love this man and I'm so proud of his progress. Though he has a huge challenge with the fact that his mom had a terrible experience with the church, I pray that he will not let that mess him up and understand rather that you are much bigger than his mom, and what you say must go! In addition, there is an amazing sister in Orange County and it looks like in the next few weeks I'm going to start dating her! I really don't deserve her to be my "exclusive" sister and GOOD friend (at this point) but I am so grateful for the miracles God performs such as this. I love her like crazy and I'm so stoked for the second! (Habakkuk 3:18-20)

life to the full

God is amazing. The stress is over, 4 midterms are down. It's Saturday morning and nice and stormy. The God is great, and has given me a life to the full. Coming out of the difficult weeks is awesome because we turn out that much stronger. White is so much whiter and more vibrant on black because of the stark contrast. Same with life. Last week was disgusting and today is beautiful, therefore today is so much more epic! Tomorrow we're going to have an awesome church service on campus because God is behind it, He is fueling it. Yesterday Sam, Jack, Joe, Azzie and I went over by the dorms and invited a grip of people to our church service. It was so awesome! we were all on fire! I'm super grateful for the time we got to have and they each inspired me in different ways. Then I got to go to my brother's basketball game, saw him make 4 points for the team! and though they lost it was still cool to be there cheering him on :). My brother is currently sleeping (or trying to sleep) on the couch at my house because in 2 hours we will be at SDSU getting ready to cheer the Aztecs to a mighty victory against BYU! It's going to be such an epic game, students waited in line since 6AM Wednesday morning! And my dad got there at 4AM monday to get us 2 awesome tickets :). It's going to be so fun I'm totally looking forward to it. I've also been thinking a grip (possibly too much) about Lisa. She loved the poem I sent her for valentines day, and I really admire her. They are starting a series on prayer and have such an awesome goal for this semester to reach out to 20 people every day this next week :).
Right now I'm reading Galatians 1 in my year bible and it's so gnarly the language Paul uses when addressing the fact that there's only ONE good news, only ONE gospel, only ONE and all others are false with such strong language in the NIV:

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called youy by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel--which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!
Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
(Galatians 1:6-10)

I love Paul's strictness here, he's so stern, and has no care about what other people think about him! Even today I live life trying to please men, and I no longer want to do that, I need to get more radical, i need to be a true servant of Christ, I need to strive to win the approval of GOD, NOT MEN!

Father in heaven,
You are SO great. I admire you beyond belief. You are majestic, perfect, and praiseworthy.
I love the way you do what you do all the time you are such a mighty Lord and savior. Please help me to step my own game up and strive for perfection everyday. Lord you fill me with a deep joy that is unlike any joy possible without you. You fill me with faith, showing yourself to me throughout the day, thank you for whispering to me, thank you for leading me to where I need to be. Lord I glorify you to the best of my ability because you are so grand and you have granted me a faith that can move mountains, I can bend bronze, I can change souls, your word pierces to the heart. Thanks for giving me such easy tools to work with like your word to change this dying world. You have saved me, helped me , challenged me, and I am strong and will continue to grow everyday because of you. Lord I love you, thanks for giving us victory already. Thanks for all the visitors that you're bringing to church tomorrow, thanks for all the people who will get up on stage and do an amazing job representing you. Lord thanks for life, thanks for love, thanks for everything you've done and are doing for us. I love you like crazy, you are the only God. I am so grateful for Lisa, please continue to bless her, you fill her with joy and security and peace. You are the one that makes our relationship possible, and refreshing everytime we communicate. You are the one that gives both of us confidence and joy everyday. I love you lord you are mighty.

COMMUNICATE (wild at heart)

Satan's greatest tool is to cut off all communications. Communication with God, with Lisa, with the household, with our discipler. WE HAVE TO COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY!!!!!

Satan can put any number of spins on our lack of communication. He'll make us think we lost all faith, lost all love, whatever he wants he can do to us if we cannot communicate.

SO LONG AS A MAN REMAINS NO REAL THREAT TO THE ENEMY, SATAN'S LINE TO HIM IS YOU'RE FINE. BUT AFTER YOU DO TAKE SIDES, IT BECOMES "YOUR HEART IS BAD AND YOU KNOW IT."

Cutter's Point RK

I'm chillen inside of Russ' favorite coffee shop. This morning I messed up, had a shady dream and God knows the rest. I hate it. I thought I was over it. THe moment we let our guard down, the times we think were doing well are the very times we need to check ourselves most. I feel like an utter failure, a ridiculous mess. I know I messed up and I know that it was a lazy preposterous pretension. I don't even know what pretension means but it sounded cool! The standards are high, which is definitely good, as long as I struggle with all His energy, with all Your energy because Your energy works powerfully and mine is disgustingly. THanks for giving me the coolest friends and family and people in my life to help me understand and live and move and dream big dreams. Lord I know that right now WInter teen camp is starting. PLEASE be with all those kids and the leaders and everyone up there. First help them to be safe drivers and second help them to be fantastic listeners and participants to really understand and live and breathe the scriptures every day. I pray that hearts will be moved, that lives will be changed, that people will wake up and people will step up. Please guide Pete's thoughts as he gets to lead an awesome lesson, i pray that you'll just use him in an awesome way! Please work in all the D-Times, all the lessons, all the talks, all the new friendships that will be made, please allow everything to just go smoothly and beautifully.
Father please also help Nic's tests to go according to plan. I know he's kind of worried about it and I know I'd be scared out of my mind! plese Lord help him to understand that everything's going to be okay, give him boldness and confidence as he's pushing through the difficult times of life. I pray that you'll be with the doctors or interpreters of the CAT scan and allow them to really look at them with wisdom and know what the perfect remedy will be. Father we love you were so grateful for you and I pray that you'll really guide our entire household, please give Joe the strength to pick up his dog's poop, its really getting annoying and i pray you'll just help him step his game up.
Father please please please be with my relationship with Lisa. I love her so much God and if I don't then please help me understand and see what that means and how I should act upon it to make it better. Lord we love you and need you desperately and I pray that you'll just help me to be more humble to be more kind, more patient, more protective, more truthful, more hopeful, more persevering and more optomistic about everything. I love you i need you I so desperately long for a deeper relationship with you and I pray that you'll just help me to step up. Help me to be consistant with my life, to make up my mind and everyday trust and believe and know what I need to do in order to be the best i can be. I love you help me to express it. I believe in you but please help me in my unbelief.
Please be with my time I get to have this morning with Russ, help me to ask what I need to ask and say what I need to say and act the way I need to act in order to pick his brain and get his help. Lord I love you and everything you do. Please give me the strength to get through the tough times.
Sorry one last thing please be with Alex Wertz. I know he's kind of been super busy and out of it and I p;ray you'll help him to but you first in all that he does and really live accoding to your will. Please give him boldness, confidence, love, joy, perseverance. Please help something amazing to happen at UCSD I want to see your miracle! Lord I love you I need you, your awesome its in your name I pray AMEN!

Taylor's Love Scripture

1 Cor 3:3
Rev. 3:19
Heb 10:24
1 JOhn 4:18
Deut 30:6
Micah 6:8
1 John 3:16-20
John 15:9-10
Psalm 97:10
Prov 4:6
Gal 5:6
Jer 31:3
Rom. 13:10
Col 2:2
Matt. 5:43-48
John 15:13
Romans 12:9
Zeph 3:17
Deut 11:1
Prov. 10:12
1 Cor. 8:3
Ps 145:20
Eph 3:16-19