This is an exciting week at First Glance!! Staff, volunteers, friends and family are taking the week to rally together to pray that the community of Kenmore would come to know Jesus! We launched on Saturday night with a time of corporate worship and prayer. For 165 hours this week there will be someone in the First Glance Prayer room praying. I am really looking forward to seeing what God does through us petitioning for this community.
Today, during my prayer time I was at first overwhelmed by the vast amount of needs within our community. At the same time I was encouraged reading the follow:
Ezekiel 34:11-15
11 “‘For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I myself will search for my sheep and look after them. 12 As a shepherd looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness. 13 I will bring them out from the nations and gather them from the countries, and I will bring them into their own land. I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in all the settlements in the land. 14 I will tend them in a good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in good grazing land, and there they will feed in a rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down, declares the Sovereign LORD."
I know that God is in a relentless pursuit of this community. Please consider joining with us in prayer.
Here are some specific things I prayed for today:
- The many girls in my program that find their identity in men, friends, material possessions.
- Broken families. A few weeks ago some of my Ladies Night Out girls were talking about their families. I realized quickly that only 1 girl in the room filled with about 15 plus girls had her mom and dad still together. A girls said, “my dad is like the wind one gust and he was gone.”
- Students that are currently in abusive homes. Pray that God would bring peace to their households.
- Students that are coping with destructive copping mechanisms. IE: Cutting, eating disorders, giving themselves away in purity.
