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Prayer for Youth Camp

Greetings in the Lord!

Today (Sunday, May 26), our congregation is going to a local lake for baptisms! While there, our youth group is hosting a Taco Bar fundraiser to help cover camp costs.

This week, Tuesday-Friday, we are going on a camp out by a river. Our focus this week is “A Life of Worship,” looking at how teens can worship in everyday life.

Please join me in praying for a safe, empowering week of camping and seeking God (especially seeing as I wrote the curriculum!)

May the Holy Spirit move in their (our) lives in mighty ways, we have fun, and draw closer to God and each other.

Thanks in advance!

Daniel and The Youth Next Door

VerseD: Isaiah 43:2

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

Isaiah 43:2, ESV‬

Faith in God might not protect us from physical harm, but we can have peace and assurance of His salvation and eternity, regardless of the circumstances, overcoming fear and hatred, and also possibly be saved in the circumstance.

VerseD: Psalm 42:11

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

‭Psalm 42:11, ESV‬

Our God is good and came and experienced our pain and struggle, so He can understand and comfort us in our pain and struggles. He then empowers and sends us to share His goodness with others.

VerseD: 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

‭2 Corinthians 1:3-4, ESV‬

Our good God came to us, suffered like us and for us, and now calls us to join in His suffering by the power of the Holy Spirit to bring His comfort and peace to others.

VerseD: 1 Samuel 2:2

“There is none holy like the Lord: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.”

‭1 Samuel 2:2, ESV‬

God alone is good and holy and the source of all life and goodness. And He chose to come to us to grant us life and holiness, filling us with His love, grace, and goodness to carry it into the world.

VerseD: John 8:12

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

John 8:12, ESV‬

God came to us, the Light of Life, to fill us with Life. By His Holy Spirit we are empowered to walk in His light and lead others to life.

VerseD: 1 John 4:9

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

1 John 4:9, ESV‬

God came to us to give us grace and eternal life, and now He sends us out in the power of the Holy Spirit to share this love and life with others.

VerseD: Acts 2:38

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

Acts 2:38, ESV‬

The Holy Spirit empowers us to Repent and faithfully follow Christ. Our God has sent Him that we may be sent out to lead others to forgiveness in Christ.

VerseD: Acts 1:8

“‭But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Acts 1:8, ESV‬

Christ has sent us into the world, sent filled by the Holy Spirit to proclaim Christ.

VerseD: Matthew 28:19

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them inthe name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit

‭Matthew 28:19, ESV‬

Our God is faithful, as shown in coming to us to save us from our sin and His wrath. He now calls us and empowers us to faithfully go and share this good news and raise up other faithful followers.