Please pray for Trish, Mike and family. Mike has been in the hospital since early Summer. He is fighting cancer. It is really taking a toll on Trish. Stephanie and Brian Duncan are visiting him when they can and Sally is a good friend to them. They have a brand new Granddaughter they can't even celebrate and enjoy. Please keep this family on your hearts and pray that God will give Brian and Stephanie the words and company to ease their pain.

Todays Psalm

Psalm 19
1-2 God's glory is on tour in the skies, God-craft on exhibit across the horizon.
Madame Day holds classes every morning,
Professor Night lectures each evening.

3-4 Their words aren't heard,
their voices aren't recorded,
But their silence fills the earth:
unspoken truth is spoken everywhere.

4-5 God makes a huge dome
for the sun—a superdome!
The morning sun's a new husband
leaping from his honeymoon bed,
The daybreaking sun an athlete
racing to the tape.

6 That's how God's Word vaults across the skies
from sunrise to sunset,
Melting ice, scorching deserts,
warming hearts to faith.

7-9 The revelation of God is whole
and pulls our lives together.
The signposts of God are clear
and point out the right road.
The life-maps of God are right,
showing the way to joy.
The directions of God are plain
and easy on the eyes.
God's reputation is twenty-four-carat gold,
with a lifetime guarantee.
The decisions of God are accurate
down to the nth degree.

10 God's Word is better than a diamond,
better than a diamond set between emeralds.
You'll like it better than strawberries in spring,
better than red, ripe strawberries.

11-14 There's more: God's Word warns us of danger
and directs us to hidden treasure.
Otherwise how will we find our way?
Or know when we play the fool?
Clean the slate, God, so we can start the day fresh!
Keep me from stupid sins,
from thinking I can take over your work;
Then I can start this day sun-washed,
scrubbed clean of the grime of sin.
These are the words in my mouth;
these are what I chew on and pray.
Accept them when I place them
on the morning altar,
O God, my Altar-Rock,
God, Priest-of-My-Altar.

Pray for me to remember this, chew on and pray like this the next 4 days and I will be praying you do too.

Pray today for

* Shoal Creek and it's mission.
* lost to be found. rubbing up against a community of followers of Christ desperately trying to give away the love, the freedom we've found in Christ
*Group Leadership Community Friday nite...vision cast and caught
*as we finish up the 30days of reading and maybe journaling a love of His word in all who seek to KNOW HIM....more and more people to discover His love letter to us.

Thanks Stacy.....and I guess I wanted you all to know for some reason today I am gonna be praying for all of you....for us. Don't know for sure why, but my heart says pray today and I am going to and wanted to let you know.

Just gonna get real here

Being a host mom sucks. I am trying to make this work. I don't think I am showing Christ's Love like I dreamed I could. Please pray for me. Stacy

The most recent post shows posted by Becky..this is incorrect. Any and all prayer requests added to the Shoal Creek website post here under my name. You would have to ask someone way more cyber literate than me as to the whys of that.
Anyway from the post you can see he asks for our confidentiality...let us all remember that as we find these posts here and pray.

New Prayer Request

New prayer request from Chris Deal:
Roy and Sean, I really dont want this to be more public than you two and your family, but Debbie and I would greatly appreciate your prayers. Things are going well in my job, and Debbie has a couple interviews next week. The main thing is HOMESICK. Not only that, but I find myself asking "what am I doing here"? Especially since there were so many green lights through prayer and the feeling of God's direction with this move. We have tried several Church's, but nothing beats Shoal Creek. We love watching it Live. Anyway, if you know of any churches down here, let me know. Also, thanks for the continued prayers and I will keep you posted. Thanks for giving my Son Brian a great place to worship and share, and I will continue with my faith in God in this journey. Peace and Love with God. Chris Deal