Please Pray With Me

My entire life I have been well aware of the power of prayer and what it can do in people's lives. For those of you that aren't spiritual or religious, this may sound kinda strange, but just bear with me please. My parents, as long as I have been their son, have prayed. They prayed for things they wanted or needed to happen, and prayed for guidance in their lives in certain things for our family.

And although I haven't always been open to it myself in the past, looking back I can say that even though there were periods of time where we went without certain things, God seemed to always provide for my family. Because they prayed. And people answered. My parents would put a request to God, and God would put that request on the heart of one of his faithful servants, and they would help my family where they could.

Now I understand as you should that prayer only works within reason and God's will for us. I may need money, but if I pray to God to bust me down with $15,000,000 in cash, I shouldn't expect to win the lottery tomorrow. But what I am asking of you that do pray, and also those of you that would like to, help me in praying and putting some things on God's heart so that if it's in his will and sees fit to bless and provide me with any of them in any capacity, that it should be so.

1. Pray that God will help me find gainful employment when the time is right. A vocation that would pay enough for me to meet any bills or rent I may have in a timely fashion and also be something I grow to enjoy. Let's face it, no matter how nice a guy or fast a learner or hard a worker I am, to most employers I am just a convicted felon/drug offender who just got out of jail into an already suffering economy. So definitely pray that I can find or be provided a job.
2. Please pray that I can find a place to live that is comfortable and affordable and an environment that is healthy for me. I will have at least a few weeks after I am released before I have to find a place. But pray that while I am floating around that I am able to find some good roommates or a single room somewhere or whatever the case may be. And that wherever it is that I land is exactly where God wants me to be.
3. The third thing I am reeeally going to need when I get out, so the two aforementioned things can work, is a car. A cheap car, an old car, a free car! I don't really need to be stylin' and what not, as long as this car can get me from where I'm living to where I'm working and then back again. Please pray that God can provide me with not only the car, the means to purchase and maintain the car. God has provided my family with cars before, and I have faith that if it is in His will to do so for me, then it shall be done. So instead of a car just pray that God provides "transportation," because I am pretty open, be it a motorcycle or unicycle.
4. Like I said before, I am not expecting to be made a millionaire overnight or anything. But God tells us to pray for the things we feel we need and if he agrees and it's in his will we shall receive them. Well I know I need some money, bad. And whether it be some great windfall or just finding a couple of bucks on the street, I ask that you join me in praying for God to provide me with what I will need to get by. And if He sees fit to bless me with more, than so be it. If He sees fit to have me suffer hardships past my time here to gain wisdom from it, than so be it.
   
5. Please pray that God helps me to be with the people that are going to be good for me when I am released. That I don't fall back into old habits. And that I am able to surround myself with the people that are going to build me up and encourage me in the things that will be good for me, and not let me backslide. That God can help me help myself in my recovery. And that he would help steer me clear of the temptations that led me to jail.

And you know what? I think that if we all pray for these things then I should be all right. I have faith in God's provision for His children, and I have faith that if it's God's will to help me with these things we all pray for then he will oblige.

I am so worried and anxious to be leaving here. I know I want to feel ready, but I feel excited and nervous, and happy and scared. It's getting down to the line here people! I am going to be home on January 19th! So I deeply appreciate any and all of you who help me in praying for these things I have mentioned here. And I look forward to seeing the results of these prayers in my life after my release. And anything else you think to pray for me, feel free to do so by all means. I am truly blessed in many ways, but I can always use more prayer.

Thanks everybody!