Prayer Life

Hello Everyone,

As May is coming to a close we are asking that you pray for our prayer life. We both have felt a lull in our prayer life lately. Our body here is currently going through a weekly sermon series on the Lord's Prayer. It has been both convicting and challenging to think about the Lord's Prayer line by line. Last week we focused on the line "thy will be done". After the sermon we as a couple talked about how we can remember certain times in our lives that we specifically remember praying for God's will to be done. We usually pray that part of the Lord's Prayer when we are in the middle of making a big decision or waiting on the outcome of a big life event. We remember praying for His will to be done when Justin left to serve in Romania or when we were engaged and waiting to be married. We asked for His will to be done when we were praying about moving to Italy. These are all big life events that we did genuinely yearn for the Lord's will to be done.  In reality praying for His will to be done should be a part of our daily supplication. Our prayer in the coming weeks is that the desires of our hearts and our daily lives would be aligned with the desires of God's will for us.

We ask that you please be in prayer for two men. Marco and Luca (not our son). Marco is in his forties.  He has been seeking the Lord and growing in his love for the Lord. Please pray that he would continue to seek after Him and that we as a body would be able to love him and serve him well. Luca is a young man in his mid-twenties. He was a former student of Justin's. He lives in our city and Justin ran into him about a month ago at one of the festivals. Justin explained that we are serving in a local evangelical church and that is the main reason why we moved to Budrio.  He has come to some of our Sunday gatherings as well as our Thursday night bible study. We are asking that the Lord draws Luca to himself and that his heart would be open to the Gospel.

Thank you for praying for us,

Justin, Carli, & Luca