2nd OLPS Youth Prayer Meeting

We had our 2nd OLPS Youth prayer meeting yesterday. Well about 14 people came.. so it's not too bad! And we had 2 new faces, Geraldine & Victoria joining us. Praise God!

Anyway, we focused on Romans 12:1-8. Read it here:
http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/romans/romans12.htm

Main points:
1) Offering ourselves as a living sacrifice to God. (verse 1)
2) To be transformed by the renewal of our minds (verse 2)
3) That we are one body, while each of us has different gifts & should serve God with it accordingly (verse 4-8)

We reflected on giving our lives even more fully to God.. and to allow God to transform our lives. Not much could be said in that short time of reflection & sharing that we had, but that was because we decided to focus on prayer.

Intercessory in groups:
We tried out this new idea where we prayed over these 3 points in small groups, each focusing on one of them, for our personal lives, then our ministries and our church and beyond.

It was a beautiful experience, getting into groups of 4, and listening to each other's prayer as well as making your own prayer. This is called spontaneous prayer. We catholics tend to like to say fixed prayers, but this was a refreshing way to pray. Especially with people you never prayed before. For once, I could see them in a different light. You could see the spiritual side the person next to you.

Most of the time, we only see the spiritual side of our youth group members whom we are comfortable praying with. But what about the youths from the other youth group? That's why it was an interesting, fun, enlightening experience for me.

We sang the two songs "This Is My Desire" and "I Offer my Life"... wow, giving our heart, giving our life... but if you reflect on Romans 12:1, this is precisely what God wishes we would do!

So... have a good week ahead and read more of Romans this month! Next month, we focus on 1 Corinthians... ! Can you guess which chapter? Haha..

Some Food for Thought: "The Road to Renewal"
Read this article online here: http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=2320


See you at our next meeting on April 18th! Saturday, 7:30pm - 8:45pm at St. John-Luke Room, OLPS!