Seatbelted, you won the darts. Makes sense, it's your board.
YOU get to open with prayer, if you don't mind
Verywellthen....
"Hey, yall, it's time to bow our heads out of respect. Let's all talk to God
Lord, God, Father... Dad,
Thank you for letting us call you Father, thank you for bringing us into your family, for being a Dad to us. Abba, I truely am grateful that you adopted me into your kingdom and made me an heir. In the time I have known you, Lord, you have done such a through job of filling in the gaps, cracks, and holes in my life that my Earthly father left. You know I love him, God. Thank you for giving me that man as a Dad. But, God, Thank You all the more for being my Heavenly Father, who loves me perfectly and who is the perfect example of how to parent. It is my sincere prayer that I raise my children to look to you when I fall short as their father.
God, thank you for CC. Thank you for the growth that I have made here, for the friends that I have made here, and for the forgiveness that I find here. Please help me to need less of that last one, do more of the first one, and Be more of the second one to others. Lord, you know that I am not in a place to support CC financially right now, but God, I ask that you see to it that your sheep are fed, and that any website that does as much for your children as this one surely does, be adequately funded. God, I pray that you help the men of CC to find ways to encourage and lift up extol one another in an appropriate way. Help us to build the kinds of bonds that men need to have with other men. Help us to find ways to encourage and mentor one another, and to be encouraged and to be mentored. Help us to have a place or a way to, if nothing else mentally, separate ourselves from the group from time to time and bond in the safety of other God fearing men. While you are at it Lord, help the Ladies and the girls on the internet to comfortably respect our need to have time devoted to you and to each other without their presence. We know that you made Eve to be a compliment to Adam. Similarly we understand that our Christian sisters are the counterpoint melody to our harmony. All the same, thank you for the little ways in which we can hone one another, being iron, sharpening iron. Help us to further this process, that we may be better equipped to further your kingdom.
Almighty God, I am humbled by the way that you made me the man my children need, and how you worked so far in advance to prepare me to rise to this occasion. I see that you planned for the possibility and that gives me faith that You have a plan for what comes next. Help me lord to step out on faith each day, trusting that and trusting you. Often I cannot see the path , Dear God, but I will continue trusting that you will place my feet on the path you need me to travel if I continue to pick my feet up and stick them out.
The best gifts you have given me have always been Children - my son, my daughter, and especially Jesus the Christ. Help me to live up to all three of those gifts, raising them 100% of the time to follow you 100% of the time. My Lord, you have blessed me richly: the clothes I wear, the food I eat, the place I live...the people you fill my life with, my family - both those related to me by blood and those related to me by Christ's blood. You bless me in ways that I am daily thankful for, and in ways that I am just beginning to comprehend. God please bless me, bless the men of CC, and bless the Ladies of CC. Bless us Lord, not so that we may find favor in someone other than you, lord. Bless us, Abba Father, not simply so that we are blessed. Bless us instead so that the world may see Your greatness, may see Your blessing, and may come to understand that Blessings come from You.
God i pray that each of us be a lens, clear and pure, that your light may be shown to the world.
Help us to be your knights, your warriors, standing firm against the darkness. Be our King, Lord. Lead us and let us stray not from your path.
Be with the lost, Lord, just as you surely were with me. Similarly, lead. Truly you lead me back to you, and that being such, I believe that you, Lord God, can Lead anyone, anywhere. I pray that our hearts be open to Everywhere you would have us go.
Hold us closer to one another, and closer to you. I pray that you help us build the repationships we need to be able to make it home to you, God.
In the name of your son, Jesus the Christ, I do pray.
Ahmen."
Thank you for the honor, Green.