I'd like your prayers. I'm not posting this in the prayers forum simply because this will be ongoing and certainly isn't on par with the "real" prayer requests posted there.

I've been given some new responsibilities in a ministry with which I am gladly affiliated. I'm asking the Lord to keep me humble and diligent, ever obedient to Him alone, so I may execute these responsibilities for His glory. I rarely find ministries with leaders' hearts properly following after the Lord and His will (rather than their own), but this is most certainly one. I see the Master's handiwork daily in this ministry, and I am blessed and honored to be a small part of it.

Meanwhile, my pray-ers (those who pray for me) should know the above ministry is still secondary to my first and most important ministry, my family. My duties there are also growing, particularly in teaching our homeschooled daughter--what a joy she is to teach! With seemingly diminishing time, the Lord has still found ways to multiply my time and strengthen me so I can be with my family more as well as serve this other ministry more, too.

I am also asking my Father to keep me from serving my family and others by rote, as a matter of scheduled habit, as we men sometimes tend to do. My service is an investment in my loved ones and, more importantly, in Adonai's loved ones and in His coming kingdom. I don't want to lose sight of this, that my efforts are a stewardship toward great, future returns.