Prepare Me to be a Sanctuary

Mission Work Update:   I have raised enough money out of the amount I need to cover my plane ticket to and from over seas!!!  God is being SO unbelievably good to me!  None of this is me, it is all God.  I could do none of this without His will.  Everyone is being supportive, and praying for me, and I thank you all!   I have only one cost expense that I have to cover myself, and that is getting to training camp in Wisconsin.  My mom informed me today that my plane ticket has been bought! I get on the plane 6:00am June 20th, and arrive in Chicago, 8:00am that mornign, where I will be picked up, and taken to the church, where all the people going will be meeting :-D This is all so very exciting!... but, it is also scary.  I got a lump in my throat when my mom told me that I will be flying alone from here to Chicago (when I fly overseas I will be with our group.)  I have never gone anywhere by myself before, much less flown by myself. ...

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Mathew 26: 41 How often I get distracted.  I have so much going on, Mission work, my ACT, and then there's thinking about college.  I get so worked up, and stressed, trying to figure out how I'm going to get everything done, that I forget to Read my Bible, or I remember, and just put it off... planning to do it later... always later.   I forget to pray, and then when I do pray, It's more than often a short prayer, just so that I know I said my prayer. My spirit is willing, I love reading my Bible, I love spending time in prayer with God.  But my flesh.. my flesh is so weak.  If I let my flesh control me, as I have before.  I don't read my Bible, and I forget to spend time in prayer. When I am reading my Bible, and praying, I feel close to God, I am happy, but when I don't I "fall into temptation"  I do things I shouldn't, my mind wonders to pla...