Dear Jesus,I lift up Steven to you tonight Father and I thank you that eventhough we don't know where he is tonight or what he is doing, YOU do. Cover him tonight Father, keep him warm, safe and clean from drugs, violence and anything else that would bring harm to him. Father God I thank you for the conviction that he felt when we talked with him in love. I thank you that he kept the conversation "real" as he put it. A lot of us have cried out to you at one time: "but I'm not ready, it's all good today but tomorrow I will go back; I'm not worthy; I know the devil is making me do this and I know I shouldn't but life is hard." Father God, how many times have I cried out to you? How many times have we all felt that way? I thank you JESUS that your grace is sufficient even in our weakness and that you do not wait for us to get everything ready or perfect before your grace covers us~ I thank you JESUS for all that YOU have done for me and for Steven. I ask Father God that the seeds that were implanted in him while in prison were watered last night by the RAVEN team that went out to deliver him the gospel on the streets. That there were hands and feet of believers at that holy moment of taking a different street down a lonely lane right outside St. something or other church where we found him. I thank you Father that he felt convicted and didn't want to shoot up right infront of us~ that he knows your laws that are written on his heart. Our hearts were broken by the drugs being such a presence that he went ahead and shot up right there weeping. Father God, please LORD, giver of life send another who will continue letting him know that YOU are GOD and YOU will accept him as your child just as he is. I ask Father that you would be magnified in his life tonight. That in YOUR NAME JESUS all drugs will be rebuked from his body and he will take the steps to move away and get the help he so desperately wants. I thank you for him seeing our presence there as a simple reminder that YOU are faithful in providing all needs~ whether that be a kind word or a pair of socks or a hug from another with a listening ear~ but Father God, Rudy and I stand in expectancy of your greatest gift for him and that would be his surrending himself to a relationship with YOU. We lift him up to you Father. Holy Spirit move within his heart tonight so that he may turn his face away from Satan and open his mind and heart to your amazing grace. Have mercy on him Jesus, have mercy on us all. In the name of the powerful Holy Spirit, Father God and Son Jesus, AMEN.