I could do it so perfectly...

Name: Chad
Scripture: Deuteronomy 4; Psalm 42; Acts 22:1-21

Then Paul said: 3"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city. Under Gamaliel I was thoroughly trained in the law of our fathers and was just as zealous for God as any of you are today. 4I persecuted the followers of this Way to their death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison, 5as also the high priest and all the Council can testify. I even obtained letters from them to their brothers in Damascus, and went there to bring these people as prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.

OAP: I feel like Saul. I am writing a speech, and I am well trained in how I am supposed to do it. I can make it how it should be, playing upon the audience so that they will applaud when they are supposed to, laugh when I pause for laughter, enjoy me as I speak, relate to me as I share about my life. I was picked to do this because I am very good at manipulation. I can speak as Saul did, and I am worried that I will do it as he did, so that God has to come in and deliver a spiritual beat down. Everything I wrote is honest, but it is tailored to the audience, spun just right so that money will be donated and as a result I will get into college.

God, don't let anything I say be in opposition to you. Don't let me speak around you. I pray that I can be content in what you have for me at this time. I would appreciate the whole divine intervention before I have to submit my speech. Give me clarity now so that I don't need to be talked to later. I want to do it right the first time.