THOUGHTS FROM THE 21 DAYS, DAY 19
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THOUGHTS FROM THE 21 DAYS, DAY 18
OUR NEIGHBOR’S KITCHEN, 30 YEARS
Last night, I had the opportunity to attend the thirtieth anniversary of OUR NEIGHBORS KITCHEN, at the Winchendon Church of the Unity. The Kitchen has been running continuously for thirty years. The Church of the Unity has hosted all those years and was joined about a decade ago by The Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Winchendon, who now hosts every 1st and 3rd Thursday.
The Kitchen is a place people can go if they need food or fellowship.
It was a wonderful night. It was a night of wonderful food and fellowship. Thank you to Jill Sackett for the personal invite to our Church staff!
THOUGHTS FROM THE 21 DAYS, DAY 17
ABIDING TO THE ANSWER
I have learned that prayer is not primarily about asking. I have learned that prayer is primarily about connecting.
Prayer is the place where all the puzzle pieces of our relationship with God and His people come together and solidify into action.
I have learned that before asking I need to connect with God and His thoughts about the subjects that concern me. the Bible calls this connection “abiding”.
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. John 15:7
Abiding prayer, then, is the key to successful intercessory prayer (that type of prayer that involves lists of things we would like God to do in the name of Jesus).
Abiding prayer starts with listening…. Listening to the Word of God. Discovering the promises of God in the Bible and learning to stand on them. This requires us to read and memorize the Word of God. For most of us that requires a lot of going over. I generally read a book of the Bible over and over until I have it deep in my heart. My current method is to read through the Bible and in between each book I read one of the biblical books that I have chosen over and over. I have done this with the book of The Revelation, the book of Genesis, and now the book of Psalms. That means I have read through The Revelation 66 times and Genesis 66 times. When you read something that many times through, things start to stick. This is the beginning of abiding prayer.
I will write more soon, but tell me…
WHAT SECRETS HAVE YOU LEARNED ABOUT ABIDING IN PRAYER?
THOUGHTS FROM THE 21 DAYS, DAY 16
BRINGING HOME
I helped lead prayer at The Worship Room House of Prayer last night.
If I had to choose a theme for the evening it would be SHOW US HOME. At one point, during the devotional worship set, I began to sing a simple spontaneous chorus.
” OPEN OUR EYES TO SEE THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD. OPEN OUR EARS TO HEAR THE SONG GOD SINGS OVER US, THE SONG THAT CALLS US HOME.”
During our time of worship with the word we meditated on Song of Solomon 4:9 “You have captured my heart, my treasure, my bride. You hold it hostage with one glance of your eyes, with a single jewel of your necklace”
The meditation again turned toward the idea of home as we repeated the line, “We are Your dwelling place and You are our home.”
Then, during our intercession set, I began to pray in the Spirit and I had this deep sense that I was calling the power of my heavenly home into this earthly realm to invade it and heal it. My prayer came from Isaiah 64 “Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down,
that the mountains would tremble before you!
2 As when fire sets twigs ablaze
and causes water to boil,
come down to make your name known to your enemies
and cause the nations to quake before you!”
I have this sense that a. very important part of ministry now is to bring the essence of Heaven to Earth: The love, the joy, the peace, the patience, the kindness, the goodness, the faithfulness, the gentleness, and the self control. We may not be able to experience the fullness of these things until we get to Heaven, but what we can bring of those things now we must.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO BRING A PIECE OF HEAVEN TO EARTH TODAY?
THOUGHTS FROM THE 21 DAYS, DAY 15
PLANNING THE SPRING CLEANING
THOUGHTS FROM THE 21 DAYS, DAY 14
Notes From the Vicarage 