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January 18, 2009 at 6:15 pm · Filed under Foundational Understanding in Prayer, Uncategorized and tagged: committment, faith, father, listening, non-stop, prayer, Zion
PRAY WITHOUT CEASING. 1 Thessalonians 5:17
The challenge to pray non-stop is virtually impossible if we see prayer as times we talk to God. Worse if prayer is listing our needs, wants and desires to God, eventually we simply run out of things to pray. When prayer is defined as conversations with the Lord that are flowing out of the intimate relation that we have growing with the Lord, then it is easy to pray non-stop. We all can have a non-stop relationship with God. When we see Jesus as the Bridegroom, rather than the dead statue on the cross or the limp and lifeless Savior in the arms of Mary, we find that He is quite exciting. He is thrilling to be with. Prayer then is no longer a religious formality but a life-engaging, dynamic activity of Spiritual life.
I am so excited to see prayer coming alive at Zion. Our worship times are not just song services with its own kind of liturgy. More and more our prayer is getting quiet as we listen to what God will reveal in our group times together. I am speaking of a quietness of heart, rather than a silence. Being able to tune into the heart of our Lord may be extremely passionate and even loud but it is clear that God is in the midst and He is speaking to hearts. Into different ones, Father drops in Words or pictures into hearts that unlock truth or expose situations that He is addressing. Like the waves of the ocean, there is an ebb and flow of the ocean tide; sometimes gentle, sometimes powerful.
Prayer changes things but not because of our volume or our brazen boldness to rail at the devil. Nor is prayer changing things simply by the number of words that we use or how spiritual they may sound. Prayer changes things when we get into agreement with the Holy Spirit and speak the same things we hear him say to us. It is conversational dialogue.
January 1, 2009 at 8:37 pm · Filed under Foundational Understanding in Prayer and tagged: bondage, dream, father, freedom, Guam, hope, island, Jesus, prayer, promiscuity, sensuality, sex, strongholds, trafficking
Many of us have fresh hopes and dreams as we press into a new year. It is as if the slate is wiped clean and we feel we can move ahead with greater focus and purpose. At Zion, we had a baptism for 4 of our people to start the New Year by making a memorial together. At this time of New Beginnings, we pray that Guam will be baptized afresh with the fire of God, love for His presence and desire for His Kingdom to come and His will to be accomplished.
We believe that our prayer is powerful and effective. Together we make up the people of Guahan and can therefore dedicate this land to the Lord and His Kingdom. We have bought into this community, invested in it, and own some of the land. Therefore, in the Name of Jesus Christ, we commit this land afresh at this first day of 2009 to Open Wide these Gates that You the King of Glory will come in! Come Lord Jesus, Come and Visit Guam! Have your Way among Us! Cleanse us from our sins. Break the power of bondage to sexual promiscuity, sensuality, homosexuality and perversions. This year we pray that the Guam will no longer be a gateway for drugs and human trafficking. We pray that the strongholds of poverty and religion will be displaced by new strongholds of Prosperity and Righteousness. Lord, may Righteousness exalt this island. In the Name of the Father, The Son and Holy Spirit we say, AMEN!
