Note: This week we will still be using some time apart to be restored and move towards healing. So there will be NO . Zoom Huddle nor . Evening gathering. Thanks for your understanding as I take the slow and steady course of recovery.
NOTE: at 6 we will gather at Rita's for a fun hangout evening.
Good Morning Praying Friends of God! Amen! we spent time for corporate BIG Church and Kingdom things. We prayed for us individually and as God's Body with Jesus as the head to become who we are created (and gathered) to be. We prayed we would discover our purposes and step boldly into them and to allow God to use us as we are and with what we've been given and blessed with to do His will. We prayed for revival, protection, provision and for us to live and love like Jesus more and better as we move towards becoming His dynamic movement and a House of Prayer for the Nations. We prayed to come alive in '25 too. Prayer is our foundation and how we hear God and see Him at work. Prayer releases His power on earth and in and through us. Prayer prepares the harvest and directs our steps out the door. Prayer is essential to all we we do and how Jesus received instructions and power. Let us continue to seek and fellowship with Jesus and walk wit Him in His ways doing what we can with what we've been given...and just worship as you trust and obey and follow well.
Check out the Connection blog and UR below discussing prayer. What's God saying to you? How is He informing your prayers. Seek, knock and pursue Him in prayer and with 0pen hearts. release His power in prayer. Pray in urgency and reveal your shortfalls and willingness to repent and walk with Jesus more closely. he's calling you by name and has great plans just for you. Amen! Thanks Lord!
Father, teach us to pray! Use us as we pray and provide for guidance and protection as we go abou the ordinary of each day. May we behold your power at work through our prayers and send us with your healing love! Thanks! Amen!.
UR:
Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. - Luke 18:1 (NIV)
I have played golf for many years, but my skills needed improvement; so I decided to take a lesson. The professional who worked with me was very helpful and pointed out several things I could do to improve. I had previously tried many other methods, but they hadn’t worked. It turned out that seeking professional guidance was the right solution.
Whether it is a challenge with work, family, or friends, I often try to solve the issue on my own. Sometimes I am fortunate enough to figure things out. But many times it’s only after multiple options have failed that I finally pray about the situation and seek guidance from God. When I reflect on this pattern of behavior, it doesn’t make any sense. Prayer should be the steering wheel that guides our life, not the spare tire we pull out in emergencies.
When we face challenges in life, our first step should be to go to God in prayer. Our heavenly Father created us and knows us better than we know ourselves. God will not only provide the guidance we need but will give us peace as well.
's Prayer
Dear heavenly Father, it is a great privilege to come to you in prayer. Help us to seek your guidance in all matters, big and small. Amen.
- Prayerful Submission
As we examine Jesus’ ministry, it becomes clear that His was not a ministry of self-will, but of prayerful discernment, a recognition that the Father was doing something, and then a willing obedience as Jesus entered His Father’s work. This applies not only to His words, but also to those instances in which He did the miraculous:
“One day He was teaching; and there were some Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was present for Him to perform healing” (Luke 5:17).
Here the context makes more than clear that Jesus performed a miracle of healing. However, Luke went to great pains to record that in this instance, God’s power was present in some kind of tangible way. Those who were participating in the event—either those observing to “check Him out,” those receiving Jesus’ prayer and therefore being healed, those who were friends or relatives of those being healed, or those learning the ways of the Master by watching (as the disciples most certainly did)—had an unusual sense that “something was afoot,” that God’s power was present in a unique manner. The old Puritan writers used to call this “the manifest presence of God.”
While those times of “anointing” or “unction” are rich and profound, it has an implication. This means that there were times and seasons in which the power of the Lord was not present to perform healing—even in the ministry of our Lord and Savior.
Jesus didn’t heal automatically, or even when He had a whim to do so, based on a need of the moment. He did not have an “intrinsic” or “built-in” supply of power rooted in who He was as the Son of God. Rather, He obtained access to divine empowerment by the practice of prayerful submission.
Lord, as I consider the prayerful discernment of Jesus, my heart longs to enter into the work that You are doing all around me. When Your power is present, anything is possible. The disciples noticed this in the life of Jesus and asked Him to teach them how to tap into the source of His strength. You have given Your children access to miracle-working power as we abide in Your presence and submit to Your will. May I be an obedient disciple, yielding my heart to the instruction of Your Spirit so that each word, thought and action is surrendered to Your purposes.
