More fun stuff at Pray Lewis County on the 15th. Lots of prayer requests that added up to the enemy really going after the local saints. On every level: health, finances, marriages, children, spiritual and emotional well-being. You name it. The flip-side is that the attack seems to be in desperate response to the Holy Spirit starting to shake things up. The enemy is nervous! Still, it's really on our hearts that His children realize they are being targeted by the Accuser and not just by the daily grind of life. So come on Tuesday and bind up each others' wounds with prayer!
The verses, songs, and words the Lord brought to our minds as we prayed were these:
Isa. 54 as a whole; Isa. 34:18-19 specifically in the sense that ♫♪"God will make a way when there seems to be no way."♪♫ Last week after Project Unity met at the Lewis and Clark Hotel the song coursing through me was ♪"The time is now, come, Church, arise! Love with His hands, see with His eyes, bind it around you, let it never leave you-- they will know you by your love."♪ He is moving and calling the Church out, but now we're becoming large enough to be a target. The words were Impossible and Perseverance. God loves to do the impossible. And He loves our perseverance. All this impossible stuff is only to perfect us in faith, because in some way, beyond comprehension, it's important to Him that we be perfect in this way. Rom. 5:2-6. Wahoo!
This week we'll be in the small conference room at the Chehalis Library, 400 N. Market Blvd.. 6:30. They close at 8:00 so we had to make it earlier. Also, mark your calendars for November 3rd. Edna Fund has asked our group to pray at the court house as that is election day. I told her we'd be happy to!
Prayer requests to remember this week:
*General attack on particularly Christian marriages and parent/child relationships. And watch out for it in your own family!
*A local family recently adopted 7 siblings and the husband was unexpectedly shipped out by the military. This new mom really needs our prayers.
*A number of sick in our community. You know where they are. Remember that we serve a God who heals!
Live in the blessing and favor of the Lord Jesus!
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
The Latest!
Pray Lewis County was really fun last night. Eight of us gathered at the picnic table in front of Cuppa Joe and brought out prayer requests to be lifted up. There was also a lot of encouragement passed around, scripture poured out and over, and blessing abounded. The theme was most definitely the Lord's timing. I get so excited by the new theme ever week because it means God is still heading this up. He has stuff He wants to communicate, and by the convocation and consensus of the saints He makes it known. All of us have things we are dealing with requiring that we pay attention and abide by the timing of the Lord. (This turns out to be a fancy name for faith. Again.)
The verses brought forward about this were Isa. 30:18-- "And therefore the Lord [earnestly] waits [expecting, looking, and longing] to be gracious to you; and therefore He lifts Himself up, that He may have mercy on you and show loving-kindness to you. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are all those who [earnestly] wait for Him, who expect and look and long for Him [for His victory, His favor, His love, His peace, His joy, and His matchless, unbroken companionship]!" It's great! He waits to be gracious till we wait for Him! I love that math!
The other was Acts 1:7-8-- "He said to them, It is not for you to become acquainted with and know what time brings [the things and events of time and their definite periods] or fixed years and seasons (their critical niche in time), which the Father has appointed (fixed and reserved) by His own choice and authority and personal power. But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth." He promises that despite out ignorance of the future, power, ability, efficiency and might will be given when we wait on Him. One of us was really tickled that waiting was efficient!
Now, timing for what? Well, a lot of things. I think the thing that was underlying, though, was that the timing is becoming ripe for unity in the body of Christ in Lewis County. There seems to be a ground-swell in that direction, and we hope and pray it's so. You can put that on your list!
This week we'll be at Andrew Conway's house in Napavine. 7:00. The address is 153 Romerman Rd. Napavine. It's a gravel driveway. Take it all the way to the end.
Don't forget to post any prayer requests you might have in the comment box, and we also have "business" cards now! Blessings on you all!!!
The verses brought forward about this were Isa. 30:18-- "And therefore the Lord [earnestly] waits [expecting, looking, and longing] to be gracious to you; and therefore He lifts Himself up, that He may have mercy on you and show loving-kindness to you. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are all those who [earnestly] wait for Him, who expect and look and long for Him [for His victory, His favor, His love, His peace, His joy, and His matchless, unbroken companionship]!" It's great! He waits to be gracious till we wait for Him! I love that math!
The other was Acts 1:7-8-- "He said to them, It is not for you to become acquainted with and know what time brings [the things and events of time and their definite periods] or fixed years and seasons (their critical niche in time), which the Father has appointed (fixed and reserved) by His own choice and authority and personal power. But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth." He promises that despite out ignorance of the future, power, ability, efficiency and might will be given when we wait on Him. One of us was really tickled that waiting was efficient!
Now, timing for what? Well, a lot of things. I think the thing that was underlying, though, was that the timing is becoming ripe for unity in the body of Christ in Lewis County. There seems to be a ground-swell in that direction, and we hope and pray it's so. You can put that on your list!
This week we'll be at Andrew Conway's house in Napavine. 7:00. The address is 153 Romerman Rd. Napavine. It's a gravel driveway. Take it all the way to the end.
Don't forget to post any prayer requests you might have in the comment box, and we also have "business" cards now! Blessings on you all!!!
Monday, September 7, 2009
Time Change
Sorry for the late update here. Last week's meeting was good, though short. We met at Providence and the common theme for the evening seemed to be praying for those believers who are already in dark places: Christian school teachers, doctors, business owners and employees, and politicians. That took up most of the evening.
This week we'll be at Cuppa Joe at 7:00, due to the light beginning to leave earlier.
I also want people to feel free to leave prayer requests in the comment section on this page.
Blessings!
This week we'll be at Cuppa Joe at 7:00, due to the light beginning to leave earlier.
I also want people to feel free to leave prayer requests in the comment section on this page.
Blessings!
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