Bible reading week 36, day 2 and some thoughts on prayer....

Good Tuesday morning all.  We are back to school after a long weekend.  

I have been thinking about our 5 days of prayer.  I miss it.  I am sure one of the benefits was this scheduled time to gather to participate in a spiritual discipline that put me in a place to do this.  One of the attenders said that it helped her with the concept of sustained prayer.  The 45ish minutes of speaking with God got shorter and shorter in our minds because we were concentrated on Him.  The music became a background, the prayer slips became an assistance, and those around us became companions in prayer but the real audience of our attention was God Himself.

My heart was softened; my mind was set on God; my words were speaking directly to Him; and my body was a tool to worship Him.  I got a sense of what Jesus was asking us to do prior to all the other things.  We are to pray.  We are to have conversations with Him prior to talking about Him, serving for Him, and standing as His ambassadors to this world.  We had an opportunity to rise early and go up the mountain or to that deserted place to start the day with Him.

Needless to say, as I continue to pray, I am looking forward to our next 5 days of prayer.  Put it on your calendar for November 26 - 30 and we will gather up prayer slips again for this time of extended prayer and worship.  There are always important things to pray about but part of our focus will be the Christmas season that will be before us and our opportunity to share with our community the reason for this observance, Jesus Himself.  Will you join us some morning?  Be thinking, planning, and praying about it and for sure pencil it in on the calendar.  Even join us from afar and across different time zones to participate in this spiritual discipline that our Savior Himself instructed us to do.

Just some Tuesday thoughts from your pastor.  

Pastor Adam  
A simple man serving a great God and the local pastor of Stillwater Community Chapel (stillwater-chapel.org). We are in our 38th year of full time ministry. God directed us to this local body of believers on the Western Range of the Rockies to grow with them in mission and mindedness of Christ.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Galatians #15 - Galatians 6:11-18 - "On The Road Again..."

Image
  Another week closer and it involves some more travel for the Wolfgangs.  I feel like the Willy Nelson song, " On the road again... "  I don't know if I agree with the next line though. " ...I can't wait to get on the road again. " One of the members of the church in Wisconsin calculated that I will travel well over 10,000 miles to make this transition.  Traveling mercies prayers please. Last Sunday we will look at Paul's final words to the churches in Galatia.  He brought them the gospel (good news) message of Jesus and what resulted were churches forming throughout the region.  The letter is to defend that message that our salvation comes from and is in Christ alone.  Christ's sacrifice on the cross was sufficient for the forgiveness of our sins.  The summary statement of the letter is found in  Galatians 6:15 (LSB) .  " For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. "  Translated another way earlier in  Ga
Read more

God gave us a good weather window to travel...yeah God!!!

Image
  Berthoud Pass Here we are at the top of Berthoud Pass.  It was a whirlwind week to conduct a " hand off " service in Wisconsin on 3/17 and then preach a Palm Sunday sermon in Colorado on 3/24.  We give God all the glory for this happening.  So there are two video links at the bottom of this blog.  One is for the Wisconsin service and the other is for the Colorado service.  I racked up over 12,000 in the last 7 weeks.   I love to take these pictures sitting from the front row of chairs and listening to the one God has provided for the church I had been serving for 20 months.  I now have 3 and I am so thankful for the opportunity God gave us to serve Him in this type of ministry over the last 5 years.  It has been great to add to our daily prayer list Zach in Maine, Chris in Ohio and now Stephen in Wisconsin. This was our set up for the 2000+ mile trip.  No " hiccups " except for the strong eastern winds in Kansas.  Of course everything was quite a bit dirtier when
Read more

Resurrection Sunday in a new space...Matthew 27.62-28.20

Image
  Resurrection Sunday has come and gone but it was a sweet day to be with the gathered saints of the Stillwater Community Chapel .  We are venturing through the Gospel of Matthew and this Sunday will take us back to Matthew 1.1 but last Sunday we were in Matthew 27.62-28.20.  It was a lot to cover so the white board was truly a help to keep me on track.  This year in my Resurrection Sunday message, I focused on the contrast of the cover-up story of the disciples stealing the body of Jesus fueled by a bride and the commission of speaking of a risen Lord fueled by boldness . After the service upstairs, we ventured downstairs to the lower level and had a great meal together.  The conversations around the tables allowed us to continue to talk about the passage of Scripture we covered upstairs.  Maybe this is a very informal picture of what happens at the  Waushara Community Church called the " Going Deeper " classes of the Come For More hour following the Sunday morning worshi
Read more