Day 18
It's Day 18.
I'm going to "raise the bar" on this forty days of prayer and fasting.
I want to add the New Testament to my "reading goal." I'm almost through the Old Testament less than half way through this forty days and I want to read through the New Testament in the New Living Translation.
I'm also adding a writing goal--I want to complete a Soulprint manuscript by the time the forty days are up. I'm a "P" on the Myers-Briggs so I live in the "world of endless possibilities." I'm a "starter." I have an entreprenurial spirit. But I need to force myself to be a finisher. I don't know how many manuscripts I've started and not finsihed. My personality type needs "deadlines" so I'm giving myself one.
One word in Psalm 96:3 has really inspired me to write--"publish"--it sort of jumped off the page and into my spirit. The full text says, "Publish his glorious deeds among the nations. Tell everyone about the amazing things he does." That is my "writing verse."
The desire to finish a manuscript and see it published has been a source of angst in me--growing angst--for the past ten years. It's one of those clouds that seems to hang over my head. I'm such a perfectionist that it's hard for me to "tie off the umbilical cord." With the Lord's help I'll do it before this forty days is done!
Two thoughts on prayer.
Samuel Chadwick said the greatest answer to prayer is more prayer. Prayer begets prayer!
I think a healthy prayer life has a strong verticle element, not just a horizontal element. We tend to focus on horizontal human needs, but I think powerful prayers enrapture the horizontal needs into verticle praise of God. I think living for the glory of God is being vertically oriented versus horizontally oriented.
I'm impressed with the way, in the book of Acts and the historical books of the Old Testament, when the going gets tough they get verticle!
I'm going to "raise the bar" on this forty days of prayer and fasting.
I want to add the New Testament to my "reading goal." I'm almost through the Old Testament less than half way through this forty days and I want to read through the New Testament in the New Living Translation.
I'm also adding a writing goal--I want to complete a Soulprint manuscript by the time the forty days are up. I'm a "P" on the Myers-Briggs so I live in the "world of endless possibilities." I'm a "starter." I have an entreprenurial spirit. But I need to force myself to be a finisher. I don't know how many manuscripts I've started and not finsihed. My personality type needs "deadlines" so I'm giving myself one.
One word in Psalm 96:3 has really inspired me to write--"publish"--it sort of jumped off the page and into my spirit. The full text says, "Publish his glorious deeds among the nations. Tell everyone about the amazing things he does." That is my "writing verse."
The desire to finish a manuscript and see it published has been a source of angst in me--growing angst--for the past ten years. It's one of those clouds that seems to hang over my head. I'm such a perfectionist that it's hard for me to "tie off the umbilical cord." With the Lord's help I'll do it before this forty days is done!
Two thoughts on prayer.
Samuel Chadwick said the greatest answer to prayer is more prayer. Prayer begets prayer!
I think a healthy prayer life has a strong verticle element, not just a horizontal element. We tend to focus on horizontal human needs, but I think powerful prayers enrapture the horizontal needs into verticle praise of God. I think living for the glory of God is being vertically oriented versus horizontally oriented.
I'm impressed with the way, in the book of Acts and the historical books of the Old Testament, when the going gets tough they get verticle!
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