Prayer Reflections
We had a great time of prayer today. I love praying with this group of guys on Tuesday mornings! Here are a few of my prayer reflections. By the way, I'm learning the importance of capturing what it is that I'm praying for. It helps me continue to pray for those things.
I was reminded again that what we starve must die and what we feed must grow. Holiness is really an issue of starving the wrong things and feeding the right things. I felt compelled to pray Matthew 5:6: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled." I'm praying that we'd lose our appetite for ungodly things. I pray that ungodly things would become repulsive to our spiritual taste buds! And I'm praying that our appetite for the things of God would become an insatiable hunger and thirst. I'm praying that we would taste how good God is and become addicted to righteousness.
I continue to sense how important encouragement is. I think the enemy wants to discourage us every time we mess up so we get into a defeatist mind set. The reality is that we are "more than conquerors." In other words, we're not just called to defeat the enemy. We're called to crush him! I was reminded again this morning that one of the mains sources of discouragement is wrong expectations. I think managing our expectations is so important. We need sanctified expectations. If our expectations are too low we'll settle for less than God has planned or promised. If we have the wrong expectations we'll experience disillusionment. I think that is what happens when God doesn't do what I want Him to do when I want Him to do it or how I want him to do it. What we need are the right expectations. We need to know what to believe God for. And we need high expectations because He is able to do "immeasurably more than all we can ask or imagine." God, sanctify my expectations!
One of the guy's prayers really resonated with me today. He prayed, "I pray that we wouldn't just pour cups of coffee. I pray that we would pour cups of spiritual blessing." I'm believing that Ebenezers will be a "divine radiation zone." I'm believing that the presence of God will be the intangible that sets it apart. I'm praying that just as people we're healed by Peter's shadow in Acts 5, I'm praying that Ebenezers would cast a shadow on Capitol Hill. I can't wait to climb down the ladder, get into the pit, and pray God's blessing on the walls and foundation of Ebenezers at our prayer meeting tonight!
I was reminded again that what we starve must die and what we feed must grow. Holiness is really an issue of starving the wrong things and feeding the right things. I felt compelled to pray Matthew 5:6: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled." I'm praying that we'd lose our appetite for ungodly things. I pray that ungodly things would become repulsive to our spiritual taste buds! And I'm praying that our appetite for the things of God would become an insatiable hunger and thirst. I'm praying that we would taste how good God is and become addicted to righteousness.
I continue to sense how important encouragement is. I think the enemy wants to discourage us every time we mess up so we get into a defeatist mind set. The reality is that we are "more than conquerors." In other words, we're not just called to defeat the enemy. We're called to crush him! I was reminded again this morning that one of the mains sources of discouragement is wrong expectations. I think managing our expectations is so important. We need sanctified expectations. If our expectations are too low we'll settle for less than God has planned or promised. If we have the wrong expectations we'll experience disillusionment. I think that is what happens when God doesn't do what I want Him to do when I want Him to do it or how I want him to do it. What we need are the right expectations. We need to know what to believe God for. And we need high expectations because He is able to do "immeasurably more than all we can ask or imagine." God, sanctify my expectations!
One of the guy's prayers really resonated with me today. He prayed, "I pray that we wouldn't just pour cups of coffee. I pray that we would pour cups of spiritual blessing." I'm believing that Ebenezers will be a "divine radiation zone." I'm believing that the presence of God will be the intangible that sets it apart. I'm praying that just as people we're healed by Peter's shadow in Acts 5, I'm praying that Ebenezers would cast a shadow on Capitol Hill. I can't wait to climb down the ladder, get into the pit, and pray God's blessing on the walls and foundation of Ebenezers at our prayer meeting tonight!
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