Good Morning Abiding Pray-ers! Consider abiding, listening and releasing in prayer . God wants us to release His will in powerful prayers. We hear Him as we still ourselves and dwell in His presence in preparation for the day ahead. We can also see and hear Him as we follow daily. He is active and invites us to come join Him, pray and sometimes even be an answer to those prayers. We need to be familiar with Him and His voice. We need to watch for His activity throughout the day prepared and ready to join Him. We need to know when He is inviting us to pray, join, and serve with Him and then have a heart ready to join. Are you ready? Still yourself in His loving presence and load up for the day ahead. Listen and release according to His will. Yes pray for His Kingdom to come and will to be done and ask for it to begin in you. He has some awesome plans ahead. Rejoice and prepare! I 'm praying for you! I'm also praying for Kingdom stories to come alive. What's your story? What's your I was one way and now another experience to share? Remember when we used to have Kingdom Stories Sundays once a month. I think we should do that again (and Bathe in Prayer Sundays)! What stories and praises do you have to share of what God's done and doing? What do we as His Body need to bathe in prayer? Those are great questions that lead to worship and work as stepping off in faith launch pads. What's God saying to you? Who needs to hear it? Make a list of 1-3 people that need prayer or need to hear your story and then pray and share. Amen!
Engage with your devotionals in your quiet time. I'm sharing one as a reminder from Sarah Young and the connections blogs as prayer starters for . Be still, listen, receive and release as you go and serve with Jesus! Praying for you all! Shalom!
This is my prayer calendar thought for . May it kick things off for you as it did for me! He really loves you and is calling you to join Him as you dwell in His loving presence and prepare for the day! Yes, rejoice!
Sarah Young
Connection blogs:
- Releasing the Grace of God into the World
“In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name” (John 16:23).
Praying disciples are working disciples. When they pray and work, Jesus works in and through them, and great things happen.
Their prayers, to be effective, had to be prayers in Jesus’ name. “In Jesus’ name” is not a pass code to get us into heaven’s throne room. A prayer in Jesus’ name is a prayer that is in accord with His will. It’s what Jesus would have prayed were He physically present.
They were able to pray in His name because they had His mind and His heart. When we truly want what God wants and turn such desires into prayer, those prayers will be prayers in Jesus’ name. When the Spirit of truth lives in us and makes God’s will known to us, we will pray in Jesus’ name. Praying in Jesus’ name makes intercession work. Both our asking and the Father’s giving depend on it. Such prayers will not be prayers for special favors related to worldly comforts or personal pleasures. They will be prayers by which God’s grace is released in the lives of those we pray for.
Jesus didn’t make this promise just to His twelve disciples. When He said, “Anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing,” He was including you, if you are a believer, and me and about two billion other believers in the world . What a great and far-reaching plan. Imagine what would happen in the world if all two billion of us stepped out into works of service and, at the same time, asked Him to work in and through us. Would that be world-changing or what? That is what Jesus had in mind when He spoke these words. That is how He intends to “bring glory to the Father.” In Jesus’ way of thinking we are not just believers; we are His praying servants doing great works as He works His works in us. We are intercessors accomplishing His will and releasing His power and love in the world.
Spirit of Truth, teach me to have the mind and heart of Jesus and to pray in ways that release Your grace into the lives of others. Use me to change the world and to bring glory to the Father! In Jesus’ Name I ask these things!
Praise God, whose mind and imagination created the stars, the earth, and the life of all creatures.
Give thanks for the reaches of God’s knowledge, which far exceeds the limits of the human mind.
Confess the times in this past week when you have leaned on your own understanding and not followed the teachings of the Lord (Hos. 14:9).
Commit yourself to studying the Bible regularly to learn what God has to teach you.
Ask the Lord to make his Word as sweet as honey (Ps. 19:10).
Pray for young adults and their parents, that the teaching of the Lord may be a living faith passed down from parent to child.
Prayer Points taken from Patterns for Prayer by Alvin VanderGriend. This book is available at prayerleader.com. Use the code CONPSP3 at checkout to receive an additional 10% discount.
