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At the end of the day, what the disciples wanted was Jesus’ prayer life. They wanted what happened when He closed His eyes and spoke to the Father. They understood there was a way to pray, and they desperately wanted to be taught it. They had connected the dots and discovered that Jesus’ public life of ministry was the direct result of His private life of prayer.
Jesus ministry directly related to prayer
The most impactful point of this story is that Mary sat down and heard Jesus’ words. The greatest impact we can have is when we move with Him in His timing. This is learned through waiting.
Move in his timing, learnt by sitting at His feet
A life at Jesus’ feet looks like sitting long enough until all the other voices, inside and out, are drowned out. As soon as you get serious about this, every distraction under the sun will surface in your mind
Just wait
Something told me then that it wouldn’t come cheaply—that there was a place where voices were formed. Yes, it’s the wilderness. In the same way John went to the desert praying, fasting, and eating the Word for decades, I grew to understand that God was calling me to an intense life of preparation and consecration. It would require a deep devouring of the Word of God so that, in a coming day, I would manifest the nature of Christ through my life and words. This kind of authority in preaching would be fleshed out in my life as the Word becomes flesh in us. In the same way that an electrician
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Journey of exploring bible together with God
God called me. He spoke comfort to my heart, breaking the power of the enemy off me and reconnecting me to His storyline for my life.
Re storied
I’m greatly burdened for this generation of worship leaders, pastors, preachers, and leaders in the Church. In an hour where our worship leaders and communicators are the most polished, the most educated, the most articulate, and the most attractive, there is a painful gap that I’m seeing between the excellence of the presentation and the shallowness of the presentation. Yes, you read that right. I said presentation twice. It’s possible to say something and say nothing at the same time, and I believe we in the American Church have become professionals at it. I know there are exceptions to this
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We need the encounter of God in our meetings
Prayer is on-the-job training, and you grow by doing it. Typically, we want to get all of the understanding about something before we start it. When it comes to prayer, I always tell people to start, and the Holy Spirit will begin to teach them as they pray.
Dont wait to know it all before you pray, just start and God will show you how
“Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven” was what Jesus told them to decree. Note that prayer comes down from the place of revelation. Revelation accesses Heaven, and faith pulls it down. As we become increasingly conscious of our heavenly home around the throne, and we learn to ascend into that realm, a prayer will come out of us. It will say, “Release this in our lives, in our families, in our marriages, in our finances, in our souls, in our churches, in our cities, and in the nations!”
Governmental prayer, declaring the will of God on earth
My definition for the spirit of prayer is the deep awareness and confidence that I have God’s ear, God’s heart, and God’s hand. There is nothing greater in the whole world than walking in unity with God, communing with Him, and releasing His will into the earth, but this confidence is developed in a certain place: in the life of prayer. The life of prayer is the practical, mundane choices that we make every day to prioritize a time and a place, and never let anything or anyone get in the way of this holy place between us and God.
Walking in unity with God, developed by the every day spending time with God
I believe revelation sees the end, and wisdom walks out the journey to get there. Another way to say this is revelation fuels the life of wisdom, and wisdom makes revelation a reality. So, we need both wisdom and revelation.
Wisdom and revelation essential
We must understand there is a structure that God is looking for. It’s built by wisdom. It’s built by our making those daily decisions to increase our capacities. And He will fill our houses because concrete action toward God gets Heaven’s attention.
Wisdom is making the daily choices to prioritise God
contrite
Contrite = broken
There is a life that catches the attention of God. It’s a life that isn’t confident in itself but is broken, tender, and responsive to His Word.
Not the for it all together people, but the broken
It’s in the wilderness of fasting and prayer that the revelation of Jesus’ Sonship was solidified
Fastijng and prayer key to establishing rule of God
If you fall in love with the Word, you will also want to obey and submit to the Word.
Get into reading bible as a passion
We need enflamed hearts in love and expanded minds in understanding and clarity of Scripture. Some seasons we may focus on one over the other, but we must live in the tension, or we will lose our way.
greater understanding of written word of God AND greater passiom for God are vital
Jesus came to send fire, and this fire would not initially bring peace but division. I don’t hear anyone talking about the Jesus who came to bring division so we could have true peace with Him and one another. That’s the nature of His fire. It first exposes, confronts, divides, and judges so that we can have true compatibility with Jesus and each other.
Holy spirit confronts and convicts as well as gives peace
How we come into the unity of the Holy Spirit is by submitting to the Holy Spirit. This is going to bring the Church to rest in God and bring His rest to us. This unity with the Holy Spirit coupled with our bridal identity is going to release a deep anointing of the spirit of prayer.
