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Friday
05Mar2010

Time to Respond

DateFriday, March 5, 2010 at 11:06PM | Print ArticlePrint Article

I am VERY excited with the launch of the Awaken 2010 website! Awaken is a conference that House of Prayer is hosting on May 7-8. It's only 9 weeks away (hard to believe it's getting so close!) Huge thanks to Eric Brooks for his great work on this!

This week the latest edition of the Living Light News came out and in it there is a large full colour advertisement for the Awaken conference. We are very grateful to LLN for this opportunity and to Chad Friesen from Studio Idee who did the graphic design work. 

We have also set up a Facebook group for Awaken 2010.

Today we had some very powerful times on intercessory worship for the conference. There is a great planning team in place for this event who are doing a lot of work, however it is essential that God pours our His Spirit on this conference. We are praying that the Lord will gather people from all over the Edmonton area. We need God to stir and awaken people to hear His voice and respond.

Stay tuned to my blog over the next few weeks to stay up to date on the latest details and thoughts about the Awaken conference.

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Monday
01Mar2010

Teaching

DateMonday, March 1, 2010 at 9:43PM | Print ArticlePrint Article

One of the things that I've been wanting to develop is my ability to teach my kids to pray. I spend a lot of time leading others in prayer and teaching and modelling prayer, but not so much with my kids. There are lots of reasons for this but they are really just excuses. Some better than others, but nevertheless, excuses.

I want my kids to grow up with a love for prayer. I know that they need to grow into it themselves and be led by the Spirit in their own way, but I'm often reminded of Pam's description from her childhood of having clear memories of her father praying in the living room early in the morning. 

Tonight I made a positive step in that direction. Taking time to read the Bible with Rebekah and talk to her about prayer and then to actually pray with her and over her for some areas of her life. Rebekah is 10 now and she is definitely growing up and there is a window of opportunity to speak into her life that I'm eager to make the most of.

My work with House of Prayer Edmonton is important, but it's more important that I model prayer to my kids than to anyone else. May God continue to help me and give me wisdom to walk this out!

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Tuesday
23Feb2010

Radical or Enthusiastic

DateTuesday, February 23, 2010 at 6:44AM | Print ArticlePrint Article

I felt this morning that the Spirit said to me that 'there is a difference between radical and enthusiastic'.

There are many times when I can get pretty enthusiastic, but that should not be confused or mistaken for being radical. To me, enthusiasm comes and goes; it is more of a temporary state of mind but doesn't translate into ongoing action. A person who is radical is one who consistently walks in a direction or on a path that is not the common direction or path. (obviously that can both be positive or negative; being radical is not automatically a good thing)

I'm thinking about Jesus today and realizing that I want to be radical in the way Jesus was radical!

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Friday
19Feb2010

Transformation

DateFriday, February 19, 2010 at 6:41AM | Print ArticlePrint Article

I've been reading Isaiah 61:9 and have been quite impacted by it:

Their descendants will be known among the nations and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the Lord has blessed.

This is a passage speaking of the power of God touching his people and bringing about such a transformation that the nations will recognize it as being the hand of the Lord. We read later on that the transformation will be one of sanctification (lived out righteousness).

Here's what's getting to me: We seem (I seem!) so far from that experience right now. How much I need the mercy of God. I am motivated in a fresh way to pray what Paul prayed in 1 Thessalonians 5:23

May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one how calls you is faithful and he will do it.

Righteousness is our 'legal position' before God because of Christ; Sanctification is our 'living condition' or lived out righteousness. This is a very powerful prayer and promise for us, especially in relation to Isaiah 61 and 62.

Anyhow, that's what's on my mind these days. Today is Friday and tonight we begin the 24 hours of prayer at West Ed. Mall, so I'm quite excited about that. (starts at 7 p.m.)

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Tuesday
16Feb2010

Prayers for Healing

DateTuesday, February 16, 2010 at 8:07AM | Print ArticlePrint Article

Well today as I get ready to head off to the prayer room, I am fighting sickness; not feeling good but not so bad that I'm going to make others sick!

It's better than yesterday, for which I'm grateful because yesterday was just nasty! Honestly though, I'm glad to be going to the prayer room because I'll have lots of opportunity to pray for healing; not only mine but others as well. There's something refreshing and right about being able to go and sit in the Presence of God in an atmosphere of worship and prayer with other believers that I believe releases the anointing to heal the sick.

So off I go! 

bless your day!

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