BOLD Prayers

"PRAY BOLD PRAYERS for your church!  The early church prayed for boldness…we pray for safety.  The early church prayed for people to come to Christ…we pray for sister so & so’s hangnail!  The early church prayed for the church to expand and the Gospel to advance…we pray that we can keep our churches small and safe.  Let’s BEG God for things to happen in our churches that are UNEXPLAINABLE and UNDENIABLE so that HE can receive ALL the glory!"

I took this quote from Ps Perry Nobles blog today. How amazing, true and convicting this is for us today. 

If we want to see God do big things then we must begin to expect that he can do it and so ASK Him to do it!

Your prayers will reveal to others the 'size' of the God you serve. Simply asking for more small debts to be paid, small illnesses to be healed or small relationships to be mended isn't enough. It shows that you only expect God to be able to handle the remedial small tasks. But let me challenge you to begin to ask God for BIG things. Ask him for complete healing, uncountable salvation's, and larger platforms to shout his fame.

I dare you. 

Remember its not about us, our platform or profile. The purpose of praying the BIG prayer is to allow God to move into our situation and do that thing which only He can do, so that only He will receive the Glory.

PRAY BOLDLY. 

Lk

A Prayer for you to Pray.

"Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too well pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we have dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.

Disturb us, Lord, when
With the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wider seas
Where storms will show your mastery;
Where losing sight of land,
We shall find the stars.

We ask You to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push into the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love."

attributed - Sir Francis Drake -1577

13/02/11 New Venue!

Hey all, this Sunday is going to be a Stellar day in the life of our Church!
Be praying and come expectant for great things, don't forget to invite your family, friends, neighbors and dog walkers!

The song list for this Sunday is as follows;
Moving Forward- Lakewood
Nothing is impossible- Planetshakers
You- Hillsong
Believe- Hillsong
Awakening- Chris Tomlin

See you all bright and early (8am) for set up and sound check!
Lk



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Abound in Love

This week leading up to our first GEN night (Youth and Young adults) the team and I have decided to read through the book of Philippians and share our thoughts on what God is saying to us. I just finished the first chapter and really felt this verse stick out to me;
"And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight." 1:9 (find the full chapter here)

Basically it's saying that the more we learn about God, then the more in love we should fall with God and His people. When reading the bible and filling ourselves with its great revelations there is an opportunity for us to disconnect is contents with our actions and behaviors. We can learn so much that we get fed up with the world as it is and instead distance ourselves from it.
Likewise, I've experienced this in life when relating to people. I'm sure you can identify it in your life as well; the more we learn about someone, the more time we spend with them and the more we watch them in action, basically 'doing life' with each other. The more we will have an opportunity to see their flaws, failings and weaknesses.

We must not let this influx of information on a person, especially our Christian family, ruin the love that we have for them. Don't let the weakness or flaws of a friend stop you from growing in love with them.

As Christians our difference shouldn't be that we are perfect, but that we can have an abundance of LOVE for imperfect people.

Lk.