Angst and Prayer - Assignment and Power

Explosion in God’s Grace

On May 1st, Our National Day of Prayer in the United States, four congregations came together for praise, prayer, and communion.  Tabitha Baptist, Quail Springs Church of Christ, Catedral de Adoracion, and Integrity Voice of Victory.  It was phenomenal.  Thanks so much to these visionary congregations.  They are committed to ministering to all segments of the

 2008 of Angst and Power

Prayer For Power in the Metro of Our Life

 Your metro is where you live.  Your mind is a metro.  Your family is a metro.  Your friendships, workplace, home, community, neighborhood, city, county, state, nation, group, or team is your metro.  Take Jesus into that metro and the world begins to change to conform to the rulership of His love and life and liberty.  The kingdom advances one more step.

 

 2 Corinthians 12:9
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.

  

It is without question that angst and prayer are inextricable partners.  Life in Jesus means these two will meet at the most inappropriate moments.   Prayer brings power and powerful answers.  Prayer brings responsibility to use that power on behalf of others.

 

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

When we are looking for victorious acclamations from our Father, He assigns us to some.  Like Jonah, we begin looking for any other location.  Angst enters our prayer closet.

 

When we are ready to settle in our lifestyle to comfort and leisure, He bumps us heartily with a challenge to speak out against some injustice.   Like Moses, we at once want the heavens to rain fire and all people to be saved.  Angst slithers into the prayer room and constricts our thoughts.

 

When we are poised to pounce on the enemies of Christ, He softly whispers for us to love our enemies and speak well of those that persecute us.   Like Paul, we find ourselves speaking the gospel of love to the one that wants to kill us.  Angst booms into our prison cell and even asks us to stay an extra day in prayer on behalf of those that confound us.

 

When we are standing on the hill of victory over disease and pain, a still small voice prods us that His grace is sufficient for this moment.  Like Peter, we look for joy full of glory while dodging arrows of attack.  Angst twists our expectations and we are thrown aback in prayer for endurance and deliverance together.

 

Let us pray:

Father, our metro gets so tied up in angst.  Our thoughts, our family, our friends, our neighborhood, our community, our business, our schools, our government, our nation, and our congregation look for the day of deliverance while living in the day of endurance.  You speak to us to obey and do what seems so hard.  Yet, we are confident all the day You provide ample strength for any task in front of us. 

 Father, teach us to laugh in the face of angst and anxiety.  Teach us to hope in the moment of despair.  Teach us to joy in the present persecutions.  Teach us to run into the camp of destruction to rescue those who have no hope, who have no joy, and who have no Christ.  To such a moment we are called and dispatched.

 We pray for deliverance from our situation and You call us to step into deeper waters on behalf of others.  The conflict in our souls becomes great.  Only courage from the throne of grace will carry us.  Pour out that grace.  Pour out that courage.  Pour out that hope.  Pour out that joy.

 Father, we commit to be the warriors of love and joy and peace and righteousness in the Holy Spirit.  Lead us into pure obedience when all we want is to be delivered.  We pray.  We pray.  We pray.

 

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community.  Pastors Jeff Mitchell, Mark Henderson, Lemuel Garcia, and Charles Martin are setting the pace for outreach to all.  These congregations come from the  North, South, East, and West of our metro.  They represent four streams of the church of Church of Christ, Baptist, Charismatic, and Independent.  They represent multiple races.

 

 

 

 

In 1988, after many years of ministry in conference rooms, homes, streets, prisons, and wherever; my ministry career took a decided turn with ordination.  That event is a mile marker.

In speaking with my mom earlier this year, she encouraged me to never give up working in the community as a minister.  Though we are strongly in different “faith camps”, we walk together in Christ.  That is the message God has emblazoned on my heart.  It is not whether we are ecclesiastical, evangelical, entrepreneurial, or ecumenical that impresses Him most.  He is impressed when we embrace all men and women as worthy of being connected to Him.  He is impressed most when we

strive to live in the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace..  It is God’s plan for this season. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Sabbatical season is over.  My expectation was that it would go another year.  It is over.  It is time to move out and see God’s hand take precedence over our ideas.

On January 23rd, there was a celebration at Catedral de Adoracion with a fresh anointing for ministry.  This marked a launching for me into the next 20 years and a break point for PrayerMetro.  More than ever before, we will work to under gird ministries with prayer  That day will be the publication date, also, for Ephesians Praying for the Saints.  Some 10 years of prayer and study have gone into the making of this workbook of prayer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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