Luke 24:49
Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.
Acts 1:8
But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
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MATT CANDLER
Father we come before you and we lift up all those in the work place who love your son this morning. As they are making their way to their places of work, we gather before your throne and we bring your promises back to you. We speak them into your holy heart. Father you have promised that if we would gather, if we would tarry, if we would wait in a receptive posture before you, to hear your word, to seek your light to gaze upon you, to take your word and to turn it back in to prayer to you, that you would pour out your Spirit, that you would in fact endue your people with power even as you did in Jerusalem - with power from on high.
. . . Lord we bring before you the work force of our city, all those who love you, and all those you love, the ones you are committed to fight for; those you desire to send out as salt and light, to preserve the very fabric of our society, and to lift up the light of your countenance. We lift them up to you and we ask, oh that you would pour out your Spirit upon them; that you would endue them with power. We pray for power upon their hearts, power upon their arms, power upon their inner man and the stretching forth of their hands, that you would establish the working of their hands in the beauty of the Lord.
. . . Father we ask that you would pour out your Spirit and endue them with power from on high. We thank you that you are not a God who is far off and distant; that you are a God so very near, that you have made your home within us. Lord we ask today that you would endue them with power. We pray for the mothers, God, training their children at home, for all those working in every area of life, that you would send them out with power upon their hearts, and power upon their hands, that they would be witnesses unto you, light in the dark places, that they would be salt and light preserving the glory of your purposes among the people they meet.
. . . We ask you today Father, in the name of Jesus, that you would look upon all those in the work force who love you, and today as we tarry, pour out your Spirit and endue them with power. In Jesus name we pray God, pour out your Spirit.
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Chorus:
Endue them with power from on high;
Look down from heaven and shine your light.
(repeat)
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Baptism
This . . .
I was driving in Missouri this past weekend and stopped at a
Wal-Mart Super Center. It had all the regular departments, you know - The Wal-Mart Food Center, The Wal-Mart Tire and Lube,
The Wal-Mart 1-Hour Photo and . . .
The Wal-Mart Liquor Store. What????
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That . . .
I believe that baptism by immersion is required of those who recieve Jesus as Lord and Saviour. I am not really sure why, since I don't believe that it is a requirement of salvation. I guess the main reason is that Jesus said to do it, enough said.
I was sprinkled as a baby and have wanted for a few years to be immersed, but the opportunity never came up . . . until this week-end. The International House Of Prayer in KC had a baptism service this past week-end and so my son Elliott and I were both baptised along with about 25 others. It was good, very affirming and cleansing for me and I believe significant in the eyes of God.
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This is That . . .
It is a powerful thing to take the word of God and turn it into prayer. That is really what prayer is, taking what God says in His word and saying it back to Him.
The prayer leaders at IHOP will usually begin by giving a scripture they will be praying from. Then they read the scripture and pray accordingly. To continue, the singers will then begin to sing the scripture and the prayer back to God again.
Over the coming days, I intend to transcribe some of the daily house of prayer prayers. I will give the scripture and then the prayer and who is praying, changing it only slightly to make it more personal.
If you so desire, I encourage you to take the prayer and make it your own as well.
I was driving in Missouri this past weekend and stopped at a
Wal-Mart Super Center. It had all the regular departments, you know - The Wal-Mart Food Center, The Wal-Mart Tire and Lube,
The Wal-Mart 1-Hour Photo and . . .
The Wal-Mart Liquor Store. What????
.
That . . .
I believe that baptism by immersion is required of those who recieve Jesus as Lord and Saviour. I am not really sure why, since I don't believe that it is a requirement of salvation. I guess the main reason is that Jesus said to do it, enough said.
I was sprinkled as a baby and have wanted for a few years to be immersed, but the opportunity never came up . . . until this week-end. The International House Of Prayer in KC had a baptism service this past week-end and so my son Elliott and I were both baptised along with about 25 others. It was good, very affirming and cleansing for me and I believe significant in the eyes of God.
.
This is That . . .
It is a powerful thing to take the word of God and turn it into prayer. That is really what prayer is, taking what God says in His word and saying it back to Him.
The prayer leaders at IHOP will usually begin by giving a scripture they will be praying from. Then they read the scripture and pray accordingly. To continue, the singers will then begin to sing the scripture and the prayer back to God again.
Over the coming days, I intend to transcribe some of the daily house of prayer prayers. I will give the scripture and then the prayer and who is praying, changing it only slightly to make it more personal.
If you so desire, I encourage you to take the prayer and make it your own as well.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty
This . . .
Hebrews 4:16
Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
Can this be true? Can we really approach the throne room of God and find grace to help us in our time of need?
Only by the blood of Jesus that washes us clean and makes us righteous.
Only because the veil was rent in two making it possible for us to enter in.
Only because of God's great love and his desire to have us with him.
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That . . .
God is holy. As Misty Edwards says, He is completely other than.
He is so good he takes our breath away.
He is so powerful, we dare not be in his presence lest we die, yet he bids us to come.
He is full of light, full of truth, full of power, full of holiness.
He is holy.
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This is That . . .
Here we are God. Before your throne of grace.
Here we are God, we come before your mercy seat.
I can see the lightning; I can feel the thunder.
I can hear the voices proceeding from your throne.
Twenty four elders bowing low; Casting down their crowns of gold.
Four living creatures crying out day and night, night and day.
And only one word comes to mind;
There's only one word to describe.
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.
There is no one like you God.
You are completely other than . . . You are holy.
Hebrews 4:16
Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
Can this be true? Can we really approach the throne room of God and find grace to help us in our time of need?
Only by the blood of Jesus that washes us clean and makes us righteous.
Only because the veil was rent in two making it possible for us to enter in.
Only because of God's great love and his desire to have us with him.
.
That . . .
God is holy. As Misty Edwards says, He is completely other than.
He is so good he takes our breath away.
He is so powerful, we dare not be in his presence lest we die, yet he bids us to come.
He is full of light, full of truth, full of power, full of holiness.
He is holy.
.
This is That . . .
Here we are God. Before your throne of grace.
Here we are God, we come before your mercy seat.
I can see the lightning; I can feel the thunder.
I can hear the voices proceeding from your throne.
Twenty four elders bowing low; Casting down their crowns of gold.
Four living creatures crying out day and night, night and day.
And only one word comes to mind;
There's only one word to describe.
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.
There is no one like you God.
You are completely other than . . . You are holy.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Big Bird . . .Big God
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This . . .
Here is a quote from some Fox news guy commenting on the Democratic presidential race:
"We know less about what we know than what we don't know".
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That . . .
I was filling the birdfeeder that hangs on our back patio and our cat Jasper (better known as Bullwinkle or Jasperado) was watching me. With a smile on his big cat face and his eyes wide open, I could hear him thinking,
"Bird Bait!".
Another thought about the birds. Who fed the birds in the winter before people started feeding them? I guess they just all starved to death back then. I get the feeling that the same birds just keep coming back day after day, it's not like they take turns, or tell the other birds all about it, That's why many of them are so fat.
So one bird was talking to another bird, "Wow, you look like you have been eating really well.
Where are you finding this mother lode of seed?"
"Oh, I just scratch around here and there hoping to find a little something", the well fed bird replied.
"Yeah right," the first bird says,"you've been eating at the James house. That's why you're so fat you can't fly. That's why everyone yells, run for your lives - he's landing. That's why they call you waddle the honkin' Robin!"
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This is That . . .
Admitted very bad segue from Big Bird to Big God.
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God is not just big; He is huge, massive, preponderant, paramount, all powerful, all glorious, all mighty, all righteous, autonomous, and self sustaining. In summation “God is in the Heavens and whatever He pleases He does.”(Ps.115)
. . .
The glory of the gospel is that we now have access to a very, very big God. We now have the ability to know and love our God free from shame, and damnation. The cross was a means to a greater end; us. Jesus gladly took on the cross, and scorned its shame, for the joy (us being with Him) that was set before Him.
Zach Hensley
Read the whole thing at http://zackhensley.wordpress.com/
This . . .
Here is a quote from some Fox news guy commenting on the Democratic presidential race:
"We know less about what we know than what we don't know".
.
That . . .
I was filling the birdfeeder that hangs on our back patio and our cat Jasper (better known as Bullwinkle or Jasperado) was watching me. With a smile on his big cat face and his eyes wide open, I could hear him thinking,
"Bird Bait!".
Another thought about the birds. Who fed the birds in the winter before people started feeding them? I guess they just all starved to death back then. I get the feeling that the same birds just keep coming back day after day, it's not like they take turns, or tell the other birds all about it, That's why many of them are so fat.
So one bird was talking to another bird, "Wow, you look like you have been eating really well.
Where are you finding this mother lode of seed?"
"Oh, I just scratch around here and there hoping to find a little something", the well fed bird replied.
"Yeah right," the first bird says,"you've been eating at the James house. That's why you're so fat you can't fly. That's why everyone yells, run for your lives - he's landing. That's why they call you waddle the honkin' Robin!"
.
This is That . . .
Admitted very bad segue from Big Bird to Big God.
.
God is not just big; He is huge, massive, preponderant, paramount, all powerful, all glorious, all mighty, all righteous, autonomous, and self sustaining. In summation “God is in the Heavens and whatever He pleases He does.”(Ps.115)
. . .
The glory of the gospel is that we now have access to a very, very big God. We now have the ability to know and love our God free from shame, and damnation. The cross was a means to a greater end; us. Jesus gladly took on the cross, and scorned its shame, for the joy (us being with Him) that was set before Him.
Zach Hensley
Read the whole thing at http://zackhensley.wordpress.com/
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Unity of Believers to Reach the Nations
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This . . .
Matthew 24:14
And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
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That . . .
A historic meeting of international mission leaders and prayer leaders was recently held from Jan. 29- Feb. 1, 2008 in Florida called the Call2All-Orlando. www.call2all.com It was historic, because it brought together many powerful mission organizations with an army of intercessors.
Mark Anderson gave leadership to this “by invitation only” gathering which was attended by 600 leaders including the CEOs of 170 of the primary mission organizations in the world along with the leaders of international prayer ministries. Among the 170, were the two largest mission organizations in history, Campus Crusade For Christ and Youth With A Mission. Together these two have 50,000 full time staff members and 500,000 part time staff members.
The purpose of the meeting was to strategize and round table the most efficient way to evangelize the people in all the nations (ethnos groups) of the world who are yet unreached.
To do this they have divided the earth into 4,000 individual sections. Twenty major languages are spoken in these 4,000 sections with 6,000 dialects, and there are 12,000 distinct cultures or ethnic groups. There are 232 nations, but 12,000 ethnic groups, and these are those that the gospel of the kingdom will be preached in.
This number of mission ministries has never before come together with this kind of focus, and by working together in unity, under a powerful cover of prayer, they believe that this gospel will be preached to the ends of the earth in from 10 to 20 years.
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This is That . . .
The International House Of Prayer in KC is taking leadership to bring all the prayer ministries across the earth together to pray for all these mission groups as they endeavor to preach the gospel to each of these 4,000 sections, 232 nations and 12,000 ethnic groups.
The plan is to encourage every prayer ministry (any group that gathers to pray at least once a week) to do three things.
1. Adopt one (at the most two) missionary groups to pray for. This would be a long time commitment and would not consist of blanket prayers, but would require close communication with the mission ministry to find out what they are doing, where they are going, when things are happening, etc, and covering these efforts in prayer.
2. Adopt no more than three missionaries and pray for them as above.
3. Adopt one of the 4,000 areas, get educated about that area and pray accordingly.
.
The goal is to bring all of the mission efforts and all of the prayer efforts into unity. Every area covered in prayer and targeted by a mission ministry. Every mission group and every missionary blanketed with prayer by intercessors all over the earth.
.
What a plan. What a mighty God we serve
God is moving, things are happening, and all at a rapid pace.
Keep your eyes on Jesus, and don't blink . . .
or you might miss something.
.
This . . .
Matthew 24:14
And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
.
That . . .
A historic meeting of international mission leaders and prayer leaders was recently held from Jan. 29- Feb. 1, 2008 in Florida called the Call2All-Orlando. www.call2all.com It was historic, because it brought together many powerful mission organizations with an army of intercessors.
Mark Anderson gave leadership to this “by invitation only” gathering which was attended by 600 leaders including the CEOs of 170 of the primary mission organizations in the world along with the leaders of international prayer ministries. Among the 170, were the two largest mission organizations in history, Campus Crusade For Christ and Youth With A Mission. Together these two have 50,000 full time staff members and 500,000 part time staff members.
The purpose of the meeting was to strategize and round table the most efficient way to evangelize the people in all the nations (ethnos groups) of the world who are yet unreached.
To do this they have divided the earth into 4,000 individual sections. Twenty major languages are spoken in these 4,000 sections with 6,000 dialects, and there are 12,000 distinct cultures or ethnic groups. There are 232 nations, but 12,000 ethnic groups, and these are those that the gospel of the kingdom will be preached in.
This number of mission ministries has never before come together with this kind of focus, and by working together in unity, under a powerful cover of prayer, they believe that this gospel will be preached to the ends of the earth in from 10 to 20 years.
.
This is That . . .
The International House Of Prayer in KC is taking leadership to bring all the prayer ministries across the earth together to pray for all these mission groups as they endeavor to preach the gospel to each of these 4,000 sections, 232 nations and 12,000 ethnic groups.
The plan is to encourage every prayer ministry (any group that gathers to pray at least once a week) to do three things.
1. Adopt one (at the most two) missionary groups to pray for. This would be a long time commitment and would not consist of blanket prayers, but would require close communication with the mission ministry to find out what they are doing, where they are going, when things are happening, etc, and covering these efforts in prayer.
2. Adopt no more than three missionaries and pray for them as above.
3. Adopt one of the 4,000 areas, get educated about that area and pray accordingly.
.
The goal is to bring all of the mission efforts and all of the prayer efforts into unity. Every area covered in prayer and targeted by a mission ministry. Every mission group and every missionary blanketed with prayer by intercessors all over the earth.
.
What a plan. What a mighty God we serve
God is moving, things are happening, and all at a rapid pace.
Keep your eyes on Jesus, and don't blink . . .
or you might miss something.
.
Sunday, February 03, 2008
"The Call" Superbowl
This . . .
"The Call" Florida - Spectacular.
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That . . .
Superbowl XLII Halftime show with Tom Petty - Average.
The fans with lighters in their hands - boring.
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This is That . . .
How about this for next year?
Superbowl XLIII Halftime Call with Lou Engle.
Twelve minutes of worship, repentance and rapid fire (short pointed prayers).
It's not a show . . . It's a fast.
Can you imagine a Super Bowl half-time where two or three thousand Intercessors would run on the field to engage with God for twelve minutes in prayer and worship, not with lighters in their hands, but with fire in their hearts? - Not Boring.
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Just a word about this years game.
Nobody thought the Giants would win, but they did.
Maybe Huckabee will win too.
"The Call" Florida - Spectacular.
.
That . . .
Superbowl XLII Halftime show with Tom Petty - Average.
The fans with lighters in their hands - boring.
.
This is That . . .
How about this for next year?
Superbowl XLIII Halftime Call with Lou Engle.
Twelve minutes of worship, repentance and rapid fire (short pointed prayers).
It's not a show . . . It's a fast.
Can you imagine a Super Bowl half-time where two or three thousand Intercessors would run on the field to engage with God for twelve minutes in prayer and worship, not with lighters in their hands, but with fire in their hearts? - Not Boring.
.
Just a word about this years game.
Nobody thought the Giants would win, but they did.
Maybe Huckabee will win too.
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Join The Army
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This . . .
Sound the trumpet.
Answer The Call
Join The Army to Pray for Home and Country.
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That . . .
Did anyone tune in to
"The Call Florida" today?
Rappin' the name of Jesus. Lifting Him higher and higher and higher.
Lou Engle is relentless.
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An army of intercession is being raised up over the earth.
It is relentless.
Jesus is relentless, He cannot be stopped.
Worship and Intercession coming together to pray for every Mission Organization across the earth so that this Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in all the world to every nation, to every region, to every city, to every neighborhood, to every home, to every person.
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This is That . . .
UCBONES
ICANARMY
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