So remember my last blog saying that I wanted this month to
be a month of prayer? Well God is awesome (as always. Haha.) and he totally
answered this request.
On Sunday during church service, Pastor said that next week
is going to be a week of prayer everyday from 6-7. I was like, wow, I want to
join that. I didn’t know whether he meant 6am or 6pm but I was determined to go
everyday.
God has since been teaching me a lot about prayer. I just
listened to Graham Cooke’s sermon on listening prayer and here are some very
good points that I learned.
Prayer
is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.
Worship
is not enough. A lot of times when we are worshipping, there is a two way
transaction that we are fixed on. We worship because we want the presence of
God. There is a higher place of worship than that where we learn how to
minister to the Lord. We come and we want nothing for ourselves. We just want
to spend time worshipping. Let’s ‘waste’ the whole evening on God.
Persevering
prayer does not mean praying continuously for long periods of time. It means
having the same level of power, faith, passion, intensity of praying on the 75th
time as you did on the first time.
If God
helps you to shape the prayer He wants you to pray, He is giving you the
answer, a “Yes”. Because it says in 1 John 5:14-15
This is the
confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his
will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us – whatever we ask – we know
that we have what we asked of him.
*(By the way, this is an excellent sermon. I highly suggest
you listen to it. “Stillness” by Graham Cooke)
Today was the first day we went to the prayer meeting since
yesterday was our day off. It is so good to see people coming together because
they really want to seek the face of God.
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Chronicles 7:14-15
If my people,
who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and
turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive
their sin and will heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears
attentive to the prayers offered in this place.
As I was praying, I was reminded by how I actually disliked
praying before coming on the Race. I knew prayers were powerful but I never
believed that mine were. Until I was called out during Training Camp and I
began to believe that my prayers are powerful. And now here I am, desiring that
this month be a month of prayer.
I was really excited to find out that there is a prayer
mountain here in Uganda last month through a missionary we met and I really
desire to go there and just pray and seek His will. To ‘find out what God wants
to do and then ask Him to do it.’ A prayer that God can’t possible refuse,
right? J
Still not sure what our ‘ministry’ is this month yet. But
the church and the pastor that we are working with are really really cool. The
love of God is really evident here. Will update more once we find out!
