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Twitter Prayer

October 6, 2009 in Uncategorized with 1 Comment

1 Thessalonians 5: 16-18 “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you”

Do you pray? I have to admit I don’t always have the best prayer life. Everyday things seem to get in the way of my devotional time. Something may come up and I push off my devotional reading and time I spend with God.

So I sat down the other day to think about my prayer life and things that I could do to improve my prayer life. God lead me to the above verses in 1 Thessalonians….In this letter Paul is telling the Thessalonians (and us) what the will of God is, and that is to pray without ceasing. So how do we do that? This does not mean that we need to be talking with God 24/7 – but what we can do is to thank God for all the little things that happen in our daily life.

For example, if we get up in the morning, we can say “thank you God for another day” – if we are not feeling well we can pray for help “Oh God, help me through the day” If someone cuts us off while we are diving to work, the store, or to school we can pray “God please protect them as they drive today and give them what they need to be a safe driver.” These are short prayers to God that can happen a number of times throughout the day. These are Twitter prayers!!!

For those who might not know Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers.

So our prayers could be like tweets to God – short, to the point and we can say a number of things: “Here I am send me” – “You are the potter, I am the clay” – “The Lord is my Shepherd” – Most of these prayers can be said in one breath and said over and over again. They can be there to help us with whatever we are going through – to focus our life and our energy on the one who created us and who loves us. Hopefully God then will tweet back.

Monday Morning Church

May 11, 2009 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

Good Monday Morning!!

Transitions….

I have had transitions on my mind the past few weeks.  This might not be a surprise to many of you – life is full of transitions, we experience them all the time.  Here are some of the transitions in my life right now…..

  1. We are moving this upcoming weekend so once again we will pack up our lives in boxes and move into a new home, but it will be a home we hope   to be at for many, many years.
  2. New ministry partner, as many of you know this upcoming Sunday is Allison Henry’s last Sunday at St. Mark’s.  We will begin a search for a new Minister of Music (a transition).
  3. We have been making the transition for Logan from being a regular kid to becoming a School-Age kid as he beings kindergarten in the fall.

These are only a few of the transitions in my life right now – I am sure that you are experiencing your own transitions in your lives.


God is the master at putting us in different situations that may challenge us and in turn give us little choice but to rely completely upon him. If we’re seeking God’s face it’s because God is preparing to move us into a situation that is better for us and will leave us in a place to be more effective for him. Still, it can be uncomfortable, scary, and upsetting — but then again it can be exciting, interesting, and satisfying.  We may even have all these feelings at one time!  We do not know what God’s plan is for us, all we can do is rely on God to see us through the ups and downs in our lives and trust in the one who gave his son for us, the one who loves us unconditionally.

This becomes more clear in the letter from 1 Corinthians 2:7-10 (The Message)
“God’s wisdom is something mysterious that goes deep into the interior of his purposes. You don’t find it lying around on the surface. It’s not the latest message, but more like the oldest—what God determined as the way to bring out his best in us, long before we ever arrived on the scene. The experts of our day haven’t a clue about what this eternal plan is. If they had, they wouldn’t have killed the Master of the God-designed life on a cross. That’s why we have this Scripture text:

No one’s ever seen or heard anything like this,
Never so much as imagined anything quite like it—
What God has arranged for those who love him.
But you’ve seen and heard it because God by his Spirit has brought it all out into the open before you.”

God promises us that the Holy Spirit is with us.  God knows the very heart of our lives and through all the transitions, from the least to the greatest God is there guiding things, even when that might be hard to see.  As we face the transitions in our lives, I pray that we are able to keep our eyes on God, the great director of our life.

Prayer

Gentle Shepherd, lead us as we walk with one another in times of transition in our lives.  Flood the eyes of our hearts, so we can know your will.  Holy Spirit, keep us humble and full of thanksgiving, Direct our path.  Give us wisdom and unity.  Thank You, Jesus, for the many blessings You’ve already showered down upon us.  Bless us, Lord, as we give You the glory. We will go, Lord, where You lead us. Amen