The flipside of “holy dissatisfaction” (see yesterday’s post) is holy desire. Holy dissatisfaction arises out of holy desires. It is this holy desiring that Jesus encourages us to bring to our praying: “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will [...]
At 9:00 this evening, about an hour after our Ash Wednesday Service ends, Jennifer Smith will quietly slip into the prayer tent to begin our 24/45 prayer journey. There won’t be any Launch this time. We know how this works. We know what we have to do.
Why 45 days of 24/7? An easy and obvious answer is that Lent is 45 days. Actually, Lent technically lasts 40 days, without the 5 Sundays before Palm Sunday. (Sundays are considered mini-resurrection days, since Jesus rose on the first day of the week.) While the number 40 has several significant associations in the Bible, the most [...]
Okay, here’s the deal. It’s over, but it’s not. When the members of the 24/7 prayer planning team came together on Sunday, most of us had a strong sense that the 24/7 prayer week needed to end when the week was over, and that we were to take the tent down IMMEDIATELY. The Israelites of old [...]
“So what if nothing happened?”
No one has said this to me exactly, but I know you’re out there. Maybe you’re too embarrassed to say anything, or too disappointed. Maybe you’ve been trying to come up with some explanation as to why nothing happened, which I’m guessing has only piled self-judgment onto your feelings of disappointment. [...]
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