And We Prayed....

Below is a list of items to pray for concerning SOLUTION that is now less than 3 weeks away! I want to encourage you to join with us in prayer as we know this conference will be the highlight of this first half of the year...maybe you have the time to just join with us in prayer each day concerning each of these matters!

Prayer List:

1. SOLUTION ‘10 - pray that God’s will be done in our lives, and pray that we become the full disciples He is calling us to be. Pray for your own life and for others that we would all reach a new level of consecration in our lives. We all need breakthrough to the next phase of consecration.

2. Pray for God’s Spirit to reign during SOLUTION. He has complete freedom to do what He wants in our lives. Pray for our openness to His move and call mentally, spiritually, emotionally, auditory, and visually.

3. Pray against any distractions that may come up between now and March and against the distractions and hindrances that try to arise during this week.

4. Pray for God to prepare our hearts by His Spirit; pray for anyone who might not be expecting God to do something life-changing; pray that God would quickly lead that person to repentance by His Spirit.

5. Pray for every person you know of in theTURN.

6. Pray that the conference causes us to be others-oriented and we take our focus off of ourselves. We have to be mission-minded (Secret Service Saturdays).

7. Pray that we all come to the end of ourselves, and realize that we have died in Christ (Romans 6:6) and it is now Christ who lives in us (Gal.2:20).

8. Thank God for His Word that will absolutely transform our lives during SOLUTION. Pray that He will open your eyes in a new way to His Word, and the truth shall set you free in all areas of your life.

9. Pray against a hardness of heart in anybody, and pray that God prepares a tender heart in the next few weeks.

10. If you are analytical like me, pray that God will allow your mind to rest for a few days during SOUTION so that you can truly experience God in a fuller way. Don’t try to figure Him out but come to a point where you have to place faith in Him.

11. Pray for each of our SOLUTION speakers that God’s anointing would rest on them in a fresh way: Pastors Craig Mosgrove, Clay Baird, Rich Wilkerson Jr, and Car Lentz.

12. Pray that the anointing would break every yoke off of people. Pray for the salvation of many souls during SOLUTION.

13. Pray to see our altars filled with people being reconciled back to God with a fresh encounter of His Spirit.

Can't wait!

pcraig

"Essential Ingredients: The Church and Worship

Tonight's message slides:

Pics from Bowling Sunday!

Some pics from bowling this past Sunday afternoon. Enjoy!

What Jesus Was on the Cross, God is in Heaven

This pic was taken from one of the incredible crusades of Reinhard Bonnke in the continent of Africa! Enjoy his devotional below:

The price for others' wholeness was the brokenness of Jesus. Those who minister His grace will not get by without sharing something of Christ's inner heart. For some impenetrable and perverse reason the world is no friend to those who pray for healing in the name of Jesus and will make those suffer who try to relieve suffering in His name.

The truth is that God suffers - it is as if He took the responsibility for it all into His own infinite experience, carried our sorrows, absorbed the tragedy of the fall and made mankind's discords and minor mode part of the eternal music of His being. What Jesus was on the Cross, God is in heaven, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the earth. Jesus sent the disciples on a healing mission as evidence of the Kingdom of God. Where is the Kingdom without that evidence? Lacking such signs the church for centuries said little about the Kingdom and preached a purely other-worldly and spiritual Gospel which they struggled to make "relevant". A man selling bread never yet had to argue that his bread was "relevant”. The Gospel is the bread of life, bringing life and healing to mind body and soul - preach it and all the world sees it matters.

Week Two - "A Pure Intention of Heart"

As a recap, here is the great prayer from Elizabeth Rhodes:

"Grant me, gracious Lord, a pure intention of heart, and a steadfast regard to your glory in all my actions. Possess my mind continually with your presence, and fill it with your love, that my whole delight may be to repose in the arms of your protection. Be light to my eyes, music to my ears, sweetness to my taste, and full contentment to my heart. Be my sunshine in the day, my food at the table, my repose in the night, my clothing in company, my succor in all necessities.
Lord Jesus, I give you my body, my soul, my substance, my fame, my friends, my liberty, and my life. Dispose of me, and all that is mine, as seems best to you, and to the glory of your blessed name. I am not my own, but yours; therefore claim me as your right, keep me as your charge, and love me as your child. Fight for me when I am assailed, heal me when I am wounded, and revive me when I am destroyed.

My Lord and my God, I ask you to give me patience in troubles, humility in comforts, constancy in temptations, and victory over all my ghostly enemies. Grant me sorrow for my sins, thankfulness for my benefits, fear of your judgments, love of your mercies, and mindfulness of your presence for evermore. Make me humble to my superiors and friendly to my equals, ready to please all and loathe to offend any; loving to my friends and charitable to my enemies. Give me modesty in my countenance, gravity in my behavior, deliberation in my speech, holiness in my thoughts, and righteousness in all my actions. Let your mercy cleanse me from my sins, and your grace bring forth in me the fruits of everlasting life.

Lord, let me be obedient without arguing, humble without feigning, patient without grudging, pure without corruption, mercy without lightness, sad without mistrust, sober without dullness, true without duplicity, fearing you without desperation, and trusting you without presumption. Let me joyful for nothing but that which pleases you, and sorrowful for nothing but what displeases you: that labor be my delight which is for you, and let all weary me that is not in you. Give me a waking spirit, and a diligent soul, that I may seek to know your will, and when I know it may I perform it faithfully to the honor and glory of your ever blessed name. Amen."

Chilcote took this prayer that is divided into four roughly equal parts and provided a theme for each section:
Part 1: Who is God to me? (first paragraph of prayer)
Part 2: What can I give to and ask of God? (second)
Part 3: How does God shape my life? (third)
Part 4: How do I live as a disciple of Christ? (fourth)

Today, we continue with part one from Chilcote.

Scripture

"The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!" - Matthew 6:22-23

Meditation

Purity of intention characterizes the essence of the Christian life. This means that our one, singular desire is to please God in all thoughts, words, and actions. Thomas a Kempis, in his great masterpiece of Christian devotion, The Imitation of Christ, gives us a marvelous image: simplicity and purity as the two wings that lift up the soul to heaven. Simplicity relates to our intention. Purity describes our affections. Purity of heart and clarity of intention define life as God has intended it to be lived.

God's grace and activity in our lives move us to the goal of love if we do not resist their influence. Without purity of intention, all our endeavors, all our efforts will be in vain and ineffectual. In His Sermon on the Mount, Jesus provides another metaphor to illustrate the essential characteristic of real life. He says that "the eye is the lamp of the body." The eye is to the body what the intention is to the soul. If we fix our eyes upon God - focus upon Jesus - then life will be filled with true happiness and light. Remember, however, that we cannot manufacture this singularity on our own. God's grace must accompany all our efforts to please God and to fulfill God's will in all things great and small. But that which God requires, God provides; all is then light, and our souls are lifted up to the heaven of love.

Prayer

Gracious Lord, by whose sufficient grace I lift up my heart in prayer: keep my eye focused upon you at all times, that through purity of intention I might bring honor and praise to your wonderful, glorious, and ever blessed name. Amen.

Week three next Monday!

pcraig

Bowling Tom Afternoon!

Be sure to join us tom afternoon for some bowling @ Gainesville Bowling Center! The cost is only $5 and you can simply pay at the door tomorrow. We will be there from 3:30-5:30pm - going to be a blast! Invite your friends out and we will see you then!

I am feeling it for tom too by the way - I will be hard to beat!

pc

Tonight's Message Slides

Message slides from tonight....

One word for tonight. Wow. It is simple: I rejoice most when I find someone from theTURN alive, strong, and vigorous of soul, believing, loving, and praising God their Savior. I saw lots of those tonight.

See you at bowling Sunday!