May The Words Of Their Mouths . . .

Prayer time for the Children of the Body on Saturday focused on the words of their mouths. 


May they be a people who speak blessings.


May everything they speak bring Him Glory.


May they allow no unwholesome talk out of their mouths.


May they guard their lips and consider carefully before speaking.


May their speech be seasoned with Grace and Wisdom.


May the words of their mouths and the meditations of their hearts be acceptable in His Sight. 


May their words set them apart as His.


May they utter no gossip, criticism, or complaint, but be committed to building others up. 

A GENERATION OF SUPERHEROES Pt 8

Galatians 6:1-10

¹Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. ² Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. ³For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. ⁴But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. ⁵For each will have to bear his own load.

⁶ One who is taught the word must share all good things with the one who teaches. ⁷ Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. ⁸For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. ⁹And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. ¹⁰So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

• Cover each others back....& help restore fallen/wounded Christians!

• Sow to the Spirit & reap life....sowing to the flesh leads to corruption/death!

• Do not grow weary....the reward is coming!

• Take advantage of the opportunities to love....especially to other Christians!
  

Kingdom Men, Week 14

Father, thank You for Your goodness. Thank You for Your goodness displayed to me in my son. Thank You for our sons. God, we have lost some of the reality - the Truth - of our fatherhood. Please cause us to fully realize, to know and accept that we are fathers... that we may know and fully embrace fatherhood. Help us to know and accept You as Father.

Thank You for Your kindness, Father. Thank You for Your patience. Thank You that You train us and discipline us, Father. Thank You for being gracious and for never letting us go. You are so good, Father. Teach us to be like You. Free us and deliver us that we may be like You.

Help us to know You, God; and in knowing You may the veils be removed that we may resemble You.

Lord, please remove vanity and self-promotion from within the hearts and minds of Your men. That we would have no appetite for our own recognition and notoriety but rather a burning desire to see Your Name lifted high. That we would bow and give honor to You and who You are. May self-promotion wither at its root that we would live for Your fame. Remove our ambition. Speak to us our name and our identity that we would no longer seek for vain and corrupt replacements. God, may each of us hear You call us by name and, by Your grace, have the humility to bow - offering our lives in full surrender.

Restore the hearts of the fathers to their children. Restore the children to their fathers. God, restore the hearts of Your sons to You! Father, we are Your sons. we want to love You, to honor You. Restore our hearts to You. Restore Your sons, oh God. Bring restoration, Father. In the rain, God, bring restoration.

for the singles of the One Church of Midland

o hear the song of the silent single,
non-defined,
misled,
mystified
at what they must be doing wrong
to deserve to
remain
solo.

God, we lift up and up
the senior single here-
those that once loved
but lost that love,
some long, long ago.
God?
help them
face forward
where Life is found
as full as Life was
back then
let them see today can be.

God,
unaddict us to demanding lovers,
from getting weary of You--
waiting--
so they set out--selves--
to hunt alone,
getting picked off
and snatched up
by compromises waiting.

--for strategic partnerships!
-healing for the suffering single
-that they move in motivational gifts
-occupying their roles in The One Church

Passionate Worshipers

In praying today for the Children of the Body, the focus was on them becoming passionate worshipers. 


May they crave His Presence. 


May their worship be the context through which they see all of life, not the other way around. 


May they be willing to be foolish in the eyes of the world as they worship Him without shame, without reservation, with no guile in their hearts. 


May their worship be in complete humility so that there in no one around them who receives condemnation, but only conviction that draws them also into passionate worship. 


May they worship as they work, worship as they play, worship as they walk along their way. 


May they even reach the point where they worship in their sleep as they contemplate His Glory in their spirits. 


Only He can bring them to this point and we ask that He will do this thing in them and in all of us.

Married Couples in the Body

Faithfulness, faithfulness is what I long for
Faithfulness is what I need.
Faithfulness faithfulness is what you want from me.

This song sums up the prayer of my heart today for the married couples in Midlands part of the Body. I know that God has asked a lot of us to marry and give up ourselves (if we are doing it biblically) and to be faithful for a lifetime but that is my prayer today.

God, please cause us to be faithful, to YOU, to our spouses and our families. Lord please cultivate in us the ability to let go of things around us and faithfully serve our spouses and our children and first and foremost our Almighty God. Abba, I want to serve you wholeheartedly and I am flakey at best and indecisive and caught up in life as most of us are, please Father, help us to put it ALL away and focus on you so we can learn to be the spouse you have chosen for us to be. So that we can accomplish all that you have asked us too for You and for eachother. Thank you Jesus, Thank you for making a way for us to get through to our Father, for we would be lost without your sacrifice. i love you Father God, and I see that you are moving in a very unifying and wonderful way in the marriages that have been on rocky paths for a while! Thank you God, for loving us enough to pull us out of the mire that we have gotten our own faithless selves into. In Jesus' name, Amen

God,
i lift up
the singles of midland
again tonight.

You see.
let them know,
remind them that
You see.
all.
that You've not gone graciously blind,
nor are YOu content
to be a bland taste in their mouths.

shake!
awaken,
oh, God,
Father of all.

what has been brushed aside,
swept under,
feigned--
Lord!
reveal, Revealer!
that You may rebuild
what we have denied.

let lies arise
as what they are
in these lives
and be shown
in all their "glory",
then denied.

we cannot see
without Your Light,
oh God.
reveal, Revealer.
build, Rebuilder.
gather the scattered
and arise from the ruins
of what we have done
to ourselves.

beauty
for the ashes
from fires
we started ourselves...

Kingdom Men, Week 13

God, please give us the grace to overcome our distractions and occupations. We want to be preoccupied with You. We want to be occupied by You.

I want to be at ease and at rest with You, reclining as Your beloved disciple on Your chest. I want to be at work for You, with You. Please release freedom over Your church here: freedom from our busyness and routines; freedom to rest with You; freedom to stop, wait and listen. Freedom to STOP. Freedom to slow down. Give us the grace to to wait upon You. To wait expectantly without distraction. We are failing, please help us. Help us, by Your grace, to live lives of adoration not busyness; lives of obedience and sacrifice not self-centeredness. Please show us how. Show us the way and give us the strength to alter our course and to change.

Merciful Savior, deliver us from what drives us. Father, please deliver Your men from all the things we are driven by. Lord, our lives are driven by things that are not of You. We are driven by lusts and fears and selfish passions and delusions and woundedness and insecurity and pride. God, heal us and deliver us that we may be driven by Your Spirit; by Your heart, by a singular passion and desire to please You and to be like You. That we may be driven by true love and obedience... by the cross and the nails that are driven there.

Cast down the idols, Father - give us the grace to cast them down in each of our lives by the Blood of Jesus and the cross of Christ. Cast down the idols of self, of distraction and entertainment, and of the approval of men. Purify us. Purify our passions and our purposes. Purify our motives and our ministries. Purify Your Bride.

We have become like addicts, Father, strung out on this culture. We believed the lie. We have been seduced by its offers of ecstasy and escape. Even though we are now seeing its deception and understanding that it is a lie and death, we are hooked. Oh, God, please deliver us. Take us through detox. Cleanse us. Cut us off from our addictions, from this culture and this corruption. Purify us. Rehabilitate us that we might live. May we no longer be numb and dull and detached. Bring us back to life from this stupor of addiction. We want to go clean from this culture. We want to return to You from this rebellion, from this slow death on the streets and alleys outside Your dwelling place. We want to come home, Father. This generation, God, Your children, Your church, Your Bride: clean and sober.

Deliver us, God, that Your glory could be evident to the world. For Your Kingdom, for Your honor - that You may be high and lifted up among all creation.

Take these lives and cease them from meaninglessness and craft each one into something meaningful to You. Take our lives - our hearts, our affections, our time - and purge them of all that is futile. Fill them with what is meaningful and valuable to You. May our time, both active and waiting, be filled... be consumed by things of eternal worth. You are our Redeemer. Amen.

Teach Us To Number Our Days

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In praying for the Children of the Body this week, may they hold the resource of Time humbly and reverently before Him, allowing Him to tell them how best to spend each moment. May they understand their position in history and the reason they are here now. May they not be distracted from their purpose. May part of their day, every day, be spent in prayer, in worship, and in His Word. May they pursue Wisdom. May they desire Him more than the very air they breathe. May they be sober in judgement, filled with discernment. May He teach them to number their days aright, that they may gain hearts of Wisdom.

for the women of The One Body of Christ of Midland

8, 2011

I started my prayer time at the piano worshipping Jesus for about 30 minutes...sweet!

The Lord gave me 5 points to pray for His KW in Midland:

1. The Love for Jesus would be first place in each life, committing both emotionally and intellectually to Him.

2. Avoid lukewarmness at all costs! Stir up the zeal for the Lord within us through the study of His Word.

3. Repent quickly whenever the Spirit convicts of sin.

4. Do not value worldly success. Do not trust worldly wealth, recognizing that worldly assets have no spiritual or heavenly value.

5. Develop our spiritual ears, seeking to hear what the Spirit is saying in all our circumstances.

Betty Isaacs

A GENERATION OF SUPERHEROES Pt 7

Solid or Shaky

Matthew 7:24-27

24 "Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.

• I pray for this generation to build their lives of the foundation & solid rock that is Jesus Christ!

Jehovah God is Our Rock He alone is my Rock--Psalms 18:2; 18:30-32; 62:6
Jesus is Our Rock Christ is the Rock--1 Corinthians 10:4; 1 Peter 2:8

• I pray for this generation to choose to lay down the lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, & the pride of life (1 John 2:16) and whole heartedly pursue Jesus!

Joshua 24:15 – And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."

• I pray this generation has the veil removed from their eyes so that they would realize Jesus is the only way & the answer to whatever they are searching for or needing!
  

John 14:6 – 6Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Challenge: Instead of choosing the temporary, (the ways of the world that leads to disappointment & death), boldly make the decision to make Christ the Lord/Master of your life, the only solid foundation, & passionately follow Him!

Kingdom Men, Week 12

Glory to Your Name, Jesus. Be high and lifted up among all men. All glory and honor and praise to the King of Kings. I lift up Your Name, Jesus. Blessed be Your Name. I worship You, Lord. Holy Spirit move so that the worship, the honor, the reverence for Jesus would spring forth from the hearts of God's men, the sons of God.

You are God! We worship You, we bow before You. Remove our idols. Remove the idols in our hearts: our wills, our pride, our reputations, our goals; remove the idols born of our lusts and pleasures. You are God, You are the only God. We have invented heroes and gods to diminish Your incomparable greatness and to desensitize ourselves to the enormity of who You are. You alone are a god, no other gods exists. The only god is the One True God.

You, alone, are God.

We worship You alone. There is none like You, God. There is nothing comparable to You. You are the One true unmade, unsearchable God. You are the Only. You are the One. You are all. We bow before You. I bow before You, my sovereign creator.

Please increase the time of fathers with their children. Holy Spirit, move upon the hearts of men and turn their hearts and their thoughts toward their children. Increase the love, compassion and holy desire of fathers for their children. Stir a longing in every father to be a father, to accept the mantle, to step up, to war for the right and the responsibility. Open the doors for fathers and their children. Open the doors, God. Equip us. Anoint us. Stir us up. Break the chains. Destroy the walls and barriers. Please fill the gulfs, the gaps, the chasms. Make the way, Father. Show us the Way.

Repair the breach and restore us to Your plan. Tear down the walls in our hearts, tear down the walls between us - the walls without and within. Place Your heart within us. Heal the sons. Heal each one of us and heal our sons as well. Heal us that we may be true fathers, heal us that we may be true sons.

Hos. 11:1-4

Wisdom and Love

May the children of The Body pursue Wisdom and Love. Wisdom to see things from His Perspective, and Love to serve as their motivation for everything they think, say, and do. May they be filled with a hunger and thirst for Him that will cause everything else to fall away. May they allow Him to purify them and remove everything that does not bring Him Glory. May they fear Him only. Not man. May they be filled with hearts of gratitude for all His blessings.


As we continue to lift up different parts of The Body of Christ, please pray for The Children of His Body. They are assaulted daily at school with things that tear them down and insult Him. Please pray that they will keep their eyes on Him and allow Him to be their strength and sustenance.  

for the singles of The One Body of Christ of Midland

God! in Your Son's Name,
i pray against veils of deception,
like webs that creep and crawl
across minds and sight
of ones that have yet to fall.

may Spirits be strong!
and faith not fail.
may they not reel and rock
from one opinion to another,
from one path to another,
from one side to the other,
like all the others,
with two mouths,
or more.
...that others may see!
see a difference
between "them"
and "me".

difference is a must
for all who call
themselves
"disciples".
then let us follow!
follow wildly!
boldly!
unashamedly!
walk forward
without hesitation,
without apology,
without condition
or excuses
or silly reasonings
made by others before.

disciples!
be multiplied!
disciple makers!
awaken
to the task at hand!
quickly!
move out
and hold your ranks!
move!
move!
move!

remnant! remain!