Paul's Prayer For Believers

Paul just has a wonderful way with words - look at how he prays for the Colossians - here are 7 layers of blessing over these Believers:

Colossians 1:9-12

• that you may be filled with the knowledge of HIs will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding

• that you may walk worthy of the Lord - fully pleasing Him

•  that you would be fruitful in every good work

• that you would be increasing in the knowledge of God

• that you would be strengthened with all might according to His glorious power

• that you would have all patience and longsuffering with joy

• that you would give thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance

Just imagine the impact on lives if we walked in these 7 things!!

Paul's Prayer For Believers

Paul just has a wonderful way with words - look at how he prays for the Colossians - here are 7 layers of blessing over these Believers:

Colossians 1:9-12

• that you may be filled with the knowledge of HIs will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding

• that you may walk worthy of the Lord - fully pleasing Him

•  that you would be fruitful in every good work

• that you would be increasing in the knowledge of God

• that you would be strengthened with all might according to His glorious power

• that you would have all patience and longsuffering with joy

• that you would give thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance

Just imagine the impact on lives if we walked in these 7 things!!

New Zealand Women Win Rugby World Cup 2017

Congratulations to the Kiwi women - They beat England to win the Rugby World Cup final 41- 32. Here are the highlights:

                    

Two Common Misconceptions About Prophetic Worship

There are two very common misconceptions that REALLY hinder prophetic worship:

1. Prophetic worship is SPONTANEOUS

2. God is the AUDIENCE

While both of these statements are not terribly wrong, they still keep people in their seats - intimidated by the spontaneous aspect of the prophetic and daunted by the prospect that they have to “perform” for this imposing “audience.”

Prophetic utterances may very well be spontaneous…but that is not what determines the prophetic. A prophetic statement, song, dance, piece of any kind is prophetic because it has God’s voice and character inserted into it. That’s simple – He LOVES to interact with us, so we can be expectant of His voice and participation in our worship every time we minister to Him. If we think about the prophetic like this - it makes it more about Him than us.

Secondly, although we are ministering to Him, He is NOT THE AUDIENCE. In prophetic worship there is no audience – only communing hearts. We used to get frustrated by congregations coming into worship behaving like an audience and simply sitting or standing in place. I think we tried to adjust that thinking by saying that God is the audience…so everyone needs to participate. While corporate participation by every member is desirable, we cannot limit God to the position of audience – He has something to say in every service.

Followed to their logical conclusion, both of these statements shut down congregational participation in worship and limit the scope of the prophetic because people may not feel proficient at spontaneously doing anything and they may be threatened by the concept of “performing” for the Audience of ONE.

We just need to relax about these two issues and allow Him to speak…and He LOVES to speak through every willing vessel. The onus is on Him – not us. We don’t have to perform or produce anything – we simply need to abide in Him and allow Him to flow in, and through us.

Character

Good character is...

• the throne of greatness
• the foundation for true success

• the strength to overcome every adversity

• the credentials for building nobility into others

• the abode for all virtue

• the light that guides our way through darkness

• the fuel that propels us towards our destiny...and...

• the true beauty of our soul

Vivien Hibbert

Romans 5:3-5 

3 We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance.

4 And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.

5 And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.