God's grace and peace to you all,
This morning during my coffeetime with Jesus I found myself moving into prayer for Lee Grady, Dave Householder, and all of our workshop presenters and worship leaders for the ARC Gathering on June 17-19. Please join me in prayer for these brothers and sisters, that they might hear a word of revelation from God as to what it is He wants to speak and do through them during the gathering. And please join me in prayer that God might be preparing our hearts to receive what He has for us.
As we move toward the gathering let us join in the prayer: "Lord, do whatever You need to do in us, so that You can do whatever You want to do through us." We pray for God's Spirit to fall upon us and be stirred up within us these days and to manifest His presence in whatever ways He knows we uniquely need. May He grace some of us with a spirit of repentance that turns us away from pursuits that feed our own ego. May He grace some of us with freedom from besetting sins that we have not been able to shake for years, even decades. May He grace some of us with healing for old wounds of the past that have still been influencing our present in unhealthy ways. May He grace some of us with a stirring up of His presence and power within us to enable us to serve Him even more effectively wherever He chooses to send us. May he nurture the growth of the fruit of His Spirit that we may become more and more like Jesus in who we are, not merely in what we know. Come Holy Spirit, come in power and in freedom and have Your way with us!
Let us pray that we all go home different than when we came. Let's pray that for ourselves and all those from our congregations who attend. Is there someone from your church body the Lord wants you to specifically invite to be there? Listen for the Lord's prompting and as He may bring someone to mind, dare to invite them. This gathering of course will not be the only place someone can have a God encounter. However, it may be God's appointed time and place for some; so, please listen and then act as you're prompted by God's Spirit. I remember experiencing this shortly after I came to The Master's Institute Seminary to join the staff. We were taking students on a missions trip to Mexico and I was prompted by a thought to invite a staff member to join the students on the trip. At the time, I wasn't sure if this was God or not, but the thought would not go away so in the end, I did invite the staff member. That staff person said yes, came on the trip, was powerfully impacted by the Holy Spirit, returned and became a student at MI and this Saturday, will graduate. Is there someone God is bringing to your mind, putting on your heart, to specifically invite and encourage to attend?
It will be fun to see what the Lord says to us, does in us, and then does through us as we go home to continue the ministry of Jesus in the world today through the power of Holy Spirit.
In God's Unshakable and Extravagant Love,
Mike
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