EVENT: Full Disclosure Soulhouse May 4

Last Week: Return To Me: Prayer (Graham Clinton): 1 Kings 19:11-12

11-12 Then he was told, "Go, stand on the mountain at attention before God. God will pass by."

A hurricane wind ripped through the mountains and shattered the rocks before God, but God wasn't to be found in the wind; after the wind an earthquake, but God wasn't in the earthquake; and after the earthquake fire, but God wasn't in the fire; and after the fire a gentle and quiet whisper.

Prayer is communicating with God. Good communication means we should listen and not just talk.

1 Thessalonians 5:17 says pray continually or pray without ceasing. Keep your mind connected to God. It is a wireless connection but that connection may stir be severed when we choose to block Him out. He didn't leave, we did.

Matthew 6:7 reminds us not babble like pagans, or think that because of our long winded sentences that God will listen more. He isn't fooled by mindless jibber jabber or by big fancy, spiritual sounding polysyllabic utterances. He just wants us; raw, uncut, un-retouched. Genuine. Honest. Sincere. You. That is what He delights in.

James 5:16 reminds us not to take prayer lightly cuz the prayers of a righteous person have great power. So what will you set your mind to praying for? What will you loose the power of God against?

Then consider the silence. Listen to God. Be alone with Him. Unplug. Listen. Find some quiet somewhere and bathe in it.

Talk to Him. He hears. He listens. He is waiting saying "Return To Me!"

This Week: No Soulhouse cuz yeeeeaaaahhhhh it's Mother's Day!
Next Week: Trust, Peace & the Kingdom (Jon Harvey)

g-ram