Sukkot message
10/14/2008 09:12 AM
I
taught on Sukkot at Encounter Service this past Sunday.
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2: visit ihop-atlanta.com and download it from there.
A Given Heart
10/12/2008 10:27 PM
Tonight I
came home with my family after giving the messages for
today's Encounter Services. Sunday night after encounter
is our family's 'late night', since we get home after
we'd normally be in bed. And tonight Gracie, shared a
snack time together before bed. Sitting at the breakfast
table together while Mommy was bathing brother Asa,
Gracie and I talked about her week at Pop and Grammy's
house. I told her how much I missed her while she was
gone, and we got into a conversation about what makes our
hearts dance. She told me, 'You can have my heart and I
can have Your heart." I rejoiced and shared how precious
that was to me. My father heart was ravished. Then an
even greater love was expressed as she declared, "You can
have my heart, I don't love my heart, because I want Your
heart."
And that's wisdom from an almost 3 year old. If we only had such a revelation of the Father heart of God, we could declare "Abba, You can have my heart, I don't love my heart, because I want Your heart." That's the free devotion of a child. And I tell you, it grasps the heart of the Father.
And that's wisdom from an almost 3 year old. If we only had such a revelation of the Father heart of God, we could declare "Abba, You can have my heart, I don't love my heart, because I want Your heart." That's the free devotion of a child. And I tell you, it grasps the heart of the Father.
Yom Kippur
10/09/2008 06:43 PM
Today was Yom
HaKippurim (aka Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement). I came
into the House of Prayer at 5:30am prepared to lead a
repentant devotional worship set at 6am, and found the
nightwatch travailing on the floor in intense
intercession. Transitioning onto the platform, I wanted
to keep the engagement going with the Lord as the
intercession switched off. And smoothly they did, only to
come back three minutes later and ask if they could join
me and keep going, because they felt a mighty grace for
intercession. So they took up their instruments again and
we continued, the entire room, to engage the heart of the
Lord over the issues of raising up rightous leadership in
our government, crying out for for mercy on behalf of our
nation. And a supernatural grace for intercession
sustained our prayers into the 8am set, where we picked
up the normal worship leader for that set. Then finally
transitioned to the next team at 10am- where the 4am
worship team finally got off the platform after 6 hours
straight, only to stand down front and pray fervently,
while I switched from acoustic guitar to the bass to
support the new worship leader. And that's how it rolled
through eight hours of intense intercessory prayer on the
morning of Yom Kippur in the House of Prayer. That's what
I call a Yom Kippur, pleading a better blood (Heb 12:24),
the blood of Yeshua, over our sins and the sins of our
nation!
I want to encourage everyone to pray for MERCY every day. And encourage your friends and family to pray for MERCY every day. Pray for this election with urgency, because it is vital that the cry for righteous government and mercy upon our wicked nation be heard in the court of Heaven. Do not faint, do not back down, do not cease. But press in, until the final vote. May it be said, America approved of what is just and right on election day in 2008.
I want to encourage everyone to pray for MERCY every day. And encourage your friends and family to pray for MERCY every day. Pray for this election with urgency, because it is vital that the cry for righteous government and mercy upon our wicked nation be heard in the court of Heaven. Do not faint, do not back down, do not cease. But press in, until the final vote. May it be said, America approved of what is just and right on election day in 2008.
