tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297574837015974999.post8010620757578201643..comments2024-03-21T05:48:22.382-07:00Comments on 080808 On,Now,To the Third Level: Thin Places and 24/7 PrayerChris Welch - 07000INTUNEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17932291173536070080noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297574837015974999.post-73036343102443342292009-03-17T17:07:00.000-07:002009-03-17T17:07:00.000-07:00Shawna,that's a great testimony...I'll probably fe...Shawna,that's a great testimony...I'll probably feed it back to Helen too.<BR/><BR/>A similar thing occurred to me when I was at university to do with glandular fever.Trouble with this fever stuff is it keeps recurring and you get flashbacks even once the fever is over. In fact you are not really encouraged to give blood, because it is still kind of dormant in your system. Well, one day, my friend and I really got angry with its debilitating ongoing effects...and from that day to this I never had it again. But this was like a declaration that rose up in our spirits...and we both agreed on it.Chris Welch - 07000INTUNEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17932291173536070080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297574837015974999.post-65035133608294274632009-03-17T10:00:00.000-07:002009-03-17T10:00:00.000-07:00So how was the 24/7 prayer time? Our church is go...So how was the 24/7 prayer time? Our church is going to be doing something similar next week. I read through Helen's message just now and loved it. (I know that you were hoping for comments earlier, not sure if I should add comments down with the actual post or not). I laughed when she said that she had quite frank conversations with God (talking about Brother Laurence), because I too, and it's so funny how God responds, he can be pretty frank back! I found her section on discipline pretty helpful. I don't think that I realized it until I read it but I have been focusing on ariving somewhere (an encounter) as opposed to what she described as a way of living in God's glory. Yeah, that whole part was great, and I could really relate to it. The Russian doll image was really cool too. Do you think it's a little over simplified though? In John 14:10 Jesus says that he's in the father and the father is in him. The russian dolls are much easier for me to get my head around, that's for sure. <BR/>Going farther back...... when Peter Stott talked about decrees (Ester section) really peeked my interst. It reminds me of chapter 2 of "yes, I am" where Norman Grubb talks about Jesus decreeing "let there be light". I had this experience last fall.... I had had a very terrible two weeks, facing things that I had seen no victory in for many many years. We were singing this older song at church "let there be joy, let there be peace, let there be power, let there be praise,etc..." hopefully you know it. By the end of the song I felt such faith that I prayed out something to the effect "as the son of God said let there be light and there was, I say let there be joy and peace, and power and praise, and I know there will be". The next evening there was a breakthrough, as clear as night and day. It was amazing, I was at the end of my rope, had no idea what to do to fix things, it was such a roadblock, and then it was gone.... just gone. That may be an example on a much smaller scale of what he was talking about. Anyway, I think it's something that God would like to teach me more about. And the nice think is that John Stott said that authority comes from a place of intimacy with God, yeah, sounds good to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8297574837015974999.post-33262943983669964272009-03-15T07:34:00.000-07:002009-03-15T07:34:00.000-07:00I enjoyed blue like jazz a while back myself.Best ...I enjoyed blue like jazz a while back myself.<BR/>Best to family<BR/>LeonardLeonardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13127809388107620419noreply@blogger.com