3/7/13

Wow.  And thank you.  Lord, I bow my heart before you in genuine gratitude for the gift you have given.  Thank you for this beautiful gift.  Lord, I didn’t even ask and there it is.  I am overwhelmed.  Bless this gift.   Help me to use it for your glory.  God I love you.  Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you.

(Note to reader:  as I sat down to type out my prayer this morning – the Lord give me the outline for a book.  I am blasted with the blessing and giddy with gratitude.)

Order my ways and my days.  Help me to fulfill the potential of this gift you have given.  Show me how to make it come alive and bring glory to your name.  Use me to equip the saints with this gift.  Use me to defeat the enemy with this gift.  Help me to offer it back to you as a fitting sacrifice of praise. 

Lord, I open my heart and ask that you would fill me with faith to pray effectively today.  Help me.  Use me to pray your will into this realm.  Let your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  Use me Holy Spirit.  Search the heart of the Father and the mind of Christ – use me to accomplish your will in prayer. 

Show me your ways o Lord, teach me your paths, lead me in your truth and teach me.  You are the God of my salvation – on you I will wait all the day (Ps 25)  Lord, I want to walk where you walk.  I long to be where you are.  Show me what you see.  Use me to pray for the things that are on your heart.  Let my heartbeat be one with yours.  Come Holy Spirit. 

Show us how to pray effectively for the Open Heaven Summit.  I ask for a divine gift of faith to believe you for the impossible, the improbable, and the unimaginable.  Show us new levels of your greatness, and let that become our new norm of experience in you.  Take us deeper.  Show us more.  Reveal your face and your hand.  Help us to explore your heart and find the answers we seek.

Open Heaven, and open our hearts.  Pour heaven into our hearts until we are true ambassadors of that realm in this one.  Cause us to be fitting representatives of the kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of Light.  Reign in our hearts, o King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Father, I pray for the practical aspects of this meeting.  Lord, help us to finish the remodeling project in the sanctuary and bless it to be a comfortable, inspiring, and fitting place for you to abide and for us to meet with you.  Bring it together quickly.  Bless the work of our hands.  Bless the sanctuary.  Be there.  Let your presence sanctify every thread of carpet and every drop of paint. 

Lord, work out every spec of the tech works.  Give us clear and beautiful sound that will not distract but that will enhance our worship and our ability to hear your word.  Show us the lighting procedures that will be most effective for the media ministry.  Bless us with continually update tech equipment.  Prepare us for the future, and how us how to maximize the potential of the tech available to us.

 Bless the worship team.  Lead them as they lead the congregation.  Give them a song deep within their spirits as you pour through them.  Bless them and make them your instruments of worship.  Order the songs they choose.  Help them to be prepared.  Bless their talents as they yield to you.  Use them for your glory and revive them.