Prayer Challenge
A friend of mine sent a big challenge to spend 100 hours in prayer over the next 50 days. I accepted the challenge. I really didn’t consider the impact. 100 hours in 50 days is 2 hours a day in prayer! I am ADD. Focusing for two hours might make my head explode. If I don’t write out my prayers now I get distracted or go to sleep while praying. Two hours a day is a lot! But I accepted the challenge. 100 hours in 50 days, I started yesterday.
Now that I am over the shock of what I have committed to do let me give you the good stuff. Yesterday I spent an hour on my back porch praying. It flew by. The only reason I came inside was that I got cold. The time with God was refreshing and so good. I tried to just be still in His presence. As I sat there I remembered the passage “not by might, not by power, but by my spirit says the Lord.” I am reminded that God only does things God sized and in God ways. I know He is moving in my heart to make me a better man, leader, husband, father, friend. I also know that He is moving in Tallahassee and He wants me fully engaged. The 50 days of prayer should do it, prayer makes me aware!
I truly believe that God is calling me to a new level of dependence and expectation. I need this season of prayer. Here are some things I am praying about…
• A church planting movement in North America
• A church renewal movement in North America
• Fellowship of the Hills to be firmly established as a people of life change
• Tara and our kids to thrive in the Lord
• My second half of ministry that I will finish strong
• The folks I love in Texas to find a new leader to replace me
• My character that I might be more like Christ
• Other church Planters I know and love as well as other pastors
• I am praying for the poor, sick, uneducated
• I am praying that leaders will become servants
That is just a start. If you want me to pray for you, let me know. I got two hours a day for the next 49 days! God is up to something big!!!
Now that I am over the shock of what I have committed to do let me give you the good stuff. Yesterday I spent an hour on my back porch praying. It flew by. The only reason I came inside was that I got cold. The time with God was refreshing and so good. I tried to just be still in His presence. As I sat there I remembered the passage “not by might, not by power, but by my spirit says the Lord.” I am reminded that God only does things God sized and in God ways. I know He is moving in my heart to make me a better man, leader, husband, father, friend. I also know that He is moving in Tallahassee and He wants me fully engaged. The 50 days of prayer should do it, prayer makes me aware!
I truly believe that God is calling me to a new level of dependence and expectation. I need this season of prayer. Here are some things I am praying about…
• A church planting movement in North America
• A church renewal movement in North America
• Fellowship of the Hills to be firmly established as a people of life change
• Tara and our kids to thrive in the Lord
• My second half of ministry that I will finish strong
• The folks I love in Texas to find a new leader to replace me
• My character that I might be more like Christ
• Other church Planters I know and love as well as other pastors
• I am praying for the poor, sick, uneducated
• I am praying that leaders will become servants
That is just a start. If you want me to pray for you, let me know. I got two hours a day for the next 49 days! God is up to something big!!!
Labels: self leadership
posted by Scott Weatherford at
8:55 AM
1 Comments:
Wow, this is really neat! It does take good discipline to pray for a long time... I can only imagine those of you with ADD! :o) I try to pray when I'm out running and I always find that when I get into a deep conversation with God the time seems to fly by. Your blog has inspired me to be still with God more often than I do. I'm constantly making excuses for not just sitting down to pray... there's just never enough time in a day. But I need to remember that there's never something more important that my relationship with God. Thanks for helping me to remember that!
If you want a few things to mention in your prayers, I have a couple of "Yaaay God"'s...
1.I have a job opportunity coming up. I go to speak with the employer on Tuesday (keeping my fingers crossed).
2.My grandmother who has gone through chemo treatments for the last 2 years for her lung cancer has just been ridded of her cancer entirely! They came up with a procedure called cyberknife that completely dissolved her tumor. Yaaay God!
3.Adam and I have been working on our "deep conversations"... haha! It's... well... coming along.
4.Adam and I will be having a huge entourage coming to church for Easter (about 15 friends and family!) Hope we'll have enough chairs!
Thanks so much for your prayers!!
Love,
Jessica :o)
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March 15, 2008 5:58 PM
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