knocking on heaven's door

God showed up!

At church today we were continuing our exploration about prayer and developing a friendship with God.

We looked at two passages in Luke 11 & Luke 18 and explored three aspects of the kingdom contained in these passages (hat tip Bill Johnson)

1. friendship
2. justice
3. persistence

Sometimes we dont receive from God because we are his friend, or because of his justice...sometimes we receive because of our sacrificial persistence.

We had a fantastic time of prayer for people who are dealing with all kinds of things. We have people in our church facing cancer, major surgery, relationship breakdown, financial concerns and a whole host of other things....

These things are enough to derail some people, to question where is God, why is he letting this happen to us....

Yet we choose to believe that the enemy would want to derail us from the purposes of God...he wants to take out those who are engaged in battle for the kingdom of God....so we embrace the pain and seek the Lord in the midst of it all. We want to be known in hell....because the enemy will only concern himself with those who are a threat to him.

We were encouraged to seek the Lord's presence, because it is out of the intimacy with God that we walk in, that we can minister to others. We cannot give away what we don't have.

Today I choose to sacrificially persist in my prayers for myself and others. I choose to keep knocking on the door of heaven, knowing I am a friend of God & knowing I serve a just God...and knowing that God is good.