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Manual 1: "Hitting Refresh"
Ready to pray God's love and healing into any situation...
Prayer Manual One is a refresher course to get you back into (or start you out on) an everyday walking-talking conversation with God. It takes you step by step into the forever present Presence of God's Spirit, a place where you can expect prayer to become as natural as breathing.
Out of those ongoing 'talking it over as we go along' times, you will discover that you are now becoming in real time his co-operating partner in his plan to bring his good, new future into the lives of loved ones, co-workers and even total strangers that He 'just laid on my heart to pray for today.' In the end, you will be part of a worldwide fellowship of people who call on God ahead of time to intervene in all kinds of easy or difficult or even impossible (to us!) situations.
How it works...
On the pages that follow you will find a series of short-step articles that can be used as devotional studies, either on your own or even better, in a group. Each step flows into the next and so you will be building on what you just incorporated into your prayer life all along the way. First time through, doing the steps in order works better than skipping around, but diving in wherever you see something that applies to your week may connect you to a 'just right for me' insight or immediately useful practice.
The desired 'end product' is not just a set of skills but a way of living immersed in His Spirit's praying presence. We want the training process to not only equip us to help our loved ones but to turn us into world changing pray-ers who are ready to pray God's goodness into any situation at any time of day. Our friends, family and coworkers need that now...so do many others around the world. Thankfully, prayer has no distance limitations for it to be effective! Thank you, loving Father God!
Below is a preview of the Refresh articles...
Refresh 1: Prayer Refocused
And where do we best begin? Perhaps with the unspoken question that challenges us all at one time or another. “Where is God right now…and is He listening?” That question reflects a common expectation of what prayer is…or ‘should’ be…which can be very misleading! Prayer may just be something different altogether from what we ‘traditionally’ expect.
Refresh 2: Making Mention Prayer
Since He very much wants to settle in with us as we go through each day…and he knows that we are not, generally speaking, accustomed to that kind of personal, near-at-hand care and support, he draws us into some super easy and effective ways to make our ongoing prayer-conversation with him come to life and become in time an everyday-natural thing.
Refresh 3 - Releasing the Captives prayer
How thanks - worship prayer can make 'all things new' since see from his larger perspective and relieve us of the burden to perform as/since we come under and acknowledge His ability to overrule the ‘powers’ that are [trying to suppress and manipulate us/superseding and trust His place 'over' us/world "praise is the victory...already'...preemptive and proactive and prophets/profits all
How to learn to pray/give thanks continually and recognize the 'results'
Refresh 4 - Giving Up Prayer
Giving Up Prayer
What if I’ve tried everything and I’m at the end of my rope…what then?
YOU ARE ACTUALLY ON YOUR WAY
(can attach Creating Love Rev doc here, but???)
GIVING UP PRAYER GIVING UP/SURRENDER PRAYERS End of my rope Prayers or Feeling forsaken Prayers not a bad thing despair/giving up utterly dependent on his response need to know how surrendering feels and what process looks like in experience
Refresh 5 - Love Activated Prayer
Spirit of Love activated prayer...How do I know? Are you struggling to sense
Spirit of Love activated prayer How do I know? Are you struggling to sense God's prompting to pray? Developing a habit
Since I will be prompted to pray throughout my day how do I know when it is God's Spirit prompting/nudging me toward someone’s/stranger’s even, need?
Feeling of lament/compassion/empathic connection/
Giving up prayer leads to seeing world/situations/people struggling to get to God’s new creation and out of this vale of sorrows and all that they are suffering through as our of sync with His new creation purpose/plan/reality and therefore prompts us to pray that new reality into horrific/dull-boring circumstance because He alone can fix, that new reality will be the/His final reality for us all and therefore will sooner or later prevail/restore/eliminate dying, mourning, pain
Refresh 6 - Spirit of Jesus led prayer
What is it like to be engaged by/with the Spirit of Jesus to pray for His concerns in that moment.
Refresh 7 - Spirit of Jesus induced praying for others
How does He pray 'through' us?
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