Thursday Prayer is on tomorrow.
So come in for some solace time in between 7am & 7pm. The Prayer room is available, as is the main auditorium with Here’s My Home cranking through the sound system. I’ll be jamming some tunes from 5:30pm onwards, so get a long after work and come in and pray.
Chur,
Jay
I found this prayer this morning in Bless This Mess & Other Prayers by Jo Carr & Imogine Sorley. Loved it.
I would like to dedicate the following to all mind wandering prayers!
It’s kind of hard to think noble thoughts, Lord,
when I just found
three-and-a-half pairs of dirty socks on the bathroom floor.
They know better.
Goodness knows I’ve told them often enough.
Thoughtless, care-less kids.
I make excuses for them.
They’re busy –
paper routes,
lots of homework –
and surley they deserve an ocassional unscheduled moment.
Still, there are some things they must learn.
And picking up their dirty socks is one of them.
Lord, I need an objective sort of patience.
I need to be able to look at the kids once in a while
as though they belonged to somebody else.
To size ‘em up – evaluate –
and stern up my attitude.
I have no call to be mean or gripy or even dogmatic.
But I need to teach them to pick up their socks.
Amen.
“But which of them has stood in the council of the LORD, to see or to hear his word?
Who has listened and heard his word?” (Jer 23:18)
“…For who is he who will devote himself to be close to me?” (Jer 30:21b)
After our Beyond Borders hiatus, we’re back into a rhythm with Thursday Prayers. So come and kick it with Jesus and “waste time” with him in the Chapel or Prayer Room. Worship will kick off at 5:30pm.
See yo’ll there.
Jay.
Walter Brueggeman prayed this prayer with his Psalms class. I think it captures something of the worshipping heart of Edge.
So may this be our prayer too…
We will not keep silent
We are people who must sing you,
for the sake of our very lives.
You are a God who must be sung by us,
for the sake of your majesty and honor.
And so we thank you,
for lyrics that push us past our reasons,
for melodies that break open our givens,
for cadences that locate us home,
beyond all our safe places,
for tones and tunes that open our lives beyond control
and our futures beyond despair.
We thank you for the long parade of mothers and fathers
who have sung you deep and true;
We thank you for the good company
of artists, poets, musicians, cantors and instruments
that sing for us and with us, towards you.
We are witnesses to your mercy and splendor;
We will not keep silent…ever again. Amen.
Walter Brueggeman – Psalms class/January 20, 1999
Beks
Hi peeps.
Thursday Prayers is on tomorrow from 7am-7pm. So come on in and enjoy some quality time with God. And instead of sitting in traffic after work, bust a move to the Chapel as we continue to ask for a revelation of Jesus – of his worth and his work – during our pending Beyond Borders gathering.
The Beyond Borders prayer focus will kick off at 5:30pm.
Jay.
“The man who would KNOW GOD must give time to Him.
He must count no time wasted which is spent in the cultivation of His acquaintance.
He must give himself to meditation and prayer hours on end.”
A.W. Tozer.
Come along if your free every Thursday 7am-7pm.
Jay.
Prayer is on every Thursday peeps. You can either (literally) “chill” in the chapel while Here’s My Home cranks through the system, or get all cushion-cosy in the prayer room. Musos will be jamming between 5:30-6:30pm, creating a prayerful, worship space for those who want to re-calibrate rush hour.
So come and use the chapel and prayer room!
Use me – light a candle, grab a pen
say a prayer or stand on your head
Prayer’s not a chore, but a conversation with a friend
So, take a moment to enjoy… a pause to listen
or make a request
There’s permission to complain
to rant and rave
and then to give in, give up, give over
To thank and praise and wonder
Play the music loud or whisper in a corner
Scribble your hearts desire on a wall
and maybe you’ll get an answer
Waste time with God.
Jay.
