A place to read secrets from my prayer closet, see current prayer opportunities and post your Prayer requests.
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8/19/2009 I had to do something really hard yesterday, saying no to praying for a prayer request. It reminded me once again that I need to look at what I am asked to pray for and if in my spirit I know shouldn’t pray for something then I need to be honest and say I can’t.
So I sent an e-mail back to the person sending the request, and risking possibly offending them. I also sent a cc mail to the person who made the orginal request because it wasn’t the request but the prayer we were asked to pray in agreement with that was the problem, for the prayer was more of a curse then a request. In sending the cc mail the Lord opened a teachable moment because the group didn’t mean to curse the person and so they are going to re-write the prayer request. When it comes I will read it once again to see if it is something I should be praying for.
In stepping out in love, God blessed and is correcting the situation something we intercessors are called to do from time to time.
8/10/2009 I have spent the past several months wrestling with a personal word about my husband. I share this because we have to spend time wrestling with what the Lord speaks to our hearts about. Sometimes the word is easy which encourages us to come ever closer to the Lord but when that word is hard and God is asking us to pray his will, we have a choice to stay and pray or run and hide. I found myself for several months avoiding having quiet times with the Lord hoping that I didn’t hear the Lord correctly. Time will ultimately tell if I heard right or not, but I need to always remember God is the same , yesterday, today and forever!
8/8/2009 I have finished my prophectic assignment and did as the Lord directed. It was amazing as I felt the Lord come in a deeper way to love and care for my city. I also saw hearts change and grow, a gal I didn’t know came up and said, I have to give someone from Portland a huge! God is so good.
6/20/2009 I am looking at a new prophectic assignment and it seems overwhelming. Only God can give the strength to ask forgiveness on behalf of my whole city to the state of Oregon. Can I make this journey of forgiveness so that only God’s thoughts, God’s words, and God’s actions are taken? I know on my own I can’t, but through Christ I can do all things. God will take this step of faith before me and so I will be able to walk through! God give me the strength, the joy and the ablity to do this act of repentance you have called me to lead so that the state mine be reconciled to each other and then to you!
4/13/2009 What a day… I have to go to the chiropractor, because while serving on the altar team after Easter service, someone went down in the spirit and I wrenched my back. What a problem to have. People are beginning to drop as they deeply connect with God while I pray for them. How do I get prepared? Do I beef up? or do I get help? I think I will get some help. Some of these people are too big for me to catch alone. What a crazy problem to have.
It is wonderful to see the Lord moving in the lives of people. I just have to get the help I need so everyone can flow in the spirit safely! Sometimes I think the move of the spirit can take us by surprise and we need to be prepared for it… sounds like a good subject for a future blog! Blessings & Complete Joy…. Mildred
3/28/2009 God calls us to pray for a person or a ministry and we don’t always know why. You see the turmoil and you can feel the pain, but all you can do is pray, and we must rest, knowing that what God has called us to do in the situation is to pray, and if given a change to share what God sees in that person to encourage them I do, but I must not jump in and fix the situation. Praying is what I am called to do today not the works of service in a ministry I dearly love. Praying is the hard thing in this situation, and it is the right thing for me to do! So the next time you are called to prayer, don’t take the enemies temptation to jump in and fix the sitation. God is at work in them and we can surely trust Him. Blessings and complete joy… Mildred
3/24/2009 Why does it seems that an intercessors brain works so differently. Trying to get your thoughts across to God is so simply yet to try to speak to someone else can be such a chore, but I keep trying, helping others to understand the information which will give their intercessors the freedom to pray and see the world changed. God give me wisdom and strength to walk with you through this process. May your will be done and may the flesh of man get out of your way.
If you find this to be true in your own life, do not worry or be anxious, rather continue to take your requests to the Lord knowing that He will work things though in everyone involved!
3/17/2009 I am stepping out in faith to activate another prayer team, God I sometimes wonder why. I know that is silly, but yet with so many christians and so few taking the time to pray, it is so easy not to think prayer can really affect anything. I know prayer affect everything and so I walk forward. I know you will bring those intercessors you intend to pray for the Line in the Sand Tour. I just hate stepping out in the lead, asking others, activiating your call to prayer in the state of Oregon. It is such a test of my faith, do I have faith enough to believe… and believing YES I do!
God activated the call, putting in my heart months ago, so He will empower the call to Prayer and He will see it through. PTL beyond measure.
3/7/2009 Today I found myself writing in my journal after returning from our trip to help our son’s family move. It has been two weeks since I have taken the time to sit to journal, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been praying!
I say this to remind you…. Don’t beat your self up if you haven’t taken the official journaling prayer time. Rejoice in your relationship with the Lord, knowing that prayer happens through out the day!
I know I said a lot of prayers during our 5 days of traveling through ice and snow between Oregon and Nevada!
What did the prayers look like?
I ask the Lord to keep all the weather behind us, on the way back and we saw only a few snow flakes all the way home!
Many prayed for our traveling mercies…
God protected our travels as we were able to stop our car which kept us from hitting a turning log truck!
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His Arrows…
Do you have a heart for your city?
Would you gather with others once a month to pray?
If you answered yes to both of these, then I invite you to join His Arrows, small groups praying for the Glory of the Lord to reign down and empower our cities!
We suggest Gwen Shaws book
“Redeeming the Land”,
for foundation, insight and understanding for how to pray.
In a 2000 Gwen prophectly writes about the American Intercessor: “… because of thy intercessors who are amongst thee, send forth messengers as arrows that are flames of fire, lit by the Holy Ghost, into the nations of the world.”
Currently there are groups forming in Cottage Grove, Florence, Portland and Reedsport. If you have a heart to pray for your city and would like to join us in holding a monthly meeting to pray for your city please contact me at: my.completejoy@gmail.com
This is a new branch of Complete Joy, focusing on fulfilling the call of God to see the Glory of the Lord reign down in Oregon and spreading by the hand of God across America and around the world.
Do you have a heart for your city?
