Saturday Prayer Update

Hey all, just a blog update from our weekly Prepare prayer gathering this past Saturday. This is for those of you who aren't able to make it on Saturdays and would like to know what we felt God's Spirit was doing as we prayed. At the beginning of prayer, we really felt God was moving us to pray for humility in our ministry. A humility that will convey a Christlike servant-hearted character to both nonbelievers and to other campus ministries we may have dealings with. We also prayed that this would not be a false humility...meaning we pretend that we are humble when really we are just being passive and not doing what God has called us to. We want to be bold, active, courageous, and have humility permeate through all of those attributes in our ministry. We want to be ever moving forward and stepping out in new and sometimes scary things that God is doing, with a heart of humility and meekness as we do it. Humility verses: Philippians 2:5-11, Isaiah 57:15

Following that, we moved into praying about and meditating on what God's word says about rivers, specifically God's river of life. We had several confirmations from different people that God was really moving us to dig into understanding His river of life. We focused on Ezekiel 47 mainly, with some other supporting verses like Isaiah 41:18, Psalm 46:4, and Revelation 22. God's divine life and His Spirit are dynamic and moving like an ever-flowing river. We need to get into that river and perservere to move farther and deeper into God's divine life, being led by His Holy Spirit until His river of life flows over and all around us and we are always carried and moved along by His plans and His Spirit. Even though at first it may feel like we are just trudging along, and the water is just at our ankles (Ez 47:3), if we perservere with God eventually we will be swimming in His divine life. (47:5) We will then be more fruitful at being fishers of men (47:10). We must always watch out that we do not get trapped in a state of passivity and laziness. Being content with earthly comforts and not moving forward with God. This is an area of water that is not fresh (47:11), and when we are in this state we are not available to be used by God and risk becoming like Lot's wife. (See Gen 19:26 and Luke 9:62, 17:31-33) Press into God's river! Endure and perservere until your whole life is filled and led by His Spirit.