Randall Q. Lawrence
Faith Bible College
Temple of Solomon
Bro. K.
3/8/2011
Temple of Solomon Reflection 4 & 5 (week 5-6):
I wanted to combine last week and this week because of the powerful experience that I had in guest-preaching in Linn, MO the weekend before last. I found out last minute that I would also be doing the Sunday School and would present a slideshow presentation of a mission trip to Mexico that I took in 2009. The pastor thought she had sent me a facebook message earlier in the week, but I did not get it so I was scrambling to put everything together at the last minute. I was able to get it done, and we left Saturday afternoon to go and would be staying at the Pastor’s house overnight.
We got to the church, but we had some confusion because Pastor Kathy thought I was going on to her house while we thought she would be meeting us at the church which she eventually did. It was a God thing in that we got to worship and pray and Peggy anointed the pews on Saturday night since they leave the church open. We finally got to her house, had a very late but delicious supper, toured the house, then I excused myself to go over my sermon some more since I had been pre-occupied with the Sunday School presentation. I got everything mostly set. We enjoyed being hosted. We had a 45-60 minute drive from her house to the church the next day so Peggy and I got into a powerful, deep, Spirit-filled intercessory prayer over the Linn congregation, over Pastor Kathy and her family, over the community and more. I told Peggy that I felt like I needed to set aside most of my sermon and share more of what God was laying on our hearts for this tiny, rural congregation.
The Sunday School presentation went well though some initial technical difficulties that we worked out and then it went well with Peggy’s help. The service went well with special music from our friend Bill (who had ridden with us) though we noticed Pastor Kathy juggling numerous jobs—hostess, presider, Pastor, A/V person, special music, pianist, and more. The sermon went very well and was definitely Spirit-led and filled & included this:
• …world and satan may speak “lies” that I’ve neglected my church (congregation). I have not! You’ve turned from me. I desire you and a relationship with you ALWAYS—these “lies” belong in the pits of hell where they originate from…..
I sat down when I felt the Spirit say that was enough. I was struck by Peggy staring at me with an intense, unfamiliar look on her face. It took me about 2 hours to describe—not looking past me, over me—more looking into me. It took her awhile to describe what she was seeing—“almost like I was bigger…”, “different”. She said that I had done a good job of listening to the Spirit. We had lunch, discussion with Pastor Kathy, prayed over one another, got some pictures, and then came home. It was less than a day and a half though it seemed almost like 3-4 days. Very powerful time in the Spirit and the Lord!
Showing posts with label endowment and prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label endowment and prayer. Show all posts
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Reading books on revival (prayer--->endowment)
I recently finished a book on Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles. It was compiled by Robert Liardon and used the documents of Frank Bartleman who was considered one of the main prayer intercessors before the start of the Azusa Street Revival. Most Pentecostals in one form or another trace their origin and beliefs back to the Azusa Street Revival.
One thing is clear in reading this book is the importance of prayer intercession in paving the way to revival (endowment). I experienced a little glimpse of this hunger for God and prayer for the kingdom (revival, endowment) in an open, "inter-Restorational" (between Restoration groups) prayer meeting at Outreach Restoration church. IMHO, it is important to have more of these.
I cannot help but comment about the amount of prayer that IHOP-KC (International House of Prayer) put in before its "Student Awakening" (revival, endowment). They put in over 10 years of night and day prayer (24/7/365) prior to this "awakening".
I just looked at the latest Herald and see where giving is down. We, IMO, are in need of revival, endowment, and awakening.
Frank Bartleman (and others) were desperate for God and a fresh move of the Spirit so they became desperate in prayer. I am now reading a book on Charles Finney who speaks about the importance of confession (of sins) and a spirit of prayer as precursors to revival. These were important aspects of IHOP-KC's student awakening.
We (in the Community of Christ) need to be hungry for a move of God, desperate for a move of the Spirit, and enter into unending, ceaseless, continual prayer.
One thing is clear in reading this book is the importance of prayer intercession in paving the way to revival (endowment). I experienced a little glimpse of this hunger for God and prayer for the kingdom (revival, endowment) in an open, "inter-Restorational" (between Restoration groups) prayer meeting at Outreach Restoration church. IMHO, it is important to have more of these.
I cannot help but comment about the amount of prayer that IHOP-KC (International House of Prayer) put in before its "Student Awakening" (revival, endowment). They put in over 10 years of night and day prayer (24/7/365) prior to this "awakening".
I just looked at the latest Herald and see where giving is down. We, IMO, are in need of revival, endowment, and awakening.
Frank Bartleman (and others) were desperate for God and a fresh move of the Spirit so they became desperate in prayer. I am now reading a book on Charles Finney who speaks about the importance of confession (of sins) and a spirit of prayer as precursors to revival. These were important aspects of IHOP-KC's student awakening.
We (in the Community of Christ) need to be hungry for a move of God, desperate for a move of the Spirit, and enter into unending, ceaseless, continual prayer.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Five-step Traditional Prayer
Five-step Traditional Prayer by Randall Lawrence
My Lord and God, the Eternal Christ, Emmanuel, Prince of Peace, Lord of Lords, King of Kings, my Savior, my Redeemer, Lord from the manger, the Cross-bearer, Risen Lord of the open tomb, Son of Man, God of Spilled Blood and Broken Body, our Christ of Communion, our Hope of Glory, Ancient of Days, and Returning Messiah:
Your creation knows no end. Living Word that spoke and formed worlds without end, Holy God of Israel who took a babe in a basket, Egyptian prince-turned-murderer, and led him to become shepherd and then deliverer of an enslaved people. This is a type and shadow of your Restoration work of creation and for all kindreds, tongues, peoples, and tribes. The God of Deliverance, Manna, and Promised Land became the God of Temple, Wisdom, and Shekhinah Glory, and further became God of the grove, Restoration in the latter days, God of continuing Revelation, Temple of the Peace of Christ, and God of gathering of peoples, records, and endowing Grace.
God, mindful of the life of the sparrow and hairs on my head, You have created this vast cosmos of planets, sun, stars, galaxies, and unfathomable distances. Jehovah-God, You sustain this spinning blue-green globe of life in this vast and wonderfully created universe. We barely touch the mysteries of outer space and inner microscopic space let alone the mysteries of Heaven. You created mankind in Your Image and Likeness and for the purpose of dwelling in Your Presence and Your company and in community with You, Creator God, You, Sacrificial Son and Savior, You, Loving Great Spirit. This is my calling and Your calling on me and all.
Words cannot express my thanksgiving for my life, the air I breathe moment to moment, water to drink, shelter in the form of divine-blessed home, food to be thankful for, family and friends of faith and love---like Nephi, being born of goodly and Godly parents. Lord and God, above this, I thank you for Ruach/Pneuma—Breathe of the Spirit, Living Water supplied by You like the woman at the well (John 4), sacred “homes” of your Temples, your congregations of disciples, my family and friends of support, inspiration, and Your Divine Providence.
Forgive my trespasses and debts. Forgive my procrastination, worry, fears, complaints, and lack of stewardship. Forgive my negative attitude at times and self-centeredness. Forgive my stumbling and clumsy discipleship walk. Forgive my attempts to run ahead, do things my way and not in Your Way, and forgive me for believing I know better than You, Lord and God. Forgive my impatience, my hypocrisy of profession and going through motions without a broken heart and contrite spirit. Forgive my arrogance, pettiness, unreliability, putting myself above others. Forgive me for taking Your Broken Body and Spilled Blood for granted. Forgive my short-sightedness and hesitancy in listening to Your Still, Small Voice. Forgive my stubbornness used for my ends instead of used to continually pray, thank, walk, talk, share, and most of all, love You, Lord and God. Let me not take Your forgiveness for granted breath by breath, minute by minute, moment by moment, day by day, month by month, year by year, and person by person, and event by event.
Lord and God, I lift my family and friends up for Your Presence, Healing, and Blessing. Thank You for Your Promises to always be with us. Thank You for angelic protection, guidance, and their ongoing presence(s) in our lives like the ongoing Presence of Ruach, Pneuma, Spirit of Wind and Fire, Gentle and Mightly Breeze of Healing, Flame of Gospel Gifts and Prophecy. Lord, I lift up my neighbors, my community, and City on a Hill, my state of Centerplace, my country of the New Jerusalem, the world in need of Zion and Zionic communities of Christ. Be with and bless these local, state, country and other national leaders and officials and workers. Bless them with wisdom, revelation, knowledge, and discernment found in You, Your Life, Your Ministry, Death on the cross, and in Your Resurrection to New Life. Lord and God, I pray blessings and strength for the homeless, for the children, for First Nations and indigenous peoples, for the sick and infirm, for the outcast and marginalized, for women and families, for the jailed and prisoners of state, for the persecuted, for the faithful and the unfaithful, for the abused and abusers, for the unlovely and unloved, for the orphan, widow, widower, and alien, for immigrant, refugee, and citizen, for the poor and rich, for the minorities and for those in power and majority. I lift Your children, white, black, brown, yellow, red—all shades and colors, all races, ethnicities, and nationalities, all religions, creeds, churchs and organizations.
Lord and God, thank you for this time and season in my life—40 years of faith and doubt, blessing and heartbreak, Spirit-ful highs and lonely lows, for being with me and blessing me throughout all these years showing me birth and death, sickness and healing, love and affection, faithfulness and unfaithfulness—mine and others, betrayal and depression, joy and destiny. Thank you for honoring prayers and dreams 15-20 years ago—priesthood and part of a zionic community near Your Holy Temple and more. Thank you for giving me more dreams along with my health, wealth, my calling, my priesthood, and my church.
Lord and God, I am nothing without You but have everything I need and more with You. I desire to consecrate and “steward” my whole life—my finances, my time, my present and presence, my goals and dreams, my future and ambitions—to Your yoke and Your Will. You heal, bless, give, and honor me even when I attempt to run ahead, get in the way rather than in the Way, and think I know best. I desire a direct testimony of the Book of Mormon and know it will come in Your Way at just the right time. Thank you for the trip to Mexico and testimonies of the Hill Cumorah Expedition Team and their mission and goals and journey which I’ve been blessed to be a part of—Thank You! I desire to see like Nephi, the Brother of Jared, Enoch, Moses, Earl Curry, and others—to see the big picture of the Fullness of the Gospel and Your Plan for this world. I thank you for my blessings and my calling regarding the School of the Prophets. Lead me, I pray, and teach me to follow like John the Beloved and the 3 Nephites. They remain nameless but faithfully carry Your Name and Gospel. I thank You for my cross to bear, teach me to bear it, my race to run, teach me to run it humbly, courageously, and lovingly. I thank You for my trials, tribulations, and heartbreaks. Through my mistakes and wrong paths, Lord and God, You have taught me courage, persistence, prayer for enemies and adversaries, toughness and stubbornness, and Your faithfulness to always be with me even to the end. “Well done, good and faithful servant!” is the pronouncement and goal of my heart and my life.
I pray all this through Your Holy Name, Jesus, through Your Broken Body and Spilled Blood, my Redeemer and Savior, Judge and Bridegroom, Lord of Zion and whole world, and God of worlds without end, my Eternal Christ. Amen.
My Lord and God, the Eternal Christ, Emmanuel, Prince of Peace, Lord of Lords, King of Kings, my Savior, my Redeemer, Lord from the manger, the Cross-bearer, Risen Lord of the open tomb, Son of Man, God of Spilled Blood and Broken Body, our Christ of Communion, our Hope of Glory, Ancient of Days, and Returning Messiah:
Your creation knows no end. Living Word that spoke and formed worlds without end, Holy God of Israel who took a babe in a basket, Egyptian prince-turned-murderer, and led him to become shepherd and then deliverer of an enslaved people. This is a type and shadow of your Restoration work of creation and for all kindreds, tongues, peoples, and tribes. The God of Deliverance, Manna, and Promised Land became the God of Temple, Wisdom, and Shekhinah Glory, and further became God of the grove, Restoration in the latter days, God of continuing Revelation, Temple of the Peace of Christ, and God of gathering of peoples, records, and endowing Grace.
God, mindful of the life of the sparrow and hairs on my head, You have created this vast cosmos of planets, sun, stars, galaxies, and unfathomable distances. Jehovah-God, You sustain this spinning blue-green globe of life in this vast and wonderfully created universe. We barely touch the mysteries of outer space and inner microscopic space let alone the mysteries of Heaven. You created mankind in Your Image and Likeness and for the purpose of dwelling in Your Presence and Your company and in community with You, Creator God, You, Sacrificial Son and Savior, You, Loving Great Spirit. This is my calling and Your calling on me and all.
Words cannot express my thanksgiving for my life, the air I breathe moment to moment, water to drink, shelter in the form of divine-blessed home, food to be thankful for, family and friends of faith and love---like Nephi, being born of goodly and Godly parents. Lord and God, above this, I thank you for Ruach/Pneuma—Breathe of the Spirit, Living Water supplied by You like the woman at the well (John 4), sacred “homes” of your Temples, your congregations of disciples, my family and friends of support, inspiration, and Your Divine Providence.
Forgive my trespasses and debts. Forgive my procrastination, worry, fears, complaints, and lack of stewardship. Forgive my negative attitude at times and self-centeredness. Forgive my stumbling and clumsy discipleship walk. Forgive my attempts to run ahead, do things my way and not in Your Way, and forgive me for believing I know better than You, Lord and God. Forgive my impatience, my hypocrisy of profession and going through motions without a broken heart and contrite spirit. Forgive my arrogance, pettiness, unreliability, putting myself above others. Forgive me for taking Your Broken Body and Spilled Blood for granted. Forgive my short-sightedness and hesitancy in listening to Your Still, Small Voice. Forgive my stubbornness used for my ends instead of used to continually pray, thank, walk, talk, share, and most of all, love You, Lord and God. Let me not take Your forgiveness for granted breath by breath, minute by minute, moment by moment, day by day, month by month, year by year, and person by person, and event by event.
Lord and God, I lift my family and friends up for Your Presence, Healing, and Blessing. Thank You for Your Promises to always be with us. Thank You for angelic protection, guidance, and their ongoing presence(s) in our lives like the ongoing Presence of Ruach, Pneuma, Spirit of Wind and Fire, Gentle and Mightly Breeze of Healing, Flame of Gospel Gifts and Prophecy. Lord, I lift up my neighbors, my community, and City on a Hill, my state of Centerplace, my country of the New Jerusalem, the world in need of Zion and Zionic communities of Christ. Be with and bless these local, state, country and other national leaders and officials and workers. Bless them with wisdom, revelation, knowledge, and discernment found in You, Your Life, Your Ministry, Death on the cross, and in Your Resurrection to New Life. Lord and God, I pray blessings and strength for the homeless, for the children, for First Nations and indigenous peoples, for the sick and infirm, for the outcast and marginalized, for women and families, for the jailed and prisoners of state, for the persecuted, for the faithful and the unfaithful, for the abused and abusers, for the unlovely and unloved, for the orphan, widow, widower, and alien, for immigrant, refugee, and citizen, for the poor and rich, for the minorities and for those in power and majority. I lift Your children, white, black, brown, yellow, red—all shades and colors, all races, ethnicities, and nationalities, all religions, creeds, churchs and organizations.
Lord and God, thank you for this time and season in my life—40 years of faith and doubt, blessing and heartbreak, Spirit-ful highs and lonely lows, for being with me and blessing me throughout all these years showing me birth and death, sickness and healing, love and affection, faithfulness and unfaithfulness—mine and others, betrayal and depression, joy and destiny. Thank you for honoring prayers and dreams 15-20 years ago—priesthood and part of a zionic community near Your Holy Temple and more. Thank you for giving me more dreams along with my health, wealth, my calling, my priesthood, and my church.
Lord and God, I am nothing without You but have everything I need and more with You. I desire to consecrate and “steward” my whole life—my finances, my time, my present and presence, my goals and dreams, my future and ambitions—to Your yoke and Your Will. You heal, bless, give, and honor me even when I attempt to run ahead, get in the way rather than in the Way, and think I know best. I desire a direct testimony of the Book of Mormon and know it will come in Your Way at just the right time. Thank you for the trip to Mexico and testimonies of the Hill Cumorah Expedition Team and their mission and goals and journey which I’ve been blessed to be a part of—Thank You! I desire to see like Nephi, the Brother of Jared, Enoch, Moses, Earl Curry, and others—to see the big picture of the Fullness of the Gospel and Your Plan for this world. I thank you for my blessings and my calling regarding the School of the Prophets. Lead me, I pray, and teach me to follow like John the Beloved and the 3 Nephites. They remain nameless but faithfully carry Your Name and Gospel. I thank You for my cross to bear, teach me to bear it, my race to run, teach me to run it humbly, courageously, and lovingly. I thank You for my trials, tribulations, and heartbreaks. Through my mistakes and wrong paths, Lord and God, You have taught me courage, persistence, prayer for enemies and adversaries, toughness and stubbornness, and Your faithfulness to always be with me even to the end. “Well done, good and faithful servant!” is the pronouncement and goal of my heart and my life.
I pray all this through Your Holy Name, Jesus, through Your Broken Body and Spilled Blood, my Redeemer and Savior, Judge and Bridegroom, Lord of Zion and whole world, and God of worlds without end, my Eternal Christ. Amen.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Attending onething09 yesterday
http://www.ihop.org/Publisher/Article.aspx?ID=1000039841
The link for IHOP-KC (International House of Prayer in Kansas City) and for their onething09 conference in downtown KC. I registered online and printed out some e-tickets for quick registration. My friend Peggy dropped me off before she went into work.
It really is something that you have to see and experience to understand. It's basically a young adult/ Jesus convention with about 2/3 of convention center (Bartle Hall or Municipal) being for the stage, ministry area, and chairs. I would estimate about 4-5 football fields lined up side by side for the area of the chairs. There are 6 large screens to be able to see the person speaking onstage or see the worship team. It's incredible and huge and growing. It was estimated that there was 17,000 plus persons there yesterday. I just watched it fill up and fill up.
The other 1/3 part of the center includes Forerunner Bookstore with material related to the conference and much more. They also have booths set up for the various ministries connected with IHOP-KC including Hope City which is run by Mike Bickle's sister and brother-in-law, Ray and Lisa Stribling. I picked up a pamphlet "Devil the Dope Man: From Street Life to Freedom" which tells Lisa's story. There are other booths including artwork done by persons at IHOP-KC, booths for IHOPU (International House of Prayer University), their Bible school where I was accepted at first, but I am now not able to attend. That is another testimony for another time.
I was in a little "bit of heaven" for me with great worship and lifting up Christ, interesting and challenging teaching and material, and then a giant bookstore that I could practically get lost in with all the great IHOP-related material (books by Mike Bickle, Allen Hood, Corey Russell and music--Misty Edwards, Laura Hackett, Justin Rizzo, Cory Asbury) and then material by others like Mike's favorites, David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards, Marie Woodwirth-Etter, Kathryn Kuhlman, John G. Lake, and others more recent like Mahesh & Bonnie Chavda, Bill & Beni Johnson, Wendy Alec, and more. I loved checking out the books. They also had a new board game called Omega which is a board game on the End-times (Latter Days).
I got tired after the afternoon sessions and with very little food (couple of breakfast bars). I even had one young lady come up to me wanting a few bucks for something to eat. I had 30 cents on me and will not have more until New Years when my disability check comes in. I have already sent postdated checks to pay for being nailed by a camera in Grandview trying to make it to one of the student awakening buildings late at night. I also had to send a postdated check to Carol Cease Campbell who trusted me with a signed copy of her new book, Called to Be a Prophetic People: Witness & Reflection which she trusted me with paying after the Peace Colloquy.
A little sidenote, check out Carol's book which speaks of "A prayerfully prophetic people of possibility, promise, perseverance, power, and proclamation". I love it in that it speaks on mighty prayer and endowment. I eagerly await her third book in the series--Called to BE: Life in the Spirit.
After waiting, I made it home late last night after almost 10 hours down there. It is definitely something for the youth and young adults. I could really get fired up with the energy.
I need to share my testimony. In the morning, I got an "impression" of giant Jesus with his heart matching the big IHOP symbol in back of the stage. He had his arms wide with the seating area. He towered over the convention center. There were also angels with the Archangel Michael, Captain of the Heavenly Hosts, completely the circle. This might seem a little silly, but I pictured a light wave of power (endowment and Spirit) kind of like Po with his Wuxi fingerhold in Kung Fu Panda and this light wave going out from the Heart of Jesus would help all persons there to overcome their adversaries, the adversary (I will not capitalize), and obstacles to their ministry in the name of Jesus. I was not sure about this, but I felt the Spirit confirming it when I prayed over my sketches with Jesus and the stage and the persons attending.
Well, this is enough for now. I felt the Spirit again confirming the above and look forward to blogging some more about onething09.
The link for IHOP-KC (International House of Prayer in Kansas City) and for their onething09 conference in downtown KC. I registered online and printed out some e-tickets for quick registration. My friend Peggy dropped me off before she went into work.
It really is something that you have to see and experience to understand. It's basically a young adult/ Jesus convention with about 2/3 of convention center (Bartle Hall or Municipal) being for the stage, ministry area, and chairs. I would estimate about 4-5 football fields lined up side by side for the area of the chairs. There are 6 large screens to be able to see the person speaking onstage or see the worship team. It's incredible and huge and growing. It was estimated that there was 17,000 plus persons there yesterday. I just watched it fill up and fill up.
The other 1/3 part of the center includes Forerunner Bookstore with material related to the conference and much more. They also have booths set up for the various ministries connected with IHOP-KC including Hope City which is run by Mike Bickle's sister and brother-in-law, Ray and Lisa Stribling. I picked up a pamphlet "Devil the Dope Man: From Street Life to Freedom" which tells Lisa's story. There are other booths including artwork done by persons at IHOP-KC, booths for IHOPU (International House of Prayer University), their Bible school where I was accepted at first, but I am now not able to attend. That is another testimony for another time.
I was in a little "bit of heaven" for me with great worship and lifting up Christ, interesting and challenging teaching and material, and then a giant bookstore that I could practically get lost in with all the great IHOP-related material (books by Mike Bickle, Allen Hood, Corey Russell and music--Misty Edwards, Laura Hackett, Justin Rizzo, Cory Asbury) and then material by others like Mike's favorites, David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards, Marie Woodwirth-Etter, Kathryn Kuhlman, John G. Lake, and others more recent like Mahesh & Bonnie Chavda, Bill & Beni Johnson, Wendy Alec, and more. I loved checking out the books. They also had a new board game called Omega which is a board game on the End-times (Latter Days).
I got tired after the afternoon sessions and with very little food (couple of breakfast bars). I even had one young lady come up to me wanting a few bucks for something to eat. I had 30 cents on me and will not have more until New Years when my disability check comes in. I have already sent postdated checks to pay for being nailed by a camera in Grandview trying to make it to one of the student awakening buildings late at night. I also had to send a postdated check to Carol Cease Campbell who trusted me with a signed copy of her new book, Called to Be a Prophetic People: Witness & Reflection which she trusted me with paying after the Peace Colloquy.
A little sidenote, check out Carol's book which speaks of "A prayerfully prophetic people of possibility, promise, perseverance, power, and proclamation". I love it in that it speaks on mighty prayer and endowment. I eagerly await her third book in the series--Called to BE: Life in the Spirit.
After waiting, I made it home late last night after almost 10 hours down there. It is definitely something for the youth and young adults. I could really get fired up with the energy.
I need to share my testimony. In the morning, I got an "impression" of giant Jesus with his heart matching the big IHOP symbol in back of the stage. He had his arms wide with the seating area. He towered over the convention center. There were also angels with the Archangel Michael, Captain of the Heavenly Hosts, completely the circle. This might seem a little silly, but I pictured a light wave of power (endowment and Spirit) kind of like Po with his Wuxi fingerhold in Kung Fu Panda and this light wave going out from the Heart of Jesus would help all persons there to overcome their adversaries, the adversary (I will not capitalize), and obstacles to their ministry in the name of Jesus. I was not sure about this, but I felt the Spirit confirming it when I prayed over my sketches with Jesus and the stage and the persons attending.
Well, this is enough for now. I felt the Spirit again confirming the above and look forward to blogging some more about onething09.
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