New Seed Way
Short -- one thought -- intro. Confession; Written prayer, liturgy without a crowd. Who God is and who we are/I am, in Christ. Declaration; assertive and in faith. Promises and could be prophetic.
Oh and worship songs. Ones that might help me so incline. Lean in and on. Do the need. Do the business of life. For this and prayer, is it. My conclusion. Other calls are proving -- relative and note exceptions -- not happening. I.e. Evangelism and Church Planting. This for two reasons... three if inc. debilitating inaccurate -- at least, not-best -- theology.
Reasons: Watching and near-on blanket socio-political illiteracy. 'So the world goes the church...' m'nout to be proud about indictment.
On this start again and document comments on the little dare bother to read/view:
http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/information-industrial-complex-cia-and.html
http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/mysterious-natalie-lewis-hoyle.html
D'intro:
Merton's 'no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality' comes to mind. Although he took this to be all material vs unseen. 'Immersed in unreality...' three sum up words.
Jesus mocked by way of weather vs signs of times. So number one is a refusal/or is it more than this, to see the social challenge. Commented here. The video/Matt, pondering the 'immersion'.
Reason two is from; And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.
As this first, to the last -- Even so, come, Lord Jesus -- prayer in the Bible attests, our made-for, make good-action. As Ravenhill's terse size-up spit goes; 'no man is greater than his prayer life'.
No statement so defines a Christian's theology and vision.
Is this all true and settled? Why might this be?
Back to Watch, aka wake-up to what's goin' on -and- Pray, the central heart of God's call for our response. Requires determined, many hours a day can.
Prayer = anything but. Not about so-defining 'what'. But not other things. The only exception is praising God. Essential tone and posture. Bedrock and healthy soil. Attitude and life...
To conclude.
The culture that clothes the songs from Charismatic Church isn't the so-matter or not. All we need is enough. Some accompaniments. Words that draw in and release out The Holy Spirit. Sincerity and those singing.
God isn't 'cool' or cares we are/or not. Culture, style, aesthetics -- all a luxury, not a need. Converse and style-first, is the motivation why so many keep a mile 'n half from seeking Jesus. No culture-like = no need for. Understandable, if we try to compare with the clever-clogs who don't worship and pray-like.
Must Stop. Now gotta type a quick/would repeat -- confession. (Later for the declaration).
Howz:
God you are the revelator/you promise all who seek to find/with all our heart/means all and everything/deep and most/here you are/please O God free me to surrender/reject the crap/the second best substitutes/keep me from the test aka 'temptation'/lead me your way/teach me to pray/your realms come/deleiverence/yes, deliverence/may the Word and songs-on/re-immerse me/fill this space with the breeze and relief of your presence/to live in the day and do same-as/and anymore to come/no ambitions but thee and in the wildreness without/is all and better/You are/amen
Is it true that God hath said
Did God really say?//is the preeminent lie/the base for the misunderstanding about freedom and grace/imagining God's like us/the best person/yet with a stick/and obedience a chore and labour//Instead life and love/following and finding-not/compared and motivation/in this all thoughts and talk/images and projection/is Christ/too supreme to imagine//My attention rapt/name of Jesus to shout/this day declare/the lies are lost/from lost entities/against can-be found peoples/God did say/we can/will if/win and in this/we have everything we need//In Jesus/all the promises of God are "yes" and "amen"/to this/come running back to you/no loss or cost/all gain/and we will see this world turned upside down/blast the enemy back/even now/come quickly/in the love and power of God...
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