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24-7 Week of Prayer : Feb 11-18
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Praying Like Jesus – Feb 11 – 18
In John 17, Jesus lifts His eyes to heaven and prays to His father. From February 11 to February 18, we are going to dive deeply in to the reality of this prayer. We are going to spend 7 days praying in shifts in the prayer chapel on YWAM Tyler’s campus. We are going to lift our eyes to heaven and talk to the Father in the way that Jesus modeled to us.
Each day we will pull a portion from Jesus’ High Priestly prayer to meditate upon and allow Jesus to teach us what it means to follow Him and live our lives in away that brings glory to the Father. We will have several prayer stations set up in the prayer chapel to assist you in your time of prayer. This will be a fun, creative, engaging opportunity to connect with the Father who loves us.
If you are live in the Lindale/Tyler area and would like to sign up for a prayer slot you are invited to do so. (More info coming soon about how to sign up.) If you are too far away to come to the prayer room, we will be posting daily devotionals that you can meditate upon and join us in prayer from where ever you are.
We will post instructions on how to sign up for prayer slots on Monday, January 31. If you like you can go ahead and read/pray through John 17 to prepare your heart for what God wants to do during this time. If you have any questions you can contact us using for form on the contact page.
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Praying for Laborers
Monday, August 16th, 2010
This morning in our campus prayer we prayed for one of YWAM Tyler’s satellite ministries that is located in New Orleans, LA. It was a powerful time of standing with our brothers and sisters that are serving the Lord in the city of New Orleans. One of the things that we prayed for was for God to send out laborers into the harvest field.
This terminology comes to us from the words of Jesus in Matthew 9:37-38 and Luke 10:2. As I was thinking about these portions of scripture I felt stirred in my heart to communicate a few things that stuck out to me.
The first thing that stuck out to me was Jesus’ perspective on the harvest fields. He was convinced that the harvest was ripe. It was ready to be harvested. Sometimes it is possible for us to have a pessimistic attitude toward the world and think of it as a dark and depraved place with no possibility for things to change. Jesus was not plagued with pessimism like we are. He was hopeful. He looked and the desperate situation of the hurting and lost people around Him and He declared they they were ready to receive the Gospel and be plucked from the harvest field and brought into the kingdom of light.
Jesus was so convinced of the readiness of the people to hear the Gospel and respond that He knew there was too much work for Him and even His disciples. He looked at the hope-filled fields of people’s hearts and then looked at Himself and His trusty disciples and thought, “We need more help, there is so much glorious harvesting to be done that we need more people to work with us.” Then He turned to His disciples and said, “We need to ask Papa, to raise up people to work with us.”
This is the perspective we need to have if we are going to follow Jesus’ command to pray for Laborers to be sent into the harvest field. We need to see the hope-filled fields like Jesus did.
The second thing I wanted to point out is that the harvest fields are God’s harvest fields. They do not belong to the enemy. We are not going out into the enemy’s fields and stealing his crop from Him. The harvest fields belong to God and we are sent out as laborers who are authorized to reap the harvest. God gives us authority to go and be His laborers. This is a place of victory, authority and privilege. We are blessed to be laborers for the King of Kings and we can fully expect to go into His harvest field with His blessing and endorsement.
I want to encourage you to pray for God to give you His perspective on the harvest field He has put you in. No matter where you are you are in His harvest field and you are endorsed and called to be there. Let God lift your eyes up to His perspective. Let Him give you a vision for your school, job, or community. Let Him grip your heart with compassion for the people who are around you everyday and I guarantee you will begin to pray like Jesus asked us to and you will passionately ask God to send laborers to help with all the work there is to be done.
Be filled with confidence that God has called you to be a laborer in His harvest fields today. He is ordering your steps to get you to a place of fruitful harvest.
Be blessed,
Kurt H.
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An End-Time Strategy
Monday, May 3rd, 2010
To say that we live in exciting days is an understatement. Never before in the history of man has the fulfillment of the great commission been so close. I know some of you may be a little cynical about this point, but it is true. Some of the top statisticians for the big missions organizations are saying that every people group on the earth will be engaged and have either a written bible translated in their mother tongue, or an oral set of bible stories in their mother tongue with in the next 5 to 15 years. This is absolutely amazing. When we really understand the full impact of this it means that with in the next 15 years, every tongue, tribe and nation on the earth will have the Gospel of the Kingdom presently being proclaimed there. The last time I read the Gospel of Matthew I remember a short little verse that says this Gospel of the Kingdom would be preached in every nation of the earth and then the end would come. See Matthew 24:14
Do we really understand what this means, It means that literally we could be living in the generation of the Lord’s return. There could be people alive today that will physically see Jesus come back to the planet and set up His everlasting Kingdom and His global government from Jerusalem.
You might be asking if there are any other things that must take place in order for Jesus to come back to the planet? The answer is yes, and it has to do the with prophetic purpose of the nation of Israel.
In Matthew 23:39, Jesus says to the people of the city of Jerusalem that they will not see Him again until they cry out, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.”
We know from Isaiah 2, that in the last days that the nations will flock to Jerusalem to be taught of the ways of God by Jesus. It is necessary that Jerusalem receive Jesus as her King in order for the nations to be taught by Him there. We know that currently Jesus is not reigning as King in Jerusalem so something will have to change between now and then.
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