I know. Scary, huh?

Anyways due to the recent ice storm the power company was going to charge the church a $1000.00 to replace the power pole. Then it was going to be only $800.00. One member said he could pay for that. Then when the pastor called back the price was then $1400.00 for the price of the pole. Then the top of the pole fell off so the power company had to replace the pole with one much taller and it didn't cost the church anything because the power company did it for free. God still works in mysterious ways.

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

According the concordance 'evil' is calamity in this use of the word. What fascinated me was in Genesis 1:4. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

Not even darkness can exist without God. It makes me believe that the only thing that can exist without God is void but God created everything and without God nothing could exist.

Amen to that.. and I could live without many things but there is one thing I couldnt live with out..... His name is Jesus!

I am thankful even for the void of God because the void draws me even closer to God. It lets me know that without him I am nothing.

Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Jeremiah 4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

Psalm 139

7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?

8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, [a] you are there.

9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,

10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.

11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,"

12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.

The last time I went to church was this last Wednesday. The minister was talking about prayer and mentioned what could be called the Lord's prayer. Matthew 6:9-13 - Luke 11:2-4 gives this prayer. In going to church some have said that it is erroneously titled since even though the Lord spoke the prayer that as Christians that it should be our prayer. In my AA and NA meetings we use this prayer along with the serenity prayer. In the two meetings outside of church it has lately made me think of what we call "a conscious contact with the God of our understanding". Lately, I have heard that prayer is talking to God and meditation is listening to God. The pastor also mentioned that there are different types of prayer. He called the prayer that we as a congregation should be most cognizant of is "praying through." He mentioned the verses where Jesus prayed in the garden and how his sweat was as drops of blood. He talked about the part in Acts where the disciples prayed for ten days until they got power from on high and the verse where one could say to this mountain be thou moved.

Some call it the Disciple's Prayer



Awesome!

Meditation can also be memorizing the Word of God and thinking of its meaning and how to apply it to our life. Sometimes I just meditate on His goodness. On bad days it helps me to meditate on all the miracles He has performed in my life, where He has brought me from, and that His promises are true! (I’ll be sure to remind myself of that on my next bad day=)

There are many types of prayer. I am only learning of them more myself. I got a book last week called The Principles of Prayer by Billy Joe Daughtery that I am wanting to start reading it soon. I am thankful for a God that just wants us to be real with Him and that it is all about relationship! Here are some other types of prayer I can think of…
-Corporate Prayer
-Prayer of Agreement
-Intercessory Prayer
-Prayer of Commitment or Dedication
-Prayer of Praise and Thanksgiving
-Salvation

Blessings

"How it applies to our life..." I think is very important. Its a living word to those that believe.
Rom 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Roman 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Praise his name.