Pumped about Prayer

Yesterday was a great day @ Journey.  We had lots of guests, JourneyKidz was rockin' and full, the band did a great job and Merideth knocked it out of the park on Martina McBride's anyway!  We finished up the Sermon on the Mount series and I'm ready for the next 3 weeks as we prepare for Easter with a series on Prayer.  Get ready because we're going to challenge you to pray BIG!  We're going to teach you how to pray, but most importantly, we're going to pray!  Lot's of churches talk about prayer a lot... They have prayer lists, prayer rooms, prayer meetings... but not a lot of prayer goes on... (I'm not knocking those churches who do, it just seems like we spend more time talking about prayer, demystify prayer so we can program it... We're going to embrace the mystery of prayer... how we can develop our prayer lives and how we can pray BIG prayers to a BIG God!  In the middle of this series, we'll be having another Sunday Night Live. (March 9th--5:30pm)  You don't want to miss it... It's going to be AWESOME.

Why all the Prayer Talk?  We've been praying for God to double our attendance for Easter.  We need to build some momentum to continue to grow... so we're challenging everyone to reach someone... even those who are guests... we give them invite cards and tell them to invite their friends!  Fact is, we believe God has called our church to something GREAT!  To reach people who are living life far away from God and connect them to God and the Church and help them become a passionate Christ follower.   

I've been continuing my 100 hours of prayer over the next 30 days ... (yes, I am tracking a little behind), and it's been really rich... The best times are usually when I finish running through my list  and I have nothing left to pray about... That's when God shows me really cool stuff!  If there's one thing I've learned it's this... PRAY TO THE END OF YOURSELF... Then LISTEN!  God's got something GREAT to say to YOU today... are you going to listen?