Sweet hour of prayer

Im4HimiHs said:

Numbers 20:24


Because Aaron rebelled against God's word at the water of Meribah.

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Thanks for the scriptures. It is still a puzzle to me as far as Aaron goes. Wasn't it moses that struck the rock? Hmmm...yet another matter for schollers to seek out lol.

I was going through this thread. I noticed many things. Each of us admited we are weak. Each of us admited we hurt, and are bound because of our pains. There is no glory in ourselves here. Take an hour to pray and if you think you have something to boast about I am sure tomarow you will find you lose an hour. Today we are up, tomarow we are down. Yet we keep moving on. God honors the dillegent. As this race, this battle, is not to the swift or to the strong......But to those who wait on God. I noticed one post here I seem to have missed. And maybe it is good that I did so I would find it today.

iktca said:

I had a strange prayer experience last night. I got a flu and were having chills and sweats. To make it worse, I had the worst hay fever, clogging my nostrils completely. Not being able to breathe, I got up in the middle of the night with aching body.

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I have the flu myself right now. Maybe that is why this post hit me harder than normal. It seems to be a mirror of myself at the moment. Including the next quote from it.

I knelt to pray. But my soul was completely dry. There was no spiritual stirring in me. I couldn't pray. I lied on my back and kept asking the Lord to heal me repeatedly like a broken record, wetting dry mouth with sips of water frequently. Somehow I got the thought of praising him. But my soul was completely dry and could not come up with any praise words.

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Amazing how fast we go from dry to thirsty, and thirsty to filled. I seen myself slip so offten these past few days. My hours have become 40 minutes. And then some days it seems I fall into the 3 minutes catagory. Like I said, no boasting in praying an hour for tomarow you may not. All our hours the glory belongs to God. And all our failures the mercy comes from God and grace to pick us up yet again.

I started to praise in tongues. Soon my soul was stirred. I ended up singing hymns and dancing in joy lying on the back. It would have been like an upside down turtle moving all 4 legs to get back up.

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Praise.........how can a person praise what they do not love? How can they love what they do not know? It is said "your sins have separated you from God." Such a fearfull thing. To know to do something and do it not is sin. My how often I have sined . To take a day that God made, and not glorify Him in it but rather feed the flesh...it is a horrid sickness all men have. How can we take the harps off the willow tree in a strange land? But God said Come! COME let us reason together. When we come to Him and reason together with Him, confesing our sins, and acknoledging Him...when we come to him we leave our strange land.

God forgive me for being to slack. Forgive me for my sins. For not mortifing the deeds of the flesh, and for being so unconserned as to have waited till now to come to you. I am undone. Please do your work in me as you have said you would. "Though your sins be as scarlet they shall be white as snow". Do so to me for your mercy sake, and I shall take my harp off the tree and sing a song to thank you. Lead me in your ways, and cause me not to error.

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I still have the remnants of the flu and hay fever. I ask you to pray for my healing. Hay fever has been disturbing me for years and it is getting worse. A godly man laid his hand on me. I was cleared of all symptons for one season. I see that as the Lord telling me that he would heal. But I do not know when. I keep asking.

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My Father...my mercifull God. Remember your servents, those who have trusted in you. Those who love you because you have loved us. Thank you for the cleaning of our souls and the wings you give our hearts. Wings as eagles to fly for your glory and our joy in you. Thank you so much for our hope. You have done these things for our souls. What is it that you should do it for our temples? Father heal these temples. Repaire them please, that we may show your glory in our bodies. Remember us...."You are the apple of my eye" were your words. You never forgot us. Help us to never forget you.

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I learned one thing last night. I can praise the Lord even in difficult times. If I do not praise the Lord, it is only because I am negligent. To me praising the Lord is the holiest thing a man can do. I must be diligent on this.

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This is what hit hardest to me. This and the next quote. I have not been dillegent. But today and tomarow are not over. The race is not yet compleat. Let us run and not faint. Walk and not be weiry. In a race such as this there are times to run in zeal, and times to walk in carfulness. But we shall mount up with wings as eagles as well. Our hearts will fly in this race. Because God calls. He calls us to come to Him and He is above. And when God calls we must obea. He gave man a mouth to reason with Him. And wings for the heart to fly to Him.

My friend,
Be diligent in your study of the word. And share what you learn with me.

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Thank you more than you know for this post. I didnt see it till now but it is still a word in due season. Let us both be dillegent in our study of the word. And that word is more than scripture. It is God Himself. "The word was God". Let us dive into God and seek Him out. And let us share our wittness of Him with each other. I have witnessed His marvolus grace. My study of Him to date causes me to bear witness He is mercifull, and full of grace to pick us up to follow Him. He is the maker of and the object of my hope.

Spent another hour in prayer tonight.

Where do I even begin? Thats a good question. For the first time in a long time I had no strugle to find words. There was so much ground to cover. So many things I wanted to talk with God about. So much, yet so little. I suppose the best thing I could say is that I worshiped God for....Just cause He is my God. He picks me up when I am down and moves me to continue for Him.

I thought of many things. I suppose they are too personal to speak of. I have tried to type them out but I kept deleting it. The best I could say is that I am aware I must be dilligent. And that I must be a light. I asked to grow in grace and wisdom. To know what I should do and say to point others to Jesus. May God grant that request.

And just to encourage everyone, I prayed for those who have followed this thread. That we may all grow in those things. That we may be good laberors in the feild. Just keep moving. On our knees or on our feet, we must move on to follow God.

I almost forgot. Im4Him,Iktca,and sean I want to say I appritiate you. Been a while since I heard from you sean. Glad to have seen you post again. Im4Him, Thank you for the prayers, and keep going for God. Iktca, Thank you also for the support in these times.

I been missing you endure. I hope to hear from you soon.

As for those who have replied, that I have not mentioned I want you to know you are not forgoten. Let us all keep on keeping on.

iktca said:

My Friend

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LOL, God amazes me. Not only that but the whole body of christ amazes me. We have never met outside this forum. All we have in common that we know of is our God. And some how the words my friend are used. If any one were to wonder if there is unity in the church, this should be enough to convince them. The body is fitly joined together. No one part has more honor than another. And each part perfering the other above itself. This is how we should be. And this is how we are. True enough we may have parts of the body that are bruised or wounded, but in the end...my friend, is who every member of it is.

How true! Who gave us the knowledge? Who gave us the love? Who gave the words of praise to our lips?

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I love how you put that. Left room for me to answer and I am like a school kid raising his had who knows the answer. "Who gave us the knowledge?"
Romans 5
8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

God made Himself known to us in this act. Not only in this but the heavens declair the glory of God! He Himself calls and gives knowledge. "Who gave us the love?" The one who forgave us.
Luke 7
47 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
Romans 5
5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

"Who gave the words of praise to our lips?" LOL Need I go further to show God gives all things? All good gifts come from Him.

We are pointing arrows. We are arrow signs pointing to the One who gave us the knowledge, the love, the praise, the submission, and the fellowship. To the Most Holy One we kneel. Amen.

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Not only that, But an arrow must be strait. God formed us, and molds us. You can be sure that with such a master builder, when He wants a strait arrow, He finds a way to make one. Amen.

I don't know how to report on this one. To be honest I don't remember if I got an hour in or not. I don't remember what happend. I remember kneeling to begin my hour, but very little else. But whatever happend it must have been good. Cause I woke up last night at 1 in the morning with a song in my heart and on my lips. I woke up with God near and praise coming forth.

"When Jesus took my heart all to peices, and put a little sun shine in. He gave a little joy and gladness, where sadness once had been!"

That was the song. I don't know what happend in prayer, my mind is a blank on it. But I know God woke me in the middle of the night to spend time with me. Praise God!

Something God showed me in prayer yesterday. Actualy, He seemed to speek it to me. I say that because the scripture that He spoke was not one I remembered. I thought of my situation. I wondered if God would come by and bless me with His presance knowing my faully. See, I fear my God. Like a child that fears his father when he knows he has done wrong. I wondered how many times God would put up with me before withdrawing His spirit. I asked about that. Then God spoke. This was the verse:

John 6
37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

We know His word is true and can not be broken. And if we have but to come to Him surely His mercy is everlasting (as said in psalms 100:5). It hit me then. He will not EVER turn me down when I come to Him. NEVER NEVER EVER will He say no to me when I ask to be forgiven and have our fellowship restored. He will not cast us out.

And then I understood why He said "Go tell my disiples AND Peter". Peter had forsaken Him. Yet He had not forsaken Peter. And when Peter came to Him...Jesus did not cast him out, but rather restored the fellowship.

This is our God! The one who does not say you can not be saved if you ask. He does not say you have crossed a line with me and I will not forgive. He says Come unto me and I WILL give you rest! Not maybe, but a definite WILL!

I heard stories in church of people that have "crossed the line to where they can't get back". I heard of one who said a woman sat on a bar stool and said plainly she crossed the line and God wouldn't forgive her. It was preached that she was right. But she was soooo wrong! Only one thing crosses the line with God. That is unbelief. It was not that the pharasis attributed the works of God to satan. It was that they didn't believe it was God. Thus He said to them blasphemy of the holy ghost shall not be forgiven. Because they did not believe God. And they spoke in themselves and openly that this Jesus was not God. They did not believe. Thus they could not be forgiven. But those that do believe He will not cast out.

Thank God!

I am so glad I have a God that listens to me. Last night I knelt for an hour of prayer. I felt a bit strange cause of a conversation I had just had with someone. But I was reminded of those who pray for me.

I had to thank God for you all. It is a BIG deal for me. You are all important to me. And I hope to hear people speak of their prayer lives again soon here. There is nothing like the spirit of God. And it is wonderfull to hear others say they been spending time with Him.

Anyway, As I was in prayer I ended up just speaking what was on my mind. I didn't need God to move for me in the matter. I just felt good knowing He was there and listening. Thank God.

I hope things turn out well for you blessed one. Last night I think we had an hour of prayer at church. Though I am not sure if you could put it that way. Before service we took prayer request. Normaly at most churches I have gone to you feel rushed to pray before the service. I am glad to be in a church that takes their time though.
We knelt for prayer and it lasted longer than normal. A LOT longer than normal. It was amazing how God worked it. Cause from that moment...well I will put it this way: The pastor was given the service, and in his words "Well, the Lord done had the service."
God blessed in the prayer time and stayed with us. God even helped me by quieting those that "like to shout". It is good to praise God in that way don't get me wrong. But I needed gentlness. God delivered and I found it amazing.

Thank God for churches that take time to pray.

I just spent an hour reasoning with God. There is a reason I have failed to post over the past few days. There is something I have been wraped up in. I can't say it is bad, but it is not good either. My mind has been occupied by it, and that makes it bad. Because I should have been occupied by God.

It has caused me to know the power of some things I didn't fully understand. I don't want to get into detail because of how personal it is. But I felt I should share at least that much.

So tonight I knelt for prayer. I had to ask forgivness for my cloudyness. And for things I let creep in the back door as I watched this thing. More than that I reasoned with God for prolly the first time. I mean the first time of actual heart to heart reasoning. It got down to the nitty gritty, and even consequenses of the matter. I had thought, it is worth the pain. Indeed it may be. But God has a way of working.

No it is nothing I would lose out with God on. In fact I just thought of a way it could help me. But God seemed to impress on me that I needed to slow down. Things are a blur now, but God wants me to slow down. That is what I will do.

I am glad I can reason with Him. Even more glad He gives words of advice. I spoke and He answered. He spoke and I answered.

Thanks for being patiant with my posts.

I just spent an hour of prayer. I have been FAR to wraped up in something. I thank God He has a way of smacking me upside the head just hard enough to bring me to my sences while leaving as small a bruse as possable.

I had a WHOLE lot of repenting to do. I went farther than I thought I had. So far I was fighting God. But it is hard to kick against the pricks. I was so blind I didn't even know I was doing it.

But I thank God that I have come out with more than I went in with. I feel clean. And thats what amazes me. I have to thank God.
THANK GOD!!!!!