Weekly Prayer Tip

God's Word for you this week   Psalm 27:4 "One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life; gazing upon his beauty, seeking him in his temple."  Prayer for this week   "Lord, today I want to dwell where you dwell. I want to spend my day with you, so enamored by your Presence what I can hardly bear to turn away to do the everyday things I need to do. Thank you for opening up your home to me that I might live with you always."   Reading for this week   "The times have changed; but the need for the Holy Spirit has not passed away.  It is the special need of this age.  It would not be difficult to find analogies between the beginning of the last century and the close of the present century.  History repeats itself. And just as during the last century salvation was of the Lord, so now salvation must be of the Lord.  It is the incoming of God's life that raises the level, that freshens and invigorates the springs of progress, that improves society,  that elevates and strengthens the moral tone, that gives success to the Gospel, that fits and qualifies the Church for the triumphant accomplishment of her mission in the world. And the lesson of the last century-and the lesson of Pentecost and the lesson of all similar seasons of blessing-is that the incoming of God's life is conditioned by prayer.  The preliminary is prayer.  The law is prayer; and it is not arbitrary, but in the very nature of things necessary...When, therefore, God's people "give" themselves to prayer, compelled by the heart's longings after God and after the salvation of men, genuine revival is near...Shall we not, then, supply the condition?  Observe the law? Prepare the way?  Cast out the stones"? Make it possible for God to bless us and to "REVIVE His work in the midst of the years"?  He is summoning us to the duty, and will therefore help us if we strive to do His will.  He is eager to fill us with the Holy Ghost, and is just waiting for us.  Oh how much longer will He have to wait?  How we are wronging our own souls, and hindering God, and standing in the way of the salvation of men!  Let us prostrate ourselves before Him, and acknowledge our offences, and seek the forgiveness that is never denied to the penitent, and ask for the gift unspeakable; and we shall rise up "endued with power" and instinct with the life of God."    - William Crosbie, The Evangelization of the World Dave Butts Harvest Prayer Ministries and National Prayer Committee National Day of Prayer Task Force www.NationalDayofPrayer.org   Carl Ray Louk "FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996 "LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY" SG-2000 "THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD "EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941 "FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895 "FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895  "I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock  "TRICK OR TREAT, TRICK OR TREAT CANDY IS DANDY BUT MURDER, OH MURDER, IS SO SWEET" CRL-2003  "EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE, LIKE A HELL-BROTH BOIL AND BABBLE. DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE" WS MySpace.com: www.myspace.com/carlraylouk http://www.myspace.com/carlraylouk Yahoo Group: Yahoo! Groups : LouksHauntedGraveyardhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/LouksHauntedGraveyard/ Yahoo Group: Yahoo! Groups : TheWorldAccordingtoCarlRayLouk http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheWorldAccordingtoCarlRayLouk/