The loveOSU Blog
We feel God calling us into deeper community as an expression of what it means to be the body of Christ. We have begun to experience it as a leadership team, but we want to be in community with more than just ourselves. We want to join with all of you and your communities that we might unify the body of Christ one group of friends at a time. We are not pursuing community for its own sake, but as a natural result of joining in prayer as the church: the body and the bride of Christ. To that end, we have listed 5 invitations to join us in prayer.
The collegiate day of prayer was all about God. It seems obvious, but it was a lesson that we had to learn this past week. Even though we said this is for God’s glory, we were trying to do it by our strength, by our own well-laid plans. We very well might have been doing it for God’s glory, but we were forgetting that it had to happen God’s way and by His power. God made that pretty clear when we found out late the night before that our original plan to have a tent wasn’t going to happen.
If I was given the capability that I see so much in others to write out what God is saying to me, and to understand and comprehend what he is doing in my heart, would I actually put that skill in to use? Would I feel any better being able to write out and explain in words what I have found to be indescribable? Would I realize that I have been spoken to by God, or would I become arrogant and proud and think I had come up with the next greatest idea? Or that I wouldn’t give credit where credit is truly due? Would I become more confused than I am now, if that is even possible? Because I would be trying to find words, like I am now, to fit what is beyond my feeble mind? If I prayed hard enough, if I truly believed deep down, would he loosen my fingers, open my mouth and let words pour out? If I have done this before, was it in false faith, was it in disbelief? If I have called out seeking this ability, and not truly felt in my heart, and not truly believed with all that is in me that He is real and he will hear and answer me, do I have faith at all?
“Praise be to the wounded one
Glory and honor be to the son.
And we ascribe worth and give love to you Lord
Let the fragrance of our love go forth.”
We sing songs like this all the time, but how do we live it? How do we live each day bringing praise and glory and honor to the Son of God? How do we allow the fragrance of our love to go forth?
I do not believe the prayer house is the answer.
There has long been a sign in the prayer house that tells us to remove our shoes because we are standing on holy ground, but what does that even mean? And what does a pair of shoes have to do with anything anyway?
