Men in Prayer- Pressing into the Fullness of God

5:00 a.m. every Monday a few of us guys gather at our church facility to pray together. We generally have a devotion (usually 'My Utmost for His Highest'), read a Psalm, share, and pray.

This morning we anointed brother Doug Broadbent with oil and prayed for his physical healing. It was quite interesting and moving as each prayed from his heart in his own way and in his own words from his own perspective. I don't know about the other guys, but I heard quite a difference in the way each man approached the Lord on behalf of Doug, and yet in there was a oneness that transcended the spoken words. A oneness that I believe was their unified love for and faith in the Lord, and their unified desire to see Doug healed because they cared about him.

I believe that God's truth is at a level far beyond man's feeble attempts at systematic theology. It's interesting that we have so many denominations with so many different theologies, and yet there is one living Word of God, one way, one truth, even Christ, Himself.

If students of the Word of God would exert as much energy pressing into Christ as they do studying the written word, I believe they would find a truth that brings life changing revelation.
It's not the academic pursuit of Biblical truth, but when we encounter the living God that our hearts and very beings are shaken to the core, and we find ourselves no longer the same.

For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
(Hos 6:6)

To know Him, is to trust Him, to trust Him, is to follow Him, to follow Him, is to obey Him, and to obey Him is to love Him.

If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love- (Joh 15:10)

I pray for you and with you that we will press into Christ together, for in Christ is the very fullness of God, made available to US!

Yours in Him,
Pastor B.