"Think as Jesus Taught"

Hey, friends,

Just wanted to post yesterday's reading from Oswald Chambers' My Utmost for His Highest, as the verse was the same as our prayer room, and as we're heading into Operation Rolling Thunder.

"Pray without ceasing." 1 Thessalonians 5:17

We think rightly or wrongly about prayer according to the conception we have in our minds of prayer. If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows ceaselessly, and breathing continues ceaselessly; we are not conscious of it, but it is always going on. We are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect joint with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is. Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life. Beware of anything that stops ejaculatory prayer. "Pray without ceasing," keep the childlike habit of ejaculatory prayer in your heart to God all the time.

Jesus never mentioned unanswered prayer, He had the boundless certainty that prayer is always answered. Have we by the Spirit the unspeakable certainty that Jesus had about prayer, or do we think of the times when God does not seem to have answered prayer? "Every one that asketh receiveth." We say - "But . . . , but . . ." God answers prayer in the best way, not sometimes, but every time, although the immediate manifestation of the answer in the domain in which we want it may not always follow. Do we expect God to answer prayer?

The danger with us is that we want to water down the things that Jesus says and make them mean something in accordance with common sense; if it were only common sense, it was not worth while for Him to say it. The things Jesus says about prayer are supernatural revelations.

Operation Rolling Thunder (ORT) Phase I Update:

• We’ve now had seven days of continual 24hr prayer over Pasadena!
• We are very exited that 22 (now 23) congregations and ministries are each taking 24hr of prayer May 8 to May 30!!
• The May 31 Pasadena Global Day of Prayer at the Rose Bowl, Sunday 6-9pm will be a historic occasion – 219 nations praying on the same day!! The largest prayer gathering in the history of humanity!!

A part of the reason the Lord has orchestrated Operation Rolling Thunder is because of the biblical principle of mass. Mass defines the power that can be projected through agreement in prayer. Corporate Prayer events like the Pasadena Global Day of Prayer on May 31st also help enormously to develop a culture of prayer and the prayer momentum already gained in the city. From my experience prayer is more caught than taught.

Recent Testimony – Kansas began Operating Rolling Thunder on April 6th and reported that ever since they established that canopy of prayer over their city no homicides were reported. Prior to that they had averaged 3 per month.

Looking Ahead – Phase II of Operation Rolling Thunder is moving toward 365 days of continual prayer over the city – It is possible to see continual 24hrs of prayer all year round in Pasadena!!

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The update above was abstracted from a letter from Michael Spence of "Love Pasadena," the coordinating body for ORT 2009 in Pasadena. http://www.lovepasadena.org/

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