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Please re-arrange your bookmarks, take the time to change your links and enjoy the new look (I know I do...) The main reason for the move is for the opportunity to post pictures, videos, and the like on different tabs. This gives it more of a website look than a one page scrolling blog.

Here's a blurb from my latest post. the link directs you to the new site.

Why do all of us strive and strive for times of Godly intimacy and seem like we never get to a place of revelation? Why is it that much of the time (if not most) we feel invalid and stupid for putting in effort, not receiving anything back. We struggle to stay in connection with God, desperate for a touch, a glimpse of closeness with our creator, but get nothing. Not a drop. Not a single feeling of hope. All of a sudden the sermons stop speaking, the bible studies are null, prayer life halts because you feel disconnected, and the worship music you sing rolls off your tongue like a car on a hill in neutral. Read on,,,

Weather winers?

Prayer communicates to God all that we want to share with God. Praise, adoration, gratitude, hope, fear, trust- anything we want to share with God, and particularly those things we may not be able to share with anyone else. God listens, and God hears...and even puts up with our prayers with weather. I've always wondered, within a given day, how many people in this WHOLE WORLD pray for weather, and what the earth would look like if he answered our prayers the way we wanted them to be answered. New York would be quite a site becaue I'm pretty sure at the exact same moment on one day or another, 1000 people have prayed for sun and the same number, probably beetween the ages of 6 and 18, pray for a school delaying blizzard.

Prayer is not a laundry list. It is communication with someone you love and trust. Don't only do it when you want something. We need to drive this in our heads: Prayer is as much listening (meditation) as it is talking, as much a sharing as it is a plea for help. Yet, God has asked us (even dared us?) to ask. Nothing's too small, too big, too hard, or for that matter too twisted by our selfishness or lack of perception, for God to hear and take account of it.

Back to the weather subject. I remember a time where I, and a couple other camp councellors, prayed earnestly to God with our hands lifted against storm clouds rolling in. As weather is a strong factor in deciding the activity of the game at camp, our prayers indeed rose up, that God may open these storm clouds for the opportunity to continue on with our planned sceduale. He answered and wow - what a powerful sight. The clouds had seemed to form a box around camp, and the only place where the sun was shinning down, was the very field we were left standing in. God is good. He is real, and he DOES show off his amazing intervention when we earnestly press into him with need.

Ask, and ye shall receive (YUP- KJV style..hahaaha) -- but often you shall receive something else that's more in keeping with what God needs from you. And it will come in God's time, not ours. God promises those who believe in Christ a loving response.

Can anyone else share a time in their life where God's intervention was clearly at work? TESTIFY!

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