Prayer: a Remix

These past few weeks going through Louie's series on prayer have been a challenge in my own life. So often I am so focused on self and ignorant of everything I already possess in Jesus Christ (Philippians 1). I want life to be easy, often uneventful, I just want to be physically blessed and live care-free. Christ did not call us to an easy life (see Luke 12), but to suffer, to die to ourselves and to seek His glory. In Luke 12, Jesus comments on a farmer's sudden blessing of wealth, he destroys the barns that had served all his needs for years and duild bigger better ones to keep it all for himself. He wanted to take life easy, retire early and just live it up. You know what Jesus said about him, FOOL! That statement made me freeze, what areas of my life may Christ be now even saying YOU FOOL! How much of money, my time, or my prayers are so obsessed with myself and my ease and not with His Kingdom, producing Gospel fruit in my words, money and actions?

Application
What are you prayers focused on: Bless me (HE ALREADY HAS!), Be with me (IF you are in Christ HE IS IN YOU!), or Protect me aka make my day really easy (he never promised us ease but he did trials)? How did Christ teach us to pray? What was His first petition, not bless me ut BLESSED BE YOUR NAME!

What is your time spent on? TV? Internet? Sports? Phone? Boyfriend/girlfriend? Some of those you may need to cut back, some of those you may need to through out completely, and some you need to remix. Take a hard look at those things, ask for the Spirit's guidance. How could you change some of those that the reflect this change, this "remix"?

I pray a remix happens in all of our lives! Pray that it happens in yours!

PS: If you want to borrow the DVD to catch up on ones you missed just ask Phil!