Cultivating A Prayer Time of Your Own

Hello fellow prayer warriors!

This week at our Women’s gathering, Kim shared with all of us an app she’s been using to help draw her attention to prayer at specific times of the day.  The app is called Inner Room and comes from Tyler Staton who authored Pray Like Monks, Live Like Fools, a book the leadership team and staff have been reading through and are excited to bring to our church family. 

The objective is to have a reminder on your phone at a specific time you have set, and then a directed prayer topic based off a prayer board you build and manage on the app itself.  It’s less about mandating a certain kind of prayer, and more about giving a reminder in the midst of a busy day to focus thoughts and attention on Jesus.

This quote taken from a letter written by missionary Jim Elliot sums it up well.

“I would exhort you each to begin taking a few moments out with your Lover at midday…Often at noon there is a tendency for the soul to be ‘veiled’, clouded with world-lore, filmed over with temporalities. Just a few moments spent before the Shepherd, listening to the silence of His love and telling him the state of your soul even if it’s not warm toward Him, just to keep short accounts by simple confession—this has been a great blessing to me”

We don’t have any specific financial updates this week, but God doesn’t only tell us what to pray for! He tells each one of you. I encourage you to try out the app, or just set an alarm for a prayer time of your own cultivation, and ask God to pull back the veil and film of the current circumstance to experience his presence. In that place, whatever he stirs in your imagination or makes you aware of, make a note! Record it! 

Also, come to Abide this week! There’s something about being in the building, location prayer is different, that engages us powerfully. Stand in a corporate time of intentional focus on the Shepherd, listening and responding to him in partnership with our church family.

We are deeply enjoying this dynamic of connecting with all of you. Thank you for your participation with this team!

Sommer

*Along with Inner Room, check out Lectio365, another prayer app geared for a morning and evening guided scripture reading, prayer, and quiet reflection time.