The Best Sunday EVER! (Prayer Fresheners)

I wish there was someway to convey how amazing this last weekend was for our church on my blog! Celebrating Alice Heron (WHAT AN AMAZING FAMILY) and with no exaggeration I think yesterday's celebration service was the best EVER...The ANOINTING was on the worship, the word, the prayer...

SERMON NOTES:
The temporary Sunday School teacher was struggling to open a combination lock on the supply cabinet. She had been told the combination, but couldn't quite remember it. Finally she went to the pastor's study and asked for help. The pastor came into the room and began to turn the dial. After the first two numbers he paused and stared blankly for a moment. Finally he looked serenely heavenward and his lips moved silently. Then he looked back at the lock, and quickly turned the final number, and opened the lock. The teacher was amazed. "I'm in awe at your faith, pastor," she said. "It's really nothing," he answered. "The number is on a piece of tape on the ceiling."

Keeping Company with God doesn't have to be laborious, as a matter of fact it shouldn't be...
Sandy Mayle helped me discover A Month Of Ideas, Prayer Fresheners...
1. Bring in the new
new time of day to pray, new place of prayer, new postures, new Bible translations, online devotionals...
2. Pray your schedule
submit past and future commitments and activities to God...
Proverbs 16:3,9
3. Write a psalm to God
mabye use a template: lament in the dark (psalm 10), pursuit in the desert (psalm 63), declaration of faith (psalm 131), litany of praise (psalm 136)...
4. Pray the hours
3x like Daniel, 5x liturgical (9a, noon, 3p, after eve meal, bedtime), 7x as the psalmist did, or even use the book of common prayer...
5. Sharpen your spiritual senses
Ask God to develop your sense of spiritual taste, sight, hearing, smell, and touch...
2 Corinthians 2:14-16
6. Pray the hymn or praise song that most recently stirred your heart toward God
7. Worship through creation
drive to a beach, walk to a park, painting, Dvd, book of photography...
8. Pray the rule of T.H.U.M.B.
acronymn to guide intercession for unreached people: T tribal peoples, H hindus, U unreached unreligious unconvinced, M muslims, B buddhists...
9. Prayerwalk your house
Set each room apart for the Lord, break out the anointing oil and get a little pentecostal...
10. Prayerwalk yourself
dedicate the various parts of your body to the Lord
Romans 6:13,19
11. Dig in
Spend extended time interceding in depth for a person or situation...
12. Pray through the newspaper
13. Have a "top-five day"
Set your regular prayer list aside and ask God to reveal five needs in His heart...
14. Observe a worship watch
Instead of seeking God for anything, focus solely on adoring Him...
15. Prayerwalk a hospital, nursing home, prison, city mission, or other place of human need
16. Take inventory
based on the two greatest commands (emotional, spiritual, physical, mental, social)
Luke 10:27
17. Go global
pray for international ministries, missions, governments (grab a newsletter from the bulletin board outside Holly's office: pray for and write a missionary)
18. SHHHH!
Spend several hours or more in silence, listen for God's voice...
19. Prayerfully read the same passage of Scripture from 3 translations
20. Pray your commitments
Review before God your baptism, church membership, marriage vows, promises, dedications...
Psalm 56:12
21. Celebrate your heritage
spiritual legacy, Hebrews 11, godly heritage, saints in heaven
22. Ora et labora (latin for "pray and work")
1 Thessalonians 5:17
23. Praise-walk your neighborhood, downtown, or church
24. Meet with some prayer partners
25. Build the body
go to the sanctuary, pray for the local body of Christ and worldwide, including the persecuted...
(Every Sunday 9am Prayer and Communion)
26. Collaborate
Call a believer who shares a concern, set a time to intercede together...
27. Pray your payback
for enemies, those who oppose Christ, sincerely bless them in Jesus' name...
28. Recollect
"Collect" all your responsibilites, concerns, decisions, opportunities, and so on, bring them to Jesus...
29. Pray your contacts
address book, cell phone directory, church directory...
30. Let Jesus pray for you
JOHN 17, note verse 20
31. Anticipate!
Renew your longing for Christ's return, Even so, come Lord Jesus...

The Holy Spirit got our blood pumping a little with the reading of HE IS: http://godswork.org/enpoem6.htm

mabye I should keep preaching a 31 point sermon because it was so well received...
being a little selfish, please remember to pray for your pastors...