SUNDAY 3RD AUGUST - THE JOURNEY

On Sunday we met together for a time of prayer and reflection, about ten people came together, an extremely good number for a prayer meeting as it doesn't entertain it isn't sitting back in a comfortable chair prayer is all about you and all effort comes from you. The journey was a walk through prayer time taking the plan Jesus laid out for us The Lords prayer, how Jesus lead us into Gods presence, firstly we looked at how important order is to God, He created in an order to achieve perfection. The Lords prayer takes us through order to achieve the ultimate intimacy. The Bible is an example of Gods order, numbers are relevant and each have a specific meaning.

No. 1 represents singleness Ephesians 4 v 7 speaks of oneness John speaks of unity all together in oneness when we are speaking in prayer we are at oneness two people joined together as one.

No. 2 represents the truth two witnesses to clarify the truth no 2 is used 21 times in Daniel and Revelation in respect to figure two.

No.3 represents the Godhead the trinity

No. 4 represents universal truth the four corners north, south, east and west, the four winds all expressing God is for all in every direction.

No. 5 refers to the teaching, the 5 books of Moses are teaching books. Jesus used the figure five in His ministry, five loaves, five virgins all teaching.

No. 6 represents mankind's rebellion, imperfection, its used 273 times God created man on the 6th day and the rebellion is clear in that area in Rev 666 identifies the mark of Satan it identifies the stain Satan can leave on your life

No. 7 represents perfection God completion of creation on the 7th day, seven is the most important it represents everything of God, Revelation sets the foundations, seven churches, the foundation seven spirits the life of the church, seven candlesticks the light of Jesus, seven trumpets the sound that reaches out, seven thunders the warning beware there's rough weather ahead, seven mountain trials ahead to climb, endurance, faith. Seven slain the lost seven kings the glory the prize the victory. The Lords prayer is taken in seven stages, start the journey:

1. Our Father which art in heaven, call on his name call him into your presence before you take another step in your prayers,

2. Hallowed be Thy name recognising the holiness the majestic position God has in our lives

3. Thy Kingdom come speaks of Gods authority its all about you Jesus,

4. Thy will be done total submission giving ourselves totally into God's hands

5. having gone though stages 1-4 we have prepared the way cleared the path to be intimate in oneness with God. Give us this day our daily bread to enable us to be in that position to ask to recognise his love and his grace over our lives the first four stages are important.

6. Forgive us our trespasses, with these words we recognise our own worthiness and how we have failed God, it's a time of cleansing asking protection over our lives.

7. For thine is the kingdom, the final step in our Journey the ultimate triumph, the reign over all, we followed this example as we went from stage to stage regarding our church.