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Yesterday’s Daily: Day 10 of 21 Days of Fasting And Prayer
Well yesterday was day 10 of Cornerstone’s 21 Days of fasting and prayer in 2021. This is a yearly spiritual journey the people of Cornerstone have taken together to seek out God’s plan and guidance for the year ahead as well as to pray in His provision for said plan.
Yesterday was a horrible fasting day for me. My sister Brenda was taken by ambulance to the hospital to treat symptoms of what turned out to be Covid. Fortunately she responded to the treatment and was not required to stay. That said, in the busyness of the day, I fell off the fasting wagon and I only got 25 minutes of praying in total for the day. For me that is almost like not praying at all.
But God’s mercies are new every morning and so today I pick up where I left off and continue on in the journey. I have had several words from God during this season which I do not feel free to share yet. So they are going in my little black book where they will remain until I feel like the time is right to share them.
Here is yesterday’s prayer video entitled….Daily
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Day 9 21 Days Of Fasting and Prayer: Being Led
Here is another video about our Core Values…the mind sets by which we approach the mission.
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Share Your World 1-18-21
SHARE YOUR WORLD is a challenge hosted by Melanie from Sparksfromacombustiblemind. In this challenge, Melanie asks us each five questions, or so, and in sharing our answers we share our worlds. Check it out further by clicking the underlined link above.
Here are this week’s questions and my answers….
Why do we dream?
Dreams are such neat things! Sometimes they are just our own subconscious’ trying to work out life’s puzzles by moving things from concrete images to symbolic. Other times our dreams are connections to the spirit realm and can be messages sent to us by spirits that have influence over our lives. That can be both good and bad. It is one of the uses of the gift of discernment of spirits which Paul speaks of in 1 Corinthians chapter 12, that allows us to know the source of dreams….at least that is what I think.
Do you think a person’s name influences the person they become?
Sometimes. Especially if the people doing the naming have taken some time to think through the naming beforehand. Then again sometimes serendipity takes a hand and matches a name prophetically to a soul as it enters the world.
Does hardship make a person stronger? (example: What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger)
I think it can. That said hardship can also crush a person and make them bitter. I think it really depends on a person’s willingness to endure.
Why do we judge ourselves by our intentions, but judge others by their actions?
I think we do this because it is easier to embrace our own innate hypocrisy than to rise above it.
GRATITUDE SECTION (Always Optional)
Feel free to share some gratitude in the form of images, photos or writing. Thanks!
I am so thankful that there is beauty in the world which still has the power to undo all the ugliness. I will fix my eyes on the beauty….
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you. Philippians 4:8
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On Our Passion For God: Day 8 of 21 Days of Fasting and Prayer
These videos speak to our core values of living passionately….
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Operating In My Depth
One of the things the Lord has been speaking to me about, throughout the last several months, is about the need to walk in my God-given authority.
Operating in God-given authority is different for everyone. God gives each one of us a different measure of grace and we are called to operate according to what He gives us.
Some of us are tigers ready to fight spiritual battles in the heavenly realms with regal prayer and some of us are puppies in tea cups disarming heavenly beings with the power of innocence. Most of us are something in between the tiger and the puppy. Maybe more of a house cat?
What I have learned over the years is not to overestimate the tigers among us, not to underestimate the power of puppies and to esteem and value the power of every house cat in our midst.
Whatever you are like, whatever your level of authority is, you and it are fearfully and wonderfully made for this moment. You don’t need to be something more in order to God’s work with your life right now. You are simply called to operate in the depth of authority you have right now. It is enough for this present moment and when you need more, you will have it because God always equips those He calls.
So what are you? Tiger? Puppy? House cat? Or something else entirely?
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All In….
Well The denizens of the Vicarage are all in, in more than one way. My sister Brenda has come down with some symptoms that resemble Covid-19 so on the advisement of the leadership above us she is getting tested and we are quarantining.
Today was a busy day getting all the bases covered at church since we will be viewing from home rather than leading from the stage. Fortunately Pastor Dan’s test came back so he is able to preach in the morning…. Here is today’s video and the other way that the denizens of The Vicarage are all in.
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Conversations
So back in a post just after New Year I said….”My goal this year is two-fold: Community and Stewardship. I intend to build community… and I intend to steward all my artistry towards kingdom provision.“
This was in a blog entitled ….You May Have Noticed.
I mentioned in there somewhere that in order to build community I had to write blogs that were better conversation starters. Well in that I have succeeded.
The conversations over the last few weeks have been just awesome. Thank you! Thank you to everyone who has been engaging in this on line community experiment called Lillie-Put 2021!
I feel like one of the things the world needs more of is civil discourse, more community engagement that doesn’t involve shouting, name calling, or armed revolt.
Here are a few of the folks I have been engaging in conversation these last few weeks.
There are others as well, but this is just the beginning of a list showing what a community can be built here in the blogosphere if we just put in a little time working with each other and sharing the love.
Thanks everyone!
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CFFC: Urban Erosion
I am jumping in on this week’s FUN FOTO CHALLENGE.
One of this year’s blogging goals for me is to really focus on building community, and as Cee said, “This challenge both new and archived photos are allowed. The main purpose of this challenge is to create community and get to know each other through photography.”
Cee and I live at opposite ends of the country, but like her I live in a pretty small community. This is Central Street in my home town.
That green and white building in the background used to be my family’s restaurant. We sold it after my father died back in 1991. It has been empty for going on a decade now.
This is the house where I grew up and now live. We call it The Vicarage.
That is the steeple of my grandparents’ church…the first church where I youth pastored back in 1992-1995.
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2021 At the Vicarage Week #2
Jan. 8th- Today we took ‘Lella home and she got to meet her sister Abigail!
James was so excited to have ‘Lella home he met us half way down the stairs. What a great dad he is!
Jan. 9th- ‘Lella no sooner got home than the Vicarage got busy with ministry work. Saturday was a full day of answering e-mails and Facebooks and getting my powerpoint ready for Sunday morning sermon. I will be preaching a message entitled “Manifest the Mission”.
Jan. 10th- Preaching day. I had forgotten how preaching tuckers me out. It’s time for my Pentecostal nap.
Jan. 11th- Today I did a video on what it means to do life together with other people. Then I took my friend Grace to the bank, the grocery store and the pharmacy.
You can find the video and comments HERE.
Jan. 12th- Today Wendy our church receptionist and I went to help Grace again. Today we were working through some stacks of old mail that were causing some consternation in Grace’s life. It’s not hard to do life together. Sometimes it just takes time and a couple of garbage bags.
Later in the afternoon I went to practice music with Patrick a member of our worship team.
Jan. 13th- It always amazes me how much ministry can dispell an otherwise quiet life. Needs arise and opportunities abound. It is never a question of what to do. More often it is a question of what not to do. Tonight I taught The Wall Prayer meeting. I used the passage from Ephesians Chapter 4: 1-15.
You can find the video HERE
Jan. 14th- Music lessons today and worship theory. I began looking into Green Energy sources today. Had a conversation with a company called Energy something or other. They said our roof is not suitable for panels. I will get a second opinion, but something tells me they are probably right….Maybe we should look at wind power.
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